This is the baby mage.  She currently has a name, but I think it will be changed tonight.

I am in love with my baby mage. Except for her name. Currently overloading the circuits trying to get it right.

I have done something in the last 48 hours that I haven’t done in 3 or 4 years. I have leveled by running instances. Each one at least once.

Some observations:

A LOT of P.U.G. tanks are ASSHOLES. They seem to think their job is to run through an instance as quickly as possible. 6/10 of the groups I ran in the last time period had tanks who were completely unaware of what was happening behind them. Healers having aggro, mages (!) having aggro etc.  

There were exceptions. There were great exceptions. I would tell you the names of the tanks who were exceptions if there was time enough in these speed runs to actually notice what people’s names are.

I will allow myself a quick nostalgia back-in-the-day it was ‘better’ moment. Then I will tell you that the new speed runs have a certain frantic charm. There was one Razorfen Kraul run where we kicked the tank for needing on a caster staff and finished the four of us superbly.

I am struggling to keep up with my professions. It’s costing me a pretty penny, because I level too fast to get enough mats 'naturally.’ I have helped myself liberally from my awesome guild, bitterandsalty.com ’s guild bank, and spent ridiculous amounts of gold to keep them up. 

One of the greatest enjoyments of the game for me is making my own stuff as I level, so this is a necessity.

Anyway, not sure this post has a point. I do do do love this baby mage. I will announce her name soon. I love her. I’m loving leveling.

And, goodness to f'n gracious help me, I’m considering leveling a tank MY way.

LOL - everyone would moan about how slow I am!