Ok, so I hit 85 and promptly and temporarily lost interest in playing my Death Knight. Sad, pathetic, but true. I don’t rush to the top level just to get to “end game” content. It’s all a by product for me of watching the progress/experience bar fill up, gain a level and repeat. When my bar went away at 85 I had nothing to mark my progress and so it felt like I was just putting in time.
And so I went off to anther toon that still has plenty of progress bar to go, and played that for a while. Not that I had finished all I should with my DK. Far from it. I had half the quests or more still to do in Hyjal and Uldum, I had barely started Twilight Highlands and my Jewel Crafting wasn’t even 500 yet, not to mention First Aid and Archeoloy. Oh, and I hadn’t even bothered with the ultra fast flying skill.
I don’t remember what got me to spend the time on my Death Knight again. It doesn’t really matter. What does matter is the progress I’ve made since then. I found a couple of ways to measure my progress that has kept me coming back.
First thing I did was finish off Twilight Highlands and get that acheivement. This also gave me the Exploration acheivement for exploring Cataclysm. Then I set about figuring out where the missing quests were for Hyjal and Uldum. I wanted the Cataclysm Loremaster acheivement and I had to finish off those zones to get it.
I found the one in Hyjal and was able to finish it off. I got a lot of mining in with that one. For Uldum, I had to spend a lot of time flying around the zone and going back to places I thought were done before I found it. I probably ignored it originally or saw it, meant to get it and forgot about it. Anyway, I was then able to finish off Uldum and get the Loremaster acheivement for Cataclysm. Along the way I got my Jewel Crafting to 500+.
Now what to do about Deepholme. I had missed a quest there too. Because I had a dungeon quest that turns in with Therazane, I missed that she also had another new quest. Once I picked up that quest and finished it and just a few more, then all was well in Deepholme and now I have Dailies there as well as the quartermaster.
Now that those are all taken care of you might wonder if I’ve lost interest in my Death Knight again. Actually, I haven’t. I still have my Jewel Crafting to cap. I’m at 522 right now. You’d think I’m close except I’m a Draenei so I have the racial for Jewel Crafting which means cap for me is 535. I have Archeology to work on as well as First Aid which is around 513, 515 or something like that. My item level, while improved from the raid is still only 327, just 2 points from being allowed into Heroics through the Dungeon Finder.
I found the quartermaster in Twilight Highlands and have been doing some dailies there like I do in Deepholme. I still have Northrend and Cataclysm cooking recipes to collect and there are a few other acheivements I’m working towards. Oh yeah, and there are the Dungeons. I do want to do those as well.
Even at 85 there’s lots I can do and still have that sense of making progress.
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