So I was sitting there last night looking at new trinkets.  I had finally gotten up in the 60 badge range on Emblems of Triumph and wanted to look at getting a shiny new trinket.  I went over, bought a nice one and finally… after all the blood sweat and tears got my hands on a trinket upgrade.

I’ve been using the same iLVL 200 trinkets forever.  Now granted… for bear tanks I’m pretty sure they are about the best of the best.  They have mountains of stamina coupled with dodge or the shielding effect that you get from the “Black Heart”.  They are great trinkets.  I’ve got no complaints there.

So I went and bought a nice trinket upgrade.  I was talking with a friend of mine about my Emblems of Triumph purchases.  I was pretty excited.  I only had one more purchase and I’d be all done I told him.  I figured I’d pick up the idol they had and then I could start buying off set items.  He then promptly whispered me, “Don’t need any T9?  That stuffs just vendor bait”

Wait… run that by me again?  I looked over the T9.5 stuff and I knew it took a token to buy… did I miss a vendor?  Oh my god… I did… There’s a T9 vendor you can buy the T9 stuff with no extra token… *headdesk*

I’ve wasted friggin badges already hunting things like a ring upgrade etc.. I could have had 4 pieces of T9 by now… So I promptly ran back to the badge vendor… sold back my shiny new trinket and ran over to the T9 vendor to buy a couple of really nice upgrades.  I’ve been dying for a shoulder upgrade forever… yeah… silly me.  Well at least I wasn’t alone.  The other bear tank in the guild didn’t know either… so we’d both wasted a bunch of badges.

Oh well.. call me in another 200 badges once I’m done buying all my upgrades ok???