Just some quick updates!

I've managed to upgrade my Lumber Mill, Salvage Yard, War Mill, and Barracks to level 3. Getting the blueprint for the level 3 Lumber Mill required you to create 75 work orders, and this enables you to chop down Large Timber in the world. Upgrading the Salvage Yard required you to open 100 salvage crates; level 3 gives a higher chance to recover salvage boxes from missions as well as enables the ability to get player items from them (the highest iLvl I've seen from this so far has been 610 which, at this point, isn't very useful). The level 3 War Mill requires you to have 20 level 100 followers and gives you one free seal of tempered fate (this is essentially a bonus roll for gear for raiding). The Barracks upgrade requires you to have completed 50 patrol missions and allows you to have 25 active followers instead of just 20 (this helped with the War Mill).

I also managed to craft my first piece of leatherworking gear. I opted for the legs simply because they were my worst piece of gear at the time.

New legs!

Along those lines I also went ahead and purchased two pieces of PvP gear: belt and cloak (again, simply replacing worst pieces of gear).

I've managed to farm enough Apexis Crystals for my epic ring upgrade, so my next goal will be doing the second part which is finishing three heroics. I used this guide to do UBRS for the first time and that was fairly successful, so I'm optimistic that the others won't be too tough. We shall see on Monday!