World of Warcraft

[magintz]

Any AGSers play? I'm real tempted to get it. What proffesions, classes, skills, species, server and stuff would be interesting to find out.

[Scummbuddy]

ive been waiting for you to get online in Halo for months, and this is where you've been!?! you hussy! <slap>

[Privateer Puddin']

I have it, but my subscription isn't active atm ..

been playing WAY too much xbox live

[Mr Jake]

pfff, Jumpgate is where it is at! (kidding, but http://www.themis-group.com/jg/ and www.mightygames.co.uk for anyone that may be interested )

[Miez]

Yeah, me play ... Phinia (Gnome Warlock, lvl 14) on Argent Dawn server and Prowla (Undead Rogue, lvl 14) on the Runetotum server.
This game is pretty sweet...

[Arboris]

Yup, been playing it since it came out, including playing the american, korean and europe beta.

Yea, it kinda grows on ya before you even notice.

[stuh505]

I played WoW for about 96 hours straight after it came out.  But then I decided it was more important to not ruin my life playing video games, than to beat WoW.  anyway, the game can be addicting...it sure can....but it's got some really big design flaws that would keep me from being hooked for a really long time like Diablo did.

Basically, there are 3 major, huge, irrevocable flaws with this game.

1) You cannot trade items.  Everything is soulbound thats worth anything, even at low level.  This keeps the game balanced, and sucks all the fun out of it too.  You cant want to equip things and try them out because you might want to sell it someday.  It kills the economy.  Why make a MMORPG with a bad economy?  I dont know because I think learning to thrive in a game economy is the most fun part of rpg's...well, at least there are lots and lots of quests.  mindless ones, though.

2) There are no cool magic magic items.  As items get better, the stats get higher...and thas about it. Forget about having awesome pieces of equipment with cool names that do a zillion different cool effects.  Forget about uniques and sets and rares...nope, you just got magic items, and they have 1-3 abilities at level 1 and same thing at level 50...how boring.

3) The characters are highly not versatile.  That is, there's pretty much 1 strategy that works for any character.  No thought, no planning, no balancing skill points or making decisions to define how you will play...theres really 1 way that works for each character and this makes the game very dull.

[Scummbuddy]

1) I'm pretty sure i remember being able to trade with my friend. I dont know what youre talking about .

2) There are potions, such as shrinking or growing that you can use on people, or yourself, and that only comes at higher levels, for example.

[Arboris]

Not that im trying to defend WoW here, but your 3 flaws are kinda flawed as well

1. You definatly CAN trade items, and there is even a public auction house to sell them. As long as you didnt equip it (unless its a white item, but then nobody would buy it) Dispite of what you claim, economy in the realms are good. Only items you gain from quests and the items wich are labeled "bind on pickup" are not sellable. Also items wich you use to create other items are "hot" and sell for lots on the Auction house.

2. There Are ALOT of different effects. There are <insert element here> bolts on strike, whirlwind attack on strike, and lots more. Cool glows are an item as well, but those are pretty expensive to buy since players themselfs need to enchant the glows (actually the glows do have stats, but everyone just buys it because it'll glow like friggin lightsaber).
Also set items are present in the game. You got the devias set, the lightforge set etc. etc. I particulary like the one of the warlock sets, it gives you a hood wich darkens your face and gives you red glowing eyes .

3. you get skillpoints AFTER level 10, then you'll get 1 point to invest in 3 different skill trees, like in diablo 2. And there is no "1 playing style" It's just a matter of what you find to work the best. for example, on a mage i like to use arcane type spells with frost type bolts to slow the enemy, but my friend is fire all the way since it does huge amount of damage.
It is true however, that all skills are buyable, except for a few wich are located in the skill trees. But the skill trees do make a huge impact on the effect of these skills.

[magintz]

ScummBuddy - I haven't played it yet. I've been playing Star Wars KOTOR, thats why I havent been on Halo, although i play halo 2 round my friends place. I'll prolly be on halo tommorow tho. I'm playing WOW next friday, I'm joining Dragonmaw server where two of my friends are level 50 warrior and mage and have their own guild.

Still not sure about things yet. I waana maybe be a gnome coz they have cool machines and things. But I'm thinking about being a human preist as well

[BambiBams]

Sorry I'm late. But it IS a WoW thread so hope you'll forgive me.

Me and Moth (Andy/Tom Cruise) both play. We're on the Arathor server.
Our characters are level 40 Night Elf Druid (Desmorgana)
level 40 Night Elf Warrior (Mothhive)

And we have alts.

[magintz]

Cool I'm level 20 now

[LGM]

I regret that this game was ever created. It's worse than Everquest. My brother is on the fucking thing for 7 hours a day. THe only thing he gets off for is to eat, sleep (if that), shower and work.

It's sad.

[magintz]

I had a day much like that today

Most the time I go on for maybe 3 hours at a time

[rtf]

Sorry for the insane bump, but I thought I might as well mention that I play this god forsaken game as well.

Mind you, I tend to only play on the weekends, as for I'm really busy this year.

I got the game in June, and I've dabbled a bit with a few characters, until I finally decided on my main, an Undead Priest, level 44 atm (trying to race my friends to 60, hehe).  Server: Dethecus, in case you by some remote chance play on the same server, which you probably dont.

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

The best part about WoW is the creation of hillarious comics mocking the very concept of the game
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/578/578734p1.html

I found that funny.  And this probably applies to some people:
http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/599/599411p1.html

[Scummbuddy]

Oh, come on. I just spent eight hours reading that! Thanks a lot for the link. I'll be going to class now instead of sleeping through the night like I was supposed to.

Seriously, I don't know how I missed this comic, and thanks for linking it.

[rtf]

Oh, come on. I just spent eight hours reading that! Thanks a lot for the link. I'll be going to class now instead of sleeping through the night like I was supposed to.

Seriously, I don't know how I missed this comic, and thanks for linking it.

Hah, yeah, I should be doing history homework right now 

[Eggie]

No big game company's taking twenty quid a month of me...
If I've already bought your stupid game it should be enough for you greedy bastards!
If you REALLY need extra cash for ypur servers or whatevger, how about you just stick some burger king ads up on the elven hall of elvenness or something?

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

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