Depressing how hard it is to come up with a decent title.

Did a Kara run on Friday, one of our best yet in that we killed Attumen, Moroes, The Big Bad Wolf, The Curator and completed the Chess event in one night. This basically let the next lot have a clear run at the Shade of Aran and then onto the Prince. Got some nice drops though, a nice tanking helm, a tanking sword and the token for Ulu's Tier 4 gloves.

I feel kinda guilty about taking the last two, since neither is incredibly useful for me atm. Even with a spelldamage enchant, the sword probably won't be used that much. Whilst it has good stats for a warrior tank, the lack of a decent level of spelldamage limits Ulu's ability to generate sufficent threat. As for the gloves, they're not that useful to Ulushnar yet for raid tanking due to a serious lack of block, parry or dodge rating.

And whilst we're on the subject, why has Blizzard loaded up the raid-level Paladin tanking gear with so much Block Value? Whilst it's nice, even agreeable to be able to block 3-400 damage out of a hit anywhere in the 700-1500 damage range, it becomes much less relevant when you're tanking a mob that hits for upwards of 4000. In that situation, Parry and Dodge are your friend, with the occasional block to maintain threat.

*Ahem*, rant over. Saturday and Sunday I was away visiting friends. When I got back on Sunday, nothing was happening that required me, so I took a night off to go see the new Pirates movie (not bad, not brilliant either, although the "Telescope Envy" gags raised a chuckle).

Was off work on Monday, so spent the day questing, and fitted in one quick Shattered Halls run (for my final Heroic key) before we made an attempt at Gruul's Lair. The paucity of CD sign-ups meant we had to draft in some help from another friendly group, Adventure Lovers.

All in all, it would be a lie to call the night a success. CD and AL proved to be something akin to oil and water, and the two sides never really gelled into a whole. Coordination was a problem for us, as was the length of time we took to get going. I think it would be better for us to leave off on Gruul until we can get a full CD group.

Yesterday, I was off again and I spent most of the morning doing quests solo with Ulu. In the afternoon, I got a group together to try out an applicant Priest on runs to the Black Morass and the Arcatraz. The Priest performed admirably and both runs were completed with no wipes or deaths despite our occasionally reckless pulls.

After that, I tried Heroic Underbog with another group, but we ended up disbanding after the first boss due to time constraints. Heroics are fun, but it seems getting a good group for them is hard.