I was looking to pug [Razorscale must die] this weekend and noticed in the looking for raid screen that I was apparently not well enough geared for ICC [edit, I missed this important piece of info out!]! Blimey 2 pieces of T8 and 2 pieces of T9 are not enough! So I went mad and hit the Auction house to try to upgrade some of the lower level gear. Basically the only non-badge gear that Flowersz was wearing that could be replaced with Bind-on-Equip gear was her bracers at level 213. Everything else either didn’t have stuff you could buy (with triumph emblems or gold) or I’ve personally flagged as being replaceable with drops from the Pit Of Saron.
So that only left [Black Chitin Bracers] going for around 2k gold or [Bejeweled Wizard's Bracers]which were going for around 4k gold. You would think this was an easy choice. Unfortunately my mind went on one of it’s strange journies and I opted for the cloth bracers. The raw mats came to around 2.5k and I found someone to make them (hi Warlockygirl). Now 500 extra gold for such a minor stat change is a bit much, but my brain still hadn’t returned by the time it came to do the trade and I tipped a further 500g! Ouch!
So this is a warning to any guildies who are thinking of copying me. DON’T! The chitin bracers are quite fab enough as it is!
Anyway, that seemed to be enough, LookingForRaid now thinks Flowersz is well enough geared for ICC. Strangely it still thinks that even if she’s dressed in her brewfest gear.
I’ll soon have enough frost badges to replace the WispCloak that I’ve had since I first hit level 80, and not long after I’ll have enough emblems of triumph to go full T9 (though I’m going to miss the 1 second quicker riptides from 2pc T8).
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PS. I love wearing “around town” clothes when joining a PuG, it makes them worry 
PPS. Rasorscale went down fast enough for the achievement and we only had two healers and no deaths.
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