Warlords of Draenor Lands in Fourteen Hours

[thetoddo]

Those were just scouts. The reason the advance slacked off long enough for the PC strike team to get in is instantly apparent as soon as you go through the portal. I wouldn't call them unimpressive by any means, it was more a case of Grom being Grom and letting a bunch of Leeroys through the portal before his main assault force was in position. You go through the portal and are almost instantly running for your life. The only reason you survive is because you've got faction-leader power level NPCs covering your back and even then they can only hold back the assault long enough for you to do what needs to be done.

Honestly I've never seen a xpac opening experience like this and am really concerned the rest of the xpac is going to be a letdown once I'm fully in the new theme park.

 

[FirstNameLastName]

I used to play back in WotLK. I remember when Cataclysm was looming on the horizon, everybody was claiming it would be the last expansion ever. Glad i wasn't that naive.

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[Aetera]

So everyone, what server are you waiting on and how many people are ahead of you in the queue? I'm waiting to log in to Kul Tiras and I'm at 115 now in the queue. Sigh.

 

[VanQ]

So everyone, what server are you waiting on and how many people are ahead of you in the queue? I'm waiting to log in to Kul Tiras and I'm at 115 now in the queue. Sigh.

I'm on US-Thrall. The queue was at 4300 an hour ago. I'm sitting in place 2904 right now, with 340mins Estimated Time left before I can get in the server.

 

[Fappy]

So everyone, what server are you waiting on and how many people are ahead of you in the queue? I'm waiting to log in to Kul Tiras and I'm at 115 now in the queue. Sigh.

I'm on US-Thrall. The queue was at 4300 an hour ago. I'm sitting in place 2904 right now, with 340mins Estimated Time left before I can get in the server.

I've been in the server all day long, but it's been laggy as fuck and broken questlines have bottle-necked everyone in Frostfire Ridge. The world server's been down for about 10 minutes too LOL

 

[VanQ]

So everyone, what server are you waiting on and how many people are ahead of you in the queue? I'm waiting to log in to Kul Tiras and I'm at 115 now in the queue. Sigh.

I'm on US-Thrall. The queue was at 4300 an hour ago. I'm sitting in place 2904 right now, with 340mins Estimated Time left before I can get in the server.

I've been in the server all day long, but it's been laggy as fuck and broken questlines have bottle-necked everyone in Frostfire Ridge. The world server's been down for about 10 minutes too LOL

Yep, I got online, managed to use my Garrison Hearthstone to get back to Draenor, got on a flight path and just started bouncing in the air.

Transfer Aborted: cannot find instance

I haven't seen an MMO this broken since... WoW. In November of 2004.

Holy shit, 10 years and the more things change the more they stay the same. Oh well, I've been catching up on my anime backlog and playing Idolmaster while I'm in queue. Only 2 more imas routes to go then I have the EX chapters! Loving this game, Blizz!

 

[Fappy]

So everyone, what server are you waiting on and how many people are ahead of you in the queue? I'm waiting to log in to Kul Tiras and I'm at 115 now in the queue. Sigh.

I'm on US-Thrall. The queue was at 4300 an hour ago. I'm sitting in place 2904 right now, with 340mins Estimated Time left before I can get in the server.

I've been in the server all day long, but it's been laggy as fuck and broken questlines have bottle-necked everyone in Frostfire Ridge. The world server's been down for about 10 minutes too LOL

Yep, I got online, managed to use my Garrison Hearthstone to get back to Draenor, got on a flight path and just started bouncing in the air.

Transfer Aborted: cannot find instance

I haven't seen an MMO this broken since... WoW. In November of 2004.

Holy shit, 10 years and the more things change the more they stay the same. Oh well, I've been catching up on my anime backlog and playing Idolmaster while I'm in queue. Only 2 more imas routes to go then I have the EX chapters! Loving this game, Blizz!

I think battle.net just crashed. SPAM LOG IN NOW!

 

[VanQ]

I think battle.net just crashed. SPAM LOG IN NOW!

It's probably gonna be a worthless effort for the next day or three. It's a public holiday long weekend right now in Australia. So along with everyone in the world taking time off work + the entire population of Australia boycotting going outside because Putin is on the loose, there's a lot of Australians cluttering up the servers.

 

[The Madman]

Tried playing earlier today and the questline I was doing got bjorked and stopped working then I got kicked from the server, pretty typical expansion launch experience really. According to the forums WOW's servers are also getting nailed by DDOS attacks as well so it's a wonder Blizzard have even kept things running at all, albeit not terribly well.

I figure I'll try playing for a bit again later tonight when the server load will be a bit lighter. In the meantime here's a fun nostalgic screenshot I dug up of the first time I charged through this portal:

Spoiler: Then

Spoiler: Now

 

[LetalisK]

I'm enjoying it so far. I'm not that far along, but I'm just waiting for some kind of reference to Ner'zhul being the Lich King in the other timeline, who I consider the ultimate villain.

I'm also disappointed that Grom just seems like your garden variety dick right now instead of having a little more complex personality. He and Thrall were friends, after all. Though, again, I'm not that far in.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

Finally got in around 7 PM PT, after slightly more than two hours in the queue. Got a few missions done and the world server crashed, but I stayed logged in. When the world server came up again five minutes later, it stayed rock steady for the next 3.5 hours. Game was smooth with minimal to non-existent lag, and I encountered no bugs.

This is on a high population server, so I'm guessing them throttling player population had the intended effect of stabilizing things, at the cost of ungodly queues.

 

[Ryotknife]

Tried playing earlier today and the questline I was doing got bjorked and stopped working then I got kicked from the server, pretty typical expansion launch experience really. According to the forums WOW's servers are also getting nailed by DDOS attacks as well so it's a wonder Blizzard have even kept things running at all, albeit not terribly well.

I figure I'll try playing for a bit again later tonight when the server load will be a bit lighter. In the meantime here's a fun nostalgic screenshot I dug up of the first time I charged through this portal:

Spoiler: Then

Spoiler: Now

haha, i love it

Then: A huge battle outside of the dark portal. Horde and Alliance clashing leaving behind a graveyard of fallen warriors.

Now: One skeleton. Probably fell asleep at the keyboard and died from exposure.

 

[Broderick]

Well I used to play WoW quite a lot up till about a year or two ago. I played from Vanilla on and off till Pandaria and I guess I just felt burned out. I have been a bit interested in this expansion however, as BC is when I started to seriously raid.

I do know of some of the changes that are being implemented, but I have not paid too much attention to any releasing information for the expansion. So, my question to any of you is what are you most excited for the expansion?

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I do know of some of the changes that are being implemented, but I have not paid too much attention to any releasing information for the expansion. So, my question to any of you is what are you most excited for the expansion?

As I posted in my reply to Fappy:

Excited by:

1. Garrisons
2. More difficult/challenging 5 man content
3. Changes to guilds (mega/spam guilds de-incentivized)
4. Content that is new to everyone/fresh start syndrome
5. Changes to healing

I also forgot to mention a general level of pleasure with the new models when talking to him, the new models are really quite slick.

If I'm concerned about anything, it's that the ability prune is going to be divisive at best. You're going to hear even more bleating about how "dumbed down" WoW has become, even though it's still more ability dense than it was during Vanilla/BC, and still features a ludicrously high skill cap at the high end.

 

[VanQ]

I do know of some of the changes that are being implemented, but I have not paid too much attention to any releasing information for the expansion. So, my question to any of you is what are you most excited for the expansion?

As I posted in my reply to Fappy:

Excited by:

1. Garrisons
2. More difficult/challenging 5 man content
3. Changes to guilds (mega/spam guilds de-incentivized)
4. Content that is new to everyone/fresh start syndrome
5. Changes to healing

I also forgot to mention a general level of pleasure with the new models when talking to him, the new models are really quite slick.

If I'm concerned about anything, it's that the ability prune is going to be divisive at best. You're going to hear even more bleating about how "dumbed down" WoW has become, even though it's still more ability dense than it was during Vanilla/BC, and still features a ludicrously high skill cap at the high end.

I've managed to get into Slag Mines and Docks and it appears the 5 man content isn't much harder. Though that may have to do with me being a fully geared Mythic Warlock... well, let's just say that there aren't many trash or mobs in general that are alive long enough after the pull to be much of a threat.

Hopefully higher level content is more challenging.

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I've managed to get into Slag Mines and Docks and it appears the 5 man content isn't much harder. Though that may have to do with me being a fully geared Mythic Warlock... well, let's just say that there aren't many trash or mobs in general that are alive long enough after the pull to be much of a threat.

Hopefully higher level content is more challenging.

Gear would be an issue there. You've got to be 50+ item levels above the content.

It's level 100 Heroics in level-appropriate gear I'm looking forward to trying. The aim was to get back to a BC level of heroic dungeon difficulty, if not quite a Cataclysm level. I fully anticipate at least the first 3-4 leveling dungeons to be a snooze due to the gear everyone packed into the new expansion. I'm only at about ilevel 550 and nothing outdoors is remotely a threat, most of it rolls over after 1-2 spells, and I'm leveling in my healing gear/spec.

 

[esbst]

For me was disappointing because i try to play on best wow private server [http://topg.org/wow-private-servers/] and i had to much lag and the server was full of bugs, i will wait for awhile until the emulators are going to release something playable.