I reserved my character on Grobbulus. Got home from work at 6:30 EST and logged in. I was position 10,000 or so, estimated wait time of 300 minutes. I figured I wouldn’t be able to play, but was glad regardless that Classic is here.
I checked out the forums and saw that Blizzard had unveiled five new servers – none of which were RP-PVP, so I just picked an East Coast PVP server. I got in instantly and recreated my character.
Logging into Elwynn in Northshire, I saw dozens and dozens of people jumping around. I didn’t experience the launch of vanilla, so that was a unique experience. I got the quests to kill Kobold Vermin and gather wolf meat. We resorted to making ad hoc groups to have a chance at actually completing the quests. I’d say it took 20-30 minutes.
The next step was to kill Kobold Workers: again, make a group, camp the spawns. About 15 minutes.
Finally, we ventured into the mine to kill the Kobold Laborers. Fewer players had gotten that far and it took maybe 15 minutes tops.
I then got the quest to collect the Defias gear. And that’s where I gave up, after about 20 more minutes.
I’m glad that Classic is here, but having done all these quests countless times, I can’t say it’s much fun. I’ll probably follow other more patient people who’ll wait for the massive crowds to die down.
But it was sure interesting to participate in the launch.