ladies and gentlemen, we have the first Retail Level 70

[Merusk]

It really does behoove most folks to just take it easy and relax.  There's 3 folks in my guild at 64+, but they've been online nearly 18 hours a day since release and solo-grinding.   Not only is that just fucking crazy, but it's not like they're going to be instancing with the rest of us any time soon. 

The bleeding-edge type guilds will rush rush rush to get to Khara, and they have.   They'll run the place, strip out the bugs and lootz and then the rest of us will 'catch up.'  Same as release, same as every other game.  Such is the way of the MMO.

[Xanthippe]

I'm still 60.  I played more last week, the week before, the week before that, and so on, than I have this week.

I told my family not to expect anything from me this week - sort of pretend I'm not here most of the time, I'll do basics but mostly I'm playing my game.  Wouldn't you know it, but this is the week everyone needs me to do something.  Dentist appointments, stomach aches, school bully problem....

I've moved beyond being frustrated.  I'm trying to look at the bright side, while I see my pals run up to 62 and beyond.  (The guild catasses are already high 60s).

What's the bright side again?

What I *have* seen, I'm just so happy with.  It's awesome.  Another quality product.

[Phred]

I just did a /who 65- and it looks like the local dominant uberguild already had 5-6 members hit 66-67 already. The second uberguild has about 10 people at 65.

Me, I barely hit 61.. I shudder to think what must be done to p'level entire groups so fast. Repetitive instance farming?

That's one way. The other is to just know where all the quests are, and be ahead of the curve so that you're killing mobs without any competition at all.  It's easy to get "kill xx mobs" and "Collect XX feet" quests done when you can just pull the entire spawn and AOE it into oblivion. 

Hell, I'm 61 and 4 bubbles WITH all the server crashes, lag and restarts Alleria's had.  I'm not catassing, either, as I think I've played a total of about 8 hours.  Just knowing what quests there were is a huge help.  For example, I know I can skip collecing the 'cursed talismans' or doing the goblin quests in Hellfire with the 70 other Alliance players in those two areas and head on over to Zangramarsh to do Cenarion Expedition quests and kill Bog Lords instead.

They appear to have upped the drop rates on cursed talismans hugely since beta. It's no longer a tear your hair out kind of a quest.