Drop Back and Punt!

Well I ding’ed 69 on Sunday morning, I called up my local pizza place and they didn’t want to take a special order to make a double pepperoni with a huge 69 on it.  What prudes, right?  I took my celebretory pizza and continued with my quests in BEM, opening up the 2 other flight paths and picking up all the quests available.  Now my map looks like all sorts of crazy thanks to QuestHelper.  I’ll ding 70 approx on wed/thursday, leaving time to pvp before a short hiatus during the next couple of weeks.

Gah! The question still remains, go elemental or resto.  I dont know. Elemental is pew pew! Killing stuff, doing dailies, being independent.  Resto is useful, but only if you have a group.  My oh my… decisions decisions

Yep, I’ve gotten lazy but I’ve been effective at leveling.  I’m telling you this Quest Helper, although it’s a big cumbersome memory-wise (40-50Mb in-game), really does the trick. Letting me which mobs I need to kill and for what. Efficient Killing Machine.

Been stockpiling some BoE 69/70 healing gear and I’m thinking I should start actually doing instances for the gear.  Although SRTO is awesome and highly entertaining.  I’m thinking of joining Thicondrius’ guild to get in steady guild Kara’s to further my healing gear.  That, coupled with some arena/PvP, should get me into the swing of healing.

Short term goals are dropping skinning, picking up and powerlevling engineering to 350 to get the healing helm, doing dailies so I can get a flying mount AT 70, getting a riding crop made, getting Kara attuned, picking Aldor/Scryer to start farming the rep drops on Lapriest.

I’m getting used to the shaman playstyle. I respecced elemental for the added survivabilty (read ’sheild’) and this Elemental Mastery is totally awesome. Even with a 3 minute cooldown, I like to use it on a shock right after a lightning bolt/chain lightning since it’s 100% sure to crit. Mmm delicious!

Thrallmar quests are dwindling down and I think it’ll be a day until I’m totally into Zangarmarsh, if not sooner. I’m assessing the gear that i’ll have to get for resto at 70 and I don’t see how it’ll be a problem.

I like to take things one step at a time, and although everything together might seem overwhelming, taken one step at a time will put me at a good pace. Good enough to be epicced out by WotLK? We’ll see…

QuestHelper helped me burn through rest XP and through Felwood/Winterspring.  I rounded up EPL to Ding 58 and head out to the Outlands.  I learned a lot from the progression:

• There is a huge jump in the equipment rating. From blues hovering around 54, according to RatingBuster, to outland greens at 81.
• Outland Greens are expensive. Stupid hunters also wearing mail focusing on strength, crit, agility and intellect.

All in all, with some BoE’s and some good luck I’ve been able to get Oteb to 60, on a Epic Riding mount, and decently geared.  Around lvl 67 I’ll start hording healing gear.

We finally got Loud his epic flyer so he’ll be busy with the Mote Club.  Estimations are about 150-200g/hour.  I think I might do this with Oteb, although overlapping professions isn’t really efficient, the best enhancement helms are with engineering.  No telling what they’ll do with it in WotLK.

Internet has been shoddy lately and will be until Friday (yeah Friday). Time Warner Cable says that a tech has to go out with a Line Attenuator to fix it.  I had so many issue with TWC that my bill was 30% than it should have been due to all these 1 day credits for all the internet troubles :-/

Rosha should be on now in her new spazzy apartment.  Back to doing dailies!  Marco’s almost at lvl 40 and I’ve been funding his progression along with his Tailoring/Enchanting.

I decided to spend some time burning rest XP on Oteb.  First night was ok, but then I decided to give in to this Mod that Marco had been talking about, Quest Helper.  Man, is it easier to quest with this thing.  Not only does it track  your quests, on your main map it tells you where the mobs are located for your quest and even puts waypoints as to what’s the shortest distance to the next quest.  It totally took me by storm.  I’ve been on this questing kick with Oteb and I’ve actually been thinking of leveling him as a healer. 

Rosha and I tossed around some ideas to switch to different alts so we can run amuck with heroics.  I can heal on Oteb while she’s on her shadowpriest then I can jump on Lapriest and she can heal.  Not that I need anything on Lapriest, except maybe a goddamn trinket. 

I think I might like healing with a shammy.