Is WoW really worth the money?

[NiKLoT]

pfff i pwned a 45 pala human with my 42 rogue hahah noob he was dead b4 he hit me once

[spike]

which is why rouges are bullshit. warriors are were its at.

[Civrock]

I just signed up with a 14-day trial I got and play on a realm called "Alex*********", I can't remember the name, it's weird. My name's Civrock and I'm a level 4 Undead Warrior. lol, so far I'm getting a fuckin' headache from the perspective and the movement... argh! But other than that, the graphics are quite nice and the quests are... lame. I'm in some city called Deathknell right now.

Anybody have a clue why the mouse cursor just disappears sometimes? When I had to dig somebody into a grave... it just disappeared and I couldn't get it back. Then I just ESCed and could hit the exit button by luck. Meh.

I don't know yet if I'll continue playing after the trial... I have a feeling that it's not my type of game.

[BFG]

... you had to 'dig' somebody into a grave? Are you sure you havn't been playing stubbs the zombie?

On a unrelated topic of games etc and graphics, any body tried sticking their GhR settings on to max again (i know a lot of folk turned them right down for competing/gaming etc) , but its like a damn whole new game - especially when you look at the new camo outfits in the BL mappack... awsome!

[BTs_GhostSniper]

On a unrelated topic of games etc and graphics, any body tried sticking their GhR settings on to max again

You mean I've been playing with everything on Max all this time and it was hurting my gaming?

[Civrock]

You can also turn on FSAA and AF with ATi Displays (if you have an ATi graphics card)... Ghost Recon CAN look really damn good, but it can also kill your performance (if you have an older Mac and graphics card) and also decrease how far you can see etc.

[BFG]

You can also turn on FSAA and AF with ATi Displays (if you have an ATi graphics card)

I never thought of that, might have a go just for the sake of seeing how badly it kills the comp.

annyhoo, appolgoies for hijacking the thread there...back to WoWbble or whatever it is

[BTs_GhostSniper]

You can also turn on FSAA and AF with ATi Displays (if you have an ATi graphics card)... Ghost Recon CAN look really damn good, but it can also kill your performance (if you have an older Mac and graphics card) and also decrease how far you can see etc.

I've done all of that and have everything set on Max and I always peg the fastest fps on every map.

Of course, here are my system specs:

PowerMac G5 Tower, Single 1.8GHz Processor
900MHz FSB
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB Graphics Card
2.5GB RAM

[spike]

civ i think the trial version is massively diff from the real version.

[Civrock]

civ i think the trial version is massively diff from the real version.

Why? There are only a few unimportant restrictions.


And... how do you like it so far, Ein? After a 6 hour WoW marathon with Ethion I think the quests are very repetitive... and rather boring.

[NiKLoT]

civ i think the trial version is massively diff from the real version.

Why? There are only a few unimportant restrictions.


And... how do you like it so far, Ein? After a 6 hour WoW marathon with Ethion I think the quests are very repetitive... and rather boring.

aha.. and after 6 h u remark that its rather borig.. u dont have anything else to do then playin 6h a "boring" game..

[z][t-Magnetic]

Just imagine how repetitive it gets before reaching level 60. Quit while you can 

[spike]

Meh, playing the same damn RvS map gets repetitive.

[Civrock]

aha.. and after 6 h u remark that its rather borig.. u dont have anything else to do then playin 6h a "boring" game..

I was hoping for something interesting to happen as I advanved... without success. The quests were pretty much all the same, and I did like 20 of 'em. Maybe I have to play more...

[Phara]

Well, i ordered it on i think...
Monday or Tuesday. Well w/e doesnt matter. It should come tomorrow or saturday and then i can get playing. w00t

[Brutha]

Being a roleplayer, and playing on RP realms..and only RP realms I do think I get something more out of the game than ordinary players...well, it's fun anyways. And yeah, pally's ought to be shot!

[Ein]

Well, I like some aspects about it such as druids shapechange abilities and the RP end like Brutha was saying but the quests are sometimes tedious and repetitive. I think the best thing to do is to get a whole bunch of quest started and then your free to roam around, completing quests in the area instead of running back and forth for every single quest.

Also movement is slow but that will probably change when I can transform into a cat or have bought a mount to ride.

Also, I have yet to see someone from the horde... The closest I have gotten to a member of the horde was when a single orc tried to raid one of the towns I was in. I didn't see him but saw messages going crazy from the town defense trying to hunt down the lonely orc. I'm sure that as I travel closer to the battle lines, I will hopefully see more and by that time, I will be high enough level to help in battling them.

Overall view so far is that yes it is addicting only cause it is so timeconsuming to get places however it is not the best nor the worst game I have ever played. I've subscribed for 3 months so far which should be long enough for me to experience most of what the game has to offer.

Ein

[c| Lone-Wolf]

Horde > Alliance.

Yes the quests are repetative, which is why whenever looking for quests I would take ones that send me in to unexplored areas of the world, so I had something new going on while I was looking around for whatever I needed to do for the quest.  Also, having a friend to go questing with makes it a much more enjoyable thing.  Particularly if your friend is a healer (especially a priest!). 

Ein, where have you been exploring, and not finding any Horde?  In addition to the Horde being outnumbered by the Alliance on most of the servers, on my server, the central areas of the eastern continent have almost no horde presence whatsoever, because to survive there you need to be level 45+ (to survive the alliance), but the quests are all for 20-ish characters.

[Civrock]

Which realms are you guys in (EU servers excluded, can't access them with my version)? I have a level 8 Undead Warrior on Alexstrasza and a level 8 Dwarf Warrior on Kul'Tiras. Both are called Civrock.

And heh... I play a few hours of WoW during the day and a few hours of AA in the evening (unless I have work that day). Kinda cool, it's a good alternation which makes me want to play more of FPS (AA in particular) because, to be honest, I got a little numb of them, too.

[Ein]

Currently, I've only got one character, a 15th level night elf druid. I started out in darnassus and am now exploring the norther end of the western continent. I don't know what server I'm on but will gladly change if I find out where you all are. Perhaps we should all start on the same server playing as hordes (since they are outnumbered and I love being the underdog).

Ein