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(thus time wasted)
This made me smile. Not sure what is *not* time wasted in wow :-)

Sounds like you're reallly making this *game* alot of *work* for you. are you sure it's all worth it? Keep some steam to level up a DK group.
Heh, we all play this game for different reasons. Some of us just enjoy min/maxing to the best of our intelligence... number games server as an outlet for my stupid brain, and wow is nothing if not a number game.

But besides that, I'm not the only person who will feel a little "ripped off" when all the gear we've gathered at 70 is made obsolete before 79... and I'm not all that geared (I only started playing WoW like 6 months ago).
10 new levels and new gear means that everyone can start over wich i enjoy since i can basicly reroll to paladin,warlock,warrior,rogue,druid. Even thought all besides my warlock holds nearly full S1 gear! I will most likley start with my paladin and 4 of my shamans. I honestly cant see whats bad with a new start and not to speak of that the late launch of TBC nearly killed every guild on my server... The supply of new raiders with good enough gear killed guild after guild and forced them into guilds with better progress because most people werent willing to go BWL and AQ 40 to gear people more.. Dooing bwl and mc for a year on farm killed the fun for me and it always ended in a wipefest because people didnt pay attention in the instances we had on farm.

I look forward to not beeing eaten by people with full S3/S4 on my blue geared alts even thought it will happen at some point in wotlk i can smack them flat with my 5 shamans.
This is exactly what I mean... I'm trying to turn a frustrating situation (the impending gear-equalization that is WOTLK and the 300% "hey, lets let everyone have some free 60s" RAF shenanigans) and make the best out of it. At this point I don't see any alternative... either I could continue gearing my current 70s and have all that "work" wasted or I could use it to achieve some things I've always wanted to try.

By using the new RAF and leveling characters til WOTLK I avoid increasing the "well-damn-all-that-gear-I-got-is-useless-now" effect and actually turn it around to work in my favor. Whereas before all these new characters would be months (or years) behind everyone else in gear, now everyone is equal.