Mainchenn hits level 55

Here are the quests Mainchenn did to get from level 50 to 55 (/played is 15 days 17.5 minutes)

A Donation of Runecloth (Stormwind)
A Donation of Runecloth (Ironforge)
A Donation of Runecloth (Gnomeregan)
A Donation of Runecloth (Darnassus)
A Donation of Runecloth (Exodar)
The Smoldering Ruins of Thaurissan p1
Tablet of the Seven
The Everlook Report
Argent Dawn Commission (0 XP)
A Call To Arms! The Plaguelands!
Duke Nicholas Zverenhoff
Little Pamela
Pamela's Doll
The Smoldering Ruins of Thaurissan p2
Auntie Marlene
A Strange Historian
The Annals of Darrowshire
Uncle Carlin
Brother Carlin
Villains of Darrowshire
Heroes of Darrowshire (51)
Lost!
A Little Help From My Friends
Finding the Source
The New Springs
Strange Sources
Demons Deck #44 (1100 XP)
The Sovereign Imperative
Better Late Than Never p1 & p2
Good Natured Emma
Good Luck Charm
Petty Squabbles
A Tale of Sorrow
Ragnar Thunderbrew
(explored Zangarmarsh)
Sharing a Bountiful Feast (3500 XP)
Pilgrim's Bounty (700 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5300 XP)
Spice Bread Stuffing (3500 XP)
Pumpkin Pie (3500 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3500 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3500 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3500 XP)
Cranberry Chutney (3500 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3500 XP)
They're Ravenous in Darnassus (3500 XP)
Candied Sweet Potatoes (3500 XP)
Slow-Roasted Turkey
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3500 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3500 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3500 XP) (52)
She Says Potato (daily, 5500 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3650 XP)
Trouble in Winterspring
Moontouched Wildkin
Find Ranshalla
Guardians of the Altar
Wildkin of Elune
Augustus' Receipt Book
(dropped Inscription, took up skinning)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3650 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3650 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3650 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3650 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5500 XP)
The Mark of Quality (green; done by skinning found corpses)
Are We There Yeti p1 (done by skinning found corpses)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3650 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3650 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5500 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3650 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3650 XP)
Improved Quality (green; done by skinning found corpses)
(dropped 299 skinning, took up mining)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3650 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3650 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3650 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3650 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5500 XP)
(explored a bit more of Outland)
Demons Deck #45 (824 XP) (53)
Starfall
Enraged Wildkin p1
The Ruins of Kel'Theril
Enraged Wildkin p2 & p3
Troubled Spirits of Kel'Theril
Fragments of the Past p1 & p2
Tormented By the Past
Remorseful Highborne
The Crystal of Zin-Malor
(dropped 375 herbalism, took up engineering)
Gnome Engineering
(no more Pledge of Secrecy quest)
Show Your Work (5700 XP)
The Spectral Chalice
She Says Potato (daily, 5700 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3800 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3800 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3800 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3800 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5700 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3800 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3800 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3800 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3800 XP)
Easy as Pie (daily, 3800 XP)
Can't Get Enough Turkey (daily, 3800 XP)
Don't Forget the Stuffing! (daily, 3800 XP)
We're Out Of Cranberry Chutney Again? (daily, 3800 XP)
She Says Potato (daily, 5700 XP) (54)
The New Frontier p1 & p2
Rabine Saturna
Wasteland
Desert Recipe
Sharing the Knowledge
Kitchen Assistance
The Twilight Mystery
The Deserter
Feathermoon Stronghold
The Emerald Dream...
Elven Legends
That's Asking A Lot
When Smokey Sings, I Get Violent
March of the Silithid
Taking Back Silithus
(explored various parts of Outland) (55)

Engineers (level 65+, except gnomes) can now float forever

Some recent changes in tinkered cloaks for engineers now makes it possible to stay floating as long as needed. Flexweave Underlay/Springy Arachnoweave now makes you float for 30 seconds (with a use cooldown of 1 minute), and you can swap out your cloak without losing the float effect. Since tinkered items don't share cooldowns (they might if they are identically named, I think), you can make a macro like this:

/use 15
/equip cloak1
/equip cloak2

Pressing this button activates whatever cloak you're wearing, and the two /equip statements will swap between the two cloaks. When your float effect is gone after 30 seconds, just re-activate it, because the 2nd cloak is ready.

Noor has already done this, but Mainchenn can't get over 375 engineering, and these tinkers require 380 engineering to make (only 350 to use, though). I can't have another engineer do it, because it will make the cloak soulbound (even though the description doesn't say the cloak will become soulbound...)

Mainchenn doing quest: The Spectral Chalice

Mainchenn's turn to learn how to smelt dark iron; I had to wait until I was back to mining/engineering, so I could blow open the locks with engineering and get the mining-only quest.

(Sped up because it's too dull otherwise)

Mainchenn doing quest: Guardians of the Altar

Just a big healathon so this is just the end of the quest.

It's cooking!

Hit level 52 doing the one-time quests and the "bonus" daily (the daily quests after 1 AM and before dailies reset), plus a few of the same dailies again. After doing the Winterspring quests that I can do at level 52, the remaining dailies should get me to level 53 on Friday. Not too bad. At level 54, I'll drop herbalism and inscription for mining/engineering, so I can do a few quests like the Spectral Chalice and turning in the druid book in Dire Maul, plus the zapthrottle quest in Zangarmarsh at level 58.

Cooking turkeys is tricky; since they are "conjured" items that only last 7 days (both the raw and cooked versions), I can't buy them off the auction house and I can't have my bank alt hunt some turkeys and mail them. I have to buy them directly off other players, or have a go-between to get turkeys from my bank alt to Mainchenn.

UPDATE: By doing a bit more Outland exploring, I can hit 53 on Thursday. I may also take up skinning to try and do the first part of Are We There, Yeti?, since I'm going to drop both my professions soon anyway.

Cooking or Exploring

Mainchenn is again stalled at level 51.5 or so... Still no solid info on whether the Pilgrim's Bounty week will have quests that give you XP. If they do, I should be able to get a lot of XP with 5 dailies. If not, I think I'll have to explore most of Outland to hit 52 (I need to discover roughly 60 areas, and I have about 75 unexplored going by the Exploring achievements, which isn't an exhaustive list of XP-giving areas).

Demon Deck XP is now 1100, down from 1400, so it looks like Demon Decks will fall off as fast as the other decks. Swamp of Sorrows is ideal to grind Demon Decks when you're about level 47 or higher, since the mobs are gray or green, the area is mostly flat, and Blindweed is all over, which is also the best herb to mill for Demon cards, since they have the highest yield of rare pigments.

Mainchenn hits level 50

Here are the quests Mainchenn did to get from level 45 to 50 (/played is 13 days, 21 minutes):

Passing the Burden
An Easy Pickup
Signal for Pickup
What the Flux?
Arcane Runes
Return to Tymor
Snickerfang Jowls
To Serve Kum'isha
Everything Counts In Large Amounts
Let the Fires Come! (5550 XP)
Smash the Pumpkin
Let the Fires Come!
Smash the Pumpkin
Let the Fires Come!
Smash the Pumpkin
(explored The Hinterlands)
(explored Blasted Lands)
Demons Deck #24 (46)
The Sunken Temple
The Stone Circle
Into the Depths
Stop the Fires! (5800 XP)
Smash the Pumpkin
Sontara Stones p1 & p2
Dwarven Justice
Release Them
(explored Tanaris)
The Decisive Striker
The Basilisk's Bite
(explored Searing Gorge)
(explored Burning Steppes)
(explored Felwood)
Demons Deck #25 (47)
Assisting Arch Druid Staghelm
It's A Secret to Everybody p1 & p2
Un'goro Soil
Morrowgrain Research p1
It's A Secret to Everybody p3
Jonespyre's Request (the 1700 XP version from SW)
The Videre Elixir
Meet At The Grave
A Grave Situation
Linken's Sword
A Gnome's Assistance
Crystals of Power
The Northern Pylon
The Eastern Pylon
The Western Pylon
Making Sense of it
Morrowgrain Research p2
Linken's Memory
Kim'jael Indeed! (48)
Chasing A-Me 01 p1
(explored Un'Goro Crater)
Alien Ecology
Expedition Salvation
The Mystery of Morrowgrain
A Plague Upon Thee p1-p3
The Fare of Lar'korwi
Chasing A-Me 01 p2 & p3 (with unasked help by Taynthys, a BE hunter)
A Boar's Vitality
Dark Iron Legacy p1
Yuka Screwspigot (0 XP)
(explored Silithus)
(explored Winterspring)
(explored Azshara) (explored Kalimdor)
Demons Deck #26-#31 (49)
Roll the Bones
A Little Slime Goes A Long Way p1 (got the seldom-killed cursed oozes because a troll hunter was probably doing Testing for Corruption - Felwood)
(hit 400 cooking, 375 herbalism)
A Little Slime Goes A Long Way p2
Vulture's Vigor
Secret of the Circle
(explored Western Plaguelands)
(explored Eastern Plaguelands)
Death From Below
Screecher Spirits
(explored Deadwind Pass)
Demons Deck #32-#43
(explored part of Hellfire Peninsula, Zangarmarsh, and areas adjacent to Shattrath) (50)

35, down from 65

Well, I managed to complete all the quests except Screecher Spirits, and I explored WPL and EPL, so now I only need a little less than 50,000 XP for level 50, or just over 35 Demon decks.

UPDATE: I also did Death From Below, which I was able to complete due to the bugginess of the quest. I accepted the quest, no naga came, and I failed. Then I took it again, the first wave of naga came, and when they were defeated, I completed the quest. Then the second wave (of three) came, but I had already completed the quest, so it didn't matter. When I tried earlier, there were too many naga for me to heal, and I can only heal the captain and myself, I can't heal any of the crew.

I'm also one screecher spirit away from finishing Screecher Spirits, and since you get credit by talking to the screecher spirit, I might be able to do it if I sneak up on another player doing the quest and speak to the spirit when it appears...

UPDATE 2: Got the last screecher spirit; out of quests unless I can find one I overlooked. Down to about 26 Demon decks.

The 49 plateau again

As with Noor, Mainchenn has gotten to level 49 with very few quests available. Assuming I can't complete more quests (I still need found corpses for Screecher Spirits and A Little Slime Goes a Long Way, need to buy lots of rarely seen Vulture Gizzards for Vulture's Vigor, and I don't know if I can do Secret of the Circle yet, since I don't have Target Dummies), I'll have to explore the rest of WPL and EPL, and grind out about 65 Demon decks...