72 dpi

Noor made it to level 72; here are the quests she did to get from level 70 to 72:

Speak With The Ogre
Learning to Fly
The Multiphase Survey (daily, 9500 XP)
Shrimpin' Ain't Easy (fishing daily, but 0 XP)
Mog'dorg the Wizened
(could not do cooking daily Super Hot Stew, nobody else killing Abyssal Flamekillers, tried on Isle of Q but won't work there)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (Dalaran cooking daily, 9500 XP)
Oooh, shinies!
Your Continued Support (rep only, 0 XP)
The Missing Magistrix
Know Your Ley Lines (Isle of Quel'Danas daily, 12650 XP)
Open for Business (Isle of Q daily, 12650 XP)
Report to Nasuun
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Bait Bandits (0 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Shadow Dust
Sewer Stew (Dalaran cooking daily, 9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Down to the Wire
Preying Upon the Weak
We Call Him Steelfeather
March of the Giants (done by ninjaing runed stone giant corpses from groups of horde)
The Lodestone
Military? What Military?
Pernicious Evidence
Take No Chances
Reference Material
Repurposed Technology (I wrecked each harvester by using Gnomish Remote Control and have it aggro other harvesters)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Crocolisks in the City (fishing daily, 0 XP)
(could not do Shattrath cooking daily "Revenge is Tasty")
Mustard dogs! (Dalaran cooking daily, 9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
Your Continued Support (0 XP)
Your Continued Support (0 XP) (Did these in case I needed to get to Friendly to get Gaining the Advantage daily)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP) (now Friendly, but still can't get Gaining the Advantage; web says it's bugged, can't be a Grandmaster)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (9500 XP)
(dropped mining, took up mining (!) to get back to just Master Mining)
Crocolisks in the City (fishing daily, 0 XP)
Harlan Needs A Resupply (somehow I overlooked this lowbie quest; 10 XP!)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP) (can do this now as just a Master Miner)
Crocolisks in the City (0 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Soup for the Soul (finally could do a Shattrath cooking daily; 12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Sewer Stew (9500 XP)
Crocolisks in the City (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
Help Those That Cannot Help Themselves
Khu'nok Will Know
Kaw the Mammoth Destroyer (can get his halberd even if someone else kills him)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (9500 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
Manalicious (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Shrimpin' Ain't Easy (0 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Crocolisks in the City (0 XP)
Super Hot Stew (12650 XP) (lucked out and found a corpse)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Sewer Stew (9500 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
The One That Got Away (0 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
(bought and turned in enough Shadow Dust to get Friendly with Sha'tari Skyguard, still no new quests from them...)
Super Hot Stew (12650 XP) (again found a corpse)
The Cleansing (fought myself)
In Worg's Clothing
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Soup for the Soul (12650 XP)
Felblood Fillet (0 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Mustard dogs! (9500 XP) (71)
Signs of Big, Watery Trouble
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Your Presence Is Required At Stars' Rest
Of Traitors and Treason
High Commander Halford Wymbane
Naxxramas and the Fall of Wintergarde
Flight of the Wintergarde Defender
Return to the High Commander
The Demo-Gnome
The Search for Slinkin
The Bleeding Ore
Imprints on the Past
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Leave Nothing to Chance
Understanding the Scourge War Machine
Rifle the Bodies
The Liquid Fire of Elune
Orik Trueheart and the Forgotten Shore
The Murkweed Elixir
The Forgotten Tale
The Truth Shall Set Us Free
Parting Thoughts
What Secrets Men Hide
Frostmourne Cavern
Shoveltusk Soup Again?
Rescue from Town Square (had to hit em with my spanner and run back into town so guards would get em)
Find Durkon!
Mustard dogs! (15100 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Shrimpin' Ain't Easy (0 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Further Conversions (found I can do this one with gnomish remote; 9500 XP)
The Enigmatic Frost Nymphs
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (15100 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Soup for the Soul (12650 XP)
The One That Got Away (0 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Mustard Dogs! (15100 XP)
Felblood Fillet (0 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Manalicious (12650 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Infused Mushroom Meatloaf (15100 XP)
Bait Bandits (0 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Bait Bandits (0 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
A Friend in the Frontlines (0 XP)
Honored by your Allies (0 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
Sewer Stew (15100 XP)
Secrets of the Scourge
Mystery of the Tome
Understanding the Language of Death
A Righteous Sermon
Into Hostile Territory
Steamtank Surprise
Scattered to the Wind
Sewer Stew (15100 XP)
Bait Bandits (0 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP)
The Chain Gun and You (nonviolent help from paladin Coopthar)
Plunderbeard Must Be Found!
Spirits of Auchindoun (20100 XP)
Super Hot Stew (12650 XP)
Convention at the Legerdemain (15100 XP)
Bait Bandits (0 XP)
Gaining the Advantage (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Open for Business (12650 XP)
Know Your Ley Lines (12650 XP)
Further Conversions (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Planning For The Future (20300 XP) (72)

Coopthar helps with The Chain Gun and You

Normally, in this quest you mow down ghouls so a soldier can make it from the back to the front and survive. Coopthar, a dwarven paladin who saw the wowinsider article on Noor hitting 70, offered to help so we both flew out to see if we could do this quest.

Noor was able to do this solo if another person was doing it (there are 2 guns on a side), because that kept the number of ghouls low enough so a frost grenade and a target dummy could do it, and half of the eight soldiers were saved that way.

This clip is Noor and Coopthar saving one soldier using a frost grenade and a target dummy from Noor, and Coopthar healing the soldier (pally bubble won't work on an NPC). Of course, the ghouls insisted on following us all the way up, so the other Alliance NPCs took them out...

This and that

More little things:

Phobomancer saw the new wowinsider article; he /beckoned me in Dalaran to indicate he read it.

Noor just hit 71, opening up a new quest "Planning For The Future," plus I found I can do a third Isle of Quel'danas quest, "Further Conversions" just like I did "Repurposed Technology," using my Gnomish remote to control a mechanical mob, get aggro, and be destroyed so I can reprogram it. Also, two of the quests increased XP significantly when done at level 71, adding 5600 XP for the Dalaran cooking daily, and 7450 XP for Spirits of Auchindoun. I can now get about 140,000 XP just from dailies, meaning I could go from level 71 to 72 in about 11 days, even if I did no other quests. I typically get about 1/5 of a level from new ordinary quests, so it's more like 9 days. And more dailies will be added as I get higher levels.

Noor got the Exploring title for exploring all the zones, so she is now Noor the Explorer until she can get the Salty title. There are two places high up on mountains in Storm Peaks that you normally can't explore until you can fly -- Frosthold and Temple of Storms. Luckily, I was able to climb around the mountains and get both of them that way.

Some thoughts on what is and isn't allowed as a pacifist:

I did the quest "Leave Nothing to Chance" where you blow up the upper and lower mine shafts of an Alliance mine taken over by undead (albeit under the influence of Soul Split:Evil). Nothing happens to the undead inside the mine anyway, there's just an explosion animation.

I did the quest "Rescue from Town Square", where you have to save villagers from geists who are holding them at bay in town buildings. First I tried drawing them off by grabbing aggro and running, but the villagers won't move. Then I tried leading the geists to the town guards, who killed them, but even though the villager would escape after the geist was killed, I didn't get credit. Finally, I hit each one with my spanner and ran to the guards, and that worked...

I did do one quest where I have to kill an NPC; "The Cleansing," where you have to kill an NPC that is your own inner turmoil -- yourself. I wielded my big iron fishing pole, equipped my Goblin Rocket Launcher and Arcanite Dragonling, and defeated myself easily. Yes, we were both whacking each other with fishing rods:


Finally, Wintergrasp is a lot of fun. Since I'm not using regular weapons and I don't get any XP, I'll play Wintergrasp for fun as a (mostly) non-pacifist.

New WowInsider article

I emailed wowinsider about hitting 70, so they did an updated article on Noor.

I can now do the daily quest Gaining the Advantage, since I dropped Grandmaster mining and releveled it back to just Master mining.

If any Maiev horde are reading this, sorry for stealing some of your group kills for March of the Giants, it's the only way I could do that quest...heh heh...

Noor doing quest: Repurposed Technology

The quest "Repurposed Technology" has you destroy harvest collectors in order to reprogram them into defensive mode. I couldn't reprogram harvesters that other players had destroyed, so I went to Stormwind and took out my ancient Gnomish Universal Remote on the off-chance I'd be able to reprogram a harvester destroyed by other harvesters -- and I could! Finally, some use for that trinket. Fun way to do this quest. I had to wait 3 minutes for the remote (and Vanish) to cool down, so this only shows one harvester being reprogrammed, but they all were about the same.

99 Strange Engine Parts, and Noor hits level 70

Wrath of the Lich King certainly helped Noor get to level 70 in no time. Fortunately, wowhead is wrong about the minimum levels needed for the dailies.

The bad news - Noor can't get the fun daily quest "The Way To His Heart," because you need to do the set-up quest mentioned where Big Roy is killed to make soap. I can't kill Big Roy, so I can't get this daily quest. I can get some of the other dailies, but so far a lot of them require killing something.

Also, Old Man Barlo's daily fishing quest outside Shattrath does not award any XP, just valuable prizes.

Now the good news. I can do these quests every day (XP is for a level 70):
Know Your Ley Lines (Isle of Quel'Danas daily, 12650 XP)
Open for Business (Isle of Q daily, 12650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12650 XP)
The Multiphase Survey (9500 XP)
Preparing For The Worst (Borean Tundra daily, 20300 XP)
Dalaran cooking daily (9500 XP) (I think I can do every one if the meat shows up on the AH)
Shattrath cooking daily (9500 XP) * 50% (I can do two of the four; I can also do a third, Super Hot Stew, if someone else has killed an Abyssal Flamekiller recently when I get to Blade's Edge Mountains, but Outland is pretty dead right now...of course, the first two dailies I got were Super Hot Stew, followed by the one I can't do, Revenge is Tasty)

That comes to about 82000 XP each day, which is a little over one XP bar, which means about 3 weeks per level, worst case.

Here are the quests Noor did to get from level 68 to 70:
Trouble at Auchindoun
Find Spy To'gun
The Soul Devices
The Flesh Lies...
A Not-So-Modest Proposal
Archmage Alturus
Arcane Disturbances
Drijya Needs Your Help
Surveying the Ruins
Dealing with the Foreman
The Hand of Gul'dan
The Path of Conquest
Sunfury Signets (scryer)
Tablets of Baa'ri (scryer)
(time to switch back to Aldor; do More Venom Sacs x 20 to get to neutral)
Marks of Kil'jaeden (Aldor)
Marks of Sargeras (Aldor)
A Cleansing Light (Aldor)
Restoring the Light (Aldor)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
(can't get Aldor version of Tablets of Baa'ri; I'm at "Oronus the Elder" with the Aldor, too)
Strange Engine Part (#93)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#94)
Strange Engine Part (#95)
AV (5 losses)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#96)
Strange Engine Part (#97)
(dropped herbalism, back to mining)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
(now 375 mining)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
Enraged Spirits of Fire and Earth (again I followed what appeared to be a hunter bot)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
(tried to solo Chamber of Secrets, could get to the door and open it, but I died)
Strange Engine Part (#98)
Strange Engine Part (#99)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12000 XP)
(installed WotLK)
Enlistment Day
A Time For Heroes
A Soldier In Need
Cultists Among Us
Notify Arlos
A Diplomatic Mission
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP) (daily)
Hell Has Frozen Over...
The Dead Rise!
Elder Atuik and Kamagua
Grezzix Spindlesnap
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Street "Cred"
Fresh Legs
The Honored Ancestors
The Mechagnomes (missed Distress Call)
What's the Matter With the Transmatter? (69)
Re-Cursive
Dirty, Stinkin' Snobolds
Finding Pilot Tailspin
Spirits of Auchindoun (12300 XP)
Check In With Bixie
Forgotten Treasure
Gambling Debt (started it when a horde was talking to him, he became hostile to anyone, andother horde came along and beat him into surrender)
Jack Likes His Drink
(450 mining)
Monitoring the Rift: Cleftcliff Anomaly
Monitoring the Rift: Sundered Chasm
Monitoring the Rift: Winterfin Cavern
One Size Does Not Fit All
King Mrgl-Mrgl
Learning to Communicate (was already dead, works even if someone else killed him)
Winterfin Commerce
Oh Noes, the Tadpoles!
I'm Being Blackmailed By My Cleaner
Preparing For The Worst (20300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (12300 XP)
Daggercap Divin'
Trust is Earned
The Ransacked Caravan
Falcon Versus Hawk
There Exists No Honor Among Birds
Tools To Get The Job Done
We Can Rebuild It
See to the Operations
I've Got A Flying Machine!
Where Is Explorer Jaren?
(bought portal to Dalaran, set hearth there)
Learning to Leave and Return: the Magical Way
(explored more of Northrend) (70)

Back to mining

With Wrath coming, and with Alliance now losing Alterac Valley regularly, I could use mining more than herbalism to get my engineering up with the new expansion. Fishing up Strange Engine Parts still appears to be the better way of getting XP, at least until the daily battleground earns a lot more than the 12,650 XP I get for each part I fish up. At level 68, WotLK already has one daily quest I can do for a lot of XP, and a new one opens up at 69. Once I hit 70, I hope the fishing and cooking dailies give XP instead of just gold and mats.

Update: grrr, according to changes at wotlk.wowhead.com, those daily quests are now minimum level 70. There are a (very) few regular quests that a level 68 can do in Northrend, so it's probably back to fishing...

Noor in '68

Noor hit level 68, just after the Hallow's End season ended. This is important because the first quests in Wrath of the Lich King start at level 68, so she'll have even more quests she can do soon.

Here are the quests Noor did to get from level 66 to 68:
Candy Bucket (Southshore) (5650 XP)
The Power of Pine
(can't do horde candy buckets, but can loot the smashed Horseman head)
Candy Bucket (Shattrath) (5650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11300 XP)
Candy Bucket (Allerian Stronghold) (5650 XP)
(missed talk-to quest Costumed Orphan Matron, and Fire Brigade Practice because I already looted a head, I think)
Smash the Pumpkin (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Candy Bucket (Kharanos) (5650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
The Headless Horseman
Call the Headless Horseman
Flexing for Nougat
Candy Bucket (Stormwind) (5650 XP)
Chicken Clucking for a Mint
Incoming Gumdrop
Candy Bucket (Auberdine) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Darnassus) (5650 XP)
Dancing for Marzipan
Candy Bucket (Exodar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Azure Watch) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Blood Watch) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Dolanaar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Everlook) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Astranaar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Stonetalon Peak) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Feathermoon Stronghold) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Silithus) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Gadgetzan) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Theramore Isle) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Mudsprocket) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Ratchet) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Booty Bay) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Westfall) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Darkshire) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Redridge) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Goldshire) (5650 XP)
Hallow's End Treats for Jesper
Candy Bucket (Thelsamaar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Menethil Harbor) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Aerie Peak) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Light's Hope Chapel) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Wildhammer Stronghold) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Sanctum of the Stars) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Area 52) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (The Stormspire) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Evergrove) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Toshley's Station) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Sylvanaar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Orebor Harborage) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Telaar) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Cenarion Refuge) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Temple of Telhamat) (5650 XP)
Candy Bucket (Honor Hold) (5650 XP)
Survey the Land
To The Master's Lair
The Caverns of Time
Old Hillsbrad
Taretha's Diversion
Stop the Fires (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Strange Engine Part (#84)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11300 XP)
(hit 375 herbalism)
Strange Engine Part (#85)
Stop the Fires (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11300 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#86)
Stop the Fires (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Strange Engine Part (#87)
Strange Engine Part (#88)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (11300 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11300 XP)
Stop the Fires (11300 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11300 XP) (Hallow daily) (67)
AV (1 win) (11650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Off to Area 52
You're Hired! (and 1000th quest completed)
Report to Engineering
Invaluable Asset Zapping
Assisting the Consortium
Run a Diagnostic
New Opportunities
Needs More Cowbell
Zorus the Judicator
A Ghost in the Machine
(got Harbingers of Shadowmoon just to get Spectrecles; abandoned quest)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Gold Pickup Schedule (only 20 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#89)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Light's Hope Chapel (all that way for 0 XP, Scourge event)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Cracked Necrotic Crystal (0 XP, Scourge event)
Strange Engine Part (#90)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
AV (1 loss, 1 win) (11650 XP)
A Desperate Alliance
Ironforge
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Stop the Fires (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Smash the Pumpkin (11650 XP) (Hallow daily)
Strange Engine Part (#91)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP)
Strange Engine Part (#92)
Spirits of Auchindoun (11650 XP) (68)