01-18-2007, 01:36 AM
I've only had a few hours playing with it so far, but I'm enjoying it a lot.
My first priority is my warlock. He's wearing a mix of tier 2/tier 2.5 pieces, with the Maexxna sword so I'm not expecting any immediate upgrades. But I did one Ramparts run, where a set of blue caster shoulders dropped that were surprisingly competitive with the Doomcaller Mantle I was wearing, and a blue caster ring that similarly made me think long and hard.
On quest after quest I thought to myself "well my warlock doesn't need anything here, but my warrior is going to make out like bandit". (My warrior is attired mostly in blue pvp gear).
The scene-setting on the other side of the Dark Portal is great. Once you've stopped oggling the sky, you realise there's a full on war going on below you, with huge Infernals, a Pit commander, and legions of demons.
After relocating to Honor Hold, its time to get into the questing, and its been a very pleasant experience so far. There are a huge number of quests, with lots of variety in terms of tasks. I haven't come across any of the annoying "give me 867 murloc teeth (from a bunch of toothless murlocs" collection quests yet.
They seemed to have given some thought to integrating the quests with the storyline of the zone. The Expedition Point quests which start you off with various sabotage and demolition missions, and lead to the aforementioned bombing missions are a good example.
The tilted Expedition Armory locale really gives you the feel of a broken world.
With all the people questing there, I only ran into one quest where the mobs were camped to the point where completing the quest would have been an exercise in frustration.
The Ramparts was a refreshingly short instance. I particularly liked the fact that you could jump off a balcony at the end and find yourself right beside the entrance portal for a quick exit. I also appreciate the fact that it was only a hop skip and jump from Honor Hold. Overall the travel distances in Hellfire Peninsula seem quite short for what is a large zone.
We had some server issues with the BC content servers crashing every few minutes, but performance seemed to improve later on.
Chris
My first priority is my warlock. He's wearing a mix of tier 2/tier 2.5 pieces, with the Maexxna sword so I'm not expecting any immediate upgrades. But I did one Ramparts run, where a set of blue caster shoulders dropped that were surprisingly competitive with the Doomcaller Mantle I was wearing, and a blue caster ring that similarly made me think long and hard.
On quest after quest I thought to myself "well my warlock doesn't need anything here, but my warrior is going to make out like bandit". (My warrior is attired mostly in blue pvp gear).
The scene-setting on the other side of the Dark Portal is great. Once you've stopped oggling the sky, you realise there's a full on war going on below you, with huge Infernals, a Pit commander, and legions of demons.
After relocating to Honor Hold, its time to get into the questing, and its been a very pleasant experience so far. There are a huge number of quests, with lots of variety in terms of tasks. I haven't come across any of the annoying "give me 867 murloc teeth (from a bunch of toothless murlocs" collection quests yet.
They seemed to have given some thought to integrating the quests with the storyline of the zone. The Expedition Point quests which start you off with various sabotage and demolition missions, and lead to the aforementioned bombing missions are a good example.
The tilted Expedition Armory locale really gives you the feel of a broken world.
With all the people questing there, I only ran into one quest where the mobs were camped to the point where completing the quest would have been an exercise in frustration.
The Ramparts was a refreshingly short instance. I particularly liked the fact that you could jump off a balcony at the end and find yourself right beside the entrance portal for a quick exit. I also appreciate the fact that it was only a hop skip and jump from Honor Hold. Overall the travel distances in Hellfire Peninsula seem quite short for what is a large zone.
We had some server issues with the BC content servers crashing every few minutes, but performance seemed to improve later on.
Chris