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Anyone here play World of Warcraft?
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Does anyone play on private servers? If so, anyone have any suggestions as to what server to play on? I'm a WoW virgin and I don't feel like paying for the official game :x
To be totally honest (not solely because I do play on official) private servers on wow are not that good of an idea. You've played ro on privates which are identical except for the fact that they're usually owned by some 16 year olds, but wow p servers just don't function all that well. They are EXTREMELY laggy, they are very buggy (loads of quests which are usually the main form of leveling simply don't end) and some of them are overcrowded to a point where there can be large numbers of people camping low areas for a couple of quest mobs to appear. That being said, I have no idea!
PS I didn't hit 58 yesterday but I think I will today
PS I didn't hit 58 yesterday but I think I will today
Hi, I haven't totally disappeared off the face of the planet again, but decided to see what Glalie, Noobster and Synre were up to! Why, why, why would you roll a spacegoat? >_<
Also Glalie do you have vent + mic? You could hop onto my guild's vent and come talk with me! :D Noobster and Synre are invited to. Well not Synre.
NOTE: This was my 1600th post here.
Also prize from our 2nd Kael Kill!
Our GM on the phoenix and me on the dragon!
Also Glalie do you have vent + mic? You could hop onto my guild's vent and come talk with me! :D Noobster and Synre are invited to. Well not Synre.
NOTE: This was my 1600th post here.
Also prize from our 2nd Kael Kill!
Our GM on the phoenix and me on the dragon!
Fair call. I just try to balance out my life, and try to socialize with friends as much as possible. Then when that's finished I play wow for a bit.
harumph
so im attempting to download the client for the free trial, but its not working. it downloads really fast up to around 40%, then slows to a crawl and says that i have a firewall up.
im awful with computers, and have no idea how to remedy this problem. my windows firewall is turned off.
so im attempting to download the client for the free trial, but its not working. it downloads really fast up to around 40%, then slows to a crawl and says that i have a firewall up.
im awful with computers, and have no idea how to remedy this problem. my windows firewall is turned off.
So I tried to play WoW and i played for a week or so got to about level 20. Then I deleted it off my computer and swore never to play it again. This game is an addiction. I guess it would be cool if you had enough friends who were on it and nothing better to do. Honestly I just never got the point of this game. You just kill animals and buy stuff then that stuff wears out and you buy more stuff.
What is so good about this game that it makes it worth the time you have to put into it?
What is so good about this game that it makes it worth the time you have to put into it?
You build a character. That's why it's so fun. Even though it's the same shit over and over, it's fun to make your toons better, develop your style of playing, kick people's asses, etc etc. I'm sure you get what I mean... we ARE on a Pokemon forum after all, and it's the same kind of thing.
I might pick this game up again soon, the semester is winding down and except for two final exams, I'm gonna have a ton more free time. Glad to see they made it easier to level and solo between 20 and 60, I was at 38 when I quit at the beginning of the semester, and there was NOBODY around to do ANYTHING with.
weekly update or whatevz
Go again into the windows secury thing and make sure stuff is turned off, if you have other firewalls or antiviruses, turn them off temporarily (don't worry, you won't get a virus!). If that doesn't work, try fooling around with different settings, you can always download the actual client from other websites (try maybe filefront or sumtin), as the only thing that matters when you make a trial is the actual account. Other than that, I'm not too sure, I had that problem the first time I downloaded wow, so restart, make sure you have admin privileges on your comp (which may sound silly but can sometimes be the cause!) and just keep fooling around. Sometimes the downloading servers may also have issues so just leave it running or even just download it some other time. Right now isn't a great downloading time anyways since they just released a new patch so mass downloads + other stuff have made the downloads a bit sketchy. I recommend just leaving it on for a while - for example I was getting the new patch yesterday and it was terribly slow and seemingly stuck at around <1% for a while but then it just shot up, so it's a bit rollercoastery right now.
tl;dr version: let it download, restart, doublecheck internet settings, or just try it again in a few days or so when download servers are a bit more stable.
You should try group play, it might be weird to keep grouping up with random people but for the most part it's really entertaining. I see what you're saying about it seeming repetitive, but really under the surface there's soooo much more to it - even while leveling. Working on professions is always fun, there's pvp, there's instances/dungeons. Blizzard also just recently took away some of the monotony of leveling by making it easier from 20-60 with less required for each level and quests from 30-60 giving more exp in general. Blizzard is really making strides to make it less painful for people like you (which is a totally fine way of looking at leveling). As I was also saying, there is a lot more under the surface, exploring new areas for the first time can be really fun, and just doing instances for many different reasons is a ton of fun too. It's definitely a grouping game, and while soloing is perfectly acceptable, to get the most out of the game you really just have to either get some buddies from irl to play with you, or just meet cool people in the game that you can party with, and overcome those obstacles with. You don't want to forget the endgame either, Blizzard really put a lot of effort into it (and while it may not always be balanced) and it's almost like the game really starts when you hit max level - you've got arenas (which is more sophisticated PvP), raiding, and just much much more. Touching on the addiction part, I can see where you're coming from. It really varies from person to person, and as for myself, I've been regulating myself pretty well recently but I've felt slight addiction and all you've gotta do really is just take a step back and deal with it.
Sorry for the tl;dr - I can be quite verbose when it comes to this stuff xD!
On another note, everyone is still welcome to play with us, we're on Trollbane Horde, guild name is Avalanche and we've got some smogonites (or ex-smogonites) aka me, Glalie, MrE, Synre, and meddle (that should be it, sorry if I forgot anyone!). Just don't be douches and you're welcome to be a part of our happy wow family.
You can pm Noobster/Rhyse (my Shaman and Druid respectively), Akatosh (Glalie) or Meddle. We've got a few more people with invites, but these would probably be your best bets - and hey! just mention you're from smogon.
More personal wow updates: I've been 66 with my Shaman for like a week and a half - been kinda lazy recently with him, letting him sit with rested but I'm almost 67! Been working on my druid for a bit, he's in the low 20s but he's a lot of fun. Right now I'm doubting that I'm gonna main with it since I enjoy my Shaman quite a lot (and I just wanted a change of pace temporarily), but you never know - one char's gonna be for arena and one for raiding. Probably Druid arenaing, since I like feeling overpowered sometimes 8).
Anyways, to refresh my armory links:
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Trollbane&n=Noobster
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Trollbane&n=Rhyse
Oh and also 2.3 ownsssss - it's an amazing patch. ok done with tl;dr :doom:
edit: jsc, when you come back my druid might be caught up with you so we could probably level together a bit!
double edit: i know my druid weapon and offhand sucks bah
Go again into the windows secury thing and make sure stuff is turned off, if you have other firewalls or antiviruses, turn them off temporarily (don't worry, you won't get a virus!). If that doesn't work, try fooling around with different settings, you can always download the actual client from other websites (try maybe filefront or sumtin), as the only thing that matters when you make a trial is the actual account. Other than that, I'm not too sure, I had that problem the first time I downloaded wow, so restart, make sure you have admin privileges on your comp (which may sound silly but can sometimes be the cause!) and just keep fooling around. Sometimes the downloading servers may also have issues so just leave it running or even just download it some other time. Right now isn't a great downloading time anyways since they just released a new patch so mass downloads + other stuff have made the downloads a bit sketchy. I recommend just leaving it on for a while - for example I was getting the new patch yesterday and it was terribly slow and seemingly stuck at around <1% for a while but then it just shot up, so it's a bit rollercoastery right now.
tl;dr version: let it download, restart, doublecheck internet settings, or just try it again in a few days or so when download servers are a bit more stable.
You should try group play, it might be weird to keep grouping up with random people but for the most part it's really entertaining. I see what you're saying about it seeming repetitive, but really under the surface there's soooo much more to it - even while leveling. Working on professions is always fun, there's pvp, there's instances/dungeons. Blizzard also just recently took away some of the monotony of leveling by making it easier from 20-60 with less required for each level and quests from 30-60 giving more exp in general. Blizzard is really making strides to make it less painful for people like you (which is a totally fine way of looking at leveling). As I was also saying, there is a lot more under the surface, exploring new areas for the first time can be really fun, and just doing instances for many different reasons is a ton of fun too. It's definitely a grouping game, and while soloing is perfectly acceptable, to get the most out of the game you really just have to either get some buddies from irl to play with you, or just meet cool people in the game that you can party with, and overcome those obstacles with. You don't want to forget the endgame either, Blizzard really put a lot of effort into it (and while it may not always be balanced) and it's almost like the game really starts when you hit max level - you've got arenas (which is more sophisticated PvP), raiding, and just much much more. Touching on the addiction part, I can see where you're coming from. It really varies from person to person, and as for myself, I've been regulating myself pretty well recently but I've felt slight addiction and all you've gotta do really is just take a step back and deal with it.
Sorry for the tl;dr - I can be quite verbose when it comes to this stuff xD!
On another note, everyone is still welcome to play with us, we're on Trollbane Horde, guild name is Avalanche and we've got some smogonites (or ex-smogonites) aka me, Glalie, MrE, Synre, and meddle (that should be it, sorry if I forgot anyone!). Just don't be douches and you're welcome to be a part of our happy wow family.
You can pm Noobster/Rhyse (my Shaman and Druid respectively), Akatosh (Glalie) or Meddle. We've got a few more people with invites, but these would probably be your best bets - and hey! just mention you're from smogon.
More personal wow updates: I've been 66 with my Shaman for like a week and a half - been kinda lazy recently with him, letting him sit with rested but I'm almost 67! Been working on my druid for a bit, he's in the low 20s but he's a lot of fun. Right now I'm doubting that I'm gonna main with it since I enjoy my Shaman quite a lot (and I just wanted a change of pace temporarily), but you never know - one char's gonna be for arena and one for raiding. Probably Druid arenaing, since I like feeling overpowered sometimes 8).
Anyways, to refresh my armory links:
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Trollbane&n=Noobster
http://wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Trollbane&n=Rhyse
Oh and also 2.3 ownsssss - it's an amazing patch. ok done with tl;dr :doom:
edit: jsc, when you come back my druid might be caught up with you so we could probably level together a bit!
double edit: i know my druid weapon and offhand sucks bah
awesome! Actually that 38 is on a different server, I dont even remember the name, but I wanted to move it anyway because it was even more empty than Trollbane seemed.
Forsaken Rogue. Ohhh yeaaaaahhhh. I was in the process of getting the leather legs and/or dagger drops from Gnomeregan but as you can imagine, *nobody* wanted to go. (Worst instance ever.)
Yeah gnomer is pretty terrible - and speaking of instances, i love how they retuned all the lowbie ones and some greens/blues that were terrible before have gotten nice upgrades. Even a minor thing like a WC cloak that gave +7agi+2spirit got changed to stam instead of spirit. It's like blizzard is getting a tad smarter and making it nice for lowbie leveling and instancing. I'm lovin' it!
lol blizzard's downloader is terrible :( It'll work yeah, but as you already know it'll sloooooooow doooooown. Very slow. Everyone gets that "firewall omg" thing because the downloader is terrible and dumb.
also noobster start leveling your Shaman instead of that new dude you have >:O and you forgot to mention glalie's sister, synre's friend Psycho, and whoever that other guy is!
no stop I'm the undead rogue :(
I don't think 38 is high enough to waste money on transferring him anywhere, I'd just make a new guy on Trollbane and take the extra week to start from scratch. But that's just my opinion, Synre would probably be like "lol $25 is nothing just move him gosh you can make that back in a couple hours of real time."
i didnt mention em cause they're not smogonites (afaik)! also yeah im prolly going to level my shaman this weekend + next week (got it off), might hit 70 by the end of next week or so. also agreed on the 38 not high enough, it's really a lot easier with the new patch to level anyways.
XD Haha, sorry. but even so, I'm pretty sure undead rogue is one of the most overdone, overpopulated class/race combos ever...
It's my first character and I spent months leveling her that high, I don't wanna go back through Barrens and everything tbh XD I have a Hunter on Trollbane, made back when everyone started playing together, so I guess I'd already be doing that with her... I guess I should just focus on her anyway, but I love my zombie ninja :(
ghostlands is like a billion times better anyways! barrens has nostalgia factor but ghostlands is easier and has much better rewards, and less traveling around for sure.
so i got it working and so far im enjoying it!
i made a night elf warrior just for shits (if i start playing beyond the free trial im gonna start another character) just to get the basics of it. theres something im wondering, though! not to turn this into a noob help thread, but i bought this (BAN ME PLEASE)'s bastard sword and im unable to equip it.
its two-handed compared to one-handed, and i have no idea if im supposed to get a two-handed skill or something ?_? my current procifiency in swords is 17/20, if that means anything.
i want to use that bastard sword!!!
i made a night elf warrior just for shits (if i start playing beyond the free trial im gonna start another character) just to get the basics of it. theres something im wondering, though! not to turn this into a noob help thread, but i bought this (BAN ME PLEASE)'s bastard sword and im unable to equip it.
its two-handed compared to one-handed, and i have no idea if im supposed to get a two-handed skill or something ?_? my current procifiency in swords is 17/20, if that means anything.
i want to use that bastard sword!!!
Huh. Well, one-handed swords and two-handed swords are different skills, aren't they? I'm not a Warrior expert, so I dunno if Warriors start with 2H swords already learned... If they don't you can go to Stormwind and pay to learn 2H swords, I'm pretty sure.
It might be too high a level for you too, some items have level requirements. If you can't equip it I think it can only be because of one of those two things, unless I'm forgetting something.
YEAH!!!!!!! Glen!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah jsc is right, each class can use certain weapons, some at level 1 and some have to be taught by a weapon's trainer in any of the major cities. If you do like it and decide to play, we play on Trollbane on horde characters (no Night Elves SORRY) and noobster listed our names somewhere earlier.
As a sidenote http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page is a great place to go for beginners, lots of info on the classes, professions and Races within the game and pretty much everything else under the sun!
Yeah jsc is right, each class can use certain weapons, some at level 1 and some have to be taught by a weapon's trainer in any of the major cities. If you do like it and decide to play, we play on Trollbane on horde characters (no Night Elves SORRY) and noobster listed our names somewhere earlier.
As a sidenote http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page is a great place to go for beginners, lots of info on the classes, professions and Races within the game and pretty much everything else under the sun!
Hey guys, I restarted my subscription yesterday. Let me back in the guild! :P I didn't have any of you on my friends list so I don't even remember who to send a tell to.
wall of text since I havent posted in this thread in a while ready go
I am playing more individually than I have in a while, it's still a lot less play time than I am used to putting out(largely due to not being forced into it by raiding) but I am enjoying the game right now. I have been playing with Meddle and one of my IRL buddies a lot which has been a good time. I still think that WoW is really not an amazing game on it own, but becomes good because it's set up so well to let you have fun with other people. Those of you just chilling on your own in random servers should really come over - most of the fun of this game is the people you play with rather than what you're actually doing imo.
Anyway I'll do a 'my gear isnt that bad i SWEAR' armory link on the 27th when my gear starts being less terrible, man I need season3 to start ><
You started playing already obviously but I wanted to touch on this anyway - I am of the opinion that the addictive qualities of this game are grossly overrated. Just remember it's a game and that doing stuff IRL should always take precedence and it's an excellent hobby otherwise... it's a fun way to spend downtime when you have nothing better to do. It hasn't affected my 'real life' too much and I've been playing since beta, just have to manage time intelligently.
It's mostly been answered but 1h sword and 2h sword are governed by different skills(maces and axes both work the same way, with separate 1h and 2h skills). You need to go to a weaponmaster dude in a main city to learn the proper proficiency(and pay like 10s or something), the guards can tell you where the NPC is and the NPC can tell you which city's weapon master to use if he is not the right one.
For what it's worth 17/20 basically helps govern your base hit/crit chance before your gear is factored in, every level you gain 5 max skill and as a melee class you want to max it out as quickly as possible, which happens naturally banging away on stuff. If you're at like 15/30 or whatever you'd be hitting as accurately as a level 3 even though you are level 6, basically. Wowwiki's description is a lot more precise(http://www.wowwiki.com/Weapon_Skill) but it's really not necessary to know that kind of detail starting out.
If you have more questions feel free to ask since I will almost definitely know the answer or at least be able to point you to it, although honestly rolling trollbane horde would probably be the best choice since it's a lot easier to actually get answers that way and you may as well join up sooner rather than later.
Meddle, Akatosh(Glalie), Noobster/Rhyse are the most likely to be able to be on that can invite(Meddle in particular!).
For what it's worth MrE(Marceldux) and I(Irdami/Teifu/Synre) are around now.
EDIT: also Jack Sparrow is a jackass for not /loveing me back when I was spamming it on his Shaman in AV
I am playing more individually than I have in a while, it's still a lot less play time than I am used to putting out(largely due to not being forced into it by raiding) but I am enjoying the game right now. I have been playing with Meddle and one of my IRL buddies a lot which has been a good time. I still think that WoW is really not an amazing game on it own, but becomes good because it's set up so well to let you have fun with other people. Those of you just chilling on your own in random servers should really come over - most of the fun of this game is the people you play with rather than what you're actually doing imo.
Anyway I'll do a 'my gear isnt that bad i SWEAR' armory link on the 27th when my gear starts being less terrible, man I need season3 to start ><
You started playing already obviously but I wanted to touch on this anyway - I am of the opinion that the addictive qualities of this game are grossly overrated. Just remember it's a game and that doing stuff IRL should always take precedence and it's an excellent hobby otherwise... it's a fun way to spend downtime when you have nothing better to do. It hasn't affected my 'real life' too much and I've been playing since beta, just have to manage time intelligently.
It's mostly been answered but 1h sword and 2h sword are governed by different skills(maces and axes both work the same way, with separate 1h and 2h skills). You need to go to a weaponmaster dude in a main city to learn the proper proficiency(and pay like 10s or something), the guards can tell you where the NPC is and the NPC can tell you which city's weapon master to use if he is not the right one.
For what it's worth 17/20 basically helps govern your base hit/crit chance before your gear is factored in, every level you gain 5 max skill and as a melee class you want to max it out as quickly as possible, which happens naturally banging away on stuff. If you're at like 15/30 or whatever you'd be hitting as accurately as a level 3 even though you are level 6, basically. Wowwiki's description is a lot more precise(http://www.wowwiki.com/Weapon_Skill) but it's really not necessary to know that kind of detail starting out.
If you have more questions feel free to ask since I will almost definitely know the answer or at least be able to point you to it, although honestly rolling trollbane horde would probably be the best choice since it's a lot easier to actually get answers that way and you may as well join up sooner rather than later.
Meddle, Akatosh(Glalie), Noobster/Rhyse are the most likely to be able to be on that can invite(Meddle in particular!).
For what it's worth MrE(Marceldux) and I(Irdami/Teifu/Synre) are around now.
EDIT: also Jack Sparrow is a jackass for not /loveing me back when I was spamming it on his Shaman in AV
I wish you guys were over here on Auchindoun >_<