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Sorry about the slow update, been busy on the RL front.

I've broken 75k, mostly doing what I've been doing all along and not really expanding things.

Post-sprees two to three times a day where I always do stocked Glyphs and Rare Gems (still not even close to all the patterns, not going to try for that) and whatever Epic Gems I have on hand (one of each cut, things that I know will be useful for me if they don't end up selling well) and whatever Enchanting Scrolls I have lying around from the last batch I made up. I really haven't done a lot of Saronite Prospecting, just a moderate batch last night (about 2k Ore), mostly my time has been spent leveling characters.

First and foremost my Paladin is still doing alright, getting close to being able to purchase 2 more pieces of T10, which I've been holding off getting the piece I can now for who knows what reason. I've also noticed that I have some really old epics still hanging around, like some iLevel 200-226 stuff that I can probably upgrade with some Triumphs or in the new Heroics, I just really haven't been looking all that deeply at that kind of stuff since my attention hasn't had to be on min/maxing my Paladin. I've been seriously giving thought to taking my Paladin's Tank spec to Holy, for no other reason than a change of pace. I've always enjoyed healing in general, and since my next highest (possible) healing character is only 73 (Druid, Priest is 72) I've really been missing keeping people alive.

Now Paladin Healing 5 Mans wasn't ever really my healing nirvana, but with the lack of other options I'm giving some serious though to dropping some surplus Triumph badges on the gear and starting to play around with it. It would even give me a little more flexibility with my guild's ICC runs since they're never short on Tanks.

My Death Knight is my biggest point of progress this week coming to within half a level of 80. I quested most of the way through the mid-70s and purposely stopped once I hit 79 to gather some some dungeon tanking gear before I hit 80. I'm also planning on using some stores of crafting mats to make some 245 epics to help ease the transition in to Heroics, but with 502 Defense with 17.5k health at 79 with clearly sub-standard gear I'm feeling quite confident about things. My main point of worry is threat in the guise of weapons. I'm using a couple of slow greens right now, but they're quite old (8 to 10 levels old) and will probably show some serious issues holding against DPSers in Heroics. I may just hold off entering Heroics until I can replace at least my main-hand with something a little heavier.

I'm getting quite good at tanking on my Druid if I do say so myself! Glyphs really help out with threat, espeically the Maul Glyph, and while Swipe isn't Super-AoE-Aggro-Fun-Time, if I can charge in and get a few off fast enough I seem to be able to hold alright. ^_^
I'm not sure if I really want to Bear Tank at 80 in Heroics, but for now since I only have one set of Leather/Cloth Heirloom Caster stuff, I'm either stuck tanking, or mailing that back and forth a lot. That'll be an issue if I end up leveling my Mage and Warlock in Cataclysm, but that's something to worry about then not now. What I'll probably end up doing is doing Tank/Healing on my Druid at 80, since I enjoy Druid Healing, but like the prospect of instant Qs rather than even 5 minute Qs.

I'm getting more comfortable with the prospect of spending the gold I've earned, in the last few weeks I've spent probably over 2k on vanity stuff, and 4k on a Greatness Deck for my Paladin, as well as starting up a Snatch list for things I use in crafting, all things I wouldn't have done even back at 50K for fear of "using up" all my "hard earned" gold, which was really just a mindset from my farming days when 14k was a huge amount of gold that took forever to get (was still thinking of getting a Chopper though, might get one at the 100k mark, maybe...) so spending on things like Ruby Shades or Argent Tournament Pets (that can just be farmed for) was unthinkable!

Which really just makes me think of how my time spent has changed from then to now. I used to log on my "main" and do dailies for gold, then log on alts to do alt things, which included doing dailies for gold/rep. Now I log on to a few characters to post auctions, then log around my characters to do dailies for badges, gold is more just something that's there, and it's a nice feeling. ^_^

-LaFollet