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I still play, lvl41 hunter. I play about 1-3 hours a day, nothing major. You can make considerable progress in short amounts of time, just gotta know what to do and where to go. But you don't have to progress significantly each session to keep playing. There's no huge emphasis on lvl grinding like every other mmorpg, you can just come on and play around, and have fun.

I used to play FFXI as an addiction, feeling obligated to keep playing and progressing. But I play WoW like any other game; because it's fun.

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I usually only play about an hour a day. I'm lvl 25 right now with my priest. I've had it for about a month. So yeah, you can get stuff done. But it sure helps to have people to point you in the right direction.

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So what level are you?

My gnome mage is now lvl 32. I'm trying to hit lvl 40 before the beta ends. :D

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I'm still playing... a lot. Grimaldi is at level 23 right now and I'm leveling SLOOOW. I just spend too much time travelling and trying to get the elusive impossible deal at the AH. I'm now in a guild, though I'm not sure what the benefit of being in one is yet, but the tabard is badass.

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Depends on what kinda guild...

If it's one of those really hugantic ass guilds with a billion members, it seems kinda pointless to me, other than being able to direct higher level members to opposing faction activity...

For grouping, trading, and just about anything else, when there's that many damn members it might as well just be the general chat...

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A nice small guild with a few friends would be very nice. That's what I'm hoping for.

European Open Beta started. Now I just want to hit lvl 40 before it's over. :)

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I have a new guild nearly every week. The ones I get into are mostly crap, or they're too big. I got into one a few days ago that has a badass tabard, so I'm sticking with it for a while. All of my friends are in different guilds, so for me I usually just choose a guild based off tabard look... Until I actually find a good guild with intelligent people.

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Me and my friends and his friends are starting a guild on Mel'ganis... PvP server, if anyone's interested in starting a new character on a different server or is just getting into the game... We need more signatures (I refuse to ask random people or spam the general chat)... Even if you make a character, sign it, and never play it... We want our guild, damnit!

I'm the one with the charter and my character's name is Lawanda...

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Well all of my 7 characters (including a lvl 27, a lvl 18 and a lvl 13) have all dissappeared from Eonar and have been gone for 3 three days. I'm about to cancel my subscription and write a scathing editorial of how Blizzard could botch this up so badly. How they could create such a great game but be so incompetent on the maintenance end. I'm so pissed right now...

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Wow Strangler, thats seriously ****ed up :(

I'd be peeved as hell if I lost all my characters in CoH

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You have SEVEN characters? Jesus...

This may seem like a stupid question (although I had a similar problem that I didn't notice for about a day and a half, mostly due to my characters being on 2 different servers, so when one has problems I try the other), but have you actually selected Eonar and moved to the character select screen?

For awhile I thought that Aggramar was down because it wasn't listed at the top with the other servers I have characters on, then I noticed it was still on the list, but it said I had no characters...

But when I double clicked it, they were still there and playable...

On a side note: I can't stand all these people bitching and moaning about every little problem (although characters being gone for 3 days isn't little)...

But maybe that's because I've really only run into a few minor problems (servers down for 2-3 hours maybe on very rare occasions, bursts of bad lag) and so when people bitch about crap, I assume they're running into pretty much the same crap to which I say: Downtime and lag happens...

But like I said... 3 days with characters missing... If you havn't already, maybe you should try contacting Blizzard rather than cancelling your account and writing a big mean editorial about how **** happens and you don't wanna deal with it...

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What the hell, nothing has happened to my character on Eonar. I've never heard of character's disappearing from a MMORPG server, that's a huge deal. Unless there's something you're doing wrong, contact Blizzard immediately.

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CoH has a very very very rare bug where characters get deleted on a server for no reason. Devs are still trying to track it down but because of its rarity, they are having a hard time tracking it down (rare as in 1 in every 100,000 subscribers or something)

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:( So how are things going with the character?

I also have a reason to be disapointed...
I was really hyped about getting a horse instead of a stupid mechanical strider (I'm a Gnome). I was almost exhaulted at Stormwind, was trying hard to level and save up money.

Then I found out that you can't get exhaulted in this patch yet (at least in EU). :baby:

So that means no horsie for this Gnome! :distress:

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Wait wait wait... So Mechanical Striders are stupid... But gnomes aren't? :sneaky:

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:mad: :banghead:

:p Gnomes happen to be the smartest creatures! Always 5% extra intellect! :rolleyes:

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I've done everything you mentioned from the get go. Still not there. I;m going to check again today but if they're not there I'm going to contact Blizzrd and bitch.

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Does "done everything you mentioned from the get go" include simply asking blizzard what's up and if they can fix it?

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Ok the European beta ends today (tomorrow for you). It was fun! :D Now I just have to say farewell to my cute Gnome. :baby:

Anyway, I couldn't hit 40. :(

I'm hoping for some nice action like when the US beta ended. :p

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Ok, my time of free WoW is over. I loved it. :D

A thing that I wanted to do was check how long I had played. (you do this by typing /played) But I forgot. :( It must have been.... 5 whole days I'm afraid.

Can someone who's arond level 36 check how long they've played?

Or just anyone.... tell us how long you've played and what level the character is! :)

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Well smart-ass, I contacted Blizzard a week ago and received an auto-reply saying I would have a real response in 24 hours. I have heard nothing as yet, just as I thought I wouldn't. The servers are constantly down longer than expected on maintenance days, I have been booted repeatedly on non-maintenance days. Thankfully I've never been on a server that has a queue at all, much less for several hours. The inablility to transfer characters from server to server doesn't help this problem either.

Blizzard needs to fix these issues regardless of whatever excuses or rationalizations people want to make for them (God knows the forums are full of them who attack anyone who dares criticize WoW server management). I know I'm not the only one experiencing these problems. All you need to to do to see this is visit their forums. Now having a glitchy start-up is one thing, but this game has been going for a while now and the problems seem to have gotten worse, not better.

The game is excellent. There is no doubting this. But when characters with untold hours invested in them are deleted, people are repeatedly booted and their customer care department does not even attempt to meet the goals they've set for themselves, something needs to be fixed and fixed soon or else EQ2 will become more and more attractive to more and more people, including myself.

Its a shame when the inferior game gets consideration because the superior game can't run itself competently.

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Alls I know is that different people have different tolerence for problems... A problem that one person might just shrug off and wait patiently to be resolved might cause another to go flying off the handle immeadiately, posting a bunch of stuff on the forums (insane stuff like demanding another entire free month of play for a problem that has only lasted 2 days... I saw this happening when the game first launched and they had a few servers down for 2 or 3 days)...

Like I've said, I've had characters on 3 different servers and for a long time played WoW for basically every waking hour when I wasn't eating or at work... And the only problems I've run into were rare bursts of lag, maybe 3 or 4 periods of downtime lasting a matter of a few hours... Not including maintainence which usually happens while I'm not online anyways...

I think these extreme cases like yours are very rare... I think when/if you get your characters back, it'll probably never happen again... And if anybody is having a gaming experience similar to the one I've been having (meaning only a few periods of downtime) and they're still bitching on the forums, well then they need to chill the fudge out...

And one last thing, have you started another character on another server during your downtime on Eonar, or have you been letting your subscription go to complete waste? If you have, how has your experience on the new server been... And if you havn't, why the heck havn't you?

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Oh yeah, I've definitely started another character. As I mentioned earlier, I like having a lot of characters so that I have a lot of play options depending on my mood. In fact I've started three new characters, including a new hunter to replace my higher level one.

I have to disagree with your high tolerance level for gaming problems when the game itself costs $180 a year just for subscription. Add the cost of the game and you paid $230 for one game for a year, which is more than the cost of any of the major consoles right now. Add the inevitable expansions and the costs will keep going. For this much investment I expect the servers to stay up. For this much money I expect my characters to not dissappear. For this much money I expect them to reply to my inquiry within the time that they say they will. Hell, for that much money I expect them to say "how high" when I say "jump".

MMORPGs are not a new thing. They've been around for years and considering the amount of hype they recieved and their loyal fanbase, they should have been prepared for the number of subscriptions they had to handle. Bottom line.

If Sony can do it, why can't Blizzard? Thats the beauty of a free economy. You can choose a company that knows what its doing. If I have any more major problems, just one more, Sony will be rewarded for their ability to maintain the integrity of their MMO.

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Like I said: Missing characters must be a very rare occurence...

Server downtime happens, nothing's perfect, I'm sure the EQ servers go down too... You can go ahead and tell blizzard to jump and have them reply "How high", but if a server starts acting up blizzard can't simply yell "Work" at it and expect a response...

Yes blizzard has a big fanbase, but MMO's are not for everyone... It's not a RTS game, it's not diablo, and (as you point out) it's much more expensive than most games, putting it out of some people's price range... Plus it came out around the same time as EQ2... They simply underestimated it's success, I s'pose...

And yes it costs a couple hundred bucks overall for a year's play... But it ends up costing something like 50 cents a day (the max monthly subscription, not counting any discounted 3/6 month plans, but not counting the price of the game itself either)...

My point of view is, I play the game so damn much anyways, if it's down for a few hours every once in awhile and I miss out on a whole, I dunno, 15 cents worth of gameplay, well boo hoo... Sure it can be irritating when I want to play and first find out the server is down, but I just find something else to do and try back later...

Oh yeah and one last thing which I highly doubt applies to you:

You didn't happen to stumble into any strange areas in the game world did you? Places with a bunch of high level monsters that just sit there taking abuse, not fighting back?

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You haven't been using a bot to speed up leveling (such as an auto-fishing bot)?? Cause then your characters got deleted on purpose. :p

Deathshand, how long have you played so far?

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You mean like total hours among characters?

about 10 and a half days on my 44, 6 and a half days on my 37...

But I have had a couple other characters (level 29 and one that got to 20) that I'm not sure about...

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I didn't think there were fishing bots for WoW. The way fishing is done kind of makes it impossible, Blizzard really took note of FFXI's fishing disater. I'm already recognizing some chinese money farmers though, the idiots have the same names as they did in FFXI (they run FFXI now, the economy is a complete joke). I report them to GMs, but nothing happens, just like in FFXI. I really don't understand how a site like IGE can exist with every single MMORPG player and developer knowing about their illegal activities. Sue the bastards for Christ's sake, they ruin games.

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Wow, I've never heard of that site..... that's truly amazing... why aren't they sued yet?

And what kind of moron would pay real money for digital money?

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A couple days ago, I started a new identity as a Grunt. Seems to be going better than the Troll Shaman.

How's everyone else doing?

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I'm playing a bit with a Gnome Warlock, still on my brothers account. :) Lvl 15 at the moment...

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Isyn's at lvl 36 right now. Trying to save money for a mount (not working). I've got 50g saved up right now on an alt. Hopefully some miracle happens (Epic Drop) soon or I'll have to borrow from my guild friends.

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My precious undead rogue Lawanda is now level 49 (almost 50) and me and my friends, his friends, and their friends have a nice guild... Well, I think there's 11 of us :p

I got me Goblin engineering, along with all 3 artisan secondary skills (fishing, cooking, first aid)...

Fun times...

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I had a troll shaman too, but I hit a huge wall with him where leveling became so slow and dependent on forming groups that I abandoned him. The only class I hate more is warlock, who is like a weak combination of mage and hunter.

My favorite characters are warrior, mage and hunter followed distantly by Paladin.

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http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/...move-list.html

For those people who are on a crowded server, you can transfer your account to a low populated one. :) Can't choose which one though. :)

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That's extremely humorous. I mean, I'm not criticizing. I just think it's funny that you played a Shaman and thought leveling was slow for him. I mean, I've got an alt for every class in the game. And if I could pick one that was on easy mode for PVP and PVE I'd have to pick the Shaman.

Self-Rez, Totems, heals, mage-like spells (most of which are instacast), free epic mount. I mean, really, what more do you want from a class?

My main (Priest) is awesome PvP, but PvE is extremely lacking (somebody at Blizzard really needs to fix the entire Holy tree). And PvP against Shamans is a joke. It's so hard to beat them, it's rather sad that Blizzard devs made it so painfully obvious that they all play Shamans.

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Now now, they say that of Paladin as well.
I don't get the stupid totems, it takes just as much time to kill those as to make them. :confused: Or do they expect us not to attack those totems?

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Well in PvE I think the monsters ignore them maybe and so they can come in quite handy...

PvP, ummmmmmmmmmm well if you're a rogue and you have to switch off targets to destroy a totem you lose any combo points you had......... But that's the only negative thing I can think of... :p

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And I've played a Paladin. And while, yes, they do live forever, they do not do a lot of damage. It takes forever for a Pally to kill anything, whether it's PvP or PvE and they have a lot of down time in between. It can be a very frustrating class to play. Particularly when you hear everybody screaming for them to be hit with the nerf stick.

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BAH! :mad:
This is the 3rd time I tried Blackfathom Deeps, I just can't seem to finish that. The first 2 times my teammates left, this time I got kicked because my brother logged in. :baby:

So, do you like the new PvP honor system? I think it's great. :D
I just stood by as a lvl 26 while lvl 50s invaded Astranaar..... sometimes I cursed some people or let my pet attack it. I received 22 honoured kills! :p Don't know what I did.... :confused: Not much damage, not the finishing blow...

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Are you still playing a beta/demo copy or did you buy the real game?