It all started on Wednesday a week ago. A friend and guild-leader told me where the formula drops and we went grinding. We spent 3 hours there, with a couple of crapy greens dropping that I promptly disenchanted.
Thursday – I went and grinded for 2 hours with my brother. No formula, a green or two.
Friday – it took me 5 hours before I despaired and after getting a head-ache logged off after DE the greens I had gotten.
Saturday – I think the mobs knew me by my face already. 4 hours of grinding for 3 greens before our Kara raid.
Sunday – 3 hours. Got a blue drop that I sold for 80g and a couple of greens.
Monday – I had the day off, couldn’t move from home as we had people jogging in and out with packages and messages all day. 6 hours of futile grinding. Even the green drops were scarce.
Tuesday – and I’m there again, grinding for no formula for 2 hours and not even a single green drop.
Wednesday – after TVC came back up I managed to get in about 3 hours of grinding before the lack of formula drop got the best of me and I logged out, with onyl a couple of arcane dusts from DE green drops.
Today rolled forth. I was on my way to make Spellcloth when I decided why not. I’ll land in Blade’s Edge and kill the spell-thieves just so I could say I tried before heading over to Netherstorm. Not that I expected the formula to drop anymore.
So I landed in a safe nook in the camp that alreayd felt like second home and pulled a spell-thief with SW:Pain. Someting green formula drops and I learn it automatically. It took me a whole minute of staring at the enchant I had just learned before I realized I can now make the +40 spell damage enchant. I have to admit that I cried resulting in black streaks of Mascara down my cheeks and a very odd look from my father.
I didn’t believe it anymore and it happened! I know some people with their luck might have gotten it on first or second kill, I didn’t. It may seem a silly thing but the 28 hours I spent grinding for it make it almost a small miracle for me that I just had to share. I actually feel like hugging blizz employers instead of crushing their knuckles now. Or my knuckles for ever taking up enchanting.