So I’ve given WAR a valiant effort. Valient for Cuppycake means that I’ve logged in more than once, played for several hours each play session…so keep that in mind. I’m just not feeling it. There isn’t anything glaringly WRONG with the game, but I can’t get into it. I’m going to blame it on the ugliness of every female avatar I could choose from and a complete lack of interest in the lore or story. I’ve never been into the Warhammer IP at all, so that could very well be the reason that I’m not too hyped about playing. When I log in, I’ve been bored. Granted, I haven’t done much for scenarios and absolutely none of the overworld RvR – but I just don’t feel like I *want to*. I don’t know…I haven’t canceled yet, but WotLK is in 38 days and it’s calling my name.
That brings me to the question in the subject line – what is there to do in WoW right now while I’m waiting for Wrath of the Lich King? What is everyone else doing? My guild is on hiatus until the expansion hits so there is no one to run Kara or other instances and I really don’t like doing pugs. So here are my choices, and I’d love some other suggestions.
- Do dailies, eventually get that 5,000 gold needed for my epic flight form. Also, get exalted with SSO for the neck item. – Any word if
- Start and attempt to get as far as I can in my druid epic flight quest.
- Start and grind out herbalism to go along with inscription when the expansion hits.
- Max out my fishing skill (I think it’s at like 310 now)
- Try to complete some objectives for some achievements (Getting the Guardian of Cenarius title for having exalted rep with Cenarion Expedition and Cenarion Circle sounds neat)
- Do quests I never completed for cash and achievements.
- Do some battlegrounds to try to get 25,000 honor for the pvp 2h healer mace. (How soon will that be upgraded in the expansion?)
- Level up my 60 warlock or 62 priest to 70.
Tami Baribeau is the Associate Producer for Metaplace, Inc, currently working on Island Life. She is also the Lead Editor of feminist gaming blog The Border House, and the National Facebook Games Examiner for Examiner.com. She can be reached on Twitter or by email.
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You can’t start your swift flight quest until you have the 5000g trained epic flying. I don’t see if as a priority though, in 38 days you’ll be in Northrend and not able to fly there until level 77. By then you’ll be able to easily 3-man Heroic Sethekk for the swift flight quest.
If you do BG’s, better to bank the honor. I’m in the beta and the gear awarded by some of the very first Howling Fjord and Borean Tundra quests is a nice upgrade. I think you’ll regret spending the honor, especially if you’ll probably end up levelling feral. Save it for 80, lots of pvp gear to spend it on then.
Concentrate on dailies. To start training your tradeskills up to 450 costs a couple hundred gold each (don’t remember the exact number). Get the fishing up, fishing in WotLK is much improved, with some great buff fish available and some fun fishing in Dalaran’s underbelly.
Patch 3.0 coming soon will have reductions in levelling time from 60-70, the same way BC reduced 20-60. Would be a good time to level that priest or lock, especially if you plan on boxing your way through Northrend like I am.
If you have a herbalist, start gathering low and mid-level herbs, Wowhead and other sites will tell you what you need to get a great headstart on Inscription.
I’m playing some Wizard101 right now so I come back to WoW fresh and eager for the expansion. If you haven’t tried it, I think you’d like it!
Good luck!
I am looking forward to WoTLK, but all those activities you listed sound very un-fun :-/
Say it ain’t so, Cuppy! I never played with you!
S’alright though. The way I see it, the two games are like too opposite sides of a coin.
WoW is mainly a PvE game with PvP as a side-thing to do (although word is that the next expansion will have the Alliance and Horde in an all out war, which would be a nice change).
And WAR is mainly a PvP game with PvE as a side-thing to do.
It only makes sense that if the PvP doesn’t draw you in, you’d be better served eslewhere. I do hope you hang around though. There’ll always be a spot in Casualties, and we’ll likely open the guild to other games as they come out and people show interest in them.
I’m actually playing a free month of FFXI while waiting on WOTLK. I’d never seen the game run through the XBOX at HD720. IT’S SO PRETTY. I still love that game.
My video card won’t run WAR without showing everything as rainbow textures and I wasn’t really grabbed enough by the play during Beta to want to upgrade my card JUST for the game which I didn’t see myself playing long. Whatcha gonna do, right?
@Bri – Thank you for the suggestions! Lots of that is good information. I’ll work on leveling up fishing and farming some herbs and doing dailies until WotLK. =)
@Ama – I knew you’d go back and play some FFXI
You guys better come back for WotLK though, we have no one to run instances with us unless you guys play too!
Not waiting for WotLK
Last time I played WoW was long before they released any expansions, so it is not even on my radar.
But why not pick up some free MMO trials then? Does not cost you anything and you might end up liking one them.