{"id":2422,"date":"2012-10-05T19:18:47","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2012-10-05T19:18:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:18:47","slug":"mists-of-pandaria-the-leveling-road-restarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2012\/10\/05\/mists-of-pandaria-the-leveling-road-restarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Mists of Pandaria &#8211; The leveling road restarts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to leave the MRT Server early, after multiple things going wrong (needed a break). I was planning to come back on Monday (the 7th). Currently as I write this, I&#8217;m Level 86, and bordering on 87, with 4% to go.<\/p>\n<p>Getting to Pandaria is different, compared to what I saw on a MoP Beta video. All you do is fly to SW, and you immediately get a quest where you can fly into Stormwind Keep. There you see a cinematic of the king trying to get ahold on the whereabouts of his son, and Captain (now Admiral) Taylor. Both went to Pandaria, but contact is lost.<\/p>\n<p>This is where you come in. You&#8217;re hired by SI: 7 to hunt down and bring back home the king&#8217;s son, Adriun Wrynn. Also to rescue Admiral Taylor. You have to fly to the Skyfire; the same zeppelin that helped to take down Deathwing. You go to Pandaria to fulfill your mission, and kick some Horde ass (non-PvP, by the way).<\/p>\n<p>To describe what has happened between when I arrived in Pandaria to now, would be several posts. So, I&#8217;ll just go over it with a list, in order I saw it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Kicking Horde ass<br \/>\n&#8211; QuestHelper 2 is not helpful. No MoP database.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Quest #0&#8221; pops up. Possibly related to the failure of QuestHelper 2.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Sha first appear after defeating the Horde camp.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Lord of the Shado-Pan shows up, and warns the Alliance to &#8220;take your fight off our shores&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8211; I&#8217;m hired as a Diplomat of the Alliance, to show the Pandarian that we&#8217;re the &#8220;good guys&#8221; here.<br \/>\n&#8211; Did battle with the Hozen, and befriended the Jinu.<br \/>\n&#8211; The Jade Forest is gorgeous.<br \/>\n&#8211; I flew on a kite.<br \/>\n&#8211; Rescued Admiral Taylor.<br \/>\n&#8211; Got a brief vision of Aldrin&#8217;s location.<br \/>\n&#8211; Had to learn my center to get full control of my vision.<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;Rescued&#8221; the Prince, but he refused to go home and went to Vale of Eternal Blossoms.<br \/>\n&#8211; Saw the Jade Dragon Statue in person. It&#8217;s awesome.<br \/>\n&#8211; Did some boring collection quests.<br \/>\n&#8211; Met the Pandarian&#8217;s mortal enemy, the Mogu. And they met the receiving end of my gun. \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n&#8211; I dinged to Level 86.<br \/>\n&#8211; I helped with the construction of the Jade Dragon Statue, by preforming a series of quests to get lots of Jade.<br \/>\n&#8211; I met the Jade Dragon in person. A very old yet wise chinese dragon, named &#8220;Yu&#8217;lon&#8221;. This dragon is a shape-shifter, like our western winged counterparts. Her form is a small Pandarian cub, named &#8220;Fei&#8221;. She is dying, and plans to be reborn as the Jade Statue (which is why the Pandarian are feverishly trying to complete it, but are two weeks behind schedule).<br \/>\n&#8211; Admiral Taylor called me back to camp, telling me the Horde are planning to attack.<br \/>\n&#8211; I rode on the back of a Cloud Serpent named Mishi.<br \/>\n&#8211; The attack happened at the base of the Serpent, and a giant Sha was released when the tower fell. That sha&#8230;. was my doubts of defeating Deathwing. It was the size of him. It was being fed by my current doubts of killing it!<br \/>\n&#8211; After defeating my greatest fear, I had to kill smaller Sha. I also had to get Mishi to get Taylor and the others out of there.<br \/>\n&#8211; I was told to leave the Jade Forest; nearly exiled. And was flown to the Valley of the Four Winds.<br \/>\n&#8211; The jade dragon Yu&#8217;lon, told me to &#8220;find my purpose&#8221; of why I came to Pandaria, before dropping me off at the Valley of the Four Winds. Also told me that &#8220;you will find answers in time&#8221;. She also told me to prove to the Pandarians of the valley, that we are better than the Horde.<\/p>\n<p>And my adventure continues. Questing used to be really fast-paced, but it seems to have slowed down to collection or killing ones. I&#8217;ve also been doing these &#8216;mini-game quests&#8217;. For example, I had to go to this river and get water using a bottle. Simple enough, yes? Well, this bottle leaks really badly, and can make the quest time longer on you if you aren&#8217;t careful.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also seen my share of competition. Not <strong><em>as<\/em><\/strong> bad as it would had been if I didn&#8217;t wait.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s also another issue. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s related to MoP, but I&#8217;m getting severe turning lag. Like my computer is suffering from a memory leak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve decided to leave the MRT Server early, after multiple things going wrong (needed a break). I was planning to come back on Monday (the 7th). Currently as I write this, I&#8217;m Level 86, and bordering on 87, with 4% &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2012\/10\/05\/mists-of-pandaria-the-leveling-road-restarts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,55],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mop","tag-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}