I've been immersed in The Burning Crusade Classic server since June, and there's no slowing down there. Only my husband has a character who has reached and gone through the Portal into Hellfire Peninsula. He's level 61.
The rest of us are tooling along, with my own two highest being a Warlock and a Hunter, both at 46.
The game remains endlessly fascinating. There is also this thing, for me, that because I didn't do these quests, and live in this world the first time through, I mean to prove myself, playing through all the characters and classes as the changes come to the world in the form of new expansions (I hope) so that I can see the classes evolve and get good at all of them. Always the goal.
The only things I keenly wish for from the present day game are more mailboxes and more flight paths. Also, I really wish the Dwarven District in Stormwind had a bank, a mailbox and an auction house. I think I read it doesn't get it till Cataclysm. That's crazy.
Even so, I've popped into the Shadowlands era of the games a few times lately. On Blackwater Raiders, I've begun moving people on to Ardenweald, but of course they need to pop into the Maw for a bit, then finish Maldraxxus. Only my Monk so far had a tough time in the Maw.
Somehow, it occurred to me today that they had changed things so I could add a 13th character to my 12 on Blackwater Raiders. Following my example on TBC, I made a new Hunter, a Kul Tiran, of course.
This girl is exciting not just because new characters are always fun, but because she gets to be the one who gets all of the Achievements, large and small, a character can get. I'm going to have to keep her from over leveling all of the starter area quests. Must not take anything that would toss her forward to the fabled shores of Boralus. Slow and steady wins the race. It must be possible still to make your way through the whole world as you used to be able to do. We shall see!
Shockingly, to me, I am now going to work on getting the other Allied Races. I'm farthest along towards getting a Dark Iron Dwarf. I had to get a quest from Khadgar in Dalaran to start the sequence. Luckily, I did do much of the work towards the You Are Now Prepared achievement which will move me further along.
I never liked Argus, and am surprised I got this far. Atherne, ever the lead on BWR is working on this achievement. If I need help, I'm going to be in trouble, as the nearest character level wise who could help is 32.
Atherne at Arrrgghhhhus
