My Horde main is apparently in operational command of an entire Horde expedition, based in a substantial (and growing) fort plus far-flung outposts in widely disparate regions of the theatre of operations (alternate-reality Draenor).
That’s not a “Commander”.
By lore precedent, I should be a Warlord or an Overlord. Horde commanders at the theatre level were usually either of those.
The Alliance version should be a Field Marshall.
Both sets of titles are lore-appropriate and fit the circumstances.
I soloed the big level 90 rare fish near the wrecked ship in Shadowmoon on my level 90 ret paladin. She’s geared in Timeless Isle gear, and not every piece is upgraded with Burdens.
I agree about questing being easy. I got to 93 just over Saturday and Sunday. I haven’t played since then because I don’t want to hit 100 by this Saturday. I mostly only play on the weekends and every other expansion took a couple of months to reach the new max level but with this one though I’m sure if I played on weekdays I could hit it this weekend. I’m not really feeling like that’s worth $50.
I was a bit disappointed today when I joined a Nok round-robin farming group to get the mount. I started out as 19th in line, and you guessed it, just as my turn was approaching, the group broke up.
Well that was a waste of 4 hours!
I did a little rage quit and haven’t played since.
Currently level 98. Expect to hit 100 by this weekend. I hope there’s enough end game content to keep me entertained, because I sure zoomed through 10 levels.
Although, if it comes down to it, I suppose I’ve still got plenty of old content to finish playing through. But I’m really wondering if WoD was worth my $50 as well.
Got my first toon to 100–Royd, my Feral/Resto Alliance Druid on Proudmoore. Now, I guess I need to start running dungeons, then heroics. Anyone know what current end-game activities there are besides dungeons/heroics?
Also, apparently this expansion has brought players back in numbers greater than anticipated. World of Warcraft subscriber numbers now are back up to over 10 million. See the press release here.
I made it to 100! In less than a week. I’m not sure how pleased I ought to be about that!
In other news, today marks 10 years since WoW launched - so let’s all play:
**What stupid things did you do when you were a newbie? **
I did not understand that weapons and armor could be repaired, so I used them until they broke. Then I bought new ones. From the vendors.
I liked the idea of being a tailor. I could sew bags! For free! But nobody wanted to buy my 6-slot linen bags. I couldn’t figure out why.
The concepts of “tank” and “DPS” roles were hazy to me for a long time - after all, my rogue solo’d mobs all the time outside the instances, why was it so set-in-stone that I couldn’t do that inside the instances?
Did not understand Bind on Pickup for the first few dungeons I went through. Made some plate-wearers very mad.
Wiped a Gnomeregan group by aggroing something THEN jumping off the ledge to go help my group kill the big elemental boss. A minute or two later, every mob in the dungeon came rolling in to kick our butts. Whoopsie! I don’t think I even realized I’d caused it. Ah, hindsight.
Yes, I was SuperNoob. But I got better eventually! XD
My newb move: rolling DPS priest on my first toon. Talk about “hard mode”. (This was before shadow specialization, or even before shadowform became available.) Priests were suppose to heal, just ask anyone. But you won’t be DPSing mobs to death by just healing yourself, so solo leveling was slow and painful.
That guy is still an first-tier alt (I think of him as nearly a main character, really).
Oh, and trying to explore the map (the entire big map) before understanding things like aggro and level differences (I was pulling level 30-40 mobs off of hillsides a quarter mile away by walking down the road as a level 10 :smack:) and fatigue water (“I’ll just swim to that peninsula over there…”)
I remember doing Wailing Caverns on my first priest and Need-ing on Stinging Viper because my priest’s starting weapon was a mace, so obviously, maces were priest weapons. Boy, did I get a chatboxful because of that!
I logged in this morning before going to work, intending to re-stoke the various production queues in my garrison. (The limit to the work queue and the long cooldown after a queue is full means I want to reload the queues as often as I can, because I’m desperate to get my Engineering and Leatherworking epic gear made.)
Alas, it was just as the wave of rolling restarts rolled through my realm. :mad: The screen loads, I take two steps, and get disconnected.
Never had a chance for the anniversary to fire. I’ll try again tonight, while grumbling about losing the opportunity for a few more Gearspring Parts to make my rifle.
That sucks. Fingers crossed that Warlords comes in today for you. Despite my complaint about leveling is too easy it’s still new content and new content is fun.
Noob things.
I did swim fatigue a couple of times before figuring it out.
Rolling need on gear I couldn’t use. “But I need it for money to buy stuffs.”
Buying and upgrading bags from the vendor. I didn’t know about the auction house for awhile.
My first toon was a rogue and not understanding why stealth didn’t work against mobs 10+ levels above me. I went exploring like gnoitall.
I took engineering on that toon and when I finally made my mechanical squirrel I died quite a few times trying to figure out how to get it to fight with me.
Fun times. I miss that feeling of newness and excitement. WoW was my first MMO and I’ve played quite a few since then and even though they were new games it’s not the same as your first MMO.
Up until Tanaris or so, I didn’t realize that Power Word: Fortitude increased a person’s max health. I knew I was supposed to cast it on myself and others, but I always wondered why they wanted me to decrease their green bars.
Regarding rolling “Need” on what I didn’t need, I learned running with a guild that you don’t do that. I guess you learn the hard way if you don’t have friends to teach you.
Talking about swimming, my first alt (now my main) was my first non-undead. I didn’t realize that non-Forsaken couldn’t hold their breath nearly as long as Forsaken. So I drowned my second character because I thought everyone could hold their breath that long. That distinction is long gone, now, but it was fun.
Talking about the new content, one aspect for a Warcraft lore-hound like me is all of the “what might have been” moments.
I have my Night Elf working through the initial quest lines in Shadowmoon Valley. At one point, you’re rescuing several villages from cultist attacks. You’re joined by a Draenei Exarch who’s been holding the line.
Even more poignant: at one point, in order to help the villagers escape, he enchants one of the farmers’ pair of hand sickles with the Light and uses them as his weapons. Echoes across the timeways?
I was fortunate that WoW was not my first MMO, so I avoided a lot of n00b problems. Still, I’m not immune.
Lately I’ve been misremembering my hotkeys and accidentally Ambush instead of Pickpocket. I blame having to re-map after 6.0.
I also once forgot to Stealth while attempting to Sap while running a BC 5-man with friends. Facepulled a big pack o’ mobs. We survived. I really don’t know how this happened. I mean, I Stealth up to friendly NPCs, for god’s sake.
I remember being confused about Greed/Need. And I think I rolled need a few times because i thought something like “well greed is bad, i don’t want to be greedy, i should pick need and it will give it to the person that needs it”
Also, i remember back in the day, i want to say it cost like 100 gold to buy your first mount. and i remember thinking “How on earth am i ever going to get 100 gold?!” It seemed like an impossible amount of money.
Lastly, I really miss that certain questing areas would be filled with elites, and it was near impossible to solo quest in those areas (at least for me). An example, was that troll area in southeast Hinterlands.
I agree for the most part, but I’ll make an exception for City of Heroes. I had something very close to that “sense of wide-eyed wonder” with that game. Perhaps because it was a different genre. All of my other MMOs have been “fantasy”.
n00b stuff:
Not realizing that a ret pally should always use a 2-hander. Until about level 20, I was switching between a 2-hander and a sword-and-board, depending upon which mobs I was engaging. My reasoning was that the 2-hander was great when attacking big, slow mobs, but the faster attack of a 1-hander was better against smaller, faster mobs.
I was probably close to level 40 before I realized that the AH was essential for making money. I was trying to make a living on quest reward coinage and vendoring drops.
Buying my first mount. I hit level 30, and spent what little gold I had (see my AH comment) purchasing the basic riding skill. Lacking the gold to buy a horse, I begged in guild chat for some gold help. A kindly level 80 guildie flew out to Eastvale Logging Camp and gave me the 30g (or whatever it was) to purchase a basic horse. I thanked him publicly in gchat, and then another guildie said, “Wait, aren’t you a paladin?” “Um, yes?” “LOL - you get a free mount from your class trainer at level 30!” :smack:
I never had any trouble with need/greed. When I ran dungeons during WotLK, I typically just passed on anything that wasn’t useful to me (later I started choosing Disenchant, after I’d learned that profession), and hitting Need on things that were an upgrade.
I’m rocking along on my main–gnome, frost mage. Lvl 97 at the moment. I took the Inn as one of my garrison buildings, so I get dailies for the dungeons. I need to look into garrison stuff more–I do work orders in my engineering building, but don’t really seem to get much in the way of benefit for it. Just got what I think will be a nifty trinket–has a chance to summon a paladin to fight with me. Being kinda squishy, I like the idea. We’ll see how it works in practice.
On questing…some areas are a pain in the ass with adds. Otherwise, it’s been pretty easy so far. Haven’t seen a rare I can’t solo yet, though a couple have taken more than one try.
On the noobie goofs confessions–I’m a mage. Way back in that tower raid thing…Kara-something or other, out in the middle of nowhere. Finished the raid, as the only mage present. Was asked to do a portal…hit the wrong button and ported myself out, leaving the raid behind. I hope we’ve all done that at least once.
My first character was a Nelf druid in vanilla. I never picked up grey items. Since training and repairing was very expensive in the early days, this meant my character tended to have broken gear and lower level abilities. I ended up abandoning him at level 20.