Cataclysm

[Rendakor]

Thanks for the info dalien. Kildorn, mind linking the info you found? I'm probably going to work on Arch shortly after hitting 85, as there are a number of cool mounts you can get from it and I'm a big mount collector.

[kildorn]

Thanks for the info dalien. Kildorn, mind linking the info you found? I'm probably going to work on Arch shortly after hitting 85, as there are a number of cool mounts you can get from it and I'm a big mount collector.

Champ tossed this up this weekend:

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/604-Archaeology-Cataclysm

Which covers that Dalien said about it, and lists a few rewards (boa level 85 epics? yes please.)

[Rendakor]

Nice, thanks.

[apocrypha]

When you train it (Harrison Jones in SW library for Alliance, not sure where for Horde)

Belloc Brightblade in Orgrimmar.

[Sjofn]

When you train it (Harrison Jones in SW library for Alliance, not sure where for Horde)

Belloc Brightblade in Orgrimmar.

YES

[DraconianOne]

When you train it (Harrison Jones in SW library for Alliance, not sure where for Horde)

Belloc Brightblade in Orgrimmar.

YES

My delighted little rave about discovering that our Arch trainer was called Belloc was met with a resounding silence on guild chat, followed by a "Who?"

Immediate /gquit.

[Sjofn]

It's tough getting old. :(

[Raguel]

OMG I didn't realize there was an actual quest to collect bear asses rofl.

So now I'm running into another problem. Quests were great in the sense I enjoyed my short time as a member of Bravo Company, and pretending I was Captain Jack Sparrow, but I really only need to do those once (and i can do w/o collecting bear asses for  bear ass soup. Get your own bear asses). The two chars I play the most are the human paladin and a night elf druid, so at this point there's no overlap, but it looks like there soon will be. I like to play multiple alts, but AFAICT I'm going to end up doing the same quests if I play as a human or night elf. Ok, so I have a dwarf priest and a dranei warrior, but if I want to play a mage type I'm going to be screwed.

I'm waiting for Cata to go live, and I'll make a worgen shaman and hope there's new stuff for them.

What I don't get is why is there no class specific quest arcs? DAoC sorta had them, every 5 levels or so.

[kildorn]

There are a few class quests, but not many. The closest to class arcs were the shaman totem quest which were thankfully taken out back and shot. Though I still got assigned Call of Fire on my little troll shaman, which errored out about halfway through because they deleted the rest of the chain.

[Selby]

What I don't get is why is there no class specific quest arcs? DAoC sorta had them, every 5 levels or so.

When they did exist, most of them were "go to this specific spot that is completely out of your way and kill this elite" or "this specific dungeon and go kill mob X that is off the beaten path in said dungeon" types.  They were okay, but trying to get groups to go do most of them was very often a pain.

[Minvaren]

What I don't get is why is there no class specific quest arcs? DAoC sorta had them, every 5 levels or so.

When they did exist, most of them were "go to this specific spot that is completely out of your way and kill this elite" or "this specific dungeon and go kill mob X that is off the beaten path in said dungeon" types.  They were okay, but trying to get groups to go do most of them was very often a pain.

Ah, the class quests that required a ST run...   

I did like the DAoC way of doing class-specific quests and arcs, though.

[Tannhauser]

So how do we get to the two new starting high level zones?  Can't seem to find the info.

[apocrypha]

Portals from Org/SW I think.

[caladein]

Go to a Hero's Call Board in Stormwind or a Warchief's Command Board in Orgrimmar and take the quest for either Mount Hyjal or Vashj'ir.  (It can be any of the boards really, but the quests are sending you there anyway.)

While in town, you'll want to train the Flight Master's License as well.

[Hawkbit]

And Archaeology too!

[Lantyssa]

When you train it (Harrison Jones in SW library for Alliance, not sure where for Horde)

Belloc Brightblade in Orgrimmar.

YES

My delighted little rave about discovering that our Arch trainer was called Belloc was met with a resounding silence on guild chat, followed by a "Who?"

Immediate /gquit.

Who?

[apocrypha]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana's arch-enemy, Rene Belloq.

[Raguel]

For the sake of argument, let's say I want to quest on only 4 chars per side, and level the others by dungeon crawling. How many dungeons are there 15-40? I get the sense there's only a handful, but I don't know for sure.


Also: Is there a min level req for archaeology?

[ezrast]

http://www.wowwiki.com/Instances_by_level is a good summary.

[01101010]

For the sake of argument, let's say I want to quest on only 4 chars per side, and level the others by dungeon crawling. How many dungeons are there 15-40? I get the sense there's only a handful, but I don't know for sure.


Also: Is there a min level req for archaeology?

This works as well...

http://www.wowhead.com/zones=2.0#0+2+1

[raydeen]

I'm blown away by how fast the leveling is so far. 10 1/2 hours to level 20. That's roughly twice as fast as it was before. Of course I am playing a hunter which is super fast leveling anyways.

I just might get more than one 80 now.

[Raguel]

http://www.wowwiki.com/Instances_by_level is a good summary.

Thanks guys

[Lantyssa]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana's arch-enemy, Rene Belloq.

He had a name?  Huh.

[Ironwood]

They call him Bellosh...

[Rasix]

Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana's arch-enemy, Rene Belloq.

He had a name?  Huh.

[DraconianOne]

They call him Bellosh...

Spooky!

[Furiously]

They call him Bellosh...

You could warn them...If only you spok Hovitos.

[Ironwood]

Heh.  It's a good bit in the film.

"They have not one brain among them.  Except one.  He is very clever."

I can't really thing of a role that Gimli played that I didn't enjoy.  He'd better get some more work quick, though, before everyone starts to refer to him as Gimli.

Or Treebeard.

[Ingmar]

OMG I didn't realize there was an actual quest to collect bear asses rofl.

So now I'm running into another problem. Quests were great in the sense I enjoyed my short time as a member of Bravo Company, and pretending I was Captain Jack Sparrow, but I really only need to do those once (and i can do w/o collecting bear asses for  bear ass soup. Get your own bear asses). The two chars I play the most are the human paladin and a night elf druid, so at this point there's no overlap, but it looks like there soon will be. I like to play multiple alts, but AFAICT I'm going to end up doing the same quests if I play as a human or night elf. Ok, so I have a dwarf priest and a dranei warrior, but if I want to play a mage type I'm going to be screwed.

I'm waiting for Cata to go live, and I'll make a worgen shaman and hope there's new stuff for them.

What I don't get is why is there no class specific quest arcs? DAoC sorta had them, every 5 levels or so.

I sat down and figured out how to go through Alliance 1-58 with minimal overlap on 3 characters:

Dwarf/Gnome: Dun Morogh -> Loch Modan -> Wetlands -> Hinterlands -> WPL -> EPL -> Badlands -> Searing Gorge -> Burning Steppes -> Swamp of Sorrows -> Blasted Lands
Human: Elwynn -> Westfall -> Redridge -> Duskwood -> N. Stranglethorn -> Cape of Stranglethorn -> Dustwallow -> Thousand Needles -> Tanaris -> Un'Goro -> Silithus
Nelf/Draenei/Worgen: Teldrassil/Gilneas/Azuremyst -> Darkshore or Bloodmyst -> Ashenvale -> Stonetalon -> Desolace -> Feralas -> Thousand Needles ->  Felwood -> Winterspring

If I've got it right this gets you through 3 characters Old World leveling with only one zone repeat, although I think the Kalimdor character may finish around level 55 instead of 58-59ish. However if you aren't a quick leveler and thus accumulate some rest, have heirlooms, or do a few dungeons that will pretty much do it.

[Minvaren]

Tom's Hardware posts some performance rundowns of the new WoW engine across multiple platforms.

The TL;DR version - Intel processors scale better, get a new graphics card if you want to run insane resolutions in Ultra mode.  

[Ingmar]

The one place so far I get a slowdown at Ultra is the newly flooded part of Durotar, I think because of the ground cover.

[Minvaren]

I had to go a step down with the water on my 4870, but the rest is Ultra.  Can't complain about the performance anywhere I've gone thus far.

[DraconianOne]

I had to go a step down with the water on my 4870, but the rest is Ultra.  Can't complain about the performance anywhere I've gone thus far.

I'd be love to see some screenies of Ultra. I'm still running XP on my laptop so no DX10/11 and it won't let me up the settings beyond not very high.

[K9]

Trying to connect but not much is happening; going to assume that the servers are currently imploding.

[Tannhauser]

I'm currently playing, no troubles here.