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I set forth a goal for myself. My Draenei Paladin Telaan was at about 67.3 at the start of my 4 days off. For those who don't know, I work long shifts(10-12 hours) and therefore have a 4 on, 4 off rotation. Well, on the first day of my 4, I dinged 68. No big, just finished up quests in Nagrand including a bunch of painfully hard to solo group quests and even helped some finish quests I had already completed. I guess that's why they call them group quests.

As I was riding back to Telaar from around the space ship that Durn pats around, I decided to stop and take care of the fire stuff just outside. I had already dinged, which brought me in line with my 2 levels a zone plan, so I wasn't concerned with spoiling it. 6,000 experience later, I was running over to WoW Insider to see if they had a list of how many of these xp rich fires there were to hit up for a good solid chunk of XP.

I ran over to the one at Garadar, and hit up for a grintastic 12.000 experience. It was hovering around 7 or 8 PM, and I decided to see how many I could hit. By the time I logged off at 5 AM, I had hit all of the old world fires, including the well camped ones in the major horder cities to get the Crown of the Fire Festival(45,000 xp from those turned in) and I dragged myself tiredly to bed.

I cleaned up the ones in Outlands except the 2 I am saving for when I ding(Netherstorm and Shadowmoon) and now sit a mere 2 bubbles(or 80,000 xp) from leveling and I have yet to turn in any quests in Blade's Edge Mountains. A couple in my guild dinged twice of the fires bringing their warlocks both up to 58, without doing any other quests for their levels. They got about 1 and a half levels from the Fire Festival. Have you used the new format of the Fire Festival to push a lower level character significantly higher in their leveling? Do you like when they bring such experience heavy quests intot he game? Let me know in the comments!

So I was talking the other day, about birds, and which one to get when I get to 70 on each of my two major characters. I would like to get snowy ones for each of them, but they are by far the more common of the birds. This shot here is merely evidence on the matter. It is at least a 2:1 ratio of snowy to either of the other versions, or more, on Argent Dawn. So, would I be more unique if I got a plain one? I have now spent almost all of my 60 some odd levels riding that same bird, though. Maybe they should change up some of the gryphons in game to the other forms we can buy? Nah, it would probably take away from their speciality.

As well, on the bird front, Tseric posted in the forums that Blizzard is working on an epic flight form for druids, which will be a quest line(similar to the Paladin and Warlock epic mount quests?) but will require the Epic Riding skill to begin, so I would expect it will not be nearly as high on the cash outlay as the Paladin and Warlock epic quests are. Still, that Blizz is noticing that druids deserve the love that Paladins and Warlocks got for the land based mounts is definitely a good sign, and that, along with a lot of other things that have been tagged as 'upcoming content patch(es)' is much to look forward to, and another sign Blizzard is not slowing down between expansions.

Now, to the in game stuff. Sadly, no birds for me just yet, least not the ones that are only a one time payment, but there is one thing of note. After now 3 failed attempts to complete The Blood Furnace instance, we have only met with frustration. The first time was doomed, as it was an early, early morning run(2 or 3 AM start) with 2 members who were dead tired. When those two are your tank and your priest, you should pretty much just fork over your gold to the repair vendors and call it before you start. Drissa and I did get the fel orc blood quest done, so that was a good thing.

The next day, myself, Drissa, Falaurus on his Priest, Megawatt on his Warrior, and Cancey, another guildmate, tried very hard to finish what had been started the night before. Alas, the forces of bit and byte would work against us, as the Instance server decided on this day to be utter and complete crap. We twice got within site of the room with the second boss, only to have the Instance server die on us and after a good solid 3 hours of trying to get in, only to get partially done and ave the server crash, we called it. We hope to get another run, hopefully more successful, tonight. Drissa did get a nice drop(I think) off the first boss on the second run, and I got a new Libram off the first Boss on the run the night before, which I will be switching out with my current one, a demon/undead specialized one.

Therefore, a ding, since Drissa and I were both so close, was left to grinding. We went out killing wolves and Warp Stalkers, as we both needed Worg Tails and Drissa needed more Warp Burgers, a nice +agi buff food that Medros can cook and even get skill off of still. After many kills, and enough meat to make a levels worth of burgers, I am happy to announce...

Live from Outlands, it's Level 66!!!!

That is right, only 4 more levels until Medros could fly on a bird. I am sitting a little under 1/4 of the way to a bird, and think I just might need to get Arita some questing done, as he now has most of the starter quest in Zangarmarsh. I need some Paladin gold, since my Paladin put so much gold into his epic. Time for a little role reversal, me thinks. I think I might do some questing on Traluun, my Draenei Hunter, as he is in need of some leveling, and has 100% rested XP at this point as well. I guess we'll have to see.

Hope to be recording the next episode of All Things Azeroth with Lelia in the next day or two, so look for more on that in a week or so, once I have time to edit it and all. See you soon, and take care.