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So last night I had this dream, which is kind of vague, but basically, I totally helped Johnny Weir out with something while he was traveling or something? (I am not 100% sure what this awesome thing I did was, but apparently I was awesome.) And later he wanted to know what he could do to repay my awesomeness, and I was like "Can you ask Livejournal to gift me some XP or something?" And apparently he did, because I woke up sure in the knowledge that I had hit LiveJournal level cap.

I DO NOT EVEN KNOW, YOU GUYS.

In Things That Actually Have A Leveling System In Real Life news, today my baby paladin dinged 68. (from exploration) And then I spent like three hours getting her mining, jewelcrafting, and first aid up to 350 so she could train Grand Master in all of them and head off to Northrend. NORTHREND. OMG.

You guys, WHAT IF I HIT LEVEL CAP BEFORE CATA LAUNCHES. IT COULD TOTALLY HAPPEN AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT I WILL DO IN THIS CASE. (Answer: probably max out jewelcrafting LIKE A BOSS.) Should I save up my justice points or should I actually buy any of the tier gear? Or, wait, there's jewelcrafting stuff I buy with justice points too, isn't there? IDK. What rep grinds are absolutely necessary if I want to max JC by Cata if possible?

Also also, Borean Tundra vs. Howling Fjord?

Also I now have like 14g to my name since a very nice mage ported me to Dalaran and I picked up Cold Weather Flying. :D:

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I did all of Howling Fjord and half of Borean Tundra, and had more fun in HF. Saying that, at least one quest chain in HF seems to end unsatisfactorily if you don't do the counterpart in BT, so...idk. Do both! Lots of rep that way.

I am TOTALLY hitting the level cap before Cataclysm. :DDDD After that I'll be levelling up my professions (maybe even cooking, which is still sitting at 1 point) and going back to grind rep for my favourite factions. I've heard anything you buy with justice point seem super expensive right now because it's all been balanced for the amount you'll be earning at 85, though, so you might want to stockpile those for a while.

HF is the boat that leaves from Menethil and BT leaves from SW, yes? (Lol why am I asking you this? You're Horde.) And yeah, I hear Justice Points don't go very far. On the other hand, I guess I'll see what really needs replacing by the time I hit level cap. (See also: I just replaced my bracers at 67 and I've had those things [PvP bracers, even!] since level 40. So if that happens again, I might buy that item or something. Or something. But probably not. It's probably better to stockpile. although I think you can only have 4000 before you can't get anymore. While I don't really see that happening, SC and I do tend to chain run dungeons sometimes.

[Lol. speaking of. There was apparently some sort of exploit with the bag you get from running heroic Oculus where if you didn't have autoloot on and didn't take out what was in the bag, you could keep opening it and pull out infinite justice points or something, and the banhammer went around, etc. Anyway, I was reading some website with all these people being coy about what the "infinite justice point exploit" actually was, and someone was like "I admit it, this exploit to get infinite justice points has been going on for a long time, and I've been taking advantage of it for months now. It's called 'playing a tank.'"]

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Howling Fjord's prettier and mostly more interesting, though I actually bailed on both for Dragonblight ASAP. Later, I went back and did all of the Tuskarr quests in both zones, which are worth doing I think because they're kind of interested and also because if you do all the quests they'll put you about halfway through Revered and there's an awesome fishing pole that you can buy from them at Exalted (I'm getting close! Just about a week more of their dailies and I think I'll be able to pick it up).

Just so you know, Zul'Drak's fugly and dank and I haaaaate it. I really wish I didn't want the Loremaster title (eventually) because I'm going to have to do HOW MANY QUESTS THERE? But! Sholazar's PRETTY, and a super-awesome alternative to Zul'Drak for levelling.

PS, omg, random dungeon finder ILU. Between the loot in dungeons and the dungeon quest rewards, I am in nearly ALL BLUES NOW, I just need a belt.

Yeah, I'd say save your JP, the thing is, when the new content in the old world hits, green is gonna be the new purple. I mean, unless you're looking to try and catch up to a raiding guild and take down Arthas or something before Cata hits? Otherwise, save 'em.

I'm still in the low 70s and not done questing there, but I enjoy HF much more than BT.

Oh man, yeah, you'd be playing Alliance, so I have no idea. /o\ And considering the reason I had so much fun was that the Forsaken's Hand of Vengeance faction is the starting area in HF, and I was crunching Alliance into the ground...sorry! I didn't even think. On the other hand I'll be interested to see what you think of the Ally side, because the Horde signed up a new (non-playable, obviously) race that I hadn't heard about before, the Taunka.

I'm thinking by the time I get to the level cap it'll be very close to Cata, so gearing up won't be a big deal because I'll be replacing it with quest greens in the new zones anyway. But those heirlooms are very, very tempting. Stacking 10% XP bonuses from the spellcaster shoulder and chest pieces, for a dungeon-grinding priest? GIVE IT TO ME.

Heh, I hope I keep on enjoying tanking as much as the little bit I've tried. It was so weird to queue up in the dungeon finder, think to myself "Hmm, I need to empty my bags-" and bam, a group has been formed!

If you need money, try soloing/duoing Stratholme. A million pieces of runecloth, loads of green BoE drops (and even a few blues for me), and some Righteous Orbs if you're lucky, because they tend to go for a premium (and I could disenchant al the blue BoP drops too). Plus if you put your Argent Dawn trinket on you'll get dozens of Minion/Invader scourgestones and a Corruptor's scourgestone from every boss for Argent Dawn rep, as well as from every kill. And a 1% chance of a mount from the final boss! I think that might be disappearing in Cata.

I had no problem soloing it as a 71 warlock, so I can't see a paladin having any trouble.

I think I might buy stuff with JP if there's a piece I still haven't replaced since Outland. Otherwise, I'll probably just save it up and spend it in Cata.

Hey, it's cool. I always forget how different questing is for the other faction too. (the Horde seems like it has some really cool quests, so I'm going to try to level my shaman to that point eventually. EVENTUALLY.)

I kind of want to buy my warrior alt some heirlooms if I get to that point, but I'm not sure what. Normally, I'd got for a weapon, but since she's Fury, she'll be replacing one-handed weapons with two-handers at level 69, so I guess not weapons. Perhaps the chest or shoulders? or one of the trinkets. I mean, also, are there going to be new Calibrated For Level 85 heirlooms, or what? GEAR IS SO CONFUSING.

And lol. My BF and I always try to get our stuff done before we queue because with him tanking, it really is pretty much instant. Except right after we hit Outland, when I guess the healers are all avoiding the baby DKs queueing as tanks when they are really really not.

I might give Strat a try. (Although I'll probably ask SC to come with the first time just since I don't know the fights and I know some of the stuff is kind of weird.) I've been wanting to run it for AD rep anyway.

Although with the exception of Holy Wrath, I don't have that much undead-only firepower anymore. The new Art of War results in waaaay fewer Exos than I used to get. (On the other hand, it crits for like 8000 at level 67 now.)[Also, I do not care if Glyph of Rebuke is supposed to be the new awesome middle glyph. The best new-major glyph is the Holy Wrath glyph. Now it stuns dragonkin and elementals too? THAT SOUNDS LIKE IT MIGHT BE USEFUL IN THE NEXT EXPANSION.)

I am pretty excited about the Tuskarr, ngl! I did a whole little quest chain for them in BT today, but I hear there is more Tuskarr in HF?

I'm so excited to hit the point where I'm geared enough I feel okay queuing for random dungeons again. I love getting blues from them and the random dungeon finder makes it so EASY. and if you mess up, the people aren't even from your realm, so it's not like you'll ever see them again! :D

This is what people tell me, and yet I'm still questing in BT. I'm gonna head back to the old world to do a free XP questline in Tanaris and I might go to HF when I come back. Whatever. THIS IS WHAT THE TURTLE BOAT IS FOR I HEAR.

There is! There's three Tuskarr towns with flight paths. The stuff in Borean Tundra is kinda dull (though much of which is super-easy), I liked Dragonblight well and there's some really interesting stuff in Howling Fjord with the plundering pirates (which you do have to go most of to do all your Tuskarr quest rep and to open up the daily in that zone).

I feel like I should warn you that the daily quest in Borean Tundra is NOT in the town with a flight path, but over in Kaskala, which is their main settlement that they had to flee from. I SPENT A LONG TIME NOT FIGURING THAT OUT. (I asked wowhead about Tuskarr rep and thus figured out why my Tuskarr rep was still so awful, which is that i hadn't done like 70% of the quests /o\.) There's also stuff up by the quarry.

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