The greenshunter strikes back!

So a while ago I was running normal Steamvaults for the key fragment for my RL friend Kathoon (/wave if you're reading this). He was my main tank when I was raiding on my mage; he also has a lot more raid experience than I do, by virtue of being in the #1 guild on Barthilas pre-BC. (three bosses in Naxx down, I believe it was). We rerolled at the same time, but because I'm online a lot more I hit 70 long before he did. Hence, he needs the Kara key, whereas I'm off cavorting about in T5 instances. Hehe, cavorting.

Since it's well nigh impossible to pug nonheroic 5-mans on Caelestrasz, there were a couple of guildies in the group. I think we ended up with me tanking, since I was feral for the day to farm, a holy priest guildy healing, a holy-respecced-ret-for-the-run paladin guildy, the greenshunter in question, and a pug DPS whose class I can't recall. The run went smoothly, we got some shards and the key fragment. Anyway, partway through the run our paladin says to me, 'So how come you don't get Kathoon in as a friend of the guild?' since we have a rank specifically for that.

I blinked a couple of times and said, 'uh... I don't know.' Few minutes later, sure enough, he was enjoying a guild tag. Go figure.

Anyway, we were in TK about a week later, clearing to VR for our free T5 shoulders, and our ret paladin (not the same one), who's pretty sick, says he has to go. Fair enough, he wasn't planning to come that night anyway.

That leaves us one DPS short. Hmm. We didn't have any hunters in the raid.

So here's this hunter, wearing mostly greens, shooting stuff with [Lohn'goron, Bow of the Torn-heart] (he upgraded to [Valanos' Longbow] when it dropped from one of the packs in VR's room), getting his level 67 ravager sawblade'd and pounding'd, misdirect pulling all this raid trash that pretty much kills him if it sneezes on him, and showing a lot of us up by not dying to arcane orbs and stuff. Next day, we're doing Lurker and we're short on people again, so we grab him and mid-raid he gets promoted to Trial status.

Of course, he's not attuned to Kara.

We were going to do Black Morass today, but it was so damned hot I stayed in bed, dozing and sweating (sometimes simultaneously) until four-thity in the afternoon, and I haven't been on since. Hopefully they ran without me so he could get some gear from Kara this week.

Of course, my biggest spot of irritation is that he outdpsed my kitty dps in Durnholde. I'm mostly purple in my cat set. Grr.

In other news: RIP rolling Lifeblooms. You shall be missed.