Back in the Old World of WoW, I did a bunch of exploring and some old quests, gathering ore along the way.
I died a bunch of times, sometimes from falling, sometimes from zealous city guards, and at one point the durability on all of my items was down to zero from having to resurrect at the spirit healer a bunch of times due to inaccessible corpses. But in the end I did manage to get the exploration achievements for both old world continents, and a couple others like the fishing diplomat one.
I only got enough ore to raise blacksmithing seven points, though. I still need another 13 before I can start using all the fel ore and adamantite I have saved up.
And then I got back to Nagrand, finally finishing off most of the quests there. It took a lot longer than expected to do them all, thanks to the large number of them and the zone’s size. Now I’m not sure whether to go to Shadowmoon Valley or Blade’s Edge next…