Surely you joust?

Most of my time last night was engaged in getting a new lowbie set up for play for when a couple of married friends of mine I'll call "the Rogers" have paid up and become "legit".  Thus, Anyth the Night Elf Hunter was born. 

I really, really hate the NE starting area:   it’s too spread out and gloomy.  The land of Emo Elves.  Yeah, I had to get out of there fast.  Since Zyrial (Mr. Rogers, whom I've referred) and I will enjoy triple xp when we’re able to slum around together eventually, it made sense to at least move over to his starting area.  So at level 3, I began a grand adventure across Azeroth, mostly involving standing around and waiting for boats at various harbors.  After getting on the wrong one only twice, I eventually made my way to Stormwind and made Goldshire my home.

Twinking her up with a little gold, three decent packs (the last pack slot being used by an ammo bag), and heirloom shoulder guards, I filled a few random things with arrows and quit at level 4.

A note on the heirloom gear—I finally figured out that the only thing I could really buy Anyth of use with the currency I had was shoulders.  Everything else requires tokens that would come at a cost of upgrades to my main and I just can’t afford to slight him yet.

Took Strev through a few random dungeons and wound up for the first time in “The Trial of the Crusader”, a dungeon that consists entirely of a jousting arena.  After a few rounds of jousting, you have to best groups of increasingly difficult opponents with your skills until you fight the Lich King’s black knight champion.  Challenging, but rewarding…or so I thought.  Although I received none of the epic loot that dropped (which was fine—it was all vendor-bait to mages), I did get rewarded with a few “Champion Seals” which excited me, until I realized there was nothing I could buy with them of any use to me.

Through dungeoneering I did get enough Emblems to finally acquire my fourth piece of T9 armor, giving me a bonus to critical strike percentages that can only be described as “Wow.”  Hitting 4.5k GS was also a feel good moment.  As I’m not going for the 5th and final piece of T9 (no additional set bonus and it’s slightly worse than my current robes), I can go ahead and start saving up for the T9.5 set.

Gettin’ there.