Update: Where to now?

I'd like to say that I am now 20% away from 68 and hitting northrend soon. Although it will be sad to leave outland, I feel that northrend is just as stale, being that I've gone through all of the zones already. I've gone through several areas with my first 80, then switched it a little on my DK, then a little on my paladin, then a little more on my druid. actually my second druid, the healer, went through as little of northrend as possible. she chose to pvp and run instances most of the way through. she pvp'ed in pve gear and at 80, was able to gear up both fairly quickly. she was first to buy dual talent specialization as well as use the game's gear set changer. later on, my dk received a similar treatment as she went to dual spec as dps once her tanking gear basically maxed out, from emblems of course.

Now that I've leveled a paladin from 1 to 67, I do not want to give him dual talent specialization because he is ret. he will always be ret. he's grown up as ret and should never stray away from the light. he's learned to swing his manner one way and one way only. besides, wearing a shield is just not him. he sucks using a shield. he's tried it. never liked it. his arms ached for massive damage.

So I will keep my paladin as ret. for now at least. hopefully my guild will have several tanks that will run heroics with me to get gear. I will not need to spec into prot unless we're doing raids and someone needs an offspec tank to cover for the night. they are thinking of doing some outland raids so I feel that maybe this guild is for me. at least for now. I still do not like the constant "grats" on everything, and the stupid addons that tell you when a guildie gains a level. No really, I just hate leveling now. every time I ding, I see "diamond star skullGrats Devynity on [level]!!skull star diamond xD" from an addon someone has. and half the time, it’s the guild leader. i can live with it, but im just not used to it. but then again its better than having no guild interaction, no guild chat, or even guild events. at least we have a raffle and some guild events. that's a plus. im pretty happy about that. maybe im just jaded with leveling life. who knows.

So with level 68 coming, I really do not know if I want to actually go to BT or HF to do any quests there. it’s the same quests on both sides. maybe I'll run off to help the Tuskars save their homes. I will still go do pugs as much as possible. those emblems are juicy and the random gear would be great to get, even though DE-ing them would make me… 1gold/DE. I think I'll try to save up the shards to buy recipes. doing quests would probably get me lots of gear to DE. but I don’t even know if I want to do that.

I started off with a tauren druid when I ventured into northrend. she was feral, and I was slow at leveling. I went through BT, then did parts of HF, then helped the Tuskar and Taunkas on both ends of the map. Then went through Dragonblight and finally went to grizzly hills before I was able to buy cold weather flying. once I got cold weather flying, I went off immediately to storm peaks and opened up the sons of hodir. then I went to icecrown and opened up the shadow vault. I ended up doing levels 78-80 in icecrown. it was pretty fun, and being under 80 meant I had to watch my distance most of the time. I think I ding'ed 80 somewhere by the fleshworks or by the scarlet island west of icecrown.

My second character to hit 80 was my DK. she spent most of her time going through the same thing my druid first went through. she didn’t veer much off that path, but she did venture a little further into zul drak. she actually did some of the quests from the argent stand and did quests for trapped spirit animals in the snowy areas.

My third 80 was my second druid. she did BG and Instances only. she did a few quests but that’s all. nothing much. she doesn’t have much rep with anyone besides northrend because she would wear tabards and such. that's about it.

My fourth 80 was my paladin. she leveled as prot from 60 to 80. she was a blast to level because it was so hard for her to die. the only problem is, in order to get any mana back, she had to group four mobs together at once to fight. otherwise, blessing of the sanctuary would be inefficient. I started in BT and HF, like usual. I skipped grizzly hills and most of dragonblight. since I was a tank, I had better success with instance queues and got a lot of exp through it. I ended up skipping most Dragonblight and Grizzlyhills and went straight to Zul Drak. I did the scourge side of zuldrak and went to sholazar. yep, new zone, and ended up leveling to 79 there. then she went to icecrown and opened up shadowvault to get the tabard. and that's it.

Between those four 80s, I've logged a billion northrend instances and know much of the zone. the only other thing I can really do is get on an ally and level through their zone. lol. but I wont. not yet at least.

So there, I don’t know where to go. maybe I should just level in SMV and Netherstorm. lol. I feel like skipping to dragonblight and doing the wrathgate event, then, since im a paladin, I will run off to zul drak to help the argent dawn/crusade there. it will be fun. then I can go back and do some baron rivendare farming for his mount. that should get me to exalted with the dawn. The Argent Champion is really all I want. =P tho… the title, The Light of the Dawn is very very enticing. =]