So what do you think?

[aNiMaL]

I've been doubting a lot about what to do when (/if) I get to 70 in time,
I'll do some dailies to get my epic mounts and I want to try to finish all the instances before wotlk hits the streets (preferably heroics aswell)
But alts could use some leveling aswell.
:s


Just do what you feel like,
it's a game, it's entertainment,
so treat it that way.

But hey, it's an mmorpg and the competition forces us to improve ourselves.

[badashh]

Things that will help you when WOTLK hits, max profs, max riding, experience in dungeons. It looks like your team is setup for pvp, why not just get the rep blues and get your ass handed to you in Arena and get some experience. Then just do AV for your honor rewards.

I am leveling alts that I want to have ready when the expansion comes, once they are 70 with max profs, I'm just gonna BG/raid cause that's fun.

[Lokked]

I wouldn't wait to do arenas.

You really should have no expectations in the beginning, and use your priest as well, to 5-man arenas. It's easier to lose 10 matches a week by yourself rather then drag someone else down with you (at least, this is how I felt while 4-boxing my shaman in the beginning. It was tough to stick with arenas because I felt bad for the guy healing me).

This way, you can at least get some free epic pvp gear. You will still collect at least 250 points per week with the lowest rating, and at least at that rating you can find some challenges that you can overcome!

Key point: Get all the arena points you can and swallow whatever pride you have regarding Arena Ratings. Missing 10 matches per week = taking longer to gear up.

[accretion]

The things you can carry with to 80 is only really:

- mount skill level
- tradeskill level
- gold (but if inflation is similar to TBC, no point in saving up)

One thing that hasn't been mentioned in detail is Rep Farming. Does anyone think that "old" reps will unlock anything useful in WotLK? Argent Dawn and Timbermaw were mostly useless after TBC and I'm guessing most of the current Outland reps will also fall by the wayside. I'll admit I haven't read up on new factions, but I've debated about running instances or even heroics to get Revered everywhere, for example. I'm leaning away from that now but would be open to suggestions as well.

@ Bradster - I'm in the same boat, as I'm about to ding 70 this week, so I love this thread. My current plan is to find a set of dailies that I like and gradually work on instances and heroics (if possible) and some Arena.

[Drizzit]

but I've debated about running instances or even heroics to get Revered everywhere

I would at least get honored everywhere so you can do heroics, even when the expansion comes out there might be some stuff in heroics, plus it is fun to beat the piss out of a hard heroic with tier 9 stuff lol.

[succulent]

I just dinged 70 on my shammies 5 days ago, and I've been focusing on dailies for SSO rep and gp for the epic flyers. At about 3500g per toon already (helps that I found some BoE blues etc that sold quickly, and am swimming in enchanting mats to sell off) and dinged honored with SSO after only 3 days of dailies. SSO offers 3 quite nice rep items I can buy to jump start the gearing for eventually grinding out some heroics. I don't care for PvP in WoW (shooters are the place to go for pvp imo but I do plan to do a bunch of instances, both as a 5-box team and 4 boxing with a r/l friend of mine tanking. This is mainly for fun, as I like the dunegons. Gearing up this close to Wrath probably isn't super important, but then again any leet gear you have to start with makes the new 71-73 instances that much more doable so it's not a total waste.

I'd bet real world money current faction rep will be largely useless when wrath comes out (tho, more useful than old-world rep, due to faction mounts). From what I've read there is, for example, an argent dawn faction in Northrend, but it's an offshoot with a new name and is a whole new rep grind. That's how blizz does things, they basically give you new types of money to grind out (badges, rep, primal nethers when they mattered a lot, etc) as a way of keeping the "economy" working somewhat smoothly and give you something to do without having to build truly new content like dungeons all the time.

I agree with above posters about tradeskills, mats to get skills 350-375 will likely get very pricey when wrath first ships when people go into panic mode to get their skills up for some sexy new craftable. Also, when BC came out, copper bars and ore were crazy expensive as everyone went to train JC and all the mining nodes were camped. So, stock up on mid-level old world herbs for selling to people powerlevelling inscription the first week wrath is out!

[Drizzit]

So, stock up on mid-level old world herbs for selling to people powerlevelling inscription the first week wrath is out

I hope i can get my 8 x 60 mounts soon because i have to power lvl alchemy x 4

[Bradster]

Thanks all for the suggestions.

I’d love to run instances and play around, but void walkers don’t seem to cut it at 70. Last night as an example I decided to try out one of the instances in Area 52, I think it was called Bontica or something like that.

The mobs in here do aoe damage, and a great deal of it. I did 3 pulls in this instance and left. I’d send the pets I’d fight the big mob, and it would explode. If I tell pet/tanks to come back it aoes everyone. If I have the remain in place the damage if the AOE takes all the pets down to 10% health. If I wanted to do this instance, least just the trash I’d be using Shards on every pull, which would make for a really long run. Least I didn’t need to go there I was just messing around.

Have to have a tank, that’s really all there is to it. I began to realize this around BRD, once I hit outlands it become a reality. I cannot gear out a void walker, it cannot be crit immune or uncrushible, it will never scale up or be any better then it is now. It can hold agro for a short time, it’s good for leveling but this wasn’t what it was intended for.

I was kind of depending on my friend who loves to tank, and is a Prot Pally on a PVP server no less , to share in the fun with doing instances with me. But he simply has no desire to play anymore.

Last night I grinded out another 2k honor and pickled up the shoulders on all my guys, looking pimp! But I think I’m done on the honor grind for now. I really dislike the honor grind more then anything else. So when I do it, I just want to do it once, so at level 80.

Think from this point I’ll work on making some gold, run ZG for the Cat mount and leveling my alt shamans. What’s cool is I already have a 70 Shaman. So I’m going to run 1 Prot Pally and 4 Shamans. When I want to PVP I replace Pally with Shaman, when I want to PVE I use the pally. Really that should work out perfect. If I do manage to make it to 70 again, I might just have to start 10 boxing.