My wife and I have been back playing World of Warcraft, and having a pretty good time doing so. We took a nice break to go play Warhammer, but after the new kinda wore off, we found ourselves logging in less and less. But if you read my prior post, you already know that, so I won’t belabor the point. With the end of the Halloween event and the upcoming expansion release, we have found ourselves completing some of the achievements and going back and looking at old world content. Part of this is due to me hitting 70 with my undead warlock, and having him pretty well geared in a few pieces from Kara, some of the undead purple scourge epics, and the frozen shadowcloth set. Tack on a blue cloak and bracer my 70 blood elf mage made, and my new 70 is geared pretty dang good.

So other than running stuff I’ve already seen for soon-to-be obsolete gear (or badges) to do ?

I really have always enjoyed soloing or duoing instances, they can give a player a challenge and allow
you to see content that perhaps you might not be able to see with other players, due to lack of interest, difficulty finding a group, or the old “been there done that”. There’s plenty of instances that are still fun, long as you make them fun. And with the achievement system, now you can have a little feather in your hat for doing so.

So the other night I went into Stratholme looking to see how my warlock would do in there. I know with my mage, who is geared much much better than my warlock, I got overwhelmed by the trash just do to sheer numbers. My warlock is specd 9/52/0 Demonology, so I have the Felguard to tank and dps with, and he does fine long as I keep him up. Well, he was able to handle the groups just fine. I would send him in to tackle the elite, preferably a caster, then let him get some aggro, then just throw Seed of Corruption and AOE the group. SoC goes off, and either kills most everything or brings it down to almost dead. After some trash clearing, I managed to talk my wife into coming along with her 70 frost mage, which made it even easier. We cleared the instance, killed all the bosses, and had fun. She had never even been in Strat.

Fast forward to last night, I wanted to get the key to UBRS just for the heck of it. So we ran LBRS following a guide I found online. Much of the trash mobs could be skipped as they wouldn’t aggro on a 70, and we downed all the bosses, got the key and the gems, then made our way out to Duskwallow Marsh to fight Emberstorm to get her to breath on my key to fuse the parts together. We didn’t manage to do it the first time since I got too weak after dismissing my pet too soon before using the mind control device, but 2nd time it went fine, and now I have a new UBRS key. Going back in, I grabbed the quests for the Smouldering Spider & Warg pet, and did those on the way in after resetting the instance. So, for a nice evening of play I have two new pets and a key.

So, if you are looking for something to do, try your hand at running those old 5 man instances with your 70. Its a whole different skill-set doing content designed for 5 people with one person. I’m about ready to try my hand at a few of the outlands instances, just to see how far I can go.

Brad