🚀 go-pugleaf

Catriona R <catrion...@totalise.co.uk> wrote in
news:cci6...@mid.individual.net: 

> 
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:37:11 -0600, Cryptoengineer
> <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I've dropped the dailies - I decided to run with the pack and try to
>>get in very fast, for the lulz.
>>
>>But where to start?
>>
>>I've seen three possibilities.
>>
>>1. Speak with Khadgar near the Vistor's Center in SW or Org. He
>>gives you a quest 'The Dark Portal', and when you click 'Say the 
>>word', ports you straight to Draenor, on the steps at the far 
>>side of the portal.
>>
>>2. Same, but pick up the quest from the notice board there.
>>
>>3. Speak with Khadgar just below the portal in the Blasted Lands.
>>
>>My suspicion is that 1 & 2 are Beta-only, and the 'real' start is
>>at the Dark Portal, #3. I'm going hearth in SW, but be at the DP
>>when the expansion drops.
>>
>>Anyone heard differently?
> 
> Your suspicion is correct, as I understand it. 2 days before the end
> of Beta, I made a new alt, and that alt got an autoquest to go and
> talk to Khadgar at the Dark Portal. 
> 
> My understanding is that'll be the case for all of us, we'll get the
> quest automatically in our logs and then just need to talk to Khadgar,
> who's already standing there waiting for us. Tons of people at the
> portal now, we just got our first world server crash, I'm surprised it
> took that long!

We'll see how it goes. My lock is logged out, flying immediatly above
K and the other VIPs. My server is medium pop, and I had no particular
problem logging in a little before MoP dropped. I hope to get on a 
little after 2:30 AM, EST, then wait for the drop.

I found a pretty decent walk through of the first zone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_1ZoTRKr5s

pt