Dynamic Duo

Friday night was incredibly productive from a PvP perspective. Saturday rolled around and I wasn't sure what to do. Venture into BRF (the other raid instance currently available, higher tier than Highmaul)? Level up my priest? Something else?

I decided to focus on leveling up alts, before I ventured into BRF. That way I could start making additional gold earlier on in the process; it's not as though I'm in a rush to complete BRF, either. Originally I had planned on focusing on my priest. Leveling him to 90 had gone pretty quickly with the benefit of heirloom gear and simply queueing for dungeons as a healer (goes faster than as dps). But I saw an interesting guide to making a solid amount of gold just from garrison quests the other day and decided to get my mage to 100 first.

As you may or may not remember, after I got my druid to 100, I quickly got my boosted mage to 96 in order to provide me with additional income (just doing the daily profession stuff, basically). Since then, he had leveled up to 98 just from getting experience from mining/herbing nodes in the garrison. I thought the last level and a half would go much quicker than they did ... it was a slightly painful process, to be honest (perhaps because his gear was so bad?). At any rate, a couple zones and dungeons later:

Ding!

Getting to level 100 allowed me to bump my garrison to level 3 immediately; I had actually just hit the cap on garrison materials, so it was nice being able to build/upgrade buildings immediately. He now has: Barracks and War Mill (large buildings; barracks for extra follower cap and war mill for the upgraded weapons/armor), Inn and Trading Post (medium buildings; inn to recruit gold followers and TP because ... I hadn't made one yet! It's confusing so far.), and Scribe's Quarter / Gem Boutique / Salvage yard (small buildings; inscription and jewelcrafting profession buildings and salvage yard for more money from follower missions).

After that I got my priest up to level 93, which unlocked the profession buildings for him, too! Hopefully he should be 100 before too long, maybe even before Season 1 of PvP finishes, and I can get him geared up with the catch-up mechanic.