On a Pale Horse

So I've reached 80 on my shaman, started messing around more with the battlegrounds, and I'm getting rolled. I thought as soon as I got to 80 I would start doing some more instances, but I haven't had the time to give my undivided attention to a group. It seems I'm constantly having to go afk while online. My last ToC experience really opened my eyes to how poorly geared my character is at this time.

I've been mainly farming wintergrasp for frost lotus and herbs selling those on the AH along with my daily transmute. I did splurge and threw down the coin for two Tankards O' Terror. I got them for 800 gold a piece. This got me to thinking how cool it would be to have a dwarf shaman wielding two of these.

So in steps the newest Boozsha Project. He comes riding in on a pale horse. This beast of a terror rips through mobs like no ones bees wax. He is a unholy terror and strikes fear into the heart of his opponent by his shear size? He is a gnome death knight. This little unholy yoda in plate has a wonderful two hander sword play. I have been cracking up at this little guy, and haven't had this much fun from just watching a characters animation in a long time.

Utimately his main purpose will be my little DK farmer. He has mining and herbalism as his skills, which took pretty much all week and the majority of that time sink was leveling through thorium ore. Oh how I loathe thorium ore. I farmed for it in Tanaris, Un'Goro, and Silithus. Even at 4am those nodes where very scanty. But that is over with and I won't worry about thorium till I need thorium for the dwarf hunter's jewelcraft. Which will be much later.

The focus for now is to get this DK farmer to 80 with his Artisan flying skill and cold weather flying. That way I can farm herbs and ore as quickly as possible. I want to get some gold saved up for the expansion next year and be ready to either level a dwarf shaman or I might spend the money to faction change him over. I haven't decided and it really depends on the activity of my guild on the horde side at the time of expansion.

Once I have him to 80 I'll start working on the dwarf hunters professions, he will be an alchemist/jeweler. I'll start gearing them to do some instances, which I will try out more when 3.3 comes out. In fact I have plans to try and level a gnome or dwarf class in nothing but instances. We will see if getting a lower level instance will be much easier to pick up with the addition servers.

I haven't really decided on a final spec for this little guy, but it really doesn't matter. The main thing he has to have is the On a Pale Horse talent. That 20 percent mount speed is huge right now. I'll most likely do some searches for a pvp oriented specs and try out some battle grounds with him and the Wintergrasp fights. I'll save up the honor and get him some gear that way.