I CAN FLY AGAIN. Umm anyway, this site needed a logo so here you go: Two minute Photoshop job for the win!
Despite the fact that I have been gaining a level a day, I have been taking my time and thoroughly enjoying the new content. I am very pleased with the new
quests so far, many of which break the standard kill x gather y formula. The
vehicle missions are fun and as are the shit quests lol. Shit as in
quests related to poop or pooping. There is also a fair amount of quest
continuity; If you have paid attention to certain NPCs, quests and
events from the previous content, you might see a few familiar faces
out and about Northrend!
On the other hand, there are also
plenty annoying event trigger quests which must be done one group or
person at a time. The Amphitheater of Anguish events (WotLK version of
the Ring of Blood in Nagrand) was a massive cluster-fuck on Tuesday. We
had the misfortune of grouping for the event at the start of Australian
Prime time, and ultimately gave up in favor of doing it another day.
Monday:
Ding 75. I spent most of my time hammering out the quests that I
skipped in Borean Tundra for the sake of obtaining the achievement,
which I guess is a reasonable zone completion marker (I know that the
zone achievements don't include 100% of all quests, but I'm not that
anal). Since the starter zones aren't crowded anymore it's pretty fast
XP. Ran: Azjol, Drak'tharon Keep and Gun'drak. I got a nice breastplate
in one of those instances.
Tuesday: Ding 76. I quested in
Grizzly Hills for the entire evening, which is a fun area with a few
fun quests (I really liked the horse ones), even though the entire zone
was irritating to navigate. There were way too many hills to navigate
up, over and around (I am bitter because I AFKeiya ran off a cliff and
died).
Wednesday: Ding 77. I finished off the Grizzly Hills
achievement early in the evening and then did Gun'drak, Halls of Stone
and Halls of Lightning. Yay my very first level 80 instance! Pro-tip: A
level 76 retribution paladin isn't all that useful in a level 80
instance. I forgot to repurchase the Wyrmrest tabard before start HoL,
so all of the rep that I gained went towards Valiance Expedition, which
is fairly useless given that exalted is easily reachable via questing.
I
started the Shalizar Basin quests, leveld, trained Cold Weather Flying, and
then logged off for bed at a reasonable time for once! I am glad that
Blizzard chose to disallow initial use of the flying mounts in
Northrend, it would have ruined so much of the immersion. But that
said, I am glad that I have my flying sperm mount back. Running is
annoying.
I need to start thinking about my tanking gear set one of these days. These are the "decent" new world items that I have so far: