My mage is 1/3 of the way through level 61 now and spec’d 2/0/50 - Frost to the hilt minus the 2 I put in in Arcane Subtlety to reduce my opponents’ resistences to all my attacks by 10% mainly, but also to reduce the threat of my Arcane spells by 40% which is nice in a party situation.

I’m no pro at a Mage spec, and am open to input if one feels educated enough and compelled to supply it ;) Check out my spec for Bluehairmage and leave a comment.

While I’ve already got a 70, I’m planning for Bluehair to be the character that does the dungeons, grinds the rep, and lets me see the cool things I can’t see as a solo character. (it will, of course, be a slower progression than some may be used to, but faster than others I suppose!)

So far…

I entered into Outlands at level 59 and did enough quests in Hellfire Peninsula to get myself to 60. From there, I visited Sen’jin to pick up my Swift Olive Raptor and visited the trainer in Orgrimmar to get my new skills. I was happiest to find that my next set of water started out making 10 at a time instead of 2!

Once I hit 60 and got trained up, I visited the Auction House to upgrade old bits of Azeroth equipment that hadn’t been upgraded from the quests I did in Hellfire Peninsula, and then I headed back to Thrallmar and the next time I was ready to play, I put myself into the LFG tool as being interested in going into Ramparts.

So far I’ve done enough Ramparts and Blood Furnace runs (6 of the first, 3 of the other - something like that) to get to 5999/6000 in Friendly, then started doing some Thrallmar quests to top myself into Honored.

When I left the city, I had used up all of my rest bonus, pushing my Mage through from 56 over the last month or so. I come back and find myself at 82% rested, which is very nice!

Where Next?

I know that I need to get Revered reputation with a number of factions, as outlined in the World of Raids section I found while searching the topic in Google, and I’ll trust in WoWWiki.com for telling me the most efficient way of progressing through each faction itself, but in general I’m not sure what my path will be.

I guess I’ll do Hellfire Peninsula quests until they start annoying me too much, then I’ll head into Zangarmarsh and follow whatever strategy is suggested for Cenarion Expedition reputation, and then come back to Hellfire Peninsula when I’m bigger and badder. Revered in a number of reputation trees seems like a lot of work… anyone have suggestions or a blog entry or something to point me to to help me with more direction than my current random wanderings? :)

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