Many players raced to level 80 leaving a wake of unvisited zones and missed quests chains. Whispers of boredom are being heard in guild chat and trade. So what are you hard-chargers focusing on now?
The Rep Grinding is a lot more convenient than in the past. Are you going back to finish uncompleted quests for achievements and the increased gold payout? Farming, whether its to level professions, get those new enchants and gems or make a quick pile of gold hasn’t changed. Speaking of which, the profession grind has become a bit frustrating with the new mechanics of daily quests for vendor tokens and some recipes missing altogether. Many have been stockpiling materials for when they finally have enough tokens to buy that last recipe.
A cool, refreshing Kungaloosh anyone? Oops! Where did that recipe go?
The combination of real life responsibilities and the achievements have kept me in zones a lot longer than really necessary for power leveling. I am very close to 80 and I haven't quested in 4 of the new zones. Cheated a bit and did get the Exploration achievements once I could fly. I changed my strategy for leveling in this expansion vs. TBC. I decided to enjoy the world and admire the workmanship this time around instead of racing through it. I can race through later with my alts. Right now I’m enjoying the quests and lore and not really looking forward to the end game optimization.
I’m sure I’ll be grinding instances soon enough and itching for a content patch. Old habits die hard.
BTW, I really think Blizzard did the right thing by limiting flying, you can really see how much work went into Wrath.
The Rep Grinding is a lot more convenient than in the past. Are you going back to finish uncompleted quests for achievements and the increased gold payout? Farming, whether its to level professions, get those new enchants and gems or make a quick pile of gold hasn’t changed. Speaking of which, the profession grind has become a bit frustrating with the new mechanics of daily quests for vendor tokens and some recipes missing altogether. Many have been stockpiling materials for when they finally have enough tokens to buy that last recipe.
A cool, refreshing Kungaloosh anyone? Oops! Where did that recipe go?
The combination of real life responsibilities and the achievements have kept me in zones a lot longer than really necessary for power leveling. I am very close to 80 and I haven't quested in 4 of the new zones. Cheated a bit and did get the Exploration achievements once I could fly. I changed my strategy for leveling in this expansion vs. TBC. I decided to enjoy the world and admire the workmanship this time around instead of racing through it. I can race through later with my alts. Right now I’m enjoying the quests and lore and not really looking forward to the end game optimization.
I’m sure I’ll be grinding instances soon enough and itching for a content patch. Old habits die hard.
BTW, I really think Blizzard did the right thing by limiting flying, you can really see how much work went into Wrath.
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Hit 80 a few weeks ago and am not bored yet. However, I would like to run Naxx at some point. I’m geared for it (though, amazingly, I have yet to get a single piece of tanking gear from any of the heroics I’ve run). Just haven’t had as much time to raid as I’d like (exams) and the guild I was in just imploded two days ago. I’m in another guild where I know plenty of people, but I’ve got to work up the totem pole…again.