WofLK/lull/productivity?

[Steph]

The real question is: What do you enjoy in playing wow?

If and only if your answer to that question is "being the best A/having the best Y", the expansion may be a problem for you - because with the increasing amount of time you spent to improve your gear further and further you might not have enough time to reach the max before the expansion.

However, that can also be positive if you don't put yourself under the pressure and just play and do what you enjoy. I personally try hard to do just that. I do set myself in-game goals and go after them, but I may also just stop chasing them and do something entirely different if the mood strikes me.

We do not know when the expansion will come. My guess would be Q4, maybe November. We all know however, that it might just as well be January or February. My advice is - don't stress yourself. Plan a month or two ahead, but leave it at that, odds are you are just wasting your time due to uncertain data.

[Shiena]

Well, personally I do not care if or when Wrath of the Lich King is released. It still is a few months off (probably late November or early December) and thus I decided to level a PvE team on the Alliance side with my dream combination of classes and equip them in heroic badge gear until they hit best gear. I'll not upgrade to Wrath of the Lich King before this is done. The only thing I do for Wrath is to watch the announcements for a mention of a collectors edition.

[shaeman]

Personally I just pretend WoTLK isn't around the corner.

I do stuff I enjoy. If gear comes from it I'm pleased. If i improve my survivability in PVP I'm happy.

the only problem I see is if have got the best of all gear (which isn't going to happen).

When wotlk comes along I'll have more scope for gearing up.

The economy will change - but let's face it after 2.4 I saw a big jump in prices on a lot of things just because there was so much more money floating round.

Personally I want to get as many 70's as I can for wotlk. (I wont have a shaman team there) but If I can have 5 seventies, control 3 and have my kids control 2 (It's their characters) then I can run instances in Outlands, and then move to instances in WoTLK.

I think the best thing to do - is avoid reading what is coming out in WoTLK. Saves a lot of problems

[Coltimar]

I tend not to buy the idea that the current mats will be obselete. They will, for a time, be on the back burner but have you tried to buy a small radiant shard lately? 2 of my 5 are 50 and 63 respectively so I still have plenty to keep me busy before the Lich King drops bad on us.

[Djarid]

Hard mode Marines

Been there, done that.

I'll kick back and enjoy civilian life, thank you.

Quote FTW

Aslo with my levelling rate, I really want to get at least one team to 70! This means the longer the wait the better.

@OP why not roll some Alts, the new levelling mechanism makes it a lot of fun, Multiboxing is a bit of a ding fest and with the summer Fire Festival levelling is even qquicker