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Re: Thoughts on the first day.

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From: Anon
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 02:18
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On 15/11/2014 3:03 AM, Cryptoengineer 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I'd been intending to leave the garrison alone till I
> hit 100, but that may not be feasible. I didn't want
> to waste time gathering materials, etc, on low-xp
> quests.
>
> Other notes:
>
> * 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.
>
> * 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.
>
> * 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.
>
> * My lock still has the final stage of the green fire quest
> in his log. I wonder if I can go back at 100 and curb-stomp
> the guy?
>
> All in all, I'm enjoying the new content. This lock is zerging
> his way to 100; the other toons will take time to smell the
> roses, and the blood.

None above 92 so far , can't get on.
It doesn't make much difference and the alts should be fine given the 
initial chain rewards but one thing I have noticed, not a SINGLE green 
to send back to the line of alts despite an exercise in mass slaughter 
to see what dropped.
In other xpacs there would have been a couple of greens, a lvl ~500 
green usable by 87 is a nice gold bonus on AH or for DE compared to 
vendor price.
  For professions I have not got a single non gather profession drop 
although there is a lot less for dedicated professionals to do.
I think I could like this garrison thing even though I expect a lot of 
expensive mistakes at first. Ohh a barracks, I should build that right 
now....what do you mean limited space..am I not 'commander'?

  I am a bit put out by 'we give you this land', now slaughter 
everything that moves and cut down everything that doesn't.
One of the NPC saying 'I can see you have done this before' whilst 
slaughtering for greens cracked me up just a bit at first. Not so much 
by the sixth time.
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