Those of you who've known me for a while might remember the awful luck I've had with weapon drops on my Ally kitty for almost all of Dragon Soul and the first MoP tier. I must have been the last person to replace previous-tier weapons - not even Raid Finder gave me my drop, although I ran it religiously every week.
After my 6-month break from WoW, when I levelled my new Horde kitty, I swore I wouldn't leave a weapon to chance if I didn't have to, and saved all my gold (I'd given all I had away before I left, so I was pretty broke for some weeks) to buy Stormherald, Reborn. Of course, one of the first LFRs I did was ToeS and Tsulong dropped the staff. Of COURSE. Ah well.
I'm currently not in a raid, and my Horde guild does only casual raiding anyway. We do have *one* team that does heroics, they raid only twice a week but are doing quite well, considering. When I was online tonight, I got a /w from their raid leader - they were one dps short and would I like to join?
I nearly had a heart attack. I haven't even studied normal tactics for most ToT bosses. My kitty is ilvl 486, with blue 458 shoulders and bracers (been really unlucky even in hc dungeons), and I've run the second half of ToT exactly once on lfr. They didn't have anyone else though, so I joined and went on Mumble. What boss are they on, I asked, and got the answer "Heroic Tortos".
Gulp!!
Long story short, my progress on Jin'rokh and Horridon is now LFR + heroic, no normal

And got Jalak's Maelstrom Staff. Which means I now wield one of the best weapons currently in the game, with otherwise crappy gear (did I mention the blue shoulders and wrists?).
Confession: I had a great time. Gods, I had no idea how much I'd missed raiding!! We didn't kill Tortos although we got him pretty low, and I'm sure they'll get him tomorrow night. I was horribly unprepared but they said I was doing ok, and my dps was, while terrible, not TOO bad for my iLevel.
So ends (for now) the Tale Of RNG. After two weapon-less tiers, I now get drowned in both weapons and trinkets (still waiting for Rune, but I only have *one* Lei Shen kill on LFR so far). I wonder how I can get the loot gods to bestow a pair of shoulders and bracers on me.
Thanks for listening. I think I can sleep now
