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Happy Monday everyone!!!

So how did everybody do on their goals for the weekend? I xferred 4 characters to Pigtails' server and started working on gearing my paladin. I only got 2 heroic runs and half a ZA in, but I can see the potential in the character.

On the real life side, I made a massive batch of ginormous chocolate chip cookies and they came out amazing. Looking forward to next weekend when I should get a ton of playtime in.

Well I managed to level my priest through Outland. Mostly thanks to Pigtails very timely Shadow Priest guide

It took some time to figure it out but Glyph of Spirit Tap was an absolute godsend, reducing downtime to virtually nothing.

I did as someone higher up the goals thread had suggested and ran some BC heroics. I didn't even know that they now allowed sub-70 characters into them. It was interesting and better exp than the normals but whereas I normally get some nice gear drops for the BC character of course everything was L70. And by the time he can wear them those nice purple items will probably be looking sad next to the level 69 quest rewards from Wrath.

Also discovered that an 85 Paladin can die in normal Ramparts - when your internet disconnects just as you pull the whole upstairs.

Pizza & wine on Friday, Saturday morning haircuts then grown-up Raclette dinner with friends, and did some yard-work on Sunday morning then vegged for the rest of the day

Spent a few hours on my 84 hunter and got him a half-level to 85, just 2 bars to go.

That was good.

Well done Spooky, you've managed to trigger another round of my cheese envy.

WOW: Servers in China are divided by region and that is easy to sort out because the regions are divided by tabs and each tab is sorted by type (Normal and PVP for the most part). What is less transparent is that some are run by China Mobile and others by China Unicom and the two phone companies don't play well with each other. My current toons are on a server maintained by one, but my ISP uses the other.

Saturday was OK and I got a level on the Druid (now 72). Sunday, lag was so bad that I didn't get much done. Even skinning was difficult, but I managed to get enough rugged leather out of DM North to break 300 LW and burn off my stock of Knothide.

RL: Bun-Bun made a quick visit and tried to get me set up for the next couple of months. Her younger brother is coming to Beijing and the various family problems will keep her from being able to interact with me.

I must have looked glum because the new person at the tui na place decided that I would make a good guinea pig for her cooking. Round One, Hong Shao Rou. Unlike the traditional version, she made a slightly leaner dish and garnished it with a generous amount of chopped peppers. Round Two has been announced and will be Beer Braised Duck.

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RL: Heading down to a friend's college for this a capella group that is singing a bunch of video game music. A capella's not really my cup of tea, but hey, they're singing stuff like Star Wars, Portal, Pokemon, etc, so how bad can it be?

Was surprisingly good. Hung out with my friends until late, then had to head home since I was donating plasma in the morning.

Which I ended up rescheduling anyways. But I got that knocked out today, actually.

I was going to donate platelets, but I have a rare blood type that actually makes my plasma a universal donor (AB+), so plasma like that is in pretty high demand. I ended up donating that and setting up another appointment donation for next month.



Accidentally left my authenticator in my dorm all weekend while I was at home, so that didn't really happen.

Got my new main to 71, first time actually questing in Northrend. Tried running random dungeons, doesn't anybody ever run anything but Utgarde Keep - must've run it five times in two days.

I can only do seven randoms a week Can I still specify others?

I moved some enchanting mats and some money over and got my Hunter's enchanting up to LK level. I also decided to drop the Rogue's skinning and level up inscription on her and got that up to LK level. I think I worked a little on some of the others' professions as well. I put a level on my Draenei Hunter too and ran her through UK and the Nexus for the quest rewards.


I did a little bit on my BC gear and rep runs.


My Troll Hunter now has a Rusted Proto - yay!


I hit 85 on her and opened up the Firelands dailies and did the Thrall quests for the nice cloak.

I also put a couple of levels on my Goblin Warlock (now 54) and a level on my Troll Druid. I also leveled the Druid's engineering up quite a bit so as soon as he hits 72, he has some nice epic goggles to replace his BC ones.

To be honest I've completely skipped the Wrath rep grinds. The same enchants are there in Cata but better and the idea of grinding Kirin Tor or Wyrmrest rep for rewards that will be discarded for the first quests done in Cata seems a bit silly. In the time it takes to grind Sons of Hodir to the Exalted enchant you could have made 84 and got the Cata equivalent. Although it has to be said the quests are quite fun until you get to the daily part and even that is accelerated now.

It would be nice if they dropped the levels on some of the Wrath items, then it might be worth it. But much of the rep reward stuff is 76 upwards which means that you are virtually into Cata items that will make it look stupid. I have the same problem with crafted stuff. Most of the nice things my tailor or LW can make for my 70s characters are again 76 upwards.

That said if you want to run instances then it would be daft not to wear the tabards. Even if you just want the "Ambassador" or whatever title.

As far as Wrath instances go there is only UK and Nexus at 71. AN is 72 and OK is 73. At least for the quests. LFG might stick you in there a bit earlier.

Looking in game this evening it appears I was wrong about the levels for dungeon finder putting you into those instances.

According to the list on my 73 priest it is
UK - 68-78
Nexus - 69-79
AN - 70-80
OK - 71-80
DTK - 72-80
VH - 73-80

BUt as I said you won't be able to get their quests at the lower end of those.

Not currently for BC and Wrath dungeons. That's supposed to be changing with 4.3 though.

I don't think it works that way. The AN quests by the Nerubian outside the entrance are not available at 70. You can get in the dungeon at 69 or 70 but the quests require 72. There are no pre-reqs for those.

Similarly with OK the entry is at 70 but the quest is 73. Violet Hold lets you in at 73 but the quest requires 75.

The big change with Cata (I suppose it started with ICC) is the quest givers migrating into the dungeons. This is kind of necessary with the RDF as I'm sure a lot of people couldn't find the entrance if they had to go there for a quest. One of the dungeons like this is the revamped BRD which you can definitely enter and find all the NPCs with grey ! over their heads