Yesterday at about 11am i finally purchased my copy of the game, hurried home and setup the install. I was there ready with drinks and snacks so i could just keep on playing for hours and hours. After the installation had finished and the updates re-downloading and installing i jumped right into the game. I had logged out with Templar right by the portal so i could just jump straight through. My first task was to fly to Honour Hold then run to the Temple to get my First Aid trained up, and then i rode down to Shattraht, via Allerian Stronghold, to get the flight-points and access to all the trainers.
Once completed i hearthed back to HH to start questing, the first few quests seem to be designed to give you a sudden burst of new equipment, but that soon dried out. I think i managed to get about 18-20 quests done which with the help of a Hellfire Citadel: Burning Furnace run got me to 3/4 xp bar.
The instance is great, really nice to do with the odd surprise round the corner, but what i particularly liked about it was how you could see the other instances from it, you could look down to see the massive demon who is in the final wing of Hellfire Citadel. It is also a beautiful instance, lots of great mobs and just a nice design so you can always see the exit so you know how much longer it is.
The instance is actually very easily, it is meant to be a 61-63 instance but we did it with three 61’s and two 60’s, and we didn’t have any wipes, i died on the big green flying slimeball boss because of a monster DoT spell he did on me, and Ona our rouge died on the final boss because he is rubbish.
One thing to look out for is the stealthed mobs, i randomly blasted out the human racial ability and saw one or two about, but they seem to have the habit of attacking at very annoying points like in the middle of a complex pull. But like all the mobs in this instance you can quickly get rid of them.
In this room we were seriously surprised, it turned out the massive lever wasn’t to open the gate to let the big green stinky boss in, it was in fact to let a whole load of mental orange orc blokes run at us from all sides. This was pretty intense but they come in waves so you can slow the whole process down by not killing them all, take it in turns to keep one alive by sheeping/trapping/sapping for as long as you want. I seriously recommend this when you get to the last guy as after him the boss will come straight away.
After that it was pretty easy, we just sped through to the last boss who takes a while to get down but is not complicated in any way, you just gotta keep bashing him till he is dead. Overall it was a really nice instance, sadly i didn’t get any great loot but i’m in no hurry. I highly recommend checking this one out, it doesn’t take long and is a nice little outing for any family holiday.
Well that’s all from Day 1, i’ll post again later tonight about what i have got up to recently. I hope you are enjoying the game as much as me. Until then, keep on WoWing :p
“keep on WoWing” … well… sure!
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