Dagger Damnation

I've always been a dagger rogue. Even leveling, I used daggers. I remember farming for my Barman Shanker. I remember buying my Mass of McGowan. But wait! A mace?? Yes, before the days of the global cooldown, macro-switching weapons in combat was instantaneous. Thus, in those situations when certain mobs were stun-immune (such as that lovable leper gnome, Plugger Spazzring), swapping in a mace for more effective Sinister Strikes was the way to go. Alas, those days are over.

But as much as I love the daggers (my favorite combo being Perdition's Blade and Gutgore Ripper), they've been the bane of my existence during Wrath of the Lich King. The last lovely experience I've had with them is when I got my Dagger of the Rising Moon. Right now I'm rocking that and Broken Stalactite. That's taken me through a handful of Naxx25 runs, one Ulduar25 run, one ToC10 run, and two ToC25 runs. I've never once seen a dagger upgrade drop, much less get a chance to lose a roll on one. But hallelujah Blizzard! Black Knight's Rondel! Thank you thank you thank you! I was waiting for 3.2.2 to drop for weeks so I could dual wield that puppy. At least until my ToC25 runs finally paid off. Guess how many times I've run Heroic Trial of the Champion for it. Go on, guess.

Once.

Oddly, it didn't drop. Why haven't I run it more? Well, I've tried, at least four other times. Granted, many people have run it every single day since the patch went live and have never seen it. But still, I'd at least like to kill the Black Knight to see if he's generous that day. After my first successful run, the next one resulted in the tank dropping group after four attempts on him, because he wasn't geared very well and because the Confessor didn't drop Marrowstrike. Waste of time. Around four or five other days, I just simply couldn't find a group. Which surprised me, but I guess I'm just getting on too late or something.

But last night took the cake.

A guildie put together a group, but we had to wait for a healer who was already queued for Wintergrasp. But, Wintergrasp wasn't set to start for another fifteen minutes. After about half an hour, he was out and ready to go. When we entered the instance, the message popped up saying something like, "You have entered an instance that is already in progress. Would you like to be saved to this instance?"

Now, I'm not extremely smart. Nor am I, apparently, very experienced with WoW, despite my 4.5 years. I'd never seen this before. I thought that maybe someone had started the event already and anyway, I was just so happy to be going in here, whatever, yes, I want to be in this instance. So I clicked Yes.

The one who was saved promptly dropped group and logged. I, shortly thereafter, realizing my mistake, apologized to the rest of the group, and shut off my damn computer.

I swear it feels like I'm going to be going into Cataclysm with these same two, stupid daggers.