WotLK

[DraconianOne]

Took 45 minutes to install, no problems.  Far better than the terrible, terrible TBC install which crashed horrendously way back when.


It's nice to be earning xp again - even though it's less than a fortnight since I stopped.  Question now remains whether to get some levels in Outland zones.  Still got all of Nagrand and above to do, quest wise!

[pants]

Question now remains whether to get some levels in Outland zones.  Still got all of Nagrand and above to do, quest wise!

Yeah, I have a similar thing.  My druid is just about to hit 69 in Terrokar, with most of Nagrand, and all of BEM, Netherstorm and Shadowmoon to work through.  Part of me says to stick with my levelling guide and get another 2-3 levels in Outland, which means lots of sweet, sweet gold from the quests once I hit 80.  Another part says 'Not Blade Edge fucking mountains again', and to just hop over to Northrend once I hit 70, maybe 71.  Decisions, decisions.

[DraconianOne]

Another part says 'Not Blade Edge fucking mountains again', and to just hop over to Northrend once I hit 70, maybe 71.  Decisions, decisions.

I don't actually have that worry: this is my first 70 and he made it to that with half of Terrokar to go.  Something about Nagrand is already pissing me off though and no-one's going to be around to do the King of the Ogres chain in BEM but I think I'll have to do Netherstorm and SMV because they look so cool.

[Azazel]

Took 45 minutes to install, no problems.  Far better than the terrible, terrible TBC install which crashed horrendously way back when.

Any additional patching?

Also, are the servers going down before it goes live, or are they just flipping the "on" switch at midnight for WotLK on the servers? (like world events just spawn or despawn without servers going down?)

[DraconianOne]

After installing the disc, it repatches 3.0.2 and 3.0.3 which doesn't take long - unless you've deleted them from your machine in which case you'll have to download them all again.  No new patches after that. There are rolling restarts on EU servers in a couple of hours but apart from that no downtime of any description.  We also didn't have the post patch problems and server downtime you guys had either.  No missing mail or free epix for us! :)

Decided that I'll mess around in Howling Fjord first - shame not to see some of the new content straight away and at least get the quests for the instances.

[Sjofn]

Yeah, I have a similar thing.  My druid is just about to hit 69 in Terrokar, with most of Nagrand, and all of BEM, Netherstorm and Shadowmoon to work through.  Part of me says to stick with my levelling guide and get another 2-3 levels in Outland, which means lots of sweet, sweet gold from the quests once I hit 80.  Another part says 'Not Blade Edge fucking mountains again', and to just hop over to Northrend once I hit 70, maybe 71.  Decisions, decisions.

I found BEM way, way, way less horrible once I could fly, if that helps.

[Chimpy]

They did rolling restarts on the US realms about 2 hours ago, wonder if that was to blaze the way.

Just got all my mail items back from blizz.....actually thanking them now because I have 30 days to look at stuff that would have poofed about now :p

[WindupAtheist]

Yeah, I have a similar thing.  My druid is just about to hit 69 in Terrokar, with most of Nagrand, and all of BEM, Netherstorm and Shadowmoon to work through.  Part of me says to stick with my levelling guide and get another 2-3 levels in Outland, which means lots of sweet, sweet gold from the quests once I hit 80.  Another part says 'Not Blade Edge fucking mountains again', and to just hop over to Northrend once I hit 70, maybe 71.  Decisions, decisions.

You're going to have years to grind gold at 80. Skip Outland and go for the new shiny.

[Koyasha]

Heh, depends on whether there's any big expenses in Lich King or not.  Also I hear there's just generally more quests in Northrend than in Outland, so you'll get more gold anyway.  Plus Northrend dailies pay more.  So overall it's -probably- better to go ahead and start up Northrend.

The complicated thing is factions.  Like Honor Hold, they probably have some shit like that where if you don't do stuff in the right order, you're fucked and have to run a 70 dungeon dozens of times just to get to exalted.  Or like Cenarion Expedition, where if you do your stuff in the right order, Exalted is easy, wrong order and you're stuck doing Steamvaults SO many times.

[Chimpy]

Big expense in WOTLK at this point is the Mammoth.

Rumor has it they have a mailbox, repair/reagent vendor, and an auctioneer.

If that fucker has a bank on it too, there is no way in hell I am not gettting one.

[Ratman_tf]

Heh, depends on whether there's any big expenses in Lich King or not.  Also I hear there's just generally more quests in Northrend than in Outland, so you'll get more gold anyway.  Plus Northrend dailies pay more.  So overall it's -probably- better to go ahead and start up Northrend.

The complicated thing is factions.  Like Honor Hold, they probably have some shit like that where if you don't do stuff in the right order, you're fucked and have to run a 70 dungeon dozens of times just to get to exalted.  Or like Cenarion Expedition, where if you do your stuff in the right order, Exalted is easy, wrong order and you're stuck doing Steamvaults SO many times.

Aren't the beta monkeys putting this shit up somewhere already?

[Azazel]

Big expense in WOTLK at this point is the Mammoth.

Rumor has it they have a mailbox, repair/reagent vendor, and an auctioneer.

If that fucker has a bank on it too, there is no way in hell I am not gettting one.

Wait, this is the 15k mammoth mount you're talking about? It comes with all that shit attatched?~ 

[Selby]

Aren't the beta monkeys putting this shit up somewhere already?

Jame's Levelling guides already are up to 73-74 with the rest being filled in.

[WindupAtheist]

I got mine (7-11 FTW) and in the manual it says you can create a Death Knight on the server you have your 55+ character on. Not just as many as you want on any old server. They planned this all along, and rightly so. Letting people create usefully high-level alts instantly on any server they chose would have been ridiculous.

[Chimpy]

God....we ventured into the kingdom of nerddom tonight (Gamestop here in Champaign) to get our copies. 100 people packed in the store, 300 people+ in line outside at midnight.

Got our copies and bolted.

I am almost done with the install....glad they made a nice/easy/only thing you can see website solely for upgrading accounts that seems to work nice and fast.


EDIT: They did not pull punches on the score for the installer, I feel like I am watching Excalibur or something lol.

[apocrypha]

My LK copies were delivered yesterday. During the only 2 hours in the last 2 weeks when I wasn't in. And the ParcelForce driver wrote the tracking number wrong on the card they left for me. And I can't drive to get to any of the 3 possible post offices they could be at. Hopefully get them by tomorrow.

 

[Fabricated]

Got mine from WalMart with no wait at midnight, installed fine, cleared Utgarde Keep within an hour of installing. Yay.

[Azaroth]

Hey. So what's a Death Knight play like?

I wasn't in beta, and the thought of being one of the 5 million people to roll a DK never interested me. But I'm curious.

[Azaroth]

Wow. I just logged in. So many DKs already.

I think I'm gonna check out the 50-59 BGs for lulz.

Edit: There are several level 60 DKs on my server. 3 hours after midnight.

[Ratman_tf]

Wow. I just logged in. So many DKs already.

I think I'm gonna check out the 50-59 BGs for lulz.

Edit: There are several level 60 DKs on my server. 3 hours after midnight.

I think a lot of people played "Wookie Hookey" today. Especially those in nerd jobs where their bosses are doing it too.

[Driakos]

I was able to install, patch, and play, easily.  Much, much better than BC launch.

[apocrypha]

Postie just dropped our 3 copies (plus the wire season 4, yay!) through the letterbox \o/

NFI what the parcelforce thing was that wants a signature then... whatever. Installing now :)

[kildorn]

I feel like a dip for being the ONLY PERSON AT WORK RIGHT NOW. And one of two cars in the garage.

I have my little DK however (gnooooooooooome!), and if hellfire gets too crowded I'll just level the priest.

DKs are odd to get the hang of (I keep winding up with nearly max rune power and not quite grasping the build rates of things) and my little frost dps spec has too many procs to keep track of for optimal ass kicking.

However, this is balanced out by hilarious 1700 AE crits in hellfire. I've just started herding anything.

Maybe I've been away from melees too long, but my crits seem way out of line for what they should be doing. I have a feeling some of the multiplier stacking will be altered a month or two in.

[Ratman_tf]

I broke down and attempted to purchase Wrath at my local 7-11. Despite having the boxes out for a week or so now, they don't actually have the software behind the counter. Guy said it would be in tomorrow.

I'm glad actually. Means I'm going to Fred Meyer here in just a few hours and get a copy with a proper store reciept and all that.

[Nonentity]

I have to work today, so I took Fridany and the following Monday off instead of Thu/Fri - also, I have to wait for the CE to arrive in the mail.

After that arrives, I'm gonna pull some ninja shit to try to get out of work early to sneak home. Utgarde Keep calls me!

[Azaroth]

WSG.

All Death Knights.

Must.. find... new..... game........

[Bzalthek]

<rose colored glasses>
I miss the good old days when I could just pay SOE a fee to upgrade my account, and not have to mess with all this real life go to a town large enough to have a store with games stuff.
</rose colored glasses>

[Fabricated]

I feel like a dip for being the ONLY PERSON AT WORK RIGHT NOW. And one of two cars in the garage.

And I have all of my end-of-semester projects due! Yay! I'll get right on playing WoTLK after I finish the term papers I have due this Sunday, next wednesday, and then the monday after that! Oh right and all my usual homework. I wanna shoot myself.

[SurfD]

The complicated thing is factions.  Like Honor Hold, they probably have some shit like that where if you don't do stuff in the right order, you're fucked and have to run a 70 dungeon dozens of times just to get to exalted.  Or like Cenarion Expedition, where if you do your stuff in the right order, Exalted is easy, wrong order and you're stuck doing Steamvaults SO many times.

From what i understand, factions are going to be pretty much a non issue.  Once you get a faction tabard (at honored i think, could be friendly) ALL dungeon rep you gain goes to that faction as long as you have the tabard equipped.  So no running dungeons you hate or dont need anything from to gain rep.

[Dewdrop]

Maybe I've been away from melees too long, but my crits seem way out of line for what they should be doing. I have a feeling some of the multiplier stacking will be altered a month or two in.

If you are talking about your DK, believe it or not, this is where they want it. BIG CRITS is kind of the flavor of the class. They have nerfed those abilities  (Frost Strike, Howling Blast, Scourge Strike) to get them in line. It wasn't uncommon on beta to be putting out 1000+ dps at level 60 around HFP, which was a bit op. Quite a few people believe that DK's will get another pass when people start to raid as its expected their DPS may actually be a bit low compared to other classes. We'll see, but I doubt there will be any more nerfs coming.   

[Oban]

My realm is full.

Forgot how much fun waiting in a queue can be.

[Azaroth]

I still haven't played WOTLK.

My realm has a 1200+ queue right now.

I got down to 500, then my internet connection huccuped and I was forced to the back of the line.

This is all after the WOTLK CDs I bought wouldn't run in my drives because they're not compatible with everything or someshit according to the forums.

Needless to say I'm getting a bit fucking upset at this point.

[Sjofn]

Big fat queue on Doomhammer, 1400-ish. Whee!

[Rasix]

I imagine my server is queue free.  TBC was an absolute breeze and it was hard to get groups for any group [3] or higher material leveling up.  Podunk servers really suck at maturity though.

[DraconianOne]

Don't have any queue problems on my server apart from queuing for quest mobs. I decided that Outland be damned and headed to Howling Fjord. I found myself back in Nagrand making a start on the Nesingwary grind simply because I got sick of killstealers (can't tag mobs quick enough with DOTs) and hanging around waiting for certain mobs to spawn. So back to Outland to do some of that content before heading back out in a few days.

On the plus side, the Isle of Quel'gankas was suprisingly clear and managed to do all the dailies in 30 mins raking in 100k xp and 40g. That'll be worth doing for a couple of days until the madness dies down.