Vive la resistance!

The thing that I have been doing the most this week is working on getting my Fire Resistance through the stratosphere. I believe that in the last week, I've approximately doubled my unbuffed FR. The Tank Column had its best week ever in Molten Core. Just for those curious, here's a quick rundown, as best my addled brain can recall:

• Medallion of Steadfast Might- Lochzar
• Bracers of Might (x2)- Tremos and Harin
• Eskhandar's Right Claw - Agarda
• Dark Iron Bracers- Hoof
• Pauldrons of Might- Vespasian
• Dark Iron Helm- Echuta

All in all, an excellent week as far as gear goes- for all classes. I just wish the shaman would get some love, now. The Earthfury pieces have been quite elusive. The real tale of the tape comes in, however, when it's told that Harin had actually won the DI Helm, and had ceded it to me because of the FR issue. This was intensely cool of him, and he has displayed some of the most exemplary Pod behavior. The funny thing about it is that any time he's done something selfless like that, he's usually been summarily rewarded through the serendipity of the game. Although I didn't post the drops in order, he didn't secure his Might Bracers till after he'd passed the DI helm on to me. Again, Harin, you are the bomb. (And I don't mean the Geddon kind). You're becoming a top shelf Pod player, and your efforts have not gone unnoticed. :D

Based on the number of Fiery and Lava Cores that we'd been accumulating over the last month, I'd suspected that we'd have our DI Armorsmiths and Flarecore tailors furiously at work to craft some of this crucial FR gear. The hysterical thing about it is that Kristyn orchestrates these crafted drops like a dad at Christmas who "finds" presents elsewhere around the tree that weren't visible otherwise. "Awwwwwwww! Druids! Look what I found!" All of us that have been able to obtain pieces of the FR stuff (crafted and otherwise) have definitely noticed a difference. Geddon and the Lava packs are the first place you can spot the effect. During the fight with Geddon, I was paying more attention to the resisted numbers in the parentheses than I was actual damage taken. Throughout the inital waves of his Hellfire, I was easily resisting 3/4 of the fire damage, and that is dead sexy.

Through the multiple runs of Dire Maul to get the Redoubt Cloak, I've ended up with 2 Librams of Resilience. The nutshell on these is that when you take them to either the library in DM North, or to the Blood Elf at Flame Crest in Burning Steppes, and gather the quest mats, they provide you with a gemstone that can be used to enchant a head or leg item with a particular quality. In my case, Resilience is the Fire Resist book. So the Lesser Arcanum of Resilience provides +20 FR to a head or leg item. Since the mats for that enchant are a bit of an investment, I believe that it bears to say that you need to consider the item which is going to receive this benefit VERY CAREFULLY. It's pretty much accepted that these books should only be used to enchant epic items. You don't have to, but like Chris Rock says, "Just cause you can do it, doesn't mean it's to be done." Now, for those playing along at home, you saw that the DI Helm is +35FR. Now, the lucky troll to receive this item happened to have the +20FR enchant in his bag. Not knowing how the roll on the helm was to go, he had it there in case Flamewalker Legplates dropped of any one of the bosses. Since the helm came into my possession first, and we were about to engage Baron Geddon, it became prudent to convert this +35FR helm into +55FR ASAP.

We went on to pwn Geddon in the face, Shazzrah, Golemagg, and even take down Sulfuron for the first time. It was a great night to be a Pod. We are continuing to rock and roll thru MC. This is Zarjani's breakdown of our 10 trips into MC so far:

Here's a small list of numbers I've compiled over our steps into Molten Core. Please feel free to add any other numerical information that you've collected about the Pod People in Molten Core to this thread.

1 month in Molten Core.

8 bosses downed.

71 epics distributed to Pod People.

Warrior 21.13% (15 )
Mage 14.08% (10 )
Warlock 14.08% (10 )
Druid 11.27% (8 )
Hunter 11.27% (8 )
Priest 9.86% (7 )
Rogue 9.86% (7 )
Shaman 8.45% (6 )

Percent Zarjani has died to Shazzrah when the Pod People beat Shazzrah 0%
Percent Zarjani has died to Shazzrah on any other non Pod People raid 100%

So, this week, I was able to obtain the DI Helm, Ocean's Breeze (from the Hands of the Enemy turnin to Hydraxis), Wildfire Cape (thanks to the Pods that helped me get this prior to MC last night. I'm going to try to make the Emberseer runs a regular fixture to get folks' FR up that are interested. Additional thanks to Agnok and Thundermaw for the +7 FR enchants for each of the capes I've gone through this weekend), Dark Iron Shoulders courtesy of Kristyn's "luck" of obtaining the plans. All in all, I've been able to jack my unbuffed FR up to 242 now. That's 302 with a shaman FR totem, and it's looking better and better that once we get to Ragnaros, that this fool will go down.