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Wrath of the Lich King: Post Release

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The day we have all been waiting for has come and passed.  Millions of Blizzard fans slammed into unkempt lines around the country to pick up their copy of the new WoW expansion.   I would imagine that most succeeded, though I can tell you that the line I waited in was 2 city blocks long (yours truly was 3rd in line and had nothing to worry about).

On Thursday morning at 12:16 AM, I installed Wrath on my computer and updated my account to Wrath play ability.  I started my Death Knight, whom is a Night Elf, and played through the intro levels until the wee hours of the morning.   I now know that they call early hours the wee hours because you start to go delirious from lack of sleep, but you still have fun… weeee!  Anyhow, I leveled my Death Knight through the opening levels on Wednesday night and continued the next day.  A day later, I am 67 with some change.  I hope to make it into Northrend by tonight or tomorrow morning without neglecting my family too much.  Wrath has definitely been an exciting voyage so far!  It is very interesting to see who chooses what class to level within my guild and who has rerolled a new class entirely.

I’ve seen achievements scroll across guild chat for new Grand Master professions and exploration of Northrend, which I will not see for awhile given my new class.  Everyone is starting to explore the Nexus and Utgarde Keep.  I am still back in Outlands leveling my Death Knight.  I did get an honorable kill achievement.  A level 70 hunter without the Wrath expansion thought he should try to kill me.

The one pitfall to Wrath so far is that all of the people that I play with are easily surpassing me into Northrend.  I am glad that Blizzard made it easier to level from 60-70 in the last patch, but it is still a long road to catch up to my guild mates so that I can stop playing alone.  I keep hearing about giants and penguins and neat areas, but am not quite ready to adventure there.  On the other hand, I was the one that rerolled to Death Knight so this pitfall was my own choice.

So far, this expansion has completely knocked out all of the server disappointments that I have had in the past week.  This expansion has surpassed my expectations, even after I played beta.  What choices have you made since Wrath came out?  Has the expansion experience been as good or better than the Burning Crusade?

Wrath, 2 Days Away…Exciting or Excruciating?

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We are now 2 days away from the second World of Warcraft Expansion and I personally couldn’t be more excited. Hey everyone, before I get started I just wanted to introduce myself briefly. I have been playing World Of Warcraft for about four years and I play a hunter as my main. I have killed every boss there is to kill and have PVPed my way to a 2300 rating in season 2. I have a Protadin and a Resto Shaman as well, but my passion lies with my hunter.

My guild was stuck on M’uru when 3.0.2 hit, and that night we cleared the whole zone without a wipe. Some say that we didn’t deserve the kill because of the content nerf, but I don’t care. I finished B.C. (Burning Crusade) and totally feel I deserve it. I struggled through every boss as it was cutting edge and didn’t get carried through it. I paid my dues and my repair bills with the rest of them.

Now as we approach Wrath, just as my colleague below mentions, we are all trying to sure up some cash, achievements, and our specs before the zerg fest that will be the first few days.

This is where I get to my point…

Will it be exciting, fun and amazing? Or will it be laggy, annoying and excruciating?

For me, the opening days of B.C. were the most fun I have ever had in game. I play on a PVP server and it was glorious. Ganking was happening for sure, but camping/griefing wasn’t. I am for world PVP as much as the next guy, no matter how annoying it may be, but nothing gets my blood boiled (punintended) more than the repetitive killing of a helpless player.

I’m talking about when the group of five hangs out on the Isle of Quel’danas and repeatedly kill the poor solo player just trying to get his mana remnants. When the previous expansion hit, this didn’t happen. People were too excited about leveling. There were some epic world encounters don’t get me wrong, but that’s where they ended.

In addition, the game servers for the most part were very smooth. I didn’t experience any server lockups or shutdowns as well as a very limited number of hiccups. No one thought that it would run as smoothly as it did, and B.C. went out without a hitch.

The question is, will Wrath be as smooth? Will there be enough mobs for everyone? Will there be too much griefing on PVP servers? Will there be server shutdowns? No one will know until November 13th, but I personally have faith that we will have some fun times in Northrend this weekend, and I can’t wait.

This is an exciting time for most WOW players, but to some it will be nothing but headaches.

Wrath of the Lich King Anticipation

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It has been a little over a week since my last entry regarding World of Warcraft.  I have been very busy!  No, no, not with real life.  I’ve found myself sucked into WoW trying to clear through all of those nice achievements that Blizzard conveniently put in a month before Wotlk comes out.

I have a level 70 druid that I respec between balance and feral every other day.   I’ve found that it was super easy to get all my balance badge gear since the instances were nerfed a month ago, so I’ve run Kara and ZA weekly with pugs.  I’ve cleared through Serpent Shrine Cavern, Tempest Keep, and Black Temple.  Getting pugs for Hyjal and Sunwell has been much harder, though I did go on a guild run through Sunwell last week (go Dirt Dogs!).  I’ve cleared through every classic instance except AQ40 and am only missing one heroic.  The twin emps gave our guild’s 15 man group a little trouble when they glitched out at 5% health.  Also, everyone seems to hate heroic Shadow Labs.  Can’t anyone give a druid some love?

I ran through Eye of the Storm about 70 times to pick up 2 pieces of feral pvp gear this past weekend.  I am now sporting almost a complete set up S2 and hope to pick up the final piece, the chest, this week before Thursday morning’s pick up of my new expansion.  Oh, and yes, I picked up almost all of the Eye’s achievements (still missing the blasted ‘Perfect Storm’).  I’ve picked up 46 of the 50 pets required to get a skunk carrier.  Robot Chicken

The robot chicken quests were probably the most annoying of any that I’ve gathered, but totally worth it in the end.  The whelplings still evade me, but I think it has something to do with the other pet farmers in the area with me stealing my kills.  I have farmed close to 1000g running dailies, which allowed me to clear the “A Simple Request” along with a few fishing achievements.   This money will be perfect to use with (que trumpets) my Death Knight.  What?  Why am I doing all these achievements for my druid if I am changing toons in less than a week?  The answer is simple: Blizzard’s achievement system is brilliant.  It makes me want to play my druid even knowing that he will remain level 70 for months at least.

I am not even upset that I have to do all these achievements a second time because I have had so much fun running through them on my druid.  However, Wrath comes out in less than 4 days.  What is everyone else doing during their last 4 days?  I will be spending most of Wednesday afternoon sleeping in preparation for my long night.  Wednesday I will get to sleep, Midnight release, installation and starting my death knight.  I can’t wait!