I would say overall this is one of the better expansions as far as progression and story. Its very much tied together in ways they haven't really done since Lich King.
Liquid_Bike
Member
I'm up to level 96 so far I'm really enjoying the experience. The zones feel very dense and the optional quests give crazy amounts of xp for some reason.
TharpDaddy
Member
I played for about 10 hours today. Holy damn I really like this expansion. I think this is the most I've enjoyed the game since vanilla. In every other expansion I just wasn't engaged and would rush through the leveling so I could get to raiding and the endgame. With WoD though i'm actually engaged in the questing and the stories. I'm enjoying leveling and don't have the feeling that it's just a task to get through so I can hit the endgame. Well done, Blizzard.
Also garrisons are way too addicting. I kept wanting to take a break, but I would see that I have a garrison quest finishing in __ minutes so I should just stick around to complete it.
Also garrisons are way too addicting. I kept wanting to take a break, but I would see that I have a garrison quest finishing in __ minutes so I should just stick around to complete it.
Wait why exactly? What happened?
They got tired of having to spend the entire time modding people being frustrated with the game.
Gentleman Jack
Member
Doesn't take much to become a reddit mod I see.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Creeping up on the 1k mark. So it's taken me 2 hours to go from 2k to 1k.
Not even counting however long it took to get from ~5k to 2k: maybe another 90 minutes or so.
World of Waitcraft.
Looking forward to Monday and the weekdays when hopefully more people have work and queues are shorter and/or gone.
Not even counting however long it took to get from ~5k to 2k: maybe another 90 minutes or so.
World of Waitcraft.
Looking forward to Monday and the weekdays when hopefully more people have work and queues are shorter and/or gone.
TharpDaddy
Member
RazorbackDB
Member
what are those ashran chest people are talking about?
7 hours in queue, and I'm almost in.
This is a good launch. I have a feeling it's not going to settle down in a week either. It was 6k this morning when I woke up, and that was after the upgrade. People aren't just going to stop playing after the first week, so they're going to have to offer transfers or something extreme.
This is a good launch. I have a feeling it's not going to settle down in a week either. It was 6k this morning when I woke up, and that was after the upgrade. People aren't just going to stop playing after the first week, so they're going to have to offer transfers or something extreme.
Jesus that's insane. Biggest queue on VeCo had been 600. For what it's worth, this is the most fun I have had playing WoW since vanilla when everything was new. Really love the garrison and followers. Switching from shaman to priest has also been a blast.
DA:I, FC4, & GTA V are all releasing this week, should relieve server load a little.
Level 100 finally. Nagrand was a damn drag. Felt like I was leveling obsessively and I have no freakin clue how some can consider people who aren't 100 at this point are "taking their time".
Now I don't even want to touch the game again until they've worked out all the stability problems.
Now I don't even want to touch the game again until they've worked out all the stability problems.
GamerKingFaiz
Member
Geez, we're still getting queues like this today? I'm glad I was able to log in without a queue this morning. I must've logged in near after the maintenance ended, I assume not that many people were logging on then.
I like how the rare mobs are marked and always drop something nice. I've found several usable blues this way, and an odd toy that I guess is a tribute to some Blizzard employee. Every big elite I've found wandering around has also dropped an item that was great, and/or something that started a quest. So I feel like there's a reason to fight these enemies and not just avoid, which is what I recall doing in past expansions.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Great. Disconnected from queue after 6 hours.
TharpDaddy
Member
I hope they add on to the garrison for future expansions and isn't just a WoD thing. I'd love to have new environments or the like to unlock in the future. My only worry is that it'll kill off the capital cities somewhat.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
They've said that this particular Garrison is a WoD-only thing, but that doesn't preclude a Garrison 2.0 or whatever for the next expansion.
Gentleman Jack
Member
On the topic of flavor, I have to really appreciate being called 'commander' everywhere I go. It's like an acknowledgement of my contributions to the Alliance over these last ten years. Instead of 'hey you go fetch these boar testicles' it's 'commander, please direct your forces on how to build your own private castle and army of heroes.'
helloresolven
Member
Looks like a first step in a game-oriented player housing... if people are still in love with it in 6 months, I definitely hope they expand on it. Give every player their own 'Garrison 2.0' around their race's capital city. (My blood elf is disgusted by this orc architecture.)
Though, now that I think about it, if they are wanting to move to yearly expansion cycle, how can they gauge feedback on major features like this? It seems like they'd already have to be working on that stuff now.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Shepard.
LAUGHTREY
Modesty becomes a woman
I'm level 100.
I don't even know where to start. Random normal dungeons until heroics I guess. I did the silver proving grounds but you need 610 ilevel to do heroics.
Anyone else feel like professions + garrison is really just so oddly complicated that you feel like you may be messing up, so you just wait?
I just demolished my level 2 inn to get a level 1 lumber mill. It's almost mandatory until you get to level 3 garrison and level 3 everything else.
I don't even know where to start. Random normal dungeons until heroics I guess. I did the silver proving grounds but you need 610 ilevel to do heroics.
Anyone else feel like professions + garrison is really just so oddly complicated that you feel like you may be messing up, so you just wait?
I just demolished my level 2 inn to get a level 1 lumber mill. It's almost mandatory until you get to level 3 garrison and level 3 everything else.
That would drive me fucking insane. I'm so sorry.
Orochinagis
Member
Why, why they made tailoring go glue with the herbs and skin profession I guess to stop them to make easy profits with the new gear upgrade but damm.
At least enchanthing dont go with other professions, for now
At least enchanthing dont go with other professions, for now
That's pretty much what I did. Did my daily profession CDs and spammed dungeons until I hit 610, then started Heroics.
Just finished tanking my first Heroic (Auchindoun) and it wasn't a disaster. Got some boots out of it, too.
You can just herb whatever. That said some herbs - like a few in Outlands, or frozen herbs in Wintergrasp - still weren't adjusted when I leveled my herbalism a week ago so I couldn't pick them.
Just doing laps around Pandaria was the fastest method for me.
Yeah, just saw that :lol thought I'd try a new dungeon but it's an hour wait.
Oh wow, didn't know that. So I can already herb anything (save for the few you mentioned)? Even Draenor herbs?
PepperedHam
Member
Finally got started on my journey and this is seriously great stuff so far.
Prolly the same issue as UBRS; tons of DPS trying to queue, but not enough Tanks/Healers.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
I didn't know my server has 22k people. No wonder the queue is nuts. It kind of feels silly when I just want to get a feel for the game, but then I also don't want those early leveling stages to be wasted on a server I won't play when I'm more serious and just have to repeat them. Oh well. Hopefully people aren't mean to me.