You'd be at 60 now if...

...you just focused on one toon, I was told by some of my group the other week.

No kidding, I thought.

Yes, Taldanifal is inspired by same drug found
in Cialis. I wasn't thinking of that at the time; I was
just trying to come up with a name off of "Tald-" and
eventually I realized I was close to tadalafil. "Well,
if I'm going to get close to that name I might as well
go all the way," I thought to myself.
The listings are as of May 20, 2025.

Given that I'm leveling 8 toons at once, my actual leveling journey does seem like it'll take forever, especially now that I spend some evenings just fishing to clear my head a bit. 

My recent foray into Retail didn't exactly help my leveling speed either, but I think that little side event is over for little while.*

***

Look, I realize that they mean well, and they do want to play WoW with me, but I'm not going to change my pace for that. I was up front with them about what I was going to do on the Anniversary servers and why, and I would hope they respect that. And it's not like I'm going out of my way to avoid them, either; after all, I'm going slow enough that if they wanted to create a toon just to level with me at my pace, they could do that. They've got toons at max level right now --several of them have two L60s at this point-- so if they wanted to work on a third or fourth, they could.

"If I'd have leveled one toon to L60, I'd probably have stopped playing them once I got to max level," I finally replied to their suggestions that they could boost me or otherwise help me level more quickly. "This way I'm still engaged."

And that is the truth. Leveling, even in the dead zones of the low-mid L30s and low-mid L40s, keeps me interested in a relaxed way. Can it be maddeningly slow at times? Yes. Do I get distracted from the leveling process? Yes. Do I care that I'm not leveling quickly? Only a little. 

I realize that I can go much faster if I want to, but my pace has taken on a life of its own. And really, seeing the max level routine devolve into raiding and obtaining gear/materials for raiding, I'm not interested in that runaround anymore. Yes, I'd like to run Battlegrounds, but I can wait. After all, I have Classic Era if I want to run BGs there.

***

I have been thinking more and more about what I'm going to do when TBC Classic arrives on the Anniversary servers. My current goal is simply to reach L60 on these toons when the TBC Classic pre-patch drops, but beyond that I wasn't exactly sure what to do. Having speed leveled in 2021 I'm not going to repeat that mistake, but beyond that I'm not sure. I've begun thinking about testing the waters with a couple of Blood Elves and a Draenei, but I could also just take a break until the Dark Portal opens. Beyond that, however, I don't know what I'm going to do. I originally wanted to down Kael'Thas in the Tempest Keep raid, but since my Questing Buddy and eventually the others joined a hardcore raid team that uses loot council, I find my interest in raiding in TBC Classic to be fading away. If I get to max level, what then? Just run Battlegrounds all the time? From my experience in 2021-2022, so many people chain ran instances to get to max level and then get attuned for raids that interest in running 5-man instances collapsed within a month of the Dark Portal's opening.** 

Will history repeat itself? If I'm honest, probably. Will people get burned out and quit with the pace being set so fast? Again, probably.

I think I might have to go my own way once more if the Anniversary version of TBC Classic unfolds the same way as 2021's version did, but we'll see. There's still about 6-8 months before the pre-patch drops.

*Old Blanchy's murder --even though I knew it was coming in the post-Cataclysm storyline-- killed my interest.

**Again, the WoW Community is their own worst enemy.