Well since there seam to be a lot of people playing World of Warcraft (WoW), I thought it would be good if we started another one of the "Official Discussion Threads" like we did for Kalonline and Half-Life 2.

We'll keep this thread open, until such time that a MMORPG Forum is created here at OCC. Yes, the request has been made, we're just waiting on the man to get it done.

So, feel free to discuss WoW. Talk about your characters, the servers, the game, or anything else related to the World of Warcraft.

You can also keep in touch with other OCC Members who play WoW via the XFire messenger. And don't forget to list your character's information in this thread.

I just hope people stop playing long enough to actually talk about the game.

Maybe when the servers are down, we'll see some discussion.

Hmmmm.... talk about the game.
Dont rush to hit 60! theres nothing to do except gather gear after that. Take your time and enjoy the game.
I stop playing and check forums all the time though. When im flying to a dif area
If anyone plays on aggramar though, give me a buzz, char name is Gholam. I have noticed the guild I'm in is full of computer geeks who talk about motherboards, chipsets, and video cards etc... all day, but I asked and none of them overclocks :/ various excuses ranging from "if I want better I buy better" to "I dont want to burn up my system".

Well now, been a while since I stopped by the forums here, but this gives me more reason to get back into it.

Anyway, I play on Uther ( 10 Chars. ) and Proudmoore ( 3 Chars. ) and I agree, rushing to 60 isn't the best idea, you'll find yourself getting bored quite quickly, only reason I'd say get at least one character to 60 is for farming, get lots of gold, start some new characters and spread the wealth, that way you can't get what you want, when you want it.

And remember, there is no one "best class," each character is only as good as the person playing it.

i cant even play this game it crashes on me and reboots my comp bout every 10-15 mintues. i havnt been ablew to play for more than a month.


money well spent

I suppose youve already uninstalled, reinstalled, and repatched a few times? possibly even tried somone elses CDs? And your watching the temps? Comp is prime95 and Memtest stable? if all thats a go then its some tiny little crap youll spend ages figuring out.
For the longest time I had horrible latency and couldnt figure out why. Turns out I was using ancient win 98 usb drivers for my cable modem. Got some new ones and WHAM all fixed. No other games ever had a problem with it though. Game is a bit picky. I installed the game at my friends house on his AMD 3500 comp, it worked great. Tried again later after a patch it it somehow screwed up while patching and then wouldnt work worth a darn.

I've had problems with WoW locking up my system form time to time.

Though I think that was mainly related to my OS. The system crashed a while back, and I never really did clean it up. Just installed Windows on top of itself to fix it at the time.

I finally got around to reinstalling last night. Hopefully I'll have WoW patched by the time I get home from work, and I can see if that fixed the issue. If not, then my problems could be related to heat or just WoW itself. Only way to find out for sure is to eliminate the problems.

/played

I think it's rather sad actually. All my time, only one character; I have alts, none of which I've spent a great amount of time on, many of which I would get into the teens and decided that I'm not going to play them any longer and then deleted.

My highest is 32. I really need to build on of my chars (I have 9 but most are pretty low level).

Ah, yeah, join the club on that one, I've gone through about 4 different iterations of "Kazuya." Warrior, Hunter, Warrior again and finally Mage.

My highest char is my level 45 Dwarf Paladin ( I've kinda been focusing on the Horde more lately ) and the rest of my 12 characters are all at various levels over 20.

Mages are fun to play, Rogues are as well, but I get frustrated with my Rogues quite quickly, so both of them are my lowest level chars on Uther.

I just recently started a Mage as my main alt. He's at lvl 22 right now. WoW is actually the first game where i've enjoyed playing a caster. Usually I stick the a warrior-ish character, which can be seen in my main character.

/played for me shows: 20d 3h 20m 58s

Though I think that command only shows for that character.

/played for me is 5d 5hrs for my 31 rogue.

Im having a hell of a time tho. because im done all the duskwood quests, and most of the other places are too high level for me. So right now im screwing around in the deadmines / Stockades and any other instances i can find. Althought right now im doing a few of the dark iron quests. Which are exp heavens. Im about 3 bubbles away from lvl 32

What i cant stand tho

Having to go to darnaseuss For leatherworking training. Such a long trip there / back

My main is a 50 NE rogue on Bleeding hollow...i have 6 other chars on that one...and i've been playing an UD rogue on stormrage. I agree with general on the LW in darnas....but most professions make you travel all over when you get in the higher lvls.

You think that's bad? Try going to Ironforge for Blacksmithing!

Ok... its 7:30 and in 2 hours EB games will be open. Heres the question... should i sell my xbox + games to get WoW and a timecard....

Yes... and might want to consider leasing your soul as well.

To be honest, you might want to hold off on the time card first. You get a free month for just buying WoW. Check it out and see if you like it first.

The game does have some issues taht are being worked on as far as lag and stability. Knowing that there are still a lot of people who love the game... and there are some that don't. Best to find out what you think before getting a time card.

One thing I've noticed over time, I've pretty much given up on even bothering to get my collectors edition pets, whenever I make a new character. I mean blizzard made it sound like they'd be the equivalent of hunters pets, back when they announced em, not that I was disappointed to begin with, it just seems like a waste of time to haul around another item throughout the levels when I've seen and owned all 3 of them a good 10 times over.

That being said, I still love the art book.

I'm really looking forward to the battlegrounds as well, especially after seeing the new honor/rewards system, gives me more drive to play my Paladin and get those last 15 levels over with.

Thats it?
What else do u have?





Anyway ive preaty much reached a standstill to my leveling. Its either Stranglegank vale or Arathi. And after being in both for under 5 min i was ganked twice in BB(Booty Bay) and about 4 times in RP (Refuge Point). From what i can tell ive finished all of the duskwood and wetlands quests, but im still at a preaty low level to do anything anywhere else.

I just got this game and I love it

I've been playing it a couple hours and i have a level 4 undead mage

Ok i got it this morning (first one in the store right when the opened the doors) and i've been playing since then (around 10am) so like 13 hours straight. Wow. I didnt even try to level up my guy for a while but once i started it got lots of fun. Anyway ya i've got to go to bed now beacuse i havent slept in 36 hours and i think i might die.

for the HORDE!!!!

KILL!! ^

Agreed

btw i started a nightelf hunter on Stormreaver. Im level 3 i think. The elfish "campaign" (if you can go so far to call it a campaign) looks preaty decent.

Kill the Horde... Kill the Elves (who look like Trolls)...

After that, life would be good.

Too many Night Elves....

Honestly, has anyone else noticed that the majority of the jerks in game tend to be playing Night Elves? I suspect it's because they appeal more to the 12 to 15 year old males who don't have any real understanding of civility. I've been playing on my Horde characters a lot more lately, cause at least when the NE's are being jerks, I don't have to listen to them in addition to dealing with them.

Hey! Im a nightelf! Mostly because my friend lied about them getting a night time bonus and I was too lazy to read the manual.
I havent really noticed any one group being more annoying than another, but my server is also odd. All the other servers complain about being too many rogues and palas etc... my server all the classes look about equally played except priest, not enough of them.

Yeah... not enough priest anywhere... and the ones you do find usually suck. I've actually seen priest trying to tank... not because they agroed something on a heal, but because they were actually attacking! Stupid priest.

one of the nimrods i tagged for on VC was doing that. He was trying to tank and he managed to pull about 4 pirates after which he kinda went into the red and i had to kill them while he was healing. Finnally i just told him off and he got all pissed at me and left the group.

Ah well.


But on the topic of priests. This one Undead priest killed me 3 times last night. I was mad.

It was probably because my friend killed his buddy. then he just kinda camped out the camp i was going too to turn in some quests.

hey I just noticed d3 did a double post isnt that against the rules on this site?

so? d3 0wnz all

BTW: your attatchment doesnt work

i need to get me a game card so i can renew my accont..... i miss WoW... ><

You think thats something, I did a hepta-post here here.

Slightly off topic, but I love the new Xfire sig styles.

Hey I play on Aggramar too! Feel free to drop me a line in-game. I'll try to remember to add u to my friends list next time I play. Time for sleep atm

Abrams: My main, hit 60 a few days ago
Loktovar: Primary Alt, 36 rogue

Pretty much all I do with Abrams now is high level raids. PvP'ing is quite a chore as a Pally. I pretty much end up doing the same thing as i do in high level dungeons. Sit back, support heal, cleanse, and try to keep the squishies in the back alive. Occasional kamikaze when I'm out of mana to try and be a distraction.

Rogues are a ton more fun in combat. Grinding is actually kinda fun with him.

WoW has consumed my life. My bro and I play as the Orcs Ugala and Ugali. I am the rogue, he is the warlock. We are at level 8 currently and putting as much time into it each day as we can.

Here's my question: My bro is pretty weak. I can easily survive fights that will have his warlock sreaming for mercy. I remember reading somewhere that it takes time for spellcasters to become powerful. At what level will he start to be able to hold his own?
Oh yeah, weapons............where on earth can I find a weapon that rocks at my level? I've got a dagger now that does a whopping 3-7 damage.

Warlocks are pretty gimp... most of the ones I've seen around 60 still suck.

You can find better daggers on weapon venders, quest, player blacksmiths can make them, or at the auction house.

Yeah, Warlocks are only decent if you stick to one tree for talent points, otherwise you'll be dying more than you'd like. I played one up to level 18 and decided it was just too lame to continue with.

On the upside though, if you stick with it you'll have a nice Felsteed waiting for you at 40. =P

I was playing my mage (lvl 22) yesterday, and I've gotta say they are nice. Ended up getting in a group that was 3 mages and a rogue to do a 27 elite quest.

I've never seen stuff die so fast. I'm thinking that 5 mages could own just about any of the mid-level or lower instances. The higher ones defiantly will require a healer and tank or two.

As far as higher level instances, I was in my first good group for BRD last night. Which is considered one of the first "end game" instances. That place was great... to bad we didn't get to finish it. Can't wait to go back, and then head on to LBRS, UBRS, Strat, and Scholo...

i think occ should have a guild

i know that i would make a character on that server if there was one

Seems a little pointless, because most folks have already made characters on different servers and have invested enough time into them that they may not want to switch to join the guild.

Shadow preists are BADASS almost to a unfair point but not quite, im happy with my druid atm

im on Burning Legion Miohshi or Jounin

Priest, druids, and all other casters are nice but get screwed in close combat. A warrior can use pummel which prevents casting for a few sec, but worse than that a duel wielding rogue can almost stop a caster's counter.

Though, I always love to see priest use mind control on someone... that has to be one of the funniest things.

Can't wait to play my main tonight... the patch yesterday did a lot for warriors.

I donno about the warrior thing. About a month ago when iw as starting out i saw this l60 warrior get owned by this l60 mage. (pvp) It kinda turned me off on wanting to make a warrior later on. But since then ive kinda changed opionions about them. Mostly because they look so dang good

Im very happy with my level 28 mage, Im doing the same damage as lvl 35's atm, which is very cool. I dont really like melee combat though, however manasheild is a very handy spell

That warrior must suck. Unless the mage managed to sneak up on him.... if so the warrior really sucks. j/k

well now that it hink about it there might of been another guy there. In either case, my feelings about warriors took a turn for the worst then.

On another note I took the plunge and went from stormreaver to stormscale. Im satisfied with my decision. I can play the game with full setting and not lag now.


OMFG! HOW CAN ANYONE PLAY A WARRIOR!!! IF YOU GET MORE THAN 2 ENEMIES ON YOU YOUR DEAD.

A) You cant escape in ANY POSSIBLE WAY!!!
B) You up to your ass in armor but it doesnt matter cuz you have practicly no stamina.
C) You attack slower than an old man walking through a busy mall
D) Rage takes forever to build

AGH!

Someone gimme some pointers because im gonna explode..

I've been playing a number of different classes lately...

So far from what I've played I love my Warrior and Mage... I hate playing my warlock the most. Rogue, Pally, Priest, and hunter are ok... but haven't really played them past level 10....


As far as playing a warrior... it's easy to handle more than 2 targets. Sweeping strikes, cleave, and whirlwind are some of your best attacks. If you get to many on you, you have a "fear" shout which is very nice if used in the right spots.

Rage takes no problem to build... just depends on if you are using 1H + Shield, 2H, or Duel. Each set has it's own strengths and weaknesses.

Attack is only slow if you don't have the right talents, or you are using a slow weapon.

Sounds to me like you have a gimp Warrior.

well hes only level 13

So i have like NO abilities nevermind talents.

right now im working on my rogue which i got to level 38. Im trying to save for a mount but its danged hard. I have about 17g right now. Whats a good 38-40 area with lotsa drops

I'm making use of the new image gallery to display some of my main character's adventures in WoW.

You'll find those here. I'll see if I can find more later.

I prefer my Mage and Warrior as well, fun classes to play, Warlocks are too complicated past 40, way too many spells and not enough function to them. I hear nothing but praise for Rogues, but to me it seems harder to level them to 30-ish than any other class, so I assume they don't get good till around 40.

That being said, Shamans and Paladins are equally the biggest powerhouses for each side, and are fairly fun to play, though they get stale once you pass level 40.