Finally got an upgrade in beta

Finished a rather epic quest chain involving Arthas, and got the
Betrayer's Choker. I cut an Enduring Dark Jade for it, and it proc'ed a perfect cut. So it's quite the lovely item now.

WotLK update

Well I've hit a lull with the beta (mostly cause I reached where things start to be either not implemented or are capped), so time for a dump!

My paladin tank is 77 now, managed to get it right before they changed the required xp for levels 71-77.  Did the quest chain to enable my flying mount, which was a couple of easy quests.  However it seems you still can't use the flying mounts everywhere, bugged locations such as flying into Borean Tundra will unmount me.

I still haven't upgraded any gear other than main hand, although now that I can cut gems (it was previously broken) I re-gemmed all my gear with the +18 stamina.  I figure now that I have the stamina to spelldamage talent in deep protection that stacking stamina and being an Effective Health whore was the way to go.  I have 18+k health self-buffed now...haven't really grouped up with many other people with buffs to see what my raid health is going to be at.  Still need to get all the +stamina enchants, but I'll probably wait till it's live to really focus on it.

This leads me to believe that anyone wearing T5+ gear may want to consider replacing gems and enchants on their gear, and make them last well in to the later 70's.  I have a Shadow Priest I copied over as well with only T4 level gear and I've only really replaced one item so far and I've completed all the quests in Valiance Keep.

Jewelcrafting got a lot of content that doesn't seem to work recently.  The daily quests are there which give you tokens as a reward.  There is another vendor that has pretty much most of the rare recipes for 5 tokens each (as well as a mat or two for 1 token).  It looks like you'll be doing this instead of hoping for a world drop or hitting the AH (which is a good thing).  I'm looking forward to doing these, unfortunately the drops for the dailies don't appear to be in yet.

There's also Gem Perfection, which is a passive skill you can learn once you get 77.  Supposedly it works like Alchemy specializiation in that each cut has a possibility of yielding a 'perfect' cut instead of the normal one.  The perfect cut should have a tad better stats, and the tooltip indicates it only works on uncommon gems.  So far it hasn't proc'ed.  It may be bugged.