Infusion of Light

Today I finally hit level 80! It has taken about a month and a half to get here which is pretty good as I have been taking it slow and enjoying the content. There is still a large amount of content that I haven’t played through but I have no doubt that I’ll keep questing despite not needing the experience.

It is depressing how fast all the gold I earned during the last ten levels has been spent, between purchasing the new skills and a couple of BoE epics. Whilst I still have a long way to go before I am anything approaching well geared, the Ornate Saronite armour set I made fore myself in addition to an epic cloak I should have no difficulty getting into heroics.

It has been three weeks since I finally went forth into Northrend and started working on the new content. So far I am very impressed with both the zones and the quests. For the most part the plan myself and some of my guild mates came up with to avoid the crowds has paid off. Waiting those few weeks has meant that all of us got chance to gear up a bit more, save up some much needed gold and above all avoid the need to do quests at the same time as everyone else on the realm.

At some unpleasant hour of Sunday morning Tallinus hit level 74, which is pretty good as I only hit 73 on Thursday night. So far I have only really seen two zones, there are so many good quests and I find it hard to move on when there might be some interesting quest or story line that I might have missed. I know I can come back and finish each zone once I hit 80 but it’s not the same. I am going to try and make the effort to move on more quickly but I still have some pretty important things to do in Dragonblight so I don’t think it will be much before 75 that I move on.

We have so far done two of the new instances, as usually we fell into the “Oh, we don’t need PUG DPS we can three man it” trap which seems to be something of a bad (but ion occasion very impressive) habit we picked up somewhere along the line. So imagine our surprise when we actually beet Utgard Keep with only three. Unfortunately we didn’t do quite as well in the Nexus. The penultimate boss was just too much for us, really needed more DPS. Hopefully we’ll go back and avenge our deaths on that damn arcane elemental or what ever he is.

I will try and post a bit more regularly now that the site is pretty much finished, plus I have a number of post that are just waiting to be checked over, that I wrote a few months ago before I got the site set up. I just have to figure out how to slot them in on the correct dates.

The unearthly sky flickered with those strange lights that frequently illuminated the reddish ground that stretched seemingly for ever into the shadowy distance. Tallinus sat astride his horse, his back to the great stone archway that contained the swirling port leading back home. For many months now he had worked tirelessly to thwart the designs of the Burning Legion. The war was nowhere near it’s end but the tides of demonic forces that had seemed certain to overwhelm the defences of Horde and Alliance had been checked. It was now time to turn his attention to more immediate and if possible more perilous duties. He took one final look at the desolate landscape, praying silently that the lines of defence would continue to hold. With yet another flash of light from the unholy sky he turned his mount and spured towards the rippling surface of the portal.

Greetings! I have been an avid World of Warcraft player for several years now, in fact I started playing in the original beta test. I thought It was about time that I stopped tiring my friends with my ramblings about various aspects of my prefered class and spec and wrote them down instead. I also wanted to be able to add some depth to my character, despite being on a RP realm there never seems to be a good time or place to do some proper role playing and so I am going to use this site to develop my character and chronicle his exploits. I may also end up talking about other aspects of the game as well as some of the other classes.

Writing is not really something I’m good at, so apologies for the quality of my posts, but the only way to improve is to practise and most of my posts will not be in character so hopefully some of the content will at least be useful and hopefully entertaining.