Hopefully my rogue will have at least 1 maxed secondary profession by then, and when I finish maybe the ore farming hordes will have passed and I can get some JC leveling done on my bear as he’s leveling.

Let me phrase that differently. I’m currently spending most of my wow time in the beta, and enjoying every moment of it. I know already a lot of what to expect. But I also know things will change still. Making a detailed plan now of what exactly to do upon launch is a bit of a folly, such plans tend to get thwarted by harsh realities in one way or another. Instead I’m going to do whatever I feel like doing upon launch. What that is I don’t know yet, but I do know I’ll be having fun :)

It probably centers around tradeskills, and therefore leveling some gatherer characters is going to be a key – but I have many of those. And to assist my miners and herbalists, it seems http://mop.wowhead.com/item=87213 is probably going to be important – so leveling an engineer early on may be a good plan too.

As far as classes and spec go, I found a Blood DK to provide smoothest sailing while questing and leveling. It doesn’t provide top dps, but at least it hit stuff quite a bit harder than the guardian druid I tried, and provides similar or better survivability.

My ultimate goal for the expansion I do have planned already though, but will take some time to get: get at least one character of each class to the maximum level, get at least one character of each race to the maximum level, and get each tradeskill to the maximum level on at least one character.

I have absolutely no clue as to what I’m going to do upon Mists’ release. My druid and shaman are out of the picture. They are on my girlfriend’s account and she isn’t sure she wants to buy Mists. She hasn’t played in almost two years and has only kept her account active for the toons I have on it…which ended up being my raiding toons during WotLK and Cata. On my account I have two max hunters, a max DK (tank), a warlock and a paladin (tank)…the rest of my 10 slots are bankers. I don’t know who I want to level first. As far as creating a Pandaren…yea….I don’t think I can level another toon from level 1….at least not right off the bat. I’ll probably…eventually…get around to leveling one though.

Either of my tanks will probably be easiest to level. But I tend to have more fun leveling on my hunter…and Sheeturself looks sooooooo good…it’d be a waste to have her just sitting around collecting dust. hahahahaha

We have lost a lot of our guilds core raiders and I’m not sure who will be coming back for Mists. My decision on who to level first could end up depending on what other guild members level to see what role I’ll need to fill…we have tons of dps usually so I’ll probably end up leveling one of my tanks…or make my pally go heals and level him.

This is the same damn theme that is affecting me at work, too – everyone else is getting the “memo” and I’m left holding the empty doughnut box.

1) Roll a male Panda monk (God knows I have too many female toons >_< ) just to book the name.

2) Level my main Pally alt to 90, so I can do Scenarios, dailies and eventually RF.

3) Level my alt Pally to 90 for the dailies – he'll be the income generator for my other lowbies.

After all that, I can either level the monk or my other alts (DK, Druid, Hunter) or do instances with my level 90s.

At this time, I'm just doing dailies for the gold or running RFs for off-spec tier or leveling my bank alt to 80 (another 8 levels to go). I'm basically just waiting for Mists to come I guess =)

The lack of rewards for running dungeons really annoyed me – I’m happy to run the quests once, but after that I really don’t want to after that on my alts. It annoyed me until I realised that was really how it was at the start of Cata (and Wrath too) – I focused on one character pretty much exclusively. Last time that was my pally, this time it is my druid! The other thing I’ve realised is that largely my value in alts is in playing them in PvP… and well that isn’t affected by the reputation grinds… except for the profession reasons. My druid is herb/alchemy and my main money maker has been Blacksmithing (my pally), with a side of Alchemy, so the BoP spirit of harmony is annoying too.

So really I expect to spend a lot of time on my druid, and then I’ll work out what to level next. Rogue and Pally are the most likely candidates … although I’ve been having great fun on my frost dk recently too (DK gets a bump too because its my scribe and those polearms look great!)… But there is time for that.

Preparation though – not planning too much – partly because I’ll be sharing time with Guild Wars 2, but three things I want to do:
1. Redo my UI – waiting for the pre-patch to do this
2. Clean out my bank/bags – I have too many sets having played resto and boomkin at times too and that’s one thing I found from my playing on Beta – that I have no bag space!
3. Load up on completed 25 daily quests ready to jump out the gate.

And now you’ve got me thinking I should see what herbs I can gather to get a jump on Alchemy too.

Hmm I should also dig around and find my BoA helm and cloak for that xp boost to level 86 too.

My current restore shaman main will become an alt to have fun with after my monk is leveled and raiding. That is along with my other 10 or so 85s. (I finally got my rogue to 85 and it was the most painful to level of all the classes for me.)