My husband said he'd be game for levelling a pair of alts through Wrath (not a particular favourite of mine, but an opportunity to play with him again would be worth it). I could make a Draenei and level her through Outland, to get a refresher for how it feels in the live game before encountering it in Classic TBC (whenever we'll get that). Plus there'll be a new starter experience too, and I'm always up for checking out one of those. But I'm intrigued by this giant level squish that's supposed to come with the Shadowlands pre-patch and that's supposed to allow people to level (close) to the level cap in a single one of the old expansions. No, not BfA - and not really Shadowlands either. While I don't think that things will be this slow on either of my servers in Classic, I do expect progress to slow down as people get rid of their stockpiles and find themselves having to do actual farming of otherwise fairly useless materials to advance the cause. The initial progress seems to indicate that the gates should open quite quickly, but then Kronos was full on Thorium bars on day one too and then ended up taking more than five months. Of course, the question remains of how soon we'll get there. On Kronos it was a bust for me due to the open world PvP, but fortunately I'm on two PvE servers this time around. I had already been wondering why prices for Runecloth and wolf meat were suddenly noticeably higher than they'd been previously (before I had realised that the war effort had started).Īnd of course it would be cool if I could be there for the actual opening of the gates. I might just see if I can make a bit of money off people keen to do more hand-ins by farming materials. Of course, then I realised that all I'd get in return for my hand-ins was a piddly bit of rep, which I don't really care about, so. My initial reaction was a brief surge of delight when I visited the Ironforge military ward on my night elf hunter and realised that one of the hand-ins was Spotted Yellowtails - I had just been fishing the day before to feed my pet and had several stacks of them, but was happy to donate them to the war effort instead. Those materials may well be easy to come by, but which raider wants to spend their time farming linen for hours? On both servers there was a similar pattern of the high-level materials being provided much more quickly than the low-level ones - on both servers the Alliance was already full up on Thorium bars for example, while the bottlenecks on both appear to be linen bandages for Alliance and wool bandages for Horde. One thing that was interesting to me was that even though both servers have an Alliance-Horde ratio of about 2:1, Horde on Hydraxian Waterlords isn't far behind the Alliance in terms of progress, while on Pyrewood Village, the Alliance has already done almost twice as many hand-ins. Pyrewood Village was about a third of the way there, while Hydraxian Waterlords had only handed in about 15% of the required materials - but then it has a notably smaller population. I checked progress on both this afternoon, at which point it must have been about 24 hours since the hand-ins started, and while they were nowhere near done they were well underway. I could hear the sound of lots of people making bandages when I arrived.
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