And with Wrath of the Lich King coming within 5 weeks....

Reken is only level 48. If I actually take the time to hardcore level him, I can have him at level 70 before wrath comes out. With a fifth level 70, I don't know which is going to be my main in wrath endgame content (if I even see it in the first 6 months).

His herbalism will likely be high enough to farm herbs in northrend before wrath comes out (which is nice).

I've also got a friend that has enough starter-level herbs for me to get a good chunk of progress on inscriptions without having to farm herbs or deal with the "ooo shiny, new profession" market prices.

Also, when I get to the outlands herbs, I can just hop on Alenrak and go skettis tree farming. The poor trees don't get me below 60% health unless they bring a friend.

Still more progress, and a decision on professions.

Reken, my latest victim for leveling, is now almost level 45. Hopefully I can have him to 70 by the time Wrath of the Lich King comes out (Nov, 13, 2008).

I'm making him Herbalism/Inscribing. He already has herbalism up to about 250. I just want him over 300 by the time he hits 70.

The progress of toons.

Over the next little while, I will be doing cycles on my various toons, trying to powerlevel them via instance powergrinding. I will go through each toon until its rested bonus runs out, complete that particular instance run, then switch.

The cycles are going to be somewhat interesting, given the number of toons and their level range variances.

And a fifth has begun.

I've started seriously working on a fifth toon to get to 70.

Reken is the victim of choice.

I probably did my toons backwards.

Progress on a fourth.

I've been making a LOT of progress on my fourth toon to get to 70, Rhakeem. Right now he's 67 with about 50% completion getting to 68, and he's only just starting in on the Blade's Edge Mountains quests.

He's only supposed to be level 66 given the guide I'm following right now. I can probably run through a couple instances and get him some more exp and rep for areas like Lower City (with which I need pieces from the rep vendor)

Ah, pandemonium.