🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 10:33:30 -0600, Cryptoengineer
<pete...@gmail.com> wrote:

>I woke at 2:30 AM, and was on line 5 minutes later.
>
>The new drop actually occured at 2:45, not 3:00.
>I'm on a medium pop server, (Misha-US) which is
>a west coast server (although I'm on the East Coast),
>so the drop was 11:45 PM in its zone.
>
>The area in front of the portal was pretty crowded, but
>the new quest popped onto the screen, and I didn't have
>to fight to click the NPC. Got in, and didn't experience
>any special problems - goal items either could be shared,
>or respawned instantly. 
>
>I played for more or less 10 hours straight, then took a
>nap. By then, I was at 93.5, had a garrison, and was in
>Gorgrond.

Hah, I can tell you're on a lower pop server, no talk of lag, and not
much issues with bottlenecking? Lucky ;-) 

>Later in the afternoon, I played another couple hours,
>and on hitting 94, moved on to Talador.
>
>The weird thing is, the Talador zone XP is about 1/3
>lower than in Gorgrond. The quests all seem to reward
>garrison resources as well - perhaps that's why. When
>the game comes back up, I think I'll go back and see
>if I can finish any other questlines in Gorgrond.

There'll be a bunch of bonus objective there, Gorgrond seems a very
short zone, but it's because you get totally different questline
depending on which outpost you choose; you'll get bonus objectives in
all the areas the other choice would've given you queusts, though.

>I really haven't figured out the garrison thing. I've
>put in some buildings at the main location, and upgraded
>to level two, and have outposts in Talador and Gorgond,
>but am not sure what to do next. 

Just do what's available - you've got your buildings, so place work
orders if you have the materials, send your followers on missions, do
quests for more buildings when they become available, etc.

>* The 'bonus goals' are worth doing - each set
>awards about as much as 3 local quests, and go pretty
>fast.
>
>* The dungeons are of limited use - Slags isn't worth
>it once you hit 92. Iron docks is marginal at 94. Haven't
>tried Auchindon yet. Later ones may drop useful gear.

Rubbish exp but interesting to at least see - and I was relieved to
find Slag mines was just fine for a rusty healer like me who's not
done a dungeon in over 2 years ;-) Gives me hope for the rest of them
being similar, fingers crossed - it seems endgame is kinda forced back
towards 5-mans again with the removal of scenarios, so I need to get
back in practice...

>* As with all expansions, the first zones are a cakewalk
>for toons which have spent months gearing up in the previous
>xpac. With an ilvl 562 toon, I haven't yet replaced a single
>piece of gear, though the blue rewards are starting to be
>in the same ballpark as my worst MoP items. I'm soloing
>lvl 94 elites without too much trouble.

Yep, 564 here, my weapon is the lowest ilvl, so it may not be too long
until I find something to beat it, and I did actually replace one
trinket, despite the replacement being lower ilvl - I had 76 int with
a proc of X crit for Y sez on Z chance, and got a quest reward of 74
int with a proc of X intellect for Y sec on Z chance (numbers
identical), and frankly int > crit anytime!

>* I like most of the new zones. I dislike blasted,
>ruined landscapes, and pre-disaster Draenor has a lot more
>green than Azeroth or Outlands.

So true, Draenor is lovely, even Gorgrond, which is deserty, is
natural desert and rock formations, not ruined ones. Lovely planet in
general, and the later zones are just as nice in my experience.