Got mining, herbs and alchemy maxed. Will max out JC on Friday AM. Let the AH games begin.
The herbs and ore are stupidly plentiful, rarely impeded by mobs and re-pop very quickly. I predict the prices for these to settle very quickly.
Graphics were good, although Blizz clearly didn't spend too much time on the overhead views of lower level zones where low level quests are and players won't be flying, such as Ferales.
I was pleasantly surprised that the servers remained up the entire first day.
Laelia wrote:
Quest givers shared between factions with guards in the area is a bit dumb. Nerf tauren.
This, except for the Tauren part.
Flying in the main cities is win.
Rabid and his posse easily rolled to 85. It took a while, but I never heard them get hung up on anything. Admittedly, they are all solid players with very good gear, but they pretty much rocked it.
When Rabid hit 85, it was quite interesting to see the server reaction. There was a lot of positive reaction, but I was surprised at how many negative comments were made, along the lines of "Well, if I had a bunch of over-geared groupies to block for me, I could win the rushing title, too." I'd be curious to know who got to 85 first on BH, and what the reactions were.
The biggest complaint I heard was the over-abundance of cinema... when you're trying to quickly get to max level, the movies probably just feel like they're slowing you down after several hours. I did hear, however, many comments about how cool the movies were from people who were not so rushed. So, if you're into the lore, and the whole story of the game, I think you have some fun to look forward to.
Ran an instance over in Blackrock with Corus tanking. Even in my terrible gear with Trasee in her terrible gear, Corus, Nagap and Miggz easily carried us through. Along with a handful of quick, easy pre-instance quests, I got over halfway to 81, and replaced 3-4 pieces of purples with greens. Re-affirmed what I already knew: I'm a bad.
The XP required to gain the last level is 9M. Even with the nice XP awarded for quests, nowadays, 9M is a shit-ton.
Uldum is a cool zone.
Being Horde, and not on BH, is uncomfortable, but the Tempest guys are cool (and nice to old people).
Got my first in game msg from Tuhl. Ruled.
