Monday, February 16, 2026

Preparing for Midnight

Normally, before an expansion, I've had a pretty long list of things that I needed to do to prepare for the new expansion drop.  I'm less obsessive about that this time around for a variety of reasons.  First, I'm not going to be playing as soon as early access drops, because it's during State Championship weekend for high school swimming for my youngest.  I'll literally be in the car driving to Canton, Ohio, when it starts.  



But also, I think I'm also generally just less obsessive about these things now.  I will still do a lot of the usual things, like clearing out my bags of old materials and deleting all the stuff that is only relevant to this expansion.  I'll also clear out my quest logs, and at some point after midnight starts, I'll log on to all 53 of my characters to get their rested xp restarted.

So maybe I am still a little bit obsessive.

I don't mean to give the impression that I'm not looking forward to this expansion.  I very much am.  I like what they've done with the various functional and class changes, and I'm looking forward to continuing the story.

And we'll be back to regular leveling updates after things launch very soon.  I'm interested to see if anything changes about optimal leveling approaches for the new expansion.  I'd love it if playing the main story quests was enough to get you to max level again.  That hasn't been true for the last two expansions, but it's definitely something I'd love to go back to.

That's it for now.

Cheers, 

Joar


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Preparing for Midnight

Normally, before an expansion, I've had a pretty long list of things that I needed to do to prepare for the new expansion drop.  I'm...