Wafflecakes
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Anyone know if Blizz is planning some sort of relaunch of the annual pass? Many of the people who signed up last year (me included) are going to be expiring in the coming months.
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Doubt it. They have no reason to offer it, except maybe something for Heart of the Swarm.
They haven't mentioned anything, and with the expansion right around the corner with no need to ensure some retention, they probably won't do it.
But maybe they'll make a new one with Heart of the Swarm and surprise us all.
edit: damnit, beat to a pulp
Wafflecakes
Member
Eh getting people to commit to a year sounds like a reason to me.
(Doesn't even have to be a free game. Could be a free char xfer or vanity item.)
Alethebeer
Member
Hi everyone. Blizzard is selling the game and the expansion sets for 20. I've never been interested for the game so i have some noobish questions.
1)I know that you can play the game like a normal rpg, is worth?
2)Are there any kind of main quest with a storyline?
3)Do the expansion pack add new sections of the main story?
Thanks in advance. Forgive me, lol.
1)I know that you can play the game like a normal rpg, is worth?
2)Are there any kind of main quest with a storyline?
3)Do the expansion pack add new sections of the main story?
Thanks in advance. Forgive me, lol.
Wafflecakes
Member
Well there is no real "main story" in the leveling quests. Most of that kind of stuff is in raids and each expansion has its own story arc. There is plenty to do just by yourself if thats your thing though just don't expect it to be story driven.
There are certain stories that do travel through the expansions, like the zandalari trolls but yea each expansion adds a new story to everything. You can play solo, but if you want to do dungeons you'll need to group up.
Yeah You'll have tons of stuff to do. It's worth getting in my opinion. The expansions add new worlds to explore, each with their own storylines, quests, new lvls, etc. There are tons of quests, and im actually secretly excitied for the new pokemon pet battle aspect of the game haha.
Alethebeer
Member
Thanks. Is fun playing alone? Because i have no friends who play videogames.
EDIT: B-Dubs, Touchdown thanks you too.
At this point i think i'll give it a try. For 5€ i can buy the game and the first expansion pack.
Yeah it's still fun playing alone. You're going to be online playing with potentially thousands of people so you'll more than likely make friends along the way.
1)Yes.
2/3) There are over-arching stories and main villain in each expansion. Each zone (where you'll spend like 5-10 levels typically) each have their own storylines as well.
Alethebeer
Member
Thanks everyone!
eudaemonic
Member
I'll be damned surprised if you don't make a couple of friends in game. Guild perks are a good time and plus it's nice to have people to chat with once in a while.
Be warned... 1-60 content is much smoother than it was before but then you'll run into issues with Burning Crusades quests. There are a lot of mistakes there they've since fixed (like escort quests that take FOREVER). Best advice is to jump into Wrath content as soon as you can and try not to let 60-68ish get ya down. *chuckles* Some people do this by running dungeons as much as possible to gain experience.
SiegfriedFM
Member
Okay, some shameless self-promotion now. I just finished my gameplay trailer for Mists of Pandaria. Comments would be appreciated:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zjhx63OO_w&feature=plcp
Blog post: http://www.beardednerd.se/my-gameplay-trailer-for-world-of-warcraft-mists-of-pandaria/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zjhx63OO_w&feature=plcp
Blog post: http://www.beardednerd.se/my-gameplay-trailer-for-world-of-warcraft-mists-of-pandaria/
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
So MoP is coming out in a month...
But EVE Online just sent me a pretty sweet come back offer - 3 months for $25.
Wat do?
Lots of vicious competition in the MMO space at the moment.
But EVE Online just sent me a pretty sweet come back offer - 3 months for $25.
Wat do?
Pay for EVE and just AFK train skills while I'm playing WoW, if I decide I can afford it, that's what.
Lots of vicious competition in the MMO space at the moment.
JORMBO
Darkness no more
I play alone. I'm only in a guild for guild perks. There are features in the game to help you find parties for dungeons, raids and battlegrounds. I'm always doing group stuff by letting the game build the groups for me.
Enosh
Member
ugh Kael is kicking my ass, well not him but his council, been trying for 1h today but always get pretty much stunlocked to hell and back, well got once pass it, but since I was stupid and didn't read what the fuck he does I stood in the black swirly thingy and died ^^
oh well will do some more tries tomorrow
oh well will do some more tries tomorrow
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Ghostlands last? I assume you maxed Tranquillien. Free, easy rep for Horde.
Also, all the Mobile Armory features are now free!
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/7039180/Mobile_Armory_Guild_Chat_and_Auction_House_Features_Now_Free-8_23_2012
Basically the mobile AH and guild chat. Pretty awesome. Never thought it was quite worth paying for myself, especially for an extra $5 a month.
Sweetness, I knew holding out was the right thing to do.
Yeah, they got me my 45 Exalted Rep achievement.
HarryDemeanor
Member
Awesome! Now I just need to get a smartphone to replace my current shitty Palm Centro that I got for free. Wish they had something like this for Windows Phone.
I'm surprised it took this long to make it free. Never seemed like something worth paying for at all.
DJ Lushious
Member
Old mats, for sure. As people roll Pandas, they are going to want to level their professions quickly. And what better supplier than you?!
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I'll be posting my guide that I wrote and then saved as we get closer (it's more useful in the first couple weeks after a launch, rather than right now.)
Gathering professions are super lucrative in the first week and especially the first day or two as people race to level other professions. That's when the prices will be the highest, after which it will drop off, but still remain high for quite awhile as long gear and other things made by the crafting profs are in demand. Crafting can be extremely lucrative as well, but the market won't really hit its stride until a couple weeks in. If you can get up there early with crafted epic gear though, people pushing for realm first raids will eat it up for an inflated price, though prices will still be high for a good time when most people are still gearing up.
Things may be slightly different though with Mists, since the raids don't open until the second week, so a bunch of people will be ready to dump stuff on the AH then.
And if you haven't leveled JC yet, now's the time, as the best way to get in the market and be competitive is at the start of an expansion - otherwise you're playing catchup. Also has the unique twist of limited access to cuts, so you can monopolize certain ones that aren't say, straight +STR or +INT for a few days up to a week or two.
Gathering professions are super lucrative in the first week and especially the first day or two as people race to level other professions. That's when the prices will be the highest, after which it will drop off, but still remain high for quite awhile as long gear and other things made by the crafting profs are in demand. Crafting can be extremely lucrative as well, but the market won't really hit its stride until a couple weeks in. If you can get up there early with crafted epic gear though, people pushing for realm first raids will eat it up for an inflated price, though prices will still be high for a good time when most people are still gearing up.
Things may be slightly different though with Mists, since the raids don't open until the second week, so a bunch of people will be ready to dump stuff on the AH then.
And if you haven't leveled JC yet, now's the time, as the best way to get in the market and be competitive is at the start of an expansion - otherwise you're playing catchup. Also has the unique twist of limited access to cuts, so you can monopolize certain ones that aren't say, straight +STR or +INT for a few days up to a week or two.
I actually get a ton of names I want this way.
Last time I tried they told me no.
There seems to only be a few rules to them not freeing up a name. They have to be inactive for 6 months I believe. Then the character has to be 60 or below for them to free it up. Those are the only two rules I've noticed.
I wonder how heavily they're going to use phasing in 5.1. I can't see how the horde and alliance armies finally arriving on Pandaria won't change the landscape immensely.
Edit: Holy price jump Batman, during the day today Truegold was going for around 100g, about 12 hours later it's up to over 400. Crazy people.
Edit: Holy price jump Batman, during the day today Truegold was going for around 100g, about 12 hours later it's up to over 400. Crazy people.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
I remember when it was around 1100g. Good times.
I leveled my warlock purely to be an alchemist, don't touch it otherwise. Got annoying trying to find transmutes.
I didn't know they did this. Can you please explain details. Thanks.
I just put in a ticket stating that the character with the name I wanted hadn't logged in since the new armory went up if not longer and was wondering if they could free up the name. Response was that they have a checklist of sorts to go through before they can free up the name (like someone said earlier) and it was eligible to be picked up. Just check the armory and make sure that the character hasn't been touched in quite some time, usually their armory page won't actually show.
You can either farm the new stuff or the old stuff. A lot of Pandas being rerolled will need the low level mats to level up, but for people who are going from 85-90 may have 2 crafting professions which you can basically price gouge at the start. Example, I went broke from ~25k at Cata launch getting my LW/JC up.
I think I might bite on the $5 for Vanilla/BC, $5 for Wrath thing tonight and RAF ;D
How do I add a new license/account to my Battle.net account?
Send an RAF invitation to your own bnet email from bnet referrals and rewards, then when you go to the email link say you have a bnet account already and log in to that, it makes a new starter account with the RAF link. Then just click that account and hit upgrade, enter keys and you're good to go. It does take a day to get mail access on that second account though
Excellent, thanks!
The question now is; what should I level???
I have a Shaman, Druid, Lock at 85 on my main server as well as an 80 Druid (plan to delete it after I get herald though), 63 Mage and 3 Warrior(going to delete him though...)
Friends;
if I have an achievement on a toon and later delete it, do I keep the achieve?
(I think this might'be been asked before, if so, apologies).
I kind of want to delete the 80 Druid I have after Tuesday/after I get Herald of the Titans because it's taking up a character slot.
if I have an achievement on a toon and later delete it, do I keep the achieve?
(I think this might'be been asked before, if so, apologies).
I kind of want to delete the 80 Druid I have after Tuesday/after I get Herald of the Titans because it's taking up a character slot.
DJ Lushious
Member
After Patch 5.0.4's account-wide achievements hit, I would like to believe you can then delete any toon you want.
Playing two of the same class/spec makes things easier since you will use a keypress duplicating program. Doing two prot paladins is fun and easy, I think two of any tank spec is going to be pretty easy and have good fast queue times
This is at least correct with some things on the PTR. My warrior that I don't care about has the Fiery Warhorse and the FoS associated with it, I deleted it on the PTR and my shaman still had the mount and FoS. I would be careful about deleting a character with the Herald title as I haven't heard about that being safe to do.
Enhance shaman! I'm not going that fast (mostly because I'm still working on getting everything configured 100% :|) but I think my next pair will either be rouges or hunters... or maybe druids.
It is a bunch of fun though, just pissed that my other character missed a quest in SFK somehow, resulting in my lead being 1.5 levels ABOVE the mule
j0hnny_385
Member
Umm, can someone explain? New patch released today or...? Because I swear I didn't have this yesterday when I launched it.
Enhance shaman! I'm not going that fast (mostly because I'm still working on getting everything configured 100% :|) but I think my next pair will either be rouges or hunters... or maybe druids.
It is a bunch of fun though, just pissed that my other character missed a quest in SFK somehow, resulting in my lead being 1.5 levels ABOVE the mule
Yeah I try to be careful with quests, if one of them misses it I just drop the quest. How are the queues for dual dps? I might roll two dps on a server with some gaf people on it after I get my second pair up for level granting
5-10 mins is what I'm waiting on average so far. Granted I've only done 4 dungeons (just hit 30 last night after spending a while trying to get jamba working)
Just trying to pick the best quests now that give gear because wearing level 2 starting mail sucks!
It's downloading the 6GB for 5.0. Been available for a couple weeks now, dunno why you're just now getting it.
j0hnny_385
Member
Thanks for the info!
A Prot Pally or Prot Warrior sort of amuses me - though I have an 81 Warrior and an 85 Prot Pally on another server.
I am debating Hunters as a possibility.