Author Topic: WoW thread (Read 39795 times)

PANatsFan · « **Reply #225 on:** October 13, 2010, 08:56:42 pm »

Quote from: Nathan on October 13, 2010, 07:37:11 pm

Must be nice to be a miner

Now I just need to convince blue to switch his language from Dwarvish to common so I can understand WTH he is saying

Pretty sure he always speaks Dwarvish.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #226 on:** October 13, 2010, 09:43:13 pm »

Alright I'm transferring my Lock to my friends server, Emerald Dream, horde. Gonna see how that goes. Not really trying to transfer / faction. To expensive.

Quote from: PANatsFan on October 13, 2010, 08:56:42 pm

Pretty sure he always speaks Dwarvish.

Get out of here, you!

Nathan · « **Reply #227 on:** October 13, 2010, 09:47:37 pm »

I'm getting off early. Gotta go to the store though, should be home by 11 at the latest.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #228 on:** October 14, 2010, 12:11:41 am »

I'm hopping on if anyone else is on.

Nathan · « **Reply #229 on:** October 14, 2010, 12:26:13 am »

Quote from: cmdterps44 on October 14, 2010, 12:11:41 am

I'm hopping on if anyone else is on.

I doubt if I get on anytime soon. Finishing some school work and I might just crash after.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #230 on:** October 14, 2010, 12:32:47 am »

Quote from: Nathan on October 14, 2010, 12:26:13 am

I doubt if I get on anytime soon. Finishing some school work and I might just crash after.

Word. Started watching some tv. Lets get on this another time.

Nathan · « **Reply #231 on:** October 14, 2010, 12:34:15 am »

I'm off work all next week, so that should be plenty of time for ragin'

Nathan · « **Reply #232 on:** October 14, 2010, 04:52:49 pm »

Manually installed the beta of the new version of Auctioneer, thank god. I let it run a scan of the auction house when I left for work, so if you tried to /w me and I didn't respond, that's why.

The Chief · « **Reply #233 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:11:11 pm »

So let's just say hypothetically - and this is a BIG if - if I were considering trying out WoW, does the free 10-day trial they're always offering include the original game and both expansions so far? Or do you have to buy both expansions along with the original game to get "up to date" with the WoW community?

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #234 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:14:32 pm »

Quote from: The Chief on October 14, 2010, 08:11:11 pm

So let's just say hypothetically - and this is a BIG if - if I were considering trying out WoW, does the free 10-day trial they're always offering include the original game and both expansions so far? Or do you have to buy both expansions along with the original game to get "up to date" with the WoW community?

If you played the 10 day trial, you would have everything available to you except for the classes, races, and zones. You would have all the skills and game updates they came out with for the patches. You wouldn't be able to trade. You would only be able to make a guy and just play like anyone else for the trial.

If you wanted to try out the expansions, you would need to buy them. And thats just for races, classes, zones, bgs, and instances.

Say you get to 60. You can then try the Burning Crusade trial. Same with 68-70 for Wrath.

I recommend atleast trying it. You and Linty should.

Nathan · « **Reply #235 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:22:49 pm »

Quote from: The Chief on October 14, 2010, 08:11:11 pm

So let's just say hypothetically - and this is a BIG if - if I were considering trying out WoW, does the free 10-day trial they're always offering include the original game and both expansions so far? Or do you have to buy both expansions along with the original game to get "up to date" with the WoW community?

The trial is the original game aka "Vanilla". It wouldn't be an issue because there's no way you'd be getting to a high enough level in 10 days anyway.

All players are one the same version of WoW. The expansions just give you the extra levels and new areas. Vanilla lets you get to lvl 60 and the original areas of the game. The Burning Crusade (BC) lets you get to 70 and you can go to Outland. The Wrath of the Lich King lets you get to 80 and go to Northrend.

The best deal is to get the "Battle Chest" which includes vanilla and BC for $30, and you would need WotLK for another $30. You wouldn't need to get the expansions until you were a high enough level to get to those areas though, you'd still have the same game engine as everyone else.

Nathan · « **Reply #236 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:33:56 pm »

Also, once you download the game and get patched up to the latest version, when you go to upgrade with the expansions, you can just log on to your battle.net account, buy it right there, and log into the game. The new areas / new level cap will be available right away. You don't have to download a whole new game and re-install everything again.

Linty, if you decide to try it, I *think* the base installer is still old for the Mac and is PPC, so if you have an intel based Mac, you'd need to make sure you had Rosetta installed from Apple so you can run the old PPC based app. Once it patches and updates though, it is a universal binary (runs on Intel and PPC natively).

The Chief · « **Reply #237 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:36:57 pm »

So what happens if you get into the "vanilla" game and then go buy the new expansion in December... does that let you level up to 80+ and just prevent you from going to the other two areas you didn't buy, or is it like "+10 levels" for each expansion regardless of which ones you buy? I honestly doubt I would ever get that far anyway, so if simply playing the vanilla game alone were possible that would probably be good enough for me. Though I guess it would suck to be left out when everyone is traveling to the new areas.

Nathan · « **Reply #238 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:39:13 pm »

Quote from: The Chief on October 14, 2010, 08:36:57 pm

So what happens if you get into the "vanilla" game and then go buy the new expansion in December... does that let you level up to 80+ and just prevent you from going to the other two areas you didn't buy, or is it like "+10 levels" for each expansion regardless of which ones you buy? I honestly doubt I would ever get that far anyway, so if simply playing the vanilla game alone were possible that would probably be good enough for me. Though I guess it would suck to be left out when everyone is traveling to the new areas.

They are progressive updates. You have to have BC in order to upgrade to WotLK, and I'm assuming the same thing will be true for Cataclysm.

The Chief · « **Reply #239 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:40:09 pm »

Yeah that could be a deal-breaker. I really don't see myself paying $100 to buy all the expansions for a game that already has a monthly sub, and playing the vanilla game when everyone is hanging out in the new areas sounds like a snoozefest.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #240 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:46:10 pm »

Quote from: The Chief on October 14, 2010, 08:40:09 pm

Yeah that could be a deal-breaker. I really don't see myself paying $100 to buy all the expansions for a game that already has a monthly sub, and playing the vanilla game when everyone is hanging out in the new areas sounds like a snoozefest.

Its actually not all that bad. You will always see atleast 5 people your level with another 20 ish around you. People are always making alts too. As for finding groups you will always get into one for instances thanksS to the lfg tool.

Nathan · « **Reply #241 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:46:53 pm »

Quote from: The Chief on October 14, 2010, 08:40:09 pm

Yeah that could be a deal-breaker. I really don't see myself paying $100 to buy all the expansions for a game that already has a monthly sub, and playing the vanilla game when everyone is hanging out in the new areas sounds like a snoozefest.

You can always just do the trial for free to see if you even like the game. It's not like you are going to get to 60 in a matter of days. That's a LOT of play time. And the trek from 60 to 70 and 70 to 80 take even longer. I played on RaF which is 3x faster leveling from 1-60 and it still took a lot of hours of game play.

Nathan · « **Reply #242 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:52:10 pm »

Also, it's a 14 day trial, not 10 day.

cmdterps44 · « **Reply #243 on:** October 14, 2010, 08:56:48 pm »

Quote from: Nathan on October 14, 2010, 08:52:10 pm

Also, it's a 14 day trial, not 10 day.

Correct. Its 10 day for the expansions*.

60 levels can take up to ~1-2 months depending on your progress. 60-70 can take another 1-2 weeks. 70-80 2-3weeks. It's along process but IMO the first time is always the best. If you sign up, the first month is free, then you start paying.

I agree with Nathan, though, you should at least try the trial if you were even considering.

The Chief · « **Reply #244 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:09:57 pm »

I'll probably get around to it. Spent all of last week playing the crap out of XCOM, and now I'm playing through HL2 again. Might give Mass Effect 2 another whirl as well. Stupid Steam and their excellent sales.

Nathan · « **Reply #245 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:10:14 pm »

On that note, will anyone be up tonight for a few quests?

Nat of the Living Dead · « **Reply #246 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:19:04 pm »

What a bunch of freaki9ng nerds.

No, actually, its cool and I enebvy you.

Nathan · « **Reply #247 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:20:49 pm »

Quote from: Nat of the Living Dead on October 14, 2010, 09:19:04 pm

What a bunch of freaki9ng nerds.

No, actually, its cool and I enebvy you.

Also, in warning, my /p chat might look like that by the end of the night

Nat of the Living Dead · « **Reply #248 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:23:15 pm »

I wishsi iC was an elf or gobilin or some other fantastickal crap

Nathan · « **Reply #249 on:** October 14, 2010, 09:26:54 pm »

Quote from: Nat of the Living Dead on October 14, 2010, 09:23:15 pm

I wishsi iC was an elf or gobilin or some other fantastickal crap

You should have started playing 2 weeks ago. You missed the entire Brewfest where you get to drink the finest from the breweries of Azeroth, play drinking games, ram racing, hallucinate Pink Elekks, and throw your drinking mug at people.

It's ok though, next week starts Hallows End so at least you can go trick or treating at the inns and get candy like gnerds.