The other day, I logged on to an old realm of mine to chat for a bit with a few friends and old guildmates. (I do this periodically, since I'm not a big fan of using Real ID for anyone other than very close friends.) Whenever I'm there, I casually poke around on a character that was once my prized raiding toon in early Wrath of the Lich King. "Poking around" consists of organizing my bank and doing about three to five quests. I figure it would be nice to have another 85 that I could play casually, but I lose interest in it too quickly.

Anyway, at some point in the middle of a conversation with a mage friend, I said, "At a rate of three quests per night that I actually log in, I should be 85 in two years."

"It really gives you some perspective on how much you have to play this game, doesn't it?" he responded.

I hadn't been serious about the statement I made, but it made me think about the hours I had to play to get to 85 on my main. It occurred to me that if you only play WoW for an hour or so every few days, it would probably take a couple months to get to level 85 from 80, and that's only if you're completely focused each time you log in.

This got me wondering how far into Cataclysm everyone else is.

I'm leveling my main.I'm leveling my alts.I'm gearing up my character(s) in normal and heroic dungeons or unrated battlegrounds.I'm raiding normal 10- or 25-man dungeons on one or more characters.I'm raiding heroic 10- or 25-man dungeons on one or more characters.I'm PvPing in rated battlegrounds or arena.I'm waiting for the next major content patch.Vote

Raiding progression

Of course, as a pretentious and self-absorbed raider, my first instinct was to hit up WoW Progress to check out their stats on completed raid content. This is what I found. (Note: there is no distinction between 10- or 25-man kills.)