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Lets leave it there.

Too bad you ruined it :(

Well done at that

GNOME PRIESTS!!!

Fuckin' A.

- Classic Zones Remade. Familiar zones across the original continents of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms have been altered forever and updated with new content, from the devastated Badlands to the broken Barrens, which has been sundered in two.

It's bad enough they don't offer vanilla realms, now they have to go and possibly ruin the original content =(

the leveling content with each expansion has generally been quite good compared to 1-60. i am considering starting the game up again just to see the new leveling content and play as a mother fucking werewolf

If you want to play vanilla you pretty much have to resort to private servers :/ At least they're free

Exactly, and this will just make them even more popular. The lag isn't so bad on them, downtime isn't too rough either. Definitely beats the $15 a month.

Eh? I think that altering their world is rather audacious. Good on them, doubt it'll make me pay to play it again.

good ol' barrens will never be the same again :(

well actually. they could just be using their "phasing" system they implemented in wotlk. which means that the game world changes depending on what you have achieved in the game, questwise and stuff.

could be that the barrens change after a while, at say lvl 80? :P and they keep it a normal levelling zone for lowbies. i dunno. seems a bit awkward to re-route the whole levelling process.

Nah, they said that the entire world is changing, even if you don't buy the expansion. The world will have phasing, but it will be like WOTLK, and everyone will be on the new Azeroth.

Alright :)

What about the NETCODE !?!?!

plays pretty smooth at 200ms+ ping. So I think netcode's s'ok. :P

say that again when you try to keep hamstring up on a warping priest! :D

Why do my filters reset from time to time even though I'm logged in?

e-sports

Can't wait to see the 3d cinematic trailer.

I miss the days back in the 60's
burning crusade destroyed wow imo.

looks cool :)

milk the cow

can you blame them?

irrelevant

Another 45 bucks for a game you already bought and pay 15 bucks a month to play? The best thing about it is that people will pay it no questions asked.

Hell, they even praise blizzard for it instead of bitch and moan about blizzard ripping people off. Gotta love retarded fanboys.

The servers have handle a ton of data from thousands of players, and require common maintenance. You're also not just getting a subscription, you get access to the patches. They basically work like DLC, as they introduce even more content. Hell, I spend far more than $15/month on the likes of watching movies, paying for internet, going out to eat at some place fancy, etc...

Anyone who has a problem paying for the kind of content introduced in an MMO is either poor, or just plain ignorant to the genre. Which are you?

If I shelled them 15 a month I'd expect them to deliver or at least not charge a ridiculous full price for extra content for the game I already bought.

Most games are charging this much for DLC, and they have FAR less replayability, itty bitty servers that host a dozen people at most, less content per dollar, and support that ends after a year of the release.

Buying the game also gives you a free month, so you're really paying $15 for a game at retail to begin with.

You only get a ten day free trial each game, plus the first month when buying WoW. That's also only if you do that... They should just give it...

Absolut shit.

Hook, line and sinker.

Furyous Stupidity
Endless Jigsawlery

If you kept playing WoW when Burning Crusade came out you are a moran

wow, now you can digg out dead stuff in a computer game. totally awesome \o/

The info actually leaked about a week or two ago on mmo-champion, but it sounded so crazy that I didn't think they'd do it.

The concept that they made it sound like on the leak didn't quite paint the whole picture. This expansion will completely remake the old world, and allow a great deal of new class/race combinations. While some of these are questionable for lore, gameplay is far more important. They'll have a hard time selling me on NE mages (highborne aside, the NE as a faction have banned magic) or Tauren paladins, but human hunters and BE warriors get my approval. Goblins and Worgen are still pretty "uhh, what?", but if the Worgen take the BE rerollers back, I'm all for it.

I think the most appealing thing that they had made clear is that they aren't just adding on 10 more talent points and a few new tiers of talents - they're rebalancing and remaking almost every class and race from the ground up. While this expansion might not finally balance WoW out, this is a great start to get them back on track to do it.

If the new leveling process is anything as impressive as Northrend (and it's probably going to be better), newbies are going to get an amazing experience compared to what people have to go through right now. This seems like a circular problem, though, as the Outland quests will seem like shit compared to the new experience players will get in the vanilla game - are they going to remake those at some point? Then, what about Northrend? etc..

This is the best thing they could have done for the future of the game, by far.

What's the new "path" system? Some lesser passive talent system?

Dunno, but they said that it isn't class-specific, so probably just an alternative talent system dealing with generic stats or some such.

edit: I think they said that they were explaining it today.

Sounds like it was like I thought then.

Actually, they say that it's more like the glyph system. Getting to 85 allows you to follow the path of the titans, which unlocks a new ancient glyph slot type thing, but it isn't like the other glyph system. Some examples they gave:

Bleed Reduction (Rank 1): Reduce bleed effect.
Bandage Improvement (Rank 2): Bandages are stronger.
Breakthrough (Rank 3): Increases the damage dealt following a crit strike.

sounds like they want to replace all the '10% more attack power' etc talents with this path stuff

I think that will be in the mastery system, not the path system. GC on the mastery system:

GC: "We have this problems where a lot of talents are trying to do three different things."
GC: "Passive bonuses compete with fun talents."
GC: "We're taking the passive talents, getting rid of them, and you'll earn the passive talents just for putting points in that tree."

too many different systems blow my mind.
kinda pointless when we all know only one route is going to be the best.

BC Killed WOW for me. I think you're on to something aswell. I really enjoyed lvling to 60 in the original world, then i got to outland with the intention of lvling up to 70 so I could buy Wrath and join my 80 mates in northrend.

That was until I realised BC is fucking terrible as shit because FUCK ALL PEOPLE still play through the dungeons. The entire content of the patch is ruined by the fact that its no fun to sit around for hours waiting for a group of people to raid with (as a lower lvl doing so for gear and xp) to only have people dog out at the first moment.

This sounds like a server issue, though. Did you try to transfer?

Also, they made it a bit easier to gear up nearing the end of BC, and all through WOTLK.

Well transfer was out of the question because i was on the server cause my mates were (Jubie Thos)

They should have come with you. =P

If the server sucked, it sucked for them, too.

Nah, they had been on jubie for years with their guilds. It was just that no body would run low level stuff half the time :(

Patch 3.3.0 has cross server LFG, so that isn't really an issue anymore.

At the time of his issue (BC), it was. Also, cross server will likely only be cross-battlegroup.

Well, the issue he had

The entire content of the patch is ruined by the fact that its no fun to sit around for hours waiting for a group of people to raid with (as a lower lvl doing so for gear and xp) to only have people dog out at the first moment.

Isn't an issue in 3.3.0, so if that was his only problem, he can return to the game.

Yes, it is just in your battlegroup, but with 25-30 servers in a battlegroup its more than enough to get your wailing caverns group going. Even on a single populated server, Stormscale, I didn't have too much problem getting a group going, so I can only imagine how easy it must be if you can search amongst 25 realms.

However, I can imagine ninja-looting being a problem though, as who cares about the guys from other realms? :)

They fixed this issue in WOTLK (3.2) by making Emblems Of Conquest drop from all heroics/raids. People are running so many instances now, the instance server can't handle it. They had to put a hard cap on instances being run in order to stop the horrible lag that was happening in Naxx. However, this means that you get to jump into the instance portal for 30 minutes getting "Additional instances cannot be launched, please try again later." Instance queues will make grouping bad again. =/

MMO's are for hackers. In Quake, hackers cannot steal your abilities. In Quake, your abilities exist within yourself, not within a hackable computer system. For these reasons, hackers and poorly constructed MMO's will always be failures.

shut up!

The only people who complain about aim-bots are cunt-faces who use any excuse to lose. When I used to play WF, i'd murder the most cocksucking aimbotters in the game, them with 30 ping and me with 400. I'd attack them close-range as sniper and they'd be gunner, yet still, it would be in my favor 10-0 annihilation. Abhorrent doesn't begin to describe the atrocity.

Watch The Hustler, with Paul Newman. His early character embodies the pussy players who whine about aim-bots and wallhacks. For everyone else, there is nothing easier than these pathetic bastards.

LOL what?

thanks!

Fats, lets you and me shoot a game of pool

tauren paladin lol.
also wanna try the goblin for the rj =D

A Tauren Paladin?!?

HOLY COW!!!

made me lol

is worth a [+]

haha ;)

India has them i guess :o)

I thought that video was cheesy as fuck. The narrator wants to be Don Lafontaine so bad but fails horribly.

help to stop the cashcow-milking, play aion!

AION!

You just changed cashcow, idiot.

Fuck it!
I quit wow just because i couldnt make a gnome healer. Now my life is ruined AGAIN :(

vanity

KILL IT FIRE!

Cataclysm indeed..

theyve aready lost 5 million of their playerbase...atleast 4 million of them went to Aion

I hope Kalgan gets fired over the crap he did in the pvp forums earlier...bg players pleading for weapons..he pretty much said "its my way or the highway" and got his ass chewed off for it by pissed off pvpers.

WoW lost subscribers recently because they shut down in China, not because Aion stole them. China didn't even have WOTLK yet, and they hit a problem with the Chinese company that they switched to. The game will be back in about a month, and if you think that Aion has any chance of keeping players, you're delusional.

wow players are basically sheep