Whats the verdict?

[Oatboat]

So I've held off playing the new expansion, I was turned off by the addition of pandas but now I'm getting my itch to play again.

How are things looking? Fun as a boxer or better as solo to go through the content?

I was playing Holy pally and 4 dks but have atleast an 80 of all teams I could try.

Anyway just looking for some opinions.

[Longshot17]

MoP is quite good, way way better then Cata. Doesn't quite have the epic storyline of WoTLK yet... but it might be a surprise as the story progresses.

Heroics are doable as a boxer. If you look under Dungeons/Boss Strategy guide there is one person whose tackled a lot of them with a melee group. I leveled whole team together from 85-90.

Peeps complain about pickup quests but overall I think the questing is easier then in previous expansion. Some fun/funny quests as well.

If Cata turned you off of WoW and Multiboxing (like it did for me, I quit for over a year just prior to 4.1), MoP should pull you back in, I'm having the same level of fun if not a bit more then what I had in WoTLK... just be warned LOTS of dailies!

[d0z3rr]

MoP is quite good, way way better then Cata. Doesn't quite have the epic storyline of WoTLK yet... but it might be a surprise as the story progresses.

Heroics are doable as a boxer. If you look under Dungeons/Boss Strategy guide there is one person whose tackled a lot of them with a melee group. I leveled whole team together from 85-90.

Peeps complain about pickup quests but overall I think the questing is easier then in previous expansion. Some fun/funny quests as well.

If Cata turned you off of WoW and Multiboxing (like it did for me, I quit for over a year just prior to 4.1), MoP should pull you back in, I'm having the same level of fun if not a bit more then what I had in WoTLK... just be warned LOTS of dailies!

Interesting. Are you sure the instances are doable? I had a hell of a time with the ones in Cata. Are they easier? I'm not quite at the skill level of most people on this forum. I could box all of the WOTLK instances though, they were fun.
I just paid off my school loan so I was thinking of coming back to WoW too (in addition to Eve). I got the boxing itch again

[JohnGabriel]

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Peeps complain about pickup quests but overall I think the questing is easier then in previous expansion. Some fun/funny quests as well.

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For me its not that the quests are any more or less difficult than previous expansion, I'm just tired of questing. So very tired. Every expansion I have to quest to max level several teams, over and over and over and over again. So very tired.

But it has to be done so I can do what I love, end game PvE.

[ebony]

Some fun/funny quests as well.

Cuddles Help me! I took a arrow to the knee. Argh!

[Khatovar]

I'm pretty happy with the expansion as a whole so far. I'm running melee and the few heroics I've tried have been pretty easy to down, especially compared to the "lol@u melee have some acid in that wound" of Cata. I blogged a bit about it earlier this week.

Questing feels a lot more involved than it was in Cata. There's quest hubs all over the place, including some that you're supposed to "stumble across" - that is, there are !'s on the map that lead you to the hubs in addition to the hubs you get through of breadcrumb quests. It was nice to have more than 3 quests in my log at a time.

And yes, there's a lot of gathering quests where you don't share credit, but I think we're still "up" a bit with quest items dropping for the whole party now. Plus there's a lot of "kill a boss" quests where you get credit even if you didn't tag the mob, so that's a nice change as well.

Dailies are insane. There's like 4+ different hubs that you can hit a day and it's very easy to spend your entire time logged in trying to get them all done. Your best bet is to just pick one or two to work at a time or it's just going to feel overwhelming. And you'll never get around to dungeons - like me, lol.

[Lyonheart]

Dailies are insane. There's like 4+ different hubs that you can hit a day and it's very easy to spend your entire time logged in trying to get them all done. Your best bet is to just pick one or two to work at a time or it's just going to feel overwhelming. And you'll never get around to dungeons - like me, lol.

^ ^This..Im so glad they are adding that once you have exalted on one toon.. your other toons get double exp for rep. I tried to do 3 reps.. tillers..golden lotus and klaxxi, but as you get friendly>>honored, you end up with more quests, Like Khat said, it can be overwhelming.. now i just do tillers and golden lotus. I also would normally just skip the collection quests, BUT if you don't do them.. you miss out on the final quest which gives a loot bag ( has gold and a chance at a SoH or Skyshard ) So i do them all. BTT im done doing them all+ harvesting my 12 crops and replanting, im beat lol.

I do one dungon run a day atm. I figure once i get the reps exalted, i can just start doing the easiest ( kill quests ) from each rep and be done with it. Ill be better geared and have plenty of cash by then.. so lots of time to grind dungons/PvP later. And i have a month left on my RaF still.. so need to make time for that!

OT... I like this expansion.. you definitely wont be saying " Theres nothing to do!" for awhile! And there adding a new faction in the patch lol

[Ualaa]

You can level with various methods.

You can do instances.
Even if your team cannot do the bosses, you can do the trash and then repeat.

You can mindlessly grind on mobs.
There are quite a few places where the respawns are quick.
Some have been auto-banned from this (acting like a power leveling service or leveling bot) but everyone has had their accounts restored.

You can do PvP.
Win or lose, you get some experience from the bonus honor battleground.
You could also do random battlegrounds, which again is some experience.

Then there are quests too.

If you have more than one team leveling, you could stagger your play to always have rested.
Since you get twice the experience from killing mobs, but not from quests, this is somewhere between 1x and 2x experience.

[sethlan]

I like MoP myself, cata, meh.

[Ualaa]

Started another round of RAF today...
So will be boosting 5-6 teams.
A>F & B>G

Then a different set of 5-6 teams.
C>H & D>I

And then a final set of 5-6 teams.
E>J

So will be a while, before getting to the new MoP stuff.