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Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:14 am
by Smyelmdar
I don't know if you guys has seen this, but there is this quest where you have to click on a scroll, and it respawns a bit slow.
This has resulted in a very crowded area. Right now I'm stuck with my second pandaren there, cause it's almost impossible to complete the quest.
This is how it looked last time I was there:
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:44 am
by Zarola
OMG! Get them all to /sleep and it would be wall to wall bear rug carpets.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:34 am
by Malackai
well the starter zone in the lv 85 area is not any better atm
the spawn rate of the mobs is way to low took me over an hour to kill the 15 hozo pillagers >_>
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:39 am
by GormanGhaste
Put in a ticket suggesting making the scroll a permanent object?
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 9:15 am
by Snowy
Oh wow, beta doesn't look too fun right now. 
But yeah, put in a ticket or something, they'll have to change it if they can see what's going on!
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:13 am
by Wain
Not very surprising :/ I have no idea what they were thinking when they did this, other than "let's use any incentive we can to make people buy the annual pass". The numbers are too high for effective bug reporting other than to check how it performs under extreme server load.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:18 am
by GormanGhaste
Yeah when I get in, I'll play around with pandas on the character creation screen, but at first I'll mostly be hunting wild critters on my main.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 10:53 am
by Smyelmdar
I was lucky enough to get swiftly through the pandaren starting area on my first pandaren.
But on the second one, it was like the picture. :S
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:07 am
by Sasrei
Yah.. I expected it to be like that, once it goes live itll be even worse. I hope they up the respawn rate
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:56 am
by Dewclaw
Wait til it goes live.
Hopefully they fix the spawn before then.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:40 pm
by Slickrock
Remember folks, once it hits live, there is money to be made in areas where there is a quest to kill skinnable mobs. When Wrath launched, the area just outside the Alliance keep allowed me to skin constantly, and not only did I max my skinning in about 30min, but in a hour or two there made over 50k gold from the skinning.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 1:51 pm
by meepitco
Just keep swimming D:
But... in relation to the topic, that... ;n; I really don't look forward to the beta just yet XD
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:29 pm
by Meggers
NGL that looks hilarious.
I never understood blizzards need for disappearing static quest items...its very obnoxious when group questing and you have to wait for it to reappear for the 4 schmos that didnt grab the first one.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 2:59 pm
by Nachtwulf
There's a trick to getting it through the mob. I managed it last night.
There's a spot on the upper right, up above the rivet/nail that holds the scroll on that side. If no one's jumping up and down like a tard (which happens) you can actually stand back from the mob and get a cogwheel. It might help also to stand on the edge of the doorway since there's a little ledge there.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:15 pm
by Smyelmdar
Nachtwulf wrote: It might help also to stand on the edge of the doorway since there's a little ledge there.
My friend told me about that, and it did work indeed. But then came the next quests where you have to kill some mobs, and there was so much lag and so many people, that it took forever.
I finally gave up, and will wait some time before I go back there. At least I have my pandaren hunter out of the starting area, so I can always play around with him.
I also tried a battleground earlier, and I was the only hunter. 19 monks and a lone hunter.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:46 pm
by Kayb
they really should be putting invisible barriers around those npcs until a month or so after launch, specifically to stop this sort of crowding. sadly, a good number of people crowd them intentionally just to annoy everyone else
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:01 pm
by Arwyn
I'm dreading trying to do anything in the Jade Forest on the first day. I hate that they didn't decide to use two starting zones for Pandaria.
Re: Very crowded at the pandaren starter area
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:05 pm
by Snowy
Arwyn wrote:I'm dreading trying to do anything in the Jade Forest on the first day. I hate that they didn't decide to use two starting zones for Pandaria.
I like to do something the first few days which I know not as many people will be doing like camping a new rare spawn mount or something.
Either that or level via new dungeons first then go do some questing later, once that character is level 90, then make a panda.