Cata is boring so far...

[katsurahama]

I got my highest team to 80 and haded off to hyjal all excited to try the new content. What i like is the quests have some story to them. Thats about all i like.

What i dont like:
Linear.
Cannot skip collection quests.
Zones seem devoid of people - is this because of phasing, where people may be there but we cant see each other due to being at different points in the quest chain?

I really really enjoy my highest team. Thats why its the highest one. I put it together at 60, just like all the others i have. The toons have great synergy and variety. But i had to force myself to get through all those collection quests. Sometimes they were so irritating i logged out before completing themx5 because i couldnt force myself to go on anymore at that time - that is not a good sign!! Then id have to force myself to pick it up again because i knew a painful collection quest was waiting.

I tried the first cata instance at 81 and got stomped by the first boss. His earthquake aoe would 1shot half my team, including the priest. I finished hyjal at 82. Deepholm is the next zone for me and the teams hearth is set to the starting spot. I may try the first cata dungeon again since i got like 10k more health on each toon just by going from 81-82.

So these be my questions three:

1. Are all the cata zones similar to hyjal in the way they progress (linear and full of get 10 thingy quests)?
2. Is phasing making the zone seem devoid of other people beyond the inn?
3. Are there nonprofession, nongathering dailies like those in grizzly hills wherein assuming i get so fed up with gathering and phasing i cant stand it anymore that i can just log into the team, do some dailies and switch to another team until the next day and get to 85 that way?

Yes, i know number three isnt the way to play the game in an ideal situation. I will probably end up playing through on my first team. But so far i find cata worse than wotlk in terms of leveling - at least there i could SKIP the gathering quests.

[valkry]

zones are empty because everyone has already leveled. People either hang out at either tol barad or stormwind/org.

And yes, i dislike the linear aspect of the quests too.

[Kicksome]

Once you accept the fact that you have to do all the quests, it's not too bad. It only took me like 2 days to get my mage team from 80 - 85.

[Kekkerer]

With regards to the title, you haven't even reach endgame and you're judging the whole expansion, in my opinion there is more stuff to do than has ever been for a boxer at level cap.

Edit: I do see your point however, I was massively pissed at collection quests when levelling my pve druids team... getting ganked a lot didn't help either. Maybe the fact that the zones are empty is more of a blessing.

[Bollwerk]

The amount of collection quests is annoying, I certainly agree, but it was really rough when you had to compete against everyone else at release. I imagine it would be far less annoying now with no competition.

[Khatovar]

There's nothing wrong with the title. Katsurahama thinks it's boring so far and a lot of people agreed with that assessment based on the 15 page thread that was running here. I was bored with the quests about halfway through Vahshir and by the time I got to Uldum I wanted to puke, or cry, or set someone on fire.

IMO, the dungeons weren't any better. It was way too much of a throwback to Vanillia where you spent weeks farming gear in Scholo so you could make start Blackrock. Only this time, you have to do it twice...once through the normal dungeons, then you get to do it again through heroics.

[Ualaa]

I actually liked Vashj'ir with the Druid team.
Aquatic Form is instant, and equivalent to the Sea Horse thing you get.
There was a better story in Vashj'ir then Hyjal.

The way the expansion is set up, you can basically skip a single zone.

The quests, with lots of collections, are linear.
You cannot skip much within a zone... there were a few.
Basically kill some stuff, get some stuff, kill a big bad guy in the area... send you on to help my friend.
Repeat.
Pretty crappy quest implementation.

But on the plus side, 80th to 85th is like two days of playing hard.
It is way faster than any five level spread of WotLK was (although that's 30% faster now).



You could do the Shadow Vault dailies too.
At 80th, they get you about a third of the way into 81st.
So three or four days... of one hour worth of dailies... should get you to 81st.
Beyond that, they would be painful to go to 82nd or 83rd, because of the steep experience per level curve.
But that's definitely an option.

[Glenni]

You said the first boss in BRC oneshot you. You're supposed to kill the chains he spawns and run away. Now you can give it a try again

[Harrypott]

I did a zone until I leveled, moved onto next.. all the way to 85. Never finished the quests in a particular area except in in deepholm. I did some of hyjal then went and leveled in teh water area until i hit 81? and moved on. Seemed quicker and more interesting just to move on to next zones as soon as one could do them. (get quests) Linear was damn annoying at times. I remember a couple times i decided not to do a particular quest that was needed for the chain quest... and then wondering why i couldn't find anymore quests... eventually going back and doing that one and it opening up heaps more. /facepalm

I did the first instance a fair bit to level too until it was quicker just to do quests. Didn't have much luck finishing any other instances and didn't think the time spent to learn to do them in avg gear was worth it.

The zones were FULL of people when it drop'd. now there is no reason to go to these zones unless farming herbs\minerals.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The amount of collection quests is annoying, I certainly agree, but it was really rough when you had to compete against everyone else at release. I imagine it would be far less annoying now with no competition.

My experience 81-85 was the opposite: with a bajillion people running the quests, mob respawns were stupidly fast, so I could basically sit in one spot and kill as fast as I could loot. I'm exaggerating slightly for emphasis but not much. As an example, I capped my skinning sitting at that sunken boat in Vash'jir where all the snakes spawned. I couldn't skin them fast enough to keep the floating bodies clear.