This week was fairly O.K. On Saturday we went in and downed the first three bosses in Hellfire Citadel again. I am still back and forth on saving progress here, because I know there is a couple pieces of gear folks could get from the first few bosses... but I want to move forward more quickly.
Sunday we picked up on Council, and even with odds against us we started working on the Council fight again. We only had 3-4 pulls when the tank we pulled from the nether dropped and left us stranded with 45 minutes left to go. Rather than pull someone in for half an hour by the time we found them, we called it there. Of course... we made some nice progress on council! We might have downed them too if we hadn't lost the guest tank. He dropped without a word. Next week I'm pretty sure we will have that fight down.
Now, with Legion on the way, and despite my tone here it is on the way, we still have some time to wait. Beta hadn't dropped yet, and with Blizzard the betas for World of Warcraft tend to last a long while. Several months in most cases. So, supposing that the Beta for Legion starts right after Blizzcon, in November, we are still probably looking at a March release if they move quickly. That is guessing at a 3 month long beta and that Blizzard might be very far along in their process. Most likely the Beta will be longer and we will be looking at June for the time the next expansion drops. I could be wrong, feel free to tell me I'm wrong, but I feel it's unlikely if we don't see the Beta by Blizzcon that we won't see the next expansion sooner.
So what to do in the mean time? I know I plan on sticking to raiding schedule. Other then that Denarin and Scorpiack are working on openly recruiting to our guild "Fear Itself" on Zangarmarsh. My hope is to get some of these folks that get abandoned as guilds start to go elsewhere and unsubscribe. I'm looking at this time of "dulldrums" to do some building. I haven't had a lot of time myself lately, but I'm managing to log in for an hour here and there.
Other things that you can do right now? Level your characters. Build up the character you want to play next expansion. If that's your main, you can always get an alt ready. If you want to try something new, now is the time to get working on it. Unless it's a demon hunter, demon hunters will have to wait.
You can work on old achievement and content. I know on my pally I can solo anything form original wow to dragon soul fairly easily and quickly. If you ever wanted a rare mount drop off one of those raids, go start farming it. There are several sweet mounts that are hard to find. Go get 'em.
Level something new from scratch. 1-100 still takes a little while. Go experience the story from the beginning again. Or start a character on the opposite factions side. If you haven't played all the starting areas since Cataclysm you are missing out on some great stories. I recommend the Forsaken starting zone. It's the reason I have some a desire to see Blizzard do something big with Lillian Voss....
If you can't find anything to keep you interested, then unsubscribe and wait. The game will be here when you get back. I'm a die hard and probably won't unsubscribe unless I literally have no more time to play. As long as I can at least do raids I'm here for the duration. My honest guess is that with Wow down to 5+million subscriptions right now, that before Legion drops we will be down to 3.5-4 million. Once again I don't think this is a death knell in any way for Wow, because when Legion comes back the players will too. And I think we will have a resurgence that quiets the naysayers until the next subscription drop. But that is my guess as well. Since this is all speculation and opinion, I could very well be wrong.
Lag.
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