So as we prepare for the next great adventure : Cataclysm, things on the raiding front are dying down, quite literally I'm afraid. Everything is changing, raids are ending or breaking up, the server economy is all out of wack, and it's impacting gameplay all over the place.
My cheif concern as we head into the expansion is gold, of course. I'd like enough gold to be comfortable without farming for the first few months of Cata, so I can focus on getting my toons (soon to be 7 lvl 80s with the addition of my currently lvling priest) to 85 and *a few* into some raids, without worrying about not having repair funds. The server economy is all over the place, people are liquidating their WotLK items and supply is now unpredictable, where you would be certain to sell things at a particular price before, you are now just as likely to find them back in your mailbox instead of gold... very frustrating. The one upside to this is that if you do have the funds to do some small investing, you can stock up on stuff you know you're gonna use, like buff foods/mats for your lvling to 85.
In the back of my mind I'm already tallying up pro's and con's as to which of my toons I'm gonna level first, or I should say : what order am I gonna level my toons in, since the obvious goal is to have them all to 85 before I start another new one. Heres what I got : Druid X2, Paladin, Hunter, DeathKnight, Shaman, and soon to be (*by the end of next week I reckon, though I hope and will try for sooner) Priest. One of my druids, Nym, is my main raiding toon, but I also raid a nice bit on Max *my "main"*, the hunter. So here's my tentative list, subject to change of course as indecision runs its course.
Nym - druid #1 - Resto/Bear
Max - hunter - Survival/BeastMaster
Luna - priest - Shadow/Disc
Ned - paladin - Prot/Holy
Dumb - shaman - Resto/Elemental
Ginny - druid #2 - Balance/Resto
Mund - death knight - Tank/(no offspec for this guy prolly, I cannot stand dk dps)
Also, slated for level after Cata release and my 7 get to 85 will be a rogue, a warlock, and I am undecided whether slot 10 should be a warrior or a mage (played both thru lvl 20 and didnt like either one so... mabye another druid!)
Last subject to broach is raiding. My 'big' raid that I have been running with since I only had one toon (my hunter) to run on has finally fallen apart. Mainly due to the new raid lockout system (thx alot blizz), but also for one reason or another, people are just losing interest in spending their repair golds wiping on 25 man bosses. Some will argue that if you haven't got it down by now, you're bordering on too late. I tend to agree, but not because we should punish all procrastinators and latecomers, not because we should judge people who got stuck in a fail raid and decided to see it through instead if bailing on them (noble, but silly imo...), but because now that they changed the talents and spells for the new content, group makeups dont work like they used to. Classes are performing differently than they have been for the past 2 years or so, people are re-learning how to play, so the group makeups are not quite ideal anymore, which, going along with my theory, is by design according to blizz. They wanna make it so people have to shuffle, so you can't take the same 10 people you ran Naxx and Uld and ToC and ICC with into the next expansion and be all good, you gotta mix it up. Good for later, bad for now because it screws up our established group mechanics just when we are trying to squeeze in that last Lich King kill before Cata.
So people are taking their time now to farm, grind, level, and some are even taking a much needed break from the game (*what would I do with my days??) so that when Cata hits, we can all level like madmen to jockey for our positions in newly forming raids.
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