… as long as I don’t have to take an Ogre husband and bear his Ogre children, I guess I can tolerate being the Queen of the Ogres…

After I finished dealing with Barthamus in Lower City when I reached Exalted with Netherwing and selected my Reins of the Veridian Netherwing Drake, I kinda sat there for a second, on my new mount, wondering “what next”.

One thing about being level 70, however, is that there’s ALWAYS something going on, and scarily enough, there’s so much demand for help that complete strangers are willing to take in HUNTERS into their parties to get their stuff done.

Doesn’t everyone hate Hunters by level 70? ;) ;)

Neutral with Ogri’la - Lucky Girl!

Someone I’d never heard of before sent an LFG (looking for group) request over the General line for killing some elite guy very close to Shattrath, and since I didn’t know what else to do, I whispered and offered to help and was presented with a party invite.

When I joined there were four of us - Tank, and 3 DPS, just looking for a healer. The healer arrived shortly afterwards and as it turned out, all of these guys were from the same guild - I was the only outsider!

We went through a number of quests rather quickly in the next hour or so… so quickly that while I got some screenshots later on, initially I didn’t fully realize what we were working on and each time I thought it was the “last one” but it kept on turning into more.

Right at the start it became HUGELY obvious that I, as the outsider, was significantly behind in gearing from the rest of the group. From the start I was behind the TANK in damage dealt on the damage meters, and my KLH threat rating was pathetic, too. Fortunately, I was able to laugh at it and the rest of the team members also laughed and were extremely helpful in terms of making sure I got the right quests and got them completed as we went through it all.

Some time in the middle of our fight, someone asked when the Gruul’s Lair run was for their guild that night… yes, yes, I was VERY VERY undergeared. Valdesta doesn’t even have any gems in her few socketted items, nevermind purples from Karazhan.

By the end, I was crowned the Queen of the Ogres and found myself Neutral with Ogri’la.

I poked around outside Ogri’la camp site for a bit but then decided it was too advanced for what I wanted to be doing, that I should be giving some love to my other toons that had been neglected while I was working on the Netherwing Quest line.

It wasn’t until a full week later that I realized I could go and freely pick Felweed in the Bloodmaul Ravine in Blade’s Edge because I was now neutral with all of those Ogres! What a treat of a surprise that was.

If I were to send a “thank you” stack of potions to each of these various Gruul’s Lair guys (mage, warrior, resto shaman and rogue), what would you suggest?

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