As you would expect with an expansion on the horizon, a slight increase in numbers has occurred for Blizzard's near decade-old MMORPG World of Warcraft, with the online game seeing a bump in 600,000 subscribers thanks to looming Warlords of Draenor.
Third quarter 2014 has shown an increase of 600,000 after losing 800,000 in the period ending June 30, 2014. During its earnings call in August, Blizzard predicted an uptick, with 1.5 million copies of the Warlords of Draenor expansion pre-ordered at that time.
The news that subscribers now total 7.4 million came in conjunction with news that update 6.0.2 has been released. This update,
detailed here, is a prelude to the release of the new expansion on November 13th.
Posted 03:08pm 15/10/14
Posted 03:22pm 15/10/14
good luck :D
Posted 03:27pm 15/10/14
Posted 04:02pm 15/10/14
I only really enjoyed the high end PvP content where timing is required, which is why I enjoy fighters a lot.
Many of the tactics in PVP involve evading around cover, which is all timing based esp when playing Aus vs US.
Happy to boycott on my own, heaps of Aussies will grind to 100 with 300ms no probs.
Game plays very different with 20-30ms, imagine 10x more responsive.
Posted 03:59pm 15/10/14
Though, as part of this expansion they are relaxing a lot of facing and positioning requirements. For example rogues can be beside or behind now, instead of having to be behind, so that will probably help. Some things I think have even had positioning or facing requirements removed entirely.
Posted 04:55pm 15/10/14
Posted 05:35pm 15/10/14
Play in the oceanic servers and hope that most players your playing against are with the same issue is all you can do.
Posted 05:59pm 15/10/14
Posted 06:04pm 15/10/14
I got a Holy Priest Horde on Saurfang which is where Khel plays too I think and a Rogue on Jubei'Thos also a Horde, as long as PVP plays with PVP and PVE plays with PVE as I have a brother on Frostmourne who I play cross realm with.
Posted 06:10pm 15/10/14
Posted 06:15pm 15/10/14
Posted 07:05pm 15/10/14
Just logged into the bnet app and saw heroes of the storm available xD
Posted 07:14pm 15/10/14
Khel, did the guild asplode?
Hogfather#1995
Posted 08:08pm 15/10/14
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Posted 10:06am 16/10/14
Did the Iron Horde quest chain last night which takes around 30min, and then did UBRS on my Rogue, then I completed the Iron Horde quests on my Holy Priest (Which can't DPS for s*** now) but wasn't able to do UBRS because of ilvl, I fired up a couple of heroics and a random raid group so I could try out healing and it's definitely changed.
Whilst I didn't have any issues with healing and no wipes occurred it's definitely a different feel, no longer can I just spam the one healing spell and rollface the keyboard I find I really need to be more selective in the spells I'm going to cast to keep the team up.
Posted 10:23am 16/10/14
Posted 10:29am 16/10/14
I did the Iron Horde quest last night which was much quicker than I though and UBRS which was also pretty quick. I haven't done SOO yet so I'm super keen to finish that, just have 2 wings left. I tried to queue last night - and after 30 minutes gave up and played DOTA :)
Posted 11:49am 16/10/14
Keep in mind, all the difficulty names have changed now too. "Normal" difficulty now is what used to be Flex difficulty previously. "Heroic" difficulty now is what previously used to be normal. And "Mythic" difficulty is what previously used to be heroic. Mythic is a set 20 man raid size, but the other difficulties all flexibly scale from 10 players to 30 players.
Posted 11:50am 16/10/14
Posted 11:54am 16/10/14
Posted 11:55am 16/10/14
I do love the changes to Fists of Fury though, and the new sound it makes rocks.
Posted 12:00pm 16/10/14
All the valor gear costs gold now, and I think most of the rep requirements on it are gone, could grab some of that to pump up your ilvl a bit.
Posted 01:22pm 16/10/14
Does WOD have a stupid flying license for some ridiculous amount of money?
Posted 01:29pm 16/10/14
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Posted 03:45pm 16/10/14
MoP was horrific at the start wtih max level characters flying and ganking level 85s.
Man, I thought I knew what I wanted to level before the 6.0.2 patch but now I'm all f***y about it haha.
Posted 04:27pm 16/10/14
I just wanna see the giant cliff...
edit: WoWHead has my back.
Posted 07:15pm 16/10/14
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