Unrelated note: how many times did I type "reoslutions" instead of resolutions? If you guessed 3, you’re a winner.
So the holiday lull is over and the new year begins. My real life resolutions for 2010 aren’t anything impressive, and I’ve been cheating on WoW with consoles so I could really use some goal setting… so let’s take a look at what I intend to get done in WoW this year.
- Finish Insane in the Membrane before Cataclysm – or at least the goblin and Shen’drelar portions. Ideally I’d like to have all of this done by the expansion, so I can march into Deepholm and prove that I really am insane – see, it says so right above my head… Barring that, I’d like to at least finish the Steamwheedle Cartel and Shen’drelar reputations. Feralas is marked for some pretty heavy changes, and as it’s the easiest source for both of those (or at least the best for this title), I’d like to get done with that place while I can. Goblin I can do – Shen’drelar will be hell on the pocketbook… I suck at making money. This also has a sub-resolution:
- Get my rogue to 60+. This is the only way I’m going to be able to pickpocket all those Heavy Junkboxes unless a miracle occurs. The problem is, I really don’t like playing my rogue, so I need to use my remaining month of recruit-a-friend time and power-level her.
- Finish The Loremaster on my warlock. This is the title I originally wanted for him back when he was a little Forsaken warlock. Then he was a gnome warlock on Kael’thas and I’m sorry, I just can’t play gnomes. Now he’s an orc warlock back on Feathermoon and is only a few levels higher than he was at the end of Wrath. He’s halfway done with basically all of Loremaster, barring Northrend, so I guess I should also add:
Finally (FINALLY) finish Higher Learning. Do you know how close I am to this? I need one book. One. It is never there. I have seen its joke replacements for the last four months. I WILL FINISH THIS ACHIEVEMENT THIS YEAR.Finished on January 18, 2010.- Get my warlock to 80 before Cataclysm. That way I can ignore him until it’s almost time for the expansion after that. Ha ha, I kid.
- Get my Violet Proto-Drake. As it stands, I’ll get this during the Midsummer Fire Festival – assuming I don’t get boned by the RNG again during Valentine’s Day. The Midsummer Fire Festival is the only event I’m not at least 33-50% done with, because it was the only holiday that passed during the time that I quit playing WoW. I’ve been cleaning up so far, and I’ve got no reason to stop. Hot Pink Drake of Speed, here I come!
- Level a druid, paladin, or shaman to 80. Really, just level anything to 80. I’m pretty sure I’m the last remaining person in World of Warcraft with one level 80 character. And I’ve really had the urge to level a kitty druid lately… and I do have the leather heirlooms for it… I’ve just been trying to hold off on it until I finish leveling my rogue, and I was also kind of waiting until troll and worgen druids were available. However, I’m bad at not giving in to temptation.
So yeah, that’s it. There’s my list. It’s a short list of resolutions (spoiler: I typed "reoslutions" again), but it should be enough to keep me occupied.
Especially Insane in the Membrane, which some days feels so overwhelming that I start to think maybe Battlemaster would’ve been a better idea.
Oh wait! I forgot one!
- Post informative stuff about Death Knights again. The death knight blogosphere shrank about as fast as it grew, didn’t it? And my old guides could really use a good revamp. So yeah, I figure 2010 is a good time for me to get back into posting about the art of death knighting again.
So what are your goals for the year?
Stop used to be a warlock, then he was a death knight; first he was Horde, then he was Alliance again, and now he's Horde again. For good this time. Lok'tar ogar! 
I’m with you on the “post more DK info”. I should start with “Post more”.
I agree. There aren't that many of us, so those of us who are left have to pick up the slack.
I heartily endorse your idea of leveling a druid to 80. You're not the only one with a single 80, though. My DK just made the sprint from 74 to 78 over the long holiday weekend, but before that, he wasted away in the low 70s for at least 6 months. Well, I look forward to hopefully reading your updated DK posts later this year!
My warlock is 72, my shaman is 59. Below that? Almost all my alts are languishing in their 40s. 45 hunter, 46 priest… probably a few others I've forgotten. Then a rogue and a paladin at 23 and 22 respectively, a mage at 18, and that's it. I actually don't have a druid alt.
I think I'm going to roll up a new DK on some realm and level as one, at least to Outland, so I can remember what it's like to play with a limited moveset.
You're not the only one with a single level 80 character. Apart from my priestess I have a level 80 Paladin I inherited from my Dad when he died last March, but I only use her for inscription, and didn't level her myself, so can't really count her. My poor rogue won't move past 70 (it took me a year to get her from 60 to 70). I just love playing my priest too much. I'd quite like a druid at 80, so am tempted to level the 71 one I also inherited from my Dad. I played her at 70, but to be honest I never really player her properly – I used to heal the same way I do on my priest
I can't kill stuff any more. I get so much more of a kick from healing I can't play anything without a healing spell. Every so often I'm tempted to get my Shaman past level 28, but go back to my priest….
All the best with your Insane aim! I hate grinding so much too that I will never go for that one! Even going back and doing Loremaster is beyond me. I've not done 4 of the zones in Northrend yet!
Luckily, you don't HAVE to kill things anymore, not above 15-ish.
The new LFG has made the idea of leveling holy or resto or disc not quite as absurd anymore. Between a combination of LFG and battlegrounds XP (and let me tell you: those low level battlegrounds could use some healers), it's entirely possible to level as a healer these days.
I also would like a druid at 80 – I think I'd probably dual-spec cat/tree. I wish I knew why I liked cats so much better than rogues, though. I guess it's just the style and flair of the cat-apult.
I have a 46 prot pally, 52 Alliance druid that was my original main years ago, and then I have something of every class in the teens or low 20s. I have the worst attention span when it comes to lowbie alts.
The 40s are just an awful hump for me. I think the 40s and 50s might be some of the least entertaining content for me. Maybe I should go back to some of those alts and see if random dungeon finding improves the experience any.
Good luck on the resolutions! I see you're already started on your posting more DK info.
And I hope you have just a tiny shred of sanity left after Insane in the Membrane. /cheers you on