Smashing faces again

So yeah, that’s what I’ve been mostly doing for the last week. It began about Thursday with my warrior was sitting in Scholazar at level 76, which was when I decided to level him enough to get him back flying. After I did have it I found leveling with an epic flying mount (which he had since level 70) so much faster and efficient that I just went with it. And so here I am, dinging 80 on some starting quest in Icecrown.

I must say that leveling as a prot warrior was not as hard as it may seem. Sure, I don’t do a lot of damage, but I also survive a lot, and stuff will die eventually if I smash it with a shield enough times. :] I’ve also did a bunch of instances on the way, but with the expansion being out for a while there’s not much demand for tanks anymore. Still, it’s a valid way to level, and it gets a lot easier after leveling to 75 and getting Enraged Regeneration. You can just keep charging mobs and smashing them with your shield, which is always fun. It’s also a nice way to level on a PvP server such as mine – I have absolutely no idea why people (ones of the same level of course – you can’t do much about 80′s unless they suck) are trying to gank a tank with almost twice their HP, but they do. And then they get stunned, interrupted, charged and slammed with a shield. Fun. :]

I was able to get uncrittable with a bunch of crafted and AH gear shortly after, so I tried pugging a heroic Violet Hold. Unfortunately the run wasn’t as good as I’d like to see my first heroic go – we’ve encountered a bug with the rightside portal. The mob will spawn there and then fall through the floor, going out of range of anything and keeping the portal spawning mobs forever. Must be something introduced in patch 3.1, because I have never seen that happen before, but I poked around the forums and I’m not the only one encountering this bug. Too bad it happened though, the rest of the group was mostly from one guild – one which is 3rd on progression on my realm. I don’t think they were impressed.

Well too bad, maybe if I were overgeared for the instance it wouldn’t be a problem, but I’m not… and to be completely honest, I like it. It’s a fun time when the instances are still a challenge to do. I practically stopped doing heroics (I do it mostly if we want to do some achievements) on Saithir simply because it’s too boring to plow through mobs like that. On my alts though, I still have to show some effort for most of them.

Well anyway, now I have another character to play – currently I’m working on taking him through some heroics and getting his professions up to a decent level. Of course it involves getting a lot of silly achievements like “25 Fish” and similar stuff…