This is the first World of Warcraft thread for ILG

dang u srs raider now

ok srsly cannot wait until 12:00 AM Thu morning

is it going to be available for paid download like BC was?

^^^ ultimate loner question.

I think so.

PS GUESS WHO IS INSTALLING WOTLK RIGHT NOW

a bunch of people I work with?

uh-oh

frozen on the "Connected" screen

I'm tempted to come back, but not enough to actually reactivate my account. :(

yay ugh late

Gametrailers have been having a "History of Warcraft" series, which are generally pretty interesting, but what I learned from the WoW one (plus some Wiki-ing):

WoW started from two players chatting shit on EverQuest.
One was Rob Pardo, who happened to be Vice President of Game Design at Blizzard.
The other was 'Tigole', aka Jeff Kaplan, just some dude who played a lot of EverQuest, who was then hired as Lead Designer for World of Warcraft.
Tigole's full name is Tigole Bitties <- THIS IS BASICALLY THE POINT OF THIS POST, HOW TO SPOT THE GUY TO GIVE THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM TO
Rob Pardo staged a riot on Everquest because Paladins and Shadow Knights were out-tanking Warriors.
Some people think that this is why Paladins suck, and why Death Knights will suck.
It's unclear whether this is true, but repeatedly asking this question during Q&A at Blizzcon will get you thrown out. I know, I was shocked too.
Rob Pardo has a bachelor of arts degree in criminology, law, and society!

lol "Tigole Bitties"

get the feeling they have been pulling out resources from wow lately for whatever their next mmo is.

Guy in my office is in continual state of freaking out because Amazon did not deliver this to his house before he came to work and he's afraid his guild will move on without him.

okay I'd like to say the instances are SO MUCH EASIER in this

I just ran around in a group of 70s that cleared out a lvl 75 instance (Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom)

Were they all super-epicc'd out? I heard that high enough epics can get you through to like... level 75 before you need to work on getting better equipment.

wrath of the lion king imo

They were needing blues from the instances, so I don't think they were super geared.

Yeah, but you heard tales from the TBC of people discarding their lvl 60 purples in favour of the greens from Outland. Is that no longer happening?

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?forumId=10023&sid=1&topicId=12454665647

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Yeah, but you heard tales from the TBC of people discarding their lvl 60 purples in favour of the greens from Outland. Is that no longer happening?

It's not happening for me. I've been collecting lvl 73 blues that I'm still not sure I would use over my current epic gear, some of which still is from Kara.

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/13/nyhm-of-drekthar-eu-first-to-level-80/

holy shit

http://www.twentyfifthnovember.com/

some people are insane

congrats, enjoy grinding bullshit for a year before the next xpac/mmo.

http://www.destructoid.com/obama-appoints-tauren-shaman-to-fcc-transition-team-112345.phtml

Oh my!

When I played I used to have a ton of addons, and my screen didn't look like that. There are addons that make your WoW look nice and neat and shuffles everything to the sides. (Also, no threat meter? Clearly a non-raider!)

That's an incredibly bogus article.

Now now no need to get defensive.

terrible ui is terrible

UI with every interface popped open is cluttered, OMG ALERT TEH MEDIAS

I am still WoW-ed (lol pun!) at the number of add ons required tbh!

none of those are required, maybe vent since no one uses the in game voice.

Obviously voice communication has its downsides, though it's fairly easy to tell the complete idiots using their keyboard skills. I've been removing more and more add-ons after my return to WoW - the Titan Panel plugin that tells you what the least valuable thing in your bag is (and lets you click to drop/sell it) is the one that gets most of the use, I think. Well, that and Atlas.

Oh yeah: Atlas is an addon which maps out dungeons for you (because the regular map goes away have you have to make do with the mini map in the top right), and say which bosses are where, and Atlasloot is an addon which says what they drop, which has proved useful in persuading people to try optional bosses: "This guy over here has this loot on him, wouldn't you like that? (and also will be interesting to fight, which is what you're supposed to be here for, right?)"

Also I have been away for a while, and the Achievements section is having a disastrous effect on me. "Can't level up my unarmed skill to 400? I think you'll find I can!". But it is a lot of fun to EG go visit lvl 20 alliance instance The Deadmines as a lvl 50 horde, particularly when you get bored of killing everything and just stealth to the last boss. "That's some fine guarding you guys are doing there, keep it up!"

How's everyone's raiding going? My guild is going to be killing Malygos this week on 25-man ^_^

Still soloing, but I haven't even bought the first expansion yet.

How do the heroic level dungeons go? Is the easiest Lich King dungeon on heroic tougher than the toughest on regular?

http://i44.tinypic.com/2myqhix.jpg

hahahaha shdn't laugh but

hahahaha

ah is a fake :'(

it is? ;_;

they dont call it an expansion pack for nothing
wakka wakka wakka

so... it was a week late but we still killed Malygos ^_^

unfortunately nothing I needed dropped ;_;

You mean like your balls??? Ho ho ho etc etc (sorry didn't see this before now)

Was gonna say, it took you 48 hours to come up with that

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Deathwing&n=grinz

lookit the purty epics

all I need are some bracers and I get the Epic achievement!

(Epic)

no inner focus = fail

(The Twilight Zone)

^_^ ^_^ ^_^ not bad for a casual raiding guild

Nice work! That does kind of stand out as the most skill-based (as opposed to "Pick up 1000 Emblems of Valor because you have nothing else going on in your life at all") achievement.

I was coming to see if anyone had any views on the upcoming changes, where they let people Dual-Spec (for a sizeable price) and swap armor easily. It sounds like it'll be good to be a druid, and also good news for anyone who's ever found them selves in a party with a priest that can't heal or a warrior that can't tank.