Right, so… WoD activated 15 minutes earlier than said! My Rogue was the first to go through the Dark Portal to “test” and see how bad leveling is from the start. So far… hardly any competition.
But now he begins the main questing.
How it got to this, I flew to the Blasted Lands around 10:30pm’ish as Benie, and staked a spot to sit and chill for the next 6 hours. Invited my Rogue to hang out with me. We talked. We did things. Benie got into a Mammoth party. Things like that.
But somehow, the expansion activated around 2:45am EST, 16 minutes earlier than said. Maybe they felt we waited long enough.
Anyway, when it got activated, everyone got a quest. The quest was similar to the one I got on the beta. Same wording too. Just fly down to Khadgar, and instead of picking “The word” as the option, it’s been changed to “FOR AZEROTH!” Nice change.
As I said, my Rogue will go in my place. Which literally is rewriting my history. For the first time ever, I had an alt to do expansion content before my main. And for the first time ever, an alt on my second account.
Now if you excuse me, I got some Iron Horde to kill and a Garrison to establish. For Azeroth! And it’s also time to put my knowledge from playing the beta to good use.
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EDIT: So playing the rest of the intro, I got lagged out twice and almost a 3rd time. Most people were obviously blaming Blizzard for this, but some smart people (and even myself) knew better; the servers were getting DDoS’d to the point that half of the servers went down.
Though Blizzard also “takes the blame” by pushing rolling restarts to fix a few things on the Horde side(according to Twitter anyway).
Though also, the fact it was happening gave me an advantage, as a lot of people were getting fed up and leaving. So more kills for me! 🙂
Finally completing the intro, there’s now a new debuff called “Panicked Run” during the “Run to the boat!!” scene, where you’re unable to mount. So no more epic ‘getting on the boat as a dragon’ scene. 🙁
In Shadowmoon Valley, it’s just as bad as I thought of Day 1 of the launch; multiple people steal killing eachother, all to complete quests. I knew this would be an issue. Said issue got worse and worse as I tried to start my Rogue’s road to Level 100 and be part of my history.
Mainly, what was making me curse is the quest involving killing Orcs for the Draenei. Namely, the ones near the central town of theirs.
So, I dunno if I’m going to go back in. Tired of the kill stealing. I imagine it’s going to be even worse now the fact it’s day. Though you also got people that have to work or go to school.