A few exciting things have happenned since my last post. First and most obvious is that I got to 71. Only reason I'm posting now instead of when I hit 72 is because I have some homework to do before I have to get to bed. Like Froggins, I've got exams comming up so I can't be playing all day long, but I try to squeeze in as much time as I can. On the bright side, I'm 80% into 71, so I'll probably be 72 by tomorrow.

I did my first instance in WotLK yesterday, The Nexus, and I thought it was pretty badass. Unfortunatley, I forgot to take screenshots, so I don't have any goodies for you, but I can tell you that its really fun. None of the bosses were too tricky and it didn't take very long to finish, just under an hour. Here is a quick synopsis:

Trash: Easy trash for the most part... Kill healers first, and later in, kill Rifts first, they spawn ads.

Grand Magus Telestra:This was the only boss we wiped on, and it was a bitch of a fight when we suceeded. She starts off easy, with a twist. She does a Ice Nova which looks like a hunter ice trap, but hits everyone and deals about 2k damage. She also does a pretty cool move called Gravity Well which is like Death Grip, the DK move, but it just bounces you around and deals 75 damage each time you bounce. It's unavoidable but it doesn't do much damage so its not much of a concern. Then, she splits into 3 at 50%, this is the tough part. The purple one is arcane, and casts Time Stop and Polymorph: Critter. The blue one is frost and casts Ice Barb and Blizzard. The red one is fire and casts Fire Blast and Scorch. All DPS focus down one at a time, while the tank tanks one of them. DPS burns down the other 2 and when the third one dies, Magus reappears and its back to normal.

Trash: This trash is annoying at best. There are little tree guys that respawn in like 1 minute, so they keep popping up and aggroing people while they drink and rez... its not too bad though.

Ormorok the Tree-Shaper: I thought this guy was fun. He's is essentially tank and spank, but he has one move that changes it up. It's called Crystal Spikes. If any of you remember Ahune the Frost Lord from the holiday event, it's like that, only more. You see them moving out from him and then the ground rumbles in certain spots. Get off the rumbling spots. After a second, the rumbling turns into a giant spike and oyu get thrown up in the air and take like 3k damage. My group was retarded, so I was the only one not to get spiked. Topped the DPS meter :)

Trash: This trash is a little tough, but if you remember to kill the Rifts first, you'll do fine. The rifts spawn lightning dudes or something... basically more adds to deal with. Just kill them first.

Anomalus: Giant arcane dude... Every now and then, he makes Rifts like from the trash. Kill them quickly, then get back on the boss. Thats it for this guy, he's pretty easy.

Trash: I honestly don't remember this trash... I know it wasn't anything special though :P

Keristrasza: This is a giant dragon that you assist is a quest chain in Coldara. To start the fight, you have to activate the 3 orbs around her. This releases Keristrasza from the Ice Block that Malygos put her in at the end of that quest chain I mentioned. This fiht has some very interesting aspects to it. First of all, she has normal Dragon attacks, both a Tail Sweep and a frontal cone attack. On top of that, you recieve a debuff throughout the fight that reduces you attack and cast speed by 10%, stacking up to 9 times, and also dealing 100 Frost damage per second. Here's the catch though... movement removes the debuff. Basically to avoid this damage, keep moving throughout the fight. Yea that means Hunters, Mages, Boomkins, Warlocks and the like... you're screwed. Expect to be on the bottom of th emeter because of how much you have to move. She also does Crystal Chains which roots you in place for up to 10 seconds. I never got chained, so I'm not sure if you keep getting the DoT while rooted, but you can use a PvP trinket to get out of it if you are worried or undergeared.

At the end of the run, I left with Chiseled Stalagmite Pauldrons a big upgrade from some piece of crap green quest reward shoulders I was using earlier. I was happy to say the least.

I also scrounged together enough to buy my Flying Mount and training, to learn that I don't get to fly in Outland until level 77... it made me sad :(  I'll post pics later for your visual enjoyment!

Check back again later for more updates! I'll probably post again when I hit 73 with an update about Utgarde Keep!

P.S. Change your votez, I r almoast 8 levels ahead of Froggins!!!

I apologize for not posting yesterday, but the last 3 days have honestly been merged into one. I stayed up all of last night leveling and only took a short nap from 10-11, then 2-3. My hard work has been paying off a little bit though, as I made my way up the levels and now i've moved my way into Northrend. Finally, I'm out of Outlands... I thought I'd never finish Outlands. I've leveled there three times now, and I don't plan on leveling another character ever again, thats how much I hate Outlands now. I finished out Outland on Friday and Saturday and took my first look at Northrend, heading into Borean Tundra. So far Borean Tundra is pretty badass. I killed a bunch of Nerubains, drowned some mist-creating sailor dudes and gotten MAJOR upgrades.

Now my character sits at 70, and I've stuck with Blood so far, and I don't think I'll go unholy at this point. I tried it on beta and I didn't really like the rotation. It was too reliant on your diseases and when I roll up against frost/shadow immune mobs who I can't hit with either Icy Touch or Plague Strike, I'm glad that I rolled Blood. Even with only one disease up, my Death Strikes heal me for enough to take on most 2 man group quests. Above, you can see me riding a drake towards The Nexus. For once, there is a snowy zone to level in. Don't talk to me about Winterspring, that's a terrible zone, it doesn't count.

On the other hand, its good to know that Blizzard still has no clue what they are doing. I was running to head down the elevator in Warsong Hold and I thought I just barely caught it. Alas, when I landed, I fell through the elevator a little, and was standing on the inside of it. When it went down, I was left floating there... Death Knight my ass... I'm totally a flying death ghost dude, so much cooler.

Well, as you can see above, I have been at it for a while now, and I'm up to level 62 already. That's my baby up there! After grabbing my copy last night, I installed it on the way home and finished it when I got here, then jumped right into leveling around 12:30 or 1:00 AM. Got to 61, then decided to take a power nap at 7:30, before my class at 12. As soon as I got back from class, I jumped back in and now I'm 62, almoast 63.

Not much has changed from beta, the talent trees are all the same to my knowledge and I'm using the same rotation to do most of the quests. It might have must been a little while, but it seems like my moves are hitting a little weaker though. Not too much to be a serious problem, but soloing some of the 2 man group quests was a little trickier than it was in the beta. Maybe I'm just a little rusty :)

I dumped a little gold in to get myself 4 glyphs while I had my DK in Thrallmar. I hopped on my druid and bought the Glyph of Death Strike, Glyph of Pestilence, Glyph of Horn of Winter, and Glyph of Plague Strike and sent them to my DK. I'd highly suggest getting these 4 if you are leveling a DK of your own, in particular the Death Strike Glyph. It basically increases how much Death Strike heals you for, which has saved me a few times when I pulled too many mobs. Pop Vampiric Blood when you have full diseases up and full runic power, then when you hit Death Strike it'll heal you for a good 25% of your health, noncrit. Crit I'd say it heals for easily 60% of your health. Gamechanger in pvp as well.

For now, its time to get 63, then do some homework. I'll prolly finish that around 10 and get right back into leveling. I hope to get at least 65 by the end of the night. Come back tomorrow for another update!

P.S. Froggins hasn't even STARTED leveling yet!!! I'm totally gonna win! Might as well change your votes now :P