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On 11/11/2014 8:00 AM, Cryptoengineer wrote:
> 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.

It goes live 6:30pm in oz, I expect quite a few server crashes.
They may be new big iron servers having just logically relocated, or old 
spare generic junk, this should test them.
4:00 pm Perth
5:30 pm Darwin
6:00 pm Brisbane
6:30 pm Adelaide
7:00 pm Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra
9:00 pm New Zealand

Gah, with the relocation there is still no access to armo(u)ry or a lot 
of the offline apps for oceanic.

Clear up Pandaria.
Turn them in, clear the log.
You could wait for the xp , there is no guarantee there would be any 
more xp in the wodlag furball and you may come out a few minutes worth 
of wod grinding in front.
Or maybe not.
20 minutes over the next weeks followed by the next 2 years without xp, 
won't make a lot of difference.