Tripping in Honeydew Village

Tripping in Honeydew Village

Monday - By late afternoon on Monday Philly was enjoying the rest of her day, having completed all of her tasks and nailing down Level 87. But as the afternoon drew to evening she got restless. There was little she could do in Hyjal, not until the dailies were up again. She took a trip to the Twilight Highlands, but that was a bust, and hanging out in Orgrimmar was boring.

So Philly hopped the portal to Pandaria's Jade Forest. Like with Mount Hyjal, it took some time to get her bearings, locate quests, and slip back into the pattern of exploring and questing. Once the initial battle to gain a foothold in Pandaria was complete, Philly quickly made her way to the airport, a difficult scenario that earlier family members had found frustrating. That frustration never manifested with Philly. By the time she had cleared and secured the airport, Philly had Dinged to Level 88.
Philly isn't ready to include Pandaria leveling into her every day routine, but it takes less than an hour to complete all of the dailies in Hyjal, leaving her with a lot of time on her hands.

The family wants to carve up that time to do chores and keep up their garrisons, but there are now seven members actively engaged in family business now - Jocy, Tiphaine, Fist, Wild, JB, Happy, and now Philly. Not everyone is going to be happy with how that time is distributed.

Wednesday - Philly pounded out her daily 20% dosage of experience in Hyjal. Then, with nothing better to do, she made another trip to Pandaria. I know, I know, but Philly just wanted another peek. That peek earned her way to Grookin Village and a dozen quests that drove her xp to 95% toward the next level. And it was even fun!

THEN, I started the quest, "Scouting Report: Like Jinyu in a Barrel." It starts by wasting almost twenty minutes running around playing canned snippets that you couldn't interact with. Trying to speed things up just set the whole rigamaroll back to the beginning. After wading through that it got even uglier. The quest has numerous bugs documented on Wowhead, and every poster on Wowhead has their own special solution of how to complete it without throwing a brick through the screen. That was my opinion the first time I attempted it. On the second run I turned off all of my addons and went plain vanilla. There is always a risk on doing that - sometimes a carefully designed and beloved interface goes belly up when monkeying with the interface. The tactic worked, though, my interface remained intact, and I completed the quest. But really, they should just FIX the quest.

The good news was that Philly DINGED! to Level 89 on that quest. So something good came of it. Philly was ready for more, but the network started having trouble, getting the "You have been disconnected from the server" warning, and minutes passed by waiting for it to clear. Logging off until next time.