* Waves fucking goodbye to his life. *
I'm going to start playing WoW. Making the account as we speak.
Can I play with y'all? I have -no- clue what character to make, how skills work.. Etc. I know general gaming terms as I've played games like WoW, but WoW is still much more in depth than the others.
I'd recommend playing on Maelstrom, the server x86 will be playing on from now on (if they choose to do so). It's a PvPRP server. I have a level 19 twink warrior on it at the moment, but it probably will never become my main server (I play on Feathermoon, which is my "home" and favorite realm). We're going to be playing Alliance, so if you want to play Horde, you'll probably be out of luck.
Looking forward to playing with you! We'll start our guild (Probably <Darkwire>) soon! Be sure to post in this topic:
http://www.x86labs.org:81/forum/index.php/topic,6092.0.html
When you've made your character.
As for which class to play, it's pretty intuitive. The descriptions are pretty nice in the character creation screen, so be sure to read those. If you like melee damage, play a Rogue. If you like to take the damage, play a Warrior. If you like to heal, play a Priest, Paladin or Druid. There is obviously a lot more to it, but that's the basic idea. I've went through three classes before I decided to make my Priest my main character.
Basic class breakdown.
Spellcaster:
Mage (magic), Warlock (evil magic), Druid (nature), Shaman (shamanistic magic)
Medic:
Druid (nature), Priest (holy), Palidan (holy warrior), Shaman (shamanistic magic)
Fighter:
Warrior (basic fighter), Rogue (assassin), Palidan (holy warrior), Hunter (ranged overpowered assassin with pet)
Race breakdown:
Gnomes are smart. +Intellect
Humans adjust to new stuff quickly. +to reputation gain, and for some reason, stealth detection ability.
Dwarves are greedy bastards. Ability to find treasure (lootable creatures) on minimap. They're also so damn think they can turn into chunks of stone. Hm!
Night Elves are weird. Ability to turn invisible (low-powered stealth) and some other benefit.
Trolls are smart and get pissed easy. Ability to go berzerk after getting critically hit, and faster mana regain.
Orcs pound the poop out of people. I can't remember their ability.
Undead don't breathe very much. They're dead. Additional 300% time underwater without breathing. Plus they don't get scared, so they have "Will of the Forsaken" (breaks fear)
Tauren pick flowers, and are heavy. +15 to herbalism and the ability to stun everyone for a second or so.
Gnomes have escape artist
Humans have passive +5% spirit
Night Elves have passive +% to Dodge
You've got Dwarves better than I knew
Troll's berzerk can now be activated at any time. It's more effective when you're low on health, though.
Orcs have passive +5% resist to stuns and one other thing
Tauren/Undead look good.
There are a few more (Gnomes have +Arcane resistance, NE have +Nature resistance, but that's all that matters).
NE's have shadowmeld.. Gnomes have +engineering (wtf, give me shadowmeld, thanks)
Injustice!
Joe said Shadowmeld, he just didn't name it lol.
Yeah, Gnomes need Shadowmeld for sure.
BUFF GNOMES!
Quote from: Joe on June 06, 2006, 01:16:32 AM
Basic class breakdown.
Spellcaster:
Mage (magic), Warlock (evil magic), Druid (nature), Shaman (overpowered magic)
Medic:
Druid (nature), Priest (holy + overpowered shadowform that's amazingly annoying to fight), Palidan (lives-too-long-no-dps-loser-that-you-should-never-play-class), Shaman (shamanistic magic)
Fighter:
Warrior (basic fighter), Rogue (nerfed, don't play), Palidan (fag), Hunter (overpowered kiter that you will never catch up to as a melee class)
Fixed.
Also, Orcs don't get a 5% stun resist. It's 25%. (Yes, I'm serious.)
Undead get something of the Forsaken. It's essentially a free trinket that can get you out of fears, charms, etc.
Tauren get a "stomp" aoe ability that stuns everyone around them for one second.
Despite their broken state, I still love playing my Rogue. I dominated in the 40-49 bracket, but my guess is the 60 bracket will be different. :P
No wonder I can never fucking cheapshot orcs. -_-
Quote from: Sidoh on June 06, 2006, 02:37:48 PM
Despite their broken state, I still love playing my Rogue. I dominated in the 40-49 bracket, but my guess is the 60 bracket will be different. :P
No wonder I can never fucking cheapshot orcs. -_-
Yeah, Horde's racials are completely built around pvp. Nightelf get 1% to dodge, Orcs get 25% stun resist. But hey, it evens out when we can move faster while dead, right?
ROFL!
That's actually pretty good to know. I'll start using Garote or something instead. That's fucking rediculous. Who says orcs are harder to stun than fucking bulls? -_-
Perception is really useful in PvP too, I must say.
I met up with one of my 40-49 rivals about a week ago at Taren Mill. He was a Rogue who had nearly identical gear to me (And he got it all after I did... coincidence? >_>). He was the only Rogue in the bracket I had "fear" (I could beat him most times 1 on 1, but he usually had friends to help him) for until Rivek joined. He was really good too. In any case, he was 56 when I saw him. I was 52. He kept sapping me. When I broke out of it (immunity timer ftw), I stealthed, used perception, found him, cheapshotted him, used all my cooldowns and killed him. He didn't even get a hit off. Ahaha...
What ever you do, don't go into a Paladin class thinking you'll be able to do damage, because you won't. You're main purpose in raids would be to heal.
CONCECRATION IS LEET DEPS THO :(
Hehe, yep. I've never seen a Paladin who was assigned a DPS role in MC.
That's actually good advice, Metal, because I rolled a palidan once assuming I'd have the damage of a warrior with the self-preservation of a priest. I dominated through the first 8 levels (I think I died once because I was over-confident and took on Goldtooth too early) but then I went back to my main.
Come to think about it, though, I could go for a somewhat passive role in raiding though. I don't know if I'd really want to be up in the front dying when I'd just be wasting repair money.
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As far as night elves moving faster while dead, I'm not sure if I want that, because in the end game you always get rezzed anyway.
Quote from: Joe on June 07, 2006, 12:49:29 AM
As far as night elves moving faster while dead, I'm not sure if I want that, because in the end game you always get rezzed anyway.
...I was kidding, it's the most worthless racial ever. -_-
Quote from: TeHFoOoL on June 05, 2006, 07:09:12 PM
* Waves fucking goodbye to his life. *
I'm going to start playing WoW. Making the account as we speak.
At least you started in summer.
by the end of the summer i can see mike
with long ass hair , a beard,and mustache
i can picture it now
Quote from: BigAznDaddy on June 07, 2006, 10:04:21 AM
by the end of the summer i can see mike
with long ass hair , a beard,and mustache
i can picture it now
-1 for gay name.
-3 for amazingly bad spelling errors.
-2 for terrible joke.
Play a pally. Since we have a tank and healers twinking already. If your a "HUMAN" pally then we can use you for every instance :P
Paladins are good, the #1 ranked PvP on Feathermoon is a Pally IIRC, you just need to get some good equipment to do some good damage. Pallys are good for solo'ing though.
Moon something or another, right? He was Grand Marshal a pretty long time ago (like a few months). There's roughly 1-3 GM's per month on Feathermoon. I've seen up to 2 at one time, but no more. Feathermoon's population doesn't allow for much more.
The GM's I've known of alliance side are Hidey (Warrior), Saige (Rogue), Archaeon (Warlock), Booloft (I think; he's a hunter) and a few other hunters. Hunters like getting GM...
But anyway, I've never see someone stay GM for more than a week. There's no point to. You buy all of the gear you can use and you're done. You can wear it forever; it doesn't matter if you derank.
Quote from: Scr33n0r on June 07, 2006, 08:41:24 AM
Quote from: Joe on June 07, 2006, 12:49:29 AM
As far as night elves moving faster while dead, I'm not sure if I want that, because in the end game you always get rezzed anyway.
...I was kidding, it's the most worthless racial ever. -_-
Fine, give it to me. =o
Quote from: Blaze on June 08, 2006, 02:28:54 AM
Quote from: Scr33n0r on June 07, 2006, 08:41:24 AM
Quote from: Joe on June 07, 2006, 12:49:29 AM
As far as night elves moving faster while dead, I'm not sure if I want that, because in the end game you always get rezzed anyway.
...I was kidding, it's the most worthless racial ever. -_-
Fine, give it to me. =o
40% faster or what ever it is is pretty useless. If anything Shadowmeld I think is the best Trait personally. You could be a Tank in stealth and just wait for someone to come buy and rush him.
WoTF, 25% Stun Resist, Perception and Stoneform are pretty nice too, though.
Yes, I planned to start in the summer so I can get a feel if I like the game. ATM, I have a level 25 ( Almost 26 ) Dwarf Priest, Who has 4 days of playtime on him. 'Tis a fun game.
To be honest, I want to level him up and raid a bit before I get into twinking with the group. Though it is awefully tempting. ;x
Quote from: TeHFoOoL on June 13, 2006, 11:56:34 AM
Yes, I planned to start in the summer so I can get a feel if I like the game. ATM, I have a level 25 ( Almost 26 ) Dwarf Priest, Who has 4 days of playtime on him. 'Tis a fun game.
To be honest, I want to level him up and raid a bit before I get into twinking with the group. Though it is awefully tempting. ;x
What server? I hate dwarves, they are so ugly. ;[
Feathermoon
The x86 guild is on Maelstrom. My main characters are on Feathermoon, in addition to Mythix and TehFoOoL here. I believe Blaze and a bunch of others play on Thunderlord.