Visit Sandy Tanaris! See the Rolling Hills of Arathor!

Well, I'm pretty much where I expected to be at this point of the month.

As of September 18, 2025.

My reality is that I still need to work on fishing, because I need to make gold in order to keep training my abilities, and the price of water and food (for every toon not named Cardwyn) can be pretty expensive if you're constantly drinking and/or eating after every couple of pulls. 

That's the real struggle of a Paladin: having to replenish mana more often than a Mage or Warlock.

Nothing says "fun" quite like quenching your thirst
in the middle of an ogre cave. Lens flares are a perk.

Of course, crafting your own gear in Vanilla is often the best way to get a steady influx of better gear, and I've rediscovered the joys of how lousy it can be leveling Blacksmithing and Leatherworking. To be honest, I never used Blacksmithing or Leatherworking in 2019 Classic and 2021 TBC Classic to get gear for leveling*, and by the time TBC Classic came along you didn't really need to craft any Outland gear until you hit L70. At that point crafting became a grinding/daily slog to get the materials needed for crafting your gear for the first few raids. 

On the bright side, you can mine for ore outside.
Even on a somewhat gloomy evening in the Arathi Highlands.

I can see that the Anniversary servers will be more of what we saw in 2021. I'm now convinced it's unavoidable. I also think that Blizz will enable a paid boost just like in 2021, but it's really Blizz's call to make. 

We'll see, I suppose.

*I never leveled Linnawyn high enough in 2019 to make it worth my while to level Blacksmithing to get gear, and I had to speed level Briganaa at such a rate that I only leveled Leatherworking after she got to L70.