Day of rest?

More like day of WoW marathon. My entire Sunday was pretty much taken up by playing WoW. The gf was gone for the day because of family stuff that came up last minute, and since we had made originally made plans for that day I had already told my friends I would be busy. That meant I could spend all day playing WoW with football on in the background.

I got a lot done. And I mean a lot. I had previously made my way to Thorium Point and logged out so I would be ready to start questing in Searing Gorge. From previous visits I have gotten pretty familiar with that zone and know how to go about getting the quests done in the fastest way.

The only quest chain I messed this up on was the escort quest in the east where you get the guy almost to the gate, but he gets shot before you make it. I did this after going through the Dark Iron cave, so I ended up having to go in there like 3 times before finishing everything I needed to do. Luckily theres that hanging block you can drop onto from the surface, so it could have been worse.

I also decided to get the Key to the Searing Gorge. Sure it's not that necessary now since you can fly there, but I remember coming to that gate as a lowly level 12 gnome rogue just exploring in Loch Modan and wondering just what that gate was protecting me from. I even managed to sneak in next to a high level player and make my way through, but when I got to the other side I got scared and turned back.

So I finished up that zone, and headed off to turn in some quests in Darnassus, which sent me to Feralas. I wasn't really planning on going there, but my hearthstone was still set there so I figured I'd go ahead.

Once there I realized I hadn't done any of the quests in the north, killing yetis, saving the girl from harpies and charging the magic staff. So why not do them now? It didn't take long before I was making my way back to Feathermoon Stronghold and getting some easy XP.

I made my way to Tanaris to turn in some leftover quests that I had completed, then headed back over to the other continent. I decided the shaman would take that route to 60 rather than follow in the footsteps of my hunter and go to Un'Goro next.

This brought me to the Blasted Lands, and it was time to kill lots of beasts, and I mean lots. The drop rates for these quests are terrible, and most of them combine items, meaning I needed to keep track of not only how many of each item I needed for each quests, but how many I needed total so that I could just turn them in all at once.

Needless to say I counted wrong a few times and had to make my way back to the quest giver more than once. I finished eventually though, and all the fighting got me some good XP, so I guess I can't complain too much.

Towards the end I flew up to WPL, did the first quest there of killing the mobs in the nearby graveyard, but I'll save the next quests until I have a few more levels on me.

At the end of the day I had hit level 54, and I started the day at 50, so not bad considering all the time I spent flying around to turn in random quests. I also was close to using up my rested XP bonus, and that means it's time to switch characters again. I sure hope my hunter has her bonus filled back up again.


Anybody download the new patch yet? It's huge at over 800mb, but I know it's up to download early so we don't have to do it on patch day. I'm just wondering if anybody finished yet. Mine has been downloading for the past 4 days between my WoW playing and its only 25% done. Is anybody else going that slow or is it just me? It just seems like something is wrong if it's going that slow.