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I'm wanting to play this now, waiting for blizzard to send out stock to US stores...

May well play on both servers....
 
as the official download system is a torrent type of thing make sure you limit your upload. I didn't limit mine for a while and I couldn't understand why it was downloading so slow. I used a program called netlimiter to limit my upload capacity.
 
....or use a decent bit torrent client like ABC which has it built in.

I hear my box is on its way....

This is an interesting site for WoW users...

www.thottbot.com

Contains a massive stats database of everything on the game, harvested via some new client.
 
Well, its diablo 3 without the single player. Very odd. Very dull atm. Will persevere, but unless it improves from me just waiting for fights to end so I can pick up stuff and move on, I'll give it a miss and give it away.

Play boils down to

1.find thing to do
2.Kill loads of things which drop items
3.Go back to person who gave you something to do.
4.Get xp and level up

There is a 10 day trial code in the box, if anyone wants it PM me.
 
I've thought about picking up WOW but cant wrench myself away from Eve - Online. I've been playing that 5 months so it would be a shame to waste all that hard work and accumalated skills
 
Sunray said:
Well, its diablo 3 without the single player. Very odd. Very dull atm. Will persevere, but unless it improves from me just waiting for fights to end so I can pick up stuff and move on, I'll give it a miss and give it away.

Play boils down to

1.find thing to do
2.Kill loads of things which drop items
3.Go back to person who gave you something to do.
4.Get xp and level up

There is a 10 day trial code in the box, if anyone wants it PM me.
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know what you mean, eqII follows the same principles and could be very dull except for the dynamics of grouping which is the bit that i find most interesting. plus i spend a lot of time chatting to other players. it's like a big chat room with a game attached, for me. i mix the fighting with the different types of quests (they don't all involve combat) and crafting/trading, that seems to stop me getting bored. i thought i would have given up by now but have made too many friends there. :)
 
Its getting better simply because I keep dying, so many times it making me come back. PC isn't up to the job, funtunately the components are available for a new one. Should arrive next week.
 
Got a Hoarde Undead Warlock too on EU open beta. As everything will be wiped before release now's a great time to experiment !!
 
Seems to have all gone quiet on the WoW front. So, people have had a few weeks to play it now - what says you? Good? Not so good? Utter shite?

I'm tempted, but don't want to waste my hard earned cash on something that will hold my attention for about a week.

Cheers!
 
I am loving it!!!!

Lvl 24 Tauren Hunter at the moment,

I hae reached the stage where there is so much to see and do.

I love the art style and discovering new locations and beasts etc is fun in itself.

Yes sometimes the quests can get repeitive in nature, but team up with the right people and even the dullest "collection" quest can be fun.

It is my first MMORPG, so all of this is a novelty to me, so on that front I am not sure how much it would appeal to veterans of the genre.

Suffice it to say I don't begrudge a sinlge penny of the subscription and the amount of entertainment I have got out of it so far vs cost per hour is a steal!


Love it

:D
 
Well, I tried to buy it from various shops on Oxford Street and they told me:

a) Sold out. Back in a week on Saturday (Virgin)
b) Sold out. Available again in April (Game)
c) We've not had it in yet (dozy numpty in HMV).

Left me most annoyed.

....until I found it in Comp and Vid Exchange, where they had 3 new copies behind the counter.

If I'm not a level 72 nobknocker by Monday morning, I'll eat my hat.

:D
 
Sunray said:
Yeah, all my friends are currently playing on there, including a level 60 character. All very useful as it'll make the grind a little less boring.

The Euro version is meant to be released on the 11th Feb I hear, but according to my friend that is fixed to the euro servers.

Hearing a hell of lot of positive feedback from current players that have come from other MMORPG's, they are saying they are giving up the current ones to play WoW as its infinitely better.
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Yeh Ive just cancelled my Eve - online sup. after 6 months to play WOW. Also because Eve turned out to be very unbalanced in favour of 1 race which defeated the object of the game. Just started playing WOW last night. Just got to LvL 5 and it looks pretty god so far. I sat laughing for 10 minutes when I made my character dance .LOL The game does look rather good and lots to do.

However It doesnt seem to penalise you for dieing. When you die it reserects you as a ghost and you can go back to your stiff corpse and and get all your stuff back. In Eve it costs you money to insure your ship and yourself and when you die it costs money to replace the ship and also your character loses an amount of skill points. So if WOW doesn't penalise you for dieing you are totally going to throw caution to the window and just attack everything willy nilly without any strategic thought. That kinda ruins the game for me. As I've only started playing the game I could well be wrong about this, hopefully I am. If anybody could enlighten me about death in WOW that would be great :)
 
j6ango1977 said:
Yeh Ive just cancelled my Eve - online sup. after 6 months to play WOW. Also because Eve turned out to be very unbalanced in favour of 1 race which defeated the object of the game. Just started playing WOW last night. Just got to LvL 5 and it looks pretty god so far. I sat laughing for 10 minutes when I made my character dance .LOL The game does look rather good and lots to do.

However It doesnt seem to penalise you for dieing. When you die it reserects you as a ghost and you can go back to your stiff corpse and and get all your stuff back. In Eve it costs you money to insure your ship and yourself and when you die it costs money to replace the ship and also your character loses an amount of skill points. So if WOW doesn't penalise you for dieing you are totally going to throw caution to the window and just attack everything willy nilly without any strategic thought. That kinda ruins the game for me. As I've only started playing the game I could well be wrong about this, hopefully I am. If anybody could enlighten me about death in WOW that would be great :)
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The penalty for dieing isn't so obvious until you do it 20 times in an area that's MILES away from the graveyard. trust me, you'll not be so cavalieer. I think you might even swear. want to go at double speed, its gonna cost you 1000 gold for the epic mount and xp as you can ask that ghost in the grave yard to resurrect you.


I'm a level 14 Undead Priest. Fucking hard to level priests as they have no melee or armor to start with. Need to explore every inch of your local main town and experiment with everything that you have.

They have just about solved people farming and selling stuff on ebay. Their is an internal auction house system and the rare stuff binds on equip and unique stuff binds on pickup.
They also don't have areas where certian stuff is dropped so people cant camp it out.
 
Thanx Sun thats helpful :). yeh i think these type of games when you first start to play can come across as a bit limited however the more you play and get to know the world the more there is to do. Im interested in trading and specialising in certain skills. It looks like WOW offers this so its looking good. Took me about a month to learn most of the Eve universe and how it worked and after 6 months there was still things I didn't know.
 
Private Storm said:
If I'm not a level 72 nobknocker by Monday morning, I'll eat my hat.

:D
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OMFG NOOB. They only get up to level 60 in WoW!

I have to say I was not going to buy the game until I saw a matew of mine play it. The player versus player system is great as there isnt the opportunity for insults leading to: FFS you **** and so forth... and as it is horde vs alliance there is teamwork going on.

Only competition is for resources... and thats not a big issue.

*coat and life please*
 
all the peeps i know who left eqII for wow have returned claiming wow is too easy.

however, sony are nerfing eqII so much that i'm considering leaving for guidwars. (once i've hit lvl 50. only 5 lvls to go)
 
miss minnie said:
all the peeps i know who left eqII for wow have returned claiming wow is too easy.

however, sony are nerfing eqII so much that i'm considering leaving for guidwars. (once i've hit lvl 50. only 5 lvls to go)
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I think guild wars is great, but then again i never played WoW or EQ, mainly because i didnt want to pay the monthly fee.

Thats the great thing about guild wars.. you can pick it up for £18 at somewhere like play.com and then its free, no monthly fees.

Its got a few major differences to the other big MMORPG's, mainly instanced areas for your group. Also it streams updates automatically, no patching. The graphics are stunning I think and the PvP arenas are a hell of a lot of fun. I recommend it highly.
 
There is some good news and some bad news.

Bad news: World of Warcraft has taken over my life :(

Good news: I get to play World of Warcraft all the time :D

Deathwing server is where it's at.
 
WoW is a great game, but the servers are way too full - they've shipped several hundred thousand more games than they can handle. If you buy, be prepared for disconnects, lag-related deaths etc.
 
Bringing this bolloxey honour system in has made it almost impossible to Quest in contested areas. I spent 3 hours in Stranglethorn Vale last night and about an hour of that time was spent as a ghost. Always get jumped by Horde when fighting a mob :mad: It takes me about a week now to lvl up when it used to be done in a night. The only answer I get off lvl 60 arseholes is 'go and play on a PvE server then'. I like PvP...... when it's fair.

I just got Guild Wars. Cool game and looks slick. I wasnt too sure about it at first but it gets better the more you play and you don't get ganked every 2 minutes. The lvl cap is only 20 so everyone caps out quickly. So when you PvP its a very balanced playing field. very cool
 
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