I’ve really come to appreciate several things about being level 60.
- You can go darn near everywhere. There aren’t too many places in the world you can’t go, outside of high-level instances or areas of upper 50s elites that you can’t go to farm all alone. If you’re on a normal server, as I am, there is no threat of Horde ganking, yet the thrill of taking them down if they have their PvP flag up.
- Rest, what’s that? I don’t give a rat’s butt about logging out in an inn or city any more. The only reason I do is so I can check my mail and run to the AH real quick if I don’t want to play.
- I don’t care about XP. I am completely free to go to Scarlet Monastery to farm silk or Deadmines for linen and not gripe about losing precious play time without any XP. I can pick up a new profession that starts me off in a low level area and give the rest of the goodies to a guildie.
- I can show off in instances with lowbies. Ever go to Razor Fel Downs as an upper 50s? It’s even better as a 60 because there’s no XP wasted. I have better gear. It’s just plain fun to be a level 60 escort and have lowbies depend on you killing things before they do a body pull from being agg monkeys.
- Molten Core. Enough said.
This is probably the most positive reason I can think of to hit 60 on one of my toons. The fact that you’re free to explore and farm and pvp and *whatever* is a huge plus in my book.