Lockgoblin's Adventures within the World of Warcraft Cataclysm Beta
This will be the last time I run Utgarde Keep on normal. I finally finished the quests for it. Next time I run it will be Heroic I hope. The run started out shaky. We had a lvl 69 Deathknight who tried his heart out but kept dying. When to my surprise the level 80 Paladin switched to Protection and carried us the rest of the way through. 
Besides digging through crap, sometimes Blizz never ceases to amaze me with the cool stuff you can do during quests.. Here's a pic of me surfing across the chasm to Valgarde Keep on top of a flaming harpoon. 
So I got level 73 today and then decided to head back to the old-world to work on my lockpicking that I'd been procrastinating on forever. My skill was in the low 100's so I headed out to the Wetlands to work on it. Currently my lockpicking skill is at 150. Got a ways to go yet. I have over 20 locked chests in my bank that I've been saving of the course of leveling this toon. A lot of money to be made in what I could possibly auction out of all of those. And they're taking up room in my bank.
It took a while.. Been doing other things like playing my Horde Paladin with a friend. But today I finally made it to Level 72. I took the time to go all the way back to Ironforge to train and only learned a new rank of Feint. I should have just stayed in Northrend.
Still Level 71 - About 31% of the way in at the moment. The last day or two I've been trying to work on my tradeskills. Finally got Leatherworking passed the 350 Mark and earned the 'Working Day and Night' Achievement. Now I can use all that Borean Leather that I've been saving up since doing the quests in the zone.
I don't know if it's the tank.. or our gear.. or what exactly. But we couldn't beat the second boss if our lives depended on it.
Ok I was supposed to be jumping for joy in this pic, but that's what you get with action screenshots! I made it to level 71 today.. A mere 153,000 xp. Next level is 156,000 xp away! Hopefully a couple runs through Utgarde Keep will help alleviate some of the pain. 
Just wanted to give a quick 'THANK YOU!' to my new friend Rosellia. Started out the evening with some quick help for an Elite Quest and ended up questing together for the rest of the evening.
So I've hit level 70 and a fresh new level deserves a brand new UI. Here it is, I hope you like it cause I do.
Ran across some druids here sitting in a row in Stormwind. I absolutely love the new skins Blizzard added with the latest patch.
Things are coming along great! I suppose I could do Utgarde Keep soon, just waiting for my guildies to get home from work. I'm loving every second of Northrend. I can't mention it enough of how well designed it is. Makes me very excited to see what they are going to do for Cataclysm.
Well I did it. Only took a few days to blast through Outlands (yuck! but some good things did come out of going through Outlands i.e Portent) and I've finally made it back to Northrend. This time as Alliance. I went to Borean Tundra first, and began doing some of the quests there. Experience wise I've made it halfway through 68. It was getting late so I didn't get to do as much as I wanted. I love Northrend. Its much better designed and a lot more exciting. The quests are well thought out and the environments are beautiful. Blizzard sure has learned a ton since Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King as an expansion is a credit to that. 
I know what your thinking.. How'd you do that!? Well its a little complicated, but I managed it. I had a ton of Elite quests left from Nagrand that I couldn't do alone and there weren't many volunteers available. So I asked a friend - from the HORDE - to help me do them.
Netherdrake.. My favorite flying mount in the game. No.. No I don't have one yet.. This is from one of the quests in Nagrand. I just thought I'd post an early preview of myself on one of these grand mounts. I don't like the proto-drakes from Northrend. I can appreciate this one much more.
Level 65 took me all damn day just about. I haven't the slightest what it is about those mid-levels. It's like your so close but so far away still. I am more a glass half empty kind of guy, no optimism whatsoever so thats why it seems like this leveling process is taking forever. While in Underbog I managed to finish of level 65. And what a great run it was. Once again I ran with Revelt and Zavaria. Big fun was had by all. Special shout-outs to: Wicket (Mage), Love (Deathknight), and Darkbrew (Deathknight). Love stuck with us throughout the whole thing. Much thanks to you! She Ding'd 68 while running with us. I wish her tons of luck in her trip to Northrend!! I'll be there soon!
Starting the morning off right. Level 65. I made a comment to Zavaria and Revelt last night that I thought Outlands was moving right along. In only three more levels I'll be able to get the ball rolling in Northrend. The changes to the amount of experience and the recent mount changes in patch 3.2 obviously make leveling in Outlands a breeze. Which is great because I can't stand Outlands. 
After joining Portent I've had much success. I've upgraded almost every item in slot with an instance Blue. Going back into Ramparts and Blood Furnace and not dying a single time thanks to a decent group for a change. Special thanks goes out to the Druid Fatoneoh and some serious tanking skills of the Death Knight Zabuza.
Blood Furnace turned out to be a good run. I got to run with some new friends Zavaria and Revelt of PORTENT
So I was in Ironforge scanning the auction house to get rid of some items that were clogging my bags when I was invited to run Ramparts. I said yes because I had a couple quests that I needed to finish in there. The group was composed of an AFK Hunter, a Paladin, Shaman and a Shadow Priest. Much to my frustration the group was terrible at keeping me on my feet. Not to mention the Priest wand-pulling mobs and the Shaman dispursing the mobs all over the place. If I did any damage during this run I'd be surprised. 
