Leveling: Pressures and Priorities to Get to 85

There are no pressures to race to 85. Enjoy the new leveling experience. The right time for you to arrive at level 85 is when you get to 85. We have long been a home and not a job and that is not being sundered during the cataclysm. Granted, we would like to take our place as an end game raiding guild on our server earlier rather than later and it would certainly be better to be amongst the first; however, we are not attempting to compete to be the first.

The priority toon to level is the one you want to level first. Our raid group will recruit whatever we are missing when we get there and take a look at who and what we have. Do not let your current role in our raid groups drive what you must prioritize to level to 85 first. Now is a perfectly well-timed point to completely switch out to something else if that is what you have been wanting to do! If we find that we have too many of one thing and too few of another, we will adjust, recruit and use raiding seat rotations if the lop-sided numbers so vastly exceed raiding group sizes (highly unlikely).

If I have to draw a line in the sand as to when should you be at 85 to get a relatively early jump start on raiding the new content, I would suggest that the last week of December typically offers a large amount of leisure time to people and that we are likely to see raiding begin at that time if it has not begun earlier.

If you know (or at least feel you know at this time) which role (tank, healer, melee dps, ranged dps) and which class you will want to enter raiding at 85 with, let us know as that allows us to improve our planning and target our recruiting better.