I've practiced my speed leveling route with a friend. Our current time for 1-10 on beta was about 01:35:00, and above average 1-40 times on private servers.
My work is having remodeling done to the building, so they've given everyone a week off, I also requested the week after that off; totaling 14 days paid time off.
I will plan out my meals accordingly and make them a day before launch. I plan to workout for at least one hour each day, one hour of breaks for eating and misc, and to sleep a solid 7 hours -- giving me 15 hours of gaming. I have some sugar free Redbulls (two 4 packs) but I plan to only drink one a day; as I will be drinking mostly water.
I've leveled several max level character on fresh vanilla servers, I believe I've been apart of 4 fresh launches. With my history and practice I hope to hit 60 very early on so I can begin gearing up and punishing the people who gank my slow leveling friends.
That's my plan.
I might level in the Night Elf area or make the trek to Elwyn Forest.
Done both, I found a happy medium, 1-5.5 at NE starting area, then do the more fun and short travel quests in dolanaar until your left with the crap quests that make your run everywhere. around level 8 ish, make the trek to elwynn, setting hearth to darn. do elwynne forest quests, ignore class quest at level 10 until all elwynne quests are done. at lvl 12 ish hearth to darn, do class quest, level in darkshore for a bit then head to westfall... etc etc
I found that this set up make the late 20's and early 30's significantly easier do to being slightly ahead of the quests level wise. that extra little boost from the NE starting area stayed with me until early 30's. so recommend it.
I took 3 days off work, so I'll be awake till late questing if I can.
As Im from EU I will not play since midninght but rather have good sleep and wake up around 6 to play whole day.
after reading this I am thinking about doing this myself, going to bed early and start playing around 8 am when most of the population will be at work, but at the same time people will go to bed early so they can wake up for work. tough decision. will see how's the queues when the game launches. if everything goes smoothly, why not play the whole night as I will be having a vacation that week. :cool:
Slowly, for the most part. I should be getting home from work about an hour after the servers launch, and I'm not really interested in running out doing a disco-leveling route, so I think I'll just end up in the chaos genociding all the boars in the Valley of Trials (and the Vile Familiars quest, eugh).
Only thing I'm really planning on skipping is the Lazy Peons/Thazz'rill's Pick quests. Just not enough peons to go around, and no real critical rewards. I can come back and do them later when I wanna squeak out another 150 rep for Org and Darkspear Trolls.
I'll be ready to go at 3 where it launches my time, then I'll jump right into it with my farmer mage character. I don't anticipate getting very far that first day with him, but I don't mind, the real fun begins when my wife gets home and we can play together. Hopefully I have some other friends make it on that day and we can all do some fun activities, I'm planning on a low level race somewhere just to celebrate.
Going to try questing and see how it goes. If it does not work out my group has agreed we are just going to hold off on playing for a day or two so the zones are less congested.
Completely depends on the situation.
If the layering will work as they hope it will, then it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Otherwise, if it will be a completely lovely mess (which I hope it will be) then I will slow down and just walk around and enjoy the surroundings, take screenshots and whatnot.
I have zero fucking plan whatsoever for launch day. Just gonna play it by ear and enjoy the madness. My company has a 3 day weekend that week so I scheduled 2 more days (waiting on a 3rd approval) to make it a 5-6 day weekend. That's when I'm going to buckle down and really try to progress. I plan on going hard and consistently, but I want to enjoy it a bit too.