Cataclysm isn’t even going to come out until sometime in 2010 (probably summer or later), so you don’t have to worry about anything for a while. As for the memory, I don’t know. They try to keep backwards compatibility in mind, because making your subscribers spend more than $1000 on a new computer every time you put out an expansion isn’t really good business (unless you manufacture computers, too).
Yeah yeah, keep using that excuse, someone’s gonna slap you eventually. 
Shhhhhhh!
Blizzard’s already putting their grimy paws into voice communication, don’t give them any more ideas!
That’s just licensing. They’ve had WoW keyboards and mouses (mice?) for a while now.
Quasi brings up an interesting question, though. What happens to people who don’t buy Cataclysm, or are buying Original WoW for the first time w/out the expansions? Will “Old Azeroth” still be supported? Will it be phased with “New Azeroth”?
Old Azeroth will be gone. Everyone will see New Azeroth, but non-Cataclysm players will not have access to the new 81+ areas, races, and presumably Archaeology.
I assume it will be just like with BC or WotLK - people who don’t buy the expansions will still download a big-ass patch that changes around the various talent settings, makes changes to all of the areas accessible to non-expansion types, and so forth. They just won’t (a) be able to level past whatever their current level cap is (b) won’t be able to access the new raids & instances and (c) won’t be able to create goblins or worgen or go to the goblin and worgen noob zones.
ETA: I bet they will have access to Archaeology - I don’t believe you needed BC to get Jewelcrafting, and I know you didn’t need Wrath to get inscription.
Over in STV, going after Chucky’s ring? (“Voodoo Dues” in Ruins of Aboraz)
I learned I could “run away”! from those Zanzai zombies and such. Got all the way down to just a sliver of green, then said "what the hell, let’s try this just for S&G’s, and damn if we didn’t get away, regain some health and live to fight again! 
Doesn’t work when two of them (44’s) are after you, though.
For some reason, I had the idea that one must stand and fight.
A labarynth and wasteland indeed is the mind of Quasmodem!
And FH? I KNOW!
I just hope aruvqan doesn’t start slappin’ me “in game”!
I think our goose would be cooked if that were to happen.
I am just so glad y’all know my personality and know I wouldn’t ever offend anyone intentionally.
Whelp! Gotta lie down for a bit. Wife’s going in to work tonight and made me promise to only play 15 minutes out of every hour!
Thanks
Q
Makes me want to smack Blizzard upside the head and say, “You make how many millions of dollars a month, and the best voice actor you can come up with is this guy? And who the hell wrote this? Did you just do a Google search for ‘WoW fanfic’ and /roll to see how far down the list you’d go to find a writer?”
Vanilla was 60, BC added 10 more levels to 70, and Wrath added 10 more levels to 80. Presumably they want to keep doing expansions without having the level cap get ridiculously high, so this time we only get five more levels. However, those five levels should take about as long as the previous expansions’ respective 10 levels. Also, only adding five levels lets them keep the current talent trees as-is; previous expansions necessitated adding all-new talents, but Cataclysm will just allow you to put five more points into the existing trees.
Woohoo! Grats!
What do you mean by “memory”? Usually, memory means RAM, but when you say you have “70% free,” that sounds more to me like you’re talking about hard drive space. If you mean HDD space, you’re probably fine with what you have now.
I think you **did **need TBC for JC. IIRC, the only old-world JC trainers are in expansion-only zones: there weren’t any added to the original capitals. (If I’m wrong, I’ve wasted a hell of a lot of time hauling my JC to the Exo every time she wants to train.)
But, given that Arch is, IIRC, tied into the new Path of the Titans progression system, I would expect that it will be available to everyone, just as Glyphs are available to everyone now.
ETA:
Quasi, running is always an option when you’re out in the world. If you run far enough, the mobs will reset: they will run back to their original positions, heal to full health, and ignore you and anyone else who tries to attack them on their way back.
However, this does NOT work inside an instance. There, mobs are permanently aggro’d, and will follow you for any distance (until you zone out).
Heh…I opened the reply window to add this then saw that you’d edited already.
They said during Blizzcon that they don’t want to get bogged down with the expectation of absolutely 10 levels per expansion. Sometimes they may want to do 10, sometimes 5, sometimes none, sometimes 15, or whatever, but if they did another 10 levels for Cataclysm they’d be pretty well locked into that expectation. So they wanted to shake it as quickly as they could. Plus the whole ‘eventually it just gets stupid’ factor.
…which is why tossing Gnomes over the ledge in Gnomeregan (by Mind Control, for example) is a very BAD idea. They won’t die, and they’ll run back through the whole instance to get back to you – brining every mob in the place with them!
Yeah, as soon as I posted it, I thought, “Whoops, better clarify that one.”
I think you mean a very **hilarious **idea.
Of course, I never ran Gnomer at level. Mainly since it was considered a taboo word in my guild at the time, since everyone hated it so very much.
I suspect we’ll see more of that with future expansions; balancing around class specific abilities and talents has been an issue since beta, and gets worse with every new level cap increase and associated talent tree extension. With the new “path” system, it sounds as if there’s more generic character progression, which makes it easier to balance, and should also result in fewer cries of favouritism when everyone gets nerfed or buffed the same.
No, I’m trying to explain that prioritizing something doesn’t mean setting everything else aside, as those guys do. Some forum posters talk about the order of importance of stats in a way that makes it sound as if people should focus on, say, defcap to the exclusion of everything else (true but don’t get something with def and mp5 if such a thing exists and you’re a warrior and if you’re a druid you should defcap from talents), then on whichever else again to the exclusion of everything else. I guess I’m just tired of trying to explain this to the five guildies, five, who keep going off defcap because “X webpage says I need 31K hp to go to Y place and I only had 30K!”
My tank (the third member of my Triumvirate of Mains - can’t get one without the other two) is a prot warrior; the reason she isn’t currently tanking raids is because we have tanks up the wazoo, at other times people thought she was my main. And I think we actually agree.
It’s actually fun doin’ that, SFG, then running behind a tree, manna’in’ up, and watching my health bar get green again.
It’s akin to running like hell after you’ve just committed some prank, being so tired, but also gigglin’ your ass off as your’re bending over with both hands on your thighs trying to catch your breath! 
Can you picture that?
Also, I got to watch those Zombie guys re-spawn tonight. That is sooo cool how they just come up out of a “folded -up” position like that!
Me, Wolkie, and Silka made it to 44 tonight, and as always, I credit my friends here for all your advice and guidance, and my in-game friend avuqan
for her infinite patience.
I got Wolkie his next best chest plate and some better gauntlets, but remembered what you said, SFG about what to look for in a shield, so we left his shield as it is for now.
Just kinda wondering about his sword. Any suggestions?
Right now he’s got Furious Falchion of the Monkey (one-hand) and we have available Witchfury, which is two handed, but of course then we lose the shield.
The Monkey is the weaker sword, but the shield AND the Monkey make him stronger, whereas the Witchfury is the stronger sword, but again, no shield.
Thanks
Quasi
Also, I said something wrong earlier: It IS possible to outrun 2 44’s, I guess, as long as you have enough health left, because I think I did that after I posted…
Q
Sorry, I realized the “some forum posters” could make it sound as if I meant here. I mean in WoW’s forums, elitistjerks and others, not here.
I don’t think you need worry, Nava. Even if you did mean here (which you didn’t), this thread has so many classy people in it, they’d discuss with with you, rather than dissin’ yo over it.
It’s why I post my questions here and not only because I’m mentally challenged. I’d be treated with respect regardless.
Always a good idea to explain, though - me being a prime example of obsessin’ over stuff.
Quasi