World of Warcraft Thread

[gear02]

Here's a more appropriate thread on who plays WoW and where.

I'm on the west coast server Proudmoore (even though I live in VA). Anyone else?

[Maarchk]

I'm looking to get a copy and i'll play with you. Umm what kind of requirements does it have? I could look them up but im a touch lazy right now. Hehe... I'll try and get a copy today or tomorrow.

[gear02]

min specs: P3 800 or AMD athlon 800, 256 mb ram, geforce 2 or above, 4gb space

recommended specs: P4 1.5ghz or XP1500+, 512 ram, geforce fx5700 or above

good luck getting a copy. Apparently blizzard stopped shipping because they wanted to get their server situation straight. So places like eb and gamestop who are out of stock won't get them. I looked all over the place online and no one had it. Some retail stores might (my best buy had 9 on the shelf even though their online stock thingy said they had none).

[slaus]

Ray and I play on lightning blade.

[DaFunkyUnit]

i'm going to avoid this game like I avoid crack.

[ski]

I play on Stormrage.

I got the last 2 copies in Western Virginia apparently a month ago.

WoW shatters sales records (http://www.blizzard.com/press/011005.shtml)

I'm addicted to this game! 37 pally in about 3 weeks.

[gear02]

Anyone want to join me on Proudmoore? ;)

Anyways, I played last night from 5 to 1 straight. I have a level 8 dwarf hunter (I love guns!) and it's pretty fun.

I sold some crafted light shot at the auction house! I'm pretty excited!

[Booyamos]

i'm on Elune. lvl 56 Paladin. Wowcrack! Lol i have a big guild, about 150 members. Its lots of fun and we run instances all the time. I'm really enjoying this game a bunch.

[gear02]

someone needs to explain to me instances and raids. I have no idea how to start those.

[Booyamos]

Kacarp steps up to the podium..

Basically its a dungeon. But instead of letting everyone enter the same dungeon and fight over who gets the bosses etc a seperate "instanced" dungeon is created on the instance servers for your group. So me and Gear are in a party and go into the Deadmines ( the low lvl instance dungeon), we walk through the portal and it loads up and we have our own instance. Just me and you and whoever else we invite to our group.
Then if Darkfury switched to Wow and brought Ski with him and also went into the deadmines, they would ahve their own instance up. so that different groups can all enter a dungeon and not compete with each other. Read WoW's info here, they explain it pretty well: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/instancing.html

RAIDS
Basically its just an enlarged party. instead of 5 people you can have 40 people, each in small groups of 5. used for organizing large raids of the enemy cities, or fighting Raid Bosses.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/raidgroups.html
Very easy interface for it with dragging and droppign to rearrange people.

Hope that helps.

[Maarchk]

Curses.. no copies at local stores... I will catch up to you guys at some point.. Like 2010..

[ray]

i'm going to avoid this game like I avoid crack.

Oh please, we had the crack last weekend at the Chargers game..

[gear02]

Kacarp steps up to the podium..

Basically its a dungeon. But instead of letting everyone enter the same dungeon and fight over who gets the bosses etc a seperate "instanced" dungeon is created on the instance servers for your group. So me and Gear are in a party and go into the Deadmines ( the low lvl instance dungeon), we walk through the portal and it loads up and we have our own instance. Just me and you and whoever else we invite to our group.
Then if Darkfury switched to Wow and brought Ski with him and also went into the deadmines, they would ahve their own instance up. so that different groups can all enter a dungeon and not compete with each other. Read WoW's info here, they explain it pretty well: http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/instancing.html

RAIDS
Basically its just an enlarged party. instead of 5 people you can have 40 people, each in small groups of 5. used for organizing large raids of the enemy cities, or fighting Raid Bosses.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/basics/raidgroups.html
Very easy interface for it with dragging and droppign to rearrange people.

Hope that helps.


It does. However, when do you see such things? The only portal I've seen is to the train. I haven't seen an instance anywhere yet.

And I assume raids are for higher level people.

[Booyamos]

yeah the Tram is basically an instanced area. But that one just lets everyone in. you see them in the dungeons. Usually you will get some quests to go to them, elite quests since they require a group.

For the alliance the first one you will get to is the Deadmines(lvl 20ish) in Westfall. Part of the Defias quest series, and you must kill VanCleef. There is also one in Stormwind, the Stockades(lvl 25ish). Then Gnomeregan at around lvl 30. Not sure on the horde ones, but i think Blackfathom deep is around lvl 20, same with the wailing caverns.
here's all the ones that i found on thott:

Instance: Blackfathom Deeps
Instance: Blackrock Depths
Instance: Blackrock Spire
Instance: Dire Maul
Instance: Gnomeragon
Instance: Maraudon
Instance: Molten Core
Instance: Onyxia's Lair
Instance: Ragefire Chasm
Instance: Razorfen Downs
Instance: Razorfen Kraul
Instance: Scarlet Monastery
Instance: Scholomance
Instance: Shadowfang
Instance: Shadowfang Keep
Instance: Stonewrought Pass
Instance: Stratholme
Instance: The Deadmines
Instance: The Stockade
Instance: The Temple of Atal'Hakkar
Instance: Uldaman
Instance: Wailing Caverns
Instance: Zul'Farrak

Oh and if you don't know, check out http://www.thottbot.com/ for item info, quest info, basically everything.

[ski]

www.goblinworkshop.com
www.allakhazam.com

I usually run the game in Windowed mode (Video Options, check box) and searh google for the name of an NPC or area, and those 2 sites, as well as thottbot give maps.

:)

[ray]

This game is pure evil. You can be damn sure I'll be leveling from 30-40 this weekend :)

[slaus]

I'm obsessed in eventually getting to onyxias lair

[Booyamos]

I'm obsessed in eventually getting to onyxias lair

its fun... well fun dying that is. In beta i think the lowest anyone got her was down to about 20% health. At about 65% health she takes flight and breaths fire on everyone, that usually destroys the group.

The thing is in order to get to onyxia you need the key to her lair... which is gotten from a very long quest series in some really high lvl instances. Takes forever to get so not many lvl 60's have it yet. I haven't even started getting it yet, been working on some other stuff.

[slaus]

Requires a raid to take teh key from a boss in blackrock spires. Basically need a bunch of guild members and any lvl60 guy you can find hanging out in IF.

[Hiro]

www.goblinworkshop.com
www.allakhazam.com
http://www.thottbot.com/ also.

[SonyGuy]

Man I'm wanting to get on and play this game....just gotta find a copy somewhere...

[ialsohaveadream]

My best friend is constantly hounding me to buy and play this game with him, but my computer is lacking a graphics card. I have an AGP slot and about $70 to spare. Can I get anything that will make this game run on my computer?

[gear02]

Geforce 4?

[ialsohaveadream]

Would a GeForce FX 5200 handle it? I found one on sale at Newegg (man I love that site) for dirt cheap.

EDIT: I found a Rosewill ATI Radeon 9600 for $75 shipped. Radeon 9600s are good, right? I'm such a moron when it comes to video cards. I never play PC games.

[gear02]

not sure really, what's the rest of your specs?

[ialsohaveadream]

P4 2.8, 512 MB DDR PC2700, and a nice purdy 17" Dell LCD.

[ray]

Get at least 512MB RAM no matter what you do. If you hang out in IF or one of the other major areas you'll lag like no other if you don't have enough RAM.

[ialsohaveadream]

You mean get an additional 512 of RAM? For a total of 1 GB?

[gear02]

yeah, and I think the card will barely handle it.

And I think even the best machines grinds to a halt when you enter IF's Auction House. There's always like 200+ people loitering between the Auction house and Bank.

Why don't they open an AH in Darnassus and Stormwind?

[slaus]

Supposedly they wouldnt be linked together so it'd be pointless. People have asked the same thing and blizzard has said its impoosible. Plus at this point most people are just used to going to IF. Gadgetzan has a neutral auction house which no one uses.

[Maarchk]

Is there a site that can check your machine and tell you how it will perform for wow?

[gear02]

Is there a site that can check your machine and tell you how it will perform for wow?

Not that I really know of...

Btw does anyone know how to get to Gnomeregan?

[cig]

Not that I really know of...

Btw does anyone know how to get to Gnomeregan?

Exit Ironforge and head east. There's a fork in the road as you come down the hill. You can take either, but the right fork should be the easiest. It will take you up and around a frozen lake. GR is built into the hillside and will be on your right side.

http://www.worldofwar.net/cartography/worldmap/dunmorogh.php
It's in the area marked Leper Gnomes.

[gear02]

Exit Ironforge and head east. There's a fork in the road as you come down the hill. You can take either, but the right fork should be the easiest. It will take you up and around a frozen lake. GR is built into the hillside and will be on your right side.

http://www.worldofwar.net/cartography/worldmap/dunmorogh.php
It's in the area marked Leper Gnomes.

oh! wow...ok...so it's past Brewnall...sweet!

So now I know the major elite areas, Deadmines, Barracks, and now GR. Too bad I can't do any of them...

[ski]

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3344.txt
Sorry, needed to right click and save this as

plus i love WoW

[gear02]

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3344.txt
Sorry, needed to right click and save this as

plus i love WoW

what the hell is that file? IP v4?

[Booyamos]

i'm on elune. Just hit lvl 60 yesterday. Lvl 60 Paladin :)

[Maarchk]

WAhhhhhh i'm so jealous... i'm unemployed for like 3 weeks and i want that as my job...

[sho.gun]

44 Troll Rogue on Frostwolf here, in fact i'm currently 300 something in queue :(

Anyone else play on Frostwolf?


Yay just crashed.... 602 in queue :(

[ski]

what the hell is that file? IP v4?
Mobile IP ("IP Mobility") ... Home/Foreign Agents for wireless data with tunnelling. I don't know what it means either. :heh:

Level 42 Paladin on Stormrage

[cig]

I have a lvl 17 horde warlock on Frostwolf. I feel ya. Haven't played on there in a while cause there's always Disneyland sized lines trying to get in when I have time to play. Also have an alliance lvl 41 hunter on Lightbringer.


44 Troll Rogue on Frostwolf here, in fact i'm currently 300 something in queue :(

Anyone else play on Frostwolf?


Yay just crashed.... 602 in queue :(

[yippiekiyeh]

Get at least 512MB RAM no matter what you do. If you hang out in IF or one of the other major areas you'll lag like no other if you don't have enough RAM.

Honestly, even 512 doesn't even help. I had 512 (the other 512 was on order) and all main cities lagged badly as you flew in...

It wasn't until I upgraded to 1gig that the lagging has dimished significantly.

YMMV though.

[ski]

I've had the following amounts of RAM:

256 -- don't even
512 -- works okay until you get into a big city
768 -- works great!

[Grubbie]

I've had the following amounts of RAM:

256 -- don't even
512 -- works okay until you get into a big city
768 -- works great!

I had 512 in beta, it worked alright, fps would drop in big cities. Upgraded to a gig when I got retail. no real problems with it now.

I also have a geforce3 and an amd 2100+

[kei2]

A couple questions... when is the next shipment supposed to be happening?

And 512 RAM, GeForce 2, 1.7 GHz... should I even bother? (Considering a Spring Break purchase since school may lighten up spring quarter.)

[kain9i6]

Btw guys. If anyone wants to get paid for it:

http://www.blizzard.com/jobopp/wow-game-master.shtml

[mcs328]

I don't have WoW but I read this interesting bug. Here's a link to the move file. I guess somehow you can summon a pet and it explodes and kills everyone in the auction house.

http://members.cox.net/~tedddee/BOOM.avi

[gear02]

I don't have WoW but I read this interesting bug. Here's a link to the move file. I guess somehow you can summon a pet and it explodes and kills everyone in the auction house.

http://members.cox.net/~tedddee/BOOM.avi

Yeah I read it and it's really funny. It's not really a bug, but it is.

Basically, he was part of a raid group that did an instance. The boss of the instance casts a curse which has a timer. At the end of the timer, it deals a huge amount of damage. It happens that the boss cast the curse on the minion (he's a warlock, not hunter). The guy unsummoned his minion which actually paused the countdown (the bug is that maybe it shouldn't pause the countdown when unsummoned with the curse). Then he went to the action house and resummoned the pet, which resumed the countdown and boom :)

It's actually very, very hard to reproduce. You'll need a raid group (60 players or so) and reach the end boss. Then out of 60 people plus minions and pets, you have to hope he casts the curse on your pet/minion. The chances of doing that are very low.

It's still funny :)

[yippiekiyeh]

Has anyone played a Paladin yet? Are they as overpowered as all people say?

[gear02]

Has anyone played a Paladin yet? Are they as overpowered as all people say?

Meh, it depends on who you ask. People will say Pallys are overpowered and should be nerfed, some will say otherwise. They did fix a bug with a healing spell or something so it may not be the case anymore.

I wouldn't worry about overpowered/nerfing/etc right now. I don't think there's a class that's way overpowered compared to the rest. It's pretty balanced.

The only thing that annoys me about Pallys is that they get their lvl 40 mount for free. I have to save up 90g for one! :(

[Booyamos]

Has anyone played a Paladin yet? Are they as overpowered as all people say?

I have a lvl 60 paladin. They are not really over powered in my opinion, just hard to kill. They have a lot of survivability but are supposed to be weaker on the damage side of things.

Good Things

Can wear plate at 40
Great 2h Damage weapon from a quest at 20 (can use till at least 30)
Seal of the Crusader = 40% increase attack speed
Pretty good healing
Excellent healing with the free critical heal talent
Free Mount at 40
3 lives: 2 Shields and Lay of hands
Good at tanking 1 mob


Weaknesses

NO ranged at all (unless you spend 31 talent points in holy)(or do engineering - thats what i would suggest)
Weak DPS. Well soon once SoTC gets fixed (feb 15th)
No taunt type ability so hard to be a true tank with multiple mobs
Everyone is a Paladin (hard to get good gear on raids, lots of competition)
Combat can be boring at times


I never had a problem Soloing and could always take on very tough mobs. Could never see myself doing this with other classes. Being able to heal yourself and wear plate is great! The free mount means no worrying about having 90g by the time you hit lvl 40.
I can fill in for a tank or healer if really needed.

I'm having a blast with my Paladin. Only problem is so is everyone else, we have 15 lvl 60 paladins in my guild so that means there are always tons of them for raids... so we are all after the same items.

Paladins are great, so are rogues though. Rogues are more active though, more to do.

[ray]

My priestess is getting quite badass. When I was level 40 I dominated a level 44 horde warrior. It has become increasingly difficult for me to solo quests since I can't tank multiple enemies at once, but when I'm going one-on-one I can pretty much do whatever I want. Let me also say that Mind Control is the greatest spell ever.

[ialsohaveadream]

I joined the crowd...and the Horde. I'm on Pere...something. Perenolde? Anyway, my name is Pobrecito, and I'm a troll mage.

I didn't get a vid card, still have 512 RAM, and the game runs fine. So pooh on all of you. :)

[Svyn]

Mannoroth - 46 Tauren Hunter. From my experience with different machines:
1ghz, gf4 ti-4200, 1gb ram - runs ok, seems to lack cpu power to play well
(laptop)1.8ghz, gf4-440, 640mb ram, lacks memory too much paging to hdd for loading content, but works very well otherwise
3ghz, 1.5gb, x300 - No problems besides slow isdn connection
2.6ghz, 1gb ram, 9800pro - no problems besides slow modem connection

[ray]

Just a question, and I know some of you have already achieved it, but how many of you are planning on leveling to 60?

[gear02]

I'm planning to, but I'm not going to grind to get it. I'm at 42 and just having fun.

[yippiekiyeh]

The count down begins for me... I'm at 50... 10 levels to go...

[Booyamos]

Just a question, and I know some of you have already achieved it, but how many of you are planning on leveling to 60?

heh already done. But its really not that difficult, especially compared to other MMO games. The questing gives you great XP and even if you are a casual player the rest system is really beneficial. Take your time though, enjoy it, because the problem is once you get to 60 there isn't much to do:

Raid Stratholme
Raid Scholomance
Raid Upper Black Rock Spire
Do BRD if friends need help
Wait for more people to get keys for Onyxia
Raid Molten core with 40, die on first monster :P

PVP is ok, but if you get 100+ people it becomes an utter lag fest. Raiding capital cities like The Undercity would be fun, but it gets too laggy to do anything, and the bosses there spawn tons of guards and are super hard.

I raided Org with 40 lvl 60's to take out thrall... barely scratched him, his troll friend turned half the raid into frogs lol.

[ski]

Just a question, and I know some of you have already achieved it, but how many of you are planning on leveling to 60?
I'm at 50 now, and I'm starting to press to get up to 58, so I can blacksmith the Hammer of the Titans (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=26354)

:D

[slaus]

Would the paladins on Gotapex agree that when you reach 60 or close to it, that they should roll only on the lightforge set since the added Int and set bonuses make it a paladin set? I'm just really bitter right now because a lvl58 paladin I grouped with rolled on my Valor Boots last night after killing Kitronos. This was after we said at teh start of the raid "Does everyone know the name of their set?" Then before he rolled he asked if he could roll and 4 people said it was a warrior set item. He still rolled and of course he beat out my roll of 31. I'm just really sick and pissed off how Paladins in the last 2 weeks have jacked the warriors in my guild of 4-5 Pieces. We're asked to main tank all the freaking time to suffer a lot of deaths and durability loss yet we get screwed over.

[Booyamos]

yeah the only time i roll on a valor set is if there is no warrior there or if he already has it. Usually in guild raids only so its pretty well organized and we know what people have/need. I've passed on lightforge items before when a friend of mine needed only 1 or 2 more pieces for the set.

I actually don't have any LF set parts yet, haven't gotten around to raiding all that much. If that were to happen in my guild I or the guild leader would definately lay the smack down on the person that did it.

Valor could be used by a paladin but Lightforge is better, so it is the general concensus that Valor = warrior and lightforge = Paladin.


oooh but yesterday i found a Destiny sword :):):)
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=9374

[ski]

We're asked to main tank all the freaking time to suffer a lot of deaths and durability loss yet we get screwed over.
I always thought Paladins were the ultimate tank... depending on if you spend talent points in protection. Warrior and Pally both wear armor, but do Warriors have better protection buffs than Pally's?

[yippiekiyeh]

Warriors are teh suq... sad but true.

[Grubbie]

Bah, my account is locked cause my cc changed. I can log in through the game and says I need to pay. But can't log in on the WoW site to manage my account.

[slaus]

Warriors can manage agro better with various agro skills.

[kei2]

Warriors are teh suq... sad but true.Wrong forum, this should be in Sports. Oh wait. Never mind. :disa:

[Booyamos]

I always thought Paladins were the ultimate tank... depending on if you spend talent points in protection. Warrior and Pally both wear armor, but do Warriors have better protection buffs than Pally's?

Paladins can do just fine tanking 1 mob, protection specced or not. But the thing is we have no real taunt. consecration is a good aoe thing to get them all to attack you but if you lose argo then you really don't have any way to taunt them back to you.

Warriors are great at tanking multiple mobs and taunting enemies to get them off other people. Also a lot of times the paladin is a back up healer, so it makes it difficult to do that if you are also being the tank.

Warriors are pretty gimped right now unfortunately. They were gods in beta, along with mages, but the devs put a nerf stick where the sun don't shine.

[ialsohaveadream]

I'm using a mage...and really hoping that at some point they get a little more powerful. It kinda sucks that any decent enemy only takes a few hits to kill me.

I'm going to be making another character soon, and I'm considering Rogue, Hunter, Druid, and Warlock. Any suggestions?

[Booyamos]

mages are unfortunately pretty weak. They are squishies as i like to call them, 1 or 2 hits and dead.

They used to be gods of beta, when they had the invisiblity spell. But a lot of changes hurt them, the 5 sec mana regen after casting rule sucks.
the problem i had with mages was the downtime... sooo much downtime after every battle. They can do good damage, but snap like a twig and always have to drink water to get mana back. So slow.

If you are making a new char i would suggest Rogue or hunter. Druids are rather weak atm and should be getting some fixes in a century or two, same with warlocks. Well warlocks are powerful just hard.

rogues are great and a lot of fun (my alt is a rogue and its a blast). I love stealthing and pick pocketing and then ambushing.
Hunters do good damage and you have your pet to tank for you. I was just not into the whole pet thing, their AI is a bit quirky at times, same with warlock.

[ray]

mages are unfortunately pretty weak. They are squishies as i like to call them, 1 or 2 hits and dead.

They used to be gods of beta, when they had the invisiblity spell. But a lot of changes hurt them, the 5 sec mana regen after casting rule sucks.
the problem i had with mages was the downtime... sooo much downtime after every battle. They can do good damage, but snap like a twig and always have to drink water to get mana back. So slow.

Ever try playing a priest? I can't solo anything...in fact, I haven't been able to solo since level 40. I'm level 47 now and had to actually leave my guild because the guildies at my level were almost useless and there weren't nearly enough. I joined another guild where the majority of the players are within 3 levels of me so we can all quest together and get to 60 together.

[gear02]

I'm a hunter and I take for granted that I can pretty much solo anything. My pet (KingB) kicks ass and overall it's a lot of fun IF you use your pet and long range damage and don't consider yourself a melee expert (I've seen hunters who melee only).

However be aware that in the end game it will be hard to find parties. This is because there are ton of hunters and their role is not well known among other classes. Hunters are meant to pull and/or be consistent DPS dealers (depending on your idea of a hunter). However, other classes consider rogues to be DPS dealers and Warriors as pullers.

My next character is going to be a horde priest, just so I can heal everyone.

[Booyamos]

heh yeah priests fall into the same catagory, squishies with a lot of downtime.

But priests are in high demand, if you can make it to lvl 50 you will almost never have a hard time finding people for an instance.

I've heard shadow priests can solo pretty well though, but i never played mine past 11, switched to a rogue and liked it much better.

[ray]

I've heard shadow priests can solo pretty well though, but i never played mine past 11, switched to a rogue and liked it much better.

That's not true. I re-specced to shadow around level 25 and though I can kill things that are my level, I can't handle more than 1 guy at a time. Also, I use about 1900 mana to kill one guy my level. I only have 3900 mana. So after 2 kills, I need to drink waters.

Oh yeah, I forgot to add. Mind Blast will cause you to aggro every single enemy in a very large radius. So whenever I use that in an instance or with mobs, I have everything chasing me.

[slaus]

Nerf paladin dice

[ray]

Nerf paladin dice

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot to mention how screwed up some people are when they roll on Rare items that they can't even use.

[gear02]

Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot to mention how screwed up some people are when they roll on Rare items that they can't even use.

Need before greed baby :)

[Wizard]

I have a lvl 60 Gnome Rogue on Gorgonash (or however you spell it)

Rogues out there, can drool over my equipment:
http://wow.allakhazam.com/profile.html?38788

I am waiting for someone to do the crusader enchant on my main hand weapon. I already found the orbs I need.

[yippiekiyeh]

Wrong forum, this should be in Sports. Oh wait. Never mind. :disa:

Good one, I should say Lakers *duck*

I love the Lakers... <J.BUSS>Phil COME BACK I was just kidding you are a great coach!</J.BUSS>

[Maarchk]

I think i am finally getting a copy of WOW for my bday on sunday... How long will it take me to level from 0 to 60? ;)

[gear02]

I think i am finally getting a copy of WOW for my bday on sunday... How long will it take me to level from 0 to 60? ;)

Took me 10 days to get to lvl 44. That's 10 days of playing time (240 hours ;) )

But really, don't think of this as a lvl grind. Just have fun with the quests and environments. If you are concerned about leveling you'll miss out on the fun.

[Red Pheonix]

Can someone explain to me what is with all the bugs in this game. I absolutely love it but i get dropped or something freezes up at least 3 times while i'm playing.

[SmokeyDP]

Is this game back on sale again? I know they pulled it because the servers were overcrowded.

[gear02]

Smokey: Just check around, some stores still have it so it never really stopped being on sale. It's just that inventories got low. But when I got mine a month ago there were about 6 on the shelf at the crowded Best Buy.

Red Pheonix (I think your user name is misspelled, it's phoenix): It's just a freaking huge game. It cannot be bug free. I think blizzard is doing a great job with the technical support and patches, though I think their level of detail in communications needs to be better. For me, it has never froze and I've never gotten dropped, though I've had many issues of loot lag and so forth. If you want to see a buggy game, get Kotor 2 ;)

[ialsohaveadream]

Yeah, despite all the warnings I heard about server problems, the game being hard to find, etc. I haven't had any difficulty with it, other than the (sometimes frequent) lagging on loot, resurrecting, etc.

[ialsohaveadream]

I've kinda pushed my mage to the side and started up a new druid. Anyone else played a druid yet? I'm enjoying it.

[Maarchk]

i think you can find a couple copies here and there. i think there just wasn't a big anouncement about it yet.

[gear02]

I've kinda pushed my mage to the side and started up a new druid. Anyone else played a druid yet? I'm enjoying it.

I've played with druids (have 2 in my guild). They are multi talented. On pmoore, our druid was our primary healer (we had a hunter, warrior, rogue, pally). On our new server SC, our druid acts as a damage dealer and tanks for me I catch aggro (priest).

It's a versitile class. That underwater form is neat (but ugly) since you don't need potions.

[Kevster]

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/images/comics/20050207.jpg

[xsiled2]

they are buffing the crap out of shaman next patch, giving druids some decent cat for attack, and fixing a load of item bugs and proc. issues. also adding dire maul in feralas, 55-60 instance. looks fun :).

im looking to reroll on a new realm, looking for people on alliance and a pvp server. unless someone can explain to me why so many play normal.

since druid cat form will have a form of evis.

[Chinpoko_Mon]

I have a lvl 45 druid on Draenor. Druids are fun... at this level, I can solo quite well. But I must say that I don't use my animal forms as much as I should.

Probably because I did not spend my talent points on them. I might re-spec one of these days to see what it's like.

Just started up a hunter as well. Lvl 13 and having loads of fun.

Somewhere down the road, I will have to find a pvp server.. =)

-L

[Leon]

http://www.inven.co.kr/bbs/data/wow_freeboard/1102255171/wow.gif

[Realrammstein]

Ever try playing a priest? I can't solo anything...in fact, I haven't been able to solo since level 40. I'm level 47 now and had to actually leave my guild because the guildies at my level were almost useless and there weren't nearly enough. I joined another guild where the majority of the players are within 3 levels of me so we can all quest together and get to 60 together.

Ray. that post looks really familiar. did you write the same thing in the WoW forums (Boulderfist)?

[ray]

Ray. that post looks really familiar. did you write the same thing in the WoW forums (Boulderfist)?

No, I'm on Lightning's Blade, not Boulderfist.

[Nija]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/worldofwarcraft/652698.html
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi04.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi06.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi11.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi19.jpg

This game is ghey. :hihi:

[ialsohaveadream]

This game is ghey. :hihi:
Just because you do dirty things with YOUR character doesn't mean the rest of us do. Well, I do. But not everybody else.

[angl2b]

I have succumbed and joined :)

[Realrammstein]

I have succumbed and joined :)

Wave goodbye to friends and family.

[mcs328]

Wave goodbye to friends and family.

I KNOW!! I live in the same household and *someone* didn't come to bed until 7am. *throws away Costco economy pack of trojans* Won't be needing those anymore....prob expire by the time she gets tired of playing WoW. (j/k) :)

. I haven't joined but I did install the software but didn't create an account yet. I'll prob use the guest account key from angl2b and then wait for the 3+ hour update and patch.

[angl2b]

in my defense I woke up at 4:30 to check up on the updates since it was installing when I went to bed - made my character and then went to sleep at 7:30. :kiss: :P

[Realrammstein]

Oh, and it begins :D. LMAO! how do you access the guest account on your disk (thinking of sucking my wife in on this adventure)?

[angl2b]

you just use your copy and d/l it to her comp
use the guest key and wahla - she is signed up

ONLY lvl 11...this is so slow to lvl.....

[mcs328]

I used the same CD's and installed the game. Signed up for an account using the guest pass key that comes in the box and then wait 2+ hours to get the patch. I play an Orc and it runs fine on my Athlon 2500+ with Ti 4200 but when I play a human it lags like crazy walking around in Stormwind(sp?). I don't think it's an issue with ram since I have 512 but my videocard is not compatible with Direct X 9.

angl2b is running with 384 ram and Nvidia 5500 PCI card and it looks much better.

[gear02]

I used the same CD's and installed the game. Signed up for an account using the guest pass key that comes in the box and then wait 2+ hours to get the patch. I play an Orc and it runs fine on my Athlon 2500+ with Ti 4200 but when I play a human it lags like crazy walking around in Stormwind(sp?). I don't think it's an issue with ram since I have 512 but my videocard is not compatible with Direct X 9.

angl2b is running with 384 ram and Nvidia 5500 PCI card and it looks much better.

good god...if you think it's bad in SW, wait until you get to Ironforge...

:throw: :throw: :throw: :throw: :throw:

[ialsohaveadream]

good god...if you think it's bad in SW, wait until you get to Ironforge...

:throw: :throw: :throw: :throw: :throw:
:stupid: "Hey look, it's the auction house. Wow, looks like nobody's here." Lag lag lag.... "Wow, now there's 80 people here, and I've moved 200 yards in the wrong direction somehow!"

[yippiekiyeh]

Yep stupid servers.

[angl2b]

bah hate those lags! :throw:

[Booyamos]

lol yeah IF sucks for lag. The best is when you are in an instance and you see your entire friends list/guild list go offline except the people that are in instances. Gotta love it when the Eastern server crashes and we are all alive and well on the istance servers.

i have people in my guild that have played over 60 days of /played time :gle: Its nut, i'm no where near that much.

[mcs328]

I don't get these video or interface controls. Somehow I set it so that I can see the HP/Mana/Rage text when I mouse over and see monster name text and quest number. I played at a friends condo and they have different settings. Am I missing a page or something in the menu options or are these like undocumented features?

[Gothic Girl]

I just got this game and want to play it, but I don't have an account. Bummer.

[ialsohaveadream]

I just got this game and want to play it, but I don't have an account. Bummer.
It comes with your first month free, plus a 10-day guest pass.

And why don't any of you play on Perenolde? It's only the best server EVER. :)

[Booyamos]

It comes with your first month free, plus a 10-day guest pass.

And why don't any of you play on Perenolde? It's only the best server EVER. :)

The 10 day guest pass only comes with the collectors edition, which is kinda hard to find now.


I don't get these video or interface controls. Somehow I set it so that I can see the HP/Mana/Rage text when I mouse over and see monster name text and quest number. I played at a friends condo and they have different settings. Am I missing a page or something in the menu options or are these like undocumented features?

They are probaby using a custom UI like cosmos, gypsy, CTmod, flexbar etc.
http://www.curse-community.com/mod.php
There are tons of add ons there. I personally like CTmod myself www.ctmod.net
Here's what my UI looks like (during a raid so i have raidassist on)

http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10001/WoWScrnShot_040205_154131.jpg

[yippiekiyeh]

Very nice... I have yet to participate in a raid but I guess I'll be checking out some other UI mods b/c cosmos is starting to suck!

[mcs328]

Collectors edition? I got the guest pass in the normal run of the mill WoW box at Best Buy. I don't think it was a Collectors Edition because those come with extras right? Like Lithographs and figurines and DVD movies or something.

[Booyamos]

hmm they must be putting guest passes in the normal version now, /shrug

Would make sense, i knew in the beginning they only came with the collectors edition, thats nice to hear they are doing that now.


Yeah i had Cosmos for a while as well, it just got too bloated. I use CTmod now, very light and nice. Just use the default 2nd row of bars and sidebars. Can find most other mods you need at curse gaming. Map notes & Map notes gathering are great!

[spongebobloser]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/worldofwarcraft/652698.html
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi04.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi06.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi11.jpg
http://www.dysdaera.net/random/wow/nightelfyaoi19.jpg

This game is ghey. :hihi:



that is so freaking funny!!!!

[Memo]

Alright, the semester is coming to a close and I think I'm going to go buy this game TODAY since I don't have to worry about it causing failing grades. A friend of mine says he plays on Deathacus or Defecus or something like that. Anyone else currently playing there? I'll probably be part of the Horde. If you guys got new lower level chars and would want someone to play with I'll play with you too since I don't think my friend plays ALL that much and I know I will be! :D

[Booyamos]

My guild killed Onyxia last week, killed 5 bosses in the Molten Core so far


Larger Image (http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10004/onyxia_dead_4-21_2.jpg)
http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10004/normal_onyxia_dead_4-21_2.jpg

[ialsohaveadream]

Alright, the semester is coming to a close and I think I'm going to go buy this game TODAY since I don't have to worry about it causing failing grades. A friend of mine says he plays on Deathacus or Defecus or something like that. Anyone else currently playing there? I'll probably be part of the Horde. If you guys got new lower level chars and would want someone to play with I'll play with you too since I don't think my friend plays ALL that much and I know I will be! :D
Memo, come on Dunemaul and make an Alliance char, and I'll help you out. The new character I just started is only a level 20 rogue. PM me if you decide to do it, and let me know who your character is.

[Realrammstein]

http://www.inven.co.kr/bbs/data/wow_freeboard/1102255171/wow.gif

That lootlag gif has be dying.

[spigidygak]

haha this stupid game. It is the reason to my slight departure of browsing the forums in a few months. Anyhow if anyone is interested, I'm on kilrogg, got a 60 marksmanship hunter (spig), 55 holy/ret pally (drippy), 37 arcane/fire mage (spigs). Its very sad how much this game has wasted my life away but i don't care because its too addicting. So send me a tell if you're on kilrogg and want to go do something or need help.

[yippiekiyeh]

OMG SPIG you're in Zanshin right? Whoa crazy! Small world indeed.

[spigidygak]

OMG SPIG you're in Zanshin right? Whoa crazy! Small world indeed.

haha i was... then had to leave with pitts and arcage, whats your name on there?

[yippiekiyeh]

Yeah, now it's <Faulty>, it's funny I never put 2 and 2 together! I've got a few characters. I guess I'll just message you in game.

[ialsohaveadream]

I started over again. I made a paladin on Dunemaul. I wasn't sure if I liked my rogue or not.

[ski]

My guild (http://www.astrumguild.com) is taking a shot at Onyxia in 15 minutes. Wish us luck! :eek:

[ski]

Great.

So I'm using my desktop until the 1GB of RAM comes tomorrow for my new laptop. We get in there, get her to 36%, everyone dies. Okay, let's try again.

*click* *click*

Hard drive is about to crap out. I'm frantically backing up my files ATM <sigh>. :(

[mcs328]

I'm the slowest player evah!!! It takes me 2 days to level and I'm at level 24 I think. I still haven't picked out a profession or skill. The cooking ones seem like a waste since I am a priest. Maybe I should look into engineering or something.

[gear02]

I'm the slowest player evah!!! It takes me 2 days to level and I'm at level 24 I think. I still haven't picked out a profession or skill. The cooking ones seem like a waste since I am a priest. Maybe I should look into engineering or something.

Well...everyone should at least try to have cooking, first aid, and fishing since they're secondary skills and you have no limit as to how many you can have. It's always helpful to have some food, plus it's fun to cook :)

As for primary for a priest, it's really up to you. Engineering is a money drain and will do very little for a priest. Maybe do herb/alch since priests need mana potions.

[ialsohaveadream]

As for primary for a priest, it's really up to you. Engineering is a money drain and will do very little for a priest. Maybe do herb/alch since priests need mana potions.
:stupid: Go with alchemy, because tailoring would be silly for you at this point, and you can always get better armor at the AH. With alchemy, even if you don't use the potions, you can sell them at the AH for a modest amount of cash.

[Booyamos]

Yeah tailoring is just so so.. the only real goodstuff you can craft is from mooncloth. and thats had a 4 day cooldown to create 1 piece of it, so if you are doing it on your own you'd have to wait a month or more to actually make 1 piece of mooncloth anything.

Alchemy is always good, as a priest you will find yourself using tons of mana potions so if you can make them yourself then that'll help out a lot. also transmutations are always in need. Can charge 5g for an arcanite transmute every 48 hours.


Great.

So I'm using my desktop until the 1GB of RAM comes tomorrow for my new laptop. We get in there, get her to 36%, everyone dies. Okay, let's try again.(

Onyxia is tough, stage 1 is pretty easy, basically the tank should be the only person getting hit if everything goes well. Stage 2 is not so bad, she's flying around and what not, just gotta stay spread out or the deep breath will kill everyone. She should land between 36-40%, and if everything is done right everyone should still be alive.

The HARDEST part is the transition from stage 2 to stage 3, and getting the tanks aggro and positioning. Also at 5% she starts to do way more damage and really hurts, thats when all heals are on the tank and you let the rest of the people die :P
Sucks wiping at 1% or 3%, which we have done a couple times. But we can pretty much kill her every week now.

If ya want more in depth strategies PM me and i can let ya know.

[rollhard]

I'm the slowest player evah!!! It takes me 2 days to level and I'm at level 24 I think. I still haven't picked out a profession or skill. The cooking ones seem like a waste since I am a priest. Maybe I should look into engineering or something.

2 days to get to level 24 is not slow at all. It took me about 2 weeks, playing about 1-2 hours a day to get to level 24. Guilds are nice, as they help you level up fast if you have a high level player help you with instances, etc.

[rollhard]

But really, don't think of this as a lvl grind. Just have fun with the quests and environments. If you are concerned about leveling you'll miss out on the fun.

I used to feel this way but now with the honor system and people gankin people left and right, I think everyone is concerned with leveling up. After lvl 20+ and having to do quests in contested territories, your chances are slim esp if you are soloing.

[ialsohaveadream]

I used to feel this way but now with the honor system and people gankin people left and right, I think everyone is concerned with leveling up. After lvl 20+ and having to do quests in contested territories, your chances are slim esp if you are soloing.
This is the first time I've played on a pvp server, and I hate it. A level 60 character just comes running through the low-level towns and slaughters everyone. It's pointless. PVEs are the way to go. My next character will be on one. ;)

[rollhard]

yes thats why playing with a guild on PVP is important. Although I hate getting ganked by the lvl 60 horde guys, i have to admit that PvP is so much fun. I think the honor system is cool but they should only reward kills that are made within 3-5 levels. With the way it works now, lvl 60 guys can go around killing newbies and not have any penalties.

[Booyamos]

This is the first time I've played on a pvp server, and I hate it. A level 60 character just comes running through the low-level towns and slaughters everyone. It's pointless. PVEs are the way to go. My next character will be on one. ;)

Thats how i feel, thats why i am on a PVE server. its not really PVE, just PvP when i want it, not when some idiot decides to gank me. With the new honor system there is PvP going on all the time at TM and at XR. And with the next patch there will be 2 battlegrounds going on, that should be fun.

PvP servers would suck for lvling up, all those gankers everywhere.

[Grafalgar]

Agreed - I'm quite happy to be on PvE .. there is plentiful PvP when I want it, but if I just want to be left alone to do quests and explore the world then I have that option :)

On that note, there is plentiful incentive to go PvP'ing a lot - the honor system w/ the rewards make it much more attractive. That, and being horde there's ALWAYS something major going on somewhere.

If anyone is playing on Cenarius lemme know :)

[Memo]

I was under the impression that on PvP an enemy cannot attack you unless you attack him first if you are in home territory. Am I wrong? I've ran past several high level enemies and they've never touched me.

[cig]

I was under the impression that on PvP an enemy cannot attack you unless you attack him first if you are in home territory. Am I wrong? I've ran past several high level enemies and they've never touched me.

You're right. That only protects you in a couple of areas though. The majority of areas are contested, so open season an anyone and everyone.

I'm not sure if it's because I'm running cosmos, but you'll know if you're safe by their tag color. If they're yellow that means you can attack them but they can't attack you first. If they're red, it's time to get ready to brawl. In case you didn't know. Buffing/healing PVP flagged friendlies will also automatically PVP flag you.

[Memo]

Cool, thanks for the low down. I got my first PvP kill today. I saw some random Level 11 Dwarven Hunter outside the Tauren village. My wolf pet tore him apart! haha. Then I realized he was probably just trying to tame a pet...oh well..

[spigidygak]

actually, cooking is pretty nice to have for any class including priests. You can make food with buffs of stam and spirit which is really nice to have. I would stick with it. And everyone should have first aid maxed out. As for your primary profs, do what you find is most interesting. I've tried all of the professions and in the end they all kinda are fun but mostly just sucky waste of time. I like tailoring though to make mooncloth which is a good money maker on the server i'm on goes for about 15-25g per cloth.

[rollhard]

I was under the impression that on PvP an enemy cannot attack you unless you attack him first if you are in home territory. Am I wrong? I've ran past several high level enemies and they've never touched me.

Yeah, but after you get to like level 18+ youll start having quests in contested territories. U can stay in the same area with all friendlies but you wont get any exp points after a certian level. I was thinking of switching to PvE but our guild is on PvP so we will grind it out.

[modena]

Hey guys, my girlfirend and I are on Perenolde server, did not know if anyone else was, if you are let me know....I have a lvl34 warrior that is a blacksmith, and a level 15 priest that is an alchemist which I am currently playing, hoping to have to lvl 21 by sunday. My account name is <modena> and my char names are <modena> and <intron>. Playing <intron> most often (the preist).

[ialsohaveadream]

Figures, I ditch Perenolde and an Apexer FINALLY plays there. Jerk. Anyway, go ahead and buddy list me (Mocked- level thirty-something druid). If I ever go back to playing that character, I'll quest with you.

[modena]

your username is <Mocked>? just double checking!

[mcs328]

did I screw up. I learned staff and dagger from Woo Ping and he says I can learn two handed mace in IF. So I go over there and it's not an option. Is there a limit on how many additional weapon classes you can learn? Can I unlearn?

[ialsohaveadream]

did I screw up. I learned staff and dagger from Woo Ping and he says I can learn two handed mace in IF. So I go over there and it's not an option. Is there a limit on how many additional weapon classes you can learn? Can I unlearn?
Nah, certain classes can't learn certain weapon skills. I'm guessing that's why you can't learn it.

And yes, my name is Mocked. It's also Mocked on Dunemaul, although on Dunemaul I'm a paladin. Perenolde Mocked is a druid. :)

[sho.gun]

is anyone on frostwolf?

[Memo]

Guys, I'm addicted. I haven't gone to bed before 6 am in the past week and 2 of those nights I didn't even sleep at all. This is the last week of class too! HAHAHAH!

[ialsohaveadream]

Which server did you end up on, Memo?

[angl2b]

2 days to get to level 24 is not slow at all. It took me about 2 weeks, playing about 1-2 hours a day to get to level 24. Guilds are nice, as they help you level up fast if you have a high level player help you with instances, etc.

he meant 2 days from lvl 23 then to 24 :2far:

[rollhard]

Are any of you guys on the Tichondrius server?

[cig]

is anyone on frostwolf?

I'm playing on frost w/ a bunch of coworkers. Lvl 46 undead warlock (Doomsong).

Looks like we need to revive the old WoW ID thread (http://www.gotapex.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83865).

[rollhard]

yeah Cig, if you ever go Tichondrius and alliance, should join us = ) In the meantime, have fun at the battle front.

[Memo]

Which server did you end up on, Memo?
Dethecus with some buddies.

[mcs328]

A priest can't learn two-handed mace? Hmm...I guess I'll buy that.

[cig]

yeah Cig, if you ever go Tichondrius and alliance, should join us = ) In the meantime, have fun at the battle front.

Nooo! Must resist! So tempting...

I'd like to but juggling three characters with three sets of folks has been hard. It's too bad Blizz couldn't make a single realm everyone played on (like one per continent). Makes me envious of the time I spent playing Eve online. Player base is so much bigger w/ WoW that it would have probably made a single realm impossible.

On a side note, I don't think Maarchk has posted in a while. If there aren't any updates in the next day or two I can start up a new WoW id thread and will maintain it as long as I can.

[Booyamos]

Blah faced Majordomo Executus last night (last boss we need to defeat before spawning Ragnaros). Man he is a pain in the butt. You can't kill him, you have to kill his 8 friends first... ugh it is quite the battle.
Going to try again tonight, then take a break to kill onyxia (about 30 min) then go back for more.

[slaus]

Blah faced Majordomo Executus last night (last boss we need to defeat before spawning Ragnaros). Man he is a pain in the butt. You can't kill him, you have to kill his 8 friends first... ugh it is quite the battle.
Going to try again tonight, then take a break to kill onyxia (about 30 min) then go back for more.

Do you guys run a form of DKP?

[Memo]

Hey, what are y'alls professions? One of my guys is mining/blacksmith and one is herbalism/alchemy. It seems like Blacksmithing is a waste of time though....

[ialsohaveadream]

Hey, what are y'alls professions? One of my guys is mining/blacksmith and one is herbalism/alchemy. It seems like Blacksmithing is a waste of time though....
I do smithing and mining. It is a waste until you get to very high levels with it. Then you can sell the weapons you make for big cash.

[ray]

Enchanting and Tailoring here.

[Memo]

I'm really thinking about switching. I'm a Rogue so I can't really use the Smithing stuff and it doesn't seem like I ever really will be able to use anything except the Heartseeker. That's a LONG ways away and going to be a bitch to find the materials. None of the non-blue weapons seem to sell at the AH either.

The way I see it, I can just not have manufacturing profession. Just go like Herbalism/Mining and sell everything at AH and use the money to buy good items.

[modena]

wool cloth always sells really well...

[ski]

I do smithing and mining. It is a waste until you get to very high levels with it. Then you can sell the weapons you make for big cash.
bwahahaha :heh:

If you have:
50 Thorium Bars (about 12g)
15 Arcanite Bars (about 500g)
4 Guardian Stones (who knows)
6 Enchanted Leather (who knows)
10 Essence of Earth (who knows)

YOU SHOULD BE SELLING THAT JANK FOR GOLD (mats for Hammer of the Titans). No sense in wasting hundreds of gold's worth of materials to make a weapon that has a high req. level and is only going to sell for a couple hundred gold.

I wasted 100g to push my blacksmithing up to 300, then I realized how pointless it is with the economy as of now.

[ialsohaveadream]

If you have:
50 Thorium Bars (about 12g)
15 Arcanite Bars (about 500g)
4 Guardian Stones (who knows)
6 Enchanted Leather (who knows)
10 Essence of Earth (who knows)

I've got the hookup when it comes to materials. ;)

[yippiekiyeh]

Eng/Miner here and it's fun to use the tools! But yeah, the materials sell better than combined items.

[xsiled2]

i quit! yay rid of this game completely.

some fun screenshots
http://xsiled.com/uh.jpg
http://xsiled.com/images/sb2.jpg
http://xsiled.com/images/sb1.jpg

all in all i play a rogue to 60, shaman to 47, 60 'lock, 32 priest, 32 warrior, 34 pally, and about 20 other sub 20 characters.

i dont miss it much at all the higher you get in the game the worse people get.

:bandit:

[Booyamos]

to answer someone's question, yes we use a system similar to DKP. Points for attendance, then you spend those points on items.

Larger Shot (http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10001/ragnaros.jpg)
Ragnaros - Final Boss in MC.
http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10001/normal_ragnaros.jpg


We faced him the other night, got him down to 63%... he's tough, but not too tough, we will kill him soon. and i am sure once we get it down it will be easy just like Onyxia is now. We kill her in under 30 minutes.

Battlegrounds look reallly fun though!! next patch! wooo, should be here in another week or 2.

[ray]

i quit! yay rid of this game completely.



:stupid: I cancelled my account yesterday! OH NOES!

LEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOYYYYY JEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNKINNNNNS :rolleyes:

[Thesifer]

a Lot of people cancel and come back.. some dont.. thats alright.. pretty addicting usually..

I play on Feathermoon mostly.. cause thats where aFriend of mine was on when I started.. got to level 42 Gnome Warlock.. and started over.. cause Warlocks suck.. imo.. So now Im a level 18 paladin .. :)

[Grafalgar]

I'm a 60 warlock on Cenarius. Warlocks are alright, they just need some lovin' in the endgame :) Definitely not a solo-pvp class, but devastating in a group.

[xsiled2]

I'm a 60 warlock on Cenarius. Warlocks are alright, they just need some lovin' in the endgame :) Definitely not a solo-pvp class, but devastating in a group.

only problem with warlocks is the lack of ANY escape methods.

damage is fine though :P

http://xsiled.com/2757.jpg

[ski]

Here are some screenshots from our raid tonight:

CLICK TO ENLARGE!

http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/s_MC1before.jpg (http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/l_MC1before.jpg)

http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/s_MC1lascent.jpg (http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/l_MC1lascent.jpg)

http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/s_MC1imps.jpg (http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/l_MC1imps.jpg)

http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/s_MC1luce.jpg (http://www.littleboyinc.com/uploader/uploads/l_MC1luce.jpg)

Whoever said Paladins can't heal, just peep the healing meter in the last shot :P

I'm a bit peeved... with all my work to get Shamanwear and other healing necessities (and it payed off) to help keep everyone alive in our run, not one, but TWO Lawbringer Bracers (http://www.thottbot.com/?i=26863) dropped... and guess who didn't get either? :angry: They're not that great, but it would have been a nice way of my guild to say "thank you" for the work I put in. Am I wrong not to anticipate getting one of the two?!

/me goes crazy over nothing

[xsiled2]

between pallys and dorf priest, MC is pretty trivial.

clense > purge
fearward > wotf

magmadar is sooooo much easier when the MT doesnt even have a chance of being feared.

though getting 40 people on the same page is a feat within itself :)



repairbot? someone was having problems with the 5 corehound pulls ;)

[ski]

I had to buy a new laptop to fit everyone on the screen -- 1920x1200 resolution ^^

We ended up not beating Lucifron -- we had 20 people alive or so when we got it down to just him, and most of our mages were dead, so they couldn't take off the spells-cost-100%-more curse. Got him down to 23% I think. Not bad for our first time and only 33 people IMO :)

[Booyamos]

ahh i remember the first Luci Battles. Well just getting over that bridge was annoying. Decursing/cleansing is really key

If you don't have it allready you should use CTRaidAssist

http://www.ctmod.net/downloads.ct

Basically lets you show the entire raids health and you can set a button to cleanse/decurse. Makes my job as a healbot/cleansebot easier.

If ya need any strategy suggestions for Luci or Mag lemme know.

We are starting again tonight, will probably kill Luci, Mag, Gehennas, Garr, Baron. Then friday do Shazzrah, Sulfuron, Golemag. Sunday do Domo and head to Rag. Got him down to 30% last week.


loot wise i got Lawbringer Bracers and Helm of the lifegiver one run, first upgrades in a while. Then next boss a big ol 2h mace i wanted dropped but i had just spent many of my points on those 2 items so i missed out.

[angl2b]

I am herbalist/alchemy

[ski]

ahh i remember the first Luci Battles. Well just getting over that bridge was annoying. Decursing/cleansing is really key

If you don't have it allready you should use CTRaidAssist

http://www.ctmod.net/downloads.ct

Basically lets you show the entire raids health and you can set a button to cleanse/decurse. Makes my job as a healbot/cleansebot easier.

If ya need any strategy suggestions for Luci or Mag lemme know.

We are starting again tonight, will probably kill Luci, Mag, Gehennas, Garr, Baron. Then friday do Shazzrah, Sulfuron, Golemag. Sunday do Domo and head to Rag. Got him down to 30% last week.


loot wise i got Lawbringer Bracers and Helm of the lifegiver one run, first upgrades in a while. Then next boss a big ol 2h mace i wanted dropped but i had just spent many of my points on those 2 items so i missed out.
We don't have a points system... just who the "council" thinks deserves it, which is kind of crappy in some ways. I think a lot of it is turning out for the guild raids (which I made about half) and helping other people's alts level up. Well I'm usually busy running DM/Baron to get my healing gear to prepare for MC, so we can actually survive enough to get these epics, and I get squat. That's my take on it. The bracers aren't that big of an improvement, so I'm trying not to get bent out of shape :)

How many mages would you recommend having for Lucifron? We had 4 total, wasn't enough to get curses off...

[xsiled2]

we have dkp but i already got the belt, the only part i wanted, before dkp im just saving so i can gank the staff of dominance when it drops.

i already have +235 shadow that will give me about the same but more int/stm and i can get spellpower for it.

i totally cut my playing down, i just do the MC runs and then its off to bed or whatever.

[Booyamos]

yeah getting a loot system that everyone agrees upon is tough. That probably one of the major issues that comes up. But ours is a simplified DKP type system, we are adding more onto it each week.

Basically get attendance points for showing up to raids, then items cost points. Different for each type of set item etc. Then we have a tier based system for who can get the item. So every 10 points is a tier, so anyone 10 points or less below the highest person who wants it can roll for it. Usually 2-3 people or if you save up you are guaranteed the item since you are like 20 points ahead.

http://www.nasher.us/wow/Breakdown.htm

Is a rough breakdown of our loot so far, working on making the formatting better and adding graphs etc.

[xsiled2]

this is how ours works:

20 points for being at the raid
5 points for being early/on time
10 points for defeating a boss

boe class items have a 6 point minimum bid
bop class items have a 20 point minimum bid

all other drops are bid up from 6

[ski]

How do you handle people with a negative amount of points? I understand that is the major problem of the system.

I informally proposed it, and I heard many guilds have problems with folks getting into negative points. I'd say just don't let them bid on anything till they are in the positive, but have you guys had any other problems with it?

I'm asking because I would much rather defer my Paladin epic set for a really good weapon, or healing gear. There's no sense in having strength and agility bonuses in MC for Paladins, although every single Pally in my guild salivate over the set. Under our current system, the next epic Paladin piece goes to me, but if I defer it to someone else, that doesn't gain me an extra shot at an epic weapon, so.... blah, just curious about how to propose this points system and calm their worries about any problems :thumb:

[xsiled2]

negative points? you use what you have, then your out and you build up again.

[Booyamos]

Killed Ragnaros last night. Finally. Took about 5 tries last night but we got much much better at him and finally took him down. Dropped some bad ass loot too, check it out. (guild members pictures)


Larger Version (http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10004/Ragnaros%20Loot%206-6.jpg)
http://www.nasher.us/photo/albums/userpics/10004/normal_Ragnaros%20Loot%206-6.jpg

[yippiekiyeh]

Very nice! Congratz... now that I've got a break between quarters, I can devote some time to playing! I want some nifty loot too!

[Kevster]

http://ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date=2005-06-10

:heh:

[Hiro]

Cross posting this, just because!

Name : Tahm
Server : Tichondrius
Race : Human
Class : Warlock
Guild : Aftermath

[ski]

I finally bugged everyone enough to do MC. I've thought about leaving the guild several times in frustration of lack of support for end game content.

ANNNNYWAY, I got a crappy video of us beating Lucifron:
http://files.filefront.com/Astrum_Defeats_Lucifron/;3920976;5;/fileinfo.html

First in healing again as a Paladin ;)

[modena]

congrats!

[ialsohaveadream]

Modena, did you get the stuff I sent you on Perenolde?

[modena]

I will check tonite, I did not get a chance to log on this weekend!

[mcs328]

What's everyone general feeling on rolling on items in a group. I used to roll on everything. Now if I can wear it, I'll roll on it otherwise I pass unless everyone in the group is a priest and a mage. I've partied with other guilds and some just try to scare you into not rolling and if you do it's mortal sin and threaten to ban you. Other's just roll for heck of it and some roll with the intent of selling it whether they need it or not. The normal thing to do is just roll on everything I think because that's the system in place by default. The honorable thing to do is roll if you can use it and pass if you can't. And the jerk thing to do is nijaloot it and bitch and whine about if you lose.

[Hiro]

I will only roll if I need it.

[modena]

On BOP items, i only roll on what I can use. I have had a few run ins with this, a recent example as being...a paladin in the group rolled and won a 2 hand mace that was better than his 2 hand axe, i was the only other one rolling, next came a sword, which i desperatly needed, and everyone else said i could have, so i roll and then the pally rolls as well, and beats me, mind you it is BOP, so i was like "what the heck", and he said he rolled because he didnt see the other messages (yea right, we talked about it for a few min) and that he could "use it" and those were the rules. Anyway, I thought that was a greedy move on his part, since the mace he won earlier was better than the sword....

On none BOP items, I usually roll on everything, unless someone asks for it, and if i win something and someone wants it, i give it to them. If i am playing with guildmates or friends, I wont roll on things that I cant use and they can use, only rolling on things no one needs or i can use.

[ray]

Need before greed on BoP. Free roll on green BoE's, but always give it up if someone can actually use it. Don't even get me started on purple stuff. There's a whole new mentality with that.

[modena]

Thanks for the gold ialsohaveadream !!!!

[ialsohaveadream]

No problem. I might be quitting the game at the end of the month. If I do, I'll send you the rest of my gold (I think I have about 40 more). Just let me know which character you'd prefer it to go to.

[modena]

Ok cool thanks, I primarily play my "modena" char. "Intron" is just an alt for when I want to take a break from playing my main char. Thanks again for the gold.

[mcs328]

Well we did another gnomeranean run and this is what we do. BoE everyone rolls if they want it. On BoP, everyone passes and then we discuss who needs it more or if they both say they do then they roll. If you're honest than it's not a problem...sometimes people make mistakes.

[angl2b]

I think I want to go to gnomeran again tonight tho - I want that hydracane! :cry:

yes, the rules that I was told no matter what run/raid - rules are set by the leader

for regular runs - BoE is free for all to roll - BoP - everyone passes then discuss who needs it - who gets the upgrade - then some ppl who really wants it can roll for it between those two or three whatever.

[ski]

We finally downed Onyxia tonight!

I thought at 5% she was supposed to go in a frenzy, but she never did... I was prepared for the worst. Maybe she didn't do it or doesn't at all, but I don't see how people can wipe at 1%.

[mcs328]

Aw dang. Recently turned 40 and saving up for a mount which I heard cost 100g at least. So I was transferring stuff from the bank to my bag to sell at AH and I notice I'm 25g short than what I thought I had. Oh damn I just purchased another slot for 25g. Sigh...now I need 55g instead of 30g.

I'm a skinner and tailor and a priest...where should I grind for gold???

[modena]

you only need 92 total gold for the mount

[SnowSurfer]

i just started playing.... Snowshaman on Ysera :)

[modena]

I have almost finished leveling an alt char to 60, (currently 58 Priest, 4 blocks from 59). I still am playing my 60 warrior. Have been thinking about starting something else as well, just not sure what, and maybe a hordie. I am on Perenolde server.

[Pemolis]

Started a Druid on Alexsraza (however you spell it). level 20 now and love kitty form. Though I will make either a warrior or rogue (most likely warrior) that specializes in Fist Weapons of all Things.

[Kudos]

have to edit this for new levels =P

I've got a lvl 70 Night Elf Hunter on Draenor (name is Straek).
My G/F plays a lvl 70 Human Mage, I also group with a lvl 62 human paladin and lvl 64 night elf hunter. Both RL friends of mine so we always roll around together.

I'm a leatherworker, and in the group we have an engineer, a tailor, and an alchemist.

I also have a lvl 62 night elf priest, who is an enchanter

Fairly well rounded group actually

[ski]

Did a year's worth of posts get deleted? :-O Jumps from July 2005 to now.

[Pemolis]

Well somewhat better to use the original post than start a new one.

level 28 now, 2 more for Kitty Travel Form (and can drop my other kitty stuff).

[sbp]

Did a year's worth of posts get deleted? :-O Jumps from July 2005 to now.No. http://www.gotapex.com/games/83865-official-wow-id-thread-2.html#post986249

[sho.gun]

Update!

I've been playing again and this time on Icecrown. Anyone else play there?

Sandals - 60 Undead mage (Icecrown)
Developer - 60 Troll Rogue (Icecrown)

My guild spent around a month and a half in MC and managed to down Rags! Started doing BWL and we're hoping to kill razorgore on wednesday :)

Hopefully someone here plays in icecrown. Anyone in battlegroup 10?

[ShawnLee]

Woot, I just got a free copy of WoW from a friend.

He wants me to play it to keep in touch with him as I'm going to be out of the country for a while.
We'll see how "into it" I get.

[Wizard]

I recently quit my WoW addiction.

Cleared all of AQ40, BWL, and MC. Have killed all world bosses on Rogue/Mage. Naxx have cleared Spider and Abomination Wings, Death Knight wing to Gothik, and Plague Wing to Heigan.

Rogue was first toon, Mage was second.

Private Message me if you'd like to buy some really nicely geared toons. :)

[Jihforce]

I'm on Spinebreaker, Proudmoore and Akama. Haven't had the chance to play as much since I've been sort of busy. Probably fire up again in a week or so depending on workload.

[eSDee]

The newest Southpark talked about you guys ;) Anyone see it?

[Wizard]

That was a lame southpark. Not very funny. I didn't even chuckle. They could have made so much more fun of people addicted to WoW

[mcs328]

I thought it was hilarious!!

[Memo]

Ya dude, that episode was hilarious. They were totally expressionless and fat sitting in their chairs twitching their wrists, hahahhaha. Plus Cartman's guild leader persona and tone of voice were so dead on. It was great.

[modena]

Yes I especially enjoyed how Cartman portrayed the guild leader. Just the monotone and spitting out game terms like it was nothing, too funny!

[Maarchk]

I died laughing when he called out
"Mom, bathroom... Bathroom!"
"Oh honey, your a big boy."

wow... just wow...

What are the requirements to play WOW? I'm thinking of finding a person who doesn't play anymore and picking up their disk.

[Wizard]

The only line that made me laugh was when Butters says "I hate this game I'm going to go play Hello Kitty Island Adventure." Currently there is no Hello Kitty Island Adventure, but if it existed I'd so go buy it.

[mcs328]

Actually Hello Kitty or rather Sanrio does or is planning an online RPG. I saw it a few years ago but it was in beta.

[ski]

My favorite was, "Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you."

[yippiekiyeh]

It was some funny stuff... I quit the addiction long ago... but the Burning Crusade is dragging me back...

[ski]

Don't give in! I quit 2 weeks ago, and tomorrow I'm going to go to Gamestop and get my money back from TBC preorder.

The way I saw it was getting TBC will lock you into another 1000+ hours of sitting in front of your computer. I guess the same was true for any other MMO, but it's hard to stop when WoW reaches out to people that normally wouldn't get into EQ or DAoC.

[mcs328]

I told my wife it came out yesterday and she hauled me off to Best Buy to get a copy. The box says it needs 10gig of HD space?? What's the total install size of WoW after all the updates and patches are done? I can't believe that TBC is 10gigs by itself. She installed it on her laptop and runs pretty well but we had to make room. Ugh...one day I need to format the Dell and recover the 10gigs Dell decided to hide.

My computer is a piece o' crap on the other hand. I was running WoW on the lowest settings already. Athlon XP 2500+, 512MB and a 5 year old 128 AGP 4x nVidia card. It's rated up to Direct x8 I think. What to do what to do.

[bugaboo]

your computer config should work fine. anyone on dunemaul?

[ShawnLee]

10gig for TBC? Heck no. I barely have enough space for WoW on my tiny disked laptop. I need to get a new hard drive. And video card. And another chip o' RAM. And a new optical drive.

Or, basically, it's been under two years, and I already want a new comp.

[mcs328]

I've googled for the total space WoW and TBC take up and someone on the forums said after all the patches it takes under 6gigs.

[angl2b]

so.....
I can't play at Dark Portal on my own - my cheese cloth is not helping me - my hubby can't play on his priest to save me - this bites.:dead:
Blood Elves are great though :D

[ray]

so.....
I can't play at Dark Portal on my own - my cheese cloth is not helping me - my hubby can't play on his priest to save me - this bites.:dead:
Blood Elves are great though :D

Cloth is easy mode.

[Nija]

I just started playing yesterday.

Shemosh, Level 10 Undead Warlock on Uther.

I'm still in the area of The Underground City. =]

[ray]

I just started playing yesterday.

Shemosh, Level 10 Undead Warlock on Uther.

I'm still in the area of The Underground City. =]

Reroll Blood Elf Warlock!

[spigidygak]

For what its worth... I got sucked in again. On Frostwolf, Horde, Spig & Tofujuice are the main toons I play.

[ray]

I'm still rolling on my original toons on Lightning's Blade Alliance...but I'm pretty sure nobody here has characters on my server :(

[modena]

Im still playing on Perenolde and Skullcrusher. On Perenolde my main is Intron.

[Nija]

I hit 70 (finally) last week. My next highest character is an 18 BE mage.

[aggieSlaughter]

Woot, 2.3.2 finally un-evade bugged Felspine in SMV, been trying to kill that guy for a month now, haha!

-Carnitas and Watchoowant on Bloodscalp

[SKinAZ]

The biggest online game in the world breaks another record. Link (http://us.i1.yimg.com/videogames.yahoo.com/feature/world-of-warcraft-crosses-10-million-milestone/1182041)


Which game boasts a population greater than Sweden, Israel or Haiti? Online role-playing phenomenon World of Warcraft is the answer: Blizzard Entertainment announced this week that subscriber counts for its smash hit fantasy RPG recently broke the 10 million mark. Warcraft players number more than 2.5m in North America, while Asian subscribers account for the majority of the remainder.

The new figures -- which Blizzard attributes to new and returning players signing up over the holiday season -- cements the game's position as the runaway leader of the lucrative massively multiplayer genre. World of Warcraft is expected to receive its second expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King, later this year.

Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime commented in a press release: "It's very gratifying to see gamers around the world continuing to show such enthusiasm and support for World of Warcraft. We're always pleased to welcome new players to the game, and we're looking forward to sharing the next major content update with the entire community in the months ahead."

[Nija]

So I suck. I totally forgot to input my key from Blizzcon last year which would have gotten me in the first round of Wrath of the Lich King beta invites. :cry:

I finally put it in and got my confirmation while I was on vacation. I'm downloading patches right now. I can wait to get some testing done.


Anyone else in the beta?

:D

[ski]

Don't give in! I quit 2 weeks ago, and tomorrow I'm going to go to Gamestop and get my money back from TBC preorder.

The way I saw it was getting TBC will lock you into another 1000+ hours of sitting in front of your computer. I guess the same was true for any other MMO, but it's hard to stop when WoW reaches out to people that normally wouldn't get into EQ or DAoC.
To quote myself...

I eventually did give in. In April 2007, I fell to TBC's cravings, with the promise that the purpose was to play with my RL college buddies in order to keep in touch (they moved to Colorado, Minnesota, South Carolina). I fell back into my old habits and started raiding, and eventually quit in early January 2008.

I met my girlfriend a couple weeks later, and for the past 7+ months I've been clean!

To be honest though, I still crave it. Although I've found someone who I can see myself settling down with, I haven't talked to my college buddies in 7 months because I dropped the game. So I long to play it casually on the "off nights" I have with the gf. She knows all about how addicting it can be, so she tries to keep me strong against playing it. I guess that's the path I need to take.

Damn, it IS a drug for some people!

[Jihforce]

ROFL. Tell me about it. I stopped in Oct 2007, I still get the occasional itch, but I realized that playing casually is impossible due to the nature of the game. All the goodies are in instances and those take way too long to play.

[Thesifer]

Strangely, I tend to play casually, and that's what gets me to quit. I'm never "Good" so I never go on Raids, etc. :) I still enjoy checking the games out though. Played WoW for a while.. "somewhat less casual" for a while.

I'm probably done with it forever at this point, but never know. I kind of want to try Age of Conan and Warhammer Online.. Who knows. I'll probably wait til you can get the game cheaper.

[DaFunkyUnit]

i'm going to avoid this game like I avoid crack.

nearly 4 years later, i finally picked up the pipe.... :(


I'm on Draka server, Human mage. Level 46. Been playing since Thanksgiving break.

<sigh>
<lights up the pipe>

[Thesifer]

Im playing a Death Knight on Steamweedle Cartel