Above and beyond

Remember how I said I'd be happy with getting that mage to 55 by the end of this week? Well apparently I wasn't going to be happy with that, so I got her to 55 yesterday. Not only that, but I also managed to finish the death knight starting zone with my human, then made an undead DK and went through the whole thing with him.

How did I find the time for that, you ask? Well Sunday I decided to play some soccer with some friends. Ended up spraining my ankle, or just bruising it really bad. Either way, I could barely walk yesterday, so I decided to stay home from work and let it rest. I'm currently at work in an ankle brace wearing a sandal on that foot because I can't put a shoe on yet.

So staying home from work, not able to do anything physical, what else was there to do except play WoW? I had finished up Feralas and started in on Un'Goro on Saturday, had to resort to the human DK on Sunday because of server population issues.

So yesterday I finished up Un'Goro and still had most of a level to finish off before I hit 55. I decided to go to Azshara, since there were a few quests I needed to turn in there anyway from other places.

There aren't many quests there, but the ones I did were very easy as I was a few levels above the mobs. After completing everything I could I wasn't quite there still, but I had some turn-ins at the capital cities.

This is where being a mage came in handy. I ported to each city, turned in the quests, and each had a me return to Azshara to the original quest giver. After turning in those quests I finally dinged 55 and was done. I logged out instantly and created my death knight.

Incidentally, that particular mage made quite a bit of money doing all those quests, and will be sending that to my other mage to help fund his first mount. With a pally and warlock on the way up I won't be needing money for their mounts at level 30, and hopefully they will be able to help out the warrior when he gets there.

At this point I had already completed the DK starting zone with my human, but the ending was a little disappointing for him. I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't gone through it, but let's just say the final event had already taken place and hadn't reset yet, so I really didn't get to see much.

Luckily on the undead DK I got to participate and see the story unfold. After that it all made a lot more sense as to why the death knights are siding against Arthas. The whole experience of questing in that zone was awesome, and it really gave a good look at the new mechanic that causes the world to change as you complete quests. Very well done.

I think for now I will be setting the DK aside to build up some rested XP bonus, then I will probably get him to 60 in Azeroth before I move on to Outlands. For some reason I still don't like to head through the portal at 58, even though I know now that the leveling in Outland is much faster than before.

Actually, I'm not sure who I'm going to level next. I could send my druid to Northrend, which would mean more new content for me to experience. I also have the rest of my Alliance characters sitting around level 60 and ready to quest in Outland.

I'll probably leave the Horde characters alone for a while in favor of the higher level guys, but I will be coming back to them later when I feel the urge to quest back in the old zones we all know so well.

Looks like I have a lot of choices of what to do next, and I'm thinking my decisions will be made on a whim for now, rather than planning it out like I usually do. I'll be playing characters just because I feel like it at the time now that I have my previous goals accomplished and nothing else immediate that I really want to do. I sure hope I don't neglect any of my alts too much in the process.