Two Awesome Things!

Yesterday, as most of you will know, Blizzard released a new in-game pet to their online store. Normally I'm not one to jump at buying their pets; however... I love XT-002! He's such a cool boss idea, and when my boyfriend mentioned they'd finally released it, it didn't take me long to get into the queue. :)

But that's only awesome-thing-1. No, awesome-thing-2 is not the new mount (though it is very pretty, I did not buy it).

It's my new tanking shield!
It doesn't look all that magnificent, but I've been running regular Halls of Reflection FOREVER to get the Splintered Door of the Citadel (replacing the Royal Crest of Lordaeron).

I've been in tons of groups where healers and dps left the group after the shield didn't drop, because that's all they were there for. It's all I was there for, but I never had the intention of leaving the whole group behind because the RNG wasn't going my way.

I even saw it drop once, but the dps warrior outrolled me for it because he "tanks for his guild". That was frustrating.

And today seemed like any other day. Another group with a potential shield-rolling participant. However, on the 6th pull, the death knight randomly drops out mid-fight, then the healer followed suit. I thought it strange since everything was going well. It lead to a wipe on the 7th, and after waiting in the replacement queue for a few minutes, the remaining dps left too.

But one of my friends had just joined the group to come heal, and then my boyfriend said he'd bring his super-dps pally. I thought, this is great! Lots of potential competition is being eliminated. We waited around for a bit, but the queue still wasn't bringing us any new party members.

So I thought, well... we could probably 3-man this. The guys were up for trying, and I was excited at the challenge. We got through pretty easily, and, you guessed it... my shield dropped! :D It was the best HoR ever.