Not trying to be a troll here, but It is kinda a pet peeve with me and a few friends..it is NOT called "Outlands" It is singular, "Outland" There is even a thread in the WOW forums about it. lol.

BTW, good explanation about how a DK starts. Damn near in perfect detail!

Eh, I'm not too interested in a DK tbh, sure they sound cool, but never was the one to try a new class in an expansion, I always enjoy sticking to my main.

I'll try a Death Knight but will probably wait a month or so. I can imagine on Day 1 their starting zone will be packed.

Exactly why I will be taking my main to 80 first, then try a DK. Maybe roll a DK on one of the low-population servers? I remember when one of the test realms opened up the server was so busy and lagging that it took me 20 minutes just to buy a single pair of boots!

A friend of mine works at gamestop, and he tells me that the game is already in their inventory, so Its definitely not getting pushed back.

I'm only level 52. :sad:

yeah I powered through 20 levels on my mage since thursday hoping to get to 70 before wotlk comes out but I've only just made it to 60 so it will probably have to go on the backburner until my priest hits 80 for awhile

Edit: It's crazy how leveling has changed since I leveled my priest way back when.

You will get there, friend.

I'm glad I managed to level the character I've been playing lately to 70 and get her epic flyer out of the way. I'm looking forward to Thursday; I hope I feel better by then. I plan on being at the local sells-everything store first thing that morning as there aren't any midnight releases here. :(

I reserved mine at the mall, sure the midnight releases are nice, but I love getting sleep :D

The lowered the experience need from 61-70 in the 3.0.2 patch by like 30%. My daughter had a 68 Hunter that she played to 70 this weekend, it was about 2-2 1/2 hours/level with rest XP. When we leveled our other chars pre-patch it was 4-5 hours/lvl with rest XP.


I'm off tomm and Friday so I'll be at the midnite release. I just hope the servers are up.. Y'day and this morning they were FUBAR..

I have to be at work at 7 in the AM so no midnight release for me, but I'm picking it up after work tommorow. I'm going to stick to my main (Restro druid for raids) and get him to 80 then get my Enhancement Shaman to 80 (PVP only) and THEN I might think about a DK. I don't want to think about what the DK starting area in high pop servers will look like @ 2 am (hour to get it 30-1h to install). *shudders*

I just installed it right now, if you saved the 3.0.2 patch, you should be done in about 15 minutes.

I just need to get the upgrade key tomorrow when I buy my copy.

I love walmart. In at 11:45, out at 12:05. Waiting for the install to complete as I type this.

Got the game at GameStop, they gave away 4 free upgrades to the collectors ed.

I got one!

:) i drove (silly too because I live in Manhattan, but I left the car out of the garage) to SoHo Best Buy. I was in and out in 5 minutes, would have been shorter if I didn't go back outside to ask if Skogafoss wanted to upgrade to the CE version which she declined.

Back home in total 30 minutes.. :)

Installed and upgraded... but playing some old daily quests for the moment with un-upgraded friends...

was thinking of taking the day off tomorrow or at least working from home to play and see the new lands....

Installing right now. Picked it up first thing this morning at Fred Meyers; it was the last copy! I can't wait to get into it.

:) no work today...

Someone at blizzard is probably pissing blood right now looking at the realm status list. Easily 2/3 of the realms are listed at Max (Queued), with most of the others being at low. Someone really messed up when they were planning the loads for this release. I won't hazard a guess at what happened, but I haven't seen queues this big, this widespread ever. There were certainly the handful of realms WAY back in the day that always had high server load, but this is totally out of control.

I happened to obtain a free key just now. Curses. Why? WHY?!?

I'm loving my Death Knight so far. I'm almost 58!

EDIT: Finished the DK quest chain. It was awesome. Now I'm heading to Outland.

Anyone else having MASSIVE clipping/loading problems? Questing in northrend I would often lose (for a few seconds) all of my icons/ui addons and then lose the ground (it looks like I'm standing on a mirror. After the 3rd wow critical error I quit playing last night.

Otherwise I'm going to hit it hard this weekend, my friends are already a lvl higher than me, so it's solo time for me again.

BTW I went ahead and made lvl1 alts with my death knight names so when I get to the point I want a DK I have my name I want (Deathclone and Frozencrotch).

not me.

we played all day yesterday no issues.

the only issue was last night Skogafoss logged out for an extended period of time to take a break and lost her spot. It was about 1,200+ queue for about 40 minutes at 11pm EST.

Does anyone know if there are any "Battle Chest" plans in the making? I don't have either BC or WotWK, as I'm on my first character, and he's only lvl 53.

I try to be frugal with my games, and have lots of patience regarding these things usually, but if I hit 60, I'll need BC at least to continue to advance, right? I don't think I'll be so patient this time....

I'd really like to see a package deal where you can get both expansions at once.

Anyone hear anything?

Ha ha ha ha you are doomed.

I loved the time I spent on WoW and loved both of my characters and my guild and all of the friends I made in this game. I just wish I could play it without ruining my relationship with my wife. If I was single I would be all up in this shit TFP. ALL UP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know they had a battle chest of WoW with Burning Crusade; two of my friends' girlfriends who had started playing characters on my friends' accounts picked them up this summer. I'm not sure about BC with WoTLK, though, and it will be a while yet if they do.

And yes, you will need BC to level past 60. You can go through the Dark Portal at 58, and leveling 58-60 is a lot faster in Outland. The quests dovetail nicely together and the gear rewards are nice.

Okay: question. Say I have a 55 alliance on a pvp server. Say I want a Death Knight. Will I be able to create a horde DK on another pvp server? Or will the new DK have to be alliance like my only 55 char?

You can only create the Death Knight on the server that you have the level 55 and since it's a pvp server you are on, it will have to be Alliance like your other characters

Darn.

Thanks for the explanation, though. The description on the website was vague.

2.8 million copies in 24 hours..

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