🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:04:11 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in
>news:ccc2...@mid.individual.net: 
>> 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! 
>
>Thats a good point, but with no beta experience, I fully expect to fall
>behind those who've been there before anyway.

True, I'll fall behind myself because I'm one who likes to explore and
read the quest text, enjoy watching cinematics etc - I just intend to
play through the night and at least get ahead of the majority of the
crowd, since I do prefer questing when it's not a massive fight to tag
anything :-)

>So, the change is at server midnight?

Yep, as I recall, the last couple of expansions it just activated at
midnight, autoquest appeared in log, etc, no relogs needed. Although
the server then crashed within about a minute as everyone tried to do
it at once :-P This time out I believe the best place to go to Blasted
Lands, the quest should tell us to speak to Khadgar who is in front of
the Dark Portal (in the bit currently full of elites, where the NPCs
for the old entering Outland quest were), so, that'll be 4000+ people
all in a small bowl, plus elites everywhere until they despawn at
midnight, no doubt a bunch of bored people killing said elites with
spells everywhere.... oh yeah we'll kill the server a few times lol.