🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 00:27:33 +0000, Catriona R wrote:
>  On 18 Dec 2014 00:06:53 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >Well, of course I couldn't resist. I activated my free 10 days tonight and
> >just spent about 6 hours playing :-)
> 
>  Hehehe :-D
> 
> >At the start I found the guided quest line to be a bit too guided for my
> >taste (the starter area) but once I had built my Garrison and actually got
> >to freely quest in SMV I quite enjoyed myself. After about 3 hours I hit the
> >XP cap (1 point below 91), but the console still tells me how much XP I'm
> >getting. So I'm wondering if this is counted but not awarded and if I might
> >end up turning 92 or something as soon as I bought the expansion...
> 
>  Hmm, that is a good question! Possibly not, but it might, I'm afraid I
>  don't know. Would be quite handy if it did, as then your completed
>  quests would count for something and you won't be trying to level
>  having already done half the quests ;-)

Ugh. I keep changing my mind about buying the expac or not. Since last night
I've gone back and forth about three times. Anyway, no time to play tonight
and tomorrow night. Might get in a little tomorrow during the day. So I'll
hold off on the decision until saturday :-)

> >So far I've built the barracks and found myself three followers that I have
> >sent on a few mission. I cannot upgrade my town hall (there is a level
> >requirement of 93 and some quest requirements on it). For anything else I
> >lack the plans. Will those be awared based on quest progress? Or are these
> >drops?
> 
>  They come from a quest which starts from a random drop, which usually
>  comes at a particular point in the main questline. I'm afraid I don't
>  know when

No worries, I'll just quest on then. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't
missing something obvious.

>  You'll also be able to upgrade the town hall earlier than 93, if you
>  reach the right part of the questline

Cool, I didn't realise it was OR, I read it as an AND requirement.

> >How do I learn level 700 Alchemy? I haven't seen any trainers yet. Shall
> >just craft yellow/orange pandaria recipes to hope for a random profession
> >drop again? Or are there trainers somewhere and if so, where?
> 
>  You'll learn that at the same time as you get the quest drop for the
>  building plans: you get a profession-specific drop, complete a short
>  chain, and get handed plans for the alchemy building plus an item
>  which teaches you up to 700 skill. You'll also learn some starter
>  recipes, the rest you can buy in your building (or in Stormshield, the
>  main alliance town), for tokens, which you can craft one per day (you
>  learn the recipe when you learn the 700 skill)

Thanks. Another reason to quest on.

> >I have completed the quest achievments for 3 or 4 subzones in SMV and
> >explored it all (though that caused my one and only death when I walked up
> >Socretar's Rise to get the FP. Oops, all mobs are "boss" mobs to me :-)
> 
>  You just found a lvl 100 questing area :-)

So I thought :-)

>  I suggest you don't go and find the island to the south of the zone
>  either; it's another lvl 100 area

Hm, I've been on two southern islands and only found level 90-91 mobs
there. I even killed a rare on each. I needed both of those islands for the
explorer achievment. Is there a third island that is lvl 100?

>  Whichever you choose, I'm sure you'll have fun, the levelling content
>  is absolutely brilliant, I loved it :-)

Yeah. I wasn't so thrilled with the introductionary quest, but after that it
was great.

> So many familiar names and faces around

Yeah, I've kept stumbling over BC names, it really makes it fun to encounter
them again.

I'm not quite sure what the story of the whole expac is. I.e. how come we
have a way to go back into the past Draenor, somehow that seems to have
slipped by me. Not that I mind, though :-)

Anohter thing that amazes me is that I am playing using the vanilla UI,
something I could not have imagined during BC, Wrath or the Shattering.
This is really a testimony to the improved UI!

Cheers
Urbin

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