Cataclysm

[Minvaren]

Logged in and got my flying before work without an issue.

Got a quest at logon which pointed me to the new lands.  Even still, tons of people asking, "ware's the boat to teh new stuff?"   

[DraconianOne]

Got a quest at logon which pointed me to the new lands.  Even still, tons of people asking, "ware's the boat to teh new stuff?"   

 

[kildorn]

I popped over to what should have been murloc land, but was taken from them by the naga, did one quest before leaving for work.

Noticed that Archeology infos I had seemed to be slight wrong, my dig sites are not in level appropriate zones for my 80, they were in random lowbie zones. Oh well, once I find a flight point in new world, I'll pop back over and learn to dig for useless trinkets!

[K9]

If you hated vehicle combat before, wait until you do the flying jousting quest in Hyjal where you will get to experience the worst implemented quest Blizzard has ever made.

[apocrypha]

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

It's pretty good. Getting 5500xp for a green dig and 11000xp for a yellow/orange, although it's not 100% consistent.

my dig sites are not in level appropriate zones for my 80, they were in random lowbie zones.

Your dig sites are in zones appropriate to your archaeology skill, not your character level.

Edit:

[K9]

Oh congrats, did you just get that at random, or did it actually come up as a project?

[AcidCat]

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.

I totally forgot about Archaeology last night, hah, so much to do. The Worgen starter area was insanely overpopulated of course, made most of the questing there a bit absurd and surreal. Popping into flight form and just taking off in Stormwind was probably the best single moment of my few hours last night.

[kildorn]

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.

I totally forgot about Archaeology last night, hah, so much to do. The Worgen starter area was insanely overpopulated of course, made most of the questing there a bit absurd and surreal. Popping into flight form and just taking off in Stormwind was probably the best single moment of my few hours last night.

I'm wondering if my glyph gambles will pay off due to the incoming goblin hordes <3

[apocrypha]

Oh congrats, did you just get that at random, or did it actually come up as a project?

Came up as a project, was my 3rd Fossil project. He's super cute 

[K9]

Awesome

[Ginaz]

The first series of quests in the underwater place pissed me off so much I hearthed and made my goblin.  Swimming around for an hour or more doing quests isn't my idea of fun.

[kildorn]

I only did the first underwater quest, and it wasn't too bad. It seems like the give you an underwater mount as well, but I'm not sure when.

It was overcrowded as hell, though.

[Tannhauser]

Been playing since 6am in Vashjir.  At first I thought I picked the wrong starting zone; lots of mobs and lots of kelp mean Vietnam Underwater!  Charlie's in the kelp!  Started to get frustrated, competition for herbs, mobs, etc. was insane.  But after two or three quest hubs it thinned out and I'm a lot happier.  The sunken city looks hella cool.  Time to dive (heh) back in.

[Ingmar]

Vash'jir is an amazing looking zone. Screenshots don't really do it justice.

[Ironwood]

Yeah.  On Ultra, the underwater zones are gorgeous, like being IN 'Finding Nemo'.

I like it all so far.  I thought I'd hate it more.  Alas.

[Chimpy]

I like it all so far.  I thought I'd hate it more.  Alas.

Cracks are starting to show?

...in your hate everything persona.

[Shrike]

Just got in this morning. Man, crowds...we hatessss them, yesssss we do. Mob scene out in Hyjal. Haven't made it to Vash'jr yet, but maybe tonight or tomorrow night.

Between just way too many people and jackwagons that insist on parking their dragons on the quest givers, I said screw this and went on an archeology binge. Pretty cool; beats the hell out of fishing, that's for sure. Archeology alone is a good reason to buy the 310% mount speed. It became apparent in about 2 minutes that these old worlds zones are BIG. Lot of flying time even with the 310%.

[Cadaverine]

My god it's crowded.  It only took about 2 hours to hit 81, but it felt like forever what with having to fight with everybody the whole way.  The superfast respawn is nice, and all, but I've died I don't know how many times because the mobs just keep respawning on me.  

And I thought the Joust quest was fun, but I liked the arcade game, so make of it what you will.

[Raguel]

Just got in this morning. Man, crowds...we hatessss them, yesssss we do. Mob scene out in Hyjal. Haven't made it to Vash'jr yet, but maybe tonight or tomorrow night.

Between just way too many people and jackwagons that insist on parking their dragons on the quest givers, I said screw this and went on an archeology binge. Pretty cool; beats the hell out of fishing, that's for sure. Archeology alone is a good reason to buy the 310% mount speed. It became apparent in about 2 minutes that these old worlds zones are BIG. Lot of flying time even with the 310%.

I tried to get archaeology on one of my alts (15ish) but for some reason he didn't train me. It sounds like it's just as well, with all the traveling involved.

[Fordel]

If you hated vehicle combat before, wait until you do the flying jousting quest in Hyjal where you will get to experience the worst implemented quest Blizzard has ever made.

It was pretty much exactly like the original in my mind, I don't see the problem. 

[Ginaz]

Maybe it was just the swarm of people in the area all trying to do the same quests.  I'll give it another go tonight.  The goblin and worgen starting zones have been pretty good so far( got both to lvl 5).  Gilneas has an interesting Victorian look to it while Kazan seems to be populated with the Goblin equivlilent of the Jersey Shore cast.  It was fun driving the hot rod all around town, though.  I plan on, eventually, playing out the starting zone quests for both new races till around 20 or so.  Anything beyond that I'll just use one of my maxed out characters to take in the story.  I'm also seriously considering paying for a race change, turning my troll hunter into a goblin hunter.  It would fit better with a goblin considering the name I've given him, Foshizzlle, and the name I give to all my pets, Mynizzlle, than it does a troll.  That and it would remind me of my squig herder that I loved playing in WAR.

[Ginaz]

My god it's crowded.  It only took about 2 hours to hit 81, but it felt like forever what with having to fight with everybody the whole way.  The superfast respawn is nice, and all, but I've died I don't know how many times because the mobs just keep respawning on me.  

And I thought the Joust quest was fun, but I liked the arcade game, so make of it what you will.

I died more times doing the early quests in Gilneas than I've ever died before in any starting noob zone with all my previous characters combined.

[Cadaverine]

Maybe it was just the swarm of people in the area all trying to do the same quests.  I'll give it another go tonight.  The goblin and worgen starting zones have been pretty good so far( got both to lvl 5).  Gilneas has an interesting Victorian look to it while Kazan seems to be populated with the Goblin equivlilent of the Jersey Shore cast.  It was fun driving the hot rod all around town, though.  I plan on, eventually, playing out the starting zone quests for both new races till around 20 or so.  Anything beyond that I'll just use one of my maxed out characters to take in the story.  I'm also seriously considering paying for a race change, turning my troll hunter into a goblin hunter.  It would fit better with a goblin considering the name I've given him, Foshizzlle, and the name I give to all my pets, Mynizzlle, than it does a troll.  That and it would remind me of my squig herder that I loved playing in WAR.

I rolled up a Worgen this morning, and running through the whole of the starting area took me to 13, or 14, at which point I was sent to Darnassus to enjoy the Night Elf areas.

[Ironwood]

The new Guild stuff is really, really good.

The best bit is that my Guild has maxed todays without trying, which actually means a small guild WILL keep up with a big guild...

[Threash]

Only the top five people count towards guild progress i believe so any guild with at least 5 people should be able to sort of keep up.

[kildorn]

Just got in this morning. Man, crowds...we hatessss them, yesssss we do. Mob scene out in Hyjal. Haven't made it to Vash'jr yet, but maybe tonight or tomorrow night.

Between just way too many people and jackwagons that insist on parking their dragons on the quest givers, I said screw this and went on an archeology binge. Pretty cool; beats the hell out of fishing, that's for sure. Archeology alone is a good reason to buy the 310% mount speed. It became apparent in about 2 minutes that these old worlds zones are BIG. Lot of flying time even with the 310%.

I tried to get archaeology on one of my alts (15ish) but for some reason he didn't train me. It sounds like it's just as well, with all the traveling involved.

Trainer listed the min level as 20 for the first rank.

[DraconianOne]

The new Guild stuff is really, really good.

The best bit is that my Guild has maxed todays without trying, which actually means a small guild WILL keep up with a big guild...

Ah, now that is good. I was wondering about that.

[kaid]

It makes sense you pretty much don't want to try to do archeology before you at very least get your first ground mount or the running around needed would be painful.

[Ironwood]

Five level 85s and one Grandmaster Archeologist before 1pm today.

I was all like 


Why ?

WHY ?

[Rasix]

That'll only take me like... a month.

[Threash]

Leveling seems fairly fast, the exp to level was not much higher than wrath and the exp from quests and kills was so 80-81 was about 80% of what 79-80 took.  I don't know exactly how long i played but i had to reapply poisons at least once and i'm 10% from 81.

[Ratman_tf]

Quest design in Kelp'thar is super retarted. It'll be fine when the horde of players move on, but right now it's packed and doing quests is like waiting in line at the bank. 

[Tannhauser]

After the amazing quests of the revamped old lands, the quests of Vash'jir are...workmanlike.

[Ginaz]

Five level 85s and one Grandmaster Archeologist before 1pm today.

I was all like 


Why ?

WHY ?

I plan on taking my time.  Dividing my time between leveling my high level characters (6 lvl 80's, 4 others that are at least 72) and enjoying some of the new low level quests.  I might even join a guild again.

[Ratman_tf]

After the amazing quests of the revamped old lands, the quests of Vash'jir are...workmanlike.

The Gnaws quest didn't even make sense. I was grabbed by a shark, he swam around with me in his mouth, then the game says "Press A to continue!" and then the shark dies and quest complete? Why did I even click on that shit?