WoW Questions

[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.

[Canyarion]

Ah ok. You can't change classes. You'll have to think carefully about that.
It wouldn't be practical anyway, because you need to train a lot of things of you class. If you could switch, you'd have to start over a lot of things.

75% (at least in the beta) are normal servers. 20% pvp and 5% rp.
They're basicly all the same... You can also pvp and rp in the normal servers.
But in the normal servers, you have to 'turn pvp on' by typing /pvp. In the pvp it's always turned on.
I think the rp servers are just to make it easier for roleplayers to find eachother. Perhaps they have extra stuff, I don't know.

Edit: I don't know about RAM, but especially when there are a lot of characters on screen, you could use it. RAM isn't that expensive anyway.... right?

Edit2: +rep for considering WoW.

[DeathsHand]

I think some of what canyarion said was a bit off... So I'll answer your questions again

1. Yeah you pick your server, but once you pick it your character is stuck there (for now at least, I think a looot of people aren't happy with that and I don't see why blizzard couldn't change it somewhere down the line)... But you can have multiple characters on multiple servers...

2. Each race has a specific city they start out in, along with a capital city... But fairly early into the game you can go to another race's area and even do their quests... (For example, orcs have easy access to the undead area and vice versa via the zeppelin)...
Basically you can go anywhere and do any quests as long as it's on your side (horde/alliance)...

3. Yes the jobs you pick are set in stone... So you usually wanna know what you wanna be before choosing... You don't have to know this at the very beginning of the game though, you choose jobs after getting a little ways into the game and finding the required trainer...

4. As far as I know, there's no specializing in jobs, they advance with an overall rating... And that rating increases by using that certain skill... Skin animals and your skinning skill goes up, cook and your cooking skill goes up... But after awhile, 'recipies' give you less of a rating boost (eventually not giving you any at all), so you'll have to learn/find newer things to make...

5. And I dunno what you're talking about with this one either...

6. Nope

7. Canyarion, lay off night elf hunters! I havn't noticed there being more hunters than there are other classes within the night elf race...

8. You have to set up some way of future payment to set up an account, so you'll need either a credit card or a pre-paid game card (or eventually paypal)... pre-paid game cards are non-returnable once they've been scratched off,, but credit cards aren't charged until the free month is over, so if you don't like the game you can simply cancel your account...

As for servers, RP servers have a strict set of rules... You gotta stay in character, and no using the general chat for random chatter... Meaning no crap like "LAG LAG GLGAGGG IS ANYBODY ELSE LAGGING!??!1" or if everyone had a nice christmas... But other than that, it's the same game... I guess just less distracting for those who want to be 'in character'...

I personally prefer the PvP servers, for the potential of an amazing PvP experience... However, at the moment they're plagued by level 27-30+ assholes with nothing better to do (you get nothing for PvPing, at least not at the moment) camping around contested territories traversed mainly by level 15-20-ish characters on the opposing side... Which ends up being an easy slaughter for the 27-30+ people...

But I read somewhere that eventually blizzard will impliment an honor system, rewarding players for doing PvP, and penalizing those who kill much lower level people... Along with other things that give me high-hopes for PvP servers in the future...