Not on one DVD, it won’t. DVDs hold 4.7gigs and my WoW directory is almost 19gig.
Can you connect them over a network? You could just transfer the dir over that way.
I probably can hook up my laptop to the new PC and copy the directory; I’ll just have to figure out how to do that.
Ok, after a cursory reading, my computers are already networked (they are both connected via our router). I just need to make the WoW directory shareable over the network, then I can make a local copy on the the new desktop. Does that sound right? This might be easier than I thought.
Yep. That would work. You might want to have them hooked up to your router via a physical cable rather than over wireless, though. Wireless would take quite a while to transfer ~19gig.
If they’re windows machines this should be pretty easy. I set up sharing on our home systems pretty recently. Possible gotchas include: if you have a software firewall (McAfee, etc.) you probably need to change some settings to enable Windows file sharing; also, when enabling sharing you can select to password protect the share, that requires the accessing user to have the same login name/password on both computers (or to set a custom ‘login as’ option during the map network drives stuff).
Good luck getting this to work. I’ve been downloading patches, etc., and also decided to upgrade to the Lich King expansion and download over network, which it turns out was pretty dumb 
Yeah, which is why I said DVDs. It’d take about 5 DVDs to hold the whole thing, and you’d have to spread the files out. Since everything goes in the same WoW dir, though, it’s easy to keep track of where everything goes.
Transferring over the network is absolutely the most painless way to do it, if time-consuming.
That actually is an older way that gold farming worked, to the best of my knowledge. The area that’s now the DK starting zone, for instance, was a common target for gold farmers, since the Scarlet Crusade mobs there were still elites and had some of the best drops. These days, gold farmers are more likely to harvest resource nodes (ore or herbs), and use hacks to do it.
That, of course, refers to people who are actually paid to gather gold and then they or their company re-sells it. When a player talks about heading out to farm some gold, it just means they’re going to go engage in some activity, probably repititious or tedious, that’s designed to provide them with some extra income. This could be gathering resources (ore, herbs, fish, cloth, etc. to either sell as raw materials or craft into other items), killing mobs for money or drops (usually going after things like rep items, since good equipment will either be BoP or such a low drop rate it’s not worth farming), or running instances.
Hardcore guilds do. Especially on progression content, having an extra 4k or 5k heal for each raider for each fight can be the difference between a wipe and a kill. With Soul Wells, handing out health stones takes approximately five seconds; soul stones are similarly fast, since each 'Lock just stones one person.
ETA: And even in the casual guilds or PUG runs I’ve been in, I’ve never seen a run with a lock in it where Lock candy wasn’t handed out. YMMV, of course.
I’ve never seen a guild make a decision about whom to take on a raid based on their *trash *DPS numbers. Never, ever, ever.
It looks like you’re going to just be transferring files over, but if that falls through: I recently learned that you DO NOT HAVE TO INSTALL from the beginning (i.e., use the vanilla discs, then the TBC ones, then the WotLK ones). You can just install straight from the Wrath DVD(s) (or CDs, if that was even an option), and it will give you the whole game. Of course, you’d still have to patch after that, but at least there’s less swapping.
I poked through some of the thread but since i haven’t been keeping up with it at all I’m really lost.
- The answer is probably not, but does anyone know if RickJay on Ysera is ours? I wasn’t about to whisper ‘are you a Doper?’
- The Burning Dog guild is the main Doper guild, right? I tried doing a search on the Armory but didn’t come up with it. Do we have a Horde guild? I’m thinking of starting a new character, and my current guild is an Alliance one with all my RL friends who have been too busy to log on for a month.
- Hi Opal! I’m pretty newbish, i just started in January and have one character, a level 63 Night Elf hunter. Please have mercy.
Burning Dog Legion.
Burning Dog Legion, a Horde guild on Cairne. Feel free to join us!
If you mean for 10-mans, maybe, but I think that most top 25-man guilds (which is really what hard-core means, IMO) take more than one Warlock. For example, Paragon had at least three in their heroic LK kills (only guild to have killed him still…). Diivil, Tsukky, and Jubeto.
It was mages that got the axe on that fight - they didn’t have one on the first kill at all, IIRC.
Just last night we had a discussion about healthstones. One person was of the opinion that they were worthless, which I just couldn’t understand. Of course it’s the same guy that likes to say that nature resists (and things like that) are cheating… so maybe he just has a different idea about the game than I do.
This person is what we call “a bad.” Please stay away, lest you catch the dumb.
Hey, I just joined SFG’s little exclusive club!
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Took just over a month of my lvl 15 druid sitting there in Moonglade with 51g in hand 
I like Healthstones, though as a Hunter if I have to burn one it means I’m dead already. 
Let me clarify. The casual guilds are good with Locks. The extreme high-end raiders are good with Locks. In between, I see a lot of raids which are not. I’d call them hard-core, but they’re not breaking records and setting Realm Firsts. They tend to be the most elitist and arrogant IMHO, and I don’t like them as a general rule.
Interesting developments at www.WoW.com
Druid Tree of Life will be a cooldown buf. This is actually a damn good thing, as it means you no longer have to drop the form to heal. Druids apparently have enough ehals that they’re buffing other healers to match rather than nerfing droods (presumably the new stats and scaling will provide the mathematical increase needed to keep pace).
This news drastically increases the chances I will be playing a Druid in the new expansion. I’ve always wanted to feel like a shapeshifter when playing one., rather than having several separate classes which have utterly different abilities. I hope they change Balance to match, and perhaps something similar to let Cats and Bears change their forms to other things furing fights.
One really freaky thing about the Druid is the info that Cat and Bear will separate the talent tree bonuses depending on form. Nobody else does this, at all.
Eclipse will now be a core mechanic when playing Balance, where they plan to push you to literally balance your rotation with arcane and nature spells to maximize the damage. This is cool enough that I might try playing one.
Hey, grats dude!
Three Human, Alliance warriors (me included), level range: 70-72. All 3 of us on armored horseback waiting to board the Kraken in Valiance Keep harbor bound for SW.
I know. BFD, right? But a cool first for me.
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Sorry, no.
Nah, I love moments like that. Whenever I see a gnome on a motorcycle (usually in Dalaran) I’ll pop mine out next to his and claim we’re a gnomish motorcycle gang!
This is almost as disturbing a concept as the gnomish monks in the WTF? comic (Everquest-based)
The RDF put me in Heroic Culling of Stratholme for the first time today …
Dear Og, please tell me CoS isn’t as difficult as some of the clowns I got grouped with made it look? We went through three flippin’ tanks before we finally finished it. I think the priest healer and I were the only ones who were in it from start to finish.
I announced right at the beginning that it was my first time in that instance, and everybody said, “Okay.” From there I did my usual routine of just following the tank and hitting whatever he rounded up.
The first tank bit off more than he could chew and got himself killed, leaving me and three clothies (the other 2 DPS were a mage and a warlock at this point) to finish off the current batch of mobs. Of course, this completely depleted everybody’s mana but mine (I’m on my human paladin here); most importantly it left the healer empty. Once the mobs were cleared, I proceeded to rez the tank, and then used my remaining mana to heal him up. Then I sat down to drink with the clothies. At which point the tank went charging off into the next big crowd of mobs. Somebody hollered for him to wait and he answered back (while in combat, no less), “It’s a speed run! No waiting!” and then promptly died again. He dropped group. The warlock also dropped, though if it was in disgust or because he was with the tank, I don’t know. So we remaining three queued again…
Soon we had a new tank, and a hunter to replace the departed warlock. The new tank got us as far as hooking up with Arthas and through the secret passage at the back of the town hall. Then he went charging off, and of course I followed, along with the rest of the group. We fought through the masses of undead until we got to Market Square where we waited a bit for something to happen. Then somebody asked, “Where’s Arthas?” Yup, nobody had talked to Arthas to start the next sequence, so he was still standing back by the exit from the secret passage. Being my first time I didn’t know we were supposed to talk to him, and I suppose the healer and the other DPSers assumed the tank had talked to him before he took off. Nope. So we ran back to him, talked to him, and started on the next sequence, which meant fighting through those undead all over again … at which point Tank #2 inexplicably dropped group right in the middle of combat. A full wipe quickly followed, and we lost the mage. Sigh. Release spirit, run back to instance, queue up again …
Tank #3 was a female gnome DK, but I didn’t bother to look to see who the new DPS was. But it went fairly smoothly from there - we only had Mal’Ganis left to kill, and we got him down in 1 minute and 2 seconds.
Must be because it’s the weekend. Sigh.