Cataclysm launch day plans

[crowdx]

So when the pre-patch comes out before Cata, will it enable flying in the old world? If so I am thinking that might be a time to go gathering?
As for leveling, I am sure we can all squeeze a few levels out of the current dungeons without setting foot in the new areas?
Personally I most likely will only start to level one toon and later if/when I want to start boxing dungeons I will get the rest of the teams leveled. Those collection quests seem very unfriendly to boxers and with the dungeons being changed to more CC and also possible movement intense, I am not sure if I will multibox in the expansion.

[Gramzngunz]

I'm taking my shamans to the most crowded area and then START BLASTING. The first few weeks of expansions are the world pvp *magical* moments. Soon after that everyone will be sitting in towns never needing to leave. (that's when I start attacking the towns haha)

[Owltoid]

I'm taking my shamans to the most crowded area and START BLASTING

It does make me wish I was on a PvP server. I bet it would be pretty damn fun to just have organized world PvP during that first week - screw leveling, this is your chance to kill the opposite faction and cause mass frustration!

[Littleburst]

I'm taking my shamans to the most crowded area and then START BLASTING. The first few weeks of expansions are the world pvp *magical* moments. Soon after that everyone will be sitting in towns never needing to leave. (that's when I start attacking the towns haha)

Sounds like a plan.

I'm not sure yet what i'm gonna do, probably a balance between BG, Dungeons (with 2nd player tanking i think) and some questing. Depends a bit on exp gained in BG, but if that's any good i might actually try and premade some to guarantee fast wins.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Like others, I am only running a single toon right now. I plan to quest with friends to avoid ganking. I also plan to run the dailies in Northrend as well. They should give xp again when you are not level capped. Also SBJones is geared out pretty good so I will be LFD as soon and as much as I can. The play mechanics for paladin tanks are going to be way different from the way they are now so i'll need to practice up.

[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.

[Multibocks]

it's a step in the right direction, but it still needs to be something everyone in group can loot.

[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.