World of Warcraft -- A Fishing We Will Go.

We have reached the point where we've pretty much come to grips with everything and are starting to advance in earnest. I have been focusing on skills over the leveling of my character. I've been leveling both the primary and secondary skills. The primary skills are based on your professions. You can select up to two professions to learn at one time. I have selected Herbalism and Alchemy. Herbalism is the gathering of plants. Herbalism fits in well with Alchemy as it's the making of potions from plants. Magus has selected Skinning and Leatherworking and Riddel is doing Mining and Blacksmithing. Both of their skill sets are complimentary to each other as mine are. There are some secondary skills you can do and I have been working on all three. They are First Aid, Cooking, and Fishing. First Aid is the making of bandages with healing properties. You need to collect cloth off the humanoid enemies in the game to create the bandages. Cooking is just that, the cooking of food to create items with healing properties. You gather ingredients from the fallen enemies and buy spices from merchants. You learn better recipes the further you advance. Fishing works great with cooking as it provides a lot of useful fish for the recipes. You can also find rare treasures and other items by fishing. Working for the group, I'll be able to make them specific potions they'll find helpful. Riddel will be able to make us heavy mail type armor and weaponry. Magus will be able to make us boots and pants and leather type armor. So far Magus has provided me with boots, pants, and a vest that's higher than anything I have found or can buy. It's very helpful for the whole group to be working this way instead of for the individual. I'm not aware of what Pent and Keldroc are intending to do, hopefully it will fill in what's missing. As a Hunter I'm able to tame creatures as pets and have them fight alongside me. I have completed the quests that will allow me to tame a pet. I still need to go to the main city for my area and learn the skills needed to train my pet. I have a few talent points to spend at this time, but I haven't spent them because I'm not yet sure what I'm going to focus on. There is time for that later. For the next few days I'll be concentrating on the skills and leveling my character and the completion of a few more local quests. Speaking of quests I have taken one on that's considered an elite quest. It means it'son the level of a boss battle or something of that nature. It didn't give me any warning that it was an elite quest. Although I can cancel the quest at any time without any penalty, I'd still prefer the game inform me beforehand that I'm about to undertake something on that scale. Once we've all had a chance to clear our starting areas, and develop our skills and the like, we'll head out into the greater world, group up, and decide what's next.