The Road to level 90: A Mists of Pandaria beta adventure!

Since I am an annual pass holder, I received a beta invite a few months ago to go with my other gifts included in the deal I signed up for (whether the whole year contract was worth it or not that is still being debated on); but I never did much of anything with my beta access. Logged on a few times to play around with some glyphs and imagine my shaman as a Pandaren, but that's about it! A few weeks ago I decided it was time for me to get around playing it, free access to boss strats from dungeons and raids prior to the live content comes out will help my guild out I hope. At the beginning of the Cataclysm expansion I wrote a guide to Heroic dungeon bosses for my previous guild since I was the first to be able to do them and they really appreciated it.

 Mists of Pandaria has such gorgeous scenery, I love it. If a game I'm playing has nice scenery and a captivating storyline I'll usually be too busy just looking at the environment my virtual avatar is exploring, or reading the questlines to understand the full story behind what I'm doing instead of going for the all out "balls to the wall" type questing that most people do in the effort to reach max level first.

 My shaman is currently level 89, the first level was given to me since the Jade Forest was closed for repairs so that was one less level I needed to grind out :). For the following levels it wasn't near as terrible to get the experience needed as I was expecting, I ended up with enough rested experience to almost get me to 90; just finishing it off today with about 2/3 of my last level to go. The changes to resto shamans are pretty neat, glyph so my Riptide doesn't have a cooldown but doesn't do the initial and another glyph to change the looks of my chain heals make everything seem like something new, feeling more like a druid/kind of paladin hybrid again. Considering that's why I fell in love with shaman healing in the first place that just fine with me :).

 Don't get me started on Ascendence, http://mop.wowhead.com/spell=114049/ascendance! This ability is beyond awesome as a resto shaman, if you're familiar with Ultraxion from Dragon Soul it's like the green buff you can obtain on crack! Really handy spell, just wish it would last me a little bit longer. With the additions it seems like I have more cooldowns then I know what to do with at times, probably why they removed buff totems out of the equation...

Hoping to get myself to 90 soon (probably within the next week) and get to work on scenarios and raids so I can really be on top of things when this hits Live!