Ding! 60!

I did it, dinged 60 last night. 2/3 of the way done with Powny. At least until Wrath of the Lich King is released later this year.

Last night was a repeat in Western Plaguelands finishing off the last two farms there and also doing a quest I had never seen before where I had to kill diseased Wolves and Bears. The Wolves were a real pain since they were very spread out and mixed in with some annoying Spiders. Once I finished the Western Plaguelands quests I was six bars away from leveling so off I went to Eastern Plaguelands.

My guide wanted me to speak to Tyron in the northwestern corner so I could do three quests to kill Plaguehounds, Bats and Carrion Worms, but I figured since I was so close to 60 I might as well skip them. The quests are pretty tedious. I did however go near the Blightcaller’s house and see the child ghost Pamela in Darrowshire before making my way to Light’s Hope Chapel. At Light’s Hope I did the turnins and got to within one bar of 60.

From here I simply went back to Western Plaguelands, finished up a quick quest and dinged.

Then it was on to Alterac Valley again to spend some tokens and get the Battle Ram. 50 tokens is a lot, but for a basically free Epic ground mount, it was totally worth it. Also, for Season 2 gear I only need 50 Alterac Valley marks and will be grinding honor there anyways, so sitting at around 38 left, it won’t take long. I also transferred 1000 gold from Pownybank to Powny and then realized that 150 Riding only costs 480 gold. I was pleasantly surprised since I thought it cost closer to 800 or 1000 gold. So I still have a war chest of about 850 gold heading into Outlands.

On to Outlands and better gear!

59 in Western Plaguelands

Skeletons and Ghouls everywhere. I’d hate to have lived here when the Scourge invasion and plague broke out, but I bet it was a pretty place. Now instead Andorhal is a mess and diseased critters are everywhere. The four farms in the area are overrun with rotting Zombies, Ghouls, Skeletons and Ghosts. Where is a +damage vs. Undead weapon when you need one.

Last night was apparently “Gank Alliance While Escorting Lowbies” night for the Horde since I saw a couple level 70s running around with people in the low 50s. I also ran into Bbqgnome, a level 58 Gnome Mage who kept getting targeted by the 70s and being ganked by Rogues. In the Local Defense channel we made a pact to sack Tarren Mill when we both hit 70. I’m all over that like white on rice.

By the end of the night I had torched the Watch Towers and purged two of the farms of their undead menaces and dinged 59 in the process. I also went back to Stormwind for the ‘Ol Emma quest and coincidentally hit Exalted with Stormwind.

I am now Exalted with Darnassus, Exodar, Ironforge and Stormwind and have the four mounts associated with them bound into a /castrandom macro. Draenai may look dumb riding anything but the Elekk, but at only 8 gold apiece, what the heck. 32 gold well spent.

The best moment of the night was when Bbqgnome was being chased down by a 70 Orc Hunter. Bbq made it to Chillwind Camp alive and the Hunter accidentally Multi-Shotted Bbq next to the Gryphon Master. Well this unleashed the three level 65 Crazed Gryphon elite mobs on him who he managed to Feign Death away from, but not before I hit him with a Concussive Shot and Intimidation and was able to finish him off before he got away. It felt so good that I posted on the forums about it.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=9236646378&postId=91730294318&sid=1#0

I don’t care if I get flamed for killing a 70 with the help of the Gryphons, a 70 kill at 58 is a 70 kill.

Next I go back to Western Plaguelands to finish off the farms and move onto Eastern Plaguelands and hopefully Outlands too.

57 and 58 in Winterspring and Burning Steppes

It’s a new day, back from vacation and time to really renew the push to 60 before I go away again on Thursday for the long Labor Day weekend. With all this rested experience still I decided to see if I could push for 58.

The Yeti quests in Everlook proved to be quite rewarding with the rested experience bonus as each would net me ~600xp a kill. I did have to contend with some unruly Horde in the area, specifically a 58 Blood Elf Warlock who jumped me while I was skinning and a 70 Undead Warrior escorting a 48 Tauren Shaman who killed me twice when I was turning in quests at Donova Snowden and Sidalva. I still can’t take on a 70 so decided to run through the cave since he apparently was still hated by the Furlbogs, but I was too slow and died. All this left a bad taste in my mouth, but I was done with Winterspring anyways and moved on to the Burning Steppes.

In the Burning Steppes I got to do the Ogre quests, the one to collect Broodling Essences and the one to kill Dragonkin. I made a fortune in skins from the last two quests as a couple other Alliance were doing it too and weren’t skinning anything. When I was done here I had dinged 58 and had 3 stacks of Rugged Leather and 2 stacks of Thick Leather, just in the Burning Steppes alone. This translates into 50 or 60 gold easily on the Auction House.

I did also get repeatedly ganked by a 60 Orc Shaman running around collecting herbs or mining nodes. I almost got him the second time around, but he got the jump on me when I was low on health and Gorefield was fighting another mob.

Not that it matters anymore, but I also started the Onyxia quest chain and can go save the prisoner in Blackrock Depths if I feel like it at some point. Maybe after I hit 70, but for now it was quick and easy experience for running back and forth from Stormwind.

Up next is Western Plaguelands.

56, Felwood and Winterspring

Back from a week in Maine and time to ding 56 in Felwood and set myself up for the run to 60. 56 was easily accomplished running through the remaining quests in Felwood since there are a lot of turnins for some large amounts of experience.

I also made my way to the Furbolg cave and ripped my way through the Furbolg camp killing everything in sight while racking up some decent reputation with the Furbolg. Rested experience is truly a wonderful thing. If I could stand to take a week away from the game to get it I would, but clearly I’m addicted.

I also spent some time clearing out my quest log by finishing up the Princess Trapped quest that I had (somehow I missed one of the keys in the Arathi Highlands) and jumped to Tanaris to turn in the quests I had there. Every little bit of quest experience helps and I know that I will have a ton of quests as soon as I hit Outlands. I also took the time to do some mining to get my skill up. I got it to 270, enough to be mining Small Thorium nodes and to smelt Thorium, which will provide skillups. I would really like both Mining and Skinning to be 300 before I head to Outlands (Skinning is already there).

The last thing I did was run through the cave and get the flight path in Everlook.

55, Un’Goro Skipped and Felwood Questing

I finally made up my mind to simply skip Un’Goro since I was level 54 and three levels above where I was supposed to be in the leveling guide I use. Felwood is listed as 53-54 so by starting there at 54, the mobs still were easy enough to solo my way through and I was able to ensure I wasn’t going up against gray mobs.

I really didn’t spend much time playing last night because I wasn’t feeling well. I am chalking it up to allergies, but with vacation at the beach next week I’d rather err on the side of caution and go to bed early.

So all I did was the first half of the quests in Felwood, including the first Furbolg quest to hit unfriendly so I can travel through the cave into Winterspring later on. I also still think I should be able to skin Furbolgs. I also finished the Ooze collection quests and the first half of the Jaedenar quests. With turnins and rested experience these were enough to ding 55.

Tonight I will get back into Felwood, finish it off and move on to Winterspring. I know there are a few that relate to the Linkin quests in Un’Goro that I’ll have to skip, but I’m still two levels ahead of my guide and everything should be good. With luck I’ll ding 56 and maybe even 57.

On a side note, I have given up the quest for 60 by Friday. I’m not going to push myself.

1000gold Mark Broken

Not bad for a new toon on a new server. Just goes to show you how broken the World of Warcraft economy is right now with all the daily quests and high level players tricking out their lowbies.

54, Blackrock Depths and Searing Gorge

I begain the night where I left off the other night, in Searing Gorge, completing quests and working my way to 54. I also, through the Looking For Group, interface, said I would join a group in Blackrock Depths, for the heck of it. About an hour into playing I actually got a whisper from a Druid asking if I wanted to go. I asked if he had a full group to which he responded no, but that they only needed dps. I joined and saw it was a Paladin and this Druid and figured ok, tank and healing is all set, they’ll add some more dps and we’ll be good to go. I didn’t realize that the Paladin was level 70 and that he’d just be running us through since he was in the same guild as the Druid. Bonus.

The run didn’t go as well as planned because the Paladin pretty much stunk at his class and his gear wasn’t that great. He also kept going afk because his parents were checking in on him to make sure he wasn’t playing World of Warcraft. Somehow through it all we managed to kill a few of the bosses in there and I picked up a couple new pieces of gear. Nothing super fancy, just a couple better pieces and a few Mail replacements for Leather gear I was still wearing. In the end it was a decent run and I dinged 54 as a result.

Afterwards I finished up the last few Searing Gorge quests I still had and before calling it a night queued for an Alterac Valley to get some more reputation, honor and marks.

My guide says I should go to Un’Goro next, but again, I really dislike that zone and may skip it since I’m 3 levels ahead of it already. I don’t want to waste time grinding on grey mobs that don’t yield any experience just to get quest experience.

53, Searing Gorge and Alterac Valley

I should have played more yesterday than I did however I’ve been caught up in the Olympics and stuff. I also should have leveled more than I did, but I’ve been caught up in the Alterac Valley Olympics as well. I’m close to hitting Exalted with Exodar and Darnassus with all the games I’ve played.

I did hit Exalted with Ironforge since you get much more reputation from Alterac Valley turnins with them than any other group. I went a bought a Ram too. I programmed this macro in to randomize my mounts:

#showtooltip
/castrandom [nomounted] Gray Elekk, Gray Ram
/dismount [mounted]

I did manage to get to some leveling in Searing Gorge. I cleared out the majority of the quests there in one circle, killing Golems, Dark Iron Dwarves and Lava Spiders. I also got to do the Incendosaur quest which yields a lot of nice Thick Leather to sell (plus they are easy to kill). I’m also half way to 54 after all the quest turnins.

I also hit Revered with Stormpike Guard as well and got the fourth Alterac Valley trinket. It’s a decent item to help regain health while questing. The Frost resistance is almost worthless however, unless I’m fighting Frost Mages. While getting the trinket I got to experience some ganking as I got camped by a 70 Horde Druid who killed me five times before I could finally turn in the quest, get the new trinket and hearth out of there. I think he was mad because I tried to kill him when he was killing the Stormpike Guard in front of the Alterac Valley cave.

All in all, I’m very impressed with the 50-60 Alterac Valley bracket. Due to the excruciatingly long wait times (sometimes 30 minutes) I only played about 25 matches, but won 24 of the 25, giving me 73 Alterac Valley marks, well above the 50 that I needed for the Season 2 Arena gear. I also picked up my Insignia of the Alliance. It was 2800 honor that I would have rather saved, but it’s too useful of a trinket to pass up.

I figure I’ll work on Alterac Valley a little bit more to try and get Exodar and Darnassus to Exalted (I can get a kitty mount to go with my Elekk and Ram) and then go back to leveling to 54 and beyond. My goal is to hit level 60 before I go on vacation next week. We’ll see.

52, Alterac Valley, Tanaris, Searing Gorge and More Alterac Valley

I started the morning yesterday working on level 52. I was already half way there and pushing my way through the quests I had in Tanaris were almost enough to make my way over the top. In Tanaris I had to do the Silithid quests, and as I've stated before, I really dislike the Silithid. Two races really annoy me, Silithid and Aarakoa, I hope there are 100% less Aarakoa in Wrath of the Lich King.

My guide took me all the way back to Ironforge so I figured it would be a good time to go back into Alterac Valley and try and get my dragon. As with the other night, Alliance really owns the 51-60 Alterac Valley category. In most cases it is 40 Alliance to 15 - 20 Horde, pretty much a cake-walk. By my second game I remembered that there were some quests outside of the Alterac Valley cave (near Southshore) so I few on over. Sure enough, there were quests to capture a mine, capture a tower and capture a graveyard. I signed up for all three and easily completed them, and dinged 52 in the process.

I continued to do Alterac Valley for the majority of the day and on my 10th win got my dragon. Coincidentally, that same game, we managed to summon Ivus! I haven't seen Ivus in a game in probably over a year. There just isn't usually time to summon him anymore.

I also realized that I could be doing Alterac Valley quest turnins for reputation. I spent every game at the front lines long enough to get my bags loaded with turnin items before recalling back to turn them in. At the end of the day I racked up over 7000 reputation with Ironforge and 1500 each with the other capitals. I am almost Exalted with Ironforge.

Finally, I ended the night by making my way into Searing Gorge and doing a couple quests. Tomorrow I'll be spending a little more time in Alterac Valley to finish off the Ironforge reputation and then moving on to level 53 in Searing Gorge.

Alterac Valley and the Olympics

Today they announced that in the spirit of the Olympics there would be two new items made avalable, one is th Spirit of Competition tabard and the other is a Gold Medallion that summons a small flying dragon as a non-combat pet. I want that dragon!

So, foregoing my normal levelling guide I instead queued up for Alterac Valley, by far my favorite battleground, probably because the Alliance wins it a lot.

To obtain the tabard you just need to stay in a battleground until it closes, simple enough, and I got my tabard on the first Alterac Valley I played in, which we won! Not only did we win, but it was almost 40 Alliance to 10 Horde, so it was a total roll. At the end, the Horde hadn't taken any towers or bunkers, I've never been in an Alterac Valley that happened like that before.

To obtain the dragon you need to be in a battleground until the end and win it. Upon winning you have a very small chance of receiving a gold medallion in your mailbox.

It was totally a telling of what was to come, barring the 15 to 20 minute waits to queue into a battleground, Alliance rolled the Horde in every single one and I walked away with almost 2,000 honor and 15 Alterac Valley marks.

I also completed the quest to Kill Drek'thar which rewards you with the Ice-Barbed Spear, a weapon that will probably get me all the way to outlands because it is stacked with Agility and Stamina, much more than the simple "of the Monkey" sword I was using. At first I was torn over whether to get the Crossbow that is a reward, but in the end, went with the Spear.

Tomorrow I'll go back to do some levelling, but I plan to spend an equal amount of time in Alterac Valley trying to get my dragon.

51, Feralas and Tanaris

Apparently last night was escort quest night. I did two of them, both successfully.

The first one was to rescue Shay Leafrunner from the harpies and bring her back to Rockbiter. This one is a lot like the sleeper quest in Darkshore where you have to ring a bell every time she wanders off so she comes running back to you. The toughest part of this one is the mobs that are in the way that you have to grind through to get her out, but still easy enough in the long run.

The second one was to take Tooga, a turtle in Tanaris, back to his wife, Torta, near Steamwheedle Port. Honestly, this quest is a pain on a PvP server, especially in a hotly contested area such as Tanaris. You need to escort Tooga, who is slow as a…well, a turtle, from the Thistleshrub area (near the Un’Goro path) in the southwest corner of the zone to Steamwheedle all the way in the northeast corner. It’s just an excruciatingly long trek through the desert. Thankfully I made it the whole way without running into a single Horde.

Of course when I was resupplying at Steamwheedle after turning in the quest a 54 Troll Mage decided to jump me and wasted me pretty quickly. I honestly wasn’t really paying attention because I was buying arrows and selling grey items when he attacked me. I was a little disappointed that the folks in Steamwheedle didn’t assist me, I am Honored with Gadgetzan, but they weren’t guards so I understand. It would have been nice though.

Next up are a few more quests in Tanaris and then off to Searing Gorge.

50, Hinterlands and More Arathi Basin?

It took me a little while to get motivated again to start leveling to 50, but I finally got around to it and headed off to the Hinterlands, an area with some quick and simple quests including the Sharpbeak saga. This is also a notorious place for unwanted ganking making me always have to watch my back for Horde sneaking up on me.

So let’s jump right into the aforementioned attempted ganking. I reiterate, this was “attempted” and not actual outright ganking done to me. The first attempt was by a 48 Blood Elf Rogue. I think she may have accidentally clicked to attack me, why do I say this?


Yes, she apologized. But it was too late by then. Caspurr was already in Bestial Wrath mode and I had plugged her with a Serpent Sting. She died quickly. I felt bad afterwards and when she rezzed made sure to say I was sorry back. Accidents do happen afterall.

Attempted ganking number two was also by a Rogue, Blood Elf again, level 50, so one level above me. He snuck up on me while I was fighting spiders and stunned me, I was able to get down a Freeze Trap and stuck him in place while I bandaged quickly, then sent Caspurr in (Caspurr was still fighting a spider at the same time). Bestial Wrath, Rapid Fire, Serpent Sting and he is down to almost no health, but so am I. He Vanishes and tries to run away, but I gun him down with an Arcane Shot. Two Rogues down.

Attempted ganking number three was by a 50 Troll Mage while I was clearing my way up the Altar of Zul. This was a real close one because he hit me in rapid succession with two Fireballs that dropped me down to almost no health. Thankfully I could stun him with Intimidation and hit him with a Serpent Sting. His Ice Block must have been on stun because Caspurr shredded him and I barely survived.

After all the fun and quest turnins I was one bar away from level 50 and headed to Darnassus to turn in some quests. On the boat ride over I figured I’d queue up for two Arathi Basins since I was at 73 marks and wanted to get to an even multiple of five. 75 marks would leave me with only 15 remaining when I hit 70, not too insurmountable. Of course who do I find in Arathi Basin? Muwatalli! He immediately points out that I said I was done and I just chuckled in return. It was a pretty close game but we still ended up losing and I said my final goodbyes to Muw. After spawning back in Darnassus the idea struck me: Why not queue for Arathi Basin and then level to 50! So that’s exactly what I did. I knew I had a couple quests to turn in that would easily ding 50 so I queued and then sprinted to turn them in and sure enough, ding right before the battleground opened.

Let the “HACKER!” whispers begin. It was quite surprising (and Muw commented on this as well) to see so many people unaware that this could be done. Also, it seemed to piss the Horde off as I was constantly a target. In the end we got 5-capped and lost but the best part was in the beginning when we went to take Blacksmith and Muw and I fought off five Horde and then a second wave that spawned at Farm afterwards. I easily took down eight or nine before Muw was out of mana and we were both dead. But damn straight we took and held Blacksmith alone. This will go down as one of my better memories of Arathi Basin with Muw. I’m going to miss him. Hopefully we will meet up again in the 70 Alterac Valley games.

For now it’s back to Feralas for more questing and leveling.

49 Arathi Basin Take Two

After the previous night’s debacle of an Arathi Basin I figured it couldn’t be that bad again and queued up rather than working my way to 50. Bad idea.

Nine games, all losses. Nine Arathi Basin marks the hard way. I may be up to 71 total marks now, but I am pretty much done with the 49 bracket. Boy how I longed to be back in the 39 bracket where we won as many as we lost.

The only bright spot was Muwatalli again. He healed me amazingly well, at times while I was fighting four or five Horde at a time. I made sure to tell him about the thank you post I made on the forums. He seemed pleased that someone would take the time to do it, but he just doesn’t understand how rare it is for someone to heal in a Battleground, and to heal well.

The one thing I did take away with me was how powerful Intimidation is. So many times I would send in Caspurr and pop Intimidation and he would stun the Horde just long enough for me or someone else to get a shot in. For me it would be a Concussive Shot followed by a Serpent Sting and an Arcane Shot. For clothies, they’d be dead real fast. This is certainly one tip I have mastered and added to my repertoire.

I’m not sure where to go next, it’s either off to Hinterlands and quest my way to 50 or try a few more Arathi Basin games and see if my luck changes. It should be an easy decision, but we’ll have to wait and see.

Arathi Basin 40-49 Bracket

Since I didn’t get a chance to hop on the computer until after 9:30pm I didn’t even consider working my way to 50 so instead I opted to go back into Arathi Basin for a few games. I was up to 62 marks and figured if things went well I would try and work my way to 90 to be able to afford the PvP Boots when I hit 70.

Things couldn’t have gone much worse. I only got four games in before I was fed up and called it a night.

I walked into a 5-cap in game one with the Horde at 1200 resources. I just sort of sat in the spawn waiting for it to end.

Games two and three were terrible as well, but had a few bright spots, namely in the form of a 49 Night Elf Druid named Muwatalli. He and I took and defended the Mines in both games with him healing and me dpsing anything and everything that dared show its face. We easily took on dual Warlock teams, Hunter / Shaman teams and even two Druids and a Mage who thought they could take me out. Muwatalli was great. He would sit stealthed and let them train their sights on me then pop out of stealth and heal me while Caspurr and I pwnd face. And we pwnd face hard. I was so impressed with his skills I felt compelled to post on the WoW forums thanking him. You can read it here:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=8557021548&sid=1

/salute Muwatalli

We did lose both games and then I suffered through a fourth defeat before I called it a night. I think I’ll check it out again tonight but if we are getting steamrolled I’ll go back to leveling and worry about the 24 marks at a later date.

48 and 49, Another Arathi Basin Bracket to Dominate?

Yesterday was Saturday, a day without the daughter, housework done early, meaning plenty of time to dedicate to Powny and reaching the weekend goal of 49. As the title suggests, this was easily accomplished with runs through Tanaris and Feralas.

Tanaris was ultra-quiet in the morning. At one point I was the only one in Gadgetzan and the Pirate Cove. This really made questing simpler. No Horde to think/worry about plus no Alliance trying to steal my kills. I burned through the Pirate Hat quest and even got a Captain's Key to drop. Sadly the loot from the chest was less than spectacular and will hit the AH.

I was a bar away from 48, but had to take a break for lunch and to go get a haircut.

I came back online that night and quickly cleared out the rest of 48 and started in on 49 in Feralas. The naga quests on the island were simple as usual and quickly led me over to the mainland and away from Feathermoon. Here I made my way through the Yeti cave and then down to grab a Hyppogriph Egg before clearing out the Ogres when I came across a 46 Night Elf Rogue following the same guide as me and we joined up. I think I amazed him with how quickly I was switching and pulling mobs and burning them down. I don't usually stop until I'm out of mana, plus a pet really helps.

We also decided to do the Sprite quests where you kill Tauren and save Sprites. It's just a blind massacre at times. Unfortunately my party mate kept forgetting to get followup quests and I ended up killing twice as many mobs as I really needed. In the end it was just extra XP so I didn't complain.

Afterwards he had to go so I continued on to the Silithid Hive alone. I hate Silithid. Plain and simple, they suck. Here is where a moment of fun came up. A 48 Orc Hunter came across me. I was killing Silithid and he even helped me kill one and then surprisingly, sent his Ravager after me. I Feigned Death, popped Bestial Wrath and Rapid Fire and sent Gorefield after him. He was dead in seconds. I don't think I lost even a quarter of my health. I don't know what he was thinking.

By the time I was done with questing I dinged 49. Since my questing took me to Darnassus I decided to queue up for some Arathi Basin for the heck of it. Game 1, I join when Horde have us 4-capped and are at 1700 resources, we lose. Games 2 and 3, we roll them hard, constantly pushing, almost 5-capping each game. Game 4, a long drawn out loss which in all honestly wasn't even close, we just sucked.

So in the end 2 wins, 2 losses. Seems promising. Back to Arathi Basin for 40 more tokens? I haven't decided yet.

47 in STV.

Man, STV is just the pits. I find myself always looking over my shoulder and keep thinking I hear stealthed Rogues around every corner. It really doesn't help when you travel through an invisible kitty mine field too. Makes me long for the PvE server when STV was a joke. Tons of easy quests with decent rewards and killer XP. But I'm a PvP server player now. No looking back.

In STV I did the Princess Poobah quest which I had never done before. I vaguely remember King Mukula (the giant ape) used to be elite. Now he is just a pushover. Everything seems to be simpler now that nothing is elite anymore. The reward for the quest was wierd...her nose ring that you can wear on your wrists. Nasty.

I didn't come across any PvP activity this time around. Usually getting that first ganking out of the way relaxes me a little and I can settle in and complete the quests, maybe it was a little more stressful since that gank never came.

All in all a quick run through the jungle. Next up is Tanaris.

45 and 46 Down, Badlands…Not So Bad After All

As I posted the other day I was just a sliver away from 45 so I knew that would be an easy level to grab, and sure enough, two quests into Badlands and I was done with 45. Unfortunately hitting 45 made some of the mobs grey to me in places like Uldaman and the early beasts in Badlands. I think I may have to skip a section of the guide in order to make sure I’m maximizing my leveling abilities.

Back to the Badlands. The last time I leveled a toon in Badlands was about a year ago and on a Human Paladin. Some quests seemed to take much longer than expected and without the benefit of a pet and ranged dps, Badlands wasn’t much fun. It was a totally different experience last night. I was flying through quests like there was no tomorrow and I don’t think my health dropped below ¾ at any time for the entire night. I also tamed a Ridge Stalker Patriarch for Dash 2 and Prowl 2.

Honestly, nothing spectacular came out of Badlands. No great weapon or gear upgrades, just a couple levels and some pet skills, oh and the Fiery Blaze enchant. I think I’ll slap this on a weapon around level 49 when I take another stab at Arathi Basin.

I also really didn’t see any PvP action in Badlands. I ran across two Blood Elves doing the same quest as me once, but they either were too afraid to attack a Hunter five levels above them or were too busy questing. I think I could have taken them. Other than that, I was part of a “Gank Train” in the caves of Uldaman when a ?? Troll Warrior steamrolled me as he was leading some lowbies through the cave for a speed run through Uldaman. I let it slide, no retaliation tonight.

I ended the night by doing one Arathi Basin, more for the heck of it than anything. My friend Josh joined me on his 49 Night Elf Rogue, Ragz. We came out of the gates poorly and ended up down 4 nodes to 1 really quickly but somehow came back with a vengeance taking the Blacksmith, Lumber Mill and Farm and the points ticked almost even, with the Horde at a slight lead. In the end it came down to us holding 3 nodes to their 2 but they had enough of a lead to sneak out with a 2000 to 1980 win. A little depressing, but a close, hard fought game. With that, I called it a night.

Next up, back to STV. Hopefully for the last time.