It’s another pre-expansion slowdown. Interest in Northrend is waning. Personally, I find it quite difficult to blog when there isn’t much happening in-game, since that is where I draw my inspiration from. For the time being, there’s not much to write about in terms of news, changes, or advice – since we’re approaching the end of another expansion. It’s also hard to write guides and explanations when you know that in a short time, things will change. So I find myself grasping for blog posts that aren’t purely “here’s what I’m doing right now.”

But I’m really looking forward to Cataclysm. Possibly more than expansions past. I think this one has a lot of potential because of the shift in my play style recently – while I’m still serious about raiding and want to progress, I’m no longer “hardcore” and I don’t want it to be my life’s goal to “win”. I’m content these days playing with good friends. And, more and more, I’m enjoying alts and offspecs, levelling and exploring.


I think that Cataclysm will be the expansion that sees me levelling and playing a range of different classes.

Anyway, here are my pre-Cataclysm plans, if anyone is interested – in no particular order.


Take pictures

I intend to hoof it around all of my favourite places in Azeroth and make sure I get some nice snaps. I want to be able to look back and compare. I’ve already done Orgrimmar – and the alpha leaks showed massive changes there. It made me glad that I’d taken the time to remember Orgrimmar myself. Of course, I could just look up other people’s shots, but it wouldn’t feel the same.


Stockpile for my alts

I thought about stockpiling to sell for $$$, but meh. I’ve always made plenty of cash and I’ve never had to scrape. I don’t really feel the need to have 100k+ gold sitting about. However – I do intend to put away the materials necessary for first aid and any professions that my newbies might need, such as alchemy etc. I don’t want to have to mess around waiting for someone to put 5 Mageroyal up on the AH.

Oh, and of course, grab them plenty of bags, and get some appropriate BOA gear organised.


Do MC and AQ20

I still don’t have these finished on Keeva.


Finish as many other achievements as I can

This is pretty low priority. I can never “win” on achievement points since I don’t ever PvP/arena. I do enjoy doing achievements.. but it’s not something I care very much about these days. I’d like to get some of the old raiding ones finished, but I doubt it will happen – so I’m content to do what I can, but let the rest go for now. I did get my Ironbound Drake yesterday, though! :D


Level my three high level alts

There was a time that I said I would never play anything but resto druid in a group or a raid. But since I’ve stepped in as guild boomkin, I’ve loved it. Not enough to do it full-time, but I do really enjoy it. And that opened up my mind to playing other DPS characters too. I guess I was scared – I’ve been a healer so long that I was worried I would be terrible. Truth is I do pretty good – so I bet I could play another DPS character without too much trouble.

With Cataclysm raids being one raid per lockout, I suspect many people will be alting it up on weekends, with alt runs, pugs, and GKP. I never really had the chance, since my 80 alts are druids, and after a week of raiding on on resto druid, I’m not particularly keen to do it on the weekend. But I could totally see myself being a mage or priest (or whatever) in some weekend GKP runs. I enjoyed the couple of GKP runs I went on, so I’m definitely looking forward to this.

My three high (60+) alts are hunter, mage, priest.

The priest was going to be Disc, but healing on her just didn’t feel right. I like shadow a lot, though – so maybe that’s the way to go.

Thawm, my mage, is basically a JC/enchanter mule. But y’know, I miss playing mage. The only problem is that he’s a male BE, and he just doesn’t appeal to me anymore. I’ve decided that when we’re able to race change to goblin, he will become a female goblin mage. I suspect he/she will be my main alt in Cataclysm – I’m really having a blast.

Earka is my hunter, and I love her too, although I’m not particularly confident with her yet. I love orcs – I desperately wish there were orc druids, I would be there like a shot.

Earka’s pet is Trotters, a black pig from Durotar. I don’t like fancy pets; it’s the RP in me. Earka is salt of the earth, and her pets are plain but loyal. And whatnot. Of course, I’ll grab a wolf (a prairie wolf from around Thunderbluff – nothing fancy) for raiding. But Trotters is her loyal pet.

Trotters has been UPGRADED! He is now EPIC TROTTERS. It makes me giggle. But I really love it – it’s the same model pig, but the pigs in Razorfen have an armored look. So as Earka has progressed through the world, so has Trotters become bigger and better.


Yay trotters!

Kiiva will remain, but I’m not sure what I’ll be doing with her. Another druid is fairly redundant, particularly with the raid lockout changes. I can’t bear to delete, though!

Drucie WILL be deleted. But not in vain. When my troll druid reaches 85 and has full herb/mining skills, Drucie will be deleted and reborn as a Tauren paladin! I love her name and look, but don’t need four high level druids on the same faction/server. Think of it as a career change. :P

Keeva, of course, will always be resto – but this time around I will absolutely be building her a boomkin off-set!


Resto guide v2.0

I’ve already started work on version 2 of my guide! I’m VERY excited. I had a brainwave about a better way to set it all out, plus more information to include, more diagrams and images, etc. Basically, an even more user-friendly layout. Did I mention very excited? I can’t wait to get more information in beta/Cataclysm so that I can update it and release it again. *bounces*

I’ll be levelling two new druids in Cataclysm; a troll to be my new feral fun character, and a Worgen – I adore their animations so far. The troll will be levelled through questing exclusively (or almost exclusively), but the Worgen will be levelled partly through dungeons. This way I can update and flesh out my “levelling as resto in dungeons” part of the guide – in case much has changed.

I think this will be a bit of an ongoing thing – it’s hard to go back and look through the eyes of a fresh druid. But I really enjoy doing it. My guide is my new love, and I intend to make it the most comprehensive out there.


Spring cleaning

- guild bank
- personal bank (it’s so hard :( )
- personal guild bank
- unused alts – delete and make space
- blog: clean up, update sidebar a bit, review blogroll. Update the “about me” page :P


And of course

Enjoy the wait with my friends! :)



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