The Mage Issue

I have a mage problem.  The first character I ever made was a mage.  Then I made Vexxy, an undead mage.  Then I made Mynx, a Blood Elf mage.  Then I made Snazzie, the gnome.  Then I made Zexxie, another Blood Elf mage.  That was quite recently actually.  But I hit level 35 and got bored. ( I have been having that issue around the 30’s lately.)  So, I decided to have a look at what Mynx was up to.

She’s been hanging around Orgrimmar for a couple of years, so she had no talent points.  All my other Horde characters had up and left the server she was on, so to join her friends, she had to change her name to Myinx.

Then I had to pick some talent points for her.  Anyone who knows me, would know that I’m a total pyromaniac.  And THIS time, I SWEAR, will be different.  So, I raced headlong down the frost tree!  So far so good.  I’m now level 73 and still frost.  The whole Water Elemental thing is growing on me.  I wasn’t keen on it to start, but it is turning out to be a true and trusted friend.  And the whole Blizzard thing is growing on me too.  Who knows, maybe I’ll keep it

After I got my talents sorted out, I checked what my mount situation was like.  Wow!  That’s right! Myinx has the Black War Wolf!  Awesome!  I spent hour and hours (if not weeks) torturing myself in PvP to get this thing.  I quickly bought myself a ticket to Dalaran – paying way more than I should have because I was in a hurry, and started riding around gleefully.  I was so excited that I forgot to get myself glyphs till I was level 72!  Who cares, right?  Vanity is EVERYTHING.

Too bad I don’t have time to play her now till NEXT weekend.  Boo!

Congrats to StoneyBaby!

Shoxxie would like to congratulate Stoneybaby on his excellent first post at TotemTalk over at WoW.com.  It’s an Enhancement Shaman 101, and I’m happy to report that he confirmed all my suspicions!  It’s a great guide for anyone who wants to be a super duper Enhancement Shammy.  Go read it!

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?