When to upgrade to Lich/Cata?Follow

Hi Everyone!

Okay, so, I am really liking World of Warcraft right now. I have been running around, questing, dungeoning, and leveling for the past 3 weeks. I just hit level 60 and was excited about getting my flying ability only to find out I needed Cata to do this. I want to pick up the expansions Lich/Cata, but right now I really don't see any point in buying them except for acquiring the ability to fly.

Do you think I should hold of until level 70 when I am actually doing tougher and more lucrative dungeons and raids? or should I just pick up the expansions, because, even as I speak (type), I am missing out on tons of content?

Thanks in advance for those whom comment!

Edited, Jan 28th 2012 4:40pm by ovshanevo

Everyone has access to TBC content now and can get flying for Outlands zones. The Flight license for flying in 1-60 and Cata zones requires Cata.

@IDrownFish and AstarintheDruid Thanks for the advice, i will just hold out until level 70 to pick up those expansions. The only thing I am worried about is that mazon will not be selling them for as cheap as they are in the future.

@Lady Azalysa No, I'm not in the same guild. This guild is just a little more livelier than the last (there are usually 15-20 that are on, but still, no ever talks, I am beginning to wonder if this is a WoW thing). Also, I find doing the Instance Dungeons to be really easy. One thing I would recommend is to look for the player with the Green Flag/Check-mark or the Tank and make them your focus. Follow that person around every where; this tactic has not failed me yet. If you are primarily a solo player then do quests. What I found speeds this process up is following the story (reading all the text). Doing this gives the quests more depth and easier understanding. Once I started doing that I have rarely come across a quest where I have gotten lost, allowing me to clear quests much faster. Hope that helps.

Thank you for your info/suggestions re: Instance Dungeons. I was wondering what all those little markers mean. I'll have to bite the bullet and do a looking for dungeon group before I level past what the reward is...lol.

Quests - Yes that is all I've been doing since beginning WoW and I spend time reading the text so I can get a feel for the lore, etc. (Think that was my suggestion to you when you first began. :p )

Agreed, re: the dungeons being fun. I got my level 20 Paladin weapon doing the Shadowfang dungeon at level 24 (iirc) with a level 26 druid friend. We just moved slowly, taking individual mobs as we came to them. At the next to last mob boss she finally had to bring in her level 60 tank since we kept wiping on that one. What I loved was when I died and re-entered the dungeon, all mobs were gone up to where we wiped. Not having to re-kill everything was wonderful!

When I got the quests in the Plaguelands for the Stratholme dungeon, I didn't initially realize it was a dungeon. I was level 40ish, mosied in, carefully targeted and pulled *one* of the gang of skellies outside the iron grate and was beset upon and consequently squashed by ALL the skellies; must have been like 20. Dusted myself off and tried a new tactic - tried pulling one again to the entrance of the instance so I could duck out if things turned ugly. Amazingly I soloed all those skellies and entered the iron grate to see...MORE skellies, or some similar large number of mobs. I hoped maybe that gang wouldn't all agro, but they did and since I died MUCH more quickly in that "fight," I checked online and yep - dungeon...lol.

Now level 55, I was looking for the Elder at Blackchar Cave last night and stumbled across Blackrock Castle. I was given a quest by the Paladin trainer for Blackrock Depths (I think). I don't think I was in the right place, but I did make my way up to "an" instance; managed to kill all the mobs a few levels higher outside the instance, then a handful more just inside the instance until...dead. I was just poking around there for fun so didn't try again, although I would like to figure out where the entrance is to the Paladin quest for that area.

In summary, I currently have in my adventure list:

Stratholme dungeon - about 6 mobs in there listed
Another dungeon that starts with an S that I have no clue where it is
Blackrock Depths - Paladin quest

Just as a quick note, I would highly recommend leveling your AH alt to 10. The reason for that is, if your account gets hacked and you have the majority of your gold stored on your AH alt, Blizzard will not restore any inventory or gold that gets lost unless the toon is at least level 10. I'm not sure why they have this rule, but there ya go. Even if you have an authenticator, it's better to be safe than sorry. I've got about 35k on my bank alt, plus a guild with a two tab guild bank and a crap ton of herbs amongst other things. I would not be a happy camper if I lost all of that permanently.

That's it!!! I have no idea in what zone or what NPC gave that quest. Since it was a dungeon I had not even done any research on it. Coincidentally, my quest chain had me in the Swamp of Sorrows last night and I was in Atal'Hakkar. At the end of the Atal-related quests I was told to meet the NPC within the swirly thing which I now recognize as - DUNGEON! I entered anyway and had the now-familiar swarm of mobs kill me...lol.



Oh wow!! That *is* nice. Especially since I've been hunting for the entrance to BRD for the Paladin quest on and off for days. Thank you for cluing me into that.

Not sure if you tried the dungeon finder out after this or not, but if you haven't - a few more bonuses I didn't mention. For the first 7 you do every week, you get a satchel that has a random blue item in it. Sometimes these are good for your character, sometimes they're good for selling to a vendor, but it's a nice bonus. You also get some money and experience. After your first 7 runs, you no longer get the satchel but you still get money and experience (just a bit less I think). Once you get into the 70+ dungeons, you'll receive Justice Points instead of the satchel and those can be used to be some very nice gear at 70/80/85. I personally save my points till level 85 but it's completely up to you.

And forgive me if you already figured this out, but to access this tool, just press "I" and it will pop up. You pick your role at the top and then there's a dropdown menu to allow you to queue for a random dungeon, or you can pick "specific" and then choose your dungeon from a list of level appropriate ones.

You are leveling pretty fast if you got to 60 in three weeks so it really won't be long before you hit 68 which is high enough to start the LK content. At the rate you are going, you should be ready for the Cata content in less than a month. So, if you are enjoying the game and are feeling that you are likely to want to reach end game, then you might as well go ahead and get the two expansions now so you can also check out the Death Knight class and perhaps the Worgen and/or Goblin race.

Of course now that you will be leveling in Outland, there is little need for you to be flying around in the old world unless you are working on holiday achievements. Having the ability to fly really helps with the holidays that call for traveling all over the place and that is also an easy way to get a chunk of experience too. Other than the holiday stuff though, you won't miss not being able to fly in the old world if you do decide to wait until you get closer to 70 to get the LK expansion and closer to 80 to get the Cata one.

I purchased WotLK expac - is it the one that allows me to fly? I am currently level 58; wasn't sure if I need to be level 60 first AND have the WotLK expac. Or do I need Cata to fly?

You don't have to go to Outlands to buy flight training. You can get the training in your capital city or even Dalaran if you wanted to. Another thing that's cool, is that even if you buy your flight training in Outlands, it applies your capital city rep discount.

To purchase the flying license for EK and Kalimdor, you have to go to the flight trainer in your capital city. I believe you can purchase the license for Northrend flying in either your capital city or Dalaran, but don't quote me on that. You can buy the Northrend flying at level 68.

Nah, there's only two. Flying mounts came out with Burning Crusade. You only have to buy flight training to fly out there, there's no additional license. It'd be kinda goofy for Blizz to make you buy an additional flight license for the first area you could originally fly in.

But I get your point. It'd be pretty easy to think that once you buy flight training that means you could fly anywhere, if you're new to the game. It wouldn't take very long to figure it out though.

Holy hell. Good to know.