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Last night in GW, a group of us completed our scavenger hunt quest for the black moa chick mini-pet. Overall, it was much longer and more complicated than I first thought, but turned out to be slightly less painful than I feared. That was thanks largely to some short-cuts and piggybacking made possible by more advanced players in the guild. It's a reasonably cute little black, kiwi-like bird and, as a unique-level pet, means one more point in my Hall of Monuments.

I'm not quite sure what's planned next. I have some desire to go through the War in Kryta stuff. It's more plotline, which is probably GW's strong suit. And getting those mobs out of the way for other things would be nice. It looks like the next "easy" points for my Hall come from getting at least one more hero character appropriately outfitted and saved there. Otherwise... what? A bunch of armor sets that cost a good bit of money and don't visually appeal to me more than what I have? I guess I'll wait to see what the guild has in mind Sunday.

WoW: Cataclysm is to be released tomorrow - as in "accessible after midnight, Pacific time." Theoretically, there's no weekly downtime tomorrow, but I'm not sure it'll work that way. I remember queue times from hell back with Burning Crusade's early days. And even looking at my thoughts on Wrath's release, there were queues then. That's better than server crashes, sure, but waiting a while to log in detracts from the game.

Still, I plan to swing by Gamestop after work tonight (since they're doing a midnight launch) and pick up my pre-ordered copy. That should get me a head-start on any install time, even if I'm not holding my breath about being able to log in right at release and it beats wondering when UPS/Fedex will show up.

I have done a little more preparation than I recall before. My main is sitting in Dalaran to make a quick tour of Northrend to turn in a number of quests for a bump in starting experience before hearthing back to Stormwind to get underway with new stuff. I got my warlock/scribe to level 80 over the weekend, which wasn't fully expected but is sort of nice. He'll be taking a back seat for a while, but at least I won't have to worry about more Northrend leveling with him when I get back to it. I cleaned out the character I'll be removing to replace with a worgen, and have heirlooms and bags ready. Hmm... skinning/leatherworking for a feral druid seems a little cliche, but I may go with that anyway - still, I don't expect to do much with a worgen right off. I may watch the intro, but I expect the starting zone to be ridiculously crowded.

So... anticipation. Waiting. For both what's next in GW, and to see how Cata shapes up.

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