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Outland, level 63, 200k experience from level 64. Whoo!

Three pets (a pain to keep them all leveled, though), two epic mounts (kitty and elekk), and Revered rep with the Argent Dawn. Whoo!

All is quite fine in Ansawa-ville, pretty much. Been doing a couple of pugs through Underbog; got one REALLY AWESOME one (once we kicked out the paladin who kept running ahead of us and getting us killed) with a 68 tanking warrior (Lesserwolf), 63/64 rogue (Winar), 63 Priest (...forget her name; she was great, though), and my buddy Amoriiri the Paladin (we've pugged together a lot, including UBRS; he knows my ADD ways quite well and teases me about them)--I spent most of my time in that one doing CC, and got many nice comments on how well I kept things chain-trapped (and/or frozen in an emergency situation). Unfortunately I had to go before we could do the last boss (parental controls, yo; I put them in voluntarily so I stop staying up until 3am goofing off in WoW), but it went quite smoothly, all told. Except for the part where I attempted to go get our priest after a semi-wipe, got lost, died, got lost getting back to the instance, and wasted twenty minutes of our time. XD

The other pug was not so awesome; we wiped before Hungarfen because the ret-paly we had couldn't tank for beans (which is not to say I've never known a ret-paly who can tank, but DPS paladins and warriors seem to be kinda crippled for tanking), so Nemesis was doing a lot of tanking, and the resto-druid (or priest, can't remember) we had healing was one of the sorts who had to be told to heal my pet if he was actually holding aggro on a mob ("usually people tell me when the pet is OTing" "...you're not paying very close attention to the group's HP, are you"), which she fell down on a lot. After the wipe, I said "seeya" and dropped the group, since I wasn't having any more of THAT nonsense. I suppose I'll get a full run another time.

Yesterday started off with an average-to-good pug with Feverfew the tinydruid (who will be resto/feral in the fullness of time, so I can beartank OR heal as needed). No one really knew who was tanking that instance (not even me), so I figured most of the onus fell on me. The Fury warrior insisted on pulling, but since he wasn't very good at holding aggro (mostly at DPSing) on multiple mobs and running to pick things off the healer, I figured I was doing the tanking. We wiped once in the room full of goblins (with that nasty "molten metal" debuff), I had to tell the healer NOT to put PW:S on me (because it interfered with my Rage gain, imagine that), she had to tell me NOT to put Thorns on her (because it raised her aggro when she was getting hit), I got the newly blue hammer off the ogre boss (+11 sta! ZOMG!), life was good. I think a part of our tanking confusion problem was that the warrior seemed to be ESL. "rege zap" was "rogue sap", apparently.

Fev has dinged 20, so now he can rez stuff and has kittyform!!. And, also, now is party to SUPAHFAST LEVELING ZOMG.

Then it was back to Ansa. I blithered around in the Blasted Lands working on a quest while liet waited to see if she was gonna be raiding, turned out she wasn't, so then we hooked up and bounced around Zangarmarsh working on my quests and letting her level her new tinykitty. (One of the red lynxes from Eversong! The highest they get is level 7 and she's 70 now, so I admire her dedication.) I have now filled out my Zangarmarsh map and am 1000ish/3000 Friendly with Sporragar, which puts me well on my way toward getting a TINY SPOREBAT. Especially once I finish off all the "getting to know us" quests (already have the one for the Survivalist's Pike) and start turning in Fertile Spores and Sanguine Hibiscus.

Now, I have a bit of a quandary, concerning Ansa's 2H weapon. As you can see here, she currently has this sword with Savagery on it, giving her a whopping +70 to her AP (on top of the +23 to AP she already gets from her agi). The Survivalist's Pike (here) gives me less AP, less Stamina, and less Agility, but with the addition of Int instead of Str (strength being pretty much useless for hunters)... And eh. Once I get it enchanted with Savagery it should be just fine as a replacement, never mind. My only quibble is that the Helboar Carving Blade has an awesome Exquisite Samurai Sword look to it, while the Survivalist's Pike is just kinda...a pike. Not even really gorgeous like the Ice-Barbed Spear is with its glow. It should be fine until I can get my hands on Terokk's Quill, however, which in turn should be fine until I can hunt down a quest/rep reward or drop that replaces it at 70.

Plus, I'm edging 64, which means I'll be getting Aspect of the Viper and should stack my Int and MP5 to keep my mana regen going. :9

And, to round this all out, a PEOPLE TO AVOID:
Claudiarose and her paramour Thromalin. Both level 70s, they came along with me and a pair of paladins (58 and 57, I think) to Stratholme. Thromalin started out by badgering everyone to just give the Baron's vanishingly rare mount drop to him IF it dropped, then made himself to be a martyr because nothing else that dropped in there was of any interest to a 70--and then proceeded to need-roll on the Eye of Arachnida (usable item, kinda nifty) and all of the Corruptor's Scourgestones that dropped, saying that they were all he wanted! He acted as if these were his due, despite--while being a prot warrior--being unable to protect either of his healers (having forced the ret paladin into healing alongside the holy paladin, instead of letting him DPS) nor being willing to run back to the front of the instance to fetch them when both of them went down. (And one of them subsequently died in one of the cockroach traps on his way back, too.) Claudiarose was little better, also being unable to protect the healers (yes, she's a rogue, but at level 70 vs. level 59 mobs, you'd think she could grin and tank it for a bit--I sure do when I'm instancing), and need-rolling on a pair of Bind-on-Pickup boots for "her hunter". (Beaststalker set, btw. I had the bindings at the time, so would have actually benefited from the boots, but had a better pair of boots banked and waiting for me once I hit 62.)

At that point I said I had no patience left for staying with a pair of loot-ninja 70s who couldn't keep their healers alive, ate the rez sickness, and left the group. Thromalin whispered something to the effect of it being one of the healer's faults for running in and how he'd already worked it out with the group leader (presumably out of hearing of the rest of the group) that he'd be taking "his share" of the loot, despite declaring that share to be ONLY the Baron's mount drop (if it dropped), etc. I told him he was an idiot (not in so many words) and that seemed to shut him up.

But yeah. If you're on Feathermoon, AVOID AT ALL COSTS. At the very least it'll spare you them stopping every ten minutes to have /emoted PDAs with each other.