Alt Attack!

Due to a real life work and continuing education schedule that hasn’t left me with much spare time, I haven’t raided in a few weeks. Instead, I’ve spent an unusual (for me) amount of time playing my alts. And creating new alts. I blame @psynister’s influence!

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This past weekend, I indulged in some profession power leveling on my two goblins, speeding them through inscription (maxing out what’s possible for level 35) and tailoring/enchanting (making good headway for a level 11.) But that’s not even the half of it:

• I moved my Tauren druid, who hadn’t been played since the expansion hit, to the server whre I’ve been rolling my goblins to play with some great tweeps.
  • And proceeded to earn her a level, bringing her up to level 81.
• And despite all that, I still had time to push my Alliance warlock to 84
• AND get all my toons the Legacy of Arlokk staff
•  AND do a wee bit of Children’s Week on my primary characters.

All of the above in a few short hours this weekend, in-between bouts of homework! So while all around me I am hearing about boredom and burn out, I’m back to having a nice solid “to do” list, across a half dozen characters. And that’s just the way I like it.

Next up, I’ll need to decide if I want to leave any of my hordelings on Bronzebeard at all. As of now, I’m leaning towards not leaving them there. In the 2 1/2 years I’ve been there, the server environment has changed as far as not having as many PUGs going for raid content, and not a very wide selection of raiding guilds. Plus many of the folks I really enjoyed playing with there have either left the server, or stopped playing. Our friend’s guild is 11/12, which makes it great on the casual raiding front, but it’s really not exactly what I’m looking for from a social standpoint, truth be told. Given all this, I’d prefer to have my beloved shadow priest on a server where she had a number of raiding options, so that she’ll never again be stuck in a less than inspiring guild situation all for the sake of a raid slot.

But that’s all stuff to figure out later. Right now, the class and homework schedule, plus work busyness means not thinking about raiding at all short term. For the first time in 5 years. And yes, it feels pretty strange to not have any raiding progression targets on my “to do” list. It will remain to be seen how well not raiding works out. And where I end up.