Unsurprisingly, I’ve spent the last few days in WoW doing a bit of catching up. I’m already up to level 42; six levels in three days isn’t too bad… I’ll probably take it at a bit more leisurely pace from here on, though.

I finished off the blacksmithing quests in Orgrimmar that had been bugging me for a while. I had to collect a lot of tin for them though, since I couldn’t afford to buy it. Tin seems rather difficult to find, but I had fairly good luck in Thousand Needles. And I also finished off some other miscellaneous quests to try and get rid of some items that had been clogging up the bank, though in my hunger for quests I seem to have found a few more…

I eventually decided to go with a standard protection build, and switched over to using a shield and a single-handed sword. Though fights do take slightly longer now, I can definitely survive a lot better as well, often only losing a small bit of health and being able to charge right into the next fight.

I gained a lot of my levels doing all of the quests that I could in the Arathi Highlands and Dustwallow Marsh, and now I’m working on them in the Badlands area. As usual, I had to run through some Alliance zones in order to get there, but I made sure to explore them along the way so that I could get the achievements. I will have that Explorer title one day…