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I started on Stormreaver and moved to Stormscale after a couple of days of downtime... turned out to be a mistake since Stormscale was a low pop hellhole but Stormreaver was an unstable impossible to play POS for the first few days.
What's going on at Blizzard?
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I started on Stormreaver and moved to Stormscale after a couple of days of downtime... turned out to be a mistake since Stormscale was a low pop hellhole but Stormreaver was an unstable impossible to play POS for the first few days.
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We know, and had Wooly actually been involved in server firsts he'd know that, so, conclusion is he's full of shit.
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ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
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Yea. I was no where close to being the first 60 on Doomhammer, but I feel like O was cap within a month. I was one of the few people to get epic riding on the server. Dat sweet sweet ivory raptor.
Sad I sold the acct and just use a new one. Would rock that mount until eternity with the newer mount system.
Sad I sold the acct and just use a new one. Would rock that mount until eternity with the newer mount system.
Ukerric
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Kirin Tor is the only rep I might not do on the same day. "The Magic of Flight" has the bubbles not always showing up correctly, which makes it horrible. The maze box is ok (my mid-50s memory is not shot yet), and the leyline racing is fun.
Basically, reusing normal quest scripts and turning them into dailies, plus the occasional non-leveling script is golden; it allows them to generate cheaply hundreds of dailies for max level. Whoever had that idea is a genius.
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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I have the opposite reaction. It's all the same shit I did while leveling, over and over and over again. And then I get to re-live those quests even more when I level an alt. Hurrah?
I hate dailies and WQs are just dailies in a different dress. Fuck Blizzard's artificial time gating.
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Skanda
I'm Amod too!
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I still get tells asking about mine every once in a while. I totally refused to turn it in back in the day once they added armor to the raptors.
They added one to Archaeology that looks nearly the same so most people these days don't even realize anymore.
ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
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Azrayne
Irenicus did nothing wrong
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Buuuuuuullshit. One of the biggest complaints previous MMO players made about WoW at release was that it was too easy, catered to casual players and didn't have the challenge of games like EQ. It was a huge discussion for a long time.
Either your memory is faulty or you were reading very different forums than I was in 2004.
I think it was a lot of small things. Part of it was definitely the atmosphere, I hated the pandas and thought that basing an entire expansion around what had been a joke race was absurd, and that the Asian vibe of MOP clashed massively with the pre-existing setting (I've since developed a bit of an appreciation for it by itself, especially the music). I found it hard to engage with the content/lore when it was all these new species and concepts totally disconnected from anything that had previously existed in Warcraft. The quests themselves felt a bit grindy and boring and didn't flow well, and the zones felt very disconnected, I remember it feeling like a huge pain to move around when I first came to MOP. The dungeons were really uninspired, and the gear was mostly ugly.
Gavinmad
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Confirmed liar. Quests weren't even close to the fastest way to level in vanilla, you just found a densely populated area and ground trash mobs. I would pull entire fields at a time in WPL on my prot/holy pally to level. Questing couldn't even come close.
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Malakriss
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Entire regions did not have their quests or full list of quests implemented yet, so if you didn't get the right chain to the right areas there was little for you to level on except grinding enemies. Pretty sure I did 59->60 entirely off enemies in plaguelands because of that and I wanted to be in the first 25 to hit 60.
ZyyzYzzy
RIP USA
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Heh me too. That was my spot. As a rogue with lifestone trinket i had randomly gotten I could kill with zero downtime
Genjiro
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Actually questing turned out to be the fastest way to level 1-60, it just took awhile for the most efficient leveling routes to be plotted and made well known. I remember your line of thought being the dominant position in early Vanilla as the old grind-XP MMO vets made their way from EQ, etc. Yet as time went by and more fresh server 1-60 races took place, the quest-path method always yielded the first 60's.
By the end of Vanilla we were under 5d played for first 60's...almost always a rogue or hunter. I managed to get one server-first paladin on Gurubashi (US) but that was before questing was widely well known as the fastest method.
TJT
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Honestly I always felt that the tabard rep system was the best, least grindy bullshit way to go about it. Oh, you want rep? Wear our jersey and do shit you want to do.
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Gavinmad
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I suppose I should clarify that I mainly meant during the first couple months, and it also depended on how good your class was at trash grinding. I wasn't exaggerating when I said I would pull entire fields at a time in the plaguelands on my prot pal. Grind them all down and then immediately run off to the next field with no downtime.
Woot, reppin' first 60 shaman on zuljin. I ground on elite giants in tanaris around early 40s. Remember rogues doing ogres in burning steppes since they had like no armor.
