It does make the game much more enjoyable haha.  Fast enough to keep you motivated to ding again soon while still moving you through the lore and some of the stories.  I think that the game played on “regular” speed the first time through was fine.  It might have drug on a little bit here and there but for the most part you had to finish every single aspect of each and every area to progress through the game.  After doing that a couple times, it really becomes an unappealing grind to level up again.  One that I’ve been loathe to do as atested to by my plethora of level 20 and 30 something toons.

Here’s my big suggestion for WoW.. There should be something in the regular game available to everyone to speed up the leveling process I believe.  Say something like.. after you hit the level cap on one character.. there’s double expo (and quest expo) for all other toons.  After your 2nd character hits level cap then you are awarded triple expo on your account.  That would match the Refer-a-Friend bonus and it makes a lot of sense to me.

I thought that the trolls were kinda undergeared hitting the outlands at 58.. their item level average would’ve been around 50..  but the average of all Treant’s gear’s item level is probably low 30′s hah.  Time to make a new set of macro’s and run him around with somebody.. maybe go Resto on Treant now and have Rossa and him duo all the non-70 dungeons to get Treant some gear.

Rossa would need some healing on the bosses in places like Ramparts/Blood Furnace and Slave Pens/Underbog.  Can solo all the trash easily enough.  The incoming heals though would be nice for mana regen and I might not have any downtime. All the triple expo stops at 60 anyway so that doesn’t matter anymore.

Yesterday I took Rossa and I ran some old world content..  Went through Dire Maul North, killing at will.. no tribute run.  Just before the last room with Captain Kromcrush and King Gordok, I summoned Jobu (the shaman), just in case something good dropped he could use.  Of course.. killer hunter legs dropped.  Poor Cerrano.

Next I went to Blackrock Depths and got Rossa attuned to Molten Core.. just ‘cuz.  There will be no soloing in MC though hah.  She barely made it to the zone with the first two Molten Giants stomping on her all the way.  They just have way too much health compared to Rossa’s life expectancy there by herself.  This week I might work on Onyxia chain for the halibut too.

On to Stratholme where Baron Rivendare will surely get sent to see Kelthuzad by Rossa’s holy might!  Uhh.. no.. the Ramstein the Gorger or whatever his name is event got bugged on me.  I don’t remember his name for sure because he didn’t spawn for me.  I killed all but one of the abominations roaming around and I let him go for a bit as I collected more Stratholme Holy Water from the supply crates, as most groups do.  I had been moving through the place fairly quickly too.  Got to that point just outside the Baron’s hold there with a couple short minutes to spare on the 45 minute timer.  There was no way I was gonna be able to kill the dozen big brutes, the waves of skeletons and Ramstien in those 2 minutes though.  Still I had made good time.  Nothing that would cause the last abomination to abruptly vanish and the whole courtyard full of them respawn.

Well I proceeded to wipe em out again and was ready for the waves of undead to pour out of Baron’s now open doors..  but nothing.. *crickets*  The back portcullis was still closed off.. blocking the way out of that area too.  I hearthed after a few minutes of puzzling about it.

Crager got on and asked me to tank his Heroic Ramparts excursion.. but he forgot he needed to be honored with Thrallmar to enter heroic Hellfire Citadel instances hah.  DOH Crager!  There were issues with that group going to Coilfang (somewhere that Crager could go) and I would have just left the group too, but Che’s pally Ezekiel was in it so I stayed.  We didn’t do to well. Killed first and last bosses just fine but we couldn’t down Omor the Unscarred.  Gave up after the third try and we moved on the the dragon rider.  We just didn’t have enough DPS, the second rogue and the mage were kinda slackin or lackin, not sure which.  Nothing against Craig, but his hunter probably wouldn’t have the DPS yet either to be successful in a heroic.  He did just make 70 a couple days ago.  That’s to be expected.  You can’t hit 70 and be ready for heroics.  Nothing wrong with that though.

Soo.. after that Systine got on and offered to run the Terrible Trolls through somewhere.. I got bold and said BRD.. Jason, never having been to BRD (I noticed when my Overlord Pyronwhatever quest got shared with him LOL) had eagerly agreed to go there!  THE FOOL!  8) It didn’t work out so well with him not being affliction anymore and after a really slow 45 minutes or so, I camped Cerrano and logged on Rossa to make her second trip of the day back to Black Rock Depths.  We moved along a bit faster but Jason got sleepy and had to go.. so with Jobu in tow, I powered through a FULL boss clear of BRD!  I love that place.

It’s so very hard to find a group willing to put in the 6 or so hours it takes an appropiate level group to do a full clear there though.  Shadowfang Keep is still my favorite instance, but BRD is a close second.  Definitely much more EPIC than SFK.  Of the Blackrock Mountain instances.. it’s the best in atmosphere and continuity of the lore/ambience/can’treallydescribeitbeentypingwaytoolongnow.. but,

The Princess is saved!