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Curse you pixie demons.
They stole my Star Wars loving fanboy avatar, stripped it of composite armour and smuggled me from Tattooine.
I awoke to find myself in a land of trees, running rivers, villages and burning torches.
This is no space-world filled with sarlaacs and Hutts & Tusken Raiders, this is a forest world filled with boars and gnomes and cows and things.
I left a world of blaster rifles and thermite grenades and found myself in a land of magic and gumdrop trees.
Hmmmmmm...I hate wizards and mages, dwarves and elves.
I loathe lv20 cloak of clearasil and battling the ancient dragons of Mongfwapp.
Y'see, I was enjoying SW Galaxies until I decided to play it properly.
I was content with zipping about on a speederbike, visiting Jabba's Palace and hassling Gungans, exploring Endor & Tattooine like a good little sci-fi fanboy.
But then I decided to master professions and see if I could attain Jedi status.
And then my introduction to the world of "grinding".
That, for the virgin, is the thankless and endless task of repeatedly killing/foraging/creating something non-stop for the simple point of gaining XP to make the next level.
It involved hours (and I do mean hours) of simply shooting lairs and creatures to reach the next level.
Except I worked out to master the Marskman profession required 3,000,000 XP points in total.
At around 2k per monster, at the advanced stage.
So I bought World of Warcraft, figuring hey it's £25 and I could play the free month if nothing else.
Ok so it's pixies and mages, warlocks and wizards.
Meh.
Choose my avatar. No way in Tolkein's pipe am I going to be anything other than human. And no wizard human or any of that other crap.
A human warrior. With a massive sword. And no magic - that's for D&D fanatics and pasty sociopaths who actually believe fairies exist.
Game starts and I'm in a fluffy, almost cartoonish village square.
This seems ok, I'll run about a bit. Christ, there's an Elf already
*sigh*
I'm going to attack that rabbit, because I can. And I did. This is pretty cool. Now I'm going to dance in my pants for money. And it works, whats more it annoys Elves
[URL]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/6010/wow31uo.jpg[/URL]
Take a quest to deliver some scroll to some bloody sheriff somewhere with lots of consonants, whatever.
There's a pig! Here piggy piggy.
SLASH HACK STAB
Hahahaha, I killed a pig. And a cow. This is quite fun.
Eh? I'm level 3, how the hell did that happen? That took days on SW Galaxies.
That was 1 week ago.
Now I'm a Lv14 Warrior and absolutely love this game. I've thrown myself with abandon to warlocks and munchkins, gnomes and goats.
And it's the most fun I've had playing a game in a long, long time.
Why?
Lots of reasons, mainly that it's fun.
No grinding of mindless skills to increase your level. You take quests that are fun, quests that reward you with decent £ or excellent equipment.
And, here's the selling point for me, the levelling up happens whilst you play the game instead of hours spent doing nothing else.
But you don't have to. I spent an hour fishing with a bloke from Greece today, chatting about stuff inbetween landing life-giving fishies.
I found a guy from Norway from 2 days earlier and he showed me the biggest damn dam I've ever come across in a game
[URL]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/8416/wow80xb.jpg[/URL]
It's seamless. You take quests to earn loot & gear and suddenly find yourself a level higher than you did an hour ago. Attaining higher levels is a pleasant by-product of simply enjoying yourself smashing pigs with claymores or scything down thieves to collect their headbands.
And the world...the world itself is stunning in details.
I've spent a week in the land I started off on, and I still haven't seen 75% of it, but decided to head to Ironforge to deliver a package.
And it literally had me sitting there just staring like a tard at the main hall
[URL]http://img205.exs.cx/img205/9959/wow61ix.jpg[/URL]
That's just the entrance, it opens into a massive - and I do mean MASSIVE - hall, the size of Moria in the Lord of The Rings movie where they fled from that flame-monster thing.
Me, a Greek and a Nord wandering through a snow covered world.
Where you leave footprints in the snow and your breath steams.
[URL]http://img219.exs.cx/img219/8081/wow74yr.jpg[/URL]
After an hour, we decided to head back to our home-castle, and they introduced me to the best reason for playing I've come across so far.
The Gryffin ride.
You pay 1 silver and this thing flies you over the map.
No breaks, no loading, no stuttering. You take off and fly over the entire map to your destination. You stare goggle-eyed at places you haven't visited yet, places you want to see and explore. Mines, quarries, enormous lochs, towns you didnt even know were there.
[URL]http://img51.exs.cx/img51/7041/wow96td.jpg[/URL]
I initially loathed the idea of World of Warcraft. Pixies, magic men and orcs. Bah, that's going to sniff cordrouy balls, no thanks.
But trust me folks, if you have broadband then get the game.
And screw the "But it's £8 per month!!!!" noise, because you won't even explore one area properly in a month, look at it like buying a game per month for £8 with more depth, more detail, more care and attention and more playability than Elder Scrolls or anything else.
Because so far, for pure simple fun and "cor..." moments, World of Warcraft owns me, my games, my computer and my spare time.
GTA3, Metal Gear Solid, Morrowind.
These are games that, whilst playing, I thought "This is something new, I've not played a game like this before"
World of Warcraft stands astride them in a rock-pose, tips it's beardy head back and laughs really really loudly whilst urinating a fountain of warm lovely game.
Buy it.
They stole my Star Wars loving fanboy avatar, stripped it of composite armour and smuggled me from Tattooine.
I awoke to find myself in a land of trees, running rivers, villages and burning torches.
This is no space-world filled with sarlaacs and Hutts & Tusken Raiders, this is a forest world filled with boars and gnomes and cows and things.
I left a world of blaster rifles and thermite grenades and found myself in a land of magic and gumdrop trees.
Hmmmmmm...I hate wizards and mages, dwarves and elves.
I loathe lv20 cloak of clearasil and battling the ancient dragons of Mongfwapp.
Y'see, I was enjoying SW Galaxies until I decided to play it properly.
I was content with zipping about on a speederbike, visiting Jabba's Palace and hassling Gungans, exploring Endor & Tattooine like a good little sci-fi fanboy.
But then I decided to master professions and see if I could attain Jedi status.
And then my introduction to the world of "grinding".
That, for the virgin, is the thankless and endless task of repeatedly killing/foraging/creating something non-stop for the simple point of gaining XP to make the next level.
It involved hours (and I do mean hours) of simply shooting lairs and creatures to reach the next level.
Except I worked out to master the Marskman profession required 3,000,000 XP points in total.
At around 2k per monster, at the advanced stage.
So I bought World of Warcraft, figuring hey it's £25 and I could play the free month if nothing else.
Ok so it's pixies and mages, warlocks and wizards.
Meh.
Choose my avatar. No way in Tolkein's pipe am I going to be anything other than human. And no wizard human or any of that other crap.
A human warrior. With a massive sword. And no magic - that's for D&D fanatics and pasty sociopaths who actually believe fairies exist.
Game starts and I'm in a fluffy, almost cartoonish village square.
This seems ok, I'll run about a bit. Christ, there's an Elf already
*sigh*
I'm going to attack that rabbit, because I can. And I did. This is pretty cool. Now I'm going to dance in my pants for money. And it works, whats more it annoys Elves
[URL]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/6010/wow31uo.jpg[/URL]
Take a quest to deliver some scroll to some bloody sheriff somewhere with lots of consonants, whatever.
There's a pig! Here piggy piggy.
SLASH HACK STAB
Hahahaha, I killed a pig. And a cow. This is quite fun.
Eh? I'm level 3, how the hell did that happen? That took days on SW Galaxies.
That was 1 week ago.
Now I'm a Lv14 Warrior and absolutely love this game. I've thrown myself with abandon to warlocks and munchkins, gnomes and goats.
And it's the most fun I've had playing a game in a long, long time.
Why?
Lots of reasons, mainly that it's fun.
No grinding of mindless skills to increase your level. You take quests that are fun, quests that reward you with decent £ or excellent equipment.
And, here's the selling point for me, the levelling up happens whilst you play the game instead of hours spent doing nothing else.
But you don't have to. I spent an hour fishing with a bloke from Greece today, chatting about stuff inbetween landing life-giving fishies.
I found a guy from Norway from 2 days earlier and he showed me the biggest damn dam I've ever come across in a game
[URL]http://img19.exs.cx/img19/8416/wow80xb.jpg[/URL]
It's seamless. You take quests to earn loot & gear and suddenly find yourself a level higher than you did an hour ago. Attaining higher levels is a pleasant by-product of simply enjoying yourself smashing pigs with claymores or scything down thieves to collect their headbands.
And the world...the world itself is stunning in details.
I've spent a week in the land I started off on, and I still haven't seen 75% of it, but decided to head to Ironforge to deliver a package.
And it literally had me sitting there just staring like a tard at the main hall
[URL]http://img205.exs.cx/img205/9959/wow61ix.jpg[/URL]
That's just the entrance, it opens into a massive - and I do mean MASSIVE - hall, the size of Moria in the Lord of The Rings movie where they fled from that flame-monster thing.
Me, a Greek and a Nord wandering through a snow covered world.
Where you leave footprints in the snow and your breath steams.
[URL]http://img219.exs.cx/img219/8081/wow74yr.jpg[/URL]
After an hour, we decided to head back to our home-castle, and they introduced me to the best reason for playing I've come across so far.
The Gryffin ride.
You pay 1 silver and this thing flies you over the map.
No breaks, no loading, no stuttering. You take off and fly over the entire map to your destination. You stare goggle-eyed at places you haven't visited yet, places you want to see and explore. Mines, quarries, enormous lochs, towns you didnt even know were there.
[URL]http://img51.exs.cx/img51/7041/wow96td.jpg[/URL]
I initially loathed the idea of World of Warcraft. Pixies, magic men and orcs. Bah, that's going to sniff cordrouy balls, no thanks.
But trust me folks, if you have broadband then get the game.
And screw the "But it's £8 per month!!!!" noise, because you won't even explore one area properly in a month, look at it like buying a game per month for £8 with more depth, more detail, more care and attention and more playability than Elder Scrolls or anything else.
Because so far, for pure simple fun and "cor..." moments, World of Warcraft owns me, my games, my computer and my spare time.
GTA3, Metal Gear Solid, Morrowind.
These are games that, whilst playing, I thought "This is something new, I've not played a game like this before"
World of Warcraft stands astride them in a rock-pose, tips it's beardy head back and laughs really really loudly whilst urinating a fountain of warm lovely game.
Buy it.
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The reason why no one wants to be horde is because they all look like total retards.
This game sounds good I have to admit.
I want it but that means saving up for a new PC and......meh!
I want it but that means saving up for a new PC and......meh!
I have a Gnome Rogue, he rules.
Rogues have some great skills and are lethal if used properly.
Plus, they can train in lots of weapons and also dual-wield. Currently I have a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other.
Dual wielding with enchanted weapons makes for possibly the coolest looking characters in the game :D
Rogues have some great skills and are lethal if used properly.
Plus, they can train in lots of weapons and also dual-wield. Currently I have a sword in one hand and a dagger in the other.
Dual wielding with enchanted weapons makes for possibly the coolest looking characters in the game :D
Hmm, I didn't like KOTOR that much... I kept wanting to button mash. I think maybe if I went as a Rogue it'd be better, having to concentrate on sneaking and back-stabs and so on, and building up combo points, that'd be more fun than warrior.
Plus, I don't think warriors can use bows? Goatboy said he uses a gun with his warrior, and that isn't listed, so er, who knows.
But it's either human warrior or rogue for me. I might go warrior gnome for a laugh mind.
Plus, I don't think warriors can use bows? Goatboy said he uses a gun with his warrior, and that isn't listed, so er, who knows.
But it's either human warrior or rogue for me. I might go warrior gnome for a laugh mind.
Grix Thraves wrote:
> Ugh...
>
> I don't care about stats and calculating my agility, I just want to
> be a human with a sword and a bow and go around shooting things. And
> maybe ride a horse.
>
> I'll probably buy this very soon.
The stats don't really come into it that much - it's a very good balance, a little like KOTOR.
> Ugh...
>
> I don't care about stats and calculating my agility, I just want to
> be a human with a sword and a bow and go around shooting things. And
> maybe ride a horse.
>
> I'll probably buy this very soon.
The stats don't really come into it that much - it's a very good balance, a little like KOTOR.
Alright - when I go Orc I'll go on Dunemauld of whatever it's called.
Sorry WS, I didn't realise that :(
Sorry WS, I didn't realise that :(
I'm not really playing fully yet as my graphics card is so bad.
I fancy going an ork though... I went a human at first but broke my sword and wolves get killing me. I sucked.
I fancy going an ork though... I went a human at first but broke my sword and wolves get killing me. I sucked.
As for Different factions on thesame server, You can have them on a PvE server, but it's one or the other on PvP.
I'm using Dragonmaw for Alliance and Dunemaul for Horde - I've yet to begin my Horde characters though. I'm just busy levelling up my Gnome and Dwarf.
I tried running my puny level 10 Gnome through Wetlands yesterday, to get to Darnassus - I stumbled across about 10+ Horde, level 30+.
I cried then bent over.
I'm using Dragonmaw for Alliance and Dunemaul for Horde - I've yet to begin my Horde characters though. I'm just busy levelling up my Gnome and Dwarf.
I tried running my puny level 10 Gnome through Wetlands yesterday, to get to Darnassus - I stumbled across about 10+ Horde, level 30+.
I cried then bent over.
A b*stard sword is inbetween a long sword and a two handed sword in size, and as Hedfix said can be held in one hand or with both.
I don't see the appeal of the Alliance either, stumpy hairball Dwarves and 2 foot Gnomes? No thanks.
Where as Horde have zombies, brutish killing machines and giant bulls with big horns that knock people over just by stamping their feet.
I don't see the appeal of the Alliance either, stumpy hairball Dwarves and 2 foot Gnomes? No thanks.
Where as Horde have zombies, brutish killing machines and giant bulls with big horns that knock people over just by stamping their feet.
cipro wrote:
> I don't see the appeal as far the Alliance go personally, far too
> many flappy eared elves, still, plenty to kill.
In a month although i mite have missed all the fun, when i decided to register my copy of WoW on the offical servers i plan on going horde, who really wants to play as a short-ass, pointy ear or a human?
Plus i see it as playing properly if i were to kill everyone i come across (assuming there is anyone lower than me in a months time) and just put i down to playing as a Ork.
Ganking fun...
> I don't see the appeal as far the Alliance go personally, far too
> many flappy eared elves, still, plenty to kill.
In a month although i mite have missed all the fun, when i decided to register my copy of WoW on the offical servers i plan on going horde, who really wants to play as a short-ass, pointy ear or a human?
Plus i see it as playing properly if i were to kill everyone i come across (assuming there is anyone lower than me in a months time) and just put i down to playing as a Ork.
Ganking fun...
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