Played a monk to level 7 two nights ago, it's been fun so far and the new zone is incredibly gorgeous. Since it's only level 7, there are few abilities to try out so that will have to wait on that. I'm not really looking forward to the level grind of Outland, Northrend, and Cataclysm (I didn't play much of the re-done Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms so that stuff is still mostly new).

I have an 85 priest, 85 warrior, 80 DK, 50-ish rogue, and 20-ish druid. My plan is to level the warrior, death knight, and priest to 90 before doing so with the monk since the higher-level chars have most of my professions and doing the MoP quests with three characters in a row will be a huge burn-out on those quests so having other content to play in for a while will be fun. On the other hand, I have very little time to play: I don't expect to get my warrior to 90 before Thanksgiving. That may help extend the burn-out time even further.

With all that in mind, I started playing my 85 warrior last night: did a few quests and upgraded both of my weapons (fury warrior) which was fantastic... just need to upgrade the other 12 slots from Cataclysm-level questing gear! He never even got his item level high enough to do Cataclysm Heroics lol

I forgot to train the new level of mining before I left, so I wasn't able to tap the new veins the few times I saw one. I've been tempted to buy the new bars and jump-start my blacksmithing to help my warrior's gear out but with the "random enchants" I'm likely better off buying what someone else crafted with all the stats I want on them... or taking a few evenings to just ride around and mine. I still need Cataclysm ores to get my jewelcrafting from 486 to 500, so maybe I'll do that over the next night or two: there should be much less competition for ores in Twilight Highlands now!