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[Schwarz]

Where Should I go? I started doing the quests in Western Plaugelands and then went to Eastern Plaugelands. Man is Eastern Plaugelands is big. Are there any old world upgrades that I should get before I hit outlands? I am still wearing alot of my SM gear and have some craptastic rings right now. All thoughts will be appreciated.

[Tasty]

Silithus :)

edit: I think. Silithus may be 58-60, its been a while so its hard to recall.

[Schwarz]

Is it worth grinding all these damn bears and spiders for the quest Spirit Totem?

[Simulacra]

I feel your pain. My team was 59,58,58,58,56 so since I had a 56 I couldn't go to outland, I ended up just doing the really quick kill quests in winterspring, aoe farming in EPL, a few quests in silithus and aoe farming the worms/spiders there and then my 56 was 58. I too ran around in SM gear lol. I only got to outland 2 nights ago and picked up quest reward pants/tops for my mages and noticed that I was replacing lvl 35 gear >.< - my team had also been running around with Hypnotic Blades from SM. My Pally at 60 is STILL using the Sword of Omen from the SM quest chain, I haven't been able to find a decent replacement in 25 levels lol.

[Oswyn]

STILL using the Sword of Omen

Does it give you sight beyond sight?

*snarf snarf*

[Eteocles]

*hits Oswyn with rolled up newspaper* BAD PUN! BAD! NO! :P

[minty]

Is it worth grinding all these damn bears and spiders for the quest Spirit Totem?

I think it is. Boom makes a good argument for it here: http://www.twentytotems.com/2008/01/raiding-temple-of-atalhakkar.html

It really wasn't so bad when I did it. They're in not too widespread an area with decent respawn rates.

[badashh]

If you are multiboxing, just go to the outlands(with a mage port) and grind the orcs on the path to glory. you can get up to 2999/3000 neutral and it makes the rep grind easier.

[Schwarz]

Is it worth grinding all these damn bears and spiders for the quest Spirit Totem?

I think it is. Boom makes a good argument for it here: http://www.twentytotems.com/2008/01/raiding-temple-of-atalhakkar.html

It really wasn't so bad when I did it. They're in not too widespread an area with decent respawn rates.

Well I ground out all the vears and spiders last night it took around 2 hours to get everyone done. I did end up getting alot of high level leather that I will be needing down the road.

A question about the trinket.
Does mana stream stack with this? I know one character can't drop both but for the first 24 seconds do you get mana back from the trinket and the mana stream?

I wish I would have looked into this earlier I do find myself pulling 2 or three groups then having to stop to drink hopefully this will stop some of that.

Also Minty what kind of mac do you have and do you 5 box on it?

[d0z3rr]

I had the same problem, was stuck at 56 ish. Went to silithus and got to 57 from those quests. Then grinded out DM east till 58 where I hit the outlands.

I'd say I was using a mix of WC, BFD, Uldaman, and Mara gear when I hit the outlands, lol.

[minty]

Well I ground out all the vears and spiders last night it took around 2 hours to get everyone done. I did end up getting alot of high level leather that I will be needing down the road.

A question about the trinket.
Does mana stream stack with this? I know one character can't drop both but for the first 24 seconds do you get mana back from the trinket and the mana stream?

I wish I would have looked into this earlier I do find myself pulling 2 or three groups then having to stop to drink hopefully this will stop some of that.

Also Minty what kind of mac do you have and do you 5 box on it?

I'm pretty sure what happens is the Enamored Water Spirit will override the Mana Spring Totem if both are out among the characters. But as the trinket only lasts 24 seconds and the totem lasts two minutes, as soon as the better buff expires, the other will become active. Or at least that's what I took Boom's write-up to mean. I haven't tested this at all myself yet, as I've returned to do all the Redridge/Duskwood quests I skipped to get Stormwind rep up before I hit 60. I'll not keep riding those damn elephants...

And I'm not sure about leveling in the high 50s range with a group yet, still just shy of 55 myself while I do this rep thing and let my rest bonus build up. My plan though is to finish the Plaguelands quests and maybe some Winterspring and Silithus, but mostly to stick to instances until 60. It's been a long time since I've been in any of the old world 55-60 range instances. I'll enjoy spending a bit of time in each again.

As for my system, I 5-box on a mac pro, 2.8GHz 8-core, 10GB ram, nvidia 8800gt, two 24" widescreen lcds. I used to 5-box on a few revisions old macbook pro, with one 24" screen hooked up. The new system runs... much better.