Just a quick thought for today, and apologies for my absenteeism – got struck by a rather nasty ear infection, which is still stubbornly hanging on.

At any rate, I found myself logging my warrior for the first time in weeks?months? yesterday, and enjoying some simple time in Azeroth, no raids, no heroics, just me and a full questlog. I found myself wondering why. Fact is, Wrath of the Lich King is nearing, if not past it’s sell by date. ICC is challenging enough to my casual guild that we have yet to down Sindragosa and LK himself, yet despite not quite having vaulted that final hurdle it seems we often struggle to get enough interest together to run a raid.

Looks like the doldrums are setting in. It happens near the end of each expansion, and it’s a curious phenomenon. The end in sight, the checkered flag visible and instead of accelerating we…ease up on the gas? Wha-?

I think we get tired of our mains and tired of the content and when we see a potential slate being cleaned for the next expansion, we begin preparing for that eventuality even before having dealt with the current. It really is a curious trait in humans, always planning for the future, all to often at the expense of the present.

Yet I find myself guilty. I find myself looking forward to the prospect of being a warrior in Cataclysm. Of getting him to 80 just in the nick of time to take the first step to 81. I no longer dread losing out on all my DK’s fat epix being rendered null, his achievement and mounts being relegated to the basement. No, my warrior will step into the Cataclysm a fresh new 80, and the world will be his oyster.

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