This is why everybody hates nerds. You get the artifact before you start questing in the broken isles, it's pretty much the 1st thing you do in the expansion. I'm sorry for not being as exact as you would have liked.
Sort of like the arguments all over youtube about the Warcraft movie.
- OMG The movie is not based on WoW the MMO, it's based on the 1st single player RTS "Orcs vs Humans".
- Whatever nerd, it's the same effing thing...
And that's fine, but you seem to fail to realize that for probably half of the WOW population rushing to raiding is not fun for them either. There's two sides to that coin. The various elements they have in the game need to have balance, but right now raiding is still holding sway and it is why they get a bump and people leave. They spend so much time building the world that it should essentially be a tier of content in and off itself.
I don't know. Maybe I've healed too many dungeons (15+) and leveled as
A healer until 103. Took me 20-25 hours to hit 105, in premade gear.
I poked around a lot though. In my 730 gear will be a ton faster
On live.
I did a /played count a few seconds after dinging 110 on my most recent beta char. It took me 23 hours as a prot warrior. That was after the xp nerf that increased levelling time. I did also have about two levels of rest experience (that only applies to mob kills).
"8 hours as usual"-phrase. Did any of these play any expansion before WoD? This is what the server records generally took except in cases of exploits like Athene.