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Re: Best starting location?

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From: Polarhound
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:23
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On 11/12/2014 9:17 PM, Catriona R wrote:
>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:03:06 -0600, Cryptoengineer
> <pete...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> It seems lessons have been learned from our servercrashes when
> everyone piled into Blasted Lands, should be a bit better spread out
> for you US people:
>
>
> "Khadgar has cast Mirror Image and some of you have probably already
> noticed a few additional versions of his NPC around Azeroth. He's
> there to help you get to Draenor once the expansion goes live!
>
> We've had some time to evaluate the overwhelmingly positive response
> to Warlords of Draenor as it went live for European players, and
> realized getting you through the Dark Portal in an efficient manner is
> important. When the switch from Mists of Pandaria to Warlords takes
> place at 12:00 a.m. PST, you will automatically receive a quest titled
> "The Dark Portal" that will direct you to visit Khadgar in the Blasted
> Lands. However, now that we have four more Khadgars added to the
> world, you can go to one them as well!
>
> Here are Khadgar's locations:
>
> Stormwind - next to the Hero's Call Board in the Trade District
> Orgrimmar - next to the Warchief's Command Board in the Valley of
> Strength
> Shrine of Seven Stars (Alliance) - in front of the main entrance
> Shrine of Two Moons (Horde) - in front of the main entrance
> Note: if you happen to not receive the initial quest that leads you to
> Draenor, have no fear! Just find your closest Khadgar and he'll lead
> the way."
>
>
>
> Now, if they could just find some way to stop Draenor lagging like
> hell, that'd be even better. Interestingly they have phasing within
> zones, some areas are fine, others are locked up completely, ofc the
> lagged out bits are the ones containing the quest bottleneck I really
> need to complete. So I gave up and went exploring, didn't get a lot of
> exp but some is better than zero. World server down (again) now, maybe
> it'll be less laggy when it's back...
>

My solution to the mob mentality:  I'm going to switch to playing Rift, 
SWWTOR and DDO for a week...

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