Cata is boring so far...

[katsurahama]

Im in deepholm now. 82 is going much slower than 80 and 81. There arent too many painful collection quests so far but there is a lot of flying back and forth which eats up a lot of time, it seems. Im using the Zygor guide so im definitely not being inefficient.

There was some collection quest that required things whih dropped from gray blobs. I know i easily killed over a hundred of the things. They were spread out and had a drop rate under 20%. i finally used my demon lock to run around tagging them with dots and then hellfired packs of them down. It was taking forever killing them one at a time and they were too far apart for the paladin to grab more than two at a time. That quest sucked but otherwise it hasnt been too bad in deepholm. Just relatively slow.

[Stealthy]

I've come into Cata quite late, just finished Vashj'ir on my toons an am now working my way through Hyjal, but overall I'm enjoying it so far.

Vashj'ir really forces you to think in 3 dimensions as there is lot more vertical movement, whereas Hyjal is similar to the WoW we all know, i.e ground based questing.

The storyline in Vashj'ir was interesting (i quite liked the visions of the past quests), but a bit slow in parts, and sometimes repetitive (oh look, another cave!). I think a better idea would have been to have the submarine as a base of operations in the zone, similar to the flying ships in Icecrown...

Compared to Hyjal where you are shown Ragnoros straight out of the gate, which kind of lends a sense of urgency to questing in the zone, and it just kind of feels...well, more epic.

The collection quests have been ok for me so far, the only one I really hated was one in Hyjal where you had to click on very small, fast moving animals - 10 for each toon. Pretty sure I came away from that one with a bad case of RSI.

Just my 0.02 worth.

Cheers,
S.