Usually I am nowadays enjoying our tiny little garden instead of playing when the weather is nice. The weather has been nice the last few days 
I’ve done a few dailies with Yashima Wednesday night though and tanked a few trees up in Skettis and fished me some food. I particularly enjoyed the races you can do with the Netherwing when you get to Honored with them. Those are not dailies but rather very unique quests. I wish there would be more unique quests.
I am still selling off most of the stuff I find, like the Shadow Pearl I got for the Fishing daily. So now I have once more made it above the 3k only 1.8k to go if I want to get Thalya her epic flyer.
Lakshmi has made a few levels lately. She finally got both her Third Legs enchanted with Crusader and with Windfury and Stormstrike I am having lots of fun playing her. I am currently on my way to Tanaris and made a stop for a few quests in Feralas. Yesterday she dinged 44 there. After Tanaris I’ll hopefully be able to go to Un’goro. I kind of like the jungle in the crater. The last character I leveled through there was Thalya of course and she has Skinning so it was rather lucrative to kill all the raptors.
Lakshmi’s professions are still a bit low. I just made it past 200 with both Mining and Jewelcrafting. At 44 that is low. She should be past 225 with both in my opinion. But I didn’t have time or gold to spare so far. She still needs tons of Mithril to get both professions to an acceptable level.
I wish I could play her a bit tonight. But the guild has been complaining about there being to few groups for 5-mans lately so if I play tonight I should make nice and tank some stuff for them. Or shouldn’t I? Should I spend my little playtime doing stuff I don’t feel like doing for people who play way more than I do? I often say no and I don’t expect anybody to help my twinks do any instances.
I am one of those solo-players – except when it works out to play together and everybody profits from it I do enjoy grouping a lot. Most often though only half a group really needs to do something and the rest goes along to help. Helping is only profitable on the meta-level of the game and sometimes not even then because it does not always make me feel better to help. Sometimes it just gets on my nerves that I cannot do what I want in that time.
That’s why I like leveling. While you still have experience to gain there is always a bit of profit: experience.
Weird observation: doing Scholomance with my druid solo is profitable. Helping a lowbie with the instance is not. Why is that?
If I go in there with Yashima, she can skip out on the mobs she does not think are profitable. I go straight to the mobs that drop Righteous Orbs. When I am alone all the drops are mine. I collect everything all the junk, cloth and green items. Anything that drops is mine. I get all the boss drops and while I cannot shard them, they still yield a bit of gold in the end.
If I go in with a lowbie, I need to take much greater care with pulls, I cannot skip any mob groups and I have to share the loot. The lowbie will want to do all the bosses and may need to go places I would have skipped. He’ll probably die on some groups and I’ll have to wait for him to continue. I cannot go my own pace and … while he is some help with the mobs surely he is also a burden.
So half the loot and much more stress when helping as opposed to just solo-ing. Why would I do it then? For a nice thanks. Sure. But not all the time and never for strangers.
Sometimes I want to play for my profit! So does probably everyone. You don’t advance in the game if you don’t look after your profits: loot, gold, crafting items – take your pick. Advancement is the core of the game. So if grouping provides less and less advancement the further you get in the game and re-doing stuff you have done before is not profitable at all, why do it?
So it does not come as a surprise that if grouping is only profitable for “fresh” content, for stuff that you have not seen before, that people are mostly not willing to help out on older stuff?
The first of the minibosses dropped me what I had come to the instance for: 
