Well, I can turn the emo off a little bit. I was in ToC 10 last night,
Gloves of the Silver Assassin dropped. I lost the roll to a rogue. He was in 4pc t8.5. I was like...really man? really? You're not gonna break that set for these gloves.
On the next leather drop, it was the chest. I already had it so he got that too since we were the only two who could wear it on main spec.
We got to anub and he gave the gloves to me. Said I was right, he wasn't gonna break that set till he got heroic TOC gear as it wasn't a dps upgrade. I thanked him. We pwned Anub.
About an hour later he whispers me to do VoA 25. Keep in mind I didn't know him before this run. So I go, he beat me by 10 dps on Koralon (I had gemmed/chanted new gloves as well as switched from shoulder/chest t9 to shoulder/head to put me back at hit cap instead of like 85 over)
I did 7,159 dps, he did 7,169 dps. We both were at 7.1% damage done. We chatted, I beat him on Emalon, he beat me on Arch, we did 10 man. I had to tank Koralon, beat him on Emalon, he beat me on Arch.
At this point this other guy I knew, who was in a crappy guild, went to a good guild, got geared, left server to be in the guild that does the tankspot videos, geared even more and is now back on my server started trying to recruit us both. He apparently brought some people back and was making a new guild on the server. Sniping out of all the other guilds and grabbing all the misfits who do craptons of dps but have a bad attitude. I don't think I'm down for that volatile environment.
Anyway I'm gonna end this boring story with flexing my e-peen for hitting 7.1k dps even if it was a stand still fight mostly.
I really can only use ring and feet from TOC 10 now, can upgrade a few pieces with minimal gains in ToC 25, and then into Heroic ToC for me...