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#3201 (permalink) |
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Downed Pit Lord Argaloth in Baradin Hold tonight. Be prepared to kill this guy about a million times as pugs will be 1 shotting him weekly for the next 6 months. Heroic Deadmines is harder than this guy /sigh.
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#3203 (permalink) |
Banned
Location: The Cosmos
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So its been awhile since I've said my server, etc. I'm starting anew so far on Feathermoon because that's where my IRL friends play.
I also have two mains on nathrezim and bloody hollow. Anyone on those servers want to friend? I'd also appreciate a universal friend who knows about all the new changes so I can get caught up, even if we never play together. PM me for my email to add me. |
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#3205 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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chat? I'm too busy playing to spend time chatting.
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#3207 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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I can multitask but I'm really concentrating on playing. When raiding in vent I mute everyone that is just chatting about crap. I only want to hear directions not "oh man did you hear..." and "Wow, I just pwned some mage earlier in a BG."
I only chat when doing dailies and questing. Otherwise, I'm only on for raids and daily heroics. ---------- Post added at 03:12 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:37 PM ---------- Oh and I got my 480GTX OC rig running again last night. If you aren't running a new graphics card you aren't seeing some of the really freaking cool ass water effects they got going on.
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#3208 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
Super Moderator
Location: East-central Canada
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I've been pleased with the water effects. They seem to have done a good job getting them to run efficiently. My card is a GeForce 8800 GT.
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#3209 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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on the ultra settings not only do they wave, but the reflect buildings, sky, and other objects. My 9800GTX wasn't able to show the reflections. I saw them for the first time last night.
Watch the boat leaving Stormwind in this video.
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#3210 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
Super Moderator
Location: East-central Canada
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Yeah, my "recommended" dropped me down to "Good" settings for the most part. I'm fine with that, the game still looks good. I should play around with the settings to see if I can squeeze out a bit more than that, maybe with the water effects at least. I tend to notice that more than other features you'd get beyond the current settings.
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Lost!!
Location: Kingston, Ontario
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#3212 (permalink) |
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Water effects definitely look nice. I was a little worried when the first screenshots popped up from beta because the static images just doesn't do it justice. Plus I don't think they were missing either Object reflections or Terrain reflections and it just looked odd.
Has anyone tried leveling archeology yet? I've been working on it for months(it seems) and I'm not maxed yet. I'm not nearly as lucky on getting the rare items as my friends were. It's really demotivating to make grey items over and over with nothing to show for it. I shouldn't say I've been completely devoid of cool stuff. I did manage to finish my Fossilized Raptor mount tonight. Maybe that'll motivate me to get to 525 skill tomorrow. ![]()
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#3213 (permalink) |
Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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I envy you lucky ones with actual graphics cards. I have to run my game on the lowest settings now and I had to use a work around they built into the game that takes away even more graphics just so I don't crash randomly. I can't even see a lot of the boss void zones, so i end up dying...
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#3214 (permalink) | |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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#3216 (permalink) |
Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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At least there's something there for you guys to try to see. Certain things just aren't there for me.
Like the second boss in The Throne of Tides. I have to constantly run around while I tank him just to make sure I stay out of his aoe because it is simply not on my screen and by the time I realize I'm dying from standing in it, I'm dead...
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#3219 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: NJ, USA
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I have not been playing too much, hitting 85 and getting sick of pugs fast will do that to you. So just back to playing the alts now and raising my tradeskills.
Any questions you have Zeraph you're better off posting here, I don't know about anyone else but I'm still leery about their implementation for cross server and character chatting. I don't want to give my e-mail address/account name out to anyone I don't trust and know outside of the interwebs! Punk, that reminds me of back when I played EverQuest in the early days on an unsupported video configuration, at least 50% of the textures were flat gray for me for a loooooong time! |
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#3221 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: NJ, USA
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Everyone has their own preference for leveling, but Dungeons mixed with questing while you are queued is probably going to be the preference. Even straight leveling through PVP experience is viable now according to my one friend who leveled a character that way. Myself I've been through the dungeons and done em all a million times. I'll do them once for the quests while I'm leveling but otherwise see all the new zone changes and quest everything out. It all comes down to what you really want out of the game... is getting to the max as fast as possible to you to meet up with some friends or would you rather see more of what the game has to offer while leveling.
Also keep in mind if you play on a PVP server, DF is going to be much less of a hassle, alternately if you play on a PVP server you may not see random world PVP as a hassle! |
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#3222 (permalink) |
Friend
Location: New Mexico
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I think questing and then doing the dungeon quests is the fastest. since they have raised quest xp rewards like 19 times.
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#3223 (permalink) |
Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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definitely the questing and dungeons. I can't believe how fast people can level now to 80. It's absolutely crazy.
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#3224 (permalink) |
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I started playing the werewolf character.
Its quite an interesting story, although all the humans from this city speak pretty funny. I have only played for a couple of days up to level 10, but I would definitely like to know who would do this to me? curse me to be a werewolf? These Forsaken pricks seem to me to be straight clowns and not capable of masterminding it. Hopefully it will become a part of the story to deliver a definite and final treatment of death to the man responsible, Maybe it was this fucking dragon who smashed up SW?
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Friend
Location: New Mexico
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#3226 (permalink) |
Tilted
Location: NJ, USA
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The worgen curse is very old lore wise and has been revisited several times in the course of WoW's history until the most recent explanation. Read the history section here for a brief run-down and if you still have questions I may be able to fill in any blanks....
Worgen - Wowpedia - Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft |
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#3227 (permalink) |
follower of the child's crusade?
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Blizzard wouldnt make a major villian female I wouldnt have thought, as most of the people who play are probably male and wont want to kill a female enemy.
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#3228 (permalink) |
Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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Lady Sylvanis is behind the attacks on the worgen...
She's the leader of the forsaken. She tells them what to do.
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#3230 (permalink) |
Friend
Location: New Mexico
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UGH. I don't even know why I bother responding to anything you say. You're so in your own little world its crazy.
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#3231 (permalink) |
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Lady Sylvanis isnt exactly a villian
She is someone who protects her people by any means necessary - including some questionable ones. When they cured me they told me that a night elf druid created the worgen curse... it was more a case of who spread the curse to Gillneer (sic?) If it was Lady Sylvenas she must have had a good reason to do it, and the real treachery probably lies with King Greymane who provoked her to it.
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#3232 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
Super Moderator
Location: East-central Canada
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Did you just blame the victim? And how is invading a peaceful people protecting her own?
Sylvanas was the Horde general in the conquest of the formerly isolationist Gilneas. And by our contemporary standards, she's also a war criminal and has committed crimes against humanity with her use of chemical weapons. She is a dark, vile sorceress who has cruelty in her heart and a corrupt desire for power.
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#3233 (permalink) |
Forming
Location: ....a state of pure inebriation.
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Tell that to the people of Gilneas...
Spoiler: At the end of the worgen starting area you watch her go directly against the orders of Garrosh and tell her general to use the chemical weaponry against the people of Gilneas. The chemicals turn any living thing they touch into undead. Since the forsaken can't procreate, she's using the weaponry to create more followers for herself. The worgen curse was originally created by the druids of the fang, but the forsaken hostility is all to blame on Sylvanis and the Undercity.
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#3234 (permalink) | |
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She does what is necessary to free her people from slavery to the Lich King, and then to protect them from a world that would exterminate them simply for what they are.
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#3235 (permalink) |
warrior bodhisattva
Super Moderator
Location: East-central Canada
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But at what cost? She is beyond redemption.
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#3236 (permalink) |
follower of the child's crusade?
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Well then, she is like the lInquisitor in Ivan Karamazov's story then in that case. Casting herself into sin to save and redeem the people.
Those who think that wars (against massively superior forces) can be fought by fine, moral standards and tender kindness had best prepare themselves for slavery or death! She fights by any means necessary to protect the freedom of a people who are surrounded by forces that think thay are unfit for "life" and should be liquidated. If she did not make hard choices then the undead would be crushed. SHe might have done things that are monsterous and evil. She doesnt live protected by millenium old magic or massive stone walls like these characters who can afford to condemn such things (ie the elves and humans)
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#3237 (permalink) |
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The more I read about Sylvanas, the more evil she becomes. She might try to justify it as trying to save her "race" but she's only ever had revenge on her mind. Now that she has Val'Kyr under her command she has an unlimited force and no longer needs the Horde. I can't imagine she's going to come to her senses and quit using the Val'kyr and the new plague. She's got some really scary weapons in her arsenal right now and neither the Alliance or the Horde are safe from them. I'd say the next expansion has some really devastating consequences in store for Sylvanas and maybe the entire forsaken faction.
If you're curious about her entire story I'd suggest reading up on wowwiki.com.
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