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In lieu of waiting/pause music. Still need to work on them titles.

Having decided to limit myself to one (or two) instances daily, and no (or some) quests, it was a monumentally infinitesimal step to sneak into a battleground (or two). It would reduce the likelyhood of getting the instances I've already run quite a few times, and be the best way to get used to my new UI.

See, I wish I could write a post where I was either surprised or at the very least honestly dismayed by getting trod on by twinks. Sorry; I fully expected it, and almost relished that one time my healing made a slightly suboptimal twink beat out a seemingly perfect twink.

No, even that sounded whiny. I do not mind, damn it. And it's not like FROST SHOOOOCK ever gets old.

It was great for analyzing my performance in a, shall we say, quicker paced arena, though. Beyond interrupting 0.5-1.5 sec casts in dungeons, very little requires snap reactions.

Things I learned;

-Frost shock is fantastic.
-I love purge and press it whenever I have nothing better to do.
-I don't purge enough.
-Certain classes are in abundance and are, at this level, Okay at killing me.
-Frost shock has a nice icon.
-Using large copper bombs in pvp is even more fun than it is in pve.
-Heals are always one tenth of a second too slow.

Now where's that L27 haste gear.

Two Instances, One Troll

Realizing that most, if not all (count on me being able to lose track after five or six runs) instance runs so far have been done past midnight, I decided to mix it up with a morning run!

Morning, for me, can be anything before six pm.

Sadly, this changed very little. Gnomeregan, competent warrior tank, omnipresent paladin, warlock who existed only to summon the almost-equally-omnipresent hunter after the token mage had a mainstream disconnect.

See how much more dreary that sounded with a few sneaky words before each class?

Disappointed, but not surprised - it is a very small statistical sample - I figured that I felt like chasing that elusive Challenge. I missed doing SFK at an appropriate level, something I am really sad about, so perhaps we can cheat a little? Queue for a specific instance?

You won't rat me out, I am sure.

I don't even know who you are.

Grab a beer after work?

I don't even drink, you insensitive bastard!

So I decided to queue for SM Graveyard, apparently having just gotten high enough to lick the minimum level of its queue bracket with my freakishly long tongue. Atleast I have a theory I have one such, but until Blizzard finally realizes the full potential of the /rasp emote, we will never know.

My first SM GY experience was great for my professions. Rather; the lack of my first SM GY experience, which occupied an impressive timespan, was. While I do make an effort to minimize out-of-instance xp, some kills are unavoidable, such as when mining in Thousand Needles/1KN/Wonky Need-Less.

On topic of 1KN: I am considering making an alert when I gain the "daze" debuff triggering the sound of waterfalls and wind through long grass. It's a last ditch effort to keep me from rerolling warrior and setting all my keybinds to bloodrage.

Graveyard truly was like an embarassing tumble in the bushes. Quick. Silent. Noone asked if we should go again.

But I did find a challenge.

If I have to enter groups where everyone is orange and red to me, where mobs smell my fear and come charging towards me as if we were connected by inch-thick rubber bands, all to get a challenge, I will.

I just don't want it to have to be SM GY, I realize now.

Place's as linear and boring as trash novels of the worst kind.