The difference a few levels makes

I've started doing a few of the SSO dailies each day, since I have had insomnia and there isn't much else to do at 3 a.m. So I go in, do as many as I can before they roll over at 4, gather up the ones I like and do maybe one or two more, then do my auctioning before bed. This actually works out, since most of the gankers have gone to bed by then, and I get either honest PVP or inter-faction cooperation instead of camped for an hour.

I've also been doing a bunch of the quests in Netherstorm — I dinged Honored with the Consortium and figured actually doing all the quests to get to Revered would be a nice change from killing ogres for their precious warbeads.

So, with Cinnamon at 70 and Gutripper just barely short of 69 and at "Submissive" loyalty, I figured I should pull Saffron back out and finish catching her up. I leveled her from 62 to mostly through 66 before taming Gutripper, on the ogres and AV, so I figured that things should go faster on the 69-72 mobs I've been working on in Netherstorm and on the Isle, right? Well, yes and no.

I pulled her out for a couple of dailies last night, and while she's gaining XP faster, she does not handle the damage anywhere near as well as Cinn or Gutripper (I need a nickname for her — Gutsy's just dumb), so I have lots of downtime when my mana runs low after hitting "Mend Pet" what seems like 62 times. Plus, while she deals damage pretty well, the difference in level makes up for it and I'm constantly pulling aggro, which means everything takes a little longer.

Still, the XP gains for her and the money and rep for me are worth it, and I can practice getting out of range, something I desperately need work on — warriors and rogues are still, for the most part, my downfalls.

In other news, I'm at the point on Ahami (and nearly there with Ideale) where I really need to suck it up and do some dungeons. Ahami needs to get her feet wet healing, and since I actually do very much like the Scarley Monastery instances (solo, anyway) and they are easy to get a group for, I might as well start now. Ideale's quest log is quite cluttered with quests that involve instances (11!), and which mostly grant rep I need and can't get elsewhere. (Thank you, Blizz, for making it necessary to be Exalted with the Cenarion Expedition and then so difficult to get there without grinding Coilfang instances. No, really.) I also really want her to be a Hero of the Mag'har — I want a title, dammit, and I'm obviously not going to be getting "Champion of the Naaru" or whatever.

So Ahami first, because I don't want to stay in the 30s for months, and Ideale after, and hopefully it will not suck too badly.

I really wish you could remove factions from your reputation tab if you were at 0/3000 neutral with them. I tend to talk to any NPC that has a talky bubble, which means I'm at 0/3000 with stuff like the Violet Eye and the Zandalar Tribe, and with my anti-instance feelings, this will probably never change — only I'm mildly obsessive and it bugs me that they're there, even if they're in the inactive list.