Wrath of the Lich King – For Real This Time

Hey look at that; another month, another post.

Seriously folks, I’m hoping to get back into the blogging now that the expansion is live, and I have my Death Knight out and ready to spread destruction to the world. Well, carefully meted out destruction that’s been preapproved by the Horde bureaucracy, anyway.

I didn’t pick up our copies of WotLK until Friday, and it wasn’t until Saturday night that we were actually able to play. Since neither of us have made it to 68 with any of our characters, we didn’t have to worry ourselves silly trying to decide whether we should level to 80 or create Death Knights.

I was able to blow through the DK newb area and quests in about 2 hours. There were no noticeable changes from the beta, other than the complete lack of lag. Fellow Betans, you know what I’m talking about. On more than one occasion I had to quit playing the beta because the lag was so bad. But live, the newbie area was nice and smooth. There were only a few quests during which I noticed even a little bit of congestion, but it wasn’t bad. I don’t know how things were on Thursday – probably quite a bit worse – but I was a bit surprised.

So my Blood Elf Death Knight is ready for the Outlands. I’m looking forward to it, actually, because the other two times I’ve gone through Hellfire Peninsula has been on the Alliance side. I don’t expect the quests to differ a lot, but just the change of scenery in towns and such will help alleviate the sense of repetition.

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