Two-week (more or less) thoughts.

[Merusk]

Druids are awesome as feral now, however, a feral druid is a shitty healer.  A resto druid can't kill shit, though.  Ask yourself what you enjoy most and go that way.

 The wife went balance w/ some resto (she's 68 now) and has 521 to damage AND healing from her various quest/ instance gear and a 17% spell crit chance if she's in owlbe--"moonkin" form.   She heals well enough that we can duo almost all the 'group required' quests. (Durn needed a real tank rather than my pet, and one of the later quests we added a 3rd just because the dps was so low it would've taken forever.)   She also does damage well enough that she's nearly mage-like in some of her kill-crits. (I think her high crit is 2450 on wrath right now.)   Were I to have a druid I'd go the same route. 

Lots of folks are down on balance because it sucked so hard before.  It wasn't called "OOMkin" for nothing, after all.

[Triforcer]

Druids are awesome as feral now, however, a feral druid is a shitty healer.  A resto druid can't kill shit, though.  Ask yourself what you enjoy most and go that way.

 The wife went balance w/ some resto (she's 68 now) and has 521 to damage AND healing from her various quest/ instance gear and a 17% spell crit chance if she's in owlbe--"moonkin" form.   She heals well enough that we can duo almost all the 'group required' quests. (Durn needed a real tank rather than my pet, and one of the later quests we added a 3rd just because the dps was so low it would've taken forever.)   She also does damage well enough that she's nearly mage-like in some of her kill-crits. (I think her high crit is 2450 on wrath right now.)   Were I to have a druid I'd go the same route. 

Lots of folks are down on balance because it sucked so hard before.  It wasn't called "OOMkin" for nothing, after all.

Wow, thanks.  That sounds like the kind of setup I want- something other than feral (I hate FOTM stuff, both on a personal level and in a tactical sense- more people will learn how to fight the FOTM ferals than balancers), with healing and damage ability both maintained.  Plus, the quest gear I pick up will be largely interchangeable.  How deep in balance does her build go (ie, all the way to treant, or a 31/30 or 36/25ish type)?

[MrHat]

Grouped w/ a balance druid on my shaman yesterday.  With the stormstrike debuff +20% nature spell damage, he was literally taking half life off mobs in 2 shots.

[Merusk]

Druids are awesome as feral now, however, a feral druid is a shitty healer.  A resto druid can't kill shit, though.  Ask yourself what you enjoy most and go that way.

 The wife went balance w/ some resto (she's 68 now) and has 521 to damage AND healing from her various quest/ instance gear and a 17% spell crit chance if she's in owlbe--"moonkin" form.   She heals well enough that we can duo almost all the 'group required' quests. (Durn needed a real tank rather than my pet, and one of the later quests we added a 3rd just because the dps was so low it would've taken forever.)   She also does damage well enough that she's nearly mage-like in some of her kill-crits. (I think her high crit is 2450 on wrath right now.)   Were I to have a druid I'd go the same route. 

Lots of folks are down on balance because it sucked so hard before.  It wasn't called "OOMkin" for nothing, after all.

Wow, thanks.  That sounds like the kind of setup I want- something other than feral (I hate FOTM stuff, both on a personal level and in a tactical sense- more people will learn how to fight the FOTM ferals than balancers), with healing and damage ability both maintained.  Plus, the quest gear I pick up will be largely interchangeable.  How deep in balance does her build go (ie, all the way to treant, or a 31/30 or 36/25ish type)?

You mean all the way to Moonkin?  Just loaded her up to check. She's at 51 in Balance, and 9 resto right now.  I almost typed everything out here.. duh there's tools for that.  Her Spec.  Some of them don't make sense to me, but I think she just decided to throw all her points in Balance, then started tossing them in Resto as she leveled.

One thing to mention, however, is  that a LOT of the quest rewards have been aimed squarely at Feral druids.  (Ditto with warrior stuff aimed at Arms/ Fury) As a result she's taken a few cloth rewards to up her dam/ healing as she goes.  Right now she's wearing cloth wrists, helm and boots because they were good upgrades.

She loves those damn trees though.  Uses them almost every time the cooldown is up, tough fight or not.  My cat will be there chewing on some mob then *BAM* 3 treants are joining-in.  Kinda fun.  :-D

[Triforcer]

Nice, thanks again.  I didn't know the quest rewards part...sigh.  I just hate the FOTM ferals I see everywhere right now...ironically, I was feral before I quit in November.  Ugh, more research required I guess although I think balance will work.  I doubt the treants are that powerful but the spell interrupt on annoying locks/mages alone would be attactive.

[Merusk]

The trees are an AWESOME "oh shit" button.  They level-up as you do, so it's exactly like having 3 mobs beating on something for the 15-20 seconds they're active.  They just don't stick around long enough/ have enough HPs to make them super dangerous and unbalanced.  I think I've seen some mages AOE them down when they were on someone else, but I could be wrong.

[Phred]

Feral druids ARE better warriors than warriors (and they make pretty decent rogues, too) all the way until 70 when warriors start getting epix. Actually this isn't really different from pre-BC wow, but it's more pronounced now because everyone is levelling at the same time.
Anyway, I've seen quite a few moonkin firing laser beams at people, so it does seem to be a popular path to take, though not as much as feral. Restoration druids are rare.. there's a drood alt in my guild who's decided to go full resto spec at 60 and just level via instances and grouping. Right now he's 62.. we'll see how it goes. Especially since he's an alt. :P


-- Z.

I think a lot of druids take moonkin because they want to have the mana pool and +healing to manage healing in instances. Most of the new moonkin leather is +dmg+healing from what I've seen so it can do double duty. In beta at 70 my feral druid had accumulated close to 500+healing and about 7k mana when dressed in my healing set but a moonkin can get quite a bit beyond that I think.

[Tebonas]

I'm 21point in Resto (up to Natures Swiftness) and the rest in Feral. I'm 65 now and my healing is adequate enough in Instances (up to healing two warriors and a feral druid at once without too many mana problems), while not much beats ripping through questmobs as a selfhealing swiping bear of destruction.

I'll go back to full resto in 70, but up to then I just carry around both Feral Solo gear and my healing gear. I started BC with Full Healing, but it wasn't difficult getting both gears during normal playing (heavy questing and some instances).

[SurfD]

yeah, not sure where you get the idea that a feral Druid makes a bad healer.  A resto druid makes a "more efficient" healer, but I just did a Steamvaults run with a feral druid as our healer (he had up to Leader of the pack, not sure how many points left to put into resto that leaves) and we did perfectly fine. 

Feral druids main healing all comes down to what healing gear they have.  A feral Druid with good healing gear makes for a good healer, while a Resto spec druid with good Feral gear wont be quite as effective in the role reversal.

[Fordel]

The trees are an AWESOME "oh shit" button.  They level-up as you do, so it's exactly like having 3 mobs beating on something for the 15-20 seconds they're active.  They just don't stick around long enough/ have enough HPs to make them super dangerous and unbalanced.  I think I've seen some mages AOE them down when they were on someone else, but I could be wrong.

They are pretty fragile and get boned by AE CC pretty badly, but they also cause so much panic in PvP, it's down right funny. The way they just appear throws people off. Noobfire + Swarm + Trees is mostly enough to kill anything squishy, or it was at 60, no idea how well it all scales up at 70. Tree damage gets some sort of scaling from your own SpellDmg, but I have no idea how much at what rate. They are basically a vicious interupting DoT. Being able to pop them anywhere in the spells range is keen as well. Someone pestering you from a perch out of reach? Send the trees up there!

My only real complaints with them are the short duration and the wacky AI. They are just down right random at times. It hasn't happend yet, but I am certain I will cause a instance wipe with these things sooner or later. Sometimes they just stand where you spawn them, doing nothing. Most of the time they behave and kill the nearest monster to there spawn point... but sometimes... sometimes they seem to get possessed by BoneArcher AI from DaoC and gallop off into the sunset to attack the monster 72 yards away.

[Lantyssa]

I'm feral with 11 points in restoration right now.  (I don't care what everyone else is doing, I enjoy playing feral, so that is what matters to me.)

If you do a lot of soloing I recommend getting a few points in Nature's Focus.  It is very handy to be able to shift out and heal yourself quickly thanks to a reduced chance of interruption while a couple of mobs are beating you upside the head.

[stark]

I'm full feral build too and I found that using barkskin to get off an uninterrupted heal makes points in Nature's Focus unnecessary.  Instead, I put those five points in Naturalist, -.5 seconds off healing touch plus a straight +10% to ALL damage, its value that can't be beat. 

I keep a full set of healing gear for instances that need a healer, but I think my mana pool is still too shallow.  If I'm the only healer I don't have the mana it takes to last through a long boss fight.  However, I've been able to MH successfully with almost all the pugs that asked for it.

Most pugs I've been in want the warrior to be MT (even if they are levels below me), so I'm not sure the 'board' wisdom that feral druids are omg awesome instance tanks has propegated to the masses.     

[WindupAtheist]

You know, I'm not very good at PVP.  I know my ass from a hole in the ground, but that's about it.  I know that I should use frost shock to slow people down, earth shock to disrupt spells, and flame shock to keep people from stealthing.  I know basically what totems to drop, and not to let a rogue get behind me.  And again, that's about it.  Any more advanced tricks or strategies elude me.

And yet, I'm constantly amazed at how many people on this PVP server have reached my level or beyond without meeting even my very basic level of competence.  I jumped a night elf priest, and all she did was keep trying to mind control me while I fucked up her attempts with earth shock and beat the hell out of her.  I jumped a human mage, and all he did was try to run away without bothering to frost nova me.

I mean, the guys who come looking for a fight still rock my shit more often than not, but I have no idea what some of these other people are even doing on a PVP server.

[Nebu]

I mean, the guys who come looking for a fight still rock my shit more often than not, but I have no idea what some of these other people are even doing on a PVP server.

Many people play on PvP servers for little more reason than to say that they play on a PvP server.  Silly, I know... but so is anyone that connects their self-esteem to video game prowess. 

[rk47]

people on Normal server (PVE) can't even PVE right. 

[Merusk]

people on Normal server (PVE) can't even PVE right. 

Amen.

Sometimes I turn on /general in cities just to watch equipment discussions. 

[Lantyssa]

People have no clue what the different server types are.  I've seen level 50's ask what an (RP) server is.  On one of them.

[Jobu]

I've noticed in both PvP and PvE, people everywhere just seem to be very rusty.

You have the raiders who are used to mentally checking out with their 39 other friends and just filling their one little role, suddenly required to think and react to "oh shit" situations that their gear can't make up for.

You have the people who have played AB/WSG/AV so much that all their PvP instinct is geared towards rush stables, defend LM, zerg the bridge, etc. They have forgotten what to do when you get jumped by someone while you are questing, or how to survive on your own against each class. They also don't have their insane gear superiority to bail them out.

[WindupAtheist]

So I finally hit 40 the other night.  One of my friends in the guild hit 40 the next day.  Tonight, we celebrated our newfound uberness by going to Duskwood and killing an epic number of newbies.  And boy, was it ever fun.  The range of reactions alone was priceless.

Most of them just run and get chased down and killed.  Some of them run until death is imminent, then turn around and try to land a hit or two on the way down.  Some just stand there and sullenly wait to die.  Some rightly don't give a shit and fight back, apparently just for the hell of it.

Like this one gnome mage.  He's like 18 levels lower than we are, but he hits his frost nova and somehow manages to freeze both of us.  Instead of trying to run away, he immediately turns around and starts blizzarding us.  The element of lunatic "Yaha, now I've got them right where I want them!" literally made me laugh.  I had my mage friend sheep him so I could give him a /salute before we finished him off.

Anyway, no individual newb lost more than a minute or two of their time since we weren't camping, and I somehow got about a dozen honor-kills along the way.  Eventually someone called in a hit-squad from their guild, and a bunch of level ?? came in to kill and camp us.  We just laughed.  We knew it was going to happen sooner or later, and it's not like we didn't have it coming.

/random story over

[rk47]

heh same just hit 40 shaman here, wondering if shd get my mount. Started my dual wielding with 2 maces from Scarlet monastery and Uldamann.
Main hand's pretty ordinary with nice dmg and +15 to heals..the off hander is sweet...chance on hit 98-120 fire dmg.
Uldamann was a rough go for PUG grp, so my high lvl guildies gave me a hand and I finished 5 quest in one sitting...pretty slick :P

[WindupAtheist]

So about three months in, and I've hit my limit.  I managed to hit level 50, and the grind is utterly soul-crushing at this point.  If I kill one more skeleton in Western Plaguelands, or furbolg in Felwood, or whatever, I'm going to poke my eyes out with a stick.  Maybe this is "fast leveling" to someone who played Everquest, but to me it's like putting my nuts in a vice.

The charms of fragfest PVP have worn thin as well.  When I get ganked anymore, the feeling is similar to having the phone ring with an important call just as I'm sitting down to take a shit.  Ganking others got too boring to do as anything other than a completely incidental activity weeks ago.

So yeah, a guild can make a crappy game fun for a while, but not forever.  Back to UO with me.

[Paelos]

I'm feeling the strain myself lately. I find myself not even logging in at night anymore because there's no point beyond me just grinding for cash. I'm 70, completely geared in the best stuff you can get out of 5 mans or off the AH, and I have revered in all the instances with all the keys including a Karazhan key.

Basically, unless we're running Karazhan or Gruul's Lair, which is only 2-3 days a week, I have fuckall to do. We had a solid group of 5 people who ran instances every night, so now we're pretty much done and spinning our wheels. Two of them went over to the Horde side, one of them took 4 weeks off to entertain family, and one rolled a shaman to 45 to stave off boredom. It's getting to the point where I may have to roll an alt or two seriously, and I hate alts.

Funny part is that I never thought I was leveling too fast, but here we are two months later and I'm waiting on the slowpokes just so we can get a serious raid going in heroics or whatnot.

[Azazel]

I lost interest about a month ago, and I didn't even get to 70. My guild, while mostly nice people is too big to care about anyone unless you're both in the cool kids club, and even with that there are so many alts you never know who anyone is. My wife has played something like twice since our holidays ended before her account expired again last weekend and my two mates who raced to 70, then stopped playing only hop on from time to time, leaving me with pretty much only the solo option, which just got boring.

Started a n00b on WUA's server, but the thought of grinding my way up to the same level as them so I could actually play alongside kinda crushed that thought after a few sessions. Bro-in-law bought BC, then lasted for something like two sessions, then never logged on again, all the shit I sent him has now bounced back.

If the five of us could form a semi-coherent group, even based on one night a week, then it'd still be fun and I'd be into it. As it is, it's just boring, and with the WoW-style-worse-than-EQ1-style rep grinds to look forward to, I find myself doing pretty much anything else to logging on. My game card has just under a month left on it. meh.

[Jayce]

I'm feeling the strain myself lately. I find myself not even logging in at night anymore because there's no point beyond me just grinding for cash. I'm 70, completely geared in the best stuff you can get out of 5 mans or off the AH, and I have revered in all the instances with all the keys including a Karazhan key.

I have been thinking that this was going to become a serious problem.  They have 2-3 years' worth of endgame content that was wiped off the map with the release of the expansion.  Even with all that content, people sometimes complained that they were bored, but between AQ* and Naxx, everyone pretty much had something to do.  Now they have to come back up to that level of content in the time it takes people to level to 70 and master all the new content? 

They're already behind, not surprisingly.

Personally, I beat the system by leveling to 62 in Outland, logging off in Zangarmarsh, then rerolling Horde.

[Merusk]

I'm still keeping myself entertained, but then I've been pacing the same way I paced when the game was released.  The cap was 60 for two years, that gave a lot of people a lot of time to just ease-up to there, then find stuff they wanted to do.  I still know folks who haven't hit 70 yet, but had 60s on BC release.

Frankly, I haven't understood the rush to get into Kharazan, then the 25-mans.   The content will STILL be there in a few months, and  if you take your time you don't burn yourself out trying to get there.   Besides, rushing just means waiting for the new content, which Blizzard isn't exactly quick with.

[Paelos]

I'm still keeping myself entertained, but then I've been pacing the same way I paced when the game was released.  The cap was 60 for two years, that gave a lot of people a lot of time to just ease-up to there, then find stuff they wanted to do.  I still know folks who haven't hit 70 yet, but had 60s on BC release.

Frankly, I haven't understood the rush to get into Kharazan, then the 25-mans.   The content will STILL be there in a few months, and  if you take your time you don't burn yourself out trying to get there.   Besides, rushing just means waiting for the new content, which Blizzard isn't exactly quick with.

That was kind of my thing, I was never really rushing at all. I was just enjoying all the new 5 mans with my crew and running about two of them a night. Do that long enough and you just start leveling pretty fast. Hell, it's like 100k xp for running one 5 man really.

[Fabricated]

I'm enjoying it still, but my classes are raping me sideways (don't take online classes from different campuses) so I haven't been able to log on more than one or two days a week, and that's usually to do some quests on my alt, cut some gems as my alt, then sigh and stare at my prot-warrior which is just awful to quest with.

The rest of my guild has been able to play more so they're pretty much all at level 70 and running instances left and right. I still haven't done a full run of the crypts, or durnholde.

[Xanthippe]

So about three months in, and I've hit my limit.  I managed to hit level 50, and the grind is utterly soul-crushing at this point.  If I kill one more skeleton in Western Plaguelands, or furbolg in Felwood, or whatever, I'm going to poke my eyes out with a stick.  Maybe this is "fast leveling" to someone who played Everquest, but to me it's like putting my nuts in a vice.

Level 50 for me has always been that way (4 toons' experience).  I left a rogue on a pve server at 53, and have never been back to it.  Now I have a 70 hunter, 65 warlock and 60 priest on a pvp server.  But yeah, 50 is really the low point.

Taking a break is a good idea.  But, I'll tell you, Outlands is really awesome.  I think  you can start there at 58.

My hunter just got keyed last week for Kara, but likely won't go anytime soon, since I only instance on weekends.  I have one heroic key (Coilfang).  I got my fast epic mount a couple of days ago.  Now I wish I'd save the gold for my warlock.

My warlock has only leveled on rested xp, and I'm more satisfied with how it scales up than my hunter (I'm disappointed in how hunter has scaled).  I've been trying to maximize rep gains due to being a 375 jewelcrafter.

My priest is really a tailor.  I don't think I've ever played her as a healer - maybe I was holy specced for 10 minutes once.  Mostly I tailored and played some bgs pre-TBC.  I will likely continue to use her as a bag maker, and might level her up.  Haven't decided yet.  I'm certainly in no hurry.

I haven't done too much instancing.  There's a couple I haven't done yet.  I doubt I'll ever make it to whatever I'm supposed to do after Kara, and may not even make it there.

I'm still enjoying playing though.

[Rasix]

I've done one instance exactly one time and I'm working my second character 70 (almost 66 on druid).  My druid gets invites out of the blue often though.  "HEY, R U FERAL. NEED TANX". 

Mothballed the shaman since I'm enjoying the druid a whole lot more.  I just suck ballsack as a tanking though (which is odd, I was a damn good tank in EQ).   I did manage to tank Ring of Blood in shitty gear without getting anyone killed except myself.  You'd think a level 70 priest would be able to handle the spike damage on the champion, but NOOO.  At least the fury warrior and 2 hunter pets were able to keep him busy so it wasn't a wipe.   I swear.. people need to watch their goddamn aggro if I'm full rage, spaming every ability I've got, and they're still making me yoyo-taunt a mob off them.

And I've just hit the gravy point on the druid.  Nagrand is my favoritest zone ever.  Still up in the on whether to switch to a boomkin.  Seems awefully awesome and I'm a sucker for new dances.  Just.. being a tank is so handy and I do enjoy mah melee. Ohh, and I hate downtime.

But yah... still waiting on burnout.  Sometimes I just don't feel like playing though, and in that case.. hello PS2 or book. 

[Calantus]

So about three months in, and I've hit my limit.  I managed to hit level 50, and the grind is utterly soul-crushing at this point.  If I kill one more skeleton in Western Plaguelands, or furbolg in Felwood, or whatever, I'm going to poke my eyes out with a stick.  Maybe this is "fast leveling" to someone who played Everquest, but to me it's like putting my nuts in a vice.

The game hits a real low point for leveling at around the 50s all the way to 60 (I guess BC content now, which is 58 I think) unless you know every goddamn quest in the game and when to do them, so you're probably just feeling that. Not that I'm saying you should keep going over the speedbump, just saying that WoW is nice leveling up til that point (with a few hiccups in the mid 30s and lowish 40s). If you don't like doing 5mans for loot over and over, PVP, raiding, or rolling alts then now is a good time to quit anyway unless you want to grind through the 50s to hit BC content.

[Phred]

The game hits a real low point for leveling at around the 50s all the way to 60 (I guess BC content now, which is 58 I think) unless you know every goddamn quest in the game and when to do them, so you're probably just feeling that. Not that I'm saying you should keep going over the speedbump, just saying that WoW is nice leveling up til that point (with a few hiccups in the mid 30s and lowish 40s). If you don't like doing 5mans for loot over and over, PVP, raiding, or rolling alts then now is a good time to quit anyway unless you want to grind through the 50s to hit BC content.

Very true. Part of the problem is the plaguelands have something everyone says they want in WoW but they miss it by the time they get there. That is, a ton of hidden quests. Junk in old barns start's quests, dead druids in ruined houses and npc's stuck in hidden valleys. All those hidden quests are great but I guess by that time most people are too used to being led around by the nose or something. Also a lot of people seem to miss some zones that have good quests. Burning steppes is one that comes to mind. Blasted lands has some good quests too iirc. The demon Rakh'likh quest line is one of the coolest in the game imo. I've leveled alts to 60 without ever going to plaguelands at all. Granted they had a lot of rested experience but there are enough other places you can go that you can almost completely skip the more common zones.

[Numtini]

I found the 40s bad enough. But I have been following Jame's Levelling Guide, which has helped a lot. It's not so much that I'm interested in the quick now no fun grind, but it is a good guide of places and quests in general, and also has notes for picking up this or that and saving them for future quests, or stop at this location on your way to pick up this quest because the drops are at the same place, which saves an incredible amount of time.

I also exhaust my blue and then take a few days off to sit in an inn and being a healer I liberally sprinkle in instances, particularly higher level ones.

[Jayce]

I found the 40s bad enough. But I have been following Jame's Levelling Guide, which has helped a lot. It's not so much that I'm interested in the quick now no fun grind, but it is a good guide of places and quests in general, and also has notes for picking up this or that and saving them for future quests, or stop at this location on your way to pick up this quest because the drops are at the same place, which saves an incredible amount of time.

I also exhaust my blue and then take a few days off to sit in an inn and being a healer I liberally sprinkle in instances, particularly higher level ones.

I'm also swearing by that thing, for the reasons stated.  Also, nothing says you can't go off the guide if you don't mind taking the time and a quest or exploration seems interesting.  edit: or some quest seems impossible and you don't mind a bit of extra grinding at the end.

[Triforcer]

I've done one instance exactly one time and I'm working my second character 70 (almost 66 on druid).  My druid gets invites out of the blue often though.  "HEY, R U FERAL. NEED TANX". 

Mothballed the shaman since I'm enjoying the druid a whole lot more.  I just suck ballsack as a tanking though (which is odd, I was a damn good tank in EQ).   I did manage to tank Ring of Blood in shitty gear without getting anyone killed except myself.  You'd think a level 70 priest would be able to handle the spike damage on the champion, but NOOO.  At least the fury warrior and 2 hunter pets were able to keep him busy so it wasn't a wipe.   I swear.. people need to watch their goddamn aggro if I'm full rage, spaming every ability I've got, and they're still making me yoyo-taunt a mob off them.

And I've just hit the gravy point on the druid.  Nagrand is my favoritest zone ever.  Still up in the on whether to switch to a boomkin.  Seems awefully awesome and I'm a sucker for new dances.  Just.. being a tank is so handy and I do enjoy mah melee. Ohh, and I hate downtime.

But yah... still waiting on burnout.  Sometimes I just don't feel like playing though, and in that case.. hello PS2 or book. 

The only downside to boomkinism is that you are moderately less desirable in any 5 man group.  This makes sense in a cold light- hell, if I wasn't a boomkin, I would probably be the guy saying "If we are getting more DPS, get DPS with CC".  It doesn't keep you from getting a group EVAR, but boomkins are still so rare that some who have never grouped with them won't want you.  Usually, once they see you (1 on dmg meter and other caster DPS loving your aura) they will come around. 

[AcidCat]

Hmmm, just this weekend I started thinking about cancelling. Over the last week or so, I log in and just have zero motivation. The only character that I seem to enjoy these days is my Draenei Hunter. My Tauren Shaman is 63, my Human Priest is 64, and my NE Druid is 62. And for some reason lately I just dread logging onto them - leveling up is just feeling like work right now. The prettiness of the new zones has worn off and I just find myself staring at my xp bar, seeing how slowly it goes up even at rested xp on all of 'em, and I just think of all the work that needs to be done to get to 70.

It's funny, when I look back at the time before the expansion, I was looking forward to it so bad. But I was having fun PvPing in BG's with my three 60's. Now as I'm out there leveling I'm realizing that I'm not having fun. I just want to be at 70 and PvP without worrying about leveling.

So I find myself playing lower level alts, just kind of dicking around. But I really think it's time for a break from the game. This always seems to be the way it goes ... I spend untold hours and it's all good, then one day the bottom just drops out and I have no motivation, it all suddenly seems so pointless ...