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Sounds like fun to me.

Entirely plausible if they ever do an expansion which builds on or remakes Outland in some way.

I think that is largely dependent on your perspective. I prefer Outlands to Northrend tbh. It seems to go by a lot faster. I don't even know why, other than not being able to go to Hyjal/Vash until 80, but Northrend just seems to drag and drag.

Yeah Northrend is the death of alts for me atm. Outlands is over quickly enough it's not a big deal, plus the expansion is far enough in the past to be nostalgic for me. Northrend is where spent way to much time way to recently.

That and dragonblight is just plain gloomy.

One of the nice things about Cataclysm dungeons, especially the ones you can do while levelling, is that they give a decent amount of experience. I don't know if Blizzard boosted the exp you get from dungeon mobs or what. I know it doesn't seem like any drag on. Even Throne of the Tides with all of its running back and forth seems to go pretty quick.

The only dungeons that seem to drag on are heroic SFK and DM, and you don't do those until you hit 85.

I don't have any problem with DM. Heroic DM and SFK are 2 of my favorite instances. It's just that they definitely take longer. Actually, the "level 85" dungeons and the 2 revamped heroics are longer than anything you do while levelling. GB, HoO, and Lost City are all longer than anything you do from 80-85. And it may be just me, but heroic DM and SFK seem even longer than that, especially DM.

Edit: I've gotten lucky in that with 4 85s, I've never had Stonecore come up as my random heroic. I've done it plenty of times on normal, but on normal it's a cakewalk.

The one that seems to give me trouble is heroic BRC. I had a group wipe 8 times in there the other night. I only stayed in for 8 wipes because I was with a couple of guidlmates, but still. 8 wipes!!!

Edited, Aug 11th 2011 5:31pm by Bigdaddyjug

Ahhh, DM... Remember when DM was Dire Maul and VC was Deadmines (VanCleef)?

Kids these days.

As for dungeon length, the longest (and most tedious) one is probably Grim Batol. That dragon flying thing just takes forever, man. Halls of Origination and The Deadmines are long as well, but they can be shortened drastically. You can kill just three bosses in HoO and finish it (kill the guardian at the entrance, the guardian blocking the elevator and Rajh). The Nightmare Elixir portion of The Deadmines is also optional. The dungeon run ends when you kill Cookie, just like in the old days.

Kids these days...

Edited, Aug 12th 2011 12:55am by Mazra

Indeed. People who had long ago moved away from leveling through Westfall and on to the hardcore end-game dungeon of Dire Maul had some issues figuring out what the proper acronyms were.

Oh man, nostalgia time. I remember people referring to Gadgetzan as the end-game quest hub. :')

The last couple of times I've been down there, killing Cookie activates the "Dungeon completed" icon and all. People still do the rest for the phat lewt and extra JP, though.

Or because they can't keep their hands off shiny, sparkly objects on the floor.

Well as unlikely as Ethereals or Pandarans are as playable races it would be fitting to give the allies something "almost" as cool as Pandarens when the Horde gets them. ;)

This x100. Ethereals are, in my opinion, the superior race.

My old server (and the first server i played) was opened only a month before BC so oddly enough "DM" has always meant "Deadmines" to me. Since nobody on my server save for transfers really ever touched Dire Maul. I couldn't for the life of me figure out what VC was when I tried playing on an older server where "VC" was used frequently. Even though I've transferred to another server that is also one of the original servers, I still can't for the life of me bring myself to refer to DM as VC.



I couldn't forsee the Ethereals actually siding with a faction. Then again, I guess we said that about Goblins too.

Edited, Aug 13th 2011 2:57pm by ekaterinodar

Yep. All it takes is for one trade group within the race to see it as a profitable venture.

Try doing Storm Peaks or Icecrown without a flying mount. It's probably possible, but good luck.