🚀 go-pugleaf

Well -

Spent a few hours last night on the new patch...Maybe it's me - Maybe 
I've just about had my run with this game....I dunno.   Nothing grabbed 
me as "cool!".   Anyway, to say the place was a clusterf!@k would be an 
understatement when I logged on.  There is a basic quest that gets you 
to the Timeless Island, however unlike last patches it doesn't appear 
when you log in unless you are in pandaria.  If you log in in Org or SW 
for example, it seems like any other day.  Anyway, once you get to the 
island, there is only a quest or two to get you going and off you go on 
grinding.... coins, coins, coins - esp if you are on the epic 
quest-line....and it's a pain in the ass trying to nab mobs when the 
whole realm, and 3 other realms are there grinding the same, but what 
else is new.  Not too much different than the 5.2 island with that 
regards I guess, except the island is a lot smaller, and the quests are not
"structured" as they were in previous patches.   I will mention that one 
of the quests is frickin' asininely (if that's a word) stupid.  There 
are a bunch of "lost spirit" stone things about the island. (forgive me 
- can't remember the quest line name, and can't get on the net right 
now)  You have to simply find one and right click it to finish the 
quest...Super easy - *except* there are only about 15ish of these 
things, they can only be clicked on by one person at a time, and they 
have to recharge for 10 minutes before they can be clicked on again.  Oh 
the camping that was going on last night!!  Feel sorry for those on a 
large pop realm (mines medium), mixed with other realms....I was a 
cowboy last night, in that I had won a quick draw against two hordie's 
who crashed my camping.  I had found one empty, and set up camp.  I 
probably would have rage quit last night after sitting 8 minutes looking 
at this rock waiting for it to be ready...  :)

There is a bunch to do on the island, but for the legendary quest-line 
you have to get 5K of coins which wasn't too terrible as you get a bunch 
for quests, not just killing mobs.  The next is you have to beat all 4 
of the world bosses (the 4 celestial)...again, not so bad but had a hard 
time getting in groups for it.  I'm not sure exactly how the tagging is 
working.  I do know that when the opposite faction is engaged the fight 
gets phased.  All 4 fight in an arena type square, and only 1 boss can 
be engaged at a time.  Meaning, that if the Horde is fighting the Ox, 
another group has to wait until they are done before engaging / tagging 
another.  The phasing of faction fights seems a good idea after the 
griefing that was happening in the against the lighting dragon on the 
Thunder island.  I'm not sure, however if you can just go in and tag a 
boss if your faction is fighting.  I only got the crane boss done last 
night.  Anyway, one you get all 4 down and you 5K of coins, you upgrade 
from your ilevel 600 cloak to a....umm ilevel 600 cloak.  This time 
however, it's the orange/rust colored named legendary cloak, not a 
purple.  (This cloak BTW cannot be transmogged - just FYI)

Here's the part I really think is going to be an issue....  Once you get 
this cloak, and *only* if you have this cloak, can you get across a 
broken bridge to the center of the island where you need to defeat 
another world boss.  So basically, you need to get 25+ players of 
correct types (tanks, heals, etc) that *all* have the legendary cloak! 
In the time I was on, there was only one group that ran it and it took 
them about a hour or so to form a group together that was strong enough 
to down him after several wipes.  I unfortunately wasn't able to get in 
on the group as I haven't finished the other 3 to get my cloak.   After 
you down him however, I think you get a quest to kill Thrall in the last 
of the raids.  Anyway, this may be an issue if you don't get to this 
boss in the first week or so, if there's not enough of a draw or reason 
to come back to him.  I'm not sure if Bliz just has it set up this way 
for now for exclusivity to legendary quest-line seekers, and have plans 
to allow all to participate later...we shall see.

All in all, not thrilled...just meh...