Got into a few decent groups, dinged a few AAs, otherwise a pretty normal weekend.
Did win a roll on a shoulder piece that resulted in a relatively complex set of gear swapping. I've been hanging onto my old PoSky haste belt literally forever simply because I could never justify taking a haste item in a raid over it. But honestly, the stats on that belt really really suck. So, out of the blue, this shoulder piece drops with a 36% haste on it. Now, I'm wearing a pretty nice shoulder piece, with tons of AC, but a bit behind on stats. This one's more moderate in terms of AC, but it's got the haste, and about 100 more HPS, and +atk, and resists, and <list of better stuff>. So I swap it out for my old shoulders, then buy one of those pally only waist items (with the +atk, mana regen, and +bash and other nice stats).
End result is I'm down 10 raw AC and 5% haste, but I'm up 25 raw atk, a bit over 300HP, a gazillion stat points, resists, mana, and end (not that end really matters, but hey!), and I gained a point of mana regen (yay). The complex part was the various augments I had to remove and shuffle around to make it all worthwhile. Overall, I think it's a good trade, especially since I can now sell the old shoulders (I've seen them sell for 80-100k), and use that money to buy up bits I've been needing for some OOW teir stuff I've been working on.
So, a nice little bonus to an otherwise ordinary weekend. I've been meaning to "bite the bullet" and swap out that belt. Just never quite got the right item drop to make it worthwhile.
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