Well, I think the experiment is a qualified success.

We'll see if Scott agrees when we have it for dinner. One pot of meatless goulash (Americanized goulash, adjustments starting from my mother's recipe). I'd do it again, though I'd do some things differently, I think.

( What I did )

( What I'd do differently )

I am amused.

And this will mostly have meaning to World of Warcraft geeks, and they may not care. My level 72 mage is fire-specced and is a destructive little wonder these days. I love it. I have gotten at least two criticals (on pyroblast) that exceeded 4100 points of damage.

I have to be very, very careful about not pulling aggro unless I'm willing to actually tank whatever we're fighting. Even with the abilities that reduce threat from my fire spells, I'm still very prone to REALLY pull aggro. If I screw up, I'd better hope Scott is my tank (he's somewhat used to me, and since he's in the same room I can quickly communicate that this was an oops and not a conscious decision to tolerate aggro). Other tanks are likely to simply wind up Hating That Gnome if I blow it.

For my own amusement, I put together a list of my bonus damage and crit bonuses. They ( do a lot to explain why I am a walking DPS device )

Yes, that's basically entirely gloating. But it's been amusing me a lot lately.