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I would like you guys' perspective:
I'm in a relatively static party with 4 other friends/relatives. They are all rolling blood elves, including a paladin, a priest, a hunter, and a warlock. I already have a 60 Mage, and I'm not crazy about playing a rogue. I also have a lvl 18 druid. I've leveled paladin to 60 in the past, but that toon is on a different server (and would be alliance anyway, so it doesn't matter).
All that having been said, which blood elf class should I choose? Should I take one for the team and play as a rogue? Or should I just play my druid with the four blood elves?
I'm in a relatively static party with 4 other friends/relatives. They are all rolling blood elves, including a paladin, a priest, a hunter, and a warlock. I already have a 60 Mage, and I'm not crazy about playing a rogue. I also have a lvl 18 druid. I've leveled paladin to 60 in the past, but that toon is on a different server (and would be alliance anyway, so it doesn't matter).
All that having been said, which blood elf class should I choose? Should I take one for the team and play as a rogue? Or should I just play my druid with the four blood elves?
So I stopped by at the EB at 11pm, 150+ people lined up. I said **** that.. I'll sleep on it. But had a second chance at heart during my 3rd beer when my friend came online with his copy. So I said ok I'll finish this sucker off and pop down at 12:30am. Low and behold.. no one is there, I waltz in, grab my two copies (one for my brother) and installing now 
ZombieSupaStar
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got mine!
are dranei mages worth it or not at all?
are dranei mages worth it or not at all?
ZombieSupaStar
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what I mean is are their racials ok for it? or does it not really matter?
ZombieSupaStar
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what about a drainei warrior?
ZombieSupaStar
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Alex said:
does that heal that well tho really, it says only 50 pts
Does everyone get false negatives with some blizzard downloader patches? Some are way too slow, say stuff like firewall blocking and other nonsense I dont have. Some mentioned an alternative, if not too complicated perhaps I should go that route. Not even to TBC install yet and its been 3hrs.
MrPing1000
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the blizz downloader is awful, you have to unblock a load of ports in your firewall/router. And even then it's still slow as ****. I usually just download big patches from a mirror. 200mb in 15mins instead of 2hours
MrPing1000
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madara said:Ah mirror you say, like fileplanet subscriber? Thanks, nearly operational and thankfully I will not have post for help every 15mins
One of the first things I remarked in guild chat after entering was "I love the sky"
Dear god! The blood elf area brings tears to my eyes, gorgeous without question. I hadnt level in like an hour. Im just running around, found the mailbox, now Im off to find the bank. I have yet to find an npc guard that tells you usual locations or at least one lists the bank now. It does make it more interesting actually. The new pc plays this game like dream, every thing on high and 60fps. I cant seem get foilage and trees to improve much so I think they are just coded that way.
ToyMachine228
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Server had been great all day and now...Instance servers are down. And there are no NPCs anywhere in the world. So basically right now on Magtheridon there is absolutely nothing.:lol
Alex
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My disdain for Alliance will probably keep me off of them, but I prefer their aesthetics, voicework, etc.
I don't see much of a variance in the quality of the quests/intro zones either. And I much prefer the style and color palette and and even if their lore is fairly ridiculous (as is almost all RPG lore), it's a lot more interesting and "fun" than "hey, more elves"
Even though I do like the Blood Elves. The bitchyness makes them very redeemable in the face of other lameness, such as the Night Elves.
The female Blood Elf laugh is the single best piece of voice work in video game history.
I don't see much of a variance in the quality of the quests/intro zones either. And I much prefer the style and color palette and and even if their lore is fairly ridiculous (as is almost all RPG lore), it's a lot more interesting and "fun" than "hey, more elves"
Even though I do like the Blood Elves.
The bitchyness makes them very redeemable in the face of other lameness, such as the Night Elves.The female Blood Elf laugh is the single best piece of voice work in video game history.
Just wait. the level 1-6 stuff for draenei isn't bad, but just wait until you get quests that send you to the complete opposite side of the zone. Or quests that send you to grind for a rare drop. And all the damn walking... Even though Eversong is just as big, it's a lot more populated and interesting.
e: Also, I totally stole the name Liquidocelot for my BE paladin just for the hell of it.
e: Also, I totally stole the name Liquidocelot for my BE paladin just for the hell of it.
ToyMachine228
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Alex said:Even though I do like the Blood Elves.
The Blood Elves are an awesome race. If you play Frozen Throne you'll find that their story is really cool. The Night Elves on the other hand...Freaking lame. I've always hated them. The only cool thing to come from the Night Elves is Illidan, and he's no longer a Night Elf.
Generally speaking, the Alliance side gets better architecture, quests, etc. while the Horde side gets less idiots since there are so much less players overall. I'd also say that the Horde side also has a more interesting backstory and the races are more interesting as well.Adagio said:
I'd say that you may as well just base your decision on that, heh. Of course, it's just my own opinion.
I have to disagree..I play horde now, but the first character I rolled was a Night Elf. Well at around 20 I made the walk to IF. The most impressive thing I've ever seen in that game was walking up that long hill in front of Ironforge to see the city with snow all over, and 60's dueling outside, and the sun shining. Man that was awesome. I miss being low level and innocentManaByte said:
Mute said:I have to disagree..I play horde now, but the first character I rolled was a Night Elf. Well at around 20 I made the walk to IF. The most impressive thing I've ever seen in that game was walking up that long hill in front of Ironforge to see the city with snow all over, and 60's dueling outside, and the sun shining. Man that was awesome. I miss being low level and innocent
The last night of Open Beta was utter chaos and made sure I bought the retail game
I switched to Alliance and I think the music when you are walking into Stormwind really got me the first time.I think I'll always remember all us noobs wanting to "raid" the horde those first couple of weekend nights. Everyone lined up like some huge konga line walking to horde side.. having no idea at all where you were going but just following the higher people. Getting crushed by the guards :lol
ToyMachine228
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Since my server's going down every five minutes and I can't level my Paladin which hit 61 today, or my Dranei Shaman which I've just been messing around with that's Level 8...I made a quick Blood Elf Paladin and got it to Level 6:lol
On that note both the Dranei and the Blood Elf starting areas are pretty badass. And what Burning Crusade is offering as far as content is pretty sweet so far. It's new, fresh, and well designed stuff. The spawn timers were well thought out, multiple graveyards, multiple flight paths, and all of that. As far as content goes I really give Blizzard a nod on Burning Crusade.
On their maintenance of my server however...Not so much.
On that note both the Dranei and the Blood Elf starting areas are pretty badass. And what Burning Crusade is offering as far as content is pretty sweet so far. It's new, fresh, and well designed stuff. The spawn timers were well thought out, multiple graveyards, multiple flight paths, and all of that. As far as content goes I really give Blizzard a nod on Burning Crusade.
On their maintenance of my server however...Not so much.
Looks like eBay has been flooded with Collector's Editions -- no surprise since everyone I ran into this morning was mysteriously requesting 2 copies :lol
The game that was going for $250+ last week isn't selling at the $150 Buy-It-Now price, and yet idiots are sill putting up auctions with $250-300 pricetags. If you're willing to wait a little longer for these speculators to start to panic as prices plummet, I imagine you could get the CE for close to retail price (or at least under $100).
The game that was going for $250+ last week isn't selling at the $150 Buy-It-Now price, and yet idiots are sill putting up auctions with $250-300 pricetags. If you're willing to wait a little longer for these speculators to start to panic as prices plummet, I imagine you could get the CE for close to retail price (or at least under $100).
Son of Godzilla
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So I kinda maxed mining and started hoarding Khorium. On a level 60. 200 Fel Iron, 20 Khorium, and 10 Eternium. Fun stuff.
I'm kind of relieved that I dropped my gathering profession. I was having so much fun questing and going through instances that I have no time to harvest. Where's the Jewelcrafting trainers? I need to get a character started on that.
Also, pretty impressed with the stability of my server. I only experienced a tiny amount of lag outside of Hellfire Citadel. In comparison, my cousin's realm Azgalar was horrible, I saw him killing mobs and getting ganked, he could only get one spell off after 2-3 minutes. It was pretty atrocious.
Also, pretty impressed with the stability of my server. I only experienced a tiny amount of lag outside of Hellfire Citadel. In comparison, my cousin's realm Azgalar was horrible, I saw him killing mobs and getting ganked, he could only get one spell off after 2-3 minutes. It was pretty atrocious.
Alex
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My server stability is perfect, but I picked one of the tiny, underpopulated new ones
The past two servers I picked started off fresh as low pop and grew into some of the better medium pop servers, hopefully my luck of the draw keeps up.
Either way, I'm not too concerned at the moment.
The past two servers I picked started off fresh as low pop and grew into some of the better medium pop servers, hopefully my luck of the draw keeps up.
Either way, I'm not too concerned at the moment.
Hippy~ Im a herbalist! As my friend says Im can go pick weeds now~ Flowerpower~
Also got alchemy to complement it and have first aid at 50 already. Going look into cooking as well. Funniest quest has be one from npc 10 yards out from the ruins. Walk ten yards to dead npc, walk back ten yards to quest npc, finish quest. :lol Easy mode
I had my G5 logitech mouse side button working as action command in wow but since I got this new pc I cant seem to duplicate that. I have G5 software installed just like last time but when I go to the bind key menu clicking on side mouse button does nothing now I believe is was labeled as mouse button 4.
Also got alchemy to complement it and have first aid at 50 already. Going look into cooking as well. Funniest quest has be one from npc 10 yards out from the ruins. Walk ten yards to dead npc, walk back ten yards to quest npc, finish quest. :lol Easy mode
I had my G5 logitech mouse side button working as action command in wow but since I got this new pc I cant seem to duplicate that. I have G5 software installed just like last time but when I go to the bind key menu clicking on side mouse button does nothing now
I believe is was labeled as mouse button 4.- Status