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Don't get me wrong, I was in a great guild, and Molten Core was fun a few times. I just got bored doing the same instance over and over and over, including an hour of prep time to get all your ammo and bandages and potions and so forth together, meeting up, riding to MC entrance as a group so nobody gets ganked by the enemy on the way in, and only then do you get to start the 3-4 hours of dungeon, which you've already done countless times before.
That's the nature of end game, and it just doesn't appeal to me. Some of the people in my guild loved it, they've done MC over 100 times. After 6 I had had enough. There are a lot of instances much cooler than Molten Core. It's a shame that they didn't make the end game as fun as the mid game.
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I love World of Warcraft! I love the graphics, the story, the quests, and the ability to keep in contact with friends who live hundreds of miles away.
I also use a 56k dial-up, and it runs decently. It uses up RAM more than anything. So if you have a lot of RAM, it'll run beautifully, dial-up or not.
I'm not thrilled about the end-game 40 man raids. I haven't played long enough to have a level 60, but I'm approaching it and not looking forward to spending long hours doing instances for drops.
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I looove WoW. I finally got my new comp with a gig of RAM and have been playing ever since. I've got a lvl 13 orc, a lvl 9 elf, and some random human guy I don't play with a lot. I can't wait until I don't have any finals left tho, then it'll be WoW so much more than I do already.
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That new Alliance class looks pretty dumb from the movie. Purple octopus face alligator-men? I understand they're part of the lore and all, but come on, that's the best they could do?
I may re-activate my current account to check out the new areas and see if there's anything good going on around lv. 70. Hopefully I won't have to be fully stocked on Molten Core and BWL items to compete.
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About the Drenai, meh. I'd have preferred the Worgen or the Furbolg, but I'm hardly shocked by the choice (and Pandaren would have been much much worse). Given past and present creatures like the Cthulu from D&D, D'argo from Farscape, and Davey Jones from PotC 2, and many others, tentable beards don't seem so strange to me anymore.
Regarding the Warcraft movie being done in China. Blizzard has said a couple of times that said movie has no support from Blizzard or Vivendi, and I would imagine that it is in pretty much in violation of every copyright law that would be applicable (depends how many names of people and places they decided to use). But since Blizzard and the Chinese government have an arrangement through which both make money, I'm betting that's where the pressure, if any, will be applied. Regardless, there's still every chance that the chinese movie could be better than the hollywood one will be... Don't disappoint us Legendary!
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the best summary of WoW that I've ever put together (in case anyone still wants that question answered) is: "It is the most fantastic game I've ever played... don't ever start playing it."
as someone who has wasted entirely too much time in the game (2 60s in a raiding guild that has finished everything in MC, BWL and half of AQ so far) even with any flaws and complaints about it, it has been from the start a fantastically created and implemented (mostly) game
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quote:Originally posted by Architraz Warden: About the Drenai, meh. I'd have preferred the Worgen or the Furbolg, but I'm hardly shocked by the choice (and Pandaren would have been much much worse). Given past and present creatures like the Cthulu from D&D, D'argo from Farscape, and Davey Jones from PotC 2, and many others, tentable beards don't seem so strange to me anymore.
In case you didn't already know, the Pandaren were never anything more than a prank by one Ian McConville. (See the post below the comic.)
And don't even get me started on the "from D&D" part of that post. Lovecraft would be turning over in his grave, assuming that ordinary rotational motion had any meaning in the remote galaxies of non-euclidean reality where his cyclopaean tomb is no doubt located.
The Pandaren were much more than just a prank by the one guy, but they are a something of an inside joke. At the very least, they go back to the WC III expansion (Frozen Throne). If you beat a mission a particular way, then the following mission you got an additional hero unit who was a Pandaren Brewmaster. Also, I think one named Chen helped Rexxar in the extended part of TFT. His empty keg is a nice easter egg quest in the Barrens.
I think Samwise gets props for the original prank though, many years ago.
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WRT the movie in China -- apparently it's not a WoW knock-off, but in fact is "The Journey Eastward" and is some sort of ancient legend there. It just looks similar, sorta.
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I think I have a little baby toon on Sen'Jin (from one the the times that Doomhammer was down).
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I think the Drenai look REALLY cool. I can't believe the females actually looke kinda hot, in a sort of Opera singer from, "The 5th Element" kind of way
I have had a fantastic time playing WOW from 1-60. I used to raid about 4 nights a week (down to 1-2 now that I have a fiance) I've loved the experience from day 1 when I skipped work to buy it (the beginning of a hard learned lesson in priorities that I can't write out in just a few words)
It was the first MMORPG I ever played and it will likely be the last, because I just can't handle having so much fun at my fingertips and needing to do other things.
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There are times when I feel like picking the game up again.
Then again, there are also times when I feel like stabbing myself in the eye with a fork. I get over it pretty quickly.
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Cthulhu didn't have a tentacled beard. He (Ia! Ia! Cthulhu f'tagn!) had something that may have resembled a tentacled beard in this puny manifestation of Euclidean geometry, but that's just the best our feeble minds can do... If we aren't immediately struck dead by the insanity of it all.
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Well, I was going for the race that was oh so popular in D&D (also known as Mind Flayers or some such)? They were of course just a mere pale shadow of the ineffable visage of THE Cthulu.
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ersomaniac... I'm still working to get to that point. I hope I make it soon cause I need to get other stuff done.
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It is very addictive, but my hubby has it worse than I. We have only had it less than three months and his main is lvl 56 and does the PVP in the gulch and bason. At least my main is only lvl. 36.
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