I haven't written in a while, for various reasons. Real life primarily.

Having a new girlfriend, and then experiencing the first drama of having said new girlfriend has taken out my "want" to play WoW by a large margin. I found myself worrying so much about such things that it just didn't seem appetizing. But now that that has settled down I'm back into the flow of things.

I am already tired of Battlegrounds. I managed to get my shield, hammer, shoulders and gloves, and I PVP a little every day for at least 2-4k honor. But the days of 10-12k honor grind days is in the past I fear. Now that I'm playing regularly again and have a semi-drive going on, I've started working on a Gnome Warlock (named: Poppakneecap), however this blog isn't about him - though his epicness is undeniable.

Since it's EOTS weekend and it's the only BG Alliance dominates in my battlegroup, I've been working on getting the 40 EOTS marks needed for my boots, though I'm unsure as to whether or not those or my helm will be the next on my agenda.

The goal has always been to be Kara viable through the procuring of honor purples. And while I can just as easily start running Shadow Lab., Shattered Halls or any of the Black Temple 5 mans (I can even get a nice blue totem from regular Mechanar) it just seems like a futile expense of energy to do that when I can just grind for honor and get purples to replace my greens instead of blues.

That's the problem with the current gear progression isn't it though? Sure, once you get to high enough Raids, the PVP gear seems pretty pale by comparison. But before you get passed Kara and into the larger Raids, the BG gear is simply the best way to go. It makes you more than ready for Karazahn, and then by the time you run Kara and get a few drops you're ready for ZA as well. Maybe not timed runs, but ready none the less.

I will admit that tanks (especially Paladin tanks) have gear progression a lot harder and it makes running heroics and regular 5 mans for defensive gear necessary. But for all of us DPS and healing classes, gearing out in BG purples is basically the optimal way to go speaking in terms of time as well as the quality of the items. Even while the gear isn't min-max'd through the stats to be DPS extreme, they are still so far ahead of your blues, and so much easier to acquire than heroic badge items, that it seems pointless to even have put the Heroic Instance system in.

We can hope that this all changes with the level 80 raid progression in WOTLK, but odds are so many people have chosen to go with the flow of this system instead of complaining about it, that we'll be going through the same honor grind at 80 that we are doing at 70.

The only thing I can say about this as far as good things go, is it makes rolling alts a lot less painful. Which is a double edged sword in the fact that mains have become less championed. Nobody really has a "main" anymore. In fact I kn ow several people who have a 70 of every class. The connection with your character is all but gone, when getting a second and third and forth character to 70 isn't too bad anymore and on top of that getting ready for Raiding is just a month of grinding IF that.

I digress.