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Yea I'm in the same boat with my pally. Hit 70 and then realized that my guild had 2 other 70's and a ton of 20+ toons. So much like you my pally has started to collect a little dust while I run around on my other toons; kinda sucks but I'm guessing that when Lich king comes out, all that epic gear that everyone with huge guilds and spent months and months getting will be outdone by the green quest rewards from Lich King

Where did bliz say that?

Grats, Skribs!

But, you might want to think twice about shelving your Hunter for alts just yet. The game has barely begun once you hit 70th. Now you've got about 12 factions to try to get to at least Revered (for Heroic keys) or Exalted (depending on what nice gear or Trade patterns they offer which you covet), plus entirely new and unrevealed quest lines to open up!

Complete the quests hanging out in your log.

Get a Trade or gathering skill up to 375.

Get in the good graces of the Skyguard, Ogri'la, or Netherwing.

Start running your Kara quest chain.

Start running Heroics.

Get your 5k Golds and a Epic flying mount.

Any of those can be a month of solid play time, depending on how fast you can make groups for the group quests involved with each.

So, don't stop working on the Hunter. A fresh 70th has a huge amount of content left to experience.

Congrats on 70!!!!

I did the same thing when my Hunter hit 70.... moved to my alts. My Priest is now 66, but I still bring Wiz out once in a while for a influx of gold. Love that extra gold from quests.

I've been debating on whether or not it would be worth it to start instancing more with WotLK coming out. Our guild is also very small, and my hubby HATES instances with a passion, so I'd be forced to do a PuG. I think I'm going to continue with the rep grind (want that Netherdrake!)and primal farming until the expansion.

Anyway, gratz again.... enjoy the extra cash!

<----feeling horribly guilty. Sorry Caldone. I don't know how that happened. I was shocked to see my name in blue, and now green.

I'll go hang my head in shame. :(

ahh... but that, imo, is what makes this forum great. Which is what makes this so damned ironic.

I don't understand this mentality at all. "Better investment"? If you just plan on retiring your characters at the level cap anyway, just what are you investing in? You're not investing in the 70 because he'll be basically retired to farm status. You're investing in alts? For what? to get them to 70 so they can be retired, too? Investing in a character that's ready to start leveling at 71 when WotLK does eventually come out?

Nobody really has any idea when WotLK will be out. I just don't understand giving up playing a character simply because eventually the expansion will make some gear obsolete.

For example, rather than get a flying mount in the near future, you'll wait a year until WotLK release. In the meantime, your now farmer 70 will be running around on a land mount. You could really use the flyer now, not a year from now. Great, you save yourself some gold when Blizz inevitably lowers the cost. But, in the meantime, your farmer is not very efficient and you're losing gold by spending time running around on a land mount. What are you saving the gold for?

And, you'll level alts covering the same 1-70 quests that get completely boring after the 2nd or 3rd time, rather than continue to pursue new content on your level 70. I guess you view capping at level 70 as completing the game. There's so much more to do at 70 (as Kompera laid out very nicely) and you have so much more freedom to do what you want.

I understand different people play the game in different ways, it's one of the big strengths of WoW, in my opinion. But, I just don't understand throwing in the towel because of WotLK.

Just curious what this "master plan" of yours is?

The master plan is to try to get every one of my alts (except maybe my warrior, but that's a different story) to 70 before WotLK comes out. By "every one of my alts" I mean I'm trying to have all the classes at 70.

I'm not throwing in the towel, I'm simply retiring her until she needs to be called in again. In war, they send soldiers out for a year or so, then bring them back and let other soldiers go. What I would be doing is simply putting my hunter "on leave" until WotLK comes out, or I need to farm.

I used to play FPSes. Do you realize how repetitive it is to play the same map over and over and over again? A single scrimmage game in CS is 30 rounds of doing pretty much the same thing. To get good at a map, me and my friends would do a lot. So the repetitiveness is not really that bad for me.
And like sethy said, grinding rep is repetitive as well. And since I DONT have too many friends in-game that I could get together to do stuff with, I'd be limitted to 5-mans or PvP, which could be fun, but levelling alts would be a better investment for when WotLK comes out.
Not to mention, it's different doing the quests. On a mage I may AoE grind, on a pally I may AoE grind (which are 2 different things), on a hunter it's just pet-shoot-loot, on a lock I may drain tank, etc. Where as if I go to end-game content on a hunter, I'm looking at pet-loot-shoot for the rest of my gaming experience.

And I didnt say I wasn't getting a flying mount. I said I wasn't geting an EPIC flying mount. Meaning I'm not gonna farm up 5k gold to save a bit of time farming (it's a losing investment IMO).

Now onto the better investment aspect of it:
There are 2 options awaiting me now, one is to get geared up for kara, then start the raiding process. I would have to get keyed for heroics and/or do some PvP to get some decent gear, then find a guild that actually has enough people to start hitting the raids AND WHO IS ON THE RAIDS I NEED. Then, assuming I get T5 or T6 gear by the time WotLK comes out, I will probably end up getting level 73-75 greens to replace them, so all that extra time spent on my character will only help me quest for about 3-5 levels, and maybe give me a 50% boost between those levels.
The other option is to level alts. By doing this, when WotLK comes out it may be harder for EACH of my alts to step into northrend, but if you factor in that I would only have to spurt a guy from 70-80 instead of from 1-80. After the next XP comes out, I will have an easier time getting all of my alts to 80 than the person with 1-2 guys in full T6. It also gives me some flexibility...like if the guild needs more healers, instead of trying to recruit one or starting an alt at level 1, I have a level 70 I can bring up to level 80 pretty quick. And if they need a single-target healer, I can level a pally; if they need an AoE healer, a shammy, etc etc.

thats because you suck ;)

But by the time WotLK comes out, the next expansion will be in the works.

Do you plan on parking your characters at 80 in anticipation of 90? It just seems like an endless cycle.

If leveling is what you enjoy, that's great. I guess I just react to the "no-lifer" assessment of level 70. Sure 70 is the current level cap, but in many ways, reaching 70 frees you in so many ways. It's not really an end, but a beginning.

Go with a Pally Tank, they are the best IMO :) Thus why I am leveling one myself

I really dont get the mentality here either...

There is no telling when WotLK will be out, I believe BC came out
1.5 years after first being announced. You're planning ahead for how you
will be playing in potentially a year from now?

I do realize people would like to try different classes and roles, that's why
I temporarily ditched my resto druid and lvled my hunter, but if you wanna
try all classes, why not just check out test realms?

I know a lot of people diagnosed with altism, but they all spend lots of time
gearing them up and doing endgame content after dinging 70.
I just dont get the 5-year plan :P

Anyway, it's your game, play it your way :)

Guess I just think it's better to live/play in the present.

Yes, that's my plan as well. Although I'm not ambitious enough to say I'll have a 70 of every character =) , I want a healer as my secondary 70.

I watched the Blizzcon video and the one guy (don't flame me for getting his name wrong) Tigole said that feedback they recieved was all very good. He said players were liking the new scaled gear. It made them feel "progression" I believe he said. I've been assuming the gear for WotLK would be the same.