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Main Toon Update: 70 Mage, Alchemist/Tailor

My main toon used to be my Hunter, but that toon was largely “parked” in favor of my Mage as it came through Outland. I used my Hunter mainly to help friends, or to farm materials for the Mage’s alchemy levelling.

Mage Toon History
The Mage is my only surviving male toon, and was my second [...]

Discovering Arcane Vortexes in Netherstorm

Where do they come from?
Why are they here?
Who sent them?
Can Engineers extract motes from them?

Arcane Vortex – Netherstorm
I found this cloud-like thing in Netherstorm when I was farming for [Mote of Mana] for my [Primal Mooncloth] cloth transmute – I thought initially it was just another mote-extraction cloud waiting to be captured, but it behaved [...]

Gearing Up For Heroics

As I worked my Frost Mage to 70, I did a lot of reading and researching on gearing needs for running Heroics and gearing needs for maybe, perhaps, on occasion, filling in for someone in a Karazhan raid some day.
Shadoweave Tailor – Frozen Shadoweave set
So, when I hit 70 I started working on “epicing” out [...]