Cataclysm

[Simond]

On a Euro server? 

[K9]

EU is going live at the moment, now I'm just getting auto disconnected at the logon screen

Going to leave it connecting and go make some toast.

[jakonovski]

Login servers down. Apparently what happened was that the servers asked everyone to reconnect, at the same time.

[K9]

In now, all looks very nice.

[Minvaren]

Ton of people logging out at the flight trainer in Org...  Me included.   

[Numtini]

Ton of people logging out at the flight trainer in Org...  Me included.   

God, they don't have to stand on top of him. Just being on top of the rise is fine.

[caladein]

Bind "Interact With Target" to something.  /tar Maztha and go.  No need to fumble around because of the "lol Kodo on top of NPC" crowd.

[Lakov_Sanite]

Bind "Interact With Target" to something.  /tar Maztha and go.  No need to fumble around because of the "lol Kodo on top of NPC" crowd.

You know, I never have issue with this, I just go into first person and step inside the bodies.

[kildorn]

Man, the flight trainer has about 60 people on top of her. Guys, the patch isn't for 5 hours or so.

[Minvaren]

Everyone on my server seems to think it's 12am local time and not PST.  They're in for a wait, heh.

[Chimpy]

Everyone on my server seems to think it's 12am local time and not PST.  They're in for a wait, heh.

You sure it isn't 12 Eastern? That is what it was for Wrath.

[caladein]

It's Pacific this time around.

[Merusk]

Yeah, they caught a lot of heat for doing it EST but having their Fry's event at Midnight PST, IIRC.

[fuser]

Free mouse for lining up 

[Nightblade]

That mouse makes a good paperweight.

[Rasix]

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.

Spoilered for size:

There's just a shot of me with my paladin I'm messing around with.  This is just Mulgore, nothing too scenic, but I haven't explored that much. 

WoW doesn't look that great static, but it sure feels nice playing this on Ultra and getting just about 60 FPS everywhere. It just moves so well.

[Merusk]

Free mouse for lining up 

All I got was a poster from Best Buy.    No line-up tho.. I'm too old for that, order online, pickup in store. Too bad the billing server is taking a shit. I'll wake up and do this in the morn.

[fuser]

That mouse makes a good paperweight.

Yeah I have a alienware tactx (it's a logitech g9x guts without the weights). I was surprised at the stuff they gave away, first 15 got mice, next 15 got steelseries qck mouse pads, and the rest got posters. Bestbuy had better handouts then say the cheap knockoff hats they gave out for Wrath.

[apocrypha]

Smoothest launch of an MMO expansion I've ever seen.

Orgrimmar was BUSY, like, packed. Logged out at 22:59. Started trying to log back in at 23:01, got in after about 4 mins. The rest of the guild trickled in over the next 10 mins. We played around for a couple of hours but we're all old gits so most of us needed to go and sleep by 1am.

Starter areas in Hyjal and Vash'jir were predictable rammed but questing was still possible - very high respawn rates on quest mobs and items! Will be a *nightmare* on a pvp server I would guess.  
 
Flying in the old world is pure   and only costs 200g (at exalted). Archaeology seems nicely implemented, if not exactly grippingly exciting, although it's nice atm since it's an excuse to fly around a lot. We saw realm firsts in Cooking, Skinning and Herbalism in under 2 hours.

No crashes, no server restarts, not even any notable bugs! Oh, one tiny one, apparently the guild xp cap wasn't working properly so a few guilds who had managed to reach level 5 by this morning have had that rolled back.

I have a feeling that I'm going to have to be extremely well disciplined over the next few weeks to not break my required "1-2 hours at a time" rule too much!  

Edit: speeling.

[Rendakor]

Damn dirty Euros. I'm still camping the flightmaster on my main while dicking around a bit on alts. Got my shiny new Lil Deathwing though, which is awesome.

[Ginaz]

I can't log in.  Whenever I click on the WoW log in icon on my desktop I get a pop up message saying "Another copy of the Blizzard Downloader is already downloading that file to that location."  Anyone know whats going on?

[Raguel]

I was on earlier, then I tried to log out and make a worgen. It wasn't available, so I exited the game and dl'd something. Now I can't log in.  

eta: I'm logged in now; it's just taking forever. Still trying to get to my server.

[caladein]

Odd.  Guild Rep is in (as I found up from turning a few dailies in for no XP) and I was able to queue up for a Blackrock Caverns and kill some stuff there, but no one in my group or guild was getting experience.  Group decided to log out and back in and now I'm stuck at [Cancel].

[fuser]

The Forgotten Coast was delayed in updating for a while got the yellow text saying the content was moved live and to relog. Stuck in the connecting auth server meltdown.

[ezrast]

Logged out when prompted and just now got to character select. So don't give up!

Now to hope the world loads before I time out staring at the progress bar...

edit: yeah, in retrospect logging out in the same place as 500 other people was a bad idea.

[Ginaz]

Ok, nm.  I'm in.

[Reg]

I'm in and merrily flying around the Old World digging up pieces of some ancient Night Elf's nightgown for experience. Life is good.

[Ratman_tf]

We saw real firsts in Cooking, Skinning and Herbalism in under 2 hours.

We started seeing our firsts in about 15 minutes. I suspect foul play.

[DraconianOne]

We saw real firsts in Cooking, Skinning and Herbalism in under 2 hours.

Under 2 hours? Lightweights! First person to level cooking did it in under 4 minutes.

[Reg]

I just saw a server first in Fishing and I really don't see how that's possible.

[apocrypha]

We just had our realm first level 85. Horde druid, Tarasín. EU Armory is broken however so that link probably won't work.

[K9]

This just goes to show how retarded realm first achievements are.

[Malakili]

Hmmm, usually it takes like 24 hours, some people did it in under 7 this time?  *shrugs* (Or was it available at mid night in Europe, so more like 13-14-15 hours?)

[apocrypha]

Went live at 11pm UK time, our realm first 85 was about 9.30am, so 10.5 hours or so. The guild he's leader of is the most catass guild on the server so they undoubtedly used every trick in the book to get him there first.

The XP does seem to be flowing pretty quickly though. I've done 2 or 3 quests in Vash'jir and then gone back to the old world and levelled Archaeology to 110 and am half way to 81 already.

[DraconianOne]

European first 85 was at 7:35am this morning (UK) so 8.5 hours to level? Also a druid although doubt that means much.

Does Archaeology give decent XP or is it mob levels like mining/herbalism?