Weeeeee finally OB is available to us pesents.
anyone wanting to try out this marvellous game is encouraged to.
http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/
WoW Open Beta Now Available!
92 public posts in this discussion.
Post 2
I think they have run out of OB keys already :P
Post 3
milenko.. they opened for 4 hours.. and file planet used all those keys in that time.. far out! now its basically:
first to download client and create character.... there the people to get in... its gonna take me a day to download the installer so i need to get it off someone else ASAP... can anyone help me out?
milenko?
fleshy?
vorby?
heretic?
anyone else???
Post 4
Fileplanet?
Fileplanets keys were for stress test beta.
Post 5
anyone else amused by the timing of this open beta compared to the eq2 release?
Post 6
i now have 2 accounts!
Post 7
Quote from paladin:
anyone else amused by the timing of this open beta compared to the eq2 release? not at all
i couldnt give a rats tail about eq2
wow weeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Post 8
Hmm I think the sign-up page just died.
Post 9
Yeh true that Pala.
But they all compete with each other.
November 23rd = release date for WoW.
Post 10
EQ2 has NO PVP on any server? is this true????
Post 11
Quote from Milenko:
Yeh true that Pala.
But they all compete with each other.
November 23rd = release date for WoW.
i rang up EB and Harveys and they have the 24th.. i thought it said 23 aswell.. but when i checked ausgamers.com they had the date in bold ... so they must have changed it
Post 12
Quote from CoCoBuckeTs:
EQ2 has NO PVP on any server? is this true????
Correct, for now.
But at least it doesn't have stupid localised servers like WoW does.. That's just about the lamest thing you could do to any mmo.
Quote from brownie:
i rang up EB and Harveys and they have the 24th.. i thought it said 23 aswell.. but when i checked ausgamers.com they had the date in bold ... so they must have changed it
It's the 23rd yes, but if you consider the time it takes to get to Darwin, then 24th is about right.
Post 13
23rd US 24th Aus
I'm only guessing here.
Post 14
The one you are playing atm Jono, is that PVP?
I just don't get why you would play a mulitplayer game if you couldn't frag em once in a while? :)
Post 15
Quote from CoCoBuckeTs:
The one you are playing atm Jono, is that PVP?
I just don't get why you would play a mulitplayer game if you couldn't frag em once in a while? :)
EQ2 was made for carebear's scott.
Post 16
What you mean about localised servers being lame jono?
I think its a good idea, splitting the load over different servers, potentially reducing ping times. I think its a great idea.
The only downside is the timezones. At the moment, because im playing on server5 for WoW, its alwyas night time when i play :(
Post 17
hehe EQ2 went live today, but being in Aus we cant get hold of the game till Friday I believe, even then i'm not so sure. I'm still deciding if I should buy it and give it ago, even if its for like a week.. hmm
Quote:
Will there be player-versus-player (PvP) combat?
Just as the original EverQuest was geared towards PvE (player vs. environment), EverQuest II has a similar focus. PvP combat will be possible, yet in a way that does not negatively affect non-PvP players.
As far as im aware, no server has PVP atm.
Post 18
jono.. just play wow instead?
Post 19
Quote from Milenko:
What you mean about localised servers being lame jono?
I think its a good idea, splitting the load over different servers, potentially reducing ping times. I think its a great idea.
The only downside is the timezones. At the moment, because im playing on server5 for WoW, its alwyas night time when i play :(
Lol.. it's stupid, It's like forcing you to play somewhere.
We are lucky Australia has access to US servers, not long ago there was no plans for an english server for Australia, but we had the only option of a Korean or Chinese server. Your telling me youd rather play there?
Think of the people in the UK, the last I read they currently had no server other then the German and French? Which is a little hard to play on.
It doesn't effect your ping anyway.. Unless of course you choose somewhere further, which is only a personal choice and you should realise the problems with maybe doing so. For us in Australia, it doesn't really matter, given everywhere is far away..
But that's not the point, if someone in Europe wants to play on the US servers, let em! Not like it's going to effect the server in anyway, or anyone in the US, unless of course it gets too full (but I doubt that, theyd just add more servers).
Think of all the guild around, I mean these days, a lot of guild DO have players from various places around the world, it's like one huge community (this might not effect you but think of those it does) of friends and stuff. If you make the game use localised servers, your basically splitting the community up.. Thats the last you want to do.
I personally have friends all over the place, I sure as hell would love to play with them all.. bit hard now though.
Post 20
Quote from brownie:
jono.. just play wow instead?
Aww nah, i'll go EQ2 over WoW most probably.. While WoW is probably a great game, it just doesn't really appeal to me much.
I was just unsure about getting EQ2 because I leave to Europe for 7 weeks soon :p
Post 21
I'd appreciate it if someone could sort an open beta account for me; i'm at work at the moment and it's a little hard to refresh the WoW page every five minutes looking for it to reappear. PM me or whatever if you score for me :)
Post 22
im unable to get one either hay
its totally hopless
im using one of 3vils
Post 23
Jono with the timezones we are seeing it in Lin2 now, the European server is about to open..but its hosted in America, the only reason for the new server is so the Euro's can participate in events and sieges etc.
Atm its actually good cause one of the biggest alliances on our server is Russian and they cant siege,....yet unless they get up at 3am, which several hundred of them do.
Luckily its not enough, you need about 900 people atm to siege the castles :)
Post 24
Yea sure I understand that local servers are good, who wouldnt want to play on a local server anyway :p
But all i'm saying is, in WoW your forced to play on the local server. It's not really fair. What would you rather, play on a local server for "better pings" or if you had friends somewhere else, would you go to play with your friends/guild/whatever? I sure as hell know which i'd choose.. even if latency was a bit more.
Take me for example, what would I do if I wanted to play WoW with a friend from Spain? There is NO possible way either of us can play together. It might not effect more people here, but it does effect a lot of people out there.. and I mean its not really hard to give anyone access to any server, pretty much every other mmo does it.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=385040&p=1&tmp=1#post385040
Read that thread and the stupid reasons for why they are doing it.
Yes have local servers! BUT allow anyone to join them.
Post 25
Dont know where or not the signups were down, but they are up again. I guess they are just accepting people till the servers are full.
edit:go here and get your key www.worldofwarcraft.com
download is going slow as hell. 10kbps.
Post 26
Are you using the installer from Blizzard?
You would probably get it faster from another bittorrent source, while im not sure if that's against Blizzards rules, it's all the same thing.
Although I guess if your already a fair bit through downloading you wont really want to start again :p
Post 27
god im 60 megs in and been going for 3 hours
gimme a source
Post 28
http://www.wowtorrents.de.vu/
Goto "US Torrents"
US-WoW-Installer-1.1.0-OpenBeta.torrent
That file, that's the latest and is the one needed to install for open BETA.
I currently have a ~70kbps connection on it atm and it's slowly getting faster.
Post 29
nm im getting joel to burn it.
Post 30
the official one uses port 3724, u need to forward that to get remote connections
Post 31
Quote from Balthasar:
the official one uses port 3724, u need to forward that to get remote connections
It's still a crappy client to use though :p
Post 32
you CAN switch from the blizzard download to a third party torrent, and have it resume, so you dont lose what you've already downloaded.
Post 33
See Milenko. i told you it was a good idea :)
everyone that doesnt like WoW because of blah blah...is encouraged not to play :)
in wow its impossible to bot. there is hardly any grind. PvP is awesome and if you like you can avoid it. no need to farm as items are generally easy to come by. items you can make are very easy to make compaired to most other games and are very useable at your level...and all i have heard about EQ2 is the pvp sucks arse, and so does the trade skills. :)
Post 34
Haha.
True that.
And jono, im not sure if you tried walking through town in Lineage2, but it was fkn stupid, having 600 shops setup int he middle of town. Spread the load, no problem ;)
Post 35
Now i gotta choose to play WOW or HALO2, its actually a hard choice to make.
Whose on tonight? I'll be on horde with a bunch of friends if anyone wants to join us!!
Post 36
Just heads up sever 9 has the most aussie players on it for pvp.
Post 37
Server 4 has all the big clans playing in it if your up for PVP i've heard..:)
Post 38
the "PVP" servers means that pvping has penalties. Normal servers do not.
so we are on a normal server :)
Post 39
and PVP servers arent zoned, meaning you can flog the enemy if they come anywhere near ya, not just in contested lands :D
Post 40
You guys are playing on the zoned area's which is gay. Open pvp is far better :)
Post 41
Decided to join you sad bastards.... :P
Downloading almost done for WoW Open Beta... If it's good I might actually pay to play :O
Post 42
Quote from Evil:
You guys are playing on the zoned area's which is gay. Open pvp is far better :)
But after retail, we are going to normal unzoned PVP servers.
That way when one of you filthy undead horde come onto our land, you will be smote like the mother****er that you are :D
Post 43
Big words for such a small fat thing.
Would you like me to get you a box, so you can see the action. :D
Post 44
Pfft, sif size matters.
My dorf might be short, but he's packin' heat yo. Hes got the fly Blunderbust with heavy shot yo, he be poppin caps in all yo horde nigga asses.
Post 45
Okay I'm stumped :D
hahahhahaha get it dwarf...stumped :p
Post 46
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Post 47
Is there any penalties for pvp?
This is the only way true pvp needs to happen, the only way u get an adrenaline rush.
The BEST pvp'ing i ever did was on a MUD, where your corpse dropped, and it could get looted of ALL your eq.
No game to date has ever given me such adrenaline rushes as the humble text based mud. It's hard to pk when you're hands are trembling.
Post 48
oh i remember that feeling well. even better when the people you just killed were sitting in the same lab as you, and didn't realise it.
Post 49
ROFl now that would be funny
unfortunatly i suck at pvp so im always getting my shit taxed
lol
on the subject of WoW OB i just sat down and played some more and did some walking and my hand is ****ing killing me. i have only ever got a sore hand from playing dogeball but it was no where as bad as this. i better not be getting rsi :|
Post 50
written based and MUDS usually didnt take you a month to gain items :P
Post 51
Umm, you get 10% Item damage (as WoW has item Durability incorporated into it, so stuff needs to be repaired), no xp loss and no items drop ( tahts how it works in zoned servers at least).
But i aint pvp'ing if i lose my shit and my xp. Whats the point, might as well just go PvE :/ I just get pissed off when i lose an hour or twos worth of work, caus some guy feels like being an arsehole.
In WoW i wont mind so much, sure it will cost me money to get my gear repaired, but having no penalty allows players to experiment and actually do shit, not stand there thinking 'Hey i'd love to attack that/him/her, but i really dont want to lose any items or the last two hours worth of xp...i might just leave him alone'. Instead, i can say '**** it, lets rock, see if i can beat him, i got nothing to lose :D'.
Yes...i know im a carebare.
Post 52
only penalties for pvp that I know off, is when you kill your own NPC guards then you lose rep.
and what sean said :p
Post 53
a flop eh evil? nice prediction...
Post 54
ROFL Heretic we played the same muds for years , so the items took years to get not just weeks :)
Did you ever play muds?
Post 55
Quote from Knight Of Nih:
i just sat down and played some more and did some walking and my hand is ****ing killing me.
anyone else misread that the first time? i thought once again knight was sharing more than any sane human would want to know about him.
Post 56
Quote from HeReTiC:
a flop eh evil? nice prediction...
lol I don't rember saying that but I'll take your word on it :p
Post 57
I heard WoW is about to experience the EQ corpse camp of doom curse :)
ie Get your corpse back or cemetary it and if you do that all your items are reduced to 0 durability?
That true?
Post 58
Yeah thats what I heard aswell.
Which is ok for me :D
Post 59
LOL your the corpse camper type tho arent you Evil? :)
Post 60
i have died 6 times now
Post 61
Hahahaha get a tally going Knights...:)
Post 62
If you res at grave-yard, you still suffer 10% durability and get hit with a % XP loss.
If you res at your body, you get 10% durability loss, no xp loss.
Cant really camp peoples corpses though, caus you dont have to res...you can sit there and wait for em to bugger off. See, evils type we dont want, bloody greifers. Nothing better to do :/
Post 63
Thats they way it was, didnt it change like in the last day??
No XP penalty now but if you cem it your durability goes to 0.
That what fleshy was telling me today.
So unless you can force the corpse camper off your body you have to spend a shitload repairing all your equ?
Post 64
Just something I heard in game that was being discussed. However, It may have been a 6 year old in a 20 year old body in control of a keyboard that was distributing this information supposedly first hand ;P
Post 65
Quote from Milenko:
Cant really camp peoples corpses though, caus you dont have to res...you can sit there and wait for em to bugger off. See, evils type we dont want, bloody greifers. Nothing better to do :/
Only problem with that is the rogue.. you cant see em, so cant tell when they have fecked off. But I have noticed that when there is some PK going on, a shout on the general channel attract PK'ers from your side like flies to turds. :grin:
Post 66
Hehe griefers are the same breed in any game.
Some people get satisfaction corpse camping for hours, repeatedly killing when you get back. Thats what used to happen in EQ anyway.
Post 67
Quote from CoCoBuckeTs:
Thats they way it was, didnt it change like in the last day??
No XP penalty now but if you cem it your durability goes to 0.
That what fleshy was telling me today.
So unless you can force the corpse camper off your body you have to spend a shitload repairing all your equ?
Unless it was changed between 1am this morning and now, then no, they havent. I doubt they would incur a 100% durability penalty for ressing at the graveyard, especially considering that sometimes, you have to, due to game mechanics (ie, i fell into the Forge's at 'Iron Forge'...basically this things the size of sydney harbour and ya cant get out :( ).
Post 68
I rember reading it some where but I havent heard anyone speak of it.
Post 69
Yeah i suppose in a full game a simple shout wuold take care of it as Fleshy said
Post 70
Well, if they have patched during the day, then i dont really like that idea, it just encourages corpse campers and sends you broke...then you have no items and no money. Then do u do...you cant do shit, your broke with nothing to use :/
If they do make it incur a 100% durability loss, there will be lots of unhappy players.
Mind you, i've had to res at the cemetery only twice, once caus of falling into the Forge's and the 2nd because i was too lazy to run to my body. However it was an easy way to get back to town...just die, res for 500xp, easy :P
Post 71
Quote:
The penalty for using a Spirit Healer has been changed - there is no longer any experience loss, instead all items (equipped and inventory) will take 100% durability loss and the character will gain resurrection sickness for a duration that scale according to level.
That is from Sunday's patch Nov 7.
Post 72
Well, i stand corrected then.
I personally do not like that idea, especially inventory items taking 100% durability loss.
Glad i found this out before blindly selecting to res at the cemetery. Theres no way i could re-equip my gear..granted i made most of it, but it takes alot of resources to do it :?
Post 73
Anyone got a spare account or 3 for me and my mates? :(
Post 74
wow....
I started playing this morning and only just stopped. Awesome.. the scope of the game is incredible. I beat Knights dying tally... walked into a field of level 12 monsters when i was level 4. Took me about 5 deaths to get out hehe.
Love the game though, playing on server 31.
Post 75
why dont u play on 5 like the rest of us?
o and my death telly just went up by 4 :P
Post 76
can you play this damn game in a window?
Post 77
yes you can paladin :)
Post 78
yeah so knight pointed out, cheers.
Post 79
lol seqo.
Quit ur char and come over to server 5 :D
Post 80
Awwww... Do i have to :( I'm up to level 10 and I just learnt how to Tame an animal :(
Post 81
lvl 10 can be done in a few hours.
Post 82
sounds about right. level five took almost no time at all.
Post 83
Yeh true that, a few quests and bing bango, your a level 10 again. Tip Top.
Post 84
Level 10 as a night elf took me an entire day...
I made a Dwarven Paladin on the test five server. Been playing about two hours and I'm up to level 7.... woot :)
Post 85
i have played for 3 days nealy but only about 8hrs all up
im only lev 6
i have done a dozen quests but i just felt like exploring so i did
:)
Post 86
Quote from Seqo:
Level 10 as a night elf took me an entire day...
I made a Dwarven Paladin on the test five server. Been playing about two hours and I'm up to level 7.... woot :)
Excellent Seqo. Play Hard, im level 19, heretics level 17-18.
We will party and have a super happy fun time, if you can catch up :P . What professions did u take? please say herbalism and...the other one that supports herbalism.
Caus im a smith/miner, merts an enchanter/skinner :D
Currently my mining skill is up to 112 and my smithing is at 126..im very proud of me :D
Post 87
I was playing on server 5, untill it just all went to hades as I was trying to catch a boat...
I have since progressed onto server 34, from memory (pacific RP server) and it is so much more fun, espically if you are actually into the whole storyline aspect of the game...
Also its fun trying to party with your friends when they start as human, and you begin as a nelf, so you are forced to run 1/2 way round the world to meet them, but I am the only nelf I have seen in this area on this server, and it has given me some awesome RP oppurtunities :)
I have also found the rp'ers aer far more willing to group up and have fun then on the normal/pvp servers
Post 88
Quote from Milenko:
Excellent Seqo. Play Hard, im level 19, heretics level 17-18.
We will party and have a super happy fun time, if you can catch up :P . What professions did u take? please say herbalism and...the other one that supports herbalism.
Caus im a smith/miner, merts an enchanter/skinner :D
Currently my mining skill is up to 112 and my smithing is at 126..im very proud of me :D
I'm a smith/medic...
Server 5 just crapped out.... i reckon it's gonna go kaboom.
Btw, so far two friends playing this as well have had to reinstall windows because the WoW server they were playing on was being updated. Anyone else have a problem like this?
Post 89
im a human priest.... with herb and the other one to make potions and shit... im currently lvl 10 but rising fast...
ALCHEMY ... thats it!
Post 90
what server is everyone playing on
i am on server 37 and a friend of mine is as well
level 8 paladin
Post 91
and ooh yes i forgot to mention my little rant
THIS IS THE BEST GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED.
i don't think i've ever played a game for so many hours straight. Even GTA san andreas doesn't compare to something like this. i actually get tired playing GTA whereas in WoW, i played non stop from around 7 o clock to 2 am and never even yawned once. Damn i only stopped because i had to work. Scary to say what would happen if i didn't have work.
i am sooo very tempted to go agaisnt my philosophy of not paying to play an online game to actually get it....
my god, and im only in the first area. THE WORLD IS HUGGEEEE.
oh god...and i pre ordered HL2 as well, i have a feeling thats going to be lying in the dust for a little while
Post 92
hehe...wait till you do some pvp and get into lvl 20 and 30 zones :P then the real fun begins.
and in this game adventures are alot of fun.