Glory of the Pink Coward

I knew it would happen. I'd fiddle with my Pink Transmog and not update my results. I was pleased with her outfit and have been wearing it all over Azeroth, but because my screenshots are on one machine while I blog on another... You're only getting to see it now!

Hm, can't see the Cape or Shoulders in this picture.

• Weather-Beaten Fishing Hat
• Darkmist Cape
• Pink Mageweave Shirt
• Jeweled Fishing Pole
• Black Mageweave Gloves
• Dreamer's Belt
• Runecloth Pants
• Outlander's Boots

Sages of Tabasco is Aldonza's personal guild, so I changed her tabard to pink! At first it was because I had so little pink otherwise, but I'm planning on keeping it far beyond Breast Cancer Awareness month.

Something interesting about this outfit. There's only TWO TRANSMOGs! The only things mogged are the hat and cape. EVERYTHING else Aldonza wears undisguisedly every day. (Undisguisedly?)
I debated finding something better for things like the belt and shoes, but concluded they went well enough. Feel free to point me to something better. I wasn't a fan of the skulls on her heirloom shoulders, but their colour seems to go, doesn't it?

The shoulders show now!

Sometime after starting this outfit, I noticed the Fishing Pole actually went well with my outfit. I realised since Aldonza was a coward that didn't need a better weapon, she could merge her fishing outfit and heirlooms into a single outfit. See the tiny details on the pole?


Jeweled Fishing Pole is Jeweled!

Before, I would have a fishing outfit that I'd switch to instead of my heirlooms (that allow her to squeek out a few extra XP.) With this change, all she's giving up is the hat's fishing bonus, but she's continuing with the fashion statement. The gloves and pole continue to provided bonuses, but were not originally chosen to match pink. The gloves with their open fingers were originally chosen for the fishingwomen's look, but they provide the casual touch now and I like their look. Maybe I should switch to brown?
Yes, that was Arille in Dalaran in that close up above. Aldonza is now doing the cooking dailies in Dalaran! Her recent increase in XP shall be the topic of another post.

Day One Hundred and Six - 5 Oct 2011

Here was Kallixta's first evening logging in already at Level 85. She immediately headed off to the Molten Front to get her dailies done. After that, she was trying to think of her next priority. Should she head to Uldum and do the Ramakahen dailies?

Someone in the Guild asked if anybody wanted to do Coren Direbrew. Holy Socks! Wasn't that over already? Oh, I see. It's the last night. Well, sure. Kallixta switched over to Holy and joined the party, offering her healing services. She had done this before a bunch of times and this time it was with guildmates. If she was doing something wrong, they'd let her know, right?

Coren went down extremely quick and then something funny happened. We qualified as a Guild Run Dungeon Challenge, 1 of 7 for the week. Really? That was a dungeon challenge? We could see the extra guild experience and gold. Huh. And we never had a qualifying guild run on Coren before? Let's try another!

Soon we had done 5 runs against Coren, but the last one somehow didn't pop a Dungeon Challenge 5 of 7, why not? If we weren't all level 85, would that disqualify us? Funny how having someone weaker would mean we weren't as well rewarded.

We kept rotating guild alts, allowing folks to pick up their daily keg, but Kallixta kept returning as healer and noone else was interested, but then things took a turn downhill. On the final run, the tank suddenly was taking huge damage and Kallixta couldn't keep up. I got flustered and wasn't finding the right keys in my panic. I looked for, but couldn't find the Lay on Hands I wanted. I couldn't find my cool downs. Divine Lights weren't keeping up!

And then the tank died! Kallixta and another party member were heavily damaged. I quickly put Beacon on the new tank volunteer and tried my best, but I was still all off-kilter. And I was too focussed on the new tank and saw Kallixta's heal go down more. We were going to wipe on Coren!

Kallixta died and rathered quickly, I thought, managed to re-entry the dungeon. Amazingly I had kept the second tank alive long enough for the remaining party members to take out Coren before a complete wipe. But my confidence was shattered. I knew I hadn't handled things well. Others were willing to take some blame, but I knew I hadn't done all I could. I knew a few correct uses of my cool downs wouldn't have allowed the tank to die. I logged off the night in shame.