WoW Questions

[Jonbo298]

Monthly fee is $14.99
It does come with a free month
Not sure on the pre-paid card thing. Some MMO's do it (City of Heroes and Lineage II do but not sure on WoW)

From what I gathered when I played the beta, there are VERY minimal options when it comes to clothing/the way you look. You can change some colors but your gonna look quite similar to everyone else unfortunately.

WoW, AFAIK is text chat only. But if you get in a good guild or whatever, there are 2 more known programs for voice chat. Ventrilo or TeamSpeak. Both are good programs but I prefer Ventrilo.

[DeathsHand]

Yeah there aren't toooo many ways to customize your character.. 8 different races, male/female, maybe 10 or so different faces, hairstyles, and skin tones (slight variations... night elves are different tones of purple, etc)... And then of course what you wear effects your appearance a bit like in Diablo II...

Paypal is currently not a payment option, they apparently ran into some troubles getting it to work right, but it's supposed to become available eventually...

And pre-paid game cards cost 30 bucks and come with 2 months of play (so it's the full 14.99 a month, not a discounted rate like the 3/6 month plans)...

And about discontinuing payments, blizzard makes it sound really easy... There's an account management page where you can easily change your payment method, subscription length, or simply cancel your account (although there's a little picture of a sad, crying orc next to that link... Do you want to make an orc cry?)...

[DarkMaster]

Where do you purchase pre-paid game cards?

edit: is there a WoW benchmark? I know my computer can run it, I'd just like to see how well.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by DarkMaster

Where do you purchase pre-paid game cards?

edit: is there a WoW benchmark? I know my computer can run it, I'd just like to see how well.

Well I havn't been to a game store since the game came out, but supposidly they're sold at any game store... I dunno about Best Buy and stuff like that though...

Dunno about benchmarks...

[Canyarion]

Some races look more like eachother than others. I found that the Tauren all look quite the same. Probably because they're so big, you don't pay much attention to the face/horns/skin color...

The undead for example are very diverse. You can give them crazy hairstyles, different face features (no lower jaw, no eyes,...).

All the other races are pretty diverse IMO. You'll have to find clothes in-game, which might be hard.


If you want voice options, you should probably run another program like Jonbo said. But you'll need to add friends first..
Blizzard decided not to implement that because it takes up huge bandwith. And probably more reasons.

You'll enjoy this game.

[DarkMaster]

ok, various questions.

1) Can you pick the server you want to be on? if not, how can you get your friends to join your server?

2) Can you pick the city that you live in? (I'm trying to relate this to FFXI) And if you can, do you have to live in the city of you chosen race's home? For instance, if I be a night elf, does that mean I must live in the night elf home? or can I choose to live in ironforge or something? (again, just trying to relate this to my ffxi experience)

3) is your chosen job set in stone? can you change at any time? any penalties to changing jobs?

4) I'm thinking along the lines of something in FFXI... is there anything like sub jobs or advanced jobs? how does your job evolve? are you encourage to stick with that one job the whole way through, or can you switch around and learn different abilities?

5) for the love of God, please tell me there are no level cap quests.

6) Does it cost extra money to make multiple characters?

7) I'm thinking of being a Hunter. Can anyone tell me how they're respected by other players in the game? such as, do they get a lot of party invites? are they valuable? etc.

any extra info you feel like throwing in, have at it.

edit: one more question I forgot... do you need to use a CC in order to play the free month you get? like, can I just go out, but WoW, install it, and start playing right away on the free month?

[Canyarion]

1. You can pick your server. Ask your friends which server they are on, because you can't switch servers without losing characters.

2. I don't think you can really get a home. Perhaps you can in the Role Playing servers though.... But I've heard nothing about it.

3. You can choose 2 (out of like 10) primary jobs and 3 (out of 3) secondary jobs. You can change your job at any time, but you'll lose your experience in the abandond job.

4. Yes, you can specialize within jobs. Like when you're a forger, you can specialize in axes. You can still make swords and armor, but your axes will be much better (the best in the game) than your other products.

5. level cap quests? What does that mean?? You don't need to be a specific level to do a quest. You just have to find it...
Sometimes you can do a quest with like 5 (or 40) guys that was meant for 1 (or 5) higher levels.

6. No. You can make like 60 characters, on multiple servers.

7. If you want to be a Night Elf hunter: please don't. Everybody chooses that. But in general, hunters are very versatile. They have a pet that servers as a tank (damage absorber) and have nice ranged attacks. Magic effects can be added to your ammo.

8. Ehm I'm not sure, but since there are multiple ways to pay, I don't think you need a credit card.

That was fun. You're welcome.

[DarkMaster]

About the servers, what types of different servers are there? like theres role playing ones (according to you), ones for pvp, ones without pvp, and other stuff... are there servers with everything? how does it work exactly?

Just to make things clear, when I talked about jobs, I meant classes and not professions. Just in case you didnt realize that.

Heh, level cap quests, the less said about those, the better.

also, is ram a huge issue for this game? I have the exact requirement of ram (256) so I'm just wondering if maybe I should pick up another stick. would it make a big difference?


thanks for answers to questions.