So yeah, Shannox is actually a really fun fight. Looking forward to seeing the other fights in the instance. :)
sluggo
5882
OMG, I can rearrange the order of my characters in the login screen now. Is that new with 4.2, or did they add that in 4.1? (I haven’t played much since April).
I know it’s probably not a big deal to most people, but there’s something about having older characters I don’t play at the top of the login screen that was driving me nuts. :)
mk56
5883
It’s new for this patch, and people have been making the same complaint to Blizz for years, which is why they finally changed it.
The WoW Launcher sucks ass when it comes to getting a new patch. I was getting about 45KB/s on average before closing it and running the Blizzard Downloader directly and downloaded the 400Mb patch in seconds.
Also, does anyone else find Hyjal a tad crowded with all the new daily quests now?
Yesterday there were so many people crowded around the main questgiver that it was hard to even target him just to talk to him.
Wolff
5886
Your isp may limit torrent traffic
I don’t think so. Like I said, closed down the Launcher and ran the Downloader.exe directly and I downloaded the patch in seconds. I don’t think it’s my software firewall because I turned that off temporarily for the Launcher and that made no difference.
Marcus
5888
I dunno I downloaded the patch today and I was getting 5+ M/B a sec.
My guild has been saying “we’re gonna raid any day now!” for about three months. The guild is mostly comprised of relatively casual players who have done a small amount of raiding before but just don’t have the time or energy to commit to really preparing and chewing glass.
We tried Magmaw once with a pretty weak group about a month ago but never got so far.
Last night however, we downed Magmaw and Omonotron in one try then did Maloriak and Archemendez (or whatever his name is…see how casual I am?) in two tries each.
Frankly this is the only way we were ever going to succeed at raiding…after the nerf bat had beaten these formerly tricky bosses into absolute submission.
Woot! We’re #1!
Was it still fun?
Would you rather be with your guild doing nerfed stuff or with a spiffier guild doing unnerfed stuff?
As someone whose little tiny guild fell apart before they got to nerfing (so that, y’know, we have no people around now to try the nerfed content) I wish I was in your position.
For at least the first few days, changes to the Launcher had a weird bug that sometimes throttled download times to a standstill. I found this solution on the Blizzard forums: Go to Control Panel > Internet Properties. Click the Connections tab. Click LAN settings. Clear all the checkboxes, including “Automatically detect settings”. When I restarted the launcher, the throttling went away.
(I noticed that the Launcher was updated a day later, so this bug may be fixed now.)
For WoW players who cancelled but get the itch now and then, the new free to level 20 WoW is fun. You don’t have to re-download the game. Just go to www.warcraft.com and make a new account and then login with that account and play a new character up to level 20. Warsong Gulch should be available at level 19 too, so you even get a battleground.
No mail. No auctions. No player trading, though.
Oh yeah definitely fun…should have been more clear on that.
And I would definitely rather do this with my current guild…it’s a great guild.
So now that it’s free to level 20 I thought I would finally give WoW a try and see what all the hubub is about. I gotta say that I’m just not sure a get it. After a few hours all I seem to have done is made a character and worked through a few laundry lists things I needed to kill.
I’m not sure what I expected, but I guess something a bit more engaging than “go kill 7…whatevers”. Are these just a few too many rat killing quests and things improve or is this kinda just how WoW works?
IMO the appeal of a Diku-style MMO isn’t about awesome quest design or story, but more about how all the character-improvement hooks layer on top of each other to keep you motivated, plus the expansion/unfolding/exploration of a large gameworld, plus the social interactions with guildies/friends/etc. and the sense of being part of a team in dungeons etc. When it all combines it can attain a critical mass of almost unbearable addictiveness. But if you’re just tooling around alone collecting bear asses, you can very easily feel, “what’s the big deal?”
Fair enough…I think I will give it a bit more time to unfold to see if it grabs me.
Some races are still better to start out with than others. I’ve heard that the goblin starting experience is loads of fun.
The newest races are definitely the best; both Goblins and Worgen have great starting zones, with interesting (for WoW) quest mechanics, and overarching storylines. But both of those are part of the Cataclysm expansion, so anyone just doing a free trial won’t have access to them.
Yeah, both Goblins and Worgen are good starting races. Goblins are comical and the Worgen are gothic.
In other news, WoW is trying to lure me back in with 7 free days.
I got that one as well. Must. Hold. Out. I even have Cataclysm sitting here uninstalled.
