Deadmines at 16

Ok, so it appears that when folks reach 16, we need to run you through Deadmines. The reason? You want this reward, the Seal of Wrynn, that's a result of the Unsent Letter quest that drops off of Van Cleef. It'll ultimately mean you'll also need to do a Stockades run to kill Basil Threadd; it's one of the longer chains. Don't wait much beyond 16 to do this - the xp from the two instances, unless you manage it properly, will push you up pretty quickly, as will the chain xp.

My thinking on the two instance runs is this: if you're at 15.9, we take Twinkleheal and another high level, and then three of our lowbie twinks, and enter the instance. The twinks stand at the instance entrance while the two higher levels clear in a ways, then we move into the instance in two groups - the twinks looting but staying far enough behind the killing so that they don't get the XP. Then when we get up to Mr. Smite, the groups converge to do the final ship together. Everyone gets the letter off of Van Cleef, and then we head off to Stormwind, where we run the chain and then use the same strategy on Stockades. Done right, you get the best twink ring and only end up at lvl 17 or so. We'll have to do this process at least twice to get everyone the ring, but that's not a big deal.

So, something to plan for.

SMASH!