There’s so many events going on in World of Warcraft at the moment that I was almost paralyzed with indecision over what to work on first – but I did get a LOT done, and I’m quite happy with the progress I made.
First up – I did install Classic Catalysm, and I created a Pandarean Monk to complete the Mists of Pandaria pre-event that rewards you with a mount in the regular version of the game. This was INCREDIBLY painful! It took hours, and was nothing but a reminder of why I play retail and NOT classic. I died more doing that starter (I also made the mistake of going tank, I had 2 skills I could use the whole time, ouch) than I have in the last year of retail, I think. I did manage to reach level 12, completed the starter island, picked a faction, and received my mount in retail. Worth it? Well, if you enjoy collecting things, yes.
Next – I took a good number of my level 80 characters through LFRaid and did their weekly chores, which includes professions. I also did timewalking on each of them, and the delve weekly. They have their belts, so I also upgraded them (the first week I did this I had no idea I was supposed to use the quest reward ON the belt to level it up, whoops).
Timewalking – It is the burning crusade, and I have done a LOT of timewalking this week. The goal was to level up roughly 1 character each day from 70-80 through timewalking. First, I leveled up a paladin on my EU account. I love playing my EU account but once I was 80 I realized I would have to do all of the story for The War Within to unlock the weekly quests, and honestly, I just wasn’t up for that so I swapped back to my NA account. I leveled up my shaman, death knight, rogue, and I’m currently working on a druid. I love timewalking. Not much to say about that.
With all of these new level 80 characters I’ve also been participating in the collector’s bounty event that Blizzard has going on right now. There are a lot of mounts I’m missing and of course I love to collect transmog as well. Having completed M+ in previous expansions I had some ports, like Freehold, that all 80 characters could use. So I would just port them to the dungeon and clear the zone in 2 minutes and hope I got the parrot that I’ve been trying to get for some time now.
On my 8th run – it dropped! I was so very excited. I’m not sure what other mounts I plan on going after, but I really think this collector’s bounty is a neat idea. I’ve also picked up a few addons for it that easily track what I’m missing and where I need to go for them. Of course as always, travel is the longest part. Especially since I’m running multiple characters all over the place.
Anyway, I’ll get back to gold making posts soon – for now, I’m just having a lot of fun playing the game. Happy gaming no matter where you find yourself!
A Pixel Nomad 