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Preordered at a best buy that wasn't open at midnight.  Picked it up at around noon today, have played about 2 hours so far.  The beginning areas are a bit crowded on my realm (Stormrage), which makes some of the quests difficult.  It could be a lot worse, blizzard learned from their mistakes after TBC & made 2 starting areas.  Siege tanks are fun.

Another difference from TBC - from what my guildies are telling me you won't be replacing your gear as quickly as you did in TBC.  Most of my gear is kara drops & a few badge pieces, and the only quest item i've taken so far is a trinket.  Toons in gear drops from the first few raids should be ok till level 75, and i've read that most sunwell gear won't be replaced from quest/dungeon drops until as late as 77.  When TBC came out all MC gear was more or less swapped out after the first few quests in outland.

WoW, Level 80! [November 14, 2008, 10:35 am ET] - Share

Nymh of EU Drek'thar first to level 80 on WoW Insider has a bit on someone who managed to hit the level cap in the new World of Warcraft expansion while most players were still getting the shrink-wrap off their copies. There's no word on whether Blizzard has dispatched a party of youngsters armed with the Sword of a Thousand Truths to take her down. Thanks nin. On a semi-related note, there's a Video interview with Mike Morhaime on Ten Ton Hammer talking with the Blizzard CEO during the Wrath of the Lich King launch event in Manhattan, discussing the growth of their MMORPG and the state of the games industry.

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WoW, Level 80! [November 14, 2008, 10:35 am ET] - Share

Nymh of EU Drek'thar first to level 80 on WoW Insider has a bit on someone who managed to hit the level cap in the new World of Warcraft expansion while most players were still getting the shrink-wrap off their copies. There's no word on whether Blizzard has dispatched a party of youngsters armed with the Sword of a Thousand Truths to take her down. Thanks nin. On a semi-related note, there's a Video interview with Mike Morhaime on Ten Ton Hammer talking with the Blizzard CEO during the Wrath of the Lich King launch event in Manhattan, discussing the growth of their MMORPG and the state of the games industry.

Well, I'm VERY disappointed! Took her some 34 hours to get there--what a slacker.

EDIT: I've found out that the actual time was about 27 hours from that player's local release time, so apparently he was located somewhere in the Greenwich time zone. A fellow player speculated that the first 80th level would get there within 24 hours.

Last edited by D'Eyncourt (2008-11-18 2:49 pm)

I thought they had a whole troop helping them level?

Eh, I quit over a year ago, still not going back, a game with no headshots isn't my style