is the "new" feeling gone? was there ever one with this expansion?


as i sat in the queue for a dungeon today while i watched the idiots running around the auction house i felt the deja vu. also later when i did a tol borad and it was the same whining and idling in there as it was in wintergrasp. thought about grinding some shoulder enchant rep from therazane but it also felt exactly the same as wotlk.


its probably because i just hit 85 that i am noticing this now. but the first week was pretty fresh for me. feeling a little sad now. i didn't even expect to hit 85 for weeks...but i did 3 levels over the weekend without even trying hard...archaeology and some quests just blew it by.


i did not get this feeling in previous expansions. this time around it feels like i am still in wotlk but i hang out in stormwind instead of dalaran.

I hit 85 and started queing for 5 mans. It hit me how fast I got to 85, just to do the same thing I was doing in WoTLK at 80. The same, boring thing I have been doing since a week after WoTLK went live.


So I started leveling my rogue and shaman.

 

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I had that "new" feeling the first few days. Since then I have found it hard to log in.


It doesnt help that I really dont like the Goblin starting area, so that elminated 1/2 of the new starter zones for me.


Wish there was something else to play but there just isnt.

 

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As I've said before, I had that feeling (edit: that the "newness" was gone) 3 months after Vanilla released.


This time, I was out in the worgen zone, got a new one to 20. Piddled in Hyjal with 3 alts. Looked over hubby's shoulder in Vash. Got archeology up on dwarf pally. Went back and explored the new gnome starter zone, the new human starter zones all the way through Red Ridge.

Played with a couple of goblins. When out and thoroughly enjoyed the food fight at what was the raceway at shimmering flats.


Feels like more to explore this time than past expansions.


I'll get back to you in 3 months.


In the meantime, I have a lot of my alts still hearthed in Dalaran and LOVING how empty and quiet it is.

 

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After clearing all the heroics multiple times on multiple characters, the new feeling is quite gone. Haven't done the raids yet though, nother week and those will be old hat too.

 

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Did you get that feeling from WotLK content patches? If not, I don't know why you would with the expansion; everything is exactly the same.

 

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The only thing that made me smile is the vortex travel methods. If they would put that in StormWind I wouldn't need the rest of the expansion. Of course I am only 84.5 so maybe all the fun stuff is at 84.75.

I hit 85 a few days ago. Q'ed random and got a 35 min Q. Left Q and started on my next 80. Got to 81 then quit and rolled a Goblin and started leveling a alt. I'm back to doing exactly what I did before Cata. Playing alts our of boredom. Guess I gotta man up and Q as tank or healer. I'm just not confident in my gear and my tank skills are rusty. Never healed before. Either that or bail on my guild that I like, but is not very active, and find a guild that runs some guild runs.

25 min queues as a healer on my realm. Need to figure out how to tank with my priest.

I love it still, i am 85 since 4 days after release, leveled my DK to 85 as well and now i'm doing every quests from every new zones. I love it...i'm raising my professions as well and when i'm done with all that THEN i will start to queue up and let the stupid grind begin. By then most will know all the fights and it will be easier.