Quote Originally Posted by Mercbeast View Post
How are people planning to level? I've got about 6-7 hours tonight I can play then I have to shut it down until Thursday night/friday due to exams.
Since I'm on an EST server, Cata would go live at 3am local time, so I just went to bed and woke up about an hour earlier than normal and was able to play for ~90 minutes before leaving for work. My rogue had 25 northrend quests queued up for turn-in, the real gain from that was that I had done a bit over 800k guild experience by the time I was done. Edit: I don't mean when I was done with the 25 northrend quests, but when I was done for the morning, which included a number of Cata quests as well.

Even at 5am server time the new zones were pretty busy, but I was able to do some of the starter quests within a reasonable time. I figure that for the first few days the crowds at prime time will make things pretty laggy, so I'll probably keep doing northrend quests. Mob exp is cut down to almost nothing, but quest reward exp is not, and I think that provides two benefits right now:

- Nearly all of my experience gains also go to guild leveling.
- I will use up almost no rested exp while doing this.

Within a couple of days the rogue will be 81, have a fair amount of rested exp, and should be able to quest without so much crowding in the new zones. I plan to level my shaman as resto with my friends whenever they log in to quest. If things are still busy in the new zones after a couple of days, I'll probably just level one of my teams, or get my fifth hunter the last level and a half that she needs for 80. Still not sure how I'll proceed exactly, and I do want to spend time just flying around Azeroth and seeing everything from the air. Lots to do, and plenty of time to do it in.