The timers are only after boss kills. Each portal will open as soon as you kill the mobs from the last portal, so the faster you kill, the faster the overall run goes. You get one minute from when you kill a boss to the next portal opening.

I like woweh, it's just tough to get into this comic right now. I wish that they had just saved all of this, and released it at once. Then I'd be looking forward to the rest of the story. I'm reminded of a Homer Simpson quote "you take forever to say nothing."

This is taking so long to develop. There's lots of potential here, but there's already been 5 issues, and it hasn't covered more than the initial dialog. I'd be able to get more into it if you could release more, or at least enough of the introductory stuff to actually get into the meat of the story.

Lots of potential, but currently failing to make me care about his story in any way because of the slow development.

==THREAD HIJACK==
The core hound is a gift for using the authenticator:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=19820641631&sid=1

If I recall correctly, the new 5 man heroics drop 232 gear, which is ToC 10 equivalent. Also, it drops 219 gear on regular, which is Ulduar 10 equiv.

"BOSS eBand Audio Player lets you rock along...LIKE A BOSS!"
Fixed the title for you.

I think you went too far.

Focus your time on questing, but examine the gear rewards, and choose the most appropriate upgrades, and do some longer quest chains that you might have skipped for the good rewards.

Honestly, spending any money in the AH on your toons while leveling is probably a bad idea unless you find a great deal. You're just going to replace it...take what you can get from quests and drops (and maybe bargains) but don't go dropping 100G for that new piece of plate you can now equip at lvl 40.

For example, the Wrathgate quest chain in Dragonblight. On the toon I'm leveling at the moment, I actually leveled up before I finished this chain. I could have moved on to Grizzly where the quests are higher level, but I know with just another hour's effort or so, I'm getting a nice blue leg drop that I won't replace for a long time. So I did it.

I'm kinda digging the proposed mastery changes. My favorite talent as a DK that I can't use is [On A Pale Horse]. Perma-crusader aura. And I used it all the way through leveling, but you just can't find room for two talent points when they are so much better spent on damage.

It'll be nice to actually be able to take the perks of our class without being penalized for it.

This is crazy. Your leveling guide seems to be following my leveling. They're coming out at the pace that I'm leveling, and I do appreciate them.

The alpha wouldn't be announced. If you were to happen to get an invite (because you work for or know someone who works for Blizz) you would be bound not to divulge any information from it.