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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: shedt on October 24, 2006, 02:53:57 PM

Title: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: shedt on October 24, 2006, 02:53:57 PM
do i need to buy it in the store or can i download and try it?

they have a free month or anything like that?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 02:57:07 PM
You will need the following:

1) No social life
2) A Computer
3) Credit Card or access to a retail outlet that sells time cards
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 03:05:47 PM
4)The game itself
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 24, 2006, 03:06:27 PM
I tried to download the demo and long time ago and it wouldn't work. Next time they renew the demo offer I'll try again
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 03:08:49 PM
4)The game itself

DO YOU NOW
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Wobedraggled on October 24, 2006, 03:12:34 PM
EB/GS sells the dvd installer and a 14day trial for $1.99

Don't do it....

Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: morphix on October 24, 2006, 03:13:16 PM
don't do it!
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 03:15:36 PM
WoW is a noob's MMORPG.

Seriously.  It's so popular because it's so easy.  Final Fantasy XI is much, much better, deeper, and involving.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: CajoleJuice on October 24, 2006, 03:16:57 PM
If I ever touch an MMORPG, please kill me
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 03:51:21 PM
WoW has the most active subscribers, and thus is more successful. You can convince yourself a shitty low performing MMORPG is good all you want, but you cant fight the onslaught of near 7 million strong.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 24, 2006, 03:54:19 PM
FFXI is unadulterated crap for lovelorn virgins -- seriously, the game is embarassing animu tripe for pimplezoids what wanna be Squall.

WoW is 4 2K00L D00DZ with places to go. :hyper
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 03:58:10 PM
WoW has the most active subscribers, and thus is more successful. You can convince yourself a shitty low performing MMORPG is good all you want, but you cant fight the onslaught of near 7 million strong.
FFXI is low-performing because it's complicated.  What do people want in life?  Something easy?  Or something hard?

Put 2 and 2 together, jackass, and you have your answer to why WoW has a larger userbase.

FFXI is unadulterated crap for lovelorn virgins -- seriously, the game is embarassing animu tripe for pimplezoids what wanna be Squall.

WoW is 4 2K00L D00DZ with places to go. :hyper
You probably didn't make it past the dunes :lol.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 03:59:30 PM
I imagine you would find FFXI complicated. I mean you aren't really that bright. I mean if you wanted to honestly convince us you were intelligent I would suggest stop banking on artifical standardized test scores and maybe, just maybe, act like you are over the age of 15.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 04:03:02 PM
I imagine you would find FFXI complicated. I mean you aren't really that bright. I mean if you wanted to honestly convince us you were intelligent I would suggest stop banking on artifical standardized test scores and maybe, just maybe, act like you are over the age of 15.
:lol

Oh, such tender toes.

Tell me three end-game areas of Final Fantasy XI if you're so clever, noob.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Prost on October 24, 2006, 04:03:48 PM
What's the max level in FFXI?

Denise was like level 37 after 3-4 weeks...  so I guess it's much tougher to level in FFXI than in WoW.  Is it just more time consuming and more of a grind?

I remember she said she was learning japanese because nobody was her level that could speak English.

I'm assuming the game is just more slow and tedious, and not necessarily "hard."

She said the hardest thing was finding a group... and after that it was just grinding.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 24, 2006, 04:03:52 PM
tell me what the last boss of bulletproof is then, virgin
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 04:05:57 PM
What's the max level in FFXI?

Denise was like level 37 after 3-4 weeks...  so I guess it's much tougher to level in FFXI than in WoW.  Is it just more time consuming and more of a grind?

I remember she said she was learning japanese because nobody was her level that could speak English.

I'm assuming the game is just more slow and tedious, and not necessarily "hard."

She said the hardest thing was finding a group... and after that it was just grinding.
Um, everyone in the game speaks English.  Did she play during the 360 beta or something?  What you're saying sounds ridiculous.

tell me what the last boss of bulletproof is then, virgin
Hahahaha, I'm not a virgin, fatty.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 24, 2006, 04:09:29 PM
you're a total fuckin' virgin -- i've seen your picture and read your posts. you are fundamentally unappealing to  women on a profound level. this isn't just speculation; it's physical law. you and sex are mutually exclusive, unless there's a necrophiliac tendency among chicks I didn't previously know about.

besides, you write like a virgin. you have all the insecurity and shame of the virgin-for-life. don't hide who you are, dode!
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 04:12:49 PM
you're a total fuckin' virgin -- i've seen your picture and read your posts. you are fundamentally unappealing to  women on a profound level. this isn't just speculation; it's physical law. you and sex are mutually exclusive, unless there's a necrophiliac tendency among chicks I didn't previously know about.

besides, you write like a virgin. you have all the insecurity and shame of the virgin-for-life. don't hide who you are, dode!
:rollin

This is too good!
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Prost on October 24, 2006, 04:13:24 PM
What's the max level in FFXI?

Denise was like level 37 after 3-4 weeks...  so I guess it's much tougher to level in FFXI than in WoW.  Is it just more time consuming and more of a grind?

I remember she said she was learning japanese because nobody was her level that could speak English.

I'm assuming the game is just more slow and tedious, and not necessarily "hard."

She said the hardest thing was finding a group... and after that it was just grinding.
Um, everyone in the game speaks English.  Did she play during the 360 beta or something?  What you're saying sounds ridiculous.

tell me what the last boss of bulletproof is then, virgin
Hahahaha, I'm not a virgin, fatty.

She played on the PC when it first came out, and she got high enough to the point where there were no american players at her level.  She had to group with japanese players.. lol

like.. 4 years ago?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: TVC15 on October 24, 2006, 04:13:48 PM
FFXI is one of the worst games I've ever played.  I'd honestly rather play EQ.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:22:43 PM
I played EQ :(
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 04:23:02 PM
WoW has the most active subscribers

Poor quality but populist titles constantly push out higher-quality productions, in every form of media.  I'm not saying that is the case here, but I wouldn't use the number of active subscribers to defend the quality of this game.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:26:55 PM
I would, its awesome.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 04:28:21 PM
I would, its awesome.

'Click' grossed more than most movies this year - it must be awesome too!
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:29:23 PM
Kate Beckinsale hmmmmm
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 04:29:24 PM
Here's where that line of logic fails, Melissa.

World of Warcraft is a Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.  So shouldn't the user base of a particular game be used as a selling point in a genre that by its very definition prizes sheer quantity of players above all else?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 04:35:11 PM
World of Warcraft is a Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.  So shouldn't the user base of a particular game be used as a selling point in a genre that by its very definition prizes sheer quantity of players above all else?

You know, I can't really get into all that because Prost will blow a gasket.  So I'll just say, "okay" since I don't play these things anyway.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:36:12 PM
Even with ACTIVE subscriptions WoW trumps all. If you wanna argue that certain low population MMORPGs are BETTER, well thats just in a the realm of icky subjective.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 04:36:26 PM
I'm not a MMORPG fan myself, but there is a charm to World of Warcraft that the other genre offerings don't have.  Call it good art direction or polished gameplay, but it is fun in small doses.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: brawndolicious on October 24, 2006, 04:37:23 PM
Aren't the number of people on servers limited or are there like twice as many people running around then last year?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 04:39:52 PM
I would, its awesome.

'Click' grossed more than most movies this year - it must be awesome too!
Oh i get it...it's sarcasm.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:41:30 PM
Wait, you liked Click? For Kate Beckinsale right?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 04:45:47 PM
What's the max level in FFXI?

Denise was like level 37 after 3-4 weeks...  so I guess it's much tougher to level in FFXI than in WoW.  Is it just more time consuming and more of a grind?

I remember she said she was learning japanese because nobody was her level that could speak English.

I'm assuming the game is just more slow and tedious, and not necessarily "hard."

She said the hardest thing was finding a group... and after that it was just grinding.
Um, everyone in the game speaks English.  Did she play during the 360 beta or something?  What you're saying sounds ridiculous.

tell me what the last boss of bulletproof is then, virgin
Hahahaha, I'm not a virgin, fatty.

She played on the PC when it first came out, and she got high enough to the point where there were no american players at her level.  She had to group with japanese players.. lol

like.. 4 years ago?
Yeah, well, there are over 3000 people on my server right now now.  Most of which speak English.  Yeah, there are a lot of Japanese people, but there are more than enough people around.

That early in the game, I don't blame her for being the only English-speaking person that high... but now there are Europeans in endgame, and they got the last release.

Highest level is 75.  I have four level 75 jobs, and had to start over again at one point.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 04:47:46 PM
See, why cant you just reply like that ALL the time Catalyst, then you and I wouldnt have goddamned problems I have to take to Peoples Court
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 04:52:32 PM
See, why cant you just reply like that ALL the time Catalyst, then you and I wouldnt have goddamned problems I have to take to Peoples Court
Because your buttbuddy won't stop harassing me :).
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Prost on October 24, 2006, 04:52:39 PM
World of Warcraft is a Massively-Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game.  So shouldn't the user base of a particular game be used as a selling point in a genre that by its very definition prizes sheer quantity of players above all else?

You know, I can't really get into all that because Prost will blow a gasket.  So I'll just say, "okay" since I don't play these things anyway.
Haven't ragged on you once since you came to the forum, even after that last little attack on me when you made your "I'm leaving OA" post.  Please drop it?  I don't want to have anything to do with you.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 04:59:15 PM
Haven't ragged on you once since you came to the forum, even after that last little attack on me when you made your "I'm leaving OA" post.  Please drop it?  I don't want to have anything to do with you.

I'm not saything anything, Prost.  I was just pointing out that if I start talking about MMORPG players, you and I will undoubtedly get into it again - so I opted not to.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 05:03:55 PM
Melissa, do you look down upon me because I play WoW casually :(
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 05:05:28 PM
How about me? I'm pretty hardcore.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 05:05:54 PM
Screw you, you whore.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Bacon on October 24, 2006, 05:06:54 PM
I look down on your for being a jew.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 05:07:40 PM
I look down on your for being a jew.

I thought we were cool, Bacon.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 05:09:18 PM
Melissa, do you look down upon me because I play WoW casually :(

Not at all.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 05:10:46 PM
jizz
I don't like you.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 05:12:54 PM
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4928/dua060701050503abu1.jpg) >>>> all you WoWers
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 05:13:43 PM
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4928/dua060701050503abu1.jpg) >>>> all you WoWers

Nice hood ornament.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 05:17:00 PM
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/mssmojorising/getalife.jpg)
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 05:18:45 PM
Hey, will you play with me?  My friends are all high level raid emo losers that won't play with me because I'm a newb.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 05:19:17 PM
(http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4928/dua060701050503abu1.jpg) >>>> all you WoWers

Nice hood ornament.

That was before I got my Optical Hat.  I quit for a while, and all my data got erased (four 75 characters, argh).  But I love this game so much, I started over as a different race and job just a few weeks ago.

Another shot: (http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/3672/dua060701050439and8.jpg)
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 05:19:28 PM
Ya, make a character on my server.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Melissa on October 24, 2006, 05:20:34 PM
Another shot: (http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/3672/dua060701050439and8.jpg)

What's up with the copyright at the bottom of every screenshot?  Does the game automatically slap that on there?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Phoenix Dark on October 24, 2006, 05:21:29 PM
If I had to pay for a game, I would want to play it as much as possible in order to justify the fee. With an addicting game like WoW I don't think that's a great idea. I've avoided the game like the clap, mainly because I KNOW I'd go crazy over it.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 05:22:44 PM
Yeah, automatic stamp.

PC users can use this program called Windower to make the game not full-screen (it doesn't by default for some reason...).  They can use the print screen key to make pictures without it.  On PC, you can take pictures of your inventory and whatnot, but you have to make the HUD disappear to take snapshots on the PS2 version.  It's stupid.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 24, 2006, 05:24:30 PM
Here's a picture of my lock. -

(http://i7.tinypic.com/21cv4af.jpg)
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Bacon on October 24, 2006, 05:26:35 PM
Does FFXI look like shit or is it just his computer?
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 24, 2006, 05:29:42 PM
Here's a picture of my lock. -

(http://i7.tinypic.com/21cv4af.jpg)
How much tier 2 do you have? My priest has 5/8, but my guild hasn't really been going to BWL anymore, we just do Naxx now.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Catalyst on October 24, 2006, 05:30:32 PM
Does FFXI look like shit or is it just his computer?
PS2

Here's a cooler shot

(http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/9372/bur061014180945arr6.jpg)

All my old shots got trashed... :(
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: The Fake Shemp on October 24, 2006, 05:31:17 PM
redWOOD... ANSWER ME
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 24, 2006, 05:38:31 PM
I had 4/8.  We weren't getting warlock drops in BWL at all for the longest time.  While I was there the boots and gloves never dropped, the robe dropped once, the shoulders and belt dropped twice, and the bracers 3 times.  I wore 3/8 nemesis for the +23 dmg/healing and everything else was off-set BWL/AQ40 except for my felheart boots.

I'll dig up my CT profile if you want to look at my gear.  I'd only change out the boots for nemesis.  http://ctprofiles.net/235263
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: Van Cruncheon on October 24, 2006, 05:42:11 PM
raidfags

casualz n carebearz 4 life
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 24, 2006, 05:51:16 PM
Yeah.  Although I found raiding a lot of fun and enjoyed researching and leading I would have been a lot happier during that time period if I hadn't started.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 05:59:46 PM
What's the big Warlock Build these Days? I used this one in PvP and fucking DOMINATED even against raid gear Alliance with me wearing mostly blues and high high level greens. Going to do it again with my Alliance Lock

(http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/1104/wow1hs7.jpg)(http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/1058/wow2qi3.jpg)

Just so you know the reason I put points into curse of Exhaustion cause I played a lot of Warsong Gulch and it is INVALUABLE there. I put points into Fel Intellect so I could leach away with Dark Pact and not worry about my pets mana.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 24, 2006, 06:11:25 PM
There wasn't really a big warlock build because each tree was viable for PVP.

Soul Link was popular for 1 on 1 encounters, survivability, and an absurd advantage against caster classes with the felhunter.
Destruction was popular because of bane, ruin, shadowburn, and conflag.  It was the way to do damage quick as a lock.
Affliction was great against unorganized teams.  Just run around and cast curse of agony, corruption, and sometimes siphon life on everything.

When I PVP'd I mostly played AV and my favorite build in there was 9/21/21.  I'd demo sac a VW so I could lifetap constantly and recover from encounters quickly, have instant cast corruption, improved lifetap for more mana returns, and be able to stop and hit quick and hard with bane, ruin, and shadowburn.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 06:13:14 PM
I dunno, I fought many a warlock, and demon shit and destructo couldnt ever hold out.

However SHADOW PRIESTS. There was this one called MiniPope, he was my NEMESIS. A dwarf shadow priest with a voodoo mask :(
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 24, 2006, 06:24:50 PM
Was that his mask? - http://wow.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?witem=19886

Shadow Priests were tough kills if they knew what they were doing.  As an affliction lock you didn't have the ability to do that much burst damage whereas a destruction lock would and could probably win that fight much easier.

I have no idea why the soul link locks you were fighting couldn't beat you.  When I was 9/31/11 (I needed MD for BWL and didn't like MD/Ruin) I was pretty much a god against most casters.  6700 hp with 120 SR and 80 FR and my felhunter (with over 300 resistance to all schools) taking 30% of my damage while spell locking and devouring magic.  And with +550 dmg I could dish it out.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 24, 2006, 06:26:38 PM
Welll to be fair dude, I was fighting ALLIANCE locks.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: APF on October 24, 2006, 06:55:54 PM
FFXI is great; one time when I was LFG for seven hours, I crafted something that lost me money.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: whiteACID on October 25, 2006, 12:52:11 PM
redWOOD... ANSWER ME
I said ya make a character on my server

Here's a screenshot of my UI
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/mssmojorising/UI.jpg)
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 25, 2006, 06:05:47 PM
OMG, how many patches ago did Warlocks start getting shards back for pets when they used a flight path? FINALLY!

(I was away for a bit)
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: cubicle47b on October 25, 2006, 06:58:23 PM
I quit in early August and don't remember that being in the game so it must have been fairly recent.
Title: Re: what do i need to try out WoW?
Post by: MrAngryFace on October 25, 2006, 07:12:36 PM
TOOK THEM LONG ENOUGH