Ok now that my brain is active again, I must say HOLY SHIT.
I had been in the game killing orcs with another group when etiolate/whiteacid/cubicle signed in. I left my group and flew to Iron Forge, and after some confusion I finally found the train that leads to Stormwind. The train is pretty badass, and next time I get on I want to try to jump off or something.
Then I finally got to the exit and saw whiteAcid, who kindly put up with my lag (I always lag a bit in huge areas full of other players/NPCs). We turned a corner and then I saw it. HOLY SHIT STORMWIND IS AMAZING. And I thought Iron Forge looked awesome lol. This was like leaving Africa and coming to America or something lke that. THE ROADS ARE PAVED IN STONE. And they had a bank! I wasn't able to explore the town at that time though because I had to follow whiteAcid.
Eventually we were teleported to Westland, where we met the other players in the group. Outside of etiolate and whiteAcid (lv 25 and 26 or so) I was the highest lv in the group at 20. We also had a lv17 and lv16 lol, but they were pretty awesome.
Before I go on I must say everything I saw last night - from Stormwind to Westland to the Deadmines - all looked 10 times better than the Wetlands, and I can't possibly imagine going back there for long period of time. I'll turn in some quests there and then come back to the Deadmines lol.
The Deadmines is a very cool environment. It's like an underground gold mine or something, and there are a lot of enemies around. We were able to kick their asses pretty easily for the most part - the human NPC characters in there were a joke. But there were these little ass goblin things that gave us trouble. Since I was supposed to tank I always tried to Rend them, use Demoralizing Shout, and then disarm them; that would cut their attack power down a lot. I didn't use Hamstring enough, and I noticed that after I would stun an enemy, it would just walk past me and charge everyone behind me. Ugh
We died a couple times in that area, but for the most part we were able to get to the center of the area without trouble. That's where the problems began. We saw this bigass ship, and the area leading to it was filled with PIRATES OMG. Got by them pretty easy, after which we saw one of the boss's minions. He was a HUGE minotar, and his name was MR SNIDE. What a complete bastard. First time we fought him he killed us, in part because he'd stun us and yell "oh no you didn't, now I'm gonna get HARDCORE" and run and get duel wield blades from a chest. Second time we killed him.
Sadly as we moved up the ship people started having connection problems. whiteAcid got disconnected; she was saving all our asses with healing powers and this really cool snowflake spell, but we thought we could carry on with our other mage. We did for a bit, then HE got disconnected lol.
So then Etiole decided to give me his gun and have me pull enemies towards us, but as I loaded the gun all the pirates and goblins (like 10) charged us. I have no idea what happened, but I guess one of our players went too far up the ship and aggro'd them. SHIT. I tried jumping off the ship like a pussy, but they got me in mid air
After that the party slowly disappeared, and me and Eti were left. He went one way and I went the other. Apparently he attacked the main boss and got killed lol. I was able to make my way all the way out of the Deadmines alive, but I certainly wasn't helped by the scores of players I passed by. I'd fucking save all their lv17 asses but when I was in trouble they'd run by. Then when I asked to be in their group they didn't want me. "Nah, we only have 3 people but we're good." LIKE HELL YOU ARE DUMBASS.