Been awhile, will be awhile...

No new news or developments that I am going to report today or anytime too soon :(

Gonna be taking a break from all things gaming for awhile. RL calls and I must answer. Be back when I can.

Money Grind

Well, I'm working on getting my epic flying mount now. Forget gear...weapons and armor; PSH! I can get those when I fly faster, I just need to farm faster! LOL I'm at 800g..after about hmm, 10 hours of just questing and only picking half of the mob's pockets. Vending everything except the Crystalforged Axe(world BoE Blue), Gems and Ore..I will AH them when I have alot more. BUT, I have realized if I just quest quest quest I will reach 5,000g and still have quests left to reach around 3,000g AFTER buying the epic mount. So thats what I'm doing. After hitting 70 I went back to Nagrand to do quests...I know I said previously that I was going to go back to HFP and work towards SMV, well I lied. I am finishing up in Nagrand then I'll go HFP and look; I think I only have shattered halls quests left there. But anyway, after HFP its Zangar>Terokkar>Nagrand(will be done, maybe)>Blade's Edge>Netherstorm>SMV>Done. I'll probably be doing the 70 instances and work on some rep to get heroic keys. More to come.

Flying mounts

So right after I dinged 70, I had to go and start making goldz. Took me about 10 hours of mining, stealth farming to get the extra 580g that I didn't already have. I had around 220g on me, and a guildie lent me 100g. Then I ran to Wildhammer in Shadowmoon and bought the Ebon Gryphon.

I immediately mounted and flew straight up as high as I could, then I equipped my parachute cloak waited for the cooldown and canceled the gryphon. Skydiving time!! That was fun. when NPC's started to be rendered by my graphics card I knew it was time to pull my 'chute. and I landed with about 7 seconds left on the 'chute.

Then I got info on the netherdrake quest line and started that one(I'm at the part where I need to free the enslaved netherdrakes, currently). But before that I flew around...just because. And I realized that running on epic would be faster, but if you want to fly over mountains (say, blade's edge) or over water or whatever then the flyer is good. Until I get epic flying I'll still probably run on the ground alot.

Ding!

Dinged 70 finally! I did it in Netherstorm. I bundled a few quests together and decided to use the quest Turning Point as my 'dinger.' Well upon getting to Socrethar, keep in mind I'm doing the scryer version, we see a few Draenai and a giant Draenai chilling with Socrethar. And nothing is happening. One of my groupmates, also guildie, decided to pull a mob and and BAM! It works...so we thought we had it fixed. Well come to find out all 5 of us submitted tickets to GM's. And at precisely the same moment we pulled the mob in the GM reset the encounter! LOL! I got a tell when from the GM when we wiped saying "whoops, here's a rez." We finished and I turned in....no ding! NO DING!!! WHAT?! I was left needing EXACTLY 1k xp....wtf?! So I went out and killed 2 wolves and...je ding. What a way to ding the level cap eh? Any way my plans now are to get money money money to get my flying mounts, yes I am going to get both mounts and not just the normal flying training. What are your plans post 70? straight for Karazhan? or work on all of your Rep grinds for the end game Hyjal attunement?

New Developments: The Black Temple

Though not very detailed at the moment, I'm sure more will come soon. Blizzard has THIS to tell use about The Black Temple.

taken from 'http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/'

'Originally founded as a Draenei temple, this plot has been conquered and despoiled many times throughout the history of Outland, removing any spiritual grace it may have once held. The Black Temple has been the stage of the Orc Horde's blood curse, a fortress for the then-mortal Ner'zhul, and a prime staging ground for the Burning Legion's campaign of destruction.. Most recently, it has been claimed as home by Illidan, where he and his minions make their bid for power over the remnants of the shattered planet. Now, it is up to you to face the malefic forces of Illidan and his minions in hopes of freeing Outland from chaos and tyranny.

Black Temple is a 25-person raid dungeon located in Shadowmoon Valley.

Explore an ancient site steeped in Warcraft lore
Gain access to more than a hundred new rare and epic items, including tier-6 armor sets
Choose your path through a nonlinear level-70 raid dungeon, as you make your way to...
Face Illidan himself!'

Professions

Well I'm at an impasse with one of my professions. I started out with herbalism and alchemy. That was fun, then I started seeing people have a lot of fun with engineering. So I got rid of Herb/Alch and took up mining and engineering.

That was from about level 48 to now. Before TBC I had a lot of fun. Pets, Grenades, other devices, a nifty transporter. But now that TBC is here, none of the <300 recipes make me want to press on. So, I am most likely going to take up blacksmithing. And from there I will decide on a weapon smith path to take. I WAS combat swords but I decided to go daggers/fists, and I've always like maces. So I know weapon smith is in my future. As to which one I'll choose...that's a bridge I'll cross when I get to it. What are your feelings on your pre-TBC professions and their future in TBC?

So Much To Do

There is soooo much to do in Outland, I'm still about 6 bubbles from 70(WTFL2PCARIMM!) and I've probably barely done 1/3 of the available quests. The ONLY zone I did all of the quests in is Hellfire Peninsula. I've done a few in Zangarmarsh and Terokkar Forest, and about 1/4 or less in Nagrand. I totally bypassed Blade's Edge and have done a quite a few in Netherstorm. When I ding(hopefully tomorrow morning), I will then go back to Hellfire and work on exalted with Honor Hold and go from there to each progessive zone and do quests and get exalted with the respective factions. Then I will be able to get the Heroic keys; and I will be able to get geared up for raiding. That's my plan of attack, what are you doing once you get to/now that you are 70?