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As all you WoW players know, the Burning Crusade expansion came out this week. And I would love to be playing it right now instead of just writing. Unfortunately, I’ve been unable to log in to any realm for the last 40 minutes. *sigh*

So, instead, I’m gonna tell you all about what I did while waiting for the expansion to come out! First, I rolled a new character on a new server. “Whatever, so did we all!” you scoff at me. Oh, but wait! I rolled it 4 days before the expansion came out. Why?? Well, you see, the plan was to start Blood Elf characters with a lot of my friends from my new(ish) job. This means we all need to be on a server, and we chose Uther, where one guy has all his characters. I’d rather be able to play on one server with all my friends, but what can you do? Gotta switch around, I guess.

I wanted to be prepared when the expansion came out with a few bags and some money and nifty items. I figured everything would be super crazy on launch week in the starting areas so I’d get a headstart to make things a bit easier. I decided to make a warrior. I’ve played a Night Elf warrior to level 16 and didn’t enjoy it at all. But it’s one of the few classes I haven’t really given a serious shot to, so I thought why not?

And so Lyreska was born. As always, I like to document my journey to level 10. I didn’t break any records, but finished in a solid 3 hours, 24 minutes.

I was, in fact, logged on at midnight on Monday when the BC content went live. This message showed up in game:

I got my copy of the Collector’s Edition overnighted from EB Games mid-Tuesday, so I didn’t get to experience that content immediately. But that’s ok. I was glad I had it in hand that soon!

I’m off to check that I can log in. Look back here for updates on the Blood Elf and Draenei characters I’ve made (including my super long times to level 10!) sometime soon.

Hit a new personal record for time to level 10 today, just under 3 hours! Every new character I do, I seem to manage it a little bit faster. It’s like a new mini-game for me. Here she is, Myrael the Undead Warlock.

My main character is soo close to 60, she’s one little bar away from 58. If I stopped messing around with all the alts, I’d hit 60 in no time. But I really just love the start of the game so much. I can’t wait for the expansion pack and two entirely new starting zones to play in. That will really be cool to me.

Hey, here’s a question. All these currently-end-game-raids, what’s going to happen to them once the expansion comes out? Level 70s will be able to destroy those measly level 60+ critters? I’m sure I’m not the first to ask, it just honestly didn’t occur to me until right this second.

I’m currently enjoying some time off from work. In addition to seeing friends and family, I decided, hey, four characters isn’t enough, I’m going to start a new one. Meet Aynaka. Here she is, in her infancy. She’s a mage, and yes, she is decked out with that best of magely weapons, a broom.

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