Pre-Cata Game Plans

[Arwyn]

As we all patiently wait for either Beta invites to Cata, if you haven't stop by Zangor'sthreadto share what you would do if you got one, or for Cata itself to come out, supposedly its to come out this year, what things are you doing in-game now as you await for the exp.

Are you working on trying to complete a couple of Achievements? Are you working to get in good with certain factions? Are you trying to level up a skill you haven't touched since BC came out? Are you stalking some pet or mount to pass the time? Are you trying to get the best armour available? Or..are you just doing nothing?

Me...I'm trying to get in good with the Argent Tournament people so I can get a faithful sl..squire to follow me around and hold my stuff on my tauren while leveling my NE to 80.

So..what are you doing?

[Zangor]

stealing the souls of innocent children.......uh nevermind

[Saturo]

I'm building a nerfbat, to threaten Zangor with.

(Trying to get the king of liches to... You know... Surrender... His life. Yup...)

[Mania]

*snort* Kids.

The Elite Taming Cadre (13 hunters covering every pet level from 5 to 80) is on hold right now, but I started a character to collect low level gray armor. Did you know that the level 1-5 mail armor is a very attractive blue?

On a similar note, I've been doing Love is in the Air dailies and the Lunar Festival stuff to make sure that I have all the dresses and suits on each character that I want to have them. Well, really, just once for LiitA since those clothes don't bind, and a whole annoying bunch for the Lunar Festival since most of those do.

I've also been lackadaisically doing Argent Tournament dailies when the mood strikes me. I completed all the dailies every day for so many moths that I really, really hate them now. But I still need a couple of mounts and two mini-pets, and it would be great to get some heirloom stuff after that.

I'm really just futzing around. I hope the beta starts soon because otherwise I may get involved with something and burn up all my WoW energy in an untimely fashion.

[Vephriel]

I'm almost never bored in the game since I'm a terminal altoholic.

Right now I'm loving being on the Nesingwary server with all the fellow Petopians here. It's really renewed my interest in levelling characters since it's no longer a dull, solitary venture. Having a group of awesome people to chat to and have fun with truly makes a difference. I love our silly Guild Events, and it's great going on group taming adventures and having others who understand the passion for pets. ^^

Having transferred my main over there, it's also a relaxing change of pace from the PvP server that I 'grew up' on. I loved every minute of it, don't get me wrong, and I would not have liked levelling on a PvE realm for the first time. Having had my fill of it, though, I like to think of Nesingwary as my 'retirement realm'. I can level my alts in peace without worry of being ganked or interrupted, and overall I've found a much more friendly community.

I'm planning on moving a couple of my other characters from my old server in time, and Nesingwary is definitely my new main realm.

I'm really excited for Cataclysm, and I can't wait to play a Goblin and try out a Worgen. The hunter mana change is going to be phenomenal, and of course I'm jumping out of my seat at the thought of all the new pets we can look forward to.

Overall I'm a little antsy for the expansion, but truthfully I have plenty of things to keep me busy in the meantime.

[Saturo]

I'm almost never bored in the game since I'm a terminal altoholic.

I read that as alcoholic. I totally did, and I had to reread the whole sentence before realizing... "Oh..."

[Jadvya]

For me, I'm collecting RP armor sets (I want my Beast Lord set, dammit) and that fun sort of gear, leveling my druid and paladin (and cat and raptor), grind rep with the Skyguard, Lower City, maybe Sporeggar, herbalising for tons of gold, roleplaying, running old-world content, exploring hidden areas... I find a lot of things to do! My sister's moved onto Second Life while she waits for Cataclysm, saying WoW bores her now 'cause she can't wait, but seriously, there's lots to do!

[Skyshot]

I've just been BGing and doing wintergrasp mostly. Getting my honor saved up for any honor gear they release in Cata.
Other than that I've been saving up my argent tourny tokens for heriloom gear if I make a goblin when the time comes. =)

[Kayb]

i'd like to get all the great top level gear, but i'm not interested in raiding. my guild fell apart for the 5th time because of raiding and i can't be stuffed rebuilding it yet again for any reasons. most of my friends and family rarely play if ever play anymore and i don't like pugs so i don't even dungeon a great deal

i've mostly been running about doing all the low level quests i missed in an effort to get my horde cities rep up

[Kalasha]

Currently Kalasha is running herself ragged in my guilds ICC raids. All that dying and rezzing really kicks the crap out of you.

My DK is parked in the Storm Peaks, still don't have that polar bear mount.... but at least I get a lot of frost lotus farming done.

My pala is tanking hc's when i feel up for it, and working to get all the pure +stat gems via JC dailies. I just ignore the ones with stats they're removing anyway.

Yep, plenty to do indeed

[Ghostred]

I've pretty much stopped raiding on my main, just cause I'm not really thrilled with it and I hate the repair bills, lol. I'm loving the Nessingwary guild and just may have to transfer all my characters I want to keep over there, slowly, of course.

Right now I'm having fun raising yet another troll hunter in Petopian's and taking the advice of a blog I read, trying to raise as much gold I can to prepare for Cata. And it's kind of a "remember when" sight seeing venture before all the areas change. And I still haven't gotten the bear or an Oracle proto-drake yet!

I want a Goblin hunter and will even probably start a Worgen in the Petopian Alliance guild when the time comes.

Can we sign up for the Beta "lottery" yet?

[Nick]

Bumming around, trying to get my Argent Hippogryph since everyone on my server is to lame to take a level 80 through Slave Pens/Underbog/etc for rep. :[

[Skyshot]

Bumming around, trying to get my Argent Hippogryph since everyone on my server is to lame to take a level 80 through Slave Pens/Underbog/etc for rep. :[

You could always farm ears in Borean for CE rep if that's the hippogryph you're after. That's what I did. :]

[Mania]

That's the Cenarion Hippogryph, Skyshot. But yeah, I farmed ears for him also. At least until I was really, thoroughly sick of ears ...

The one I want is the Silver Covenant Hippogryph, which I will never get on Mania. (Wrong faction.) *grumble*

[Golden]

Hmm, let's see...

- get the Loremaster title on both Nanyana and Subira
- finish all the rep grinds in Outland on Nanyana <.< (Skyguard almost exalted, Sporeggar still at Honored...)
- level my Mage to 80 and hope to find the interest to level my Rogue too. Subira should also reach 80 by then

[Epicfail]

I've done most of the stuff I care to do at this point. More gear would be real nice, but thats ongoing. Holiday stuff and raiding mostly although I'm pretty sure my enthusiasm for getting gear is going to subside a lot after I get a few more pieces.

I've got names for my goblin and worgon alt (to see the new areas). I would more likely race swap my hunter to goblin or undead (eventually) if I really like him.

I'm giving up playing wow for Lent, so nows a real good season for just hanging back and resting. Cata is sure to suck us back in hardcore so its best to pace yourself or find other things to do during the interim.

TIP: letting wow go for a little while will actually speed up time and allow for Cata to come that much faster! Wooo!

[Arkiss]

At 84 mounts I'm 16 off the achievement, and I refuse to wait for Cata in order to get it! So its mostly been Argent Tourney-ing for me, 500 Champion Seals to go before I've nabbed all of the AT mounts, and then its off to the BGs for the 6 PvP mounts. Beyond that its down to running H Occulus and H Uthgarde Pinnacle and hoping the drakes drop. Which, even if they -do- drop, leaves me 3 off the achievement.

Aside from agonizing over mounts, I'm collecting better gear, trying to complete the Loremaster title, and levelling my level 30 warlock. I have a name saved for my Worgen, and if I have the time or inclination I'll be farming some gold and mats for him on my draenei.

[bloodysam]

i want to get the Red-Proto Drake before it goes away i'm 6 achevements away!
question how do u get the one in Old Kingdom for the first boss
Respect your Elders

[Sharilar]

Respect your elders is way easy now that it's just one Elder period. Have someone off-tank the elder while the boss is dragged out of range of the Elder's buff, and burn him down. Ideally you pull the boss out of the room so the OT can pick up the Elder before it ever gets in range.

As for me, my main(BM hunter) is raiding ICC(80-odd badges until I don't need badges anymore, or anything out of ICC10 at all barring LK drops) and wrapping up a few old rep grinds... ZG should finish tomorrow. My feral kitty is gearing up in ICC too, though she's a little behind of course. I've got 3(soon to be 4) other 80s that I plan to get in basically all T9-level gear at least, so they'll have it easy leveling in Cat, and I've got two names reserved for Worgen characters, as well as 26k gold set aside for whatever may crop up as worthwhile and expensive. Once race change to Worgen is opened up my hunter's definitely gonna go Worgen.

[Jakkra]

Hmm.. good question, what have I been doing in WoW?

Well, most of the time I spend helping guildies and friends with group quests, and low level dungeon run thrus for their multitudes of alts... My other main is a feral druid (bear spec) and a good friend of mine insists on calling me "mama bear", haha.

I run a random every day for the two frost emblems, and I've already saved up enough to buy myself the cloak and belt, both of which are very nice.

Been on a taming spree, but think I've finally found the perfect pet for me right now, as you can see from my awesome new sig. <3

I raid if I get the chance to, or go on Ashen Verdict rep runs... all pugged, though, or with a couple people I'm friends with from other guilds.

Also been toying with the idea of seriously leveling my night elf hunter on Nesingwary, for the SOLE purpose of taming a cat that looks like the winterspring frostsaber mount, and then doing the actual grind for the mount itself. I just think it's a beautiful cat. ^_^

Still not sure how I'll feel about the whole hunter revamp in cata, but I have made Jakkra my main since leveling her to 80, so I'll definitely be sticking with her, and hopefully the new focus system will work out well for me.