Thanks for the gratses, everyone! 
I get a warm fuzzy glow every time I mount up now.
Hit another milestone on the DK last night–he’s still only 68, but I’ve maxed out his Herbalism and Mining. So frustrating being on a PvP server where there were nodes I was about to land on, only to see a skull-level Horde character flying in and have to veer off because I know I’d get my face smooshed in.
Now I just have to decide whether I want to spring on the 5k gold to get him epic flying. I think not for now, since regular flyers go 150% and he has the 20% bonus from On a Pale Horse. (If regular flyers were still 60%, I’d definitely dump the cash.)
Hey, it’s *your *$15 a month. If you’re not having fun with the more complicated quests, there’s nothing that says you *have *to level that way.
1.) Put the reins on your action bar, preferably with a keybinding (i.e., on your hotbar so you can use something 1 through =).
2.) Leave your backpack (or lowest bag with an available slot) open so you can see when you pick a barrel up and when you drop one off.
3.) For Alliance, I’m using a route where you can keep the ram at a gallop all the way. Starting from the tent, I ride out to the barrel by the crossroads (next to the fence), stay along that side of the road (left) to hit the barrel that’s in a little dip, run as far as the path up to the building that the barrel tosser is standing in front of and do a jump-turn (usually just as I hit that grey path that breaks the snow), then do the same route back, being sure to hit both barrels on the way. At the end, I get myself aimed at the tent and then flip my camera, so as soon as I hit the back wall I can do a 180 in the other direction.
4.) Whenever you run past a barrel, watch both for the aura on the ram and the number of stacks on your debuff. They’ve fixed most of the problems with lag, but if you miss the barrel or it doesn’t remove your stacks properly, be sure to double back to clear the debuff ASAP. You do *not *want to get hit with Exhaustion–it will kill your timer.
The achievement Glory of the Icecrown Raider (10 player). You have to kill every boss in 10-man ICC on Heroic (except the Lich King), and then all 12 bosses each have another achievement to do (some easy, some very hard). When you finish the whole thing, you get one of these.
Good luck with whatever goals you have for the end of the expansion, then. And just think–how many people at the end of TBC were able to say that they’d finished everything in SWP up to Kil’jaeden?
He drops trinkets that are identical to the ilvl200 badge ones.
I’m kind of sad it isn’t useful for the actual event anymore now that the RDF takes us straight there.
(Soooooo glad that my benefits are going to scale with buffs now.)