finbogg

That's a job I want, I'd be a rich man if I got paid by the hour.

Anyone have a character on the Thunderhome CST server?

Tsar Chasm

Level 42 Pally now on Elune. This game doesn't get old. I'm crafting armor that is at or above my level. That's never happened in other MMORPGs for me.

fumanstan

[QUOTE=finbogg]Heh, well i'm not getting played to play it per se, but i do need to be familiar with it.

Meanwhile, moved on to a lower populated server to avoid long queue times... off to Crushridge now.

young

just cracked open the game yesterday and played for a little while. managed to get to 3rd level night elf hunter.

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question: the collector's edition says i get a pet. how?

Groucho

I don't have the CE, but there should be something in your character's inventory that you can take to a special NPC to get your pet.

Just so you aren't suprised, these are non-combat pets that don't do anything except follow you around and take up a slot in your inventory.

finbogg

I thought about buying an owl, but decided that anything that takes up a slot in my inventory AND doesn't help out in combat is a waste.

Groucho

I'm a tool. I bought a parrot myself. It's most fun in the lower level zones watching the newbies do a double-take. Espeically if I'm dancing about in Ghost Wolf form.

BTW, A new patch coming today, and it includes Christmas content. Should be fun. Prepare for a 39 meg download tonight.

Phuzbox

If anyone happens to jump on the Blackhand server, add me to your friends list with the name Phuzbox.

Groucho

We should start a pool to guess how long until the GM's change that name.

Phuzbox

I never meant for the name to have dirty connotations. Just an online name I made up a long time ago and have been using for everything.

young

btw, i'm on Warsong as Graydeth - Nightelf Hunter. total n00b w/ mmorpgs and this is my first foray into the genre. WoW reminds me of diablo except there are a lot of other people. i did have fun although i was definitely overwhelmed w/ the commands.

tomorrow, i'll start up my ffxi account and see what that's like.

Groucho

It's not a name that's dirty, it just doesn't sound "Fantasy." Apparently they've been cracking down on names a lot lately.

Heartagram

Just need a quick reply to this please.

Wanted to know if my Prosavage DDR KM266 is compatible with this game

as well as 1.8GHz, 256MB DDR with 32MGs allocated to video.

msdmoney

Your graphics card is intergrated into the motherboard. It is sort of hard to gauge compatibility, it isn't a typical add on card such as Nvidia or ATI, so I am not sure it would be on the list of compatible cards. It may work but a more than two year old intergrated card might not give the best performance. You might want to look into adding a cheap budget graphics card for abou $70, and maybe consider that if you try WOW and can't get it to work. I have heard WOW doesn't take that much to run though so you might be okay.

Phuzbox

Well this patch pisses me off a bit. Monday night I hit level 30 so I did all my Rogue training that night. The patch comes out yesterday and they lower training costs for the Rogue class. One of the items I trained in, Blinding Powder, was then changed to a higher level so I lost that and wasted a little over 1 gold for nothing. Dammit, I demand a virtual refund. Not to mention as soon as I walked into a town, I was pummeled by snowballs.

young

thanks. yup, there is a gift box and when i right clicked on it, it told me who i should visit.

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how do i gain a better weapons skill? like a sword. i have a magic sword but i can't use it.

Ghym

Me and my friends are on Blackhand as well. My character's name is Ghym. He's a lvl 37 Dwarf Paladin.

finbogg

Same thing happened to me. I spent nearly 1G on training but fortunately didn't lose any abilities.

That patch took forever to get last night. I'm not liking the Blizzard downloader at all it seems very slow.

young

how slow? i was getting like 2kbps until i changed my firewall settings. then i got the more normal 40kbps+ (uploading as well, i assume b/c of the peer to peer)

Groucho

You'll have to find a weapons trainer in one of the big cities. My approach was to train for every possible weapon for my class, that way I can use whatever the best weapon available to me is.

I agree that the download utility (which is nothing more than a crappy bittorrent client) is unacceptable. There are several threads in the official forums complaining about it. Luckily, several folks in the community threw up mirrors, and I got mine from one of those in a matter of minutes.

Here's one you can use if anybody's still struggling with the automatic system:

http://files.filefront.com/World_of_.../fileinfo.html

grifter

My friends' guild's on Blackhand so please add me. Grifti on the horde side and Wizzywig on alliance.

timewaster

yeah. the patch download pissed me off royally.
Its only 40 megs and it took me over 2 hours to download it.
I even turned off my firewall.
They really need to change it soon.

finbogg

Like almost 4hours to get it...that slow. I have the free version of Zone Alarm that doesn't allow specific port setting so I'm sure the firewall is part of the problem. But like someone else said, even shutting it down does not make it any faster.

Groucho

Gamespot has just named WoW its choice for 2004 "Game of the Year."

Ginwen

I have the paid version. When I got the game, I just shut it down and it took forever. This time I left it running and unblocked the ports, and it went much faster--it took 20-25 minutes at most.