My girlfriend was pissed off when she put on the Mageweave Leggings. She said they made her look like a “priestitute.” She never did take them off until she could make better gear, though.
AIUI, there’s a gap between Tin and Iron Ore that only Silver can bridge for a few professions. Mining (smelting, more precisely), Engineering, Blacksmithing, Jewelcrafting I think… Anyway, while Gold Ore is similarly rare, there’s more of an overlap between Iron Ore and Mithril Ore, so it’s less vital to skillups.
Lucky bugger. I’m earning for two, so I don’t get to keep all my money.
My favorite thing is questing and following the various storylines (such as they are). That, and the fact that in WoW I can basically go anywhere/do anything I want to do. Nearly every single-player game is extremely linear; I like the wide-open aspect of WoW. Before I played WoW, I played Diablo II for years, and the idea of raiding (in the sense of getting a bunch of people together to attack an enemy town) just smells to me too much like doing “Mephisto runs” or “Baal runs”.
The open-ended nature of the game has strong appeal to me, probably because one of the first games I got into heavily when I got my first Mac in 1996 was a little shareware game called Escape Velocity. EV was/is a space trading/combat game. It was a single-player game that had everything a MMORPG has except for the multiplayer/online parts. You created a character who started out with nothing but a small shuttlecraft armed with only a weak, defensive laser cannon. You were thrust into a galaxy populated by two competing factions, the established Confederation and the Rebels, as well as space pirates, merchant traders, and other minor factions. From there, you zipped around the galaxy doing pretty much whatever the hell you wanted to do. You could concentrate on trading/shipping, updrading to bigger and better freighters. You could become a pirate. You could ally yourself with the Confederation or the Rebels. It had a plug-in architecture, so once you’d finished all the built-in missions you could load some plug-ins and play with user-created missions, user-created new ships/weaponry/equipment. It was totally open-ended, with no “end game”.
I also love exploring. Azeroth is just so big and cool
If you’re asking me, I do like pvp, battlegrounds anyway. But playing as BM hunter is increasingly problematic lately. I also like making friends ingame. I’m still interested in what Invisible Wombat does at 80.
Well, I like to think of it as a chat room with light killing for fun and profit =)
See, I loved D&D, and AD&D, but it was always a pain in the ass to get a good group together [i like my guys to bathe more often than the full moon, and have some manners …] and I was thrilled when RPG pc games came out, but if all you do is shut yourself in the computer room and kill maim and loot where you are the only person pretty soon you start having meaningful chats with the cat. In a MMORPG, I can chat with people all over the country, though I have been known to chat with mrAru as he sits next to me while he is off killing kittehs in STV and I am in outlands tormenting blood elf NPCs in game =)
I have a 78 beastmastery dwarf hunter (McTaggart), a 77 gnome frost mage (Popgunn), a 77 human shadow priest (Queron) a 77 night elf feral druid (Klaw), a 76 orc mutilate rogue (Figmo), a 76 blood elf affliction warlock (Dotbot), a 76 tauren enhancement shaman (Odorbank), a 75 night elf balance druid (Ivorae), a 73 dwarf blood deathknight (Old Grouch), and a dwarf 66 fury warrior (Steelhand). All of them are on the Moonrunner server.
For mods, I use Titan bar, Quartz timer, Khunter timer, Flo totem bars and Flo aspect bars.
There is a LOT more to WoW than raids, instances (I never said I didn’t like instances, BTW, just that I don’t do them often), and PvP. I don’t have any level 80s yet (my mage is at 79), but let me tell you what I did when he hit 70 before the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out:
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[li]Solo questing and exploration (obviously)[/li][li]Socializing with friends in group play[/li][li]Chatting with friends during solo play[/li][li]Working up professions[/li][li]Starting new characters and experiencing new and different classes, professions, starting areas, and so forth[/li][li]Building rep with various factions[/li][li]Making money with daily quests, farming, and crafting[/li][li]Getting better gear, enchantments, gems, weapons, etc.[/li][li]Getting achievements (okay - that wasn’t until Wrath came out)[/li][li]Collecting mounts and non-combat pets[/li][li]Helping guildies out with quests[/li][li]Playing with the auction house and trying to manipulate the game economy[/li][/ul]
As I mentioned in the other thread, I’ve been playing World of Warcraft for three years now, and the list of things I haven’t done is quite long. With the exception of my death knight, I’ve never played a hordie over level 30 (the DK is 65). I’ve never been in a battleground or arena (although I’ve done a little bit of world PvP). I’ve never had an engineer, jewelcrafter, or inscriptor. I’ve never taken leatherworking or smithing past about 150 skill. Never played a dranei, and only played blood elf, dwarf, undead, and orc up to about level 10. Never played a warrior, hunter or warlock over level 30. Never played a Shaman over 20, a rogue or druid over 15, or a paladin over 5. Never played on a PvP server, and only messed with a role-playing server for a couple of days (nobody on that damned server role-played). There are several zones I’ve never visited. There are probably 20 instances I’ve never been in, and I’ve only soloed a few of them. I’ve only been in a raid group once (that was for a raid on Crossroads).
When Burning Crusade came out, I only had one character up to level 60, and when Wrath of the Lich King hit, I hadn’t even gotten my second character up to level 70 yet.
The game is incredibly huge. No single-player game exists with anywhere near its scope. It’s FUN. It’s social. And there’s a lot more left to do!
i am embarrassed to say that not only do I recognize lots of the equipment stashed down there, but I used to own lots of it …
Actually, I was stuck in bed with 3 amiga games, and an amiga for 2 months after surgery … Dungeon Master 1, Black Cauldron [not related to the childrens story] and Eye of the Beholder 1 … I got so good[?] at EoB1 that I could walk someone through it on the telephone without even being logged in and playing…I can still play through the entire thing fairly fast because I remember most of it when I see it=) I think I still have an original floppy of Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards, and DungeonHack. I can remember playing text based games on a PDP 11/38 against people in the SUNY computer system, and as a final project for basic wrote a short 35 000 line program to play a teaching game to learn spanish.
My only current geek cred is my computer monitor is the biggest screen in the house, followed by 2 22" tube monitors, and then the dinky 19" television…
I cannot wait for this patch. Is there any way that I can not just get rid of my quiver/ammo pouch, but set it on fire and dance over the ashes. That is something that I would really really really like to do.
I don’t think I’m going to know what to do with all the extra space. Yeah. 16 slots or so isn’t that much space, but after 75 levels without it it seems like a lot.
Doesn’t that just mean we are pre-downloading some of the files that won’t change (such as the Uldaar graphics)? Since 3.1 has only been on the PTR for like 2 weeks now, I’m not sure we are getting it this week. I’d still expect maybe another 2 weeks at the earliest.
Eh. I saw it had downloaded 384k of 555MB, and that number wasn’t going up. I’ll just launch the game before I go to work on Tuesday and let it do its thing then.
Harrumph. I only have 511 gold on my 58 Pally right now. According to the Statistics screen, though, I’ve collected 2199.39.77. I didn’t realize I’d spent so much before.
I’ve recently cautiously come back to WoW. I was badly addicted 2005-2006 – raiding every night, probably playing 30-40 hours / week. I’ve started playing again with the resolve to never join a full time raiding guild again.
My lowbie mage (40-something) just got a random drop of an Underworld Band
After a fun few hours of negotiating, I sold it for 750g. Fun times. WoW is such a great game.
