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Link2000 · 11-14-2005, 07:41 AM

WoW is the better game.

TotalEclipse · 11-14-2005, 09:14 AM

... You ever heard of internet language?

Then I suggest you re-examine what I said

Corrections: I aint got; I haven't got

Porns; Pawns

Cos; because

tho; though

So ''sorreee!!!'' that it wansn't to your 1337 standards. From what i've seen, ''1337'' or ''elite'' talk, is just random crap you just make up on the Internet.

What I said about the vulnrabillity of the game does make sense, it just depends on the way you look at it.

Examples: You may think that a game has to be locked tight of any mods or custom made patches to the game.

I on the other hand, think it's pretty cool to be able to manipulate it because that flexibility of the game can be used to do or make whatever you like to add to the game.

Happy? If not, forget it you're hopeless.

Edit: People who get worried about viruses are paranoid.

[ November 14, 2005, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: TotalEclipse ]

**NintendoNut** · 11-14-2005, 05:13 PM

I went to Gamespot (I find they're right with a lot of things) and they gave Everquest II 7.8 out of 10. World of Warcraft got 9.5. Yeah, speaks volumes.

PT: I've been looking for a good online game to play since I stopped Runescape plus I've had a lot of interest in WoW since it came out. It's just that the monthly fee put me off a bit.

d · 11-14-2005, 07:37 PM

If you want to check with really reliable ratings, check Computer Games Magazine. I've been a subscriber to them for.... what, 4 or 5 years now? They have only steered me wrong from a game twice. MOO3 and Superpower. Both of which I understood entirely their point, its just that they were my type of games. HARD.

I don't know much about EQII but WoW was a good game while I played it. In my opinion, I'd get WoW over EQII if you like the Warcraft universe, you'd probably find it much more interesting.

Nick · 11-14-2005, 10:15 PM

Your attempt at wit is pathetic. Stop trying to cover for your illiterate nonsense.

Open games are a dual-edge. While you do open them up to modding and other aspects that are good, a game that is, in your original terminology "vunerable" is prone to cheaters.

NinNut, to clarify: I wouldn't recommend a Sony MMORPG right now because they're in the process of reevalutating the whole division. They're considering moving towards a fee-free model that instead makes its money by selling items and gold directly to the character using real dollars/pounds/whatever you other people use. Looking in the Sony MMORPG library is showing a ton of problems right now. Star Wars Galaxies is on the decline and looks like its on the path to getting cancelled. The Matrix Online looks like it may die due to lack of any community. Everquest II has its own issues, and they seem to be implimenting features that originally came from World of Warcraft (that should tell you something).

World of Warcraft is not without its problems. Horde/Alliance balance is an issue on almost every server I've seen. Typical stupid kids are choosing Alliance because "TEHY LIEK AER TEH GOOD!1" (that, my dear moron, is how you speak 4aXX0rZ) or typical stupid asses like myself are choosing them because they don't want to have to play as an ugly Orc, undefined Troll (they look like anorexic orcs), a Cow...I mean Tauren, or a Zombie. That should change by the expansion (whenever that will be) when the Horde gets Bloodelves...meaning they're going to get a whole flock of obnoxious idiots who like to run around in circles during battlegrounds and the like.

Also, my other problem with WoW is that the player economy really sucks on non-established servers. You're better off faring the lag on a high population server than going to a low one because the player economy is horrible on lower pop. servers. Common sense, fewer people can make the items, so they charge way too much. Also, I dislike how many gold-sinks they have in the game. If you want to afford any of the pretty rare items in the AH or find them, you have to (duh) grind like crazy to either find them or get the gold. Only reason I had enough gold to buy my mount at 40 and outfit myself with some good daggers in my 30s was the epic I found and sold at some really jacked up price in the AH. Also, there's several class balance issues, but they seem to be addressing those (sort of, I dislike how I'm a rogue and cannot keep stealth against any other class).

However, if you are looking at holding off, there are a few MMORPGs on the horizon that look like they may be decent. Namely, Middle Earth Online or whatever they're calling it (Lord of the Rings) and whatever they're calling the Dungeons and Dragons game (they invented the whole system, they theoretically should do it better).

Plus, if you don't want fees, Guild Wars is a good alternative. Granted, its more like a fleshed out version of Diablo II as opposed to a full fledged MMORPG experience like World of Warcraft, Everquest II, and others of that ilk.

**NintendoNut** · 11-15-2005, 05:11 PM

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NinNut, to clarify: I wouldn't recommend a Sony MMORPG right now because they're in the process of reevalutating the whole division. They're considering moving towards a fee-free model that instead makes its money by selling items and gold directly to the character using real dollars/pounds/whatever you other people use. Looking in the Sony MMORPG library is showing a ton of problems right now. Star Wars Galaxies is on the decline and looks like its on the path to getting cancelled. The Matrix Online looks like it may die due to lack of any community. Everquest II has its own issues, and they seem to be implimenting features that originally came from World of Warcraft (that should tell you something).

This proposed new Sony system sounds worrying. Seems that I'd just pay more money for the sake of it to buy loads of gold. That don't sound good.

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World of Warcraft is not without its problems. Horde/Alliance balance is an issue on almost every server I've seen.

I've had a look at the options on the website and I think I'll join the Horde. I just dunno what race and class to pick.

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my other problem with WoW is that the player economy really sucks on non-established servers. You're better off faring the lag on a high population server than going to a low one because the player economy is horrible on lower pop. servers.

Does a person's internet connection make a difference to how much the game lags? Cos I have a 2mb broadband connection.

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Plus, if you don't want fees, Guild Wars is a good alternative.

Fees won't be a problem as soon as I'm earning money. I'm quite happy to pay them.

As I said anyway, I think I will go with Gamespot and buy World of Warcraft as soon as I get my job.

Nick · 11-15-2005, 10:25 PM

Horde right now is good because you'll likely not be facing any queues for battlegrounds when you want to play them. Alliance looks at lengthy ones now.

Horde is going to get Bloodelves with the expansion (I'm guessing a May street date). Granted, if I were going to reroll a horde, I'd likely be a troll or undead. I just hate the way the Cow/Taurens and Orcs look.

Class is another subject altogether and it can alter what race you pick. Figure out what you want to play as before you pick a race. Any sort of caster is going to be weaker in the early levels and will almost require grouping throughout most of the games (especially if you roll a priest). Rogues are excellent for solo play. Warriors are decent if you're soloing, but I'm not really a fan of them. Hunters (there seems to be alot of them now) are pretty good and they get plate (or is it mail) at lvl 40. Not a bad deal, although there's been a recent boom in hunters lately so you may have problems getting in a group (same with a rogue). Shamans are, well, shamans. Think of some sort of obnoxious hybrid between a hunter, druid, and paladin. Druids are a decent class to use too, though Shammys and Druids are often better in groups.

Lets put it this way, if you want a ton of friends and don't need a ton of player kills and things like that, be a priest. Everyone loves healers. Granted, that class gets really boring really quickly, so I can't honestly recommend it.

Also, figure out what type server you want to be on. PvEs are good, although you can get pretty bored with them and it can be a bit harder to get PvP ranks in them (you have to battleground more than quest to do that). PvP is obnoxiously a pain to start off (lvl 60s raiding n00b zones), but if you really want to PvP its the way to go. Role playing servers are obnoxious. Avoid like the plague unless you want to do what I did (lvl 1 dwarf running around acting like an ass).

Broadband helps. You don't want to be the jerk using a 56K. They announced that they're putting multiple auction houses (one per racial capital linked per faction) and universal group channels (for the capital cities) with the next patch, which should theoretically clear up the crowds in Ogrimar and Ironforge. So the lag should improve by a ton.

**Prince Toad** · 11-15-2005, 10:30 PM

I used to play Guild Wars, NNut. It lasted me, oh, five months or so-- solid playtime for any game. Only game I've played for longer that I can think of is Morrowind. I played Rome: Total War for a good four months. I'm not sure of any other games I've played that long.

Anyway, it's a great game. They update it constantly, for one thing. I recommend it.

Link2000 · 11-16-2005, 07:46 AM

On PvP servers the population inbalance in much more even. For example, on Cho'Gall it's nearly 50-50, with a little bit more Horde.

**NintendoNut** · 11-16-2005, 03:26 PM

I figure I'll hold out on buying the game until about April/May next year. 2 reasons really:

1: The expansion may be out by then
2: I don't want the game to interfere with studying for my final exams.

Sim Kid · 11-19-2005, 05:30 PM

There's a huge overpopulation of hunters because they and rogues are pretty much now the highest DPS classes and since all the rich spoiled children are playing this game (with alot of the stuck-ups playing horde. If I can find the guy behind some of those characters I'd kick their asses) they want classes that are easy to play, which is why you see about 20 Night Elf/Undead Rogues and 15 hunters for every Druid or Warlock. Druids pretty much have one tree everybody likes and the other two are undesired in instances because they just want druids to be healers/mana *****es for priests and Warlocks have those soul shards.

Nick · 11-19-2005, 08:34 PM

You left out the part about the ****heads twinking out their Hunters and Rogues. Though if you were going to pick one out of the two, go hunter since everyone hates Rogues. I like how flares are effective for 30 seconds and have like a 15 sec. cooloff. Thanks for making stealth useless jerks.

shinbuya · 11-20-2005, 04:16 PM

sweet

Lord_Zack · 11-24-2005, 11:05 PM

I just got the game today. It is very fun. My brother actually did twink his rogue though. He's good at the battlegrounds.

**NintendoNut** · 12-02-2005, 04:37 PM

Recently I downloaded the EQ2 trial, at least I have some damn idea of what EQ2 is like to play.

**NintendoNut** · 06-21-2006, 04:49 AM

UPDATE: I got the game on Friday, have never looked back since. I am a level 12 Orc Hunter with a pet raptor.

Plus point: Have only encountered one I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once..

I am already addicted.

Servers are down until 12 noon so I would be playing if not for that.

PS Sorry for the bump but it was only on page 2.

MASALOBOTOMY · 06-30-2006, 07:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZIPPYDIPPY19

And yeah, levels are quick below 10, but they really start to trail off after that. You can spend multiple weeks gaining a level after 40.

Off topic, but try playing Lineage 2. :P

Nojoy · 07-01-2006, 04:59 PM

pfft. more like World of BOREcraft

Lurch1982 · 07-01-2006, 09:08 PM

Oh that's clever, how's that going for you...ya know, being clever?

Nojoy · 07-01-2006, 09:47 PM

i see what you did

07-01-2006, 09:47 PM	#60
Nojoy Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wouldn't you like to know Gender: Posts: 90 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 1,989.66 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 2,489.66 Donate	i see what you did Last edited by Nojoy; 07-01-2006 at 11:30 PM.

11-14-2005, 07:41 AM	#41
Link2000 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Ontario, Canada Gender: Posts: 8,052 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Points: 16,367.15 Bank: 804.22 Total Points: 17,171.37 Donate	WoW is the better game.

11-14-2005, 09:14 AM	#42
TotalEclipse Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Gender: Posts: 160 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Points: 5,268.88 Bank: 541.22 Total Points: 5,810.10 Donate	... You ever heard of internet language? Then I suggest you re-examine what I said Corrections: I aint got; I haven't got Porns; Pawns Cos; because tho; though So ''sorreee!!!'' that it wansn't to your 1337 standards. From what i've seen, ''1337'' or ''elite'' talk, is just random crap you just make up on the Internet. What I said about the vulnrabillity of the game does make sense, it just depends on the way you look at it. Examples: You may think that a game has to be locked tight of any mods or custom made patches to the game. I on the other hand, think it's pretty cool to be able to manipulate it because that flexibility of the game can be used to do or make whatever you like to add to the game. Happy? If not, forget it you're hopeless. Edit: People who get worried about viruses are paranoid. [ November 14, 2005, 10:29 AM: Message edited by: TotalEclipse ]

11-14-2005, 05:13 PM	#43
NintendoNut NinNut Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hold on, I know this..... Gender: Posts: 8,264 Thanks: 65 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts Points: 46,229.45 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 46,229.45 Donate	I went to Gamespot (I find they're right with a lot of things) and they gave Everquest II 7.8 out of 10. World of Warcraft got 9.5. Yeah, speaks volumes. PT: I've been looking for a good online game to play since I stopped Runescape plus I've had a lot of interest in WoW since it came out. It's just that the monthly fee put me off a bit.

11-14-2005, 07:37 PM	#44
d Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Terra Haute,Indiana Posts: 687 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 3,529.42 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 4,029.42 Donate	If you want to check with really reliable ratings, check Computer Games Magazine. I've been a subscriber to them for.... what, 4 or 5 years now? They have only steered me wrong from a game twice. MOO3 and Superpower. Both of which I understood entirely their point, its just that they were my type of games. HARD. I don't know much about EQII but WoW was a good game while I played it. In my opinion, I'd get WoW over EQII if you like the Warcraft universe, you'd probably find it much more interesting.

11-14-2005, 10:15 PM	#45
Nick Banned Join Date: Dec 1969 Posts: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 10,679.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 11,179.00 Donate	Your attempt at wit is pathetic. Stop trying to cover for your illiterate nonsense. Open games are a dual-edge. While you do open them up to modding and other aspects that are good, a game that is, in your original terminology "vunerable" is prone to cheaters. NinNut, to clarify: I wouldn't recommend a Sony MMORPG right now because they're in the process of reevalutating the whole division. They're considering moving towards a fee-free model that instead makes its money by selling items and gold directly to the character using real dollars/pounds/whatever you other people use. Looking in the Sony MMORPG library is showing a ton of problems right now. Star Wars Galaxies is on the decline and looks like its on the path to getting cancelled. The Matrix Online looks like it may die due to lack of any community. Everquest II has its own issues, and they seem to be implimenting features that originally came from World of Warcraft (that should tell you something). World of Warcraft is not without its problems. Horde/Alliance balance is an issue on almost every server I've seen. Typical stupid kids are choosing Alliance because "TEHY LIEK AER TEH GOOD!1" (that, my dear moron, is how you speak 4aXX0rZ) or typical stupid asses like myself are choosing them because they don't want to have to play as an ugly Orc, undefined Troll (they look like anorexic orcs), a Cow...I mean Tauren, or a Zombie. That should change by the expansion (whenever that will be) when the Horde gets Bloodelves...meaning they're going to get a whole flock of obnoxious idiots who like to run around in circles during battlegrounds and the like. Also, my other problem with WoW is that the player economy really sucks on non-established servers. You're better off faring the lag on a high population server than going to a low one because the player economy is horrible on lower pop. servers. Common sense, fewer people can make the items, so they charge way too much. Also, I dislike how many gold-sinks they have in the game. If you want to afford any of the pretty rare items in the AH or find them, you have to (duh) grind like crazy to either find them or get the gold. Only reason I had enough gold to buy my mount at 40 and outfit myself with some good daggers in my 30s was the epic I found and sold at some really jacked up price in the AH. Also, there's several class balance issues, but they seem to be addressing those (sort of, I dislike how I'm a rogue and cannot keep stealth against any other class). However, if you are looking at holding off, there are a few MMORPGs on the horizon that look like they may be decent. Namely, Middle Earth Online or whatever they're calling it (Lord of the Rings) and whatever they're calling the Dungeons and Dragons game (they invented the whole system, they theoretically should do it better). Plus, if you don't want fees, Guild Wars is a good alternative. Granted, its more like a fleshed out version of Diablo II as opposed to a full fledged MMORPG experience like World of Warcraft, Everquest II, and others of that ilk.

11-15-2005, 10:25 PM	#47
Nick Banned Join Date: Dec 1969 Posts: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 10,679.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 11,179.00 Donate	Horde right now is good because you'll likely not be facing any queues for battlegrounds when you want to play them. Alliance looks at lengthy ones now. Horde is going to get Bloodelves with the expansion (I'm guessing a May street date). Granted, if I were going to reroll a horde, I'd likely be a troll or undead. I just hate the way the Cow/Taurens and Orcs look. Class is another subject altogether and it can alter what race you pick. Figure out what you want to play as before you pick a race. Any sort of caster is going to be weaker in the early levels and will almost require grouping throughout most of the games (especially if you roll a priest). Rogues are excellent for solo play. Warriors are decent if you're soloing, but I'm not really a fan of them. Hunters (there seems to be alot of them now) are pretty good and they get plate (or is it mail) at lvl 40. Not a bad deal, although there's been a recent boom in hunters lately so you may have problems getting in a group (same with a rogue). Shamans are, well, shamans. Think of some sort of obnoxious hybrid between a hunter, druid, and paladin. Druids are a decent class to use too, though Shammys and Druids are often better in groups. Lets put it this way, if you want a ton of friends and don't need a ton of player kills and things like that, be a priest. Everyone loves healers. Granted, that class gets really boring really quickly, so I can't honestly recommend it. Also, figure out what type server you want to be on. PvEs are good, although you can get pretty bored with them and it can be a bit harder to get PvP ranks in them (you have to battleground more than quest to do that). PvP is obnoxiously a pain to start off (lvl 60s raiding n00b zones), but if you really want to PvP its the way to go. Role playing servers are obnoxious. Avoid like the plague unless you want to do what I did (lvl 1 dwarf running around acting like an ass). Broadband helps. You don't want to be the jerk using a 56K. They announced that they're putting multiple auction houses (one per racial capital linked per faction) and universal group channels (for the capital cities) with the next patch, which should theoretically clear up the crowds in Ogrimar and Ironforge. So the lag should improve by a ton.

11-15-2005, 10:30 PM	#48
Prince Toad PC Mod Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Rookery Gender: Posts: 11,418 Thanks: 43 Thanked 56 Times in 47 Posts Points: 44,730.38 Bank: 22,313.30 Total Points: 67,043.68 Donate	I used to play Guild Wars, NNut. It lasted me, oh, five months or so-- solid playtime for any game. Only game I've played for longer that I can think of is Morrowind. I played Rome: Total War for a good four months. I'm not sure of any other games I've played that long. Anyway, it's a great game. They update it constantly, for one thing. I recommend it.

11-16-2005, 07:46 AM	#49
Link2000 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Ontario, Canada Gender: Posts: 8,052 Thanks: 1 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Points: 16,367.15 Bank: 804.22 Total Points: 17,171.37 Donate	On PvP servers the population inbalance in much more even. For example, on Cho'Gall it's nearly 50-50, with a little bit more Horde.

11-16-2005, 03:26 PM	#50
NintendoNut NinNut Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hold on, I know this..... Gender: Posts: 8,264 Thanks: 65 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts Points: 46,229.45 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 46,229.45 Donate	I figure I'll hold out on buying the game until about April/May next year. 2 reasons really: 1: The expansion may be out by then 2: I don't want the game to interfere with studying for my final exams.

11-19-2005, 05:30 PM	#51
Sim Kid Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The state of Denial Gender: Posts: 6,869 Thanks: 9 Thanked 54 Times in 29 Posts Points: 35,075.04 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 35,575.04 Donate	There's a huge overpopulation of hunters because they and rogues are pretty much now the highest DPS classes and since all the rich spoiled children are playing this game (with alot of the stuck-ups playing horde. If I can find the guy behind some of those characters I'd kick their asses) they want classes that are easy to play, which is why you see about 20 Night Elf/Undead Rogues and 15 hunters for every Druid or Warlock. Druids pretty much have one tree everybody likes and the other two are undesired in instances because they just want druids to be healers/mana *****es for priests and Warlocks have those soul shards.

11-19-2005, 08:34 PM	#52
Nick Banned Join Date: Dec 1969 Posts: 0 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 10,679.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 11,179.00 Donate	You left out the part about the ****heads twinking out their Hunters and Rogues. Though if you were going to pick one out of the two, go hunter since everyone hates Rogues. I like how flares are effective for 30 seconds and have like a 15 sec. cooloff. Thanks for making stealth useless jerks.

11-20-2005, 04:16 PM	#53
shinbuya Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cali Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Points: 588.00 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 1,088.00 Donate	sweet

11-24-2005, 11:05 PM	#54
Lord_Zack Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Gender: Posts: 752 Thanks: 22 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts Points: 12,273.55 Bank: 2,590.48 Total Points: 14,864.03 Donate	I just got the game today. It is very fun. My brother actually did twink his rogue though. He's good at the battlegrounds.

12-02-2005, 04:37 PM	#55
NintendoNut NinNut Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hold on, I know this..... Gender: Posts: 8,264 Thanks: 65 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts Points: 46,229.45 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 46,229.45 Donate	Recently I downloaded the EQ2 trial, at least I have some damn idea of what EQ2 is like to play.

06-21-2006, 04:49 AM	#56
NintendoNut NinNut Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hold on, I know this..... Gender: Posts: 8,264 Thanks: 65 Thanked 36 Times in 29 Posts Points: 46,229.45 Bank: 0.00 Total Points: 46,229.45 Donate	UPDATE: I got the game on Friday, have never looked back since. I am a level 12 Orc Hunter with a pet raptor. Plus point: Have only encountered one I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.I had a dog once.. I am already addicted. Servers are down until 12 noon so I would be playing if not for that. PS Sorry for the bump but it was only on page 2.

07-01-2006, 04:59 PM	#58
Nojoy Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Wouldn't you like to know Gender: Posts: 90 Thanks: 2 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post Points: 1,989.66 Bank: 500.00 Total Points: 2,489.66 Donate	pfft. more like World of BOREcraft

07-01-2006, 09:08 PM	#59
Lurch1982 Senior Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Katrinaland, USA Gender: Posts: 9,150 Thanks: 119 Thanked 204 Times in 126 Posts Points: 27,603.51 Bank: 172,759.35 Total Points: 200,362.86 Donate	Oh that's clever, how's that going for you...ya know, being clever?