The Shattering is nigh.
With the Cataclysm pre-launch events reaching their climax, multiple sources are confirming that the release of patch 4.0.3a and the shattering of Azeroth is indeed tonight. Once the servers go down tonight the big switch marked "Smash the world!" will be flicked and when we log back in tomorrow the world will be forever changed. If you're yet to get one final run through Zul'Gurub for the mounts or want to take yourself for a final sightseeing tour through zones we've grown familiar with over the past 6 years, then tonight is the last chance you'll have. From tomorrow it'll be a new world. |
Also, remember not to park your toons in Dalaran before going offline tonight, or you'll be stranded there.
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They're removing all the portals, from Shattrath too.
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Ooh, better go park my mage there to charge a fortune for portals.
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^^^ This.
I forsee hundreds of "whaaaaaaa where is my portals!!!!" in Dal tomorrow. Prime time to make a mint as a Mage. |
You'll have mages undercutting each other so it'll end up being dirt cheap. Of course.. if the mages rallied together and price fixed then they'd make something.
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/badoom tish
Now if we could only strand all the WoW players IN the real world somewhere else I'd be content :) |
They are.. somewhere else... playing WoW.
I'm sort of sad that the zones I knew and love will be destroyed, though I will resist returning I think. |
I love reading WoW threads. It's like reading another language. Join Usssss |
While you wont get to actually see the shattering happening in real time (cos that would require some pretty amazing tech), when you log back in once its gone live, you'll get an ingame cutscene of it happening, then the world will be changed.
Also, you get ported to the nearest safe graveyard in whatever zone you're in, so if you're in 1k needles you don't need to worry about logging in and being at the bottom of the ocean. |
Also, f*** yeah! I'm excited.
Tbh I think I'm actually more excited about this expansion than I was Wrath, which is weird, cos when Cataclysm was announced I was one of the people who was like "What a cheapass move, re-selling us the same old content again instead of new stuff". After watching its progress over the last few months though, they've put so much work into remaking the old zones, that they may as well be new zones anyway. And the new 81 - 85 stuff, even though its only five levels, is actually packed with as much, if not more content than 70 - 80 was. Pretty epic stuff. |
arrgghh f*** in my infinite wisdom I kept putting off ZG runs for weeks & weeks
I was like "naahhh we got ages no rush.." f*****g end of year, give me back my 3+ months. |
The cutscene in question is nothing new - it's what we saw a month ago. :(
Parked my toons in various places, just to take it in. One's at Camp T, one at the bottom of 1000 Needles. The main toon's asleep in Deathknell Crypt. |
Someone want to explain the portals thing? Is there cake?
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Not sure exactly why they did it, I think they don't want Dalaran to be used as a hub city anymore now that Northrend isn't the focus. Either way, portals are gone, and Dalaran now has an AH and class trainers, to make levelling 70 - 80 easier.
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All my characters are in Dalaran, and I won't be reactivating my account until after my CE arrives. I'll have a bit of running to do on my hunter it seems.
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Parked my toons in various places, just to take it in. The main toon's asleep in Deathknell Crypt. What are they doing to the forsaken starting zone? I frikkin loved that place, only ever really had the one main which was an undead, though a gnome mage later on stole my heart for a while. |
Im guessing undead zone will be tied in with the worgen stuff given they are in the same area?
possibly fighting each other as ones horde ones alliance, I dunno I haven't read into it but that sounds like a plan also,just logged my toons in Org and lol at the crazy people who play the f*****g game and don't realise it's not actually the expansion yet. |
Who's up for some new music!!!
Night Elf theme Orgrimmar Cataclysm login Stormwind Tanaris |
New music doesn't do anything for me, in fact that login seems completely out of place with the rest. Also why can't I click your embedded videos to launch a separate tab and stop the embed caching? Bah. edit: Ah clicking the youtube button seems to do it, woo.
I love reading WoW threads. It's like reading another language. I imagine this is true of... anything, that you're not familiar with. |
That's because you're a f*****g whinging bastard Nerf. Nothing is ever gonna be good enough for you. Personally I think the new music is f*****g awesome. I reckon once you start playing it will grow on you.
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haha, was that on Nagrand by any chance thundercracker? If it was my rogues in there somewhere lol
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All I see is 1 guy on a giant f*****g mammoth that is significantly more awesome then all the plebs around him.
Sifn't all be on mammoths... but then again I don't understand WoW. |
Best land mount is the chopper
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So a motorbike > a mammoth?
:S Were the designers drunk? I can get a motorbike in real life. Unless it's an enchanted motorbike? last edited by CHUB at 23:10:47 23/Nov/10 |
This thread is great. I'm no more wiser having read this thread than when I entered. Had lots of laughs though.
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I get around on my 2 man rocket though I've got 3 rockets. One on my hunter, priest and rogue 8-) |
That's because you're a f*****g whinging bastard Nerf. Nothing is ever gonna be good enough for you. Um no the old music was good enough for me and I liked it very much, this seems like a completely different style. But whatever, was just commentary. |
All that means rev is you have spent lots of $$ on extra accounts. Or i you actually had 30k spare gold you had to have bought it.
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"It is time, friends, for the world to shatter.".
I can't see myself in that screenie thunder, although that might've been before the Thunderfury spam started and covered my screen with item links. |
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2324/5aug87nd.jpg
These are the hi-jinx that was got up to on the alliance side of Blackrock. Photoshoot at the gates with mins to go. Noticed the irony. This will save us Meanwhile in the trade district The last word on the server The End... /nerd last edited by Lynx at 23:46:05 23/Nov/10 |
Azeroth is a pretty s*** place to live in. It's always either someone is invading or end of the world.
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Um no the old music was good enough for me and I liked it very much, this seems like a completely different style. But whatever, was just commentary. Are you sure you actually played WoW? Cos that login screen music is still contains very obvious elements of the WoW theme and follows the same rise and fall all the other previous pieces of music used on the login screen have. The new Orgrimmar music still has the same roots too, can still hear the old orgrimmar music buried in there. I liked the old music, but I like the new stuff too, WoW generally has pretty awesome, epic music. |
Noticed the irony. And just to be a pedantic prick, thats not irony, thats just a co-incidence. Also its Onyxia's head and not Nefarion :P |
Not sure if this has been posted but .. :
Are the updated versions of Deadmines and Shadowfang Keep going to be available in The Shattering? Hopefully will have something new to do. |
Are you sure you actually played WoW? Ya not a lot but I did like to return for about 2 months a year. I hear bits of the old music in the main theme now (I skipped through it before and mostly hit the new stuff, which imo isn't overly... good). I'll live, I'm not sure if I'll come back for this expansion anyway, even if it does sound pretty cool. I remember thinking the same thing when they redid all the tavern music though, used to think the old Brill tavern music was the bee's knees, then the one they replaced it with was just stock fantasy music, which I felt like had none of the comical flavour. Atmosphere is one of the things I love most about rpgs, so tend to appreciate those touches more than other parts. |
All that means rev is you have spent lots of $$ on extra accounts. Or i you actually had 30k spare gold you had to have bought it. I duel-box so I wanna be ready for Cata. And having 2 seater flyers ready for my guys is worth the extra cash. |
Side note - patch has been released. All 27mb of it.
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And just to be a pedantic prick, thats not irony, thats just a co-incidence. Also its Onyxia's head and not Nefarion :P This is Ony http://www.groovymarlin.com/images/wow/onyxia_head.jpg ;p last edited by Lynx at 00:30:06 24/Nov/10 |
Also its Onyxia's head and not Nefarion :P What Lynx said. Nef has horns, Ony doesn't. He also always gets hung on the right-hand side of the Stormwind gates! |
haha Chubs posts are gold. can fully see where your coming from, but the thing is every man and his dog has a mammoth.
choppers and rockets however.. |
Oh snap, I stand corrected. Tbh I never even knew Nef's head got hung outside Stormwind, I always thought it was only Ony.
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but the thing is every man and his dog has a mammoth Not to mention the camera angle on mammoths is f*****g retarded and you also cant run into any type of doorway. |
Had a look at some of the new intro zone stuff, damnit think I may return just for a bit. :D
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Annnd the realms are still down until 10-11am local time. Joys of major patches eh ?
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I know i awoke early hoping to play, oh well off to cod
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Didn't the WotLK 3.0.1 patch take more than 36 hours to apply to the servers?
I knew the jig was up when it was about 10:45am PST and the Armory was still up and running (and not showing all the new achievements, etc). Edit: Ah - WotLK patch 3.0.2 took about 17 hours, and brought on an authentication server meltdown. :) |
they'd already updated the status message to say it was now extended to 1pm, by 10:30am
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Yer, once I saw the armory, I opened the game to see the rescheduled time. I usually just look at forum whining to get my ETA updates, and not the game itself. :)
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I had no idea of the calamity that had befallen me, I was just seeing if I could log in early
what a disappointment, may cut |
Just for once it would be awesome if Blizz could bring out a new patch without anything going wrong.
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As long as it's up when I'm at home around 5pm then I'm happy!
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lol funny to read all of these threads .. doesnt seem like anyone is even super excited to be playing WoW anymore.
I haven't really played in years, besides jumping on the odd month to relive my youthful days lol. good luck wow lovers - hope you enjoy the neverending story. |
Oh look, people s***ting in a WoW-related thread on Ausgamers. Well, I never...
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I'm guessing that because the worlds are all changed it now means the quests are all different?
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I'm guessing that because the worlds are all changed it now means the quests are all different? Of course it'll mean this, now all you guys will have quests where instead of having to collect 9 Wargen Pelts it'll be 9 Wargen Talons. Phwoar. |
I canceled my account on Monday night. Cata still wont be released until December some time tho? Was planning on taking a mini break before release.
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Yeah, Cata comes out on December 7th.
btw, if anyone plays horde on Dath'remar, my guild currently needs a couple more healers for raid teams in Cata, pally healers would be awesome. </blatant recruitment spam> |
I was online for about 2 minutes and made 50g in portals - COME IN SPINNER!
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Ausgamers is supposed to be a beacon of new and exciting gaming! Stop making want to play this again D:
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I wont miss the old content that much, I mean theres good memories sure, and it you look back with rose coloured glasses it seems great, but after levelling up a new character recently its painfully obvious how far behind the old vanilla content was, compared to the quests and content in Wrath or even BC.
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Couldn't resist. Came back and already got myself the Ghost Wolf pet. 1 down, about 10 to go. I love the look of EP. I never got to see half the redesigned zones because half way through the beta they wanted me to download 20gb again so I said bugger it and never got it again.
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I wonder how many people chucked sickies today due to this.
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Been playing all day and really loving the new s***. One of my old fav zones was Ashenvale and checking that out again I was damn impressed with how it looks now. Everything looks so lush. Also, Orgrimmar looks f*****g amazing. Gonna have to jump on an alliance toon and see what's going on over in SW.
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Have been looking at the before & after comparisons on http://www.wowwiki.com/Cataclysm_map_comparison
The work they've put in is amazing, the whole thing is very consistent now with the 'theme park' feel to each zone. Nostalgia still gets me for the little things that are gone, but overall I think it was a very decent change. :D Now if only I could decide whether I like new Brill or Old Brill more... Brill was my WoW home away from home if there ever was one. |
For once I agree with you Nerf 8-)
Getting back to Brill. I'm torn between them. The new Brill looks too much like being in Northrend although the old version did need an upgrade. Although I do like how the forsaken have f***ed over Southshore. I went in there and there's nothing left but green ooze everywhere. |
It works well for a "warcraft" themed settlement, now it's specific, but I did love the old Brill so. Was very spooky, and isolated.
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I would say they would be part of the revamped instances now wouldn't they?
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man how much better is low level questing now, should've had those changes years ago
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The plants vs zombies game in Hillsbrad is pretty sweet
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yeah i dunno if its cause people are waiting for catacylsm or something but i got a 7 day free game time on my account and i checked it out and there was no one around. none of my guild was active none on my friends list. just seemed to be people c***ing about.
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khel, i'll transfer my resto shamz to your server ;)
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just goes to show your f*****g clueless eh lewd?
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Nobody ever truly stops playing WoW, they just take extended breaks.
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Nobody ever truly stops playing WoW, they just take extended breaks. Indeed my extended break just came to an end. |
i stopped playing it a year after it first came out and have never looked back.
but yer its a pretty addictive game if ur into mmo's. |
Can someone tell me which patches if i would need to download if i just went and reinstalled lich right now >_>"
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I've been wondering the exact same thing Basket :P
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Resto shammy would be win, we don't have many of those. Resto shammies and holy pallies is what we're lacking.
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Can someone tell me which patches if i would need to download if i just went and reinstalled lich right now >_>" Just had a look and apparently my client is up to february 2009, it would be 5.89 gb in patches to bring it up to current. Looks like there's about 1 to 3 gb more from where I think Wrath would install to. |
You only need to install the Wrath client, don't forget that. Then I believe there is a 3.x.x to 4.0.1 patch. It's going to be ~5gb either way.
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Wait till cata and you shouldn't need much, if any, patches to download.
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Nobody ever truly stops playing WoW, they just take extended breaks. i stopped and made $300 or so in the process |
Resto shammy would be win, we don't have many of those. Resto shammies and holy pallies is what we're lacking.Hmm ok, well if i end up coming back to the game i'll shoot you a pm. |
Accidentally signed up to a 10 day trial while trying to view my account details in this battle net crazy javascript whore of a page, which I was considering already, but figured would probably would be disallowed with an existing account. Hah, no money for blizzard.
edit: hah I'm very impressed that I managed to spend up to four hundred bucks on WoW over the last 6 years, the initial stuff when I wasn't even eating that I was so broke. Embarrassing, and addictively awesome. |
If you haven't done the quest "The Day Deathwing Came", do it now.
That has got to be the funniest thing I've seen in the game. Go to the Badlands, head up the scar, talk to the Dwarf, Gnome and Orc. |
I'm having trouble connecting to anything to do with WoW
Launcher says it cannot obtain patching information When I log into WoW gets stuck on connecting When I try and find a solution on the forums battle.net/wow doesn't work, but yet Diablo III and SC2 pages work. |
Sounds like your blocking their IPs?
Running Peerblock? |
blizz downloader is horrible... says no problems detected went to sleep 10 hours later wake up 240mb downloaded of 5 gig cool...
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You cant fly in old zones until Cataclysm. But they have removed the No Fly Zone restriction on Dalaran. All the portals from Shat and Dalaran are gone, so mages are giving free portals on most of the servers but some are charging. Org is like Tier 3 Upgraded Fortress now, checked it out last night and it was impressive. I went for a swim in Thousand needles, then ran down to the bottom of Tanaris and looked at the city towers that await us in Cataclysm.
Grabbing the new flight paths was fun, and when you fly down the barrens you get a nice eye full of changes including a Horde vs Alliance battle with catapults, ballistas, gryphons and wind riders all duking it out. Arriving in thousand needles and you find the Grim Totems attacking the local taurens. The grim totems are the ones who poisoned Cairne Bloodhoof. Gilneas looks cOol even without the npcs in there yet. We are going to run through Stormwind and those areas tonight. I think all the quests surrounding the event have been quite fun and they have done a great job revitalising the landscapes. |
blizz downloader is horrible... says no problems detected went to sleep 10 hours later wake up 240mb downloaded of 5 gig cool... Mine was going at 350kbs like a mofo from about 2am, you might need to set up ports or somesuch for the p2p to work. |
Blizzard are so full of themselves. Lets remove the ability to easily travel around the world to force players to repeatedly look at our s***** uninspired terrain while they do loop-de-loops on our idiotic number of flight paths that take f*****g annoying detours instead of just going in a straight line. Yeah, that sounds like the best idea ever.
I came back after nearly 2 years and was loving it until they forced me once again to spend most of my game time travelling from one f*****g location to the next. Luckily I have an 80 mage but I won't be touching my other characters again until Blizzard get a clue. |
So much rage deadly. In under 2 weeks that will be fixed though when you can fly around the old world.
I went farming for a Mr Grubbs pet last night (big fat yellow worm) and after doing the quests needed to gain the buff, that lets you see the item he drops for I was off. 5 minutes later I stopped before I found him. Luck I guess. He is apparantly supposed to be a rare a drop like the disgusting oozeling. Anyway he is awesome, and he does backflips over your head. Also the amount of comments i'm getting on my Buru The Gorger pet is crazy. He is a dude magnet thats for sure. |
I always thought the portals and flying everywhere removed the actual point of having the world, but I never played so much as to get that bored of it. In the same vein, I found Oblivion felt like it had no adventure because I could just fast travel everywhere, rather than walking or finding a transport link.
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With the trainers and the Auction houses in Dalaran now there will be no reason for those people leveling from 70-80 to leave Northrend, and once Cata comes out there will be no reason for those people going from 80-85 to go back to Dalaran. It's just the next two weeks that will be a little annoying, so people should either explore the old world again, make a new toon, or shut the f*** up and get over it.
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Haha, get over it, portals gone is a good idea. Even though its going to make being on my mage annoying while people constantly bug me for ports, its going to be much better because it'll actually keep people in the old world. Plus theres heaps of new flight paths now anyway, I was in Hillsbrad last night and theres like 5 flight points just in that zone (although it looks like they've mashed hillsbrad and alterac together into one zone now).
Darkshore looks pretty sweet too, theres a huge vortex in the middle of it, sucking up trees and other bits of the zone and throwing them around, and Malfurion Stormrage is at the center of it trying to control it. Auberdine is totally destroyed too. |
Oh, and heres a blue post about the portals:
Portals are removed as we don't want you to have your hearth in an old city from an expansion you've outgrown just so you can have quick and instant travel anywhere you like. Those expansions had content that was far removed from things like auction houses and class trainers, and thus, contained portals. They were removed from those things because we didn't want the expansion content (which would hold the bulk of the playerbase) to in turn also remove them from the classic Azeroth world. That's no longer the case. Cataclysm has content near your faction capitals, which have auction houses and class trainers. |
Yeh the portals thing is a non-issue and I like what they've done there.
I really like this expansion's refocusing of the game back into Azeroth - so many MMOs have this expansion-driven population shift to the high-level fringes where to new players and re-rolls the "massively multiplayer game" feels like a single player game. Blizzard know what they are doing here. I would have liked to see the new races on opposite continents to balance Kalimdor and EK more but that's life and I guess Worgen kinda belong in EK. Played a bit of Redridge on my alt last night and while I miss the old content (nostalgia) the new zone is a huge improvement. I can see it being a favourite of alliance re-rolls I do! There is a metric f***tonne of new FPs all over the world, much more like the expansion style of travelling. This will be great and they've added them in sensible places - like that s***** Duskwood run between the town quest hub and the graveyard. Combined with flying in Azeroth for the high levels and 1 gold level 20 mounts for the levellers its really NOTHING like the bad old days. Which in turn was NOTHING like travelling in Norrath ... sow plz EC port plz |
I would have liked to see the new races on opposite continents to balance Kalimdor and EK more but that's life and I guess Worgen kinda belong in EK. They are. The goblin city is in Azshara (Kalimdor) while the Worgen are in Gilneas (Eastern Kingdom). |
That's not what I mean Tanakha - I would have preferred the Alliance to get another Kalimdor race and the Horde to get a new EK race (like they did with BC); I'm referring to the balance of the factions on the continents.
In vanilla we had 3-1 for each faction on each side (Night Elves and Forsaken all alone on their continent). BC made this 3-2 by adding Draenei to Kalimdor and Blood Elves to EK. It could have been 3-3 with Cataclysm but its gone to 4-2 instead. I guess they still want Kalimdor to be Horde-dominated and EK to be Alliance. |
It would have been pretty forced to try and make Worgens based in Kalimdor and Goblins based in EK though, since Gilneas is already in EK. I guess goblins could have maybe gone either way, but it makes more sense for them to be in Kalimdor, since they're most closely allied with the Orcs.
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Aw 6gb update last night and still a 7gb update to go from 4.0, boo, now I'll have to stop procrastinating.
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It would have been pretty forced to try and make Worgens based in Kalimdor and Goblins based in EK though, since Gilneas is already in EK. I guess goblins could have maybe gone either way, but it makes more sense for them to be in Kalimdor, since they're most closely allied with the Orcs. Oh yeh - as I say it wouldn't have made much sense. Then again Blizzard are pretty good at retconning, deathwing could have just "moved" Gilneas or a werewolf spaceship crashed or something ... |
its going to be much better because it'll actually keep people in the old world. How does this make anything better exactly? I know it means I won't be doing the fishing and cooking dailies for Shatt/Dal any more but I've yet to see an actual constructive benefit of not having portals other than forcing everyone into SW/Org as somehow being a good thing. Like I said I'll be playing a mage and will probably set my hearth to south Kalimador somewhere, it's the convenience of being able to do dailies quickly and efficiently on my alts that pisses me off. I can't for the life of me work out how making something less convenient is a good thing and that people actually claim it as something good is just bizarre. Of course it won't matter to level 80's during Cata, but it's not like it hurts anything either to keep them even if it was just between SW/Org, Shatt and Dal. Plus theres heaps of new flight paths now anyway, I was in Hillsbrad last night and theres like 5 flight points just in that zone (although it looks like they've mashed hillsbrad and alterac together into one zone now).I've been leveling a Gnome priest and the amount of f*****g twirls and loops the griffins do between each point is retarded. That said, SW looks badass. |
How does it make sense to keep them? All the new content is in the old world, so why would you want people in dal. Its not that people are being forced into SW or Org, its just that those will be the logical places to base yourself anyway. Especially since the ports to places like Vash'jr and the Maelstrom and Tol Barad will be in those places.
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I never liked the long flight times where you basically are in non-play mode. Sure you enjoy the scenery the first few times but you kinda get over that. The 5 minutes+ from Org to Tanaris is one that used to be the "get a cup of coffee" flight. I enjoy wow, but long flight times aren't really Playing Wow, as watching you cant do much but chat. That being said, I wouldn't want to ride a horse all the way down either.
But imagine if the ocean trips from EK to Kalimdor didn't cut to a loading screen, but actually moved across slowly... |
It goes against some form of game lore to remove portals though surely? They've shown they've "invented" portals in the WoW world, so why not use them? That's like us having planes but instead of using them we go back to olden day methods of transport and use boats to travel overseas. Why not use the latest technology and findings for convenience?
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Do you have fun playing WoW dude?! If your idea of having fun playing WoW is sitting on a griffin or waiting for a boat then more power to you, as weird as that is. I actually enjoy actively participating in games instead of spending time where I'm not doing anything. Travel time is the exact opposite of gameplay, you seem pretty defensive to be suggesting they are related. |
man im loving the new shadow priest... so much pwn ... so much fun... so little downtime...
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If your idea of having fun playing WoW is sitting on a griffin or waiting for a boat then more power to you, as weird as that is. I actually enjoy actively participating in games instead of spending time where I'm not doing anything. Travel time is the exact opposite of gameplay, you seem pretty defensive to be suggesting they are related. I didn't say that travel time was to gameplay at all. Comprehsion fail. But the loss of the Dalaran portals will inconvenience me a tiny amount, and will be more than made up for by the addition of old world flight and all the new FPs. But then again I'm not dashing around the game completing daily quests over and over on alts to achieve maximum efficiency. This doesn't seem like a lot of fun, portals or no. Saint- it makes about as much sense as the rest of the s*** they retconn into the game for balance / gameplay reasons. No doubt if you pushed the point they'd say there is a Dalaran power outage or Deathwing broke them or something. |
But then again I'm not dashing around the game completing daily quests over and over on alts to achieve maximum efficiency. This doesn't seem like a lot of fun, portals or no.Neither am I, however I don't have all day to dedicate to playing a game and if I want to actually play something I don't want to be spending most of my gaming time waiting for a boat. I'm not giving up the idea of doing quest in Shatt/Dal in terms of accomplishing the most I can in the smallest amount of time, I'm giving it up because I want to PLAY as much as I can in the shortest amount of time. That seems like a foreign concept to you though. |
Yeah, blizzard makes tonnes of compromises to the lore or story or "realism" of the world for the sake of the gameplay, and thats how it always should be imo, gameplay should come first. Its like on one of the panels at Blizzcon, someone asked a question about how they justify different things existing in the game world, and they just said that at some point you have to put gameplay first and just not think about it. I mean, after the world has been invaded by demons two or three times, do you think the everyday citizens of Stormwind would just casually accept a Warlock running around in their midst with a pet demon?
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Neither am I, however I don't have all day to dedicate to playing a game and if I want to actually play something I don't want to be spending most of my gaming time waiting for a boat. So assuming the only way you have to get back to Dal is hearthing, that means once every half an hour, you could use a portal to go to a different city. Even the absolute longest flight is less than 10 minutes, so absolute BEST case scenario, once every half an hour, you could save maybe 5 minutes by using the portals in Dal. But then the portals dump you out in the middle of cities, and you usually don't want to actually be in the city if you're doing quests or whatever, you'll want to be somewhere else, so then theres flight time to get where you're going anyway. Plus the portals often don't dump you in the most convinient part of the city so theres travel time to get to the flight master. How much time do you really expect those portals would save you during Cata? |
But I don't spend all my day waiting for a boat or sitting on a bird! I played for 4 hours in the shiny new content last night and the furthest thing from my mind was travel. Well, I thought about travelling stuff when I was all "oh cool more FPs that will make it easier".
That said I don't do daily quests either because I find them so awfully tedious, its the same script over and over. I think we're really playing a different game as I don't have any need to quickly move a character between expansions. Each to his own I guess ... |
So assuming the only way you have to get back to Dal is hearthing, that means once every half an hour, you could use a portal to go to a different city. Even the absolute longest flight is less than 10 minutes, so absolute BEST case scenario, once every half an hour, you could save maybe 5 minutes by using the portals in Dal. Here's an interesting idea you just gave me, they should make the hearth be bindable to several different locations, and you can select which you want to hearth to. My biggest issue isn't transport on the same land, it's having to get to a boat/zeppelin to travel to a city on another land because you have to babysit your character while you travel. On a flight you can at least AFK and do other things instead. |
hated waiting for a boat and missing it JUST. Or getting on the boat going afk for a second just to get ganked :(
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I think we're really playing a different gameyou sure are removing the dalaran/shattrath portals before the expansion was dumb. the endgame content isn't in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor yet, it's still in icc and other northrend instances which you can't use the dungeon finder for. if I have to even explain how this is dumb, it's not even worth the effort |
you sure are OMG you'll have to work around it for FOURTEEN F*****G DAYS ITS A F*****G DISASTER |
I personally find travelling around the world just as much fun as most any of it, but I like the immersion/escapism of rpgs while I get that others perhaps don't. Though by the same token I find running down a hallway in mass effect a chore because I can't jump or run cartoony...
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Yeah, even Blizz admitted it wasn't ideal to remove them before Cata was properly out, but their justification was the amount of work it'd require to make separate patches and stuff to keep them in for a few more days in the interim, just wasn't worth it.
They've hotfixed the bug that wouldn't let you use the dungeon finder for Northrend instances now anyway, so it should be all good. Realistically though, to all intents and purposes, Wrath is over now. There can't be THAT much more that people still need to do in Northrend. I don't think I'll even be playing my 80's much over the next few weeks, except to log in and raid the auction house in anticipation of the new expansion money making frenzy. I'm gonna level a troll druid or something and see some of the new s***. |
Khel you should go work for blizz you know so much about them!
There was apparently a few people throwing level 83 boe blues on the AH because they had somehow found a way to get into hyjal without being teleported out. Apparently this exploit has since been fixed. |
OMG you'll have to work around it for FOURTEEN F*****G DAYS ITS A F*****G DISASTERyeh it's no big deal in itself it was just seeing your short-sighted comments that prompted me even saying anything about it at all what was that you said about comprehension? |
Khel you should go work for blizz you know so much about them! I just read mmo champion, I like to stay informed :P |
yeh it's no big deal in itself Short sighted comments my arse, removing the portals isn't a big deal and your reasons why it was (apparently) stupid were s***house. Why do you need portals down to the old world and Shattrah to do Wrath end game content? |
So I tamed Buru the Gorger from AQ20 (as well as Ayamiss the Hunter, and Chormaggus is on my list to get) and it seems he isn't content to sit behind my character on the login screen. Pushy bastard.
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yeh very short-sighted
the loss of the Dalaran portals will inconvenience me a tiny amount what does that have to do with the people it's inconveniencing more than a tiny amount? will be more than made up for by the addition of old world flight and all the new FPs old world flight isn't in the game yet, and the new flight points don't help with this issue But then again I'm not dashing around the game completing daily quests over and over on alts to achieve maximum efficiency. This doesn't seem like a lot of fun, portals or no. again, limited to your perspective and playstyle, whether you try to paint another type of playstyle in a negative light or not I played for 4 hours in the shiny new content last night and the furthest thing from my mind was travel. sure, but again this doesn't have anything to do with whether removing portals from dalaran 2 weeks before the expansion, is worth commenting on Why do you need portals down to the old world and Shattrah to do Wrath end game content?you don't, and this is what I meant when I agreed that you were playing a different game. anyone who is still raiding in icc or other northrend dungeons and doing their dailies like cooking, jewelcrafting and then doing bits and pieces of other content in classic and BC for achieves etc (ie: end game content) is often swapping back and forth between classic and dalaran. this is now a royal pain in the ass, because you have to fly from dalaran to borean tundra and then wait for a boat, and you can't even go afk cos you need to move your toon onto the boat and off it again your only other options are to ask/pay for mage portals, or bind in stormwind and do the travel in reverse instead sure, it's only for a couple more weeks and I don't think anyone will die from having to do it. but it's definitely a valid point to be making a comment/whinging/whatever about |
Remember back when there were no portals outside of a mage? No one whined then that portals weren't around to fast travel.
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well they're not going to whinge about something that doesn't exist
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That's true.
It was almost 21 months ago that I was doing cooking dailies, are people still doing them after all this time? (I was just going for achievements, because I thought achievements rocked as an alternative "done all the things in this crazy theme park" progression tracker) edit: On a side note some bastard on Daggerspine stole my awesome toon name of Nerfbringer, and still hasn't had the decency to sell their account or something and get a rename. |
Removing the portals from Dal and Shatt was a retarded idea before Cata was released. At the moment it doesn't really affect me since I'm playing my mage but I'm just glad I geared up all my other toons before this happened.
It's also retarded that Blizz brought in stuff like bumping up skinning on bosses. Why bring in 85 rules when no one can benefit from it. Also heirloom prices are retarded as well. Why charge lvl 85 points when no one can f*****g get there??? |
yeh people still do them, if you want to be able to make/place fish feasts on raids you need to do it on each toon and do the dailys for the cooking awards to buy the recipes
and jewelcrafting dailys... it takes hundreds of them to be able to buy all the cuts unless you can afford to buy titanium ore to prospect and turn in titanium dust for tokens. each daily is one token, it takes 3-5 tokens to buy a cut |
heh I'm doing loremaster of eastern kingdoms in the new system, I've run through westfall, redridge, duskwood and now doing northern stranglethorn - I seem to have acquired a zone-only pet which gets involved in some of the quests you have to do. first one quest I had to kill basilisks and let the pet get 40 bites of their meat, then the pet randomly found a skull which popped up a quest exclamation over the pets head for a quest hand in - the followup for that was I had to let the pet dig up these little fetishes and toss them to me
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Having sat through the kalimdor loading screen for several minutes while the game downloaded the bits it needed to start for the troll intro (pretty cool that the engine can do that), I can attest that I have completely changed my mind on the main title music and it is *f*****g awesome* once it gets going. It just starts s***. :P Also love the new art.
Heh had a look around Org, the changes are amazing, don't even recognise most of it with the multilayering and whatnot. Caught a zep to Thunderbluff (also didn't exist back in my day) and a troll npc told me "dere be a bug" when my world went all screwy due to not having downloaded the data for that area. |
yeh people still do them, if you want to be able to make/place fish feasts on raids you need to do it on each toon and do the dailys for the cooking awards to buy the recipesPlus you have people who haven't been playing for nearly a year and a half and were in the middle of doing this when the patch hit. The pilgrimage stuff going on at the moment lets you power level cooking to like 350 as well which is handy but you kinda need dal cooking tokens to be able to get further than 400. I didn't even realise I had leveled cooking so high on my mage, was getting recipe drops in heroics and thought I was playing a different char for a bit. |
All I see is a tremendous amount of QQ for a tiny issue, Jim.
They needed / wanted to test the new content on live, and it would have been more work than it was worthwhile to leave in the portals for 14 days. For MOST post people its not even an inconvenience since as soon as all the shiny new s*** went in we departed Wrath quick smart, and the dungeon finder works again. I related the fact that it doesn't affect me (or lots of other people) and contributed to a discussion on the merits of losing the portals altogether rather than in between expansions. I honestly thought nobody would be stupid enough to have a huge cry about the staged release after Khel posted his Blue wrap-up with their reasoning, but there you go this is QGL after all ... |
I only saw him make a single cry post, the additional posts he made were quite calm, and in response to you. you then attacked his playstyle.
would love to know where you're getting your numbers from, to know what most people in the game are doing. I'm not seeing any discernible decline in icc raids or weeklies, all of which are in northrend not sure why you and khel are talking about the dungeon finder being fixed either, I was talking about content that you can't use the dungeon finder for, like icc, ulduar/naxx weeklies etc - the stuff that a lot of people do when they're level 80 it's not at all stupid to have a cry because it's an annoying thing to do to the game at this stage. continually loading your sentences to suit your limited point of view doesn't change anything. the only reason this has blown up in this thread is cos of you constantly trying to push the way you play the game, as being the way everyone else should be playing it |
We can agree to disagree then.
Note that I'm just responding to people posting at me after my initial opinion and observations about the fun in playing a game like WoW with a maximum efficiency outlook. This is an opinion-loaded forum, its why we're here, we don't have to agree! Anyway. I stand by that, and its probably why I get bored and cancel my accounts a few months after each expansion - I don't get a lot of replay value out of wow and repetitive dailies etc give me the heeby jeebies. Note that I do still love you Jim. Even though you're wrong in this instance I can move on and look past it due to your previously excellent contributions on this forum. |
Favorite quote from an Orc Sea Dog in Silverpine... "I may or may not have pissed myself"
Oh and I love the way you can discover quests now, and the new cut scenes...let's just say Sylvana's and I took a lovely moonlight horseback ride, just the two of us... |
back on topic, spoilas covering redridge, duskwood and north STV:
Spoiler: New Redridge is f*****g awesome. The whole zone basically follows a single story and has a nice mix of regular questing and tricky d***y stuff. New Duskwood is an improvement (less bulls***) but still mostly the same quest lines refined and lacks a single coherent storyline. After RR I was a little let down here. I would have liked the Stitches event to be a bit more epic, it came and went pretty fast. STV North seems to be a little like Duskwood for now, same Kurzen / Nesingwary lines but they've been streamlined to make them easier. Handing in one Green Hills of Stranglethorn parchment to complete that quest felt f*****g good :P |
They should never dumb down the -
Spoiler: green hills of stranglethorn pages (is this really a spoiler?) - that thing was started and abandoned several times by me over the years. :P |
not sure why you and khel are talking about the dungeon finder being fixed either, I was talking about content that you can't use the dungeon finder for, like icc, ulduar/naxx weeklies etc Oh, my bad. There was a bug for a while where you couldn't queue for nothrend dungeons until you had been to them and discovered them (which is how it works in cata), thought you meant that. You could always just take the lazy approach and make people summon you to the raid if you can't get to northrend I guess. But yeah, the portal situation isn't ideal, I guess its only cos I've been playing a troll druid and trying out the new stuff and not really raiding this week that it hasn't bothered me, if I was still doing dailies in Northrend or raiding icc I'd probably get the s**** with it pretty quickly. But it doesn't sound like there was really another option, and in the grand scheme of things, its pretty insignificant. If you've left it till the last week of the expansion to desperately try and get JC tokens or cooking awards, then thats not really Blizzard's fault :P |
damm all this wow talk, now ive gone and started to download the updates to play the 7 day come back thingy.
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Yeah I wasn't ever planning on comming back I'm just going to cruise through the new content and then wrap it up again I love Blizzards Lore which is probably what drives me to keep playing WoW
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I love it too. Oddly it's cheesy and half not-serious, but I've been with it since W3 and it's perhaps the only reason I keep returning to WoW - aside from enjoying the odd levelling up experience and causing unexpected chaos in a large persistent world.
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This 7 day return thing, Do you mean trial or can you add 7 days to your existing account for free :D?
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This 7 day return thing, Do you mean trial or can you add 7 days to your existing account for free :D? You can add 10 days to an account for a friend who has a closed account (closed longer than 90 days) at any time. Up to five invites open at any time, its called a "scroll of resurrection". PM me your BNet account email and I'll hook you up. Disclosure: if you sign up after that I get a free month. |
I'm really liking this expansion it has seem to gone back to it's roots I actually feel like i'm apart of the world and i'm making a difference and the story line for the new quests make you feel like there is a war going on between alliance and horde.
Before it seemed flat and dull. |
Cheers hog that would be great :D sent you a pm
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Oops sorry nevermind hog, Irl friend did it an hour ago just realised, Sorry man! D:
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oh hogfather you're a card!
at least mages are cashing in, people are offering 25 gold for mages to port them from dalaran to stormwind/ironforge in trade chat now |
I recommend doing the quests in badlands, whether you do it as actual xp on a low level toon or on an 80 for s****'n'giggles - after about 10 quests you'll get to a bit with a dorf, gnome and orc and it's pretty entertaining, I won't spoil it. definitely worth doing for a laugh
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I ended up resubscribing, despite having a ton to do and a ton of games I could potentially play, I realised WoW is just a hundred times better regardless.
Did all of new silverpine, was pretty cool how cinematic it was, though a bit awkward how nice the devs were (never actually had to run anywhere, valkyr, teleports, free mounts etc, drove me to each hub/destination it seemed, so new players perhaps won't learn their way around the world like us slow old timers). I see now that they're probably replacing the scourge with the forsaken to retain a blight-spreading faction for their next strategy game. It is strange seeing all the new purple and epic buildings everywhere, they're no longer the remote and ambitious underdogs they once were that's for sure. I like the new talent trees system, and have ended up taking to most of the music I said was s*** before, once I had it in the new context. ^_^ |
pretty sure there was a quick 27mb then the 500mb one kappa.
Actually from memory mine was around 700 |
could of been worse mine downloaded 15gb of patches lol.
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Someone hook me up with a scroll of resurrection please!
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need to know the battle.net account to send it to
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Does anybody know how Northrend works now that the lich king is referenced to as dead right throughout the game? Assuming he doesn't appear in all the old cinematic quests like he used to, and unsure about the raids (never got round to them anyway).
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Got a lock up to 15 over the past day or so and holy s*** what a difference the questing, zones and dungeon system is. Such a smooth and quick ride so far with my only beef being that murlocs should have been removed completely .. little f****!@
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I've only fought one bunch of murlocs so far in Hillsbrad, and bombed some in silverpine.
I've been playing faaaar too much (figured I'd just pump 3 days into it then get over it for a bit), and along the way was thinking it was perhaps too kind with the drop rates / bunching up of quests / good storylines etc. However upon hitting arathi highlands, which has barely changed, I've realised how god damn horrible the old content was (and this time I have a mount and it's still too much). |
my only beef being that murlocs should have been removed completely sacrilege! i got my huntard from 50-60 and the flow of the old world is so much better now.' edit: BRD is still a c***, but use the mole machines for quick teleport |
Does anybody know how Northrend works now that the lich king is referenced to as dead right throughout the game? Assuming he doesn't appear in all the old cinematic quests like he used to, and unsure about the raids (never got round to them anyway).no change at all, other than the northrend loading screen with my only beef being that murlocs should have been removed completelyheh I've been running through all the eastern kingdom quests, done every one of them except 8 I can't do in western plaguelands due to it being bugged for anyone over level 47. one of the ones I did yesterday in blasted lands was towing a box of murloc babies back out to sea to save them from the daggerspine-ish mobs. maybe I should've delivered them to you tic |
Argh why am I tempted to fire up WoW after so long being clean!
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Because it's a superior time waster to most any other :P, dull enough that you can be half asleep, but engaging enough that you don't start thinking about dangerous things like life.
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the one thing that s*** me the most about wow was the first expansion which basically put all the effort into making my toon perfect into the toilet..
with eve at least they dont move the goal posts |
Yeah I haven't bothered with endgame since vanilla due to this. Personally I just enjoy levelling up, going on crazy adventures along the way (has gotten a lot harder as they've continued to streamline and balance everything), and chasing the most ridiculous achievements I can on my main.
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I'd hate the thought of there never being room for improvement with characters in an mmo
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Completely flooring it with each expansion is a bit of a kick though. At least there's a few things such as epic mounts that carry over.
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So before I logged off I saw this guy running around org with 100s of bunnies and other companion pets following him. All his. Looks like he found a bug that I want to know of. 3rd pic is more of the multi boxer which is pretty funny. Why 4 shammy? I really don't get that.
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Northrend hasn't changed, the Blizzard guys were asked about it at Blizzcon, and they said yeah its a bit retarded, at the moment when you get to level 70 and go to northrend, its like your character goes back in time because Northrend hasn't changed, and they don't like it, its not ideal, but theres no real way around it atm.
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Daammn it, I'd forgotten about tuesday downtime. Just got home thinking "ok I should really stop playing WoW, time to get back to work, or maybe just do one more night and then it'll be near BC and boring again." Plan is now in tatters and I suspect that I may have to be productive again, I've forgotten how.
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Nerf why are you waiting for the game to get boring again and therefore give you your life back.
Do you seriously not have the f*****g will to deal with life and then come home and play a GAME for relaxation/something to do/whatever? f*** people like your are what gets WoW such s***** publicity. |
Haven't really understood me Enska, do enjoy playing it (though get bored of endgame, and am almost back up to content I've already done), but really really shouldn't be spending the kind of time on it that I have been the past several days (I'm behind on some contract work, but ehhh I haven't kicked back like this in ages and it's proving to be irresistibly awesome). In conclusion, WoW ftw.
edit: Though I did mean to imply that WoW seems to be the perfect drug to me, in that it can border between dull and engaging, and I think that's why I'm happy to play it endlessly. It's just engaging enough that it keeps the mind off negative ruminations while playing, beyond that killing a hundred dustwallow dragonlings in the hope that they'll drop some quest item serves no good purpose that I can think of. |
speaking of, I've found they've greatly improved the drop rate for most quests like that, where you have to collect pig ears and spider legs and s***. In fact a lot more of the quests drop the item every kill outright which is great. This has always been one of my biggest gripes with that type of s***-brained quest, the f*****g prick of a drop rate where a quest to hand in 10 wolf jaws turns into a tedious grind of 50-odd kills
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Yeah, they even poke fun at it a bit themselves in the game, there was one quest I did in Durotar and the objective was to kill Crocolisks and collect 250 teeth. I was thinking, you gotta be f*****g kidding me, they've got me grinding already, then each kill dropped like 40 - 50 teeth.
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ha yer i did that quest yesterday i was like !@#@!#@!#@!
then first one was 36. then had the greater plainstrider beak shortly after it, that one took awhile, not enough repop, slightly low drop rate / 3 people trying to do the same quest. but that riding shotgun quest was pretty lol. |
There's been a lot more humour. There's a horde quest in hillsbrad where you get to become a quest giver and give out quests to several NPCs designed like players, then they reappear throughout all the quest chains in the zone. Few archtypes - the noob, the blood elf doll player with the paid for Astral mount, and the 80 raider doing lowbie content.
edit: And thousand needles is frikkin fantastic. Few things I loved: Ocean floor moon-running http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/1664/wowscrnshot120110043105.jpg Automatic diving helmets and jet boots for companions too http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/1220/wowscrnshot120110223453.jpg Major ice cream operations taking off http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/170/wowscrnshot120110051016.jpg Ambermill wizards (the doom skull doesn't actually do anything) http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/4671/wowscrnshot112710215019.jpg http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9428/wowscrnshot112710215023.jpg Incredibly random Forsaken Chicken http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9723/wowscrnshot112710183952.jpg |
And a few more (I've been playing this far too much)
Jetpack Tauren! http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/9616/wowscrnshot120210014559.jpg More amusing pop culture quotes from one of my favourites http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/2635/wowscrnshot120110051711.jpg http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/4108/wowscrnshot120210054656.jpg |
Witchaloks! The Penny-Arcade guys must be pretty chuffed. Wonder if we'll see any other PA references in the new content?
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So I'm now level 24 with only 10hrs played time which is nuts. My next beef is its too damn fast to level! One run of SFK or DM and I jumped 1 1/2 levels so now I'm well above the level range for the zone but am still enjoying all the new quests, new zones, etc so don't really want to jump ahead all that much. I need some sort of anti-heirloom to reduce XP gained by 10%
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Around 48 - 50 there is a quest up in Felwood to scare some demon imps, by making a rainbow near them. Once you scare 10 or 15 of them you get a trinket which lets you make a rainbow every 10 min and burn an enemy with it lol. Rainbow power! it says on it.
EDIT - Also yeah leveling is so fast now. Which is a good thing really as being a low level is brutal and it sucks ass. I went from 42 up to 57 in 1 day. last edited by DM at 09:45:29 02/Dec/10 |
Quests in instances were actually giving way too much XP, Blizz hotfixed it so they give much less now and you don't end up out-levelling the zone you're in.
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So tempted to start playing, but hmm..
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So if that image of blizzard release dates is anything to go by, we still have 2 more wow expansions to go in 2012 and 2013. Then something called Titan.
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I think they were always planning five xpacks, dont quote me but im sure I read it somewhere on the interwebs a while back.
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http://media.mmo-champion.com/images/news/2010/november/blizzard
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The only good thing about me having time off work due to my spinal surgery (6 months gone, 2 more months minimum to go) is that I get to play Cata uninterupted!!
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It does seem that the questing speed will cause new players to miss much of the world and background story, I haven't even touched most of the zones along the way. Though it's definitely great for veterans rerolling.
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I broke my last post by forgetting the speech mark again :(
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From Blizzard's "Your fortune awaits" promotion comes the last unlock from it - The World Reborn:
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The place in the clouds looks pretty cool. I swear there's often more people who live in one dungeon of that world than in all the populated cities combined. :P
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My NE Mage has 8 hours play time and already level 26 it's insane i did two runs of instance and gained two levels.
I've only cleared 2 zones... |
I ever so much love the old and new goblin voices.
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I was in a 25 man OS zerg last night and after finishing it, 1 of the leaders ninjaed the mount... which was to be expected. Anyway that's not the story I was going with. So yeah on the DPS meter was a mage around 20.5k dps using only arcane blast and barrage (i was about 8.5 - 9 on my hunter). I made a joke simply saying "mage dps is hard" and jesus christ this guy went off on me for a good 20 min about how he carried the raid, (which he did), that we all just suck and ranting about how raids work and s***. I found it quite funny and people in my guild had a good laugh at some of things he was saying. He was quite touchy for a mage using 2 skills.
He also told me to grow some balls, to which I replied "when blizzard lets go of them i'll have my balls back" and that only seemed to make him more angry. Rage filled mage anyone? Anyway 2 random photos from my wow beta moments. If only this stayed like it was. That works out to be around 1,900,000 damage with my gear http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs311.snc4/40865_145961862097952_100000524160206_340090_59985_n.jpg Not only is this creepy as s***, but I like the "error - tell jeremy" thing. This happened when you made too many characters for your screen to show you them all. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs252.snc4/39924_145960162098122_100000524160206_340070_2376530_n.jpg last edited by DM at 10:01:57 03/Dec/10 |
Whats cheapest price people have paid for cata so far?
Jb has it for $37.98.. |
Looks like EB are selling the copies at 6pm next Tuesday as well. Can't wait to get my two Collectors Eds.
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why 2? one to open the other to collect dust?
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I've got two accounts. Which means double the fun!
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F*****g bulls***, can't pick up my copy of cata till Tuesday night, what sort retarded nonsense is that. I've got a collector's edition pre-ordered at EB too, but I'm thinking of just buying an online upgrade for my account, then plugging the collector's edition key in later to upgrade it to collectors and get the bonuses. F***ed if I want to be going out Tuesday night to pick it up, I want to be sitting at home ready to go when the servers go live not standing in a queue at EB waiting for them to get their s*** sorted out.
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hog, what did they cry about? Apparently (and I only got this from the local EB dude) Blizzard isn't allowing us to do midnight launches of WoW expansions anymore because the yanks complained that its a head start - we're now synched with midnight US. I don't really care - 6pm local time is pretty ideal for me and I'll probably get more day1 game anyway, but I thought it was interesting :) Khel - this is what I'm talking about. I don't think your digi download will go live before 0:00:00 on the 7th December US time ... |
Couldn't they just sell the boxes whenever and unlock the content when the time comes? In fact, haven't they already installed all the content anyway...
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Apparently (and I only got this from the local EB dude) Blizzard isn't allowing us to do midnight launches of WoW expansions anymore because the yanks complained that its a head start - we're now synched with midnight US. That seems like a lie because as far as I can remember the last two midnight launches here were in sync with the USA and everyone was on at the same time. I even think the yanks were on first anyway seeing as we had to wait til midnight. |
Khel - this is what I'm talking about. I don't think your digi download will go live before 0:00:00 on the 7th December US time Yeah, it wont, but at least I can be sitting at home ready to play when it goes live, instead of being in a crowd at some lame EB launch party thing trying to get my copy. Then I'll just swing by an EB a few days later and pickup the boxed copy and upgrade my account to collectors. Its pissing away $30 or $40 or whatever the online upgrade costs, but I don't really care, I was so psyched to get into some Cata the moment it goes live on Tuesday night, and be like right there right in the thick of things, I've like organised time off, re-schedule s*** I had to do on Wednesday to give myself time to really WoW it up, and now if I have to go out and pick up my boxed copy, its gonna seriously cramp my style :( |
And yeah, what Rev said, the last two launches the yanks were on before us, I went to both the midnight launches for BC and Wrath and the yanks were already playing hours before I got home and got online.
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LOL
What's the bet the servers crash and you can't play so you wasted money on the digital download. Hehe |
Then I'll come here and b**** about it. And you can laugh at me.
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I never expected my cata CE to arrive tuesday. Sure it's the 7th for us but that doesn't mean much until blizzard kick their servers over with the new content which will be the 8th for us. I'm leveling my rogue anyway so i'll be doing northrend while the mass zerg to get to 85 asap starts.
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No, the servers go live at at midnight on the 7th US time, which is 7pm on the 7th for us (or 6pm for non daylight savings people).
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Hmm well maybe we had a cry and they are synchronising it? Maybe they want to have midnight launches in the USA? Maybe yanks were breaking the street date and taking advantage of the fact that the game went live for eastern hemisphere early?
6pm QLD time is 0:00 PST which coincides with the launch date there ... so its an obvious synch-up to midnight USA anyway. |
I'd prolly go with we had a cry. Sounds more like us.
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Best trinket ever. Rainbow Generator
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Would be good for the gay roleplayers
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I see your Zygor's guide, thats some handy s***, been using that myself
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F*** remembering what to do and where to go. I just wanna be 80 asap. I've done all this BC and WotLK content to death. Auto accept and auto hand in for quests saves a pretty good chunk of time. Great addon.
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The new base client holds your hand the entire way anyway. Marks where mobs spawn etc for all quests. It's ridiculously easy, and yet atrociously annoying to go back to an un-updated quest.
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Boo - "working" from home on Tuesday which seems like a waste now. The TBC launch I managed to get on earlier than most as we had a guildie who worked for a retailer and I picked up a copy of TBC through him before the offical release time, I think it was like 10 hrs ahead. So I upgraded the account, installed the expansion and thought for s**** and giggles I'd log on to see if it worked and it did. Nice little head start to HFP :)
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question in regards to logging into an old account.
In process of trying to recover my password and secret question and answer details. Once I get all of this, am I then able to log in and just download the games straight from server without needing to enter in any keys? |
Once you purchase cata on the battle.net site it automagically upgrades your account. When you fire up the launcher it will then begin downloading any extra content. Nice and easy.
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You could get a second account with a free months subscription for your current account for $5 last week if you RAF'd it or all the way up to WotLK for $20. Looks like it's ended now though. I grabbed one, gonna have a friend play it while I level my gnome priest for triple XP.
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question in regards to logging into an old account. Yeh if you can get your hands on the account login its all go from there. |
argh I am also not able to get my collectors ed till 7pm >< GHEY
also the music in darkjedi's vid is oh so epic. |
Anyone reading this and thinking about signing up to play wow, let me know because i can 'recruit a friend' (RAF) you and you and I get +300% XP, meaning for every level you make, you get 2 in return. Plus I can grant you levels if you fall behind etc. I can also teleport directly to you if you ever need a hand in game at any time (only if you allow it of course).
I believe this feature is only available to someone who is going to make a new WOW account, so send me a PM if this is you. |
good realms?
Haven't played in over a year, never knew back then what was good.. |
I am, but i'm just in a random scrub guild on pretty much all my characters. So I guess same if anyone has one lol
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Alli Blackrock here...I enjoy the 5 to 1 horde to alliance ratio
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So I found something interesting out and i'll share with any hunters here who want a bit of uniqueness to themselves. Keeping special pet looks. There are a few pets around that look awesome due to a debuff they passivly have, but lose the second you try and tame them. I found a way around this and already have a bit of a farm happening. Only have about 8 slots left before i've filled my stable with all 80s.
It may take a few tries but it's rather easy for the most part. A lot of it comes down to timing and some luck. Anyway say you want to tame an oily wolf or eagle as a example. Normaly when you tame them they become clean and normal versions of themselves. To get around this make this a macro. /script PetAbandon() Anyway start the tame like you would normally but when the timer gets low, mash the utter f*** out of that macro and if you do it right, the pet will finish taming and instantly dismiss itself. You won't get any special yellow glow to say it finished and it wont show up in your call icons. Log out. If you have the pet, it will appear next to you on the character screen like a normal pet. Log back in and you may need to revive him. Once you've done that however you will have your pet with the special look. Their status will be set to aggressive and will have no skills on the bar (drag from the book) but other than that they should be good to go. These pets will apparantly lose the look if you go into arena so don't go doing that. Some lose their effect if they die but I can confirm that the oily eagle doesn't as well as the wolf with a sword through his head. Something to keep in mind. Not every pet can keep it's special look but here are some of mine that i've done reciently. My burning pig Barbecue. http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/6771/bbq0.jpg Oily eagle BP http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/1749/38102924.jpg Unnamed Oil Wolf http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6053/bp2d.jpg Unnamed Ghost wolf impaled with a sword. Might call him Whoops. http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/6960/whoopsk.jpg Oh and another thing. There is a glitch right now that lets you use this method when taming a mob that enrages such as Chromaggus. It's a bug so unlike this special look glitch, it will get fixed soon. The pets that get tamed with this keep their enraged stats so thats something to toy with I suppose. last edited by DM at 01:31:45 04/Dec/10 last edited by DM at 01:34:53 04/Dec/10 |
Anyone reading this and thinking about signing up to play wow, let me know because i can 'recruit a friend' (RAF) you and you and I get +300% XP, meaning for every level you make, you get 2 in return. Plus I can grant you levels if you fall behind etc. I can also teleport directly to you if you ever need a hand in game at any time (only if you allow it of course).you have to be within 100 yards of each other to receive 300% xp, including quest handins - it's not only documented on the account site, but obes and I confirmed this by looking in the quest log at the xp value while over 100 yards apart, and then re-opening the quest log once our characters had come back within 100 yards of each other and saw the displayed xp reward triple, so we made sure we didn't split up for quests hand-ins and it's the only the recruited account that can grant levels to the veteran account, not the other way around as you've stated plus the two toons need to be within 3 or 4 levels of each other to receive the xp/rep bonuses - basically it's strictly for two or more people who literally plan to level together. that means not wearing heirloom because unless you transfer a couple of 80's with 4000 JP to the recruited account, only the veteran account could even obtain heirloom gear, meaning they keep pulling ahead of the recruited account (320% xp, it stacks with RAF bonus). it's not at all suitable for two randoms who don't intend to level up together, other than the recruiter (used to at least, haven't checked lately) gets a rocket mount if the recruited account pays for two months it's an awesome feature for friends or people with more than 2 accounts, I've used it once with one of my sons and once with obes and it takes us about 19 hours to level two toons from 1-60 using one of my 80's to pull all the mobs in an instance and aoe them down. someone who's actually worked out a strict plan for it could probably do it in several hours less. the bonuses stop at level 60 (xp, teleport to each other) |
F*****g bulls***, can't pick up my copy of cata till Tuesday night, what sort retarded nonsense is that. I've got a collector's edition pre-ordered at EB too, but I'm thinking of just buying an online upgrade for my account, then plugging the collector's edition key in later to upgrade it to collectors and get the bonuses. F***ed if I want to be going out Tuesday night to pick it up, I want to be sitting at home ready to go when the servers go live not standing in a queue at EB waiting for them to get their s*** sorted out. Hey Khel I'd think twice before you do this. I really don't think it's possible to enter the CE key after you've already entered a key for an expansion. I'd hate for you to do that then be stuck with a CE that you can't use. |
Hrmm, that would really suck, will have to check it out
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Anyone reading this and thinking about signing up to play wow, let me know because i can 'recruit a friend' (RAF) you and you and I get +300% XP, meaning for every level you make, you get 2 in return. Plus I can grant you levels if you fall behind etc. I can also teleport directly to you if you ever need a hand in game at any time (only if you allow it of course). Wish i read this 5 minutes ago. |
2 new pets today. They'll fix this soon i'm sure.
My waiter crab. He hands out drinks for groups/raids. http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/4586/drinksanyone.jpg Another ghost wolf! Sure this guy won't last long. http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/3638/ghostyo.jpg |
Hey Khel I'd think twice before you do this. I really don't think it's possible to enter the CE key after you've already entered a key for an expansion. I'd hate for you to do that then be stuck with a CE that you can't use. I posted in the customer service forums about it, and a blue poster replied and said yeah its fine, you can add a collector's edition key to an account that already has cata enabled on it. |
Then you have my approval mate!
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Im still trying to pick a toon to level for PVP, such a hard choice!
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So I havn't played my toons in a looonnngg time and I'm thinking of starting a new toon. Good or bad idea? Everyone still mostly on blackrock?
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I just moved my druid to Nagrand, starting a new toon.
From what I have seen, good idea, everything is different and cool. Its actually fun again! |
Also rolled a toon on nagrand Orc sham (20? ATM )
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I do love that they lowered the requirement of Dual Spec to level 30. My new Tauren Pally on Dath'remar is a whole lot of fun. I quest as Ret and Dungeon grind as Tank, and the new tanking method for Pally is awesome, but I'll see tanking once I get to 85 on him. Tempted to race change my Belf pally on Blackrock to Tauren and go tank.
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If anyone is on blackrock horde and looking for a guild for cata I'm in a casual aussie pve guild which is a pretty decent. Give me a hoy in game, I'll be on my warrior Bloodscalper. We aren't looking for anything in particular, just people who aren't knobs ;)
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That's pretty epic. Very Nice. Who did you order that through, seemed to get there quite early.
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level 37 druid on nagrand, karellen . add me and give me gold ;)
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Ordered online through EB Games. Lucky sod. My copy is probably floating over Bass Strait as we speak. |
F*****g bulls***, can't pick up my copy of cata till Tuesday night, what sort retarded nonsense is that. I've got a collector's edition pre-ordered at EB too, but I'm thinking of just buying an online upgrade for my account, then plugging the collector's edition key in later to upgrade it to collectors and get the bonuses. F***ed if I want to be going out Tuesday night to pick it up, I want to be sitting at home ready to go when the servers go live not standing in a queue at EB waiting for them to get their s*** sorted out. Shall I pre-warm sir's crack pipe? |
F*** yeah. That CE looks awesome. Can't wait to get my two tomorrow. Only one more sleep.
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Hey Khel I'd think twice before you do this. I really don't think it's possible to enter the CE key after you've already entered a key for an expansion. I'd hate for you to do that then be stuck with a CE that you can't use. Well I vote you'd be massively f*****g wrong. CE is an upgrade to normal. I did it with both BC and WOTLK. I did have to use a "secret" URL to do it. https://www.worldofwarcraft.com/account/upgrade-account.html People who bought the special wow edition Dells did it that way also. It is possible they might have disabled it (and that URL could quite well not work anymore), but even if they have I bet a phone call would "fix" it. |
My CE arrives about 7 or so tomorrow night T_T Posty is being run into the ground with work and we are among the last places on his route.
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S***e then. why did people get theirs a day sooner than what I will mine when we ordered from the same place.
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If anyone on Nagrand Horde side needs a guild hit me up in game, Will be on Enska or Nsc (original I know)
We are casual but will be raiding pretty hard out come cata if your into that. **edit** Also, what DM said. f*****g EB down here won't let me get mine until 7pm tues >< |
Well I vote you'd be massively f*****g wrong. Well done Obes, you're only 2 f*****g days late. We've already worked out you can. Try and keep up next time. |
So unlike BC, blizz have decided to cash in on the races even more by allowing people to change to worgen or goblins straight up via race change. Well it worked because I got me a change ready for tomorrow night when I boot up and goblin here I come.
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I did have to use a "secret" URL to do it. ROFL And the secret URL doesn't even work LOLZ |
O.o you can race change straight away? thought they were gonna keep it locked for the first month or somethin.
meh goblin rogue here I come. they Tip-Toe in stealth!$#@! :D |
I was gonna do a rogue Goblin too but not til after I get my other guys to 85. I figured a rogue would work nicely with them.
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Yeah I thought they'd lock it for sure but nope, its right there on the website that all you need is cata. However changing a existing character to 80 doesn't get you some feat of strength, or disqualifies you for realm first or some s***e.
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If the URL is dead, then you probably have to do it via phone.
That url was pretty much the only way to do it (it was the BC upgrade page but worked with WOTLK as well, it also had no parent page). All the other "upgrade" pages deected you had the keys and displayed a congratulations page instead. |
Theres no per-race realm firsts or feats of strength, so it doesn't matter if you race change. The realm firsts are per class like "Realm first 85 DK" or "Realm first 85 rogue", so theres no reason for them to lock race changing.
Also, thats ridiculous that people who ordered online from EB Games get their collector's editions already, and yet if you ordered in a store they wont sell them till 7pm. What the hell is up with that! |
JB sent mine yesterday at 6pm by courier, so I am guessing it will be here today.
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That url was pretty much the only way to do it (it was the BC upgrade page but worked with WOTLK as well, it also had no parent page). All the other "upgrade" pages deected you had the keys and displayed a congratulations page instead.Battle.net is where Blizz have moved most of their s***, there is an add game key thing there somewhere. |
6pm AEST
7pm AEDT +1 to digital downloads. Upgraded my account to Cata about a month ago so will be all ready to get a grinding once they turn it on at the server end.. then prepare for the million server restarts between now and next Tuesday. |
In a way i'm already not enjoying this expansion. People are so gung-ho on getting to 85 asap that they have 25 daily quests ready to hand in and the guild i'm in even has Lv 85 heroic dungeons schedualed on the calendar for next week. I'm sitting here thinking "jesus christ why not enjoy the game and take at least 2 weeks working your way up. why power through the content at a blazing speed? Don't people take their time anymore?
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Just got an SMS from EB Games saying it's ready to be picked up. This is very exciting!
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DM - that happened with TBC and WOTLK as well. I remember my TBC guild expected everyone to be 70 within a week.. personally I took the enjoyment route with TBC & WOTLK and had fun levelling up but with Cata I'll be launching straight into instance grinding with friends & guildies and then go back to see the content on a Worgen.
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Yeah also got a message from EB this morning also saying mine is ready to be picked up when they open today
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I don't see the point in instance grinding, by the time you get to 85 you'll be so absolutely sick of the instances, but then you gotta run them all over again in heroic. Not to mention theres only like 1 instance for each level bracket, so its not like you'll have a wide selection of stuff to grind, you'll just be doing the same instance over, and over, and over, and over. That'd drive me mad.
I'm gonna do what DM was saying, do all the quests and enjoy the game, Christmas is coming up anyway and people are going away and stuff, so I don't see the point in pushing hardcore to get to 85 only to be able to not raid or do anything anyway cos people are going on holidays. |
You're such a good housemate Khel.
I like your style, must be a Melbourne thing, i'm doing the same, in a guild with crazy ass hardcore Irishman who will have all his 5 80s at 85 before I hit 1 to 85 :P |
I probably wont get much play time until this weekend, It's a 4 day weekend tho which should be good.
I am the opposite and I hate questing with a passion and would rather grind through instances. |
hey I'm not an irishman, I just like their booze
I don't mind questing, specially in new content, but am also looking forward to some hopefully challenging new instances. as challenging as stuff can be in an mmo anyway and yeh I also am guilty of the 25 dailies thing, got two of my toons parked in icecrown ready to hand them in. for all I know though they might remove the xp from them, but the gold will be nice anyway |
Jim - which toons you levelling first? I'm taking the pally tank, Charlie is taking his oomkin and we should have a heal/dps so looking for more DPS to grindy grindy.
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anyone on Jube'thos? mate and I moved here like a month or so ago from doomhammer. I'll be smashing my resto doodad to 85 first then probly my warrior. and anyone got a casual raiding guild or even just an active guild?
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Well my CE arrived and cant work out how this loot card works. Heading over to BB now to just try inputting it. The neither of the item redemption code pages don't work so yeah. Wish they'd just send my pet already in the mail too but nooooo have to wait for that.
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Card worked. Got some pet biccies which is cool. Anyway when I typed in my CD key to upgrade my account it said something rather quickly about upgrading with a standard edition key? Any way I can check if this is true or not other than just wait and see?
EDIT - NM PRODUCT LEVEL Cataclysm (Upgrade Complete) Collector’s Edition last edited by DM at 13:27:39 07/Dec/10 |
You don't have to wait for the pet, I saw people last night running around with the lil deathwing pets.
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I just saw 2 people get the achive for it but mine hasn't arrived.
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So I know we covered this further up in the thread but I just want to double check. We can definately apply our collectors ed key to a standard ed can't we?
Reason being is I'm not going to be able to to pick my copy up from eb until thursday now (f*****g work) and am getting the other half to purchase the digital one for me as we speak. |
What? $50 is a f*****g pittance. not everyones jewish mate.
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Ahhhh f*** EB. F*** them good and hard.
Dumb c**** f***ed up and didn't send my order until late Thursday night, which means I'll not get it until tomorrow at the very earliest. F*****g useless pricks, absolutely last time I order/buy anything from them and buy into their "we try to have it to you by launch day" bulls***. There goes my plans of spending tonight relaxing with some WoW. The best bit was the phone support's response which was virtually "It's Australia Post's fault, lol".. idiots. /rant |
What? $50 is a f*****g pittance. not everyones jewish mate. Woahhh there pardner! Each to their own comrade. I'm not Jewish (but I wouldn't be surprised, bit of a mongrel) but I'm not rich and I wouldn't throw a fiddy down on top of the CE to play a warcraft expansion two days early. I'd much rather buy a case of piss in between and enjoy WoW on the weekend with my "free" beer because I was patient. But that's just me. Maybe you're swimming in b****** and blow. If so, can I come over to your place? |
Apparantly there is already Lv 84 people on EU servers. That's just so sad and pathetic.
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What's sad and pathetic is that you're playing WoW.
They're just another level of sad and pathetic. It's ok. I wish I could play WoW too :( |
Hey darkjedi. You can come over my place tonite and watch me play it.
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Thanks Rev. Your shout for airplane tickets I take it?
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Well, the $20 giftcard offered by EB for the delay goes half-way to paying for a digital copy. It's bad, yes.. but meh. do I feel like I've let myself be bought off? Pretty much, but it doesn't mean I have to shop there again.
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It does if you want to make use of that gift card.
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We can definately apply our collectors ed key to a standard ed can't we? Yes, definitely, I posted in the WoW customer support forums about it and got a blue reply confirming that it works fine. |
Yeah. You can go into your account and select upgrade and you can put in the code.
Not long to go now. 1 hour and 20 minutes. Very exciting!! 8-) |
/sigh I got to go to my girlfriends mothers for dinner tonight, so hopefully it's a disaster so we depart early i can tell my girlfriend to go play donkey kong while i play some Cata, thinking about rolling a Worgan druid instead of my Nelf Mage which is already level 35 in a week with minimal play time lol
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if you are up to date to you need to install anything or just add the key ?
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Yeah I got about a 1300 queue in frostmourne. 15 - 25 min wait. And it's not even cata time yet. Wont surprise me if the server implodes come 7
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Cata is live b******!!!
Sucked in to Black Rock |
Oh awesome I didn't think it was going live till 7. Fail on guild members timing.
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Lol Blackrock is now down, or the loggin servers are
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Yeah as to be expected. millions of people logging on at once has destroyed the login server
EDIT - they've taken the forums down. Bet it's to stop the flood of "omg blizzard fails again" posts. last edited by DM at 19:09:02 07/Dec/10 |
Heh maybe the forum server is aiding the login server
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I'm in. race changed to goblin, went to get my flight master's lisence and holy f***. 1000 people all crammed into 1 area trying to select 1 person
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Just goto your keybindings and bind a key to 'interact with target'
then goto the flight master in stormwind and type /tar bralla stand in the center of the mass of people and press your keybind... buy flying. done. |
Blackrock que, 1880
1 hour wait time nope |
i thought only vanilla wow gives 1months game time, expansions give nothing.
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Like a chump I went out and exercised before logging on. 300 person queue on proudmore.
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1427 queue on frostmourne.
Wait times fluctuating all over the joint |
Peer into the waters of the unseeing... or not cause its bugged.
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Barthilas if Full
Position in que: 1693 Estimated wait time: 109 mins DAMN YOU MICROSOFT TIME MANAGER!! DAMNNNNN YOUUUU! |
I logged in straight away on Nagrand but the amount of people in the worgen starting area is insane. Ill come back tomorrow night in the hope they have levelled further on
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Instant login on Eldre Thalas which is awesome. Been lvl'ing in Vashir and while there's a heap of players there I never found it hard to complete quests. Liking the expansion so far although I've already hit 81 so I'm sorta worried how long it will take to hit 85. I don't wanna easily get there in a week.
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i think i have lvl 60's on blackrock.. i think i'll get leave em.. alliance too...
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we just had a series of realm firsts for classes to 85, roughly twelve hours after release.
so you're gonna have a hard time not hitting 85 in a week rev, unless you avoid the game heh |
worth mentioning that from my perspective this has been a very smooth launch, I've had zero connectivity/stability/login issues
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I even did a bit of questing between instances. Wasn't too bad, hopefully I can skip out of work Christmas party early today and smash out more leveling.
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The linear quests they have designed would probably be great in 3-4 months when all the quest mobs aren't being camped to oblivion. Right now, if you get stuck on a quest because there are way too many people camping the one mob you don't have any local quests to continue on with and have to go all the way to the other quest hub.
We had a realm first 525 fishing in about an hour after launch, not even sure how that's possible. |
Is fishing still as depressing as it used to be? When achievements came out I was all "hell yeah, ways to level my character that won't be wiped come expansion" and took them on with full force. Until I got both the rare fishes a few days later, then I kind of gave up.
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worth mentioning that from my perspective this has been a very smooth launch, I've had zero connectivity/stability/login issues By far the smoothest launch ever. There was problems with logging in from around 7pm to 7.20pm but after that I sat online until 1am and didn't have a single problem. Instance zone ins were smooth, talking to NPCs was quick and no loot lag. Very impressed with how Blizzard have handled this launch. I got to about 81 and half just by grinding out BRC and then one go at the water one which was pretty fun. So glad I'm not on BR or Barth anymore with those insane queue times! |
Agreed. There was a bit of brain snappery early on with lag & the like when thousands of people descended upon Blackrock and caused Orgrimmar to resemble the Ippy Motorway on your average day. Otherwise it's been a blast!
Currently 67% of the way to 82 and nearly finished Hyjal. Loving some of the quests so far, especially the Joust inspired one. Wondering where Archimonde's skull has gone though, as it seems weird they just made it vanish with no explanation (that I've seen so far). Also loving how a lot of the normal quest givers/mobs have full voicing too! |
The underwater zone quests are a tad annoying but alot of that is the over crowding.
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I purchased the flight thingo and all my cool mounts only go at 150%, all the crappy ones go at full speed. Funky.
Pretty smooth, hopfully no downtime till next Tuesday (or Saturday would be fine too, have to ....*spit*.... socialise then... stupid life getting in the way of wow ha ha) |
Yeh I gave up on 80+ pretty quickly last night, its insanely busy.
Switched to my new Worgen Warlock and despite it being crowded had a lot of fun; the overcrowding seemed to be easier to handle in their starting zone for some reason. Was till kind of rough for the first few levels without an instant-tap spell. Lotsa fun though :) |
I had alot of fun, also educated alot of wow players by standing near the Flight Master and explaining how to instantly get the upgrade even with 10000 standing of top of him.
Basically for horde you type: /target Mazrah This will select the NPC flight trainer, for alliance target what ever the name of your one is. Then under your Key Bindings you will see a control called "Interact with Target" it is unbound by default. Bind it to a key that you dont use that often. Press that key when you target is selected, you will speak to the target. A simple trick, but helped disperse the crowd and reduced lag for alot of people. I got a few bits of gold for my efforts as well which was nice. For those who don't know how to use the Loot card (you get one in the card set in Collectors edition), you goto http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/misc/promotion.html (there is a shorter url, but to avoid confusion that is the whole one). Once here you choose your Region and Realm. There is an area to enter the code found on the card as well. Once you enter in all the info, press submit. If you made no mistakes you will be given another code to use in the game. Copy the code (ctrl-c) and jump into WoW. Fly down to booty bay and find Landro Longshot in front of the shops near the water in the center. Speak to him and he will ask you what promotions do you have. Check the bottom of your loot card, it will say something like "Wrathgate 1/3" the important part is "Wrathgate" that is the name of the promo. Choose the promo name from Landro and then he will ask you for your code. Paste it in the box and hit enter. You will be given the item. |
Basically for horde you type: /target Mazrah Ahh nice, I was trying to find a command to type to do it. I ended up /tar then set a skull for the NPC then kept trying to right click the skull, worked better then randomly clicking around heh. |
What do you get for it? Anything decent? It is random based on past WoW Trading Card Game loot. But more likely to get a common loot than a rare one. So most people will get things like Papa hummel's Old Fashioned Pet Biscuits (Increase the size of your pet companion), or Path of Cenarius (flowers trail behind you where you walk) than a rare mount (X-52 Rocket Mount or Spectral Tiger). I appear to be one of the few people who played the TCG so I've cashed in a few loot cards. |
Heh Blackrock Alliance was pretty much shutdown on the 80-85 last night. They where easily outnumbered 5-1 or more in Hyjal. Touching down on the ground meant insta-death.
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Eldre had a 525 cooking 10 minutes after cata went live...I don't really care about server firsts but how the frak could you get it?
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Some guy had a 525 mining about an hour after servers went live.. I have no idea how you could do it that quickly.
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To get those ready to roll you just had to mark the locations in the beta test realm. Camp your guy near your planned runs before servers go live. When it goes active, run through your prepared paths for each resource location. If you do it fast enough, no contention for resources.
Not everyone's cup of tea, but they get a server wide announcement for the effort. It's the one down side of the beta testing with all the dungeons played out and locations revealed the walk-throughs are already up before the game launches. A strong reason for some players join guilds that don't read up on boss fights and try to work it out as they go. Sure there are more wipes, but the achievement of beating down a dungeon without the "stand at position x and have one person waiting at position y for the second phase to kick in and pick up the mobs" is quite rewarding. |
I am also intrigued at how easy it was to hit 81...hit it in less than 2 hours on blackrock alliance, and that was with the ganking. I did do BRC twice, without reading strats. F*** that was fun working it out. 2nd boss 1 shotted by 50khp Prot pally twice when we let both adds transform haha.
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Seems they may of made leveling a tad TOO easy. Already 84 - 85s in my guild.
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LOL
Should come to Eldre Thalas. No lines at all. |
when WoW first popped i bought it... i levelled a little and hated it!
for 5 (?) years the game sat on my shelf, though a friend has been using it for that time just recently it was suggested i might like to try again with all the new stuffs that had come out / was coming out... as i type this i have stepped into the dark side as 4 boxes of CD's load into my pc i am going to be so noob :P |
Get Cata then all you need is one DVD
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serious? i have the cata box and disc(s)(?) sitting here and was slowly working my way through the pile!
what is the minimum requirement to play WoW in terms of hardware? win7 64bix,4gb ram, x2 dual core processor 4200+ 2.2ghz, GeForce 7900 GS is what i have at present |
Well i've been leveling Archelogy today and found the Skeleton raptor hatchling pet, and about to find a Soul Mirror item which should be awesome.
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Thats odd Agamemnon, you should just be able to load the Cata disc in and it will patch you up to the current release.
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Agreed. There was a bit of brain snappery early on with lag & the like when thousands of people descended upon Blackrock and caused Orgrimmar to resemble the Ippy Motorway on your average day. Otherwise it's been a blast! Literal lol. |
edit - just read the back of the box for Cata and it says u need all the previous games before you can install Cata?yeah it says that but its not true, i think what it means is you would have needed an account with all the previous games before you can play this one. I recently reinstalled and i just used the single expansion to do it. |
Thankfully got it out of my system before cata hit by leveling a tauren palli, because otherwise I'd be paying Bliz for an expansion+time+transfer+worksabotage, which would really be quite bad. However I logged on wondering if I could get old world flying without Cata, which it appears I can, but need several jillions of gold which I don't yet have. It's interesting seeing flying mounts filling up the canyons in org, definitely the better city for such things.
Does anybody know if they fixed the top of the NE world tree so that it looks right when flying? Or just capped flying above the branches? |
Good profession recommendations for troll druid.
Almost level 15 and stuck on what profession route to go. Thinking of maybe mining and skinning, good or bad? |
However I logged on wondering if I could get old world flying without Cata, which it appears I can, but need several jillions of gold which I don't yet have. No, you can't get it without Cata, the 5000g one is just 310% flying. You need to buy a separate Flight Master's License for 250g to be able to fly in Azeroth, and you can't buy that without owning Cata. |
Almost level 15 and stuck on what profession route to go. Thinking of maybe mining and skinning, good or bad? two gathering professions are great for anyone while levelling to make gold as you just sell anything you harvest. However if you want professions to help you as you level then leatherworking (paired with skinning) would be good, as you can make your own armour. Enchanting is another option so you can enchant your own gear, another benefit is its its own gathering profession as well, so you can take another gathering one to make money. inscription(herbs)/jewelcrafting(mining) probably not, they are better on an alt. alchemy(herbs) is the last option, pretty useful for a druid actually. |
I did enchanting on my paladin, and ended up buying mats just to keep it levelled up so that I could disenchant gear my level. That being said, I could easily go back and solo lowbie instances now and DE all the drops, and they would sell for a ton.
Though come to think of it I tried that in SM, and only the bosses dropped anything disenchantable in 3 runs, so maybe they've disabled that. |
Skinning is the easiest to level though when i played wow properly +year ago i botted my druid 1-80 12hours botting was like 45stacks of leather :D
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I also levelled skinning while making my palli, and imo it had an unexpected annoyance side effect in that every time I had a quest to kill x beasts, I had to loot, reselect, skin, and often use an item on their bodies in between. It got surprisingly annoying. :P (just realised now that a loot/skin macro might have been the way to go)
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speaking of macros, anyone got some recommendations
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speaking of macros, anyone got some recommendations Yeah get a macro that deletes all your chars and cancels your account. It'll have the nice little saide effect of giving you your life back. |
I just race changed my shaman to a goblin it is sexual chocolate. I hated my big lumbering Tauren. They actually did a great job on the animations for goblins I love em!
The whole game seems a little overwhelming right now to me. I quit 6 months ago as it all seemed a little boring, funny how a new race makes it feel all shiny and new again :) |
I srsly cant be bothered waiting in these ques - may just wait for it to quiet down a little
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Fark, server transfer off that b****.
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Yeah they are giving free character transfers out again. Don't know if Blackrock is on the list but it sounds like it should be.
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If I didn't have such a massive guild (like 130+ people on usualy) then i'd transfer out to someone elses server here.
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Playing casually since the launch and just hit 84 after 2 days, ahould nail 85 tomorrow, then just another 9 level 80's to go plus the 4 new toons I've started...
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I have anywhere from a 1 hour wait to 7 hours. 332 minutes my fat arse. Now down to 135 so who f*****g knows. This is loose stool water of the highest order
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Ag - are you on a trial or free account?
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Ag - rightio, was just checking if you were on a trial as they get deprioritised in the server queues and seeing if that would explain your epic long wait time.
On another note, f*** I need more Red Bull - these late nights are killing me. |
No queue on Khaz'goroth last night, was good!!
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Anyone know if you can do a Bulk Character Xfer? or is it still like 1 per 3 days. Been in que this arvo for 1 hour 30 mins and I still am at 1000 with 47 mins. I got 6 - 80's to xfer and couldnt be f***ed going 1 at a time.
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Im seriously considering transfering of frostmourne.
Any one from QGL on Gundrak (PvP) that can say if its worth while or not. |
Im seriously considering transfering of frostmourne. I transferred. Hope to hell it wasn't a mistake |
Anyone know if you can do a Bulk Character Xfer? or is it still like 1 per 3 days. It's a 3 day CD per character, not per account. Pretty sure you can transfer everything at once (by going through the individual process x amount of times). |
Dk where did you transfer to
I have 3 options: Blackrock (PvP) -> Garithos (PvP) Blackrock (PvP) -> Dreadmaul (PvP) (Oceanic) Blackrock (PvP) -> Nazjatar (PvP) |
Im on Nagrand (PVE server) because I like levelling and hate being ganked over and over.
Its a good size population and no queues and nice pings without needing proxys etc. |
Nagrand is good if you want no queues etc but is f*****g overloaded with nubs.
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Yeah, I was afraid of this. Just surprised it's taken this long: linky, nsfw(or sanity for that point).
And yes, it's a tarp. last edited by darkjedi at 17:00:54 11/Dec/10 |
I can't tell if that's sarcasm...
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