Well not really hard, just time consuming. I decided to do a reformat and reinstall of Vista, Visual Studio, WoW…you know, the important stuff 
….and get round to swapping my macro’s around from being assist based to being focus based so I could also benefit from the new Picture in Picture functionality of Keyclone, which essentially lets you switch mains on the fly, but if you have an assist based system it becomes harder to swap things around.
For example, if I was using the following code
[code]
/assist Smara
/cast Lightning Bolt
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then if Smara dies I would need to have a second button to assist off a new character and on down the line. using a focus based system though I can have one macro that switches focus to the next character in line that’s not dead or under mind control AND have it happen on the same hotkey that I use to bring the new characters window to the fore as the new main. Means with having Baanmee there, if I’m quick enough to switch to him and closet gnome him to tanking gear I should be able to survive the end of the fight without a wipe if Smara dies (and will definatly be able to do so if I have Jhentar in replacing Ivana at times).
I probably won’t get too much benefit from this yet in instances but I can deifnatly see it being useful in arena’s in the future…for example I can go in with Baanmee appearing to be the tank and Smara the healer to totally screw with minds and hopefully have them waste some time trying to “take out the brain” before I switch to the real tank and hopefully turtle down.
In other news, I am currently at 56 with everyone and am on leave from work until the end of the month so the goal is to really push to 70 before then with the crew, am a little behind where I wanted to be (was hoping to be 58 by tonight) but I think it was worth it and just have to put in extra hours for the rest of the days. My plan was initially to go to outlands as soon as I hit 58, grind on orcs there to raise honour Hold faction and level to 60 before starting to grind Ramparts and Blood Furnce for gear/cash/faction then move to Coilfang around 64 and do the same thing, then Aurichi…basically try to level up to 70 without questing and maximizing my faction so when I hit 70 I could pump through all the quests for the extra faction and money to hopefully have enough for my epic birds fairly quickly.
Thinking about it though the last two days, I think I’ll stay in Azeroth until 60 since the xp bonuses that 2.3 brought in are only available in the old world so I save myself some leveling time there and then once I go to outlands I’ll do the quests rather than grind. I know, it’s not efficient but I figure if I’m only doing this for grinding instances (and badges eventually) then I’ll be spending more than enough time in the instances to make up for the lost money and leveling faster due to the xp bonus from completing a quest rather than grinding, eg if I can finish a kill quest on 5 chars and get 10k xp for doing so while the mobs I had to kill were giving 200xp then I have gotten the equivalent of 50 mob kills in about 1/100th the time it would take to kill them. Having the group will also allow me to do all those group and elite quests I missed out on previously which will also be extra cash so just seems to make sense to do it that way instead of grinding but will see.