This is the first World of Warcraft thread for ILG

How and/or where did you get this WoW trial Trayce? I want one.

A friend who has the game gave me a slip with a 10 day trial serial on it. I think it comes with each bought copy? DIsconcerting that you still have to sign up with a credit card and name and address and all that :/ But apparently it wont charge me unless I now go out and buy a proper gane and sign up fully. Which, to be honest, I'm wavering on doing at this stage. Sims 2 nightlife just came out, I shall be distracted ;)

My priest is now lvl 22. If you combined all of the levels of the various characters I've started on assorted servers into one character, I would be at lvl 159. (Conversely, adding up the xp would probably put me at lvl 55, ha.)

when i'm able to get a proper account i'm going to be hitting everyone up for newb WoW tips...

Sorry I'm not playing it at this stage... im having some IRRITATING problems with a half-broken cd rom drive and a copy of sims2 nightlife that thinks its sims2 university and is being an arse :(

Actually being on when your time runs out is strange, they give you warnings starting from 30 minutes out up to 1 minute 45, 1 minute 30, 1 minute 15, 1 minute... And then nothing happens. You can play for as long as you want, provided you don't log out :) I spent the time bagging Broken Tooth as a pet (attack speed 1.0!).

My PvP warrior just hit 45! WOOT.

the board game

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/21/wow_virtual_plague/

To cheer myself up, I am drooling over this:

http://www.thottbot.com/?i=40103

I haven't looked at Warsong Gulch at all; just from the description I get the sense that it would totally suck to be a warrior there.

PS: I logged in yesterday and I am now a SEARGENT! FUK YEAH

8 days of infrequent playing to level. I can do better than that.

Is no one interested in the expansion pack? This feels like Dan's World of Warcraft blog, heh.

Secondly, both of my coworkers who play are torked off by the new level cap. Personally, I'm glad that I spent all of my time fucking around with lvl-20something toons and didn't bother grinding to 60 and then blowing weeks on getting epic gear.

Also that is the greatest picture known to man.

Some people were suggesting that the new Alliance race will be Centaurs/Dryads, and some people were suggest this was a dumb idea, because what would they do for mounts? I think this is a brilliant idea, if instead of mounts they get rollerskates.

Alliance get their heads handed to them in any Arathi Basin game that I've seen, unless 4 or 5 of the horde just don't turn up. I suspect this is because population imbalance means that any horde who wants to play BG all day can do that. Or maybe all these 12-year-olds aren't the untapped strategic resource that they appear.

Some people were suggesting that the new Alliance race will be Centaurs/Dryads, and some people were suggest this was a dumb idea, because what would they do for mounts? I think this is a brilliant idea, if instead of mounts they get rollerskates.

That is totally, absolutely brilliant.

Any tips on where I should try to farm some decent gear (particularly plate armor and two-handed swords)?

http://www.1up.com/media?id=2446386&type=lg

Why is it easier to level now than it was back in the 30s?

unless you're talking about Aspect of the Fox

ah.

i just started a new horde hunter (just to see the horde side of things tbh) and was amazed that he could run and shoot at the same time

They've really improved the hunter class in Cata imo. If I was going to get back into raiding, I would probably would have done so with my hunter.

I'm thinking I will leave WoW forever as soon as The Old Republic comes out

I've stopped raiding since cata came out. I played most of Wrath as a resto drood, but have found healing really, really difficult since the changes. Spending time much about with alts and doing battlegrounds instead, but not putting anything like the hours in that I used to.

*mucking about

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2325684862

lol

I thought I was quitting this game; then my wife went out of town and suddenly I have 3 85s (priest, druid, dk) and an 83 (shaman)

wtf

nothing in that link makes any sense to me.

ha

i assure you it's a real knee-slapper

also: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/dungeon-helper/

http://i.imgur.com/OzC5v.jpg

hahahahaha

after playing more Cata i've turned around on it a little bit; in my post up there I was playing on an Ally server briefly but now I'm back where I belong (horde) and I think the new old world Horde content is a lot better. the new silverpine questline is amazing and so is the goblin starting area (my problem with the goblin & worgen areas is that there appears to be no room for variation if you play them more than once). i like the new quest distribution, where you just get a few at a time, but it's jarring when you hit BC again and each zone has 30 quests for you to pick up at once - BC is completely untouched

new skill/talent system sucks and makes it easier for me to understand why people are leaving en masse for Rift... i'm tempted to try it out myself since all my old guildies are consumed by it and as a result nobody can get raids together anymore.

I got about halfway through the goblin quest line and it's pretty excellent; certainly less angsty than the worgen quest line (although I love my wolfman druid)

It has been over 3 weeks since the last time I logged into WoW and I only barely miss it

yup

having never fully "invested" in it (no guild = it's not a social experience for me), i gave it up p easily

What killed it for you, DJP? Isn't there some kind of patch coming out?

gbx ur welcome to join my guild :3

(i havent played in a couple weeks either)

i need to try Rift

What killed it for you, DJP? Isn't there some kind of patch coming out?

The ppl in my guild who organize raids stopped logging in and I suck at PVP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_technews/20110526/tc_yblog_technews/chinese-prisoners-forced-to-play-world-of-warcraft-make-money-for-guards

ok lol @ kung-fu panda expansion

???

haven't played in awhile

on the one hand: yes absolutely lol
on the other hand: ...why am I considering renewing my subscription so I can play WoW: Kung Fu Panda

the monk class sounds pretty dope, though; interested in seeing how that plays out, esp as a healing class

realized with horror the other day that i forgot to cancel my subscription and have been paying for it despite not playing for 6mos

I was paying 6 mos at a time so mine actually just ran out... 2 days ago?

and also tbh just read about the new talent system and i think it sounds way better---as someone who only played casually and had neither the time nor the inclination to research the "right" way to build a given character, it's nice that they've streamlined that process

(basically, since a lot of players with a given class/specialization were learning identical talent trees, because that was the "best way" to play that class/spec, they shifted most of those talents over to abilities that you automatically learn as you progress through the game as that class/spec. what's left over are talents that are more about personal playing style. seeing as how i got chewed out for not playing my own character "correctly" in a couple dungeons, it'd be nice to have some of that taken out of my hands. but maybe the nerds will be pissed about this training wheels approach, w/e)

why am i talking about this like i'm actually going to start playing again, sweet god

A friend of mine used to fill his rogue's bags with bandages and play him in dungeons as if he was a healer. Obviously this was before vote-kicking.

haha. i always wished rogue's had a spec to become dps/healers (it wouldn't be hard to do either! just give ability to increase range of bandages and decrease the cooldown and you're there!)

I hope monk healing involves punching people to life

haha I forget I had signed up for the beta for the new expansion

guess I know what I will be doing in April

Much much much much crying in the forums by people who bought the yearly pass to get guaranteed MoP beta access and didn't get in first in the first wave of beta invites first first first and also people who didn't even buy the pass are also getting beta invites why does god hate them?

Blizzard seem to be really enjoying the opportunity to push out end-game content - after they turned the entire lvl 1-60 world over last time and people went "meh", they're pretty loud about being able to put everything where most people will see it.

<a href="http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/4637611";>A Night in Mists of Pandaria</a>

Bah

man I really need to get my act together and replace my computer so I have something to install this upon

has anyone played lately? Was Pandaria fun? I'm suddenly tempted to stick my head in again, just run around, see the old places, level a bit, try a monk. (I don't even have time for that tbh)

I'm tempted by the new expansion but I haven't played in 2 years

i don't think i went back in after i last posted. Three-and-a-bit years clean.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fix-warlords-draenor-server-lag/jQDhZSB5

Is "Fire and Fury" a World of Warcraft mission that a dedicated player would know by name? Is it noteworthy in some respect?

sup 8.0.1

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— BlizzardCS (@BlizzardCS) July 17, 2018

Anyone play? This is my third time in a decade of trialing a month, giving wow classic a go. I have always enjoyed the month, but then the tug of life gets a hold of me and I realise I don't have it in me to commit the time this game demands. Maybe playing for a month every three or so years is what I am made for?

Come play w/ me, I'm on the US servers I think?

I did a month about a year ago and it was a blast - just tore through 10 years of expansions & got basically up to date (I bought Shadowlands iirc). I don't have the time now & I think there wouldn't be the same rush of novelty tearing through zone after zone & fiddling with garrisons, order halls etc (oh and op blasting thru instances solo). But I'd certainly do another month if I did have more free time - it was so relaxing or comforting finding the rhythm of it again.

I started playing WoW Classic with coworkers and then everyone quit again after like 3 weeks

I like that they keep updating stuff when they could probably just coast for another decade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYqFJ_NhguM