🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:52:36 +0000 (UTC), John Gordon
<gor...@panix.com> wrote:

>In <FUW7w.641468$Rp.593234@fx23.iad> Polarhound <polar...@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Drop the dailies.  You'll get more xp in the same time by just doing the 
>> new content.  Any "boost" will be mental and nothing more.
>
>I assume he meant that they're already completed and are ready to hand in.

Probably still get more exp by getting on with the new stuff rather
than wasting time flying around Pandaria doing handins! Especially if
you're on at midnight, since the 10-20 mins lost doing handins will
mean you're very much stuck in the crowd which means huge tagging
battles, lag and probably server crashes. I always aim to get ahead of
the crowd as early as possible for playability, so time wasted at the
start is not good!

Although I'm really going to find it hard to get ahead of the crowd
this time, the new levelling style of exploring is perfect for me, but
also slower... dammit! 

On the plus side, most of the questing experience was very
crowd-friendly in beta, a lot of the object-based quests are now fixed
objects which respawn *instantly* and are usable once-only, so no
camping spots praying to be the first to click, as eveeryone gets
their own, effectively (sometimes a slight delay waiting for others to
finish using the object, but at least you don't have to go hunting for
them and trying to beat hundreds of other people to them). Named quest
mobs are all shared tag, and non-named respawn fast (too fast in some
cases, if you're squishy, I actually found in crowds I was more
frustrated by chain-insta-respawns almost killing me than by not being
able to tag things!). So it seems in many cases lessons have been
learned about quest bottllenecks.