I’ve reached level 66 with Kronas now and have eventually hoarded enough gold to buy my epic mount, [Reins of the Swift Stormsaber].

I also went, after getting my mount, and ran Zul’Farrak to get [Carrot on a Stick] which I never got when I ran the instance at around level 40. So I have a new epic mount, +100% speed, [Carrot on a Stick] and [Mithril Spurs] on my riding boots to give me a speed increase of around 112%.

Questing will be all that faster now.

So I’ve been questing a bit more and dinged 63 earlier on today. It didn’t take too long with a full bar’s worth of rested XP. Also doing quests in Zangarmarsh is great as there are a lot of mobs eavenly spread out and they all seem to be level 61 - 63 as far as I’ve seen. The quests overlap quite a bit so it’s easy to go out and do 4-5 quests before returning to complete them and pick up more.

I met up with a friend to do some of the Hellfire group quests, mainly just to get [Bladefist's Breadth]. Between levels 62 and 63 I managed to pick up some fairly decent hunter rewards from questing: [Expedition Repeater] and [Expedition Forager Leggings] (which I’ve replaced on hitting 63 with [Felscale Pants]).

I finally got off my arse and levelled Kronas from 61 to 62 last night. I only had 1/2 - 2/3 of the level to complete and was fully rested.

It took me a total of 4 hours to level up - that’s 8 hours of non-rested time (or thereabouts). All the quests I did were situated in Hellfire Penisula, mostly around level 63.

Once I’d dinged, I completed the quests I was on and hearthed back to Shattrath City where I ported to Stormwind. Picked up the level 62 talents, and upgraded my legs and shoulders armour.

So it’s around 16 hours playtime from 61 - 62 (probably a bit high), meaning it may be something similar from 62 - 63.

Nice thing is, I made about 50G in the process. Well back to the questing.

Name:	Kronas
Level:	53
Race:	Night Elf
Class:	Hunter
Location:	Stormwind City
Played:	?

Kronas is the original character I started long ago when I began playing World of Warcraft. He’s specced towards the Marksmanship talent tree, currently with 31 points, and spending the rest of the points in the Beast Mastery tree, currently at 13 points.

Pet

Kronas has a cat with a 1.2 attack speed as my current pet, and two free slots for other pets as they are needed, probably for instances.

Current items

Slot	Item
Head:	[Crusader's Helm] of the Falcon (+16 Agility, +16 Intellect)
Neck:	[Skibi's Pendant]
Shoulder:	[Ironhide Pauldrons] of Agility (+18 Agility)
Back:	[Blisterbane Wrap]
Chest:	[Crusader's Armor] of Agility (+24 Agility)
Shirt:	[Stylish Black Shirt]
Tabard:	[Guild Tabard]
Wrist:	[Beaststalker's Bindings] [Enchant: +7 Intellect]
Hands:	[Crusader's Gauntlets] of the Tiger (+11 Agility, +12 Strength) [Armour +40]
Waist:	[Beaststalker's Belt]
Legs:	[Windrunner Legguards] [Armour +40]
Feet:	[Elven Chain Boots] [Enchant: +7 Agility]
Finger:	[Masons Fraternity Ring]
Finger:	[Swamp Ring] of Agility
Trinket:	[Cold Basilisk Eye]
Trinket:	[Nifty Stopwatch]
Main Hand:	[Stoneraven] [Enchant: +7 Damage]
Ranged:	[Hurricane] [Scope: +7 Damage]

This gives Kronas the following stat bonuses:

• Strength +39
• Agility +214
• Stamina +39
• Intellect +32
• Spirit +41
• Armour +?
• Health +390
• Mana +480
• Critical +11%
• +7 M?l?e Damage
• +7 Ranged Damage

Tradeskills

• Skinning: 300
• Leatherworking: 300, Dragonscale
• Cooking: 300
• Fishing: 300
• First Aid: 300