🚀 go-pugleaf

Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in news:cccb75F75a0U1
@mid.individual.net:

> 
> 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.
> 

I was online for the MoP drop - the Ally players had to kill some ships
from aircraft - not sharable. I saw a solid band of hundreds of aircraft
looping near the ships, and it took 15 minutes just to get through that
part, the farming on the ships was so intense.

I figure I'll try turning in the dailies as I described; but if 
the xp is seriously nerfed, I'll hearth to the Mage Quarter, 
pop through the portal to Blasted Lands, and be at the dark portal 
within a minute of the drop.

Hopefully my graphics card is up to the crowds.

pt