When I created the Druid as a female Night Elf, her name was Windshadow, which I thought was exactly what I wanted for her spirit.

When I went male tauren, I just went with Bigbearbutt. And when I switched back to Alliance, there is already a Windshadow there now, so I used a different name. No ties.

As to hit, I generally love having as much of it as I can get while leveling (on any toon, really). A miss is effectively an anti-crit, and I’ll take hit or expertise gear over crit when the two pieces are about equal. Of course, it doesn’t show up too often, and I don’t really worry about not having it.

I’m probably going to level my 80 warrior up to 85 as prot in dps gear and battle stance with the awesomely fun combo of Rend, Blood and Thunder to spread it, and chaining Victory Rush. It’s just what I’m used to, but I bet each other spec has its supporters and who am I to say anything about that. I can just say what I personally enjoy.

…. in stereo.

Out of curiosity, BBB when you changed over your druid did you keep the same name when transferring to horde and back again? I changed my name when I went to Horde and reserved my old name when it was available again for when I wanted to go back to alliance. I noticed the name change caused me to have to redo quests to get access again to the Shadow Vault vendor in Icecrown even though it said I was exalted with Knights of the Ebon Blade. I did start to do the AT rep grind again but didn’t have the motivation to finish so hopefully that didn’t cause issues when I transfer back.

As always I love to read your stuff BBB. It always puts a smile on my face when I recognize things that you are quoting hehe. Keep up the great work!

Don’t forget to look at the PvP weapon(s), those that “require an 1800 rating” but DON’T! Yes, you can get the two handers for pure honor points now, regardless of what the vendor’s tooltip says.
My Kittybear’s using http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=51431, and the DK uses http://www.wowarmory.com/item-info.xml?i=51392

Those (and whatever else the shady vendor in the Underbelly has to offer) might just be easier to obtain than the stress that is HHoR, depending on your faction’s WG luck etc. I don’t like PvP, but these pieces were worth some Wintergrasp and some weekend-battlegrounds.

I faction transferred my Druid from Alliance to Horde a long ways back, and when I did I *had* been exalted/maxed with the Argent Tournament. As you noted, after you change factions, you lose all rep and have to start from scratch.

I was so disgusted that I never did anything with AT again.

Fast forward to last week, I faction changed my Druid BACK to Alliance…. and I am once more 100% maxed with the Argent Tournament. It remembered where I was and gave it back, instead of erasing it and resetting it, and staying reset.

Food for thought.

But yes, you should have been getting a seal every time you chose the loot bag.

Watch the log and your counts. They won’t show up in the bag itself. They get auto-looted now as soon as you open the bag. I didn’t believe it either at first. :-)