But wait, that's not all!

Days 21-present

It's been a busy week of questing and working.

Got to be a proto-Viking and ride a bear, and use it to beat up a giant troll of some sort.

Later on I got to ride a wolf. I guess I'm too big of a Tolkein fan, but if I had my way I would always ride on a wolf and fly on an eagle.

At one point we helped some sad guy perk himself up, and even get his mount back. That's her, below.

Insert Coin...

Get boss! (and kill him) (Scrap-E not involved)

 

Got to ride another giant, this one looked cool. You get to use his abilities to fight, like all the other times you ride giants.

This quest was fun: Become (ride) a burrowing worm, then use it to kill this guy here.

I greatly enjoyed the quests with the "Makers" which I think might be the Titans, because in other incarnations I've run Uldaman a ton of times, all the way to Uldum etc. and always wished I could know more.

Got the Storm Peaks quests achievement

I got to revisit that odd giant hole in the ground I'd found earlier, completing a fun quest there. You then fly up in his flying machine with him while mobs jump onto the wings and attack.

Another quest line (won't spoil it) involves the King of Ironforge.

I don't remember who this guy was, but the mobs aside from the death knight guy were on my side and we killed him.

Later on we helped another Death Knight get some information. Unlike most good guys, the Death Knights don't mess around: He destroyed the bad guy's soul after saying he wouldn't. That's one guy who won't be coming back.

Mal'Ganis makes an appearance. When you defeat him, he basically says, "Screw it" and leaves. You don't get to actually kill him.

I found an NPC who looks just like me. I'm the one on the right.

This fight was truly epic. The quest is listed as a group quest requiring 5 people, but we were able to do it with just us two, an unholy death knight and a holy paladin.

It was still a very close call - I technically did die, but was able to stand triumphant as a zombie while the Lich King showed up.

 

Which meant there was only one thing to do - blow myself up at the Lich King!

(Then Glow rezzed me)

Another quest, another appearance by the Lich King - which is always well done and awesome. (and yeah, we kicked the giant's butt.)

Another quest with a creepy little boy whom I suspect of being something or someone more nefarious involves you stepping into Arthas' shoes and killing his men, then turning them into the undead.

Late you are shown what happened when Arthas summoned Sindragosa.

Recent achievements

Ending stats: Wicked L80 Gnome Death Knight Points: 860 <Gunned Down In Reno> Unholy/Hybrid DPS/Tank 13/0/58 HKills: 216 HP 17651 Armor: 11126 Def: 400.00 Power: 1907 Hit: 0 Crit% 10.08 Parry% 11.52 Avg item level: 149 81% Blues 18% Greens

Next up my quest buddy is going to visit his family for Christmas, so I hope to run a bunch of instances for gear.