Wrath

I have a confession to make. I forgot to pre-order the expansion! But fear not, I went ahead yesterday and ordered it from Amazon...and it's already on the truck destined to be delivered at home some time today!

So, while I haven't posted here in a few weeks, I think most of my upcoming posts are going to be about my experiences leveling from 70 to 80. Me and a friend (another mage) leveled from 60 to 70 together, and the plan is to do the same thing on the way to 80. It worked pretty well last time (with a bunch of late nights) and I would like to hit 80 sooner rather than later so I'm ready for level 80 10 and 25 mans around the time the rest of the new guild has started with it. With jobs and such, the last time when we worked on BC, we leveled very fast...we hit level 70 near the top 10% of our guild...and most of those ahead of us spent a LOT more time leveling than we did.

Unlike with Burning Crusade, I feel that my mage is well above the gear curve for Wrath. At level 60 I was wearing large amounts of Molton Core raid gear, nothing more (and I didn't have any of the rarer pieces). Most of that stuff got replaced quickly...if I remember correctly I replaced at least 4 epics with outland greens. Now at 70 I'm in MH/BT/Sunwell gear, and I'm not expecting to replace much of it. As an Enchanter/Tailor, I'm also considering dropping tailoring for Gemcrafting or Inscription--but I'm not going to make any major changes until 80 so for now it's going to be Enchanting/Tailoring to 80.

If I remember correctly, I hit L70 in 11 days. This time we may not be able to do quite as well (too much other RL stuff going on right now) but if possible I'd like like to hit 80 in no more than 2 weeks (14 days). Up to now, I really haven't done a lot of dungeons, etc, with the guild...it's honestly been hard to get into that stuff, so I'm hoping that doesn't remain an issue.

Anyway, I'm probably going to blog about my experiences leveling from 70 to 80, up to and entering Naxx if possible. Sure there are a lot of people doing it too, but it should be fun.