🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 21:36:54 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I've been looking for a decent guide to How To Play WoD, without results.
>
>I've got MoP 25 dailies stacked on my destro lock, who is now at 562 
>with the Garrosh BoA - he'll be going in first. There's some question if
>the stacked dailies will (1) get erased (2) be seriously nerfed (its 
>happened before), or give full XP. At any rate, it will take less than
>10 minutes to hand them in, so it's probably worth it unless (1).
>
>My plan is to hand in the dailies, getting a little boost in XP, then 
>head for the portal. I'll hearth to Stormwind, take the portal down
>to blasted lands, then through to the new area.
>
>...and thats where I run out of ideas. I know I should start a garrison,
>but have no idea what that involves. I assume I'll start quest running,
>and queue for anything that can be queued. My two main toons have 40-50k
>gold each. I'm keeping the lock in inns as much as possible, to build up
>rested XP.
>
>Any suggestions from folk whove been in the beta?

Just follow the quests - to begin with, when you go through the Dark
Portal there is an "intro" experience, a short questline which every
character *must* do to reach Draenor proper. It'll seem very easy, as
it's tuned for boosted characters, who'll get their abilities as they
go through it (like the Death Knight starter zone), but it's a nice
little intro to what's going on and some of the names you'll see more
of later on, anyway. At least, nice the first time, probably just
plain annoying by the 10th alt :-P I have heard rumours that this area
is phased to reduce the numbers of players in it at one time, I very
much hope that really is true, as on my server, there'll be 4000+
Horde all doing it at once.... tbh I fully expect Eastern Kingdoms to
crash multiple times before midnight, as we all pile into the Dark
Portal area waiting for it to go live.

When you finish this chain, you're taken to Shadowmoon Valley
(Alliance) or Frostfire Ridge (Horde), and the quests continue through
the first setting up of the garrison (not that many quests, 10-15 mins
depending on how overcamped it is - so, on my server at launch,
that'll be about an hour of fighting for tags) - once it's built, then
you get a bunch of breadcrumbs off to other areas. At least, you do on
Alliance, Horde was a bit more on rails at this point (branching out
more later on) if I recall rightly, but it may have changed since I
did it, as that was several months back.

After that, just quest as normal, instance as normal, garrison doesn't
need babysitting, you don't *have* to jump back the second you see
"mission completed" pop up on your screen, but it's nice to drop in
when you're passing by. You get a 2nd hearthstone connected directly
to the garrison, so it's easy to port over there for a few minutes
when you reach a natural break in questing.

You'll get a breadcrumb quest leading back there every 2 lvls, which
then leads you onto the next zone, so you can safely ignore those
until you're ready to move on to a new zone, if you want to finish the
one you're in first. Depends if you rather do the highest possible
content, or the completist route; for me it'll be the completist
route, doing every quest in each zone on the way up, I hit 100 in
Spires of Arak (96-98 zone) on beta, it'll probably be even earlier
this time if I can bring myself to try any dungeons! 

Btw don't just quest, explore too: there's LOTS of hidden rares,
treasure, etc etc, giving exp, garrison resources, items, I found
myself levelling really slowly on beta as it was too much fun checking
every little out of the way area for treasure!