The Horde in me wants out

Last weekend, after a particularly frustrating time spent flying back and forth from one end of the continent to the next, I needed a change.

Being a confessed altaholic,  I decided to make my 4th mage — well, 5th actually if you count my first ever toon who made it to level 25 or so.  What can I say, I like mages  And I like leveling.  So Zexxie was born.  I made her on Malfurion, since that’s where all my other Horde reside.  I didn’t relish the thought of another alliance toon; it is time to revisit the horde quests while they’re still around.

This does mean that she’s leveling au natural.  No heirlooms, since none of my horde have managed to amass any emblems or anything like that.  But that’s ok; it still seems to go incredibly quickly.  Just this morning before work she reached 16 … so I expect great things from the Dungeon Finder come this evening!

I’ve sworn to try leveling frost, since it’s something I’ve never managed to do before.  When looking down the talent tree I can already tell this is going to be tricky.  We’ll see how long the pyromaniac in me can stay at bay.

Dungeon Finder is missing ONE little thing…

I tried out the new Dungeon Finder quite a bit this past weekend.  Had lots of fun, particularly with Shoxxie in the new 5-man Ice Crown Citadel dungeons.  I also tanked regular Utgarde Keep and regular Nexus on Snazzle.  Both were incredibly easy to get groups for – and as usual seemed MUCH more difficult than the heroic versions.  I don’t know what it is about the regular dungeons in the lower 70’s, but PUG’s seem to have an incredibly difficult time with them.  Took us 4 times to get Keristrazsa down.  Anyway, that wasn’t really what I wanted to gripe about.

Before getting in the queue for Nexus, I dutifully finished all the prerequisite quests so that I could get all the quests completed on the first go (since I knew it probably wasn’t going to be smooth, and I probably wouldn’t want to do it again )  Then, I headed to Howling Fjord to start working on my trinket quest chains there.  Got in Dungeon Finder, and since I am a tank, got a group instantly.

Now, I absolutely love, love, love getting teleported to the dungeon and NORMALLY I love, love, love getting taken back to where I joined from at the end.  But it would be nice to have the option to just run out of the dungeon.  Because think about it: I had four quests to hand in back at the Transitus Shield.  And I got teleported back to a cliffside in the Howling Fjord — on the other side of the continent.  Took me forever and ever to get back to the Transitus Shield to hand in my quests.

By that time, I was too over the whole traversing the continent experience to head back to Howling Fjord again – got disgusted with the whole thing and made a mage  But that’s a different story!

So my request: give the option of either running out of the dungeon or getting taken back to your starting spot.  Please?

Is that Snazzie?!?

What on earth as happened to Snazzie?  She looks suspiciously like a Death Knight!

You’d be right in thinking that she looks like a Death Knight — this is Snazzie’s other life on a different server!  I’ve been wanting to join Alachia’s photowalks every Saturday morning for a long time.  Wrong server for me though, so it required making a DK.  I have mostly wanted to come along to get to know my twitter/flickr friend better, so a photowalk seemed like a good idea.  At 1 AM last night, with lots of wine onboard I leveled Snazzie the DK, and she was in the Burning Steppes promptly at 11am this morning!

Then, disappointment — about a 1/4 of the way (if that) around the Burning Steppes – I hadn’t even warmed up on vent – child emergency struck.  Two kids needed to go in two different directions, so I was forced to be mummy.  One day I swear I will actually complete the walk!

Thanks for having me along for the half hour it lasted guys!  Here’s my favorite shot from today … I’ll put them all on flickr later!

What HAVE I been up to???

I realize I haven’t written anything earth-shatteringly exciting here for a while.  Mostly because life’s been handing me an overly full plate lately.  Work has been ridiculously busy since the beginning of November (hmph), Christmas preparations are underway, and we have contractors in the house finishing our basement.  All this has meant that I have NOT been playing as much as I’d like.  This is probably why my office is looking increasingly like an advertisment for World of Warcraft, since I need to stay in touch SOMEHOW.  I plan to change the situation this weekend, with some serious PLAY.

I have been getting my fix every morning by doing a little bit of herb farming.  I’m trying to get a Nobles Deck together for Snazzle.  She’s now just about 68, and will head off to Northrend as soon as I’m home from work on Friday night.  Trixxyne has been flying around for about 45 minutes everymorning, and managed to get together a few cards.  I’m hoping by the time Snazzle is 80, she’ll have the set.  I don’t know why getting this deck is such an obsession for me.  Probably because I feel like I need to put Trixxyne’s Inscription skill to good use.

Anyway, I’m chomping at the bit!  Let me at ‘em!!!