Ready for War Within

Everything set up to go for tWW now! I will start during "general" release, and not the early access bit as I didn't feel 3 extra days for €40 was worth it, and I need to complete Baldur's Gate 3 before I end up in the WoW bubble again. It's looking like the entire guild except me are playing Early Access and so are most of my friends, so I will be doing it all on my lonesome. It's also the first time since BFA I have not played the beta beforehand, so going in blind will be a new and fresh experience :)

For the first time ever I did a proper inventory cleanup before the expansion release, somewhat helped by the addition of the Warband bank.

• Deleted about a dozen characters after clearing out their stuff, and would delete a few more if they didn't come with a guild (and guild bank) attached. [Was capped on characters.]

• Cleared out all old gear and old profession materials back to and including Legion. Which was a lot. [Kept some vanilla profession mats in case I ever get around crafting the legendaries.]

• Cleared out all quest logs.

• Monetized as much of the random currencies and BOA thingies as I could.

• Cleared out most of the consumables except some vials and potions that might be handy for leveling.

Should make it less of a chore to log on old characters I might level up, and obviously freed up loads of bag space and generated some gold.

After considering a bunch of scenarios and what other people play at the moment, I ended up wanting to try my hand at Druid - I have signed as Balance for raiding, and will try to tank and heal dungeons while leveling and at level cap with guildies if DPSing in dungeon is overcrowded.

The inventory clean out generated about 700 000 gold, on top of the 1 000 000 gold I had spread out over all the characters. There's more in the 3 personal guild banks I have, but I've had enough cleaning out for now.

Reasons for choosing Druid as starter

• Guild raid roster is nearly full, but had no druids when I changed to it - a resto druid decided last minute not to reroll after all - but seems to be the class people flee from at the moment.

• Guardian seems ok in m+.

• As it currently stands, could try for full leather groups at the start for loot trading.

• Being able to play ranged in raid while also being able to tank in m+

• I considered druid for BFA, Shadowlands and Dragonflight but chickened out every time, so using the lack of pressure on me to fill some role to actually make it happen.

• Guild raid will have 3-4 Mages, 3-4 Paladins and 2-4 Hunters so will drown out in the competition for keys and loot overlap in raids.

• Have some hope to try out Resto in raids and m+ properly, I enjoy it more than Holy Paladin and Shaman doesn't have a tank spec.

• I can steal Ruthe's builds and ideas she might blog about :D