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They listened. :D

They actually listened, and we are finally given what we've asked for! Thank you Blizzard! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Zarhym, you are my star upon the earth! You come bearing such amazingly good news. I had Yrovi keep engineering, not wanting to drop, not wanting to relevel something like Jewelcrafting or Blacksmithing. It would be tedious, expensive, awful in every way. I spent so much time and gold getting to 450 engineering and now you come and make my day! You get a muffin. A fancy, internet muffin. Also a virtual hug. Just for this news.

Of the new stuff, the Dalaran AH is spectacular, Jeeves looks super-cool (though I'll probably never get him...), and all the improvements to regular stuff has made my day, totally.

Midsummer: Be Kind, Rewind

So the Midsummer Festival has been reset, allowing Seona to go back and visit all the fires she had before for a second time... getting the blossoms, coin, and experience all over again!

This is great news, as it means she'll be able to level a little more than before. Of course, due to time constraints, she didn't exactly hit a whole lot of the fires to start with, but still, this is nice. Also, those two dailies are still available, and they give really good experience as well, around 5500 experience for each of them. That's pretty amazing at level 45.

Unfortunately, Yrovi hasn't come out to play at all lately, but I'm not giving up on her, yet. There's still the meta-achievement to take care of, as this is more or less when she started last year with events, so she won't even have to do everything again. Just desecrate a few fires, steal some Alliance flames, and take care of Ahune... nothing major, right? ;)

The more Seona runs around on Caliburn, though, the more I desperately wish 3.2 were live. The regular mounts are so slow! I occasionally pop onto Ziir (my banker DK) and his mount is so speedy, especially with the pale horse talent, that going back to Seona's warhorse is agonizingly slow. If 3.2 were here, she'd already be on her charger, and it is really difficult to run around knowing that. I should be grateful, of course, that this isn't vanilla WoW and that the option will be here soon enough, but I'm impatient today. :p

All-in-all, this holiday couldn't have come at a better time for Seona. She'll speed through the rest of her 40's and by the end of the holiday, you'll probably find her in the plaguelands, kicking dead-dude butt in the name of the Light and Argent Dawn. She'll have gotten nearly all of the old-world flight points, plenty of coin for training and such, and new clothes (if all goes well, of course).

P.S. Turns out that battle Seona participated in last week was part of a huge storyline from Al'shar lo Dor'ano, another RP guild. They had a prisoner in the Stockade and the Horde had come in order to free him again, porting back to Silvermoon. In our zeal, we retaliated by taking out Grom'gol and then boarding the Zepplin to Orgrimmar. Cool, huh? I'll have to find out more and see when other events are occuring. I'd like to see how this plays out.

Midsummer: Experiences

Seona ding'd 45 last night. 95% of her activitiy involved the Midsummer festival. I imagine that the entire festival (if she could do it all, which she can't) would net her 5+ levels. That would really be spectacular, meaning I could skip straight to the plaguelands, my ultimate old-world goal for leveling.

To get her there, there are two daily quests she can complete, each giving some experience and coin: torch tossing and torch juggling. On top of that, there are plenty of fires to visit, both to honor the flames and desecrate them (each giving experience, coin and blossoms). It will be an excelent reason to travel the world a bit and get flight points. In fact, I did some running about in Kalimdor last night, getting Seona some of the flight points in the Night Elven lands, including in Feralas. She's actually resting in the Inn inside Teldrassil as that was the last fire she got to before Caliburn nearly collapsed from exhaustion. Poor beast carried her all over last night.

Speaking of, I desperately want 3.2 to hit. Caliburn will get an upgrade (he's the warhorse, in case you're confused as all h3ll), and Seona might just get a second mount for less important occasions. Heck, at the rate I'm going, I may get to 60 before it hits... which may not actually be a bad idea. I didn't really think about this, but wouldn't it be cool to do the questline for the Epic mount right before it changes? The major drawback to this is, of course, the cost... I'll have to think about it. I mean, it matters for blood elves, because they get the training, the mount, AND a tabard that they can't get any other way. Dwarves just get the traning/mount, and it's way cheaper come 3.2.

Heh. On second thought, maybe she won't get to the quest. Spending that much gold for a mount seems silly now, with the changes coming. The lore is amazing, yes, and it has nice experience gain, but I'd rather push forward with basic questing in order to hit Outland/Northrend/80 as soon as possible. I mean, participating in more guild events is important to me, and that's something that level 80 will bring, I think. The festival will give me the levels, but I'll need to get more efficient at traveling to the fires. Hopefully I'll get a level a day. Outlands, here I come!!