Nexus Bugging on me...

...been trying 2 times to clear the Nexus, and before I can beat any boss - I completely hang - GMs answer was to port me to UC :P

So, guess no "clear of nexus" heading today, what I saw of the boss fights does indicate that I do get mana problems, so might have to go restoration on one shaman to get mana tide and healing up all the time...

Ding...

...75 on paladin and 74 on shamans - Did it in the Nexus killing Grand Magus Telestra - She's still hard at this level from a simple multiboxing character management perspective.

Bed time though, so no Nexus clear tonight.

Level 80 Dalies

To much work and travel right now, so not gotten to play much - And it looks like it will stay that until week after next :(

Found this thread on dual-boxing.com today, which nicely guides how to do some dailies at 80 - Need to keep that in mind ;)

Good Post

Found this post at Bitling today, some good thoughts on how to set up the boxing - Might have to implement some of the ideas there as right now my healing and positioning macros need work, and I have no CC things set up.

Utgarde Keep Cleared!

Well, went into Utgarde Keep and managed to clear it - The first two bosses wiped me once each as I was learning, but once I got the fight down they died without a problem - I think that even at level 70 with some half-decent lich king gear it would have been doable - And I was 72 and 73.

Then I came up to Ingvar the Plunderer, and that turned out to be a difficult fight - Took me 5 tries to kill him, and even then I had to blow 4x Fire Elementals and LoH to win.

No loot to speak off, but all the shaman dinged 73, and Perrigrin is almost 74.

Ding 73!

Perrigrin got to 73 last night, and finished up the quests in Borean Thundra. Might go back and do one more collection quest for the shamans as it has a decent caster bracer reward.

Tankadin Gear Progression for Lich King

Found this excellent thread on Maintankadin (great site) - I'll be following it to some degree to make sure I pick up the good stuff on Perrigrin.

Ding 72x4!

Spent a bit questing, finally getting the shamans to 72 - I've started doing most collection quests with my main (the paladin) only as it's just to much work to gather stuff x5. The only exception being if there are great follow-up quests.
I should be able to finish up Borean Tundra today, and then I'll hit a few instances I think.

Zzzzz

Leaving you with this picture ;)

Not much playing done, but what has been played has been spent questing - New realm is lovely for that - Hardly any competition at all.

Minor Progress...

Well, the paladin is 72 now - Seem to be a shortage of tanks around so been doing quite a few instances with him.
The shamans are 70% or so through 71, just questing so far - It's getting to be time to go back to the first instance and also try Utgarde Keep.

I find leveling with 5 boxing takes quite a bit longer than solo, mostly due to doing gathering quests - But at the same time I don't want to miss out the reputation some of them gives, so I end up gritting my teeth and doing them.
Have to say that it helps massively that the new realm is not so crowded - On Silvermoon you had 20 alliance standing on the spawn point of quests mobs, AEing to get the kills - Not very productive.

The good news is that I'm fairly ok with it taking a while and just plodding around in my own pace enjoying the play.

Moving Server

Between the low horde population and long log in queues, my guild finally decided to move off the server today (using the free character transfer).

The Grins' are now calling Chamber of Aspects (EU) their home!

Ding 71!

Well, haven't gone back to The Nexus boxing, but cleared it a number of times with Perrigrin in guild groups - So he's a bit ahead (half a level) of the shamans now.

Way to crowded to enjoy questing, but I find the area that I'm doing (Borean Tundra) nice and intersting, I'm even doing collection quests even though it's a pain :P

I expect to try The Nexus a couple of more times and try and finish most quests here before moving on to the next area.

The whole group is 71 now, and the Shamans have gotten a decent amount of upgrades.

Killed Ormorok!

Well, it's going to take me a while getting used to having to work for my kills :P

On second try I dropped Ormorok the Tree-Shaper in The Nexus - He dropped a Chiseled Stalagmite Pauldrons which I'll keep for Perrigrins DPS set for now.

Then I went on to Anomalus, but wiped repeatedly, a combination of not attacking portals quick enough, not having a heal macro that works when target has no target - and low gear on the shammies kept killing me.

Will go repair and then quest some for a bit of a break. Managed to complete Have They No Shame? in there though, which gave a nice shoulder (minor upgrade) for tanking: Tundra Pauldrons.

Grand Magus Telestra

Tried The Nexus, have to get used to actually needing to heal sometimes (as I never really did any 70 instances).

Grand Magus Telestra is a mean one - Can't get even close to beating her - Looks like she has low hp, but her damage coupled with the fact that she tosses the team around is to much for my under-geared shaman who die almost directly after first toss before i can even get reorganized.

Might have to gear up / level before I can take her - Will give the other bosses in there a go to before I'm going back to questing though.

Gah!

The lift at the first town in Borean Tundra lags out my auto-follow -- Making it a BIG pain to get up to the top :P

Not sure if it's client side lag, or just something in the design of it.

Anyways, good fun so far - Taking my time and not stressing to get up in levels.

The Grind...

...has started.

Took the Zeppelin from Ogrimmar and headed to Borean Tundra - Grabbed all GM professions and did the first batch of quests.

Just one collection quest so far, but that was 15 ground spawns (I don't want to look at another Warsong Munitions) - Five times that stinks :P

Installing...

Went and grabbed 5x normal lich king, and 1x collectors edition today - Got to love the face of the clerk :P

Installing as we speak, the game plan is to stick with 4x shamans + 1x paladin. Going to start with upgrading all tradeskills and then do some quests to improve the shamans gear before rolling into the first instance.

Stay tuned...

Ding 70!!

Finally!!

Got the shamans to 70!! On the night before the expansion comes out even :P

Now for the big question: Do I swap one out for my mage for the 70-80 leveling?

Ding 69!

Spent a while questing in BEM and Shadowmoon Valley, not as quick as I hoped - But the shamans are now 69 - A few more hours questing and instance running to go :P

On a side note - this is what happened when I wasn't paying attention in BEM:

Sethekk Halls Cleared!

Well, Sethekk Halls was not the cleanest clear so far... The charming and fearing thrash mobs caused me a few problems before I figured that out - The first boss was easy enough though ... but Talon King Ikiss turned out to be quite difficult.
His AE coupled with the nuking wiped the shamans quite a few time - Thankfully I could reset the encounter with Perrigrin and go again.
At the last attempt I manage to dodge the AE twice before the shaman died, and then I just soloed him with the paladin (using a potion and Lay on Hands, but still).

This encounter really illustrated to me the weakness of multi-boxing, I might have to do some serious looking over my controls when Lich King comes and I don't outgear the content.

Ding 68!

Cleared Auchenai Crypts, was fairly easy except for all the shamans dying on first boss and paladin having to solo it :P

Dinged all of the shamans 68 now, 2 to go!

Mana-Tombs Cleared!

Not much playing due to a football trip and lots of work this week - But sat down and cleared Mana-Tombs today.
Was real easy at 67 with a 70 tank.

Now the big question is: Do I buy Gears of War 2, or try and push for getting the shamans to 70 before the release next week?