- After a reset/expansion i used to be among the very fast levelers in other games. That is if work allows me to take a 1-2 week break. Since I only started to play wow during wotlk, I can only guess how it goes here. But it's for sure one of my interests with the upcoming expansion. The main problem with questing i see is that one has to fight for spawns, and with a multiboxing team it's gonna take even more time (unless the skip every collection quest).

So i'm curious to learn from your experience during earlier expansions:

- were the questlines available upon release (i.e. were thotbott, wowhead updated, ...)
- is running previous expansion dungeons at start an option (i.e. will killing a lvl 81 mob in icecrow give the same xp as a lvl 81 mob in the new zones?)
- is there a lot of debate on various forums going on about the fastest leveling routes?
- will we have clear profession 'guides' on how to boost them to the nex maxlevel? Also.is farming in icecrown a viable option to lvl up mining/herbalism/skinning to a certain extend above 450)
- will there be movies/howto's available about how to clear the new dungeons, and moreover how to box them?

I realize there is no 'ready to go answer' to my questions, but just curious how it was with the release of tbc & lich king.

That's the kind of info i'm going to research for the fast leveling part. And i guess thats depending on the beta (which i have little to no interest to play).

- For my team composition i'll have some leveling to do to be ready for cata. Eventually my make up should look like this

Account A: 80 pally tank (main toon i talk from, buy/sell from him, etc), 80 druid tank, 80 warrior tank, 80 dk tank 80 ele shaman, 59 rogue twink
Account B: 80 ele shaman (main raiding toon), 80 druid, 80 dk, 80 lock, 80 warrior, 59 rogue twink
Account C: 80 ele shaman, 80 priest healer, 80 lock, 80 mage, 80 warrior, 59 rogue twink
Account D: 80 ele shaman, 80 dk, 80 lock, 80 hunter, !80 pally healer, 59 rogue twink
Account E: 80 resto shaman, 80 dk, 80 lock, 80 warrior, 59 rogue twink

So eventually i'll end up with 23 lvl 80s.
Having a tank of each sort on my main, and have a least a healer/melee/ranged on each slave.
20 of them are alchemists (15 done so far)
Need to level up an engineer and inscription to cover all profs.
Each 'team' will have at least 1 enchanter and 1 gatherer.
Considering after the OP to fill the rest with tailors, as it's pretty cheap and fast to level those up.
The idea is to lvl first my main team to 80 asap. And then alternate the alts to 85 so i can play in rested time.

- Goldwise i should be ready to jump into cata as we speak. I'm way too cheap to do big expenses. I have only epic flying on my miner, every time i'm about to buy it i change my mind since i don't find it worth it. However with the ability to fly in the old world, its something i'll have to do on all toons. With the 4-5k a day i currently make, it should be pretty easy to affort all best BoE's for my tanks and main team when they become available in cata. I don't have any amount of gold in my mind however.

- Computerwise i'm awaiting the hardware requirements and how well cata will run under wine on linux. The outcome will either make me having to upgrade my machine significantly (if not going all the way), or tuning some of the other machines i have here and change to a complete hardware boxer. Either way i'll have to rewrite my xdotoo script from scratch and ad more functionality, as it's one big mess for now. If for one or another reason i'm no longer able to play wow on linux, i'll just move on to a new game.