Reinish and Ahimsah doing SFK quest: Deathstalkers in Shadowfang Keep

Another quest that Ahimsah soloed earlier; we drank some invisibility potions and ran down to talk to the first deathstalker and get him to open the door (the door is still buggy and was still "there" but invisible), then I talked to the second deathstalker to finish the quest and we were even able to leave alive. Done during Hallow's End, so we both have pumpkin heads and Ahimsah is carrying a water bucket...

Zombie Kaffeeklatsch

I was attacked by a zombie in Shattrath, and succumbed after a short time; then I ran into a horde player (Phobomancer) who, from earlier emote encounters, seemed to know me. After finding an infected cockroach, we managed to talk a few minutes (vomiting and standing in your own muck helps zombies stay alive for an arbitrary length of time) and sure enough, he had read about me in the wowinsider article and remembered my name because we were on the same server.

Zombie Revenge

Not very pacifistic, but it's fun to deliberately turn into a zombie to kill spammers in town...although today something happened that I was always afraid of; I was running around Stormwind and accidentally clicked on (and killed) a plague roach with my blacksmith's hammer, which infected me and turned me into a zombie again.

Zombie questing

OK, I admit it, I heard there were zombies in Westbrook Garrison, so I went in, got infected, and after wandering around a few minutes, I turned into a zombie. I lurched around Hogger's area attacking gnolls and players, and I eventually died of hunger.

But when I checked my inventory, I finally had the Gold Pickup Schedule! It must have dropped from one of the gnolls I killed while a zombie! Only worth 20 XP, but I've been waiting for that one for a looong time.

Unstable server FTW!

Maiev took a long time to come up from maintenance today. I did the Spirits of Auchindoun daily as usual -- but I had forgotten to get the quest first! I usually log out by the questgiver so I can log in before I go to work and get the quest, but the server isn't up when I go to work on Tuesdays. So I took a tower without having the quest.

Luckily, the server crashed, giving me a second chance to do it. This also allowed Pureblade, a pally who usually does it with me, to get the daily too since he wasn't on earlier. The server reset also created a bunch of Steam Pump Flotsam in Zangarmarsh, and I caught a total of 3 Strange Engine parts (1 before the reset, and 2 after), which saves a whole day of dailies. And finally, Alterac Valley was the daily battleground (lost the first one, but won the second by attrition).

Get your kicks en route to level 66

Hallow's End has brought more easy experience points; Candy Bucket, which gives you XP for every Candy Bucket you visit at inns around the worlds, and the quests to put out fires and stop the Headless Horseman appear to be daily quests, which should award some nice XP for the duration of the holiday.

I also found out about Fel Blossom, though it (of course) shares a cooldown with some of my other items like Major Recombobulator and Crystal Restore (but those work on other players, too).

Here are the quests Noor did to get from level 64 to 66:

No Time For Curiosity
The Consortium Needs You
A Head Full of Ivory
Stealing from Thieves
The Nesingwary Safari
The Underneath
A Rare Bean
I See Dead Draenei
Ezekiel
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Synthesis of Power (Scryer)
WSG (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
EotS (1 loss, 1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AB (4 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
What Book? I Don't See Any Book (helped other people doing the quest, didn't group or kill anyone)
The Master's Grand Design?
Strange Engine Part (#54)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
EotS (3 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#55)
Strange Engine Part (#56)
EotS (2 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (10750 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#57)
Strange Engine Part (#58)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
EotS (2 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (10750 XP)
(start to save Strange Engine Parts to trade in after patch 3.0.2)
Welcome to Brewfest! (0 XP)
Chug and Chuck (0 XP)
Now This Is Ram Racing . . . Almost (0 XP)
There And Back Again (0 XP)
Bark for the Barleybrews (0 XP)
Say, There Wouldn't Happen to be a Souvenir This Year, Would There? (0 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
AV (7 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (2 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
Bark for the Barleybrews (0 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Bark for the Thunderbrews (0 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
WSG (2 losses, 1 win) (10750 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
Bark for the Thunderbrews (0 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
Beer of the Month Club (0 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Bark for the Thunderbrews (0 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
AB (3 losses)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
Bark for the Barleybrews (0 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
This One Time, When I Was Drunk... (0 XP)
Bark for the Thunderbrews (0 XP)
(brewfest delivery daily) (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Bark for the Thunderbrews (0 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AB (3 losses)
(decided to only do AV, fishing is probably better XP per hour)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
(got I'm Saved quest, won't turn in until after patch)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
(at this point, I have 12 Strange Engine Parts)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
AV (1 win) (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (10750 XP)
(explored a bit of BEM and Netherstorm, areas you usually need flying to get to) (65)
(quests done but not turned in until after patch:)
Can't Stay Away
Into the Draenethyst Mine
Strange Brew
From the Ashes
A Time for Negotiation...
Spirits of Auchindoun (11000 XP)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (11000 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11000 XP)
(3.0.2 patch)
Strange Engine Part x 21 (#59-#79)
(turned in finished quests)
Getting the Bladespire Tanked
Strange Engine Part (#80)
(explored Tyr's Hand Death Knight area and Isle of Quel'Danas)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11000 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11000 XP)
(dropped tailoring, took up herbalism)
Strange Engine Part (#81)
Strange Engine Part (#82)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11000 XP)
Candy Bucket (Telredor) (5500 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#83)
Candy Bucket (Ironforge) (5500 XP) (66)

Changing my 2nd profession (again)

Noor will always be an engineer, but she has had many 2nd professions:
(note: I corrected level 34)

Level   5: Mining and Engineering

Level 30: Took Gnomish Engineering, made Battle Chicken (and death ray, never used)

Level 30: Dropped Engineering, took up Jewelcrafting, made solid statues, Black Pearl Panther + Golden Hare trinkets

Level 30: Dropped Jewelcrafting, took up Engineering again, went Goblin (so I can make Goblin Rocket Boots)

Level 34: Dropped Engineering, took up Skinning, saved up some leather

Level 34: Dropped Skinning, took up Leatherworking to do Wild Leather quests

Level 35: Dropped Leatherworking, took up Goblin Engineering

Level 41: Dropped Mining, took up Alchemy, did quest Elixirs for the Bladeleafs

Level 41: Dropped Alchemy, took up Blacksmithing for quest line

Level 43: Dropped Blacksmithing, took up Mining

Level 60: Dropped Mining for Tailoring (for Netherweave Nets in battlegrounds)

Level 65: Dropped Tailoring for Herbalism (for Lifeblood self-healing spell)

Reinish gets a horse

Reinisch finally hit 30 and got a mount. Since Ahimsah is already level 31, it looks like there are enough quests (like Green Hills of Stranglethorn) to make it to 31, or nearly so. I haven't done much questing with him lately apart from battlegrounds, concentrating more on Noor.

Milestones

Noor just hit level 65, doing just the Spirits of Auchindoun daily quest, and Alterac Valley if it's the battleground daily for the last couple of weeks. I think I'll get more XP bars per hour fishing for Strange Engine Parts and saving them for after the patch, because each engine part will be worth 1.7 times a BG daily win, and some dailies can take over an hour to get a win. With probably 3 days left to patch day, Noor has 19 engine parts in the bank, which will get her exactly halfway to level 66 all by themselves, assuming you need 475,000 XP as on the current Public Test Realm. She has already done most of the new quests she can do at level 65, but likewise will not turn them in until after the patch.

Here are a few screen captures of some past milestones:

Level 23, mining a rich thorium vein in the Bay of Storms in Azshara
Level 24, above Silithus to get to AQ gate opening
(but she got the lowbie auto-teleport to IF when she got too close)
Level 27, learns Master Mining at Honor Hold
Level 29, mining fel iron
Level 29, mining adamantite
Level 39, mining khorium
Level 39, fishing in Allerian Stronghold
Level 42, Hammer of Expertise from blacksmithing
Level 61, fishing in Lake Ere'Noru
Level 64, entering Naxxramas before it leaves for Northrend