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4.LEVELING-4.1Questing
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The quests in Outland don’t differ all that much from the Azerothian ones, although there are some cool new quests that don’t really compare to anything done before. A good example is the bombing run you fly early on in Hellfire Peninsula, dropping bombs on demonic structures and later decimating whole crowds of demons with well placed bomb drops of destruction.
One problem with questing is contending for spawns when an area is overpopulated. It’s frustrating. It creates hostility between players and can take the fun right out of playing. Blizzard has attempted to address the issue by implementing several measures that should help prevent the issue in Outland.
Multiple or larger quest areas
The first couple of quests you’ll do in Hellfire Peninsula is collecting some wood and scrap metal, and collecting blood from some orcs just south of Thrallmar, the starting city. The wood, metal and the orcs you need can be found across an outstretched line of siege equipment, overlooking the road north of Hellfire Citadel. Many Hordies can do this quest at once. Without contending with Alliance players for these quests. Alliance has what amounts to the exact same quests, but with their own line of siege equipment on the opposite side of the road to the Citadel. Many quests are designed in this manner, where quest objectives can be completed in more than one area, or where the mobs or items you need are abundant.
Faster named mob spawns
There have always been bottleneck quests, where you have to wait on a named mob to spawn, but many of those in Outland (especially the early ones) are now either on a really fast respawn or can be summoned by using a quest item.
Dynamic respawn timers
Many quests will still overlap between the factions and you will find yourself competing with more players. There is another measure put in place to deall with overpopulation; respawn timers are tied to the amount of players in certain areas. Don’t stay near a mob’s spawn location too long after killing it when the area is crowded, or you might get jumped by respawn quicker than you thought.
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