20130224, dimanche and 20130228, jeudi

A. Finally!  I got the Windwalker monk to level 90 today.  Levels 1 to 85 were fine, but 86 to 90 were a huge discouragement.

B. I've done two monks from 1 to 90 since MoP came out.  From this I can say that

1. Windwalkers and Mistweavers are mostly OK, but I don't care for Brewmaster monks.  
2. The constant references (visual and auditory) to sloppy drinking (tea and beer on the clothes and ground, not in the mouth), belching, vomiting (Stormstout and so on), and other bodily functions are not just declassé, they are just plain disgusting.
3. I like the content of WoW before MoP, but not since.  Compared to MoP, I'm starting to like Outland.

• Pandas are even more disgusting than goblins, both the stupid and gawky males and the death-mask faces and too-cutesy ways of the females.
• Pandaria is my least favourite continent.
• I could not get through Pandaria quests fast enough.
• Pandaria reputation system is a sorry piece of nonsense, easily ten times worse than the Firelands. The number of dailies is just horrific.

C. It's good to fly in Pandaria at last.  Then again, what's the point?

D. For every expansion, the game begins again at the toplevel.  MoP is no exception.  Pluses and minuses:

1. The treadmill of going through Pandaria heroic dungeons is something I'm not looking forward to.  There are 9 heroics, and several of them are extremely tedious.  I have 4 more characters to send through this meat grinder to get 463 armour to allow entry to the LFRs.
2. The LFRs might be worth suffering through the drudgery of the heroic 5-man dungeons.
3. Then again, maybe not.  The LFRs yield the 476 and 483 armour, which is not as good as the reputation based armour, levels 489 and 496.
4. The cost is having to do massive numbers of dailies for the required reputation.
5. Being in a guild that can prosecute 25-character (heroic) raids everyday gets one the best armour, some of it at 509.  That's currently not available to me.
6. So, to do well in MoP, one needs to be in a level 25 guild large enough to field 25 character teams to run heroic raids (not LFR) regularly.  Ah, well, I suppose that was always true.

E. I have 5 level 90 characters now

1. Healer, iLevel 481: Mistweaver monk
2. Healer, iLevel 472: Holy Priest
3. DPS, iLevel 462: Affliction Warlock
4. DPS, iLevel 445: Frost Death Knight
5. DPS, iLevel 440: Windwalker Monk

F. Two more on the way:

1. DPS, iLevel 88, iLevel 423: Balance Druid
2. DPS, iLevel 85, iLevel 387: Fire Mage

G. I'm not looking forward to the 5.2 'patch' since Mistweavers will be getting significant nerfs.