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Cryptoengineer <pete...@gmail.com> wrote in 
news:XnsA3E1992...@216.166.97.131:

> 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.

BTW: It looks like all the North American servers are going live with
WoD at 12:00 PST - that's 3 AM EST. Server clock doesn't matter.

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