early Cata opinions

copeyhagen

have to say, not very impressed so far.

leveling in mt hyjal, 50% to 81, i know its early, but it just feels like the same ol' same ol'.

most people will be 85 within a week. what then.

hink mt hyjal looks fairly ugly. the quests are fairly **** so far.

maybe ill just go back and level a goblin, see if thats fun.

how you all finding it

Nehaxak

Haven't had a chance to level much at all on any character yet other than get 2 notches to 81 on my Druid just from mining/herbing - which is kind of weird levelling up through either, I presume it stops once I've maxed out both professions.

Oh_Noes

I completely agree with you OP. I'm a few bars off 81 from questing in Vash'jir and a run of one of the new instances. I'm really not at all impressed. Same old, same old except only five levels and two new zones of content. I was excited for it for a long time but completely deflated now.

They'd also want to have the next patch really jam-packed with stuff and ready to go before the end of next month because all the new content will have been completed by regular players, someone on my server already got to 85. I wouldn't be into playing hardcore like that person but I expected that only five levels would mean a much longer grind but obviously not.

Big thumbs down for Cata.

Kiith

Starting levelling a Worgen Druid, and having a great time with it. Excellent started area, unfortunately the final quest (Battle for Gilneas) is bugged and no one on my server can get past it. Really ennoying, but hopefully Blizz will have it fixed soon.

Venom

Kiith wrote: »

Starting levelling a Worgen Druid, and having a great time with it. Excellent started area, unfortunately the final quest (Battle for Gilneas) is bugged and no one on my server can get past it. Really ennoying, but hopefully Blizz will have it fixed soon.

Are you a full Worgen or just before it? As there was a bug in beta stopping the transformation part of the questline.

Mr. CooL ICE

40% past 83 now. Since release last night, I was in a prearranged group with guildies to blast through the quests and do some instances. BRC and TOT are fun, but Stonecore is a snoozefest.

The quests by and large are pretty standard, but there are some entertaining ones (bear cubs up a tree, 3D Joust). However, the most impressive thing I have seen so far is the Maelstrom which almost made me seasick just by looking at it.

Also, it doesn't take long if you want to rush it. I was logged in 30 minutes (1h 20m after servers went 'live') and the realm first 525 skinner was announced. Realm first 85 was before lunch today!

TechnoPool

copeyhagen wrote: »

have to say, not very impressed so far.

leveling in mt hyjal, 50% to 81, i know its early, but it just feels like the same ol' same ol'.

Its WOW? what did you really expect different? you quest, kill mobs, loot items and get xp? thats the way the game has been for 5 years , there plenty of new types of quests with alot more phasing , the bear throwing, jousting , sea horse racing thing to name a few.

most people will be 85 within a week. what then.

Grind out rep and do heroics for the purples , same as WOTLK.

hink mt hyjal looks fairly ugly. the quests are fairly **** so far.

same as my point above, but alot of the quests where new so didnt bother me, zone looks cool i think with all the phasing.

maybe ill just go back and level a goblin, see if thats fun.

sounds like your fed up with the game pal, all the content that u describe above will just be waiting for you , plus outland and northrend all over again.

how you all finding it

i like it so far, hadnt really played WOTLK for the last 4-5 months so quite enjoying it

Dcully

Levelling is just going through the motions tbh, its always going to be same old same old.
We all know the meat of the game is endgame stuff.
Personally id prefer if they just kept to a lvl cap and put everything they have into dungeons,raids,pvp content etc.

Dr Bob

LordChessington wrote: »

Also, it doesn't take long if you want to rush it. I was logged in 30 minutes (1h 20m after servers went 'live') and the realm first 525 skinner was announced. Realm first 85 was before lunch today!

that happened on my server at about that timeframe as well , probably from the giant mound of unskinned lootted crabs in vash.
Guildie managed to hit 85 yesterday at lunchtime (server first for hunter), 25 daily handins at 12.20am plus no sleep did it for him.

Kiith

Venom wrote: »

Are you a full Worgen or just before it? As there was a bug in beta stopping the transformation part of the questline.

It's the Battle for Gilneas quest that is bugged. It's just stuck on a loop for everyone on my server. Blizz know about it, but it was stuck like that for over 12 hours yesterday. Something wrong with the phasing i think.

Venom

Kiith wrote: »

It's the Battle for Gilneas quest that is bugged. It's just stuck on a loop for everyone on my server. Blizz know about it, but it was stuck like that for over 12 hours yesterday. Something wrong with the phasing i think.

In beta lots of the phasing quest in the Worgen starter area were bugged to hell which is pretty lame tbh.

Kiith

Venom wrote: »

In beta lots of the phasing quest in the Worgen starter area were bugged to hell which is pretty lame tbh.

It's bloody annoying, as there's nothing you can even do while waiting. You can't port out or enter battlegrounds as you get a message saying 'The Battle for Gilneas is not complete'. You cant even herb/farm as there are no npc's/enemies that aren't related to the quest. So basically, you're stuck standing around doing nothing till they fix it.

It's a shame, as the zone had been brilliant up until that point.

String

Just hit 81 and been playing very casually and im suprised im enjoying the whole underwater leveling experience. Havent really got bored yet but no doubt at 85 I will be

copeyhagen

gonna give my hunter a go today, i think ill try each toon for a level or so and see whats most enjoyable to me.

will probably roll a goblin today aswell at some stage.

with regards the realm fist 85, last night i was on sunstrider and there were literally hundreds of 85s in /who

Gunmonkey

Logged in last night and someone had gotten the realm first Archaeology achievement........thats 525 levels in just under 24 hours.

Wow......thats just wow.

TheDoc

Should hit 85 today

As said above leveling is to fill your belly, this game is make or break come its endgame PvE

Alts look like it wont be too much stress to level tbh, especially with the guild perks of 10% and the two new herilooms giving combined 10%

I'm thoroughly enjoying this levelling experience, doesnt feel grindy at all, interesting quests, granted a bit linera and hold your handy, buts ins not stressing me at all

Saying that its 9millionxp till 85, but we will see

Vicxas

Started on my 80 druid yesterday, made it to 82 in under 3 hours, loved mount hyjal and deepholm is pretty ok so far, love the fact that the quests arent all "kill 10 of this".

Nehaxak

Made 81 last night after a couple hours just mining/herbing and killing the odd thing that got in the way. Bit weird levelling up just from gathering.

Vicxas

Yeah i thought that was odd, if you could level up from skinning id be 85 by now...

TheDoc

"Jack Bauden" questline in Stormwind

****ing epic haha

Mr. CooL ICE

Uldum is the best quest area so far. A lot of the quests are tongue in cheek. Gnomebliteration - best quest ever! The harrison jones quests are also entertaining.

Vicxas

Looking forward to uldum alright

Magaa

just hit 83, to uldum!

Xyo

I loved vash'jr once i got ahead of the clump. Deepholm was alright didn't mind it. Uldum was cool, zhe gnome with zhe gun vas funny. Twilight highlands was pretty cool too, I especially liked the veristratz (sp>) quest with deathwing.

copeyhagen

played for about 3 hours earlier while all the kids were in school, flew to 81 in about 3 hours, including speccing talents & sh1t.

was way more fun than the warr and was zero downtime.

so might level him up and use him as my main.

specced the dk as frost and gave it a go and 3 mobs had me down to about 60%..didnt like that at all so i parked his ass in org.

gonna log the rogue now, just to send him to org, as it appears that they only start getting rested once they have been logged since cata

hunters in the underwater zone atm.

imo evenings are a nigtmare trying to do gathering quests, im sure it will die down after a week or 2

TheDoc

Got 85 there earlier today, just levelling JC and working my way through normal dungeons gathering enough gear to tackle heroics

HellboundIRL

Got my Shaman to 85 tonight, been healing instances all the way up - have found it either extremely frustrating or just plain boring with some of the big trash pulls.

It seems my offensive spells have gotten more powerful, while my heals have stayed the same, even though I have 2k extra spellpower. Its challenging alright, but its not so much fun when it feels like your heals are doing absolutely nothing.

The bosses seem to be generally easy, the trash hurts the most.

Calhoun

I believe they put allot more of the content into rebuilding older quest lines and i have to say i am loving it. I have recently rolled a mage and its so much fun, the Rambo styled questline in redridge is brilliant and so much fun to do .

I think these changes will bring allot of new blood to the game as it makes the leveling grind not as boring as it used to be, i was actually looking forward to it .

I suppose if you only have level 80's its probably much of the same so i would suggest possibly investing in a new toon for the craic.

TheUsual

Calhoun wrote: »

I think these changes will bring allot of new blood to the game as it makes the leveling grind not as boring as it used to be, i was actually looking forward to it .

I suppose if you only have level 80's its probably much of the same so i would suggest possibly investing in a new toon for the craic.

You could be right. My Level 80 has the same problems as before, like armour and weapons, but maybe time to try a new roll.

Overheal

My Guild, ONITALL, up until about 6 hours ago was holding onto the #1 Global Position for Guild Achievement Points. Workin' on getting that back and killin every critter we lay our eyes on.

http://www.guildox.com/go/g.asp?a=5&r=&w=

At least I got us shot back up past the russians again tonight. They halved the time allowed for the Malygos speedkill which put a small obstacle in my way. Whether or not we'll get it back, who knows. It's the easy ones that are making up these points, you'll see a lot more disparity in the coming weeks, but the guild achievements are going to be one of our main focuses.

The rate of leveling is really same old same old. Not surprised or really upset there. 5 levels instead of 10 sure. The intros to each new zone are interesting and so are some of the dailies - whackamole in Uldum is a laugh. And I'm happy to have challenging 5-mans again even if it's for a short time and even if the pugs are assmunching tank gear ninjas. No DBM at the moment to tell me when I have to do **** so people just snap up and pay attention for a change.

Can't say I'm disappointed with it. Hyjal is probably not for everyone. I didn't find Deepholm to be all that thrilling and got out as soon as I could to hit Uldum. But honestly thats always been the case, different people like different zones.

The only regret I have is not going straight to farming minerals at the launch. Stacks of Pyrite were moving for 10k each in the first few hours.

TheUsual

Overheal wrote: »

I'm happy to have challenging 5-mans again even if it's for a short time and even if the pugs are assmunching tank gear ninjas.

What is a pug ? Sorry if it's a simple question.

Overheal wrote: »

The only regret I have is not going straight to farming minerals at the launch. Stacks of Pyrite were moving for 10k each in the first few hours.

When you mine minerals, do you just sell them, or change them into tablets at the forge and them sell them on the Auction House ?

F00t13f4n

TheUsual wrote: »

What is a pug ? Sorry if it's a simple question.



When you mine minerals, do you just sell them, or change them into tablets at the forge and them sell them on the Auction House ?

PUG = Pick Up Group. Typically where 1 or more members of the 5-man group are random people.

I would put the stacks of raw mineral ore on the AH, because they can be used by jewelcrafters as well.

I'm nearly through Vashj'ir and halfway to 83 now (damn work). I'm liking the quests so far, and the scenery is spectacular. Not liking the 40-minute queues to get in, though.

DRakE

82 in under 3 hours couldn't be more bull****

copeyhagen

its vaery fast leveling up alright.

have 2 toons on 81 from literally 4 hours. will try the rogue tonight and see if hes any fun, but i think the hunter is my main.

have a very low mage, like 14 or soemthing in heirlooms sitting in uc.

logged him last night, went to get the ferry to org, and my god does brill look good. its awsome.

just went to org and parked him though.

having never played a caster should be fun, plus for once im not dreading going to barrens..

have a pala at like 26 parked somewhere in heirlooms aswell.

think ill concentrate more on old content and level the hunter to 85 in between boredom sessions.

not sure if ill renew after this 2 month sub is up

bombs away

Would love to be level 81 if I can actually get in to start levelling, bloody q's of almost 3000 on my server mean I'm waiting ages just to log on. This aint what I pay for blizz :mad:

TechnoPool

bombs away wrote: »

Would love to be level 81 if I can actually get in to start levelling, bloody q's of almost 3000 on my server mean I'm waiting ages just to log on. This aint what I pay for blizz :mad:

if its that full no free move off no?

bombs away

It's about 80% horde on this server so there is a free migration for them but alliance are not so lucky. And when I do actually log on it's a total gank fest, 40 vs me, not fun at all. Guild wars 2 here I come

p.s. started in the q at 15.00 today and still waiting

Overheal

TechnoPool wrote: »

if its that full no free move off no?

Realms Queues
We're in the process right now of doing our quickest fix for queues which is simply raising player caps. Most realms that are seeing a high queue (once the cap changes go through) should see a substantial halving or more of their wait times.

Once that's done we can then continue to evaluate and take further action as necessary. In our years of experience, free character transfers are marginally successful in that the vast majority of players hate queues, but the vast majority also aren't willing to leave their realms and guilds to avoid them. It's a solution, and one we may employ, but it's one that isn't quick and easy, and with widely varying histories of success. (Source)

[...] We do have another round of player cap increases going out in the next little bit but bottom line is we're most likely going to have to work toward free transfers. They're not super simple to execute so it's not something that's going to be available today.

Anyway, we'll keep you informed as we go. (Source)



Free realm transfers have since begun on a few dozen realms, US.

Tucking Fypo

Not very impressed at all. So damn easy to get to lvl 85. I was under the impression it was going to be extremely hard. Why they didn't make the cap 90??

Dungeons seem to be rehashes of old ones, but sure what's new there!

Archaeology is a bit boring, and I've yet to see the point of it. I'm low enough level though, so maybe I will get more than grey dolls when I move on.:pac:

I like the guild rep system. Me and my OH have moved from the raiding guild we were in back to just our mates, it's a bit of fun.

bombs away

lol was at 600 in the q and the server shut down, beginning to pull my hair out.

Was thinking of rerolling on another realm, any decent one's with low medium populations you guys know of?? Would have to be pvp as I dont play on any other

Overheal

bombs away wrote: »

lol was at 600 in the q and the server shut down, beginning to pull my hair out.

Was thinking of rerolling on another realm, any decent one's with low medium populations you guys know of?? Would have to be pvp as I dont play on any other

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/status?locale=en_gb

Lone Stone

Ive been in college havent had the chance to pick it up yet might get it tomorrow but meh im not really feeling that must have it vibe i got with the last two.

Been leveling a hunter tho when i signed up for the shattering like the revamped area's now im just trying to avoiding doin anything in outlands.

I dont like some of the changes now i was happy when i started but im at like lvl 66 and i wont have any skills till lvl 74 now !! who's bright idea was that zzzz

DRakE

i'm 83 atm, theres hundreds of 85's on outland with 3000+ queues
i wish everyone wasnt at level cap so quickly tbf

noworries

Nearly 83 on Wildhammer- EU. Just playing a few hours in the evening since
Tuesday. it's very quick to level and my boomkin is just tearing sh*t up.
I levelled as resto from level 20 via LFG and never played a big chicken before and am find this expansion easier than any other. I completed all
of Hyjal and am about half way through VashJ... my only issue with the
game at the moment is the 9 minute wait for groups as a healer.. I mean
wtf?. WTB my insta que moar.

DRakE

noworries wrote: »

Nearly 83 on Wildhammer- EU. Just playing a few hours in the evening since
Tuesday. it's very quick to level and my boomkin is just tearing sh*t up.
I levelled as resto from level 20 via LFG and never played a big chicken before and am find this expansion easier than any other. I completed all
of Hyjal and am about half way through VashJ... my only issue with the
game at the moment is the 9 minute wait for groups as a healer.. I mean
wtf?. WTB my insta que moar.

aye I was playing my druid as resto but as it got closer to cata i started gearing feral for legit instant queues.

Kiith

I'm loving my Rogue at the moment. Really nice damage, and the quests are excellent. Lvl82 atm. Plus, just killed a mob that gave me 112g and 42k exp.

Overheal

Do the hardcore raiding guilds always burn through the progression that quickly? Paradox is already 11/12 in 25m. I know you can attribute a lot of that to serious Beta homework but 5 days after the content launches? Thats a little ridiculous.

Gunmonkey

Nah its kinda average. Think it was a week before most of the main guilds were farming everything.

How long till the "give us more instances Blizzard, you owe us wah wah wah" starts up ya think?

Overheal

a week.

Kiith

Gunmonkey wrote: »

How long till the "give us more instances Blizzard, you owe us wah wah wah" starts up ya think?

I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet.

TheDoc

Overheal wrote: »

Do the hardcore raiding guilds always burn through the progression that quickly? Paradox is already 11/12 in 25m. I know you can attribute a lot of that to serious Beta homework but 5 days after the content launches? Thats a little ridiculous.

That is very much the norm for them....