sleeping accounts to wolk?

[NoobShammy]

My guess is that the arena gear will be cheap just like the original honor gear was cheap right before TBC hit, I think they will remove most or all of the rating requirements with 3.0.

I don't think they are going to touch it at all. Cause they are not getting rid of lvl 70 arena for the people that don't want to get the expansion, but the que times will be really long cause not that many people will be in that lvl range. You can continue to earn points but as soon as you hit 71 you lose all your arena points. So there is no use keeping 5000 and cashing them in at lvl 80 to get the new stuff.

Also it Resil will be resil will be removed in pve instances making that 5 shaman team impossible to play in wolk instaces. More and more i think i'll just keep to single boxing my enhanced shaman.

[Fuzzyboy]

Also, grinding honor points will be a lot easier/faster in WotLK, meaning there's no real value in saving those either.

If you have epic flyers, maxed out tradeskills (including inscription comps if you want to get that when 3.0 hits), gold to level your tradeskills post-expansion (I'm guessing it won't cost all that much if you have the gathering skills yourself), gold to buy your frost-mount-skill-thingy (currently I think it's a quest + 1k, which you are likely to have from levelling anyway) there isn't much to spend your time on which will last in expansion, but that doesn't mean you can't have fun just playing around, raiding, having fun with guildies, pvp'ing, doing instances, whatever kills your potatoes :-)

If you're into the economy-game you can do that as well. Mats from disenchants will be cheap until people start enchanting their gear at level 80, meaning you can buy them up fairly cheap from about a week after launch until people start getting gear worth enchanting (raid gear, pvp rewards etc) at which point you can sell it and make a nice profit. Lots of similar situations exists that you can use to your advantage and in turn lessen the money-grind for port-rings or whatever moneysinks they introduce.

[sparvath]

i did the same a few days ago. Froze three of my accounts for the next two months.