Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays!

Boy do I. The first Monday back after the Holidays is always rough. Bleah.

On the bright side, I had plenty of time to play World of Warcraft over the weekend(s) and accomplished a variety of things. The first goal was upgrading my ring!

This meant accumulating almost 5,000 Apexis crystals and running through three different Heroics. The crystals was pretty easy - not only do you get a small amount from various work orders, but there's also a daily quest for either 800 or 1,000. These quests basically just require you to kill some mobs in a certain area (there are clickable items that aid in your "Assault" as well), and the one that rewards 1,000 requires a group since the mobs are elite. You can easily find a group in the LFR tool, generally there are several going at a time. I found this interesting because you get grouped with people from other realms and yet you're not in an instanced dungeon; you're running around in the open world. Sometimes the daily quest is even for Ashran, the new PvP zone; unfortunately, I haven't had much luck with the queues for Ashran so I've stayed away (only tried twice).

The Heroics were intimidating. First time through as a tank always is, for me at least. I read through the dungeon journal and watched a couple of videos and it went pretty okay. Two of the dungeons I had already done, Blood Slag Mines and Everbloom, but one was totally new - Grimrail Depot. Out of all the dungeons I've done so far, this is by far my least favorite. Some of the trash mobs hit really hard (Gunners - they have a channeled spell that does a ton of health unless you move out of the way) and the second boss is just ... weird. I probably just don't "get" the fight yet, but you essentially have to hide during his gunner phase otherwise you just die. Lame. At any rate, I made it through those just to find out that then you have to go to a fourth heroic!

The best part of this whole quest line (outside of the awesome epic ring) is that Khadgar's lines are pretty darned funny.

Oh Khadgar, you silly goof!

And then, of course, you get your brand new ilvl 680 ring. It's nice that you can have one for each spec, as long as you're willing to spend some additional gold. 

The tanking ring

The next part of the quest chain requires you to go to Highmaul, which is the only raid out currently. Supposedly you can do this through LFR, so we shall see!