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A very profitable weekend for all the characters I’m leveling. Silvio’s 70 druid helped the Omplettes and Colin’s warrior through Uldaman and Zul’Farak (two instances I had never seen before). Didn’t get a lot of mage gear but the run gained me just shy of 5 levels and 100 gold (bringing the girls to 43). Also the Zul’Farak run granted Colin’s warrior 12? 13? pieces of gear that made him (pretty obviously) much more powerful. It turns out he kind of likes his warrior again! Saturday Night was a 5-man run through Maraudon. I had no idea just how long it would be, but the girls gained another 4 levels before it was done (half of those from quest turn-ins at the end of it all). We were all tired, and lost. It was an interesting instance; on the one hand it was The Huge, but on the other hand there was very little gear to speak of and a significant lack of money being earned. As such, the Omplettes are now broke again (levelling up is EXPENSIVE) and pretty undergeared (this tends to happen when you replace almost nothing in your gear from level 30 to level 48). The staff is still good, though! The bracers, less so.

Also, we ran our “casual” group through Blackfathom Deeps on Saturday. We were underlevelled but got surprisingly far! Unfortunately, Juls and I lit several of the fires at the end of the instance (the ones that bring lots of badguys into the room), and we didn’t have enough AoE to deal with that many enemies at once. Ended up summoning one of the mages to do the deed and blizzard them away to nothingness. Still, that party is pretty well balanced (priest, warrior, paladin, warlock, hunter) and fun to play.

But now for the real meat of this post! The first time I flew from Stormwind to Ironforge I made a pact to some day go into that searing gorge and kill me some of those Lava Spiders and giant robot guys. Every single time I’ve made that flight they’ve been listed as Level ??. But yesterday I was cruising over the Searing Gorge and I saw that the spiders were level 46-48. That is to say, killable. I made it my mission to go there, find them, and destroy them. I brought upon them such a frozen hell as to never have them question my superiority. I’ll be in the fifties this week. Not sure if I’ll continue past level 55 (the original goal I had was to level to the point where I could make a Death Knight when Lich King drops) and on through the portal, but I do know one thing. As soon as I hit 50 I’m heading to Un’Goro Crater and taking some freaking screenshots of the only other zone where I want to kill things, but have never been able to reach.

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