Saturday was a memorable day for me. It was the day I hit 40 with my draenei priest, and was at last able to mount my Brown horse and ride off into the, uh, twilight. My goal had been accomplished, and it was time to shift gears. Saturday was also the day that I finished my first piece of my Spellfire set on my mage, another goal I had been working towards for more than a month. Having spent so long getting her to that point, I felt an odd sensation afterward. There was this emptiness where the drive to reach my goal had been. I thought to myself "why do I do now?"
It took me a couple hours of contemplation to realize that my next goal should be to level my warlock, since she is already so close to 70 as it is. Now with a new difficult goal in mind (being that I tend to bounce from one character to another rather than focusing on one), I felt I had a gaming purpose as I set out to adventure in Azeroth. I'm not really sure if this is just something I do or if others organize their playtime like this. I have other goals, but not nearly as pressing.
Now a while ago James wrote in about a forum post he encountered talking about a top ten list for goals in WoW. I am not sure I have a list of my own that goes to that extent. More like a top four list if anything. Do you have a top ten list of things you want to accomplish in the game?
[via James]
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6-26-2007 @ 8:17AM
Mathew said...
I was pleasantly surprised to see so much old world content on some of those lists, like Atiesh and the Baron's Horse. Come to think of it, those are damn fine goals for anyone.
10. Get every key, attunement, teleport, and shortcut item in the game.
9. Get my lvl 40 mount (warlock or Gnome racial).
8. Get an Elekk.
7. Get my Dreadsteed.
6. Get my Doomguard.
5. Get a flying mount.
4. Get a more better flying mount.
3. Hit lvl 70.
2. Have every warlock spell in the game.
1. Finally kill Onyxia, and get her fancy scale cloak too.
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6-26-2007 @ 8:31AM
FredTheDragon said...
5. get my Blacksmithing to 375(only 50 more to go).
4. Craft both the 2hand and main hand BoP Epic axes.
3. Finish getting Epics for my warrior.
2. Attempt to get a slot as a DPS warrior in my guild's raids.
1. Charge into Ironforge and /dance while everything attempts to kill me.
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6-26-2007 @ 8:33AM
Shinagani said...
10. Get Whitemane's Chapeau
9. Get my palamino horse
8. Get all the items on my lvl 40 gear list.
7. Raid Molten Core
6. Get My Swift Palamino
5. Get a Gryphon
4. Hit 70
3. Get a Netherdrake (Probably Cobalt)
2. Raid more difficult dungeons then Karazhan
1. Get the almighty Benediction!!(won't happen last, but by far what I'm looking forward to the most)
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6-26-2007 @ 8:41AM
innajunglestylee said...
10: Keep farming cash to help my roommate/best friend get his epic flyer so he can keep up with me.
9: Replace all blues on my main with epics of better quality.
8: Level my mage and/or druid to 70 one day.
7: Get a drop mount for one of my toons, preferably Baron's horse for my tauren.
6: Grind the rep for the +stats to ring enchant on my main.
5: Discover something, anything, on my alchemist.
4: Kill an Alliance racial leader.
3: Full Kara clear in one day.
2: Be online at a guild first kill again sometime soon.
1: Finish up farming all those outland BOP recipes for my enchanter (curse you +12 agi and +spell dmg bracers!)
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6-26-2007 @ 8:47AM
Poxus said...
I think the Baron's Mount is a most wanted for most old timers of the game.
I am taking a more relaxed time in the game now and still trying to fill out spots 8 and on.
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6-26-2007 @ 8:59AM
Galipan said...
1) Get my Desolation Gear (Hunter Dungeon 3)
2) Get into a raiding guild and hit Karazhan some more, I'm sick of PUGs.2
3) Get an epic
4) Go jewel crafting and make it to 375
5) Tame a tanking pet, a raid pet and a PvP pet, get them to 70 and teach them what is necessary.
6) Raid ZG, AQ, BWL, MC, Ony, Naxx
7) Kill Sylvanas Windrunner
8) Do a 40-man of 60s into AQ to see how hard it really was.
9) Get an Elekk
10) Get keyed for every heroic.
Hey, one can dream can I not?
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6-26-2007 @ 9:01AM
drakar said...
Brown horse? Ugh! You should have gone to Menethil and got the Black Horse. That horse is the best looking one imo.
I don't do top 10's, but I do have a top 3:
1. Get my season 2 Arena swords for my rogue
2. Get my level 60 warrior to 70
3. Get my level 59 mage to 70
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6-26-2007 @ 9:03AM
WoW Money House Dev said...
10. Lock Picking
9. Hit 70
8. Flying Mount
7. Kara (Keyed)
6. Heroics
5. No Greens :P
4. Kara (Run)
3. Flying Mount (Epic)
2. All Epics
1. PvP Set
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6-26-2007 @ 9:12AM
BillDoor said...
Not an ordered list.
Swift Flight Form (happening tonight!)
A rare epic ground mount (Anzu preferred, but either ZG, Baron's or Attumen's would be cool)
A complete alchemy recipe list, including discoveries
Full set of Tier 4, with matching accessories (fashion whore!)
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6-26-2007 @ 9:15AM
Jack said...
I figure this is as good as any time to post for the first time - having recently (last friday!) got my epic mount, the list has changed - heres my top 5 - I think they are pretty modest solo-able goals
1. Horsey (5k rep to go)
2. Armor trinket from tooga in tanaris (that quest just hates all over me) for bear form awesomeness
3. Ram (not even revered with IF yet - but i love that noise it makes)
4. Flight Form
5. Epic Flight Form
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6-26-2007 @ 9:16AM
Dah Cheet said...
1) Hit 40 and get a mount
Baby steps.... I'm still a noob :(
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6-26-2007 @ 9:19AM
Cavalier said...
A very short list, but still not gona happen soon :)
1. Get a flying dragon mount
2. Complete the purple pally healing set
3. Have a few cool epics from Karazhan
4. Get all keys and attunements
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6-26-2007 @ 9:23AM
Phehon said...
Cant really get to ten, im not that much of a planner.. I remember falling into that "post 40, finally got my mount gap" too, so I plan a bit more.. CBA to go alot further than this tho :)
1. Hit level 70! (at the last bar for 68/69 now)
2. Get (enough money for) flying mount
3. Sort out Kara attunement
4. Level my LW-skills
5. Level my LP-skills
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6-26-2007 @ 9:28AM
Arawn said...
I set weekly goals (and report my progress on my blog: http://l2lock.blogspot.com so that I don't slack) but my top few goals are:
Complete Karazhan.
Get the full set of BG purples.
Become and remain competitive in the Arena ladder.
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6-26-2007 @ 9:28AM
Binrah said...
My Hunter's List -
Done:
1) Tame Echeyakee
To Be Accomplished:
1) Catch Up With Friends, level-wise
2) Max out Engineering, Mining, Fishing, First Aid, AND Cooking
3) Learn to Macro better
4) Do a 10-man instance raid with my friends (We all picked classes to fill necessary roles; no priests, though. Whatev.)
5) Get some sweet ass PVP Gear
6) HAVE FUN!!!
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6-26-2007 @ 9:32AM
Quoi said...
I've pretty much exhausted all my WoW goals! I made it to 70, have all the current craftable gear, a Netherdrake mount, all my heroic keys, both profs maxed out.
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6-26-2007 @ 9:33AM
FireStar said...
1) level my druid to 70 (44 now)
2) get full shadoweave on my 70 priest
3) raise leatherworking to 375 on my hunter
4) alchemy to 375
then we'll see when i have 3 70s. Keep in mind i might play 2 hours in 3-5 days, so these are long term.
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6-26-2007 @ 9:33AM
Zone99 said...
#1) Find a way to quit! :)
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6-26-2007 @ 9:35AM
Shiro said...
wow, my tops for now.
1) Get the last four of my level 60+ Alliance characters to 70.
2) Get my horde mage to 70
3) PvP gear for my mage, and possibly for a few select Alliance characters.
4) Arena gear for my mage
5) Level my Horde Shaman and Warlock to 70 so that I have one character of each class at 70.
6) Re-level a warrior, rogue, and paladin on the Horde side as I enjoy those classes immensely.
7) Epic mounts for everyone! (this is going to take a while)
8) Complete my PvE gear set for my Shadow Priest.
9) Start raiding as my Shadow Priest
10) Get everyone attuned/keyed for everything before the next expansion. (Hey, I've gotta dream right).
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6-26-2007 @ 9:52AM
Hugh "Nomad" Hancock said...
Yep, I do this. I've referred to WoW as an "Achievement Simulator" before.
Of course, it's important to remember that it's the journey that's fun, not the achieving of the goal, necessarily.
I just completed one goal - get my main an Epic Mount. Now I'm working on...
1) Finish off the Emperor of BRD before any of my 3-man team passes lvl 60.
2) Complete Scholomance with The Brothers Grim (the 3-man again) before we pass lvl 61.
3) Get an Epic Flying Mount for my main(easier than it sounds if you like Auction House trading, but still a long-term).
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