Who else is reserving their vacation time for the release of WoTLK?

[shaeman]

Currently I'm not bothered when WotLK comes out (SHOCK HORROR!!!!!!)

I figure I'm not going to rush through the content. I'm not going to rush to be the first 80 (that will go to a big guild that mass boost one player through in roughly 20 hours like happened with BC).

I'll leave it a few days before even buying a copy. Then I'll have various groups of my characters doing instances, and will probably grind rep in preparation for being an 80. (I'm saying this now but I may actually earmark one of my characters to get to 80 as quickly as I can )

[-silencer-]

Eh.. forget saving time for WotLK. I'm saving my PTO for D3. I should have about 3 months saved up when that one is released.

[Deshu]

It's the old saying... "To Each His Own"...

Personally... I don't care about the troubleshoot problems as they are to be expected. I also don't care that the zones are flooded with people. That's also to be expected. Frankly, there will be a lot of zones where people will be at so it stretches it out a bit.

For me... it's the excitement in the air of the release, the anticipation of finally installing it and getting online and sharing in that with other people. It's crazy fun!

And if servers go down for a day, then so be it... I'll do something else for the time with my vacation.

I just know that I would go crazy sitting at work knowing I could be at home playing the new expansion and see the new lands, the new mobs, the new quests, the new battleground, everything... nope... no way I would be productive at work lol.

[darkmoon]

Me and my friends all skipped a week of school, We'll see what we can get away with this go-around :thumbup:

[Drizzit]

I'll probably install and upgrade my accounts the day it comes out. The reason is REST XP. You don't get your rest xp from lvl 70 until you upgrade your account. Plus even if you don't do the new stuff and you upgrade your account the dailies in the BC will now give experience.

[Deshu]

I'll probably install and upgrade my accounts the day it comes out. The reason is REST XP. You don't get your rest xp from lvl 70 until you upgrade your account. Plus even if you don't do the new stuff and you upgrade your account the dailies in the BC will now give experience.

Heck, even the Outlands quests you never did should reward experience. Maybe a good reason to leave them for the expansion. Spend the first week doing all those quests getting easy exp.... unless they do like they did with BC... add an insane amount of quests!

Hmmm... the gold economy might shoot thru the roof. How much will we be earning for top quests at level 79? Hmmm... pretty soon stacks of light leather will sell for 5g ea! I know on my server I've sold stacks of wool for 5g each already.

[Drizzit]

Wool was always a pain for me to get. I always got just enough to lvl first aid, had to buy some when i did taloring. The real pain is when i started multiboxing, 7 toons i had to get first aid up with wool (2 already passed the wool in first aid, older toons), then i had 4 of them first aid. I was buying wool like it was going out of season.

What people are starting to do is do 25 quests and not turn them in. Once the expansion comes out turn them all in which will hopefully get you a lvl or 2. I think that is what the guy in japan did (first to lvl 70 in 1 day). I think he did like 20 old land quests and then just turned them all in at once to get an easy lvl. He was probably over geared too (the best the old land had), but as we all know a white drop was better then much of the purple gear in the old land.

I think they said like t4 gear shouldn't be replaced with green gear until around lvl 74 and t6 shouldn't get replaced until 77. I think (hope) they learned there lesson because everyone was complaining about it.

[Deshu]

Interesting strategy there... clever. I'm not trying to rush thru the levels necessarily. I've done speed leveling before, my best time only being 1 to 60 in 3 weeks while holding down a full time job plus a family w/ kids (Pre-BC ofc). I only did that because I was on a new server with friends and I wanted to see if I could do it. I used Brian Kopp's guide which I will swear by.

But all the same... that's a clever strategy

[Korruptor]

I might take a day or two off for WotLK launch but not more then that.

The idea about loading up on completed BC quests for some instant exp is a good idea, I'll have to plan that out when I get closer to 70.

[Drizzit]

I say that the first person will be 18 hours this time... Probably a hunter. I wonder what you do after 18 hours and being 80? There really isn't much you can do. Can't raid, can't do heroic, can't do bg (well only av, and you would own because everyone is lower then you), and can't do arena.

Does anyone know what will happen to arena when it comes out? Will they have 2 arenas (one for 70 and the other for 80)? What about the PVP gear, right now you need to have a arena rating to use some of the bg stuff. Will they have a lvl 80 pvp set like s1 for bg?