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Leveling is such a chore for an ADD-challenged lady such as myself. The event of “dinging” followed by the residual joy and excitement is often followed by the sad panda look of, “How many more levels are left?”.

Granted, the questing is nearly effortless, the stories are very involved and play out very nicely at the end of the long quest chains. But, since my in-game time is limited towards the end of long days, I am usually falling asleep at the keyboard after about 2 hours of play.

So, after only an hour of play last night I finally dinged 74 (insert awesome golden spinny-thing animation here) – only a few minutes after Haf! Yeah! So, rather than push forward to the next level by doing more of the same, we set forth to Dalaran. At 74 everyone is given a quest to see out the magic of dalaran, which inturn lets you pick-up the fligt plan and learn the port-up/port-down system in the middle of the city. How fun!

I was also on a trek to do all of the cool stuff that I have been reading about for months! We first went to the Underbelly down what appeared to be a well. While there we fished for a bit, then picked up our Ghostly Skull pet. For 40G, it is basically a badge of – “Yea, I have been there”.

Next we set out to find the fountain. The fishing acheivement, Penny For Your Thoughts. While I was tapped out and bored with it after about 20 minutes, Haf stayed and nearly completed the task after about an hour.

I also set out to find the elusive books for the Well Read acheivment, which ends up granting access to Archmage Vargoth in the Violet Citadel. And, Vargoth has a super-exotic pet for purchase – the Kirin Tor Familiar. The challange with all of this is the fact that the books around town are random, and they are on a 3-hour spawn timer. So, unless I plan on staying up into the wee hours of the morning, it will be quite some time before the books are all located. Besides, I still have critters to locate and love on!

Exploring Dalaran was in some ways more exciting than getting off the Zepplin the first night of the expansion. The layout is easy to navigate and very appealing. The storefronts are beautiful with lit stained glass and display cases inside. All in all, I was once again impressed with the beauty of the artwork. Well done.