Oh Outland I miss you.

I started to type this a couple of days ago but then my phone got a call and I lost it. My paladin is now level 72 using a mixture of questing, battleground and random dungeon finder because honestly Northrend at least Howling Fjord and Dragonblight have been kinda boring with heirlooms and cold weather flying from 68.
Outland I knew where to go for good questing hubs and although these were again improved in Wrath, I just don't seem to be managing to level quite so quickly and I'm guessing that's due to the fact that the experience required for each level has gone up massively. I shall however continue on, starting to worry how I'll ever get two sets of gear together (ret and holy) I had enough problems just managing one for Red.
Speaking of Red she's only 35 frost emblems short of her four piece t10 bonus. I should really fix that this week.

Not much to say tonight.

I did want to say that I'd been working on my paladin and she'd gone up x amount but I haven't. Instead my boy got me into an ICC 25 pug and it didn't wipe after Saurfang! Yay! In fact we managed Rotface, Festergut, Blood Princes and we even saved an internet dragon! yeah, she started off as :

But in the end became:

This makes me happy :D I'm now 40 frosties away from my full four piece t10 and then I have no gear aims before cataclysm, I know I'm not going to win marks to upgrade them and I'll not beat any of the higher bosses to get better loot for other things. But hey, it's nice to know I can do most of it.

Just a shame we couldn't get our guild Ony/Uld raid done tonight due to lack of people.

A blog before bed.

So as I type this my boyfriend is in ICC10 attacking the Blood Princes for the first time. My main has been well and truly shelved for anything none guild raid wise an my paladin is now level 71 and just started questing in Dragonblight. I was having fun running Eye of the Storm until it got to the time of school finishing, unfortunately for all of summer now, and magically we couldn't use tactics anymore. I seem to be doing between 800-1500 dps is northrend normals which I'm finding alright as I'm in greens throughout and I was still wearing my Argent Dawn stone collection trinket until tonight!
All in all it's seems to be going well. I power levelled her cooking and I'm working on fishing and her blacksmithing but I need another profession, potentially alchemy if I can get the money together to fund it.
I'm finding ret fun an excited at the prospect of getting holy for guild raids. I want to be more useful and I know boosting the dps numbers massively is good but I think this could be better. Let's just hope it doesn't take me too long to get from 71 to 80 and then to get two semi decent sets of gear!

When things go well.

I’m really really loving my paladin, yesterday, again with a little help from my boyfriend, I completed the Hero of the Mag’har questline. I love epic lore quests and can’t wait to get going on the Wrathgate chain again. This morning my little Belf girl hit 67, so it’s just once level of questing to grind out and then I can head to Northrend.

Like I said before I already heave her cold weather flying money now I just need to decide which starter area I want and I’m kind of leaning towards Howling Fjord, seen as I do love the Undead lore and all.

The only issue I have with her are her much neglected professions, with heirlooms it’s really easy to power past them, unless you focus on them like I did my priest where she has been capped out most of the time with inscription. I’ve definitely decided on blacksmithing but I’m not sure for her other slot.

Hopefully tomorrow she’ll hit 68, but I’m not sure as it’s Naxx night. Yes, we raid content for fun *gasp*.

Where have I been and what’s been going on?

Well it’s been a busy time, University has finished for the summer, so I’ve had a little more WoW time. My main has seen some of ICC but I’ve been bored of doing the same 5-6 bosses over and over and as I don’t want to join a raiding guild I’ve pretty much stopped pugging it.

I faction transfered my paladin, she’s now a level 64 Belf sitting enjoying the pretty of Nagrand and if RL stuff and a FF14 beta invite hadn’t stopped me playing she’d be on her way to Northrend by now. My aim is to dual spec her either prot/ret of holy/ret as I do love DPSing and she’s leveling ret. I already have her cold weather flying money saved so that should save some time once I get to the cold lands. I completed the blood elf epic mount quest on her too, with a little help from my boyfriends level 80 hunter. So here’s my newly elfed paladin burning down a church and showing off her fancy new Blood Knight tabard.

Other than that my priest has gone from Holy to Shadow and now to Disc and I’m slowly getting annoyed with LFG again but I’ll get there, she’s level 40 now and her inscription has been maxed out from the start, as soon as she gets to 50 or 55 there’s some more for her to learn.

Life goes on in Azeroth. Cataclysm videos get me very very excited for seeing my first expansion launch!

A lot can happen in a short space of time.

This is just a brief update but not much has changed in my WoW life. I went on holiday in April and along with many other Europeans I was affected by the ongoing Volcanic Ash problems from Iceland. This meant I ended up being stuck in Australia for two weeks longer than planned.

After returning I found it hard to get back into playing My main and so I've been bouncing through a variety of alts. A hunter, a Mage and my pally seem to be the favourites. I'm excited to see how quickly I can get my now properly specced ret pally up from level 46 as I pushed her two levels tonight. I'm also interested to see how quickly I can level another Mage. I'm crazy that way.

As soon as exams are done and I've done my Jury Duty it will be all hands on deck to do those pushes to 80 and I'm excited to see how many I can get over the summer.

Bye for now.

Just when you think you’re out of the alts game….

Well after the last blog post I had everything thrown at me! I’ve found a guild that seems like the perfect fit for us, unfortunately they’re on a different realm, but luckily still EU, but they have been lovely in letting me set up an alt and try and level her within the guild to join them raiding at the end.

So my alt of choice this time? A Dwarf Hunter, because as we all know from Frostheim of  http://www.warcrafthuntersunion.com/ there is no other class to play as a hunter (I of course know this is not true as my boyfriend’s hunter of the Troll variety). Looking at the racials though I do like the added 1% crit on guns and stoneform has been helping to save me a lot as I haven’t yet hit level 10 so I don’t have a pet yet.

The dead zone is hard though. Ah well I shall plod along, some of the Dwarf starting area quests are quite hard though so I may end up grinding the end of level 9 just so I can move on from there. I would have picked Human just to help with the rep grinds but I did quite fancy this class and I’ve already got myself a mini rotation down.

I had set myself on leveling Marksman but with the changes coming to the class in cataclysm:

• removal of mana for Hunters
• removal of ArP (which is the main MM stat)

I’m not quite sure, I guess it means I’ll have to decide depending on how quickly I level as I have no access to heirloom items.

I’ll close with a picture of my new little Dwarf.