As a lot of people rave about it, I decided to download the ten day trial, was going quite well with one character (only made one) well.. when I say going well i killed 3 orange animal type things, however I died so am now a ghost.. where do I find the spirit healer thing?

follow the arrow to the healer thingy person .

Being thick what arrow?

Look on your mini map for a gold arrow.

thanks

No prob

Run back to where you died, you can resurrect at your body. You don't want to get in the habit of going to the spirit healer, at later levels you get Resurrection Sickness for 10 minutes....which sucks.

... and will end up costing you a lot of money (gold) in those later levels as well.

I don't think I will get to later levels only on level 3 now and ain't got a clue what I'm doing LOL

Yeah you don't want to get too use to using the spirit healer as you get resurrection sickness at each level above 10, and you get damage to your armour/weapons whenever you use the spirit healer.

Running back to your body will normally be fine.


Cancelled my WoW account a few weeks ago because I haven't played it for ages.


It does get easier once you figure it out, wowwiki has a getting started guide that may be useful http://www.wowwiki.com/Getting_started

is there any purpose to this or do I just keep killing these beasts?

There are quests that follow a story line.

for a beginner its a awesome game so you have lots of fun to be had and huge things will open up like doing more and more complicated quests and finding other people and talking to them as well as learning new skills and professions. Just keep muddling through it and you'll get it. took me to about lv10 before i really got the hang of it and till lv30 till i really knew what i was doing. Theres about a bizzillion forums about the place if you need info though.

I think I'm annoying people, been told to go away lol

Some people take that game pretty seriously. It takes over their life. I've known many people that have had a lot of 5am nights.

The first 20 levels or so are mostly pointless. After that you start to get better armor, weapons and spells, more interesting areas to explore, much better quest lines that actually involve doing things beyond killing wolves and so on. Think of the first dozen or so levels as training.

you will kinda of need to keep working at making friends, try to find people around your level because as the game goes on you will need people of different skill levels in order to complete quests. Like some of the boss battles will need a warrior to jump in and take the damage, a mage to deal the damage and a priest to heal (usually the warrior taking the damage ).

Way this works is because warriors usually have very high armour and good hit points, the mage get the kick ass spells which blow things to faeces and the priests get all the best healing spells.

LOL ... if you only knew ...



At the release of the game .. maybe. Paladins are popping up as tanks now and are pretty good at it. Warlocks are very ... I'll say "strong" with their spells now and Shaman healing (earth shield) is the key to victory! I prefer a shadow priest (mana battery) though.

By the way, a few of us IPS staff have a guild and we raid together, so if anyone plays on the US realms and is interested, pst. We might be able to figure something out

Poor UK people

You can't select US realms in the UK?

No the US and EU realms are separate. When you buy your copy of WoW is says something like "for US servers only" on the box.

Although you can edit the realmlist.wtf file so the domain points to us. instead of eu. you still need an account on the US realms so you'd still need to buy a US copy, and you'd have issues if the US realms and EU realms are ever running different versions (the British English updates are a different file to the US English update, although I suspect in reality they aren't)


That is why I got bored, everyone else I know plays in the US and all the guilds I've been in haven't been any fun to play with, so I can't really do any instances so it just ends up being repetitive grinding.

That's what I figured about the realm list thing .. or rather, that's how I figured they differentiated the 2.

I doubt there's a whole lot of difference in the patches either.

A friend of mine was showing a video he captured during a fight. There must have been like 20 other people involved in this fight against some huge fire-like creature. It's amazing how many people get together for a fight. I play counter-strike every so often and it takes forever to organize a 4v4 match. Do you set a time and a meeting place?

Oh god yes they take some organising. Those large fights are normally in what are called "instances" (dungeons), groups of people will get together and do the dungeon together, they are in groups of 5, 10, 20 and 40 (might also be groups of 15 not sure, never done any of the ones above 5). You don't really do them with random people because they can take a lot of skill, knowing how the other characters function, what their strength and weaknesses are etc.

A group of them from the IPS office have started doing them, Rikki sent me these videos of them a few weeks ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O20iZk02aJU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO7Ik5CPVqU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPvOZQECmuk

There are a few of those fights which aren't instances (instances are unique instance of a dungeon for each group that enters it, to stop another one entering and stealing all the loot, causing trouble etc) so you can get some fights with hundreds of people. Then if you play on certain servers you will often have massive fights between the 2 factions (horde and alliance) where one attacks a city controlled by the other .

How many characters do you all have and what levels?

Yeah, when you're in a guild, the guild will organise a time to play. For us it's Thursday nights. But there's also channels in-game where people can hook up and form a group. We're currently doing 10-man instances but there's also 25-man instances. The videos Stephen posted are us raiding a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I didn't record my interface that time, so the video is a bit boring, you can't see the status of everything.

Oh Zigs, I hope we're not losing you.

No, there's no purpose to the game on the whole. Stop playing now before you become..... one of "them!"

I only have one character, a level 70 Draenei Mage: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...a&n=Taurinq

/me waves the game in front of lindy... you know you wanna...

70 Shaman http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...mp;n=Quaz%C3%AC
31 Warrior http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...ria&n=tufts

Those are the two I play regularly...the warrior is my new project.

LOL , I don't think I will get that addicted, I keep dying, and I have lost my hammer so have no weapon

I just realised you have to pay, does anyone know how much?

Oh noez, I was trying to avoid posting my characters but here goes:

Paladin(prot): http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...&n=Arlonias
Shaman(enhancement): http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...amp;n=Shammypoo
Rogue(combat): http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...ia&n=Xebian
Druid(feral): http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...&n=Kelleria

Hunter (horde/BM): http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...&n=Prillmar

Yes, I do relize my stats and everything aren't available. I haven't logged in since maintenance went through on Tues.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wH7rPG-TuXc

That guy?

And us getting to him:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Raw3TKnc328

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/characte...a&n=Selrach

Light bless you.

Lol. I was waiting for that.

Well, I guess I'll get in on this...

Malefickus - 70 Dwarf Hunter
Borimus - 30 Draenei Shaman

My hunter is relatively new at being 70, and I quite literally only have one piece of Epic gear that I wear. Made the Draenei Shaman about 3 minutes after TBC went live, and just really haven't worked on it all that much until recently. Mainly have kept it to say that I have one of the first Draenei Shaman's on my realm.

You need some gems there Toby.

Kosia - BM Hunter

They all say that. Charles thought WoW was the most ridiculous game ever -- then he started playing (and he too wasn't very good to start) and now he has 5+ characters. Don't let it happen to you - it's a drug!

I keep meaning to buy them... I just..forget to! That, and I have absolutely no clue what kind of gems I should get.

Could just grab a few cheap Agi gems until you decide where you really want to go.

I wanna stop dying lol

In all honesty, the best way to stop dying is to keep plugging at it. Figure out where you are dying and why. Are there too many of them attacking you at once? Are they a much higher level than you? Ideally you want to be fighting stuff (from my experience) that has a yellow level number or a green level number. Orange, red or a skull can and will be too difficult, resulting in death.

When running away, are you running in a straight line? Around bends? Are you using any abilities that could slow your enemy's movement? Use anything in your arsenal when running to make your opponent run slower. Use any natural blocks to your enemy's path in order to get away. Things this could include are fences, trees and/or buildings.

Without knowing your specific class or level, it is hard to go into much more detail than this in order to avoid death. But, as a guildmate once told me, dying is like changing a baby's diaper. No one likes doing it, but it happens anyways.

I think I have improved slightly, I am now on level 5

I get lost shall we say and ended up in some places where the beasts were level 15 and above, I was only on level 2, maybe I shouldn't have gone exploring lol

The area that you first start out in is designed to handle you staying there and working your way through quests up to approximately level 6. It is like that with nearly every race and class.

Once you become a level high enough to venture outside of that area safely, you will receive a quest that directs you to the next "area" that you should be in. For example, Gnomes and Dwarves start in Coldridge Valley, killing wolves, troggs, boars and trolls. Once they get a high enough level, they get a quest where they have to bring a package to the Innkeeper of Kharanos, thus bringing them out of this protected little starting world into a much larger one, closer to a big city.

If you had gotten to an area that had level 15 monsters, then you must have done quite a bit of adventuring .

Yeah I was just following the roads lol, got lost, so used the hearthstone thingy to go back home, so stayed there then and did a bit of killing... not sure if I like it lol I feel mean killing the animals

Cyna, lvl 70 Night Elf Rogue
Domitius, lvl 56 Dranei Shaman

I've been playing the rouge Cyna since the game came out. Until the expansion came out he was decked out in the best gear available. The Shaman is tons of fun, but there is still nothing like ghosting a group of two or three.

Hehe, I kill the animals just for fun. Especially the cows near Stormwind. Someone once told me that you lose 5 reputation points for Stormwind for killing cows, chickens or other barnyard type animals in Elwynn Forest. I've since proved them wrong...

Then how do you get your weapon skill up?

EDIT: All my chars should be up to date now.