I would suggest each of us, Charles included, do the following before next Monday...
- get to 22nd level
- train up skills at 22nd level
- clear as much inventory space as possible (leave anything you don't need in the bank - you don't have to get extreme with this, but you should be going into the Dead Mines with at least 30 empty spaces - they might not all be needed, but we will rack up a LOT of kills before we get to go and sell stuff)
- make sure that you have all of the spells/skills that you want, assigned to your buttons properly, etc.
Quest stuff
- make sure you have the quest to kill Van Cleef (this is for Charles mostly, make sure to have dealt with the messenger and the traitor, and talked with Stoutmantle after dealing with the traitor - we have already done this)
- make sure to get the quest to get the thing from the guy (in the Dwarven District of Stormwind City, there is a gnome by the well in the north side of the district, who gives you a quest to get an item... sprecklesproket, or something like that - make sure you have that quest - it will appear in your quest log as an elite quest under Storwind City)
Paladins specifically
make sure that you have the "weapon notes" and the quest to get all four parts, as part of the Tome of Valor quest - for Dave, this means going to Ironforge and talking to a guy right outside the front gates. I'm not sure where Charles is on that quest...
I think that's it.