I’ve lately been doing some preparation for Wrath and trying to decide where each of my characters will go once the expansion hits. This entails two things: Guild bank clearing to ensure I start Wrath with maximum cash (no one knows what we will need!) and gear grinding for characters.
Today I cleared out my guildbank, AHing hundreds of gold’s worth of herbs, potions, buff food, enchanting materials and the like – come Wrath, all of it will be worthless, so might as well get rid of it. I don’t actively raid at the moment either, so I have no need for consumables. So far the sales have netted me around 600g, with goods worth twice that still on the AH. My guess is that I can have at least 30k+ gold before Wrath (currently at 28k across all characters on Haomarush) which is more than enough for anything that can be thrown at me.
Another thing I should be doing is gear and rep grinding. I should have had all my 70s at SSO exalted already, sadly only one of them is SSO exalted at the moment – on the others I have either been lazy, have had a spec not suitable for grinding, or a mixture of both. Getting all of them SSO exalted will also ensure steady gold flow.
Other goals I have include getting full S2 to the chars that need it, in a spec of their choice. Elysiane doesn’t need it, neither does Starlet since she pretty much has it all (I’m looking at the S3 helm in another week or two, have the S4 gloves, and S2 pieces in other slots). But Sareya, Roch and especially my long-neglected Kali could use some upgrades.
Thing is – I know what I am getting for Sareya, full S2, nonset epics, the works. But I have no idea what spec’s set should be grinded for the other two. I could get resto and holy sets for both – but I hardly ever arena with Kaliah, and having a decent DPS set would be cool in preparation for Lich King. Same for Rochalie, hardly ever BG/arena now, could do with a ret set (besides, I have been considering going The Ret for a while now). Plus, if I actually had DPS gear and spec on those two, maybe I would be more motivated to rep farm…
I could also bite the bullet and go for both sets, but I feel I would die inside before that. I spend a lot of time in battlegrounds as is.
I am also considering getting Kaliah and Starlet exalted with The Aldor just to have done it, but it can well be a waste of time and money seeing WotLK is here soon.
As for my little Alliance characters, the future is uncertain. I would like a night elf priest, but I am horribly disillusioned with priests in PvP at the moment, and that gives me no motivation to level Kielle. I am determined to get Lainie WSG exalted and then move on to the next bracket, but at any rate, that doesn’t seem like an easy or fast goal to reach. It will undoubtedly be quite a while before it happens.