Road to Legion #1: The Derptastic Levelling Adventures of Vpaladin

Yep it's almost that time again; the time when every Warcraft-loving nerd and diva dives back in for last minute preparations pending the upcoming launch of the new expansion pack (Legion). Nigh is the time when the servers are overloaded with trigger-happy folks who will surely not block up the quest-givers and shower everyone with their friendliness. We're not too far away now (time flies so quickly when you're lost).

"You are not prepared!" rings true for right now I'm just blabbering away while my Paladin is mid-air above Zul'drak. Earlier today Vpaladin was only level 63 and prancing about in Hellfire Peninsula. The other day I got lucky and 1) managed to tag Krol the Blade in front of another sucker and 2) actually had the RNGesus endow me with a first drop [Elixir of Arcane Knowledge] which bestows upon a character a boon to their experience gains by 300% (4x normal XP) for up to 1 hour.

So I headed on off to Zangarmarsh and grinded away at all the quests I could. Thankfully there were easily 20-odd quests plus a few additional ones as part of my Underbog dungeon run. So I began by entering the Underbog instance and immediately popped my elixir after which I headed west over to Orabor Harborage to turn in a number of quests. By the time I was flying east to the other questing hubs I was already 64 and after turning in the rest of the quests I hit 68 and it was off to Northrend for me. I queued up for a dungeon (in DPS spec of course, derp) and as retribution for that mistake I found myself abandoning the dungeon after a first pull wipe by the damned tank.

Look at muh horse muh horse is amazing...

In Northrend I headed on over to Valiance Keep where I managed to sneak in about a dozen quests or so and by the end of the hour I had reached level 72... then I decided f*ck it and spent 2,000 gold on an [Elixir of the Rapid Mind] which is similar to the other one but only lasts 15 minutes... oh and did I mention it only lasts 15 minutes and costed 2,000 gold? Yeah I only barely snuck in another 2 levels after grinding and turning in roughly 20 quests in Dragonblight. So yeah now I'm hovering over Thrym's End in Zul'drak writing this sh*t for some reason. I'm sitting at 96% into level 75 or about 1 bar short of level 76.


In my great derpiness I realised only afterwards that the 4 pet battle dailies I did on my Rogue, hoping to score some much needed bonus XP, had to be completed via the Quest Log on my Paladin. Hopefully I'll be able to get this boring arse toon to 85-ish by the end of tomorrow and then full steam ahead to 100 by the end of the day after; if not I'll eat a bunch of damned cookies. >_O