You forget, I’m a Death Knight tank. If something’s bugging my healer, I can get all Mortal Kombat on their asses.
I’m morally opposed to double-downgrading 60 freaking badges. Maybe once I’ve filled out my whole DPS set.
I need new bracers too; but I /cry at the thought of coverting 60 Triumph emblems all the way down to Valor, even as they are coming so easily now. Actually my plan is to save up the mats and find a tailor to make me the Royal Moonshroud Bracers.
I’ve still got 6 Conquest emblems to spend, so I’m going to have to downgrade my Triumph and Frost emblems at some point if I want to use them. Most likely, I’ll want to use them for more heirlooms, so that’s downgrading all the way down to freaking Heroism. At least I have Champion’s Seals to help with that.
Winterhawk, I love me some RPz 
All my mains are on Moon Guard - what server would you be doing this on?
I still have 10 leftover Heroism badges; never quite felt like turning them into a blue gem.
(Also, if I remember right, the Conquest necklaces are the best badge gear available for that slot).
You are, but the Feral Druid we’re giving advice to isn’t. Sorry if that looked like it was directed at you intead of being an addendum (I’m bad at conveying that sometimes).
Yeah, I generally get everything I can use from that level of badges before I move on, at least for main spec. But once you’re moving on to offspec, if you still don’t have better main-spec bracers, it might be worth it. Or might not. Certainly check for them on the AH, or see if someone with leftover badges might want to sell you a pair–with the new LFG feature, some people will indubitably have more badges than they know what to do with, so the price will probably be going way down from the previous rate of, oh, 1500g or so.
IMO, save your Seals for other things, like mounts, pets, or tabards. You can make many more Emblems in a day than you can Seals, and the badge price of an Heirloom piece is always cheaper than the Seal price, in terms of “numbers of tokens required to purchase.”
It’ll be on Blackwater Raiders. Since my main purpose for leveling this DK is so I’ll still have an 80 to play with my old friends with, it’ll have to remain on that server.
He’s 72 now–I suppose I could start it earlier if people are interested, but I’d really like to spend a little more time working on my vision for it (and getting the website more fleshed out) before I start recruiting. I’ll definitely keep you in mind, though!
I want to be sure I set expectations, though, since both my raiding mains are on another server and this definitely won’t be a really active guild (although, as I mentioned, it’s quite possible that if we get a group of writers with worktime access to the net we could be fairly active on the website forum, writing stories, doing text based RP, and scheduling in-game events for specific times so people could be on.)
So use the 60 emblems to buy crusader orbs and have somebody make you these: Saronite Swordbreakers. Nice bracers and no moral qualms!
Yeah, but aside from the pony for your squire and the teleporting tabard (which admittedly add up to 200 seals between them), none of the rest of that stuff has any game effect; I was a bit pissed when I realized I’d spent an heirloom’s worth of Seals on my animated broom, cute as it is.
I’m definitely interested! Horde side, right? I can roll a toon on that server to level when I am feeling burned out on Roguing with Woeg on Cairne. That way, when you’re ready (and if I meet the reqs of course!) I will have a toon with some experience and some background to work with.
Yeah, that’s the thing: I’m not a collector. An achievement hound, admittedly, but I have no real interest in amassing all the little non-combat goodies the Tourney offers except perhaps the tabards.
Plus, there’s days when I’m looking to run a few dungeons, then there’s days I just don’t want to deal with it (especially since my connection to the battlegroup is occasionally prone to lag spikes large enough to cause team wipes), so I do dailies instead. I actually earn Seals at a faster rate than Emblems most days.
Welp, personally I’m an avid collector of pets and mounts, so for me, Seals of which I can generally earn less than a dozen per day are worth *much *more than Emblems, which I can get by the handful simply by chain-running Heroics, with at least five Emblems *per Heroic *(three or more bosses + 2 for using the random LFG). As with most things, of course, YMMV.
ETA: Squire + Squire’s mount + teleporting tabard are really a must-have, though. Can’t get anything like those with badges.
I wonder when, precisely, the RNG does its thing to decide what comes out of the Oracle egg. When you buy it? When it “hatches”? Or the moment you actually “open” it? Because I wonder if the protodrake would have been there if I had remembered to open the egg yesterday when it hatched, instead of today.
Paladin Protection spec: What’s a typical attack rotation? My only special melee attacks seem to be Shield of the Righteous and Hammer of the Righteous. I get to pull with Avenger’s Shield instead of Hand of Reckoning, I see. And of course I still have Hammer of Wrath and Exorcism, though without the Ret talent Art of War, I no longer have an instant-cast Exorcism …
I usually pull with Avenger’s Shield and then cast Exorcism as the mobs are approaching. Keep Holy Shield up at all times - it does passive damage as you get hit, so it helps build threat on anything attacking you. Consecrate will help get/keep aggro also.
I use Holy Wrath on each cooldown against demons/undead. Hammer of Wrath whenever it’s available. And of course constant Judging. Make sure you have Blessing of Sanctuary on yourself always; it reduces the damage you take and gives you mana back.
I’ll occasionally use Exocism during a fight, but usually the pushback from getting hit makes it not worth it.
I’m only level 59 so I don’t have Hammer/Shield of the Righteous yet.
Blizzard has stated a few times that loot tables are set when created. Monsters spawn with their loot tables, Raid boss loot is set when the raid first zones in, etc. In this case, it’s reasonable to assume the moment your egg was created, it was created with the mount as its contents.
Now the question is, was the Mysterious Egg you bought the one created with the mount, or is it the Cracked Egg that was created when you logged in and it hatched.
My guess is the loot table was set when the Cracked Egg was created, so you got your mount when the RNG rolled when you saw the message “You receive loot [Cracked Egg]”
Woohoo! Quick, go do the Brunhildar daily–you might get the Polar Bear, too. 
I’ve been curious about that, too. I’m pretty sure that with mobs, they at least generate their loot at the moment of death, if not when they first spawn–IIRC, it’s possible to have loot left on a body that no one can see because it’s a quest item that someone obtained their quota of after killing that particular mob but before looting it. No way to test a similar thing for the egg, though.
My WAG is “generates on hatch”–that is to say, when you recieve the hatched egg in your inventory, which could be some time after the egg’s timer runs down, if you’ve been logged out for a while. OTOH, waiting for you to open the egg would minimize memory requirements, since they’d only have to generate info for anyone who’s actually opened the egg, as opposed to theoretical people who buy an egg and then forget it in the bank (or take a month-long break), during which time the system has to store the information about what’s in that particular egg.
There is something that Blizzard calls “Logical Loot”, ie occasionally you can see on a mob that it will drop something special before you kill it(though I’m not sure if it is still in the game). Personally I’ve only seen it once, it was a mob that was holding a staff when the standard equipment was a 1h&shield and when I killed it, it dropped a green staff. This wouldn’t be possible unless the loot was generated on spawn.
Please note - I still hate hate tanking Halls of Reflection and when the tanking trinket drops I will never again have to venture in there.
On the other hand, I have been playing with nameplates up and found it a lot easier to pick my target when they get jumbled up.
/That is all. End rant.
You’re correct (most likely). Mobs generate their loot on spawning and I’d have to assume that containers are similar. You can test it by copying a character with an uncracked egg to the PTR. The contents of both cracked eggs is (usually) different. Transfering with a cracked egg should lead to identical contents.
Not that it makes a huge difference either way when the dice are rolled.