Quote Originally Posted by 'shaeman',index.php?page=Thread&postID=82726#post8 2726
You sound like you have the balance right.

You've gone for the fun, and the money has come in as a result. You spent the time getting your 5 shammy team to 70 and (I'm hoping) having fun running them and got the money from it as a side benefit.

My problem is that I took something that I could have achieved over time and turned it in to an item that I must have now.

With that as the focus I started looking at ways to achieve that target as quickly as possible. Spreadsheeting things up working out hourly gold rates farming various places etc.

I'm very target based and normally achieve them. However somewhere in there I got a huge list of money making techniques and decided I wanted to incorporate them all, which resulted in me spending loads of gold (the precise opposite of what I wanted to achieve) and in going off on little side projects that wasted time. e.g boosting my druid and paladin from 30 - 40.

I'm glad that I've figured this out in a couple of weeks rather than months down the line.

So now I've got a plan that doesn't revolve around a flying mount, and should at least enjoy my playtime while doing it
If you're spreadsheeting gold/hour, it's not a game anymore.

Let it go. You'll have a LOT more fun that way.