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