Cataclysm launch day plans

[Lyonheart]

just curious, in Wotlk they did 2 starting zones (HF and BT) to reduce the impact of leveling players.
Is it only 1 in Cata? or are there new zones on, say, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms?

I play offpeak hours (australian on US server) so I'm less impacted, but in any case I'll probably take a day off or two, or try and finish my pre-cata goals



Cata will still be there a day later, when all the [SERVER FIRST] achievement spam is done :-)

There are two starting zones Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir

C. I found a lot of collection quests in MH, one so annoying I had to take a break halfway through (click the cute fuzzy squirrels before they dodge your mouse click. SO MUCH FUN!)

I used IWT and CTM for those and it was easy stuff. i LOVED Hyjal quests! I think the flow is nice but also agree that it forces everyone to be in the same area.

[Multibocks]

There are two starting zones Mount Hyjal and Vashj'ir




I used IWT and CTM for those and it was easy stuff. i LOVED Hyjal quests! I think the flow is nice but also agree that it forces everyone to be in the same area.

IWT doesn't make the quest any easier. I'm talking solo, so boxing is guaranteed to be more tedious. I've just finished the starting area for worgen (up to when you take the portal to darkshore) and it's pretty fantastic and almost devoid of collection quests. Perfect for boxers.

[MiRai]

When they revamped the starting zones back in the day it seems that all collection quests drop 100% of the time. I can at least confirm Northshire Abbey as I've just started a fresh team with no RAF. Folks in beta are reporting the collection quest drop rates to have been greatly increased [almost 100% drop rate], we can only hope this isn't "just a beta thing" and that it goes live with the expansion. Also have my fingers crossed that it finds it way into the revamped Azeroth, as well as Outland and Northrend, quest lines.

[Owltoid]

When they revamped the starting zones back in the day it seems that all collection quests drop 100% of the time. I can at least confirm Northshire Abbey as I've just started a fresh team with no RAF. Folks in beta are reporting the collection quest drop rates to have been greatly increased [almost 100% drop rate], we can only hope this isn't "just a beta thing" and that it goes live with the expansion. Also have my fingers crossed that it finds it way into the revamped Azeroth, as well as Outland and Northrend, quest lines.

Like Multibocks said, it's going down the right path. However, this has no more impact on multiboxers than it did on singleboxers. I will still take us 5x the amount of kills, just like before. The variance is lower, which is nice, but we don't gain in efficiency like pure kill quests.