Cataclysm launch day plans

[Multibocks]

LOL, ya right, ok how about your Cataclysm Day 2 plans? Well I have some observations that may change what you do.

1. The beginning zones for leveling to 85 for Cata has some SERIOUSLY awful quests. MH has a few that are just stupid tedious:
A. Looking at ground for parts of a staff that have a long respawn and a really really small glitter animation next to a glittery river! AWESOMEx5! Oh and you need to pick up 8 of them. OH YAY!!!
B. Target a fire spawn and use item then AOE the adds down. Sounds simple right? Welp, no not really. Respawn is nowhere near what it needs to be to handle the influx of players ( this area screams PvP all out war and ganking) and there are only a few spawn points.
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!)
These two quests are just the ones I remember off the top of my head. Some parts of it is fixable and some is not. Overall I think the quest hub ideas is neat, but it guarantees that everyone will be in the same area come server respawn. Also it makes the zones seem really small, even though they are not.

What I suggest for those of you boxing alliance side: Level a worgen team with heirloom gear. There is a bunch of easy quests and very few collection quests for a long while. I can't speak for goblins, because I havent leveled one yet. Also make sure you use a class that has instant cast spells/abilities because everywhere will be a gankfest.

Once I level a team of worgens for a week or so I will get to leveling my main team and hopefully the starting zones won't be so ugly as day 1/2.

[Svpernova09]

"World Server is Down"


I plan to take some vacation time to level. gonna be a blast :_D

[moosejaw]

^^ This. I spent a month doing dailies for mounts before I upgraded to wrath. I will probably stay a while in northrend this time also.

So the first few days of cata will be business as usual in northrend.

[DLoweinc]

Depending on launch day I may take some time off to play.. I'll probably be using the LFD tool to do instances for my levels.

[Grondir]

Take a few days off work and see what happens.

May solo-level my rogue to get a feel for the zones/quests, make the collection quests a bit more managable to start.

Or I may start a team of Goblin warrior () and start levelling them (the only class I don't have 5 of)

Or I may start on a new server and make some Worgens, but who knows

[Multibocks]

my worgens will probably be a druid pack, not sure yet.

[Shodokan]

I'll be flying around mining and herbing. For a very long time.

[Coltimar]

I'll get the xpac, install it and resume grinding 10 mans by day and I'll start gathering in Azeroth by night for a few weeks.

[Zub]

just curious, in Wotlk they did 2 starting zones (HF and BT) to reduce the impact of levelling 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 tryand finish my pre-cata goals



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

[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.