Over the past week and change I've been taking Exexelle, my Kul Tiran rogue, out for a few hours here and there. After hitting 60, the expansions started opening up-- two at a time. From 60 to 80, you have a choice of leveling in Outlands or Northrend and 80 to 90 is spent in either Pandaria or the assorted Cataclysm zones. Garbed in heirloom gear and using a little rest xp here and there, it's been shocking how fast the levels flew by just questing. I avoided dungeons altogether post-60 because you lose the xp bonus if you select specific dungeons to queue for and if you don't pick specifics, you're stuck with only queueing for one expansion's dungeon and difficulty level. Bad design led to prohibitive queue times and honestly, killing 10 rats a few times over was a more productive waste of time.
There was no prohibition on flight, so I made the most of going hither and yon. Actually, thanks to pathfinder I won't be grounded until I hit Kul Tiras.
60-67 was spent entirely in Hellfire Peninsula, a zone I rather liked enough to 100% it again. I have a fondness for zones that are mostly flat and barren: I can quickly get to objectives and there's little mucking about with weird terrain.
68-73 was Terrokar Forest and Zagamarsh, pretty much just doing quests until I tired of the zone. Replaying these zones underscores just how tedious questing in BC was. Very little innovation and the number of rats to kill per quest is almost always 12-25. Consequently, I moved to Northrend.
74-78 was the entirety of Borean Hills, which moved really quickly.
79-80 was maybe 35% of Icecrown. The Northrend zones still hold up after all of these years, even if the textures are a little dated.
81-81 was most of Jade Forest in Pandaland. Varying quest mechanics keep this region fresh.
85-89 At this point I tried to do Mount Hyjal, but after a few quests, it sent me to Uldum and I decided to stay, because it is everything I really like about Hellfire Peninsula. Finished every quest there.
Finished the last half level to 90 with that Twilight Something Cataclysm Zone.
90-92 Finished the introduction to Warlords of Draenor. I was a little disappointed I was denied my flapping around privileges until ridiculously long expansion intro quest line is completed, but I now have Garrison started and am ready to stab my way through alternate-timeline Outlands.
Otherwise, Strev gets a few minutes of maintenance a day. Since the Darkmoon Faire arrived (and you MUST do the rollercoaster once before you have to wait another month), I was able to cap my Enchanting finally. As an unexpected surprise, this unlocked a crafting questline that apparently got released just a couple of weeks ago. Basically it culminates with "gather a bunch of crap and you can make a new enchanting rod that gives you bonus mats when you disenchant". NEEEEEEEAT! I'm about halfway through material gathering-- it could all be ground out in one night if I weren't so lazy, but I'm just chipping at it when I happen to think about it. The old necklace is level 42 or so; when it gets to 44 I'll actually be able to use all of its powers.
Still haven't done the Jaina LFR fight yet-- been saving that for a run with IRL friends. Should be a blast.
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