When the Burning Crusade came out, we had a Hunter at level 60 who ventured into Outlands long enough to reach level 61 but due to the lag, competition and instability of the Outland servers at lease and for weeks afterwards, we gave our attention to Mage, who has level 23 at the time.
   We continued to play Hunter, but leveled her through quests to large scale and by helping friends and avoided all the new instances, along with the rest of out social guild friends. Hunter was still the first to hit 70, even without being our main attention.
   In general, we've a handful of other new players of course that were getting leveling attention in the meanwhile so nobody really leveled as quickly as we can. But we did not take any interest in any type of power leveling of toons at this time.
   However, Mage was the one that really broke us into running dungeons regularly and finding a mindset that let us enjoy the contrast the "Pick up Group" groups brought to us instead of feeling about them negatively.
   Now it is the time to talk about how to become a hard core Pick up Grouper. When the Mage hit Outland, we "Pick up Grouped" like crazy. Everyone wanted DPS or Crowd Control in their groups, right from the first Hellfire Citadel instances, all the way through the heroics and even into raids. Even though we were DPS and had no real tank and healer friends to begin with, we had no problems finding groups and then making long term dungeon running buddies because our type of DPS was in such hot demand.
   When we first took into heroics, the Mage turned out to be the toon, ten months after the BC expansion released and heroics were originally introduced. We were the first amongst our peer group to have a toon that well geared, and the first to get into raiding.
   Using the Mage as the main raider, we had a ball with him in the time. We remained Frost spec even though that was seen as an inferior raiding spec to Fire. The reason is that we were out most of the Fire Mages in the raiding guild we landed in and therefore, there was no real evidence to support us having a change.
   We raided on this toon with our first raiding guild for 6 weeks before joining their ranks. As a long-term committer, we wanted to make certain that we enjoyed the raiding environment before we participated in.
   Our exit from first raiding guild inspired us to wok on another toon for a while for a change of pace and we had both a Rogue and a Holy Priest coming up through the Outland levels, so we chose the Priest and increased my commitment.