Happy Cataclysm Day
By maryvarn on December 7th, 2010Posted In: NPC Blog,Video Games,World of Warcraft
Cataclysm is finally here! Some of you may have played already in the wee hours of the night, some of you may be playing now, and others like myself won’t be playing until tonight after work. Oh yeah, and others of you don’t play WoW and I’m sure are a little annoyed at all the hype. All I can say to you is, sorry, and bear with us. We are excited. Excited!
I feel a little unprepared for this day. I didn’t do everything I wanted to in the Wrath era. I never leveled another character to 80. I completed Loremaster of EK and Kalimdor, but not of Outland, and I only have a few more quests to go in Storm Peaks for the Northrend version. But I had a good time nonetheless, and I’m excited to explore the content. My hopes going into this expansion are that I stay on top of current content as best I can, and spend more time in battlegrounds. I really enjoy those. I’m a little overwhelmed with everything else I’d like to do, but I’ll focus on those two for now.
So what are your Cataclysm goals? Has anyone leveled yet???
hehe ding 81
gratz
Woot, grats Ginko!
I was watching a release party broadcast online by some people from Tankspot and Gamebreaker.tv. I believe they said someone on the EU servers – they went live before everyone else – got the world-first 85 about an hour before the US release. Crazy stuff.
I’m waiting on my collector’s edition to get shipped in from Amazon. Might take me a bit longer to get started.
ding 85 /proud / concerned
Whoa, for reals??? Are people really dinging 85 already? Well grats if so!!
thanks^^
This morning, before work, I made the mistake of logging in, training flying and doing the first lvl 80 quest: Working all day today has been TORTUROUS! (ToT)
Hehe I bet. I just got my CE in the mail and it’s sitting in my bedroom as I dutifully work until the day’s end. Listening to the soundtrack now though of course.
someone has to say it, YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!
pre-ordered it, but can’t pick it up until next week.
I am a sad gamer girl tonight.
I tried to log in, but it was a 3 hour wait and then I got bored and watched Battlestar Galactica instead. Oh well, there is always tonight
81! Woot ding! I have a seahorse mount! haha awesome
On my server (Fizzcrank) I have seen a lock, mage and pally hit 85. Felt sorry for the pally though he missed out on first on the first on server to hit 85 by 3 seconds to the mage.
The worgen starting area was bugged on my server and you had to fight tooth and nail (lawl) with other people for quest mobs,but it was really great.
This is my first time as a caster,warlock to be specific,so my goal is to just to enjoy classes outside my comfort zone.
I’m almost 85 on my server. It took about 17 hours for the first 85.
I mean I’m almost 82, not 85.
Still cancelled, but sounded like a frustating launch… my brother was still swearing at his monitor when I fell asleep. Or maybe it was just the usual lag and dc’s we Oceanics get
@Mary: It’s been fun despite the frustration of fighting for mobs
We’ve got a bunch of level 85s already on the server and our guild first was this morning (crazy guy only slept 6 hours in 2 days…). The new guild rep and achievements are great!
@Adam: It’s either the Oceanic server or your brother didn’t know what to expect on launch day. Things *never* work smoothly, Blizzard can’t help it, getting angry doesn’t solve anything.
Probably both.. but then, he has 5 raiding 80s and I barely got two toons to max-level before giving up on their lame service down here, so I don’t really sympathise. “6 dc’s in 20 minutes, you say.. meh, Pogo Zombie just ate my Torchwood, we’ve all got problems..”
What is crazier is leveling on a pvp server. Never know when you will get ganked, or better yet you may as well be doing the ganking.
My realm population must have gotten lower since the Wrath launch. I had no queue last night, and while there was competition for mobs, it wasn’t too crazy.
Yep, that’s pretty much how it works.
Took me 5-10 minutes to log on when everything went live. The funny/sad part was the mob waiting to get trained for the flying. A guildmate was said the fps, by the trainer in SW, was around 10 due to the mob and spammed AOEs. I simply went out to Dalarn and trained. =D Later I got frustrated as I wasn’t gaining any exp and opened a ticket. Hours later my cousin asked if I had my exp turned off. Quick visit to the stealthed guy in the SW BG room and all was fixed. Quite embarassing.
Oh! Love the new guild features and your own little character page on the WoW website.
Battlemaster title
I think i will spend enough time in bgs 
Our server (Malygos) had an XP glitch when it came up for Cata – no one was getting XP for the first 20 minutes. I also could not log in for 25 minutes, but there was no “queue,” just couldn’t get on. I’m one bubble from 85 now, but I didn’t try too hard to get there. This xpac has been extremely easy to level to max from 80. I remember 70 to 80 being much more time consuming and difficult. My boyfriend got to 85 in 24 hours, give or take.
Goals for Cata? Same as Wrath – clear content, get drakes, collect pets, collect mounts. Probably have to go back and get 25 Heroic LK, that will bother me if I don’t. Other goals for Cata – don’t raid 7x a week (Blizz fixed that for me by screwing up lockouts) and spend more time OUT of game.
Have fun! I’ll admit, I was tempted to start playing again, but I just can’t bring myself to grind again despite how different the world may be now. Besides, it’s been 10-11 months since I last played, so all that awesome gear I had on my Orc Rogue is probably crap now anyway, LOL.
2 bars to 85 :0 EU realm Silvermoon. But I lost a day because I had interviews and stuff. Boo!!
I am 2 levels away from 85 on my first and only character anywhere near that high. My DK. I haven’t gotten much done in the game as I have played on and off since Classic’s launch and never got over level 30 or so until sometime into LK and even then I wasn’t 80 until several months ago. So just as I got used to endgame they add a new expansion.
My playing on and off usually resulted in money issues or loss of interest for a while. Mainly the latter though. I am hoping to keep my current playing streak going till I have several 85s.