So how was everyone’s first day or so in Northrend? I kept myself busy making sure I hit level 71 before I crashed that night. Errr . . . morning. And got half way through level 72 before I slept last night to be confident I had the energy to go to work. Cursed work!
I changed my spec around and I can definitely confirm that Readiness is indeed affecting Bestial Wrath now. So I am really thinking that something like this is going to be awesome for DPS. While I still might go MM for raiding since a glyphed Trueshot Aura is better than anything else in that same buff category, I am willing to bet that having Readiness along with Rapid Fire and Bestial Wrath on such short cooldowns is a big ball of win and very well trounce anything the exotic pets can bring to the table.
I have fallen in love with my new gorilla, which one passer-by stated has “the best name ever. EVER.” Those were his words. Keeping with my naming convention for pets, he is affectionately known as GenghisKong. Yup, it’s a pretty big ball of win. I have moved on to Dragonblight now. I almost had the achievement for I’ve Toured The Fjord but a few bugged quests are causing me to miss out on a couple chains so I am 8 quests short I think. I will go back and get them later though.
I spent some time yesterday grinding Utgarde Keep, mainly during peak play hours to help avoid the huge number of people during the afternoon. People are reporting queues on their servers . . . well, Illidan had 1700 last night. Only a few realms can top that I think. Luckily since I had the day off I logged on before the masses and avoided it entirely.
So the past day or so has been repeating a lot of the stuff I did in beta. And knowing exactly where everything is has been a major boon to leveling. But unfortunately life goes on and I couldn’t keep up with the all day leveling process. I probably won’t get home tonight till midnight. But I will be hitting 73 once I do.
Myself and a few other guildies have made the guild switch to one called “WORK.” Creative, I know. I only know a few folks, recognize a few names, but all are leveling like crazy. So that’s a good sign. Llz, a rogue in Found who managed to get like a friggin’ 2400 rating in 2v2 Arena the first weekend of Season 4 with a druid in the guild named Doubts is level 68 I believe, as a Death Knight. Like a mad man. And while I didn’t play it, I did create my Death Knight, known as Drhorrible. He has a PhD in horribleness.
So I haven’t heard from Intense Debate yet about fixing my blog so the comments link on the main page opens up the ID comment system yet. And the other day their notification e-mails magically fixed themselves so it was no longer displaying broken HTML. Well, it broke itself again and the past 3 comment notifications I received were all screwed up again. It’s a love/hate relationship. But from my end, it just doesn’t make sense. Here’s to hoping I hear from them soon. I know I greatly prefer the comment system to default Blogger. But sometimes I feel fed up with it, and then they will be awesome and I will love them again.
So what did you guys accomplish the first day or so in Northrend? Did you get through Utgarde Keep or the Nexus? Move on to Dragonblight? Did you choose Borean Tundra or Howling Fjord? Thoughts, comments, stories, share ‘em here! And until I get it fixed, click on the post title so you can leave your comment using the Intense Debate system if you don’t mind. :)
rushed home from work to install, then to howling fjord for my first taste of the new expansion. it has been a joy to read your blog over the last few months, in particular your wolk screenshots, but nothing compares to actually being there.
I am glad you liked the blog. :) And hopefully you are enjoying Howling Fjord. It is my starting zone of choice. The Tundra was too plain and boring for me.
Aw, I forgot you got rid of IntenseDebate. I liked that comment interface better. :P
I actually haven’t set foot in Northrend yet to avoid the rush of people questing (like when Sunwell Isle opened). I plan on starting in Howling Fjord though. It seems that Utgarde has a lower recommended level of entry for its dungeons, so I’m gonna go there first.
@loronar It’s not gone completely. It’s just not loading on the main page for some reason. If you click on the post title, it will take you to a page that has the Intense Debate comments. They are supposedly trying to get that fixed for me. I am waiting to hear back.
I headed to the boring tundra first because I didn’t know any better. The blandness of the landscape and overwhelmingly horrible ratio of quest mobs : characters forced me into Utgarde where a few friends and I tore through there a few times. I was surprised to have a half a level in rested xp and even more surprised that 3 runs through Utgarde filled that right up! I am not a big fan of camping quest mobs so I will continue to work on my DK until Northrend settles down. Surprisingly, there are very few DKs on my server. I haven’t had any of the crowding problems most people had.
I went to Howling Fjord which I am quite glad I have done since I’ve been in Boring Tundra the last little while doing some quests before I head off to Dragonblight and I must say it is depressing. It’s like Desolace got knocked up by a plate of ugly and they had a baby.
Anyway, so far I’m 72 and hope to be 73 by the end of tonight. Gorilla’s, of course, are epic and I find the new AotV is really sweet while leveling.
Finally, I suggest you all try out the Old Kingdom (Azjol Nerub); the boss fights there are epic.
I was the first one in my guild to install the game and rush to Northrend. Since then I’m level 78 and should hit 80 by today. Blizzard really outdid themselves on this one. I have to say its a lot better than TBC ever was.
I went to the midnight release (I was the only female there, boy was that interesting), came home, installed, logged on and tormented my guild because I was the first to have WotLK. Then I went to IF, unlearned my talents, respecced to a leveling spec, stocked my bags at the AH, and hopped a boat to Borean Tundra. Once there I learned my new levels of skinning and enchanting, and logged out because I had to be up for work in 5 hours.
I’m now a touch into level 72, and have my new polar bear pet, Decembear. I’ve run Utgarde Keep and The Nexus, and am grinding rep with the walrus people because I NEED that penguin pet. I’ve been hopping back and forth between the Tundra and Howling Fjord. I also grabbed a port into Dalaran, set my hearth, and proceeded to Battleground-port all my friends into Dalaran too.
As for gear, I’ve already replaced a few Epics with blues and even greens. I replaced Legacy with two green one-handed swords!
Lots more on my to-do list as well, if work would stop getting in the way. :)
The first thing I did was to create a Death Knight and follow the quest line until 58 where I parked him until I hit 80 with my main/s, it was quite nice.
Then I started to level up my Hunter/Gorilladin & DiscPriest Dualboxing team in Borean tundra, mainly to grind leather, the new motes and some quests on my way to HF . I did all this walking, as It was a nice way to constantly grind every single thing that cross my way. I was also able to port to Dalaran where I set hearth and I used the old BG queue /afk out trick to bring other friends to the new capital.
Given to the fact that I'm leveling two toons at the same time, my way to 80 will be much slower as I have to share the xp of each kill with my priest, but on the bright side I'm able to get over 15 to 25 mobs each pull thanks to having a personal healer for Kong (Pennance FTW) I will also get to do more quests and hopefully this will also help me get more rep with the different factions.
I just got into the first bubbles of 71 but I'm not in a hurry, each pull I volley down is epic, and seeing the faces of other players that struggle with a single mob when I clean the whole area in a single pull is just amazing…