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Lich_King
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posted August 15, 2006 10:00 AM |
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Orange - "Legendary" - even rarer than purples; actually I think you have to make them out of rare items, instead of finding them in places...
Red - "Artifact" - I don't think players can get these. I'm not even sure if they're in the game.
Legendary items are extremly rare, to almost impossible to obtain as you need parts from raid dungeons and spend astonashing amounts of money and material to get them. There are only few of them: Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros (Mace); Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker (Sword); Black Qiraji Resonating Crystal (Riding insect, only 1 per server); Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian (Need to assemble it from pieces from Naxxramas). There is another item, not in game - The Ashbringer.
Artifacts (According to API will be gold) are not even in game and might be there around the Burning Crusade.
Also there is alot of useful information in this page:
http://www.wowwiki.com
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gorman
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posted August 16, 2006 06:41 AM |
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Why are raids such a bad thing?
^^^ Again, my question... Please, an answer
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TheRealDeal
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posted August 18, 2006 08:33 PM |
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Because you 6-7 nights a week have to raid from 18.30 to 24.30-1.30
And when you obtain 8 bloodfang, CTS, AQR, and that kind of stuff.. Molten Core is not reaaaally how you want to spend your time.
RD -X Wowgamer.
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friendofgunnar
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posted August 18, 2006 10:24 PM |
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What's the difference between a raid, a quest, and an instance?
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gorman
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posted August 19, 2006 07:00 AM |
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A quest is somethin ya can get from a NPC. They can give you experience and occasionally items as rewards... From what I know anyway... Raids.... heck, I'm still confused about those... and I haven't heard of instances.... except as spells. An instant spell doesn't require a casting duration... hence why it's called an instant... hah... ha..
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TitaniumAlloy
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posted August 20, 2006 04:39 AM |
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Quest is a task set by an NPC for exp.
A raid is a group of people who get together to kill stuff for drops, or to attack opposing factions
An instance is a random enemy you come across
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TheRealDeal
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posted August 20, 2006 06:20 PM |
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-.-
An instance is a part of the world where you join as a group 5 of, 10, 20, or 40. (They are the maxes for the instances, the amount of people who can join are set for the specific instance.)
Raids are done in instances, which often are the 20 or 40 man instances. (Since me and some m8s did a 5 man ubrs without ANY problems, i don't really see that as a raid-instance anymore) Hence, a raid is where you have 6+ people for the task, most often used in instances or Player-Versus-Players combat(PVP).
E.g. @ instance: Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, AQ40, Naxxramas. These are the 40-man instances, the RAID instances. There is also Zul'Gurub and AQ20 as 20-man instances. (A lot of bosses in ZG is doable 7-8 man though, depending on the classes you bring, and on the boss)
There are differnet 5-man instances throughout the entire game.
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Lich_King
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posted August 24, 2006 01:39 PM |
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You forgot mentioning Upper part of the Blackrock Spire, which is labeled as a 10 man raid instance.
Instances are created for every group seperately, that means while you're with other 4 people in instance, anyone else can't come and kill your mobs and bosses, and the loot, in the mobs/boss tables are set only for your group.
All non raid instances (those are every instance in game except for Zul'Gurub, Ahn'Qiraj (Temple, and Ruins), Necropolis Naxxramas, Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Onyxia's Lair and Upper Blackrock spire) can be done with 5 man group, but also can be done in raid (raid is considered more than 5 man group (that is several 5 manned groups - 10 man)), but you can only finish quests in those instances, if you did them in 5 man group. Those quests have label "(Dungeon)" next them, Raid quests have "(Raid)" label.
There are also "(Elite)" quests, which means it will involve killing elite guards or mobs.
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TheRealDeal
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posted August 26, 2006 04:41 PM |
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Did i forget UBRS? Sorry, but i only go there 4- or 5-man  Gives it an xtra edge 
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william
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LummoxLewis
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posted September 16, 2006 04:17 AM |
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I saw this thread and thought why not make my opinion about WoW.
Here it is:
WoW, from the looks of it, looks like a highly addictive game, one of the reason why I shall not buy it.
WoW is only an online game to play, and it is p2p.
What is the point of spending maybe $90 on buying the game, and then having to pay Blizzard maybe $10 a month to be able to actually play it (I don't know how uch it is to pay to play so I just used $10 as an example).
That is absolute rubbish if you ask me.
Why not get Diablo 2, a game where you can buy it and play without having to pay to play.
That is much better in my opinion.
WoW looks absolutely amazing though, and from the looks of it and from looking at your posts, it seems to be pretty fun and I guess challenging at times, and you guys certainly know alot about it, just like I know alot about Diablo 2 now
I honestly will not buy this game.
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War-overlord
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posted September 26, 2006 01:04 PM |
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I don't think I have to say it anymore, but I will.
World of Warcraft is an amazing game. It's fun to play with your friends and to make more friends online. It's basicly endless and still it is immensly fun. My only warning is that you have to be carefull to not let it take over your life. My advice for that is, to plan your time verry carefully and make sure there are at least five things every day that have more priorety than playing it. You might not level as fast as most players, but you can keep enjoying it much longer.
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nikolo
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posted October 19, 2007 12:57 PM |
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Dudes,
dont joke yourself m8s, this game is a beast. It is meant to suck you in and keep you there, sucking you even deeper. The game system makes you increase your gametime if you wish to success in some virtual goal that will more further upgrade your gear.
I red on teh interwebz that the key problem with the WOW addiction is the "small prizes system" that is integrated in everything you do in WOW, with minimal physical effort, and minimal risk. You can do a little quest and get some mediocre piece of equipment, you can do an 1.5h long instance just to get to the last boss who has 10% chance to drop something that you need (and 10% is never 1/10, more often is 1/25). So your brain gets hooked on satisfaction of improving your self , and you strive to do it more and more. I got to the point that i only worked and played the game, totaly neglecting my RL. In one moment the game (and RL) became depressing and irritating, and then i quit.
And I cannot skip one of the crucial parts of WOW and that is the social life. It is incredible how it can effect your experience. You must surround you with responsible and capable ppl, so that you can improve your efficiency in everything you do. The problem is that there are no "casual" players who are either responsible either capable of pulling of the best of their class. Good players are located in the Hardcore section . The variations in between different groups of ppl are tremendous.
There is no doubt that WOW is the ultimate game for all the gamers worldwide, and that Blizz will strive to improve it further more to pull more money from it. Especialy with TBC, the game become more self-centered, grinding-oriented, and with the Leach King it will become even more, so the Blizz will made WOW-ers play the game even more. Its sad how they tossed a bait, and 9million ppl took a bite.
(and pls dont take me as one of the dudes who stopped playing it, and started preaching it is a bad game, and all should quit playing it. I said it is great game, and the choice is yours [and im shure the majority of WOW-heads deep inside knows all what i sead ])
So my advice is not to play it if you never did, but if you are in there, enjoy the ride!
BTW: HAI to all Hellscreamers!
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Nirual
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Imbued Ballista
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posted October 22, 2007 11:05 AM |
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WoW is the first and only MMO that I ever truly got into, because it's set in a world I've already come to like from Wc3, and generally easy to learn. As a matter of fact, my clan moved from Wc3 to WoW together, and everything was fun and peachy for a while... until the guildleaders decided to go from social gameplay to hardcore raiding, not caring that
-we had to merge with 2 other clans to get enough people for raids
-many of the old core members left because they got tired of raiding eventually
I don't mind a raid once in a while, but sadly, most people take them as the be all, end all thing to do, everything else takes a backseat.
Of course, they are right from a pure "loot" perspective, raid loot is usually better than anything else in the game.
But I personally prefer fun over great gear, so I quit eventually.
Bottom-line, WoW is a great game as far as the genre goes, but eventually faces the same issues as just about any other MMO out there: it's a boring timesink in the so-called "end-game".
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Mytical
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posted October 22, 2007 11:55 AM |
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Here is the 2cents of somebody who duoed or soloed until they got a lvl 60 NE priestess. I will echo somebody else's words. Run..run far away..fast.
I got addicted and had a blast leveling up my priestess. Especially because I had somebody who was on everytime I was, and was willing to fight things with me. They had a lot more knowledge about things then I also. Never seen them loose a pvp match unless it was many on one (they had a druid also, which is tough to win in pvp with). Battlegrounds were a joke if in allience. Nobody acted in unison. No matter what time I played, or how many times, they would all scatter and get slaughtered. I didn't like playing horde, so eventually I got out of battlegrounds.
Now I got to level 60 a long time before the Burning Crusade came out. It was a lot of faction grinding then (since I never had the time to commit to a raid). Eventually, I just got fed up with it. I hated to leave my friend, but grinding faction was just way too boring. I tried again about 2 months ago, but the spark was gone for good. Even with the new material it just seemed the same old same old. Even had a few purple items, but just was bored.
I wish an mmorpg without time sinks would come out . Start out with like 100 levels and make each really difficult to get or something. Hehe.
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Nirual
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Imbued Ballista
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posted October 22, 2007 02:30 PM |
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the problem is that it takes time to make good content, and people play through it faster than they can create it.
In my opinion, a perfect MMO would be some sort of a sandbox...
you have the basic rules, trades, monsters roaming the world and all that... and leave the rest to the players.
I've had this idea in my mind for a while, a MMO where housing (a part of MMO's that is sadly still neglected in WoW) is so extensive that a guild can essentially built it's own villages, and make alliances or war with others.
In simple terms, think The Sims in a fantasy setting and obviously RPG characters.
In addition to that, people could also create their own dungeons, with hard-coded limitations that prevent people from creating easy bosses with broken drops.
It might be a bit hard to get into such a game, but it could be very promising if done right. People can be very creative just because they like the game. Custom maps for Wc3 are the perfect example, and the list of interesting mods people have made for game is unending.
WoW especially is, after all, a very static game without any real means for players to influence the world. A raid boss is, after all, just a raid boss, and killing him hundreds of times still won't change anything.
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nikolo
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posted October 22, 2007 03:15 PM |
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Ofc WOW is static, that holds ground. It feels like time stopped at a certain moment (thank god for day/night shifts ).
But you cant say ppl are getting trough the game to fast. Tell me, how many guilds downed Ilidan? Like 5% of all the guilds? I think the problem is they are making new content to fast, and that is why ppl rush.
But you do have some quite nice ideas, some of them I already heard, some of them new. I particularly liked the "custom instance" thing, nice... Grab your self few pps, make an instance suited for their gear... nice
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Consis
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posted November 05, 2007 05:46 PM |
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Edited by Consis at 17:49, 05 Nov 2007.
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Lord_Evil
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posted November 05, 2007 06:28 PM |
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tha kid in the first movie is just like me and in the second that is how i was
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Nirual
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posted November 05, 2007 09:14 PM |
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Ofc WOW is static, that holds ground. It feels like time stopped at a certain moment (thank god for day/night shifts ).
But you cant say ppl are getting trough the game to fast. Tell me, how many guilds downed Ilidan? Like 5% of all the guilds? I think the problem is they are making new content to fast, and that is why ppl rush.
Nobody forces you to rush, but there are some extremely dedicated (aka lifeless) raid guilds that down new bosses extremely fast, putting up pressure on Blizzard to create new raids before the old ones are exhausted. Of course, there is a rush for world or server-first kills, but that only concerns a few guilds per server. Some guilds are nowhere near the maximal tier, do only smaller raids or focus on pvp.
If the content coming to fast would be an issue, they could just focus on more solo-missions. Or implement something like player housing that they should have put into the game a long time ago.
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ZanJerusalem
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posted November 05, 2007 09:18 PM |
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WOW is great!
There isn't a better game, or a better story. I hope the Light can help us to save the Blood elves from the unholy Horde and their magic addiction. I ADORE Blood elven Architecture, I wish they could come back to the Alliance, they would be a great help against the Horde and the Scourge.
I would like to be able to ally with the Scarlet Crusade too, don’t see what’s so wrong with them…
Light bless the Alliance and help us fight evil!
(Btw. this addiction thing is nonsense. WoW is fantastic even if you only spend two-three hours a day on it)
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