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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 13, 2008 2:16:06 GMT -5
Excellent! I love seeing other people's screens Lili is 58 now. But whatever. Lich King as officially launched. People are in Northrend and there are Death Knights. Don't expect to see to many yet as they are still in their starting area in the Eastern Plaguelands. Can't wait to get the expansion tomorrow
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Post by Office Ninja on Nov 13, 2008 9:19:30 GMT -5
Im taking off early today. Cant wait to go play.
Is Lili still on Doomhammer? Hort is only 63. Ive been wanting to play him more if you wanna.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 13, 2008 10:46:37 GMT -5
Nah, she's On Terrokar. She had one hell of a night last night too. I was doing a quest in Silithus that required me to beat a level 59 Elite Scorpion. And it was accomponied by two level 58 non Elite Scorpions. I figured I'd give it a shot solo since I am Warlock. I did about 6 or 7 times trying. But I knew I could do it cause each time I came REAL close to winning. And I eventually did. What sucks though is that it has a attack that sends you flying in the air. And I was a little too close to the ledge of the hill so I got knocked right off and landed into a army of spiders. I tried to get back up but the spiders killed me. Luckily, my FelGuard killed the elite scorpion right as I was about to die. So all I had to do was respawn and run all the way back to my corpse so I could loot the quest item. It was....interesting. Speaking of interesting, Game Trailers' third and final video on the Warcraft retrospective. This one delves into the history of MMOs and where World of Warcraft itself came from. www.gametrailers.com/player/42583.html?type=I had no idea thats how the two lead developers met. Thats hillarious
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 13, 2008 19:29:37 GMT -5
I got it! I am going to install it soon. When I get playing I'll take screens and I'll post thoughts on Death Knight and Northrend. So expect some possible double, triple, quadruple, fucktuple posts from me. Inside the box, beneath the folding thing there is a picture of an Undead driving a Motorcycle with a Tauren in the side buggy. Apparantly Engineers will be able to craft these. STRANGE! But leave it to Blizzard to do the unthinkable in a game. EDIT>> Doomhammer is full. Position in que: 760. See you guys tomorrow XD
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Post by Caller on Nov 13, 2008 21:59:18 GMT -5
That reminds me of the NPC fellows patch in XI with that huge long line to get em <.<
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 13, 2008 22:54:20 GMT -5
Yeah I remember that, Atleast people were respectful with it and followed the rules. Alright, noobs!1 Time for some Death Knight bullshit strait from the Norfy's mouth. First of all, my Death Knight is a Human male. I named him Rayfair. Part of the name is Raylu, part of the name is Norfair. Git it? He is Raylu's younger brother and the spiritual successor to Norfair from FFXI. Anyways, you start off with decent looking noob gear, but not the awesomeness of the video I posted. You start with a full set of gear, all greens, but no weapon. You get that through your first set of quests. And the first thing you see when you fire up is none other than..... From there you do a few "talk to this NPC" quests and then you are sent to another area where the real questing begins. From here it is you standard noob area. There are several quest givers, vendors and the norm. Quests are unique for Death Knight in that they award more than exp and gold but also talent points. Since you are 55 at start, Blizzard doesn't want everyone going crazy with a full talent tree of abilities. So you get one talent point per completed quest, and 3 talent points per level up. This will likely go down in number when at a higher level. Now for the runes. Below your health bar are 6 rune icons. 2 for blood, 2 for frost, and 2 for Unholy. When you use an ability, one icon of that rune's ability fades out for a while. When both rune icons are faded out (blood for example) then a cool down is set for all blood abilities. But it doesn't last long. As you use rune abilities you gain runic power. Much like Warrior's Rage. When you have enough you can use a non rune ability at the cost of runic power. I guess it can be described as a combonation of Mana and Rage almost. Its a little tricky at first but its easy. And even with very few abilities at your disposal it is still very fast paced. And finally, I'm only level 56 and I already have a epic mount free of charge. EDIT>> My mistake. You get only 1 talent per level up.
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Post by Office Ninja on Nov 13, 2008 23:48:23 GMT -5
I didnt want to try the DK yet cause I thought it would be insanely busy. Sadly I fell asleep after a good run. Got Almuhan almost halfway through 70 already. Howling Fjord is a great zone so far. i like helping the UNdead start their new plague.
over 1000 in Q and its almost 11pm. Good god.
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Post by Caller on Nov 14, 2008 0:07:34 GMT -5
That sound a LOT like LotRO's new class, the Rune-Keeper. You get rune powers and there's a gauge that fills up one end or the other depending upon what kind of runes you use, and the more you use that type of rune, the stronger that rune's attunement gets. It's their attempt at a hybrid though. >_>
Are the quests any more unique for the DRK (I refuse to call it DK. DK is an ape...with a stylish tie) or just more of "go here, talk to her, and while you're at it kill 20 of these and bring me back 10 of these"? I hope there's some story behind them since they're definitely more...well I hate to use the word unique again but they are. They're the only class that gets their own specific area and I should hope the quests reflect that.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 14, 2008 0:17:56 GMT -5
Its a combonation of both I'd say. You have the regular "kil this many of that" but there are some unqieu ones that I have not seen before.
possible spoilz incase people want to see for themselves!
There is one that requires you to climb into a mining cart so an enemy miner can drag you to his base. once there you are behind enemy lines and can use the cannons on their boat to slaughter them. It is a "kill this many of that" quest but considering how its done, yes, I'd say thats differant enough. I had lots of fun qith that quest.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 14, 2008 2:56:28 GMT -5
Fucking EPIC! I'm not done with it yet but this series of quests for the Death Knight have been amazing. The quests are so varied and, YES, there is a story! I'll post more pics in a bit. Whats cool is that the whole things changes. Its hard to explain, but when you complete a certain amount of the quests eventually the world kinda evolves with it. Like for instance Arthas will be in one spot but as you complete the stroy he will move somewhere else and NPCs will have moved too. But its only viewable by you and whomever is on that part of the story. Me just talking about it doesn't do it justice
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Post by Office Ninja on Nov 14, 2008 3:20:01 GMT -5
IM currently sitting at 950k EXP into 70. Yep, and I still haunt leveled. But you know whats awesome? The quests are just too good to care. I am helping the undead spread their new plague and I am having so much fun. Only 550k more exp to go to 71!
I have only been to Howling Fjord and made a quick trip to Crystal Song Forest to go to Dalaran, which you cant do until 74 it seems. But I am in love with Northrend. This is what Burning Crusade should have been.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 14, 2008 3:45:48 GMT -5
And Burning Crusade is what WoW should have been. XD But in all honesty, after finishing the Death Knight line of quests it makes me wish they had this kind of questing to begin with. I don't mind the normal questing but to have this as well would have been sugary! I met a cool guy while early on in the Death Knight questing. he was a Dwarf and we pretty much did the entire thing together. We are buddied up now and we plan to hit up Northrend tomorrow. If only I didn't have work tomorrow and Saturday But so far, I'd have to say Death Knight has been my favorite thing I've done in this game in the 2 years I've been playing. And its not just cause of the "zomg Norfy loves Deathly/Dark Knight type classes" although that is part of it. The entire thing was fantastic!
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 14, 2008 5:20:46 GMT -5
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Post by Caller on Nov 14, 2008 5:27:28 GMT -5
Yeah my comp would not be able to handle this by the looks of it <.<; "Go here and kill that" at least makes sense for a DRK I guess. But I'm happy to hear conditional quests have finally found their way into the game. LotRO does this to some extent but not as much as I'd like... I may be back in Dec but I won't have the expansion. Ben wants to do Outland quests and well, I'm not 58 yet. He got picked to get one of those 3D models made for him and he wanted his first tier PLD armor from...that Strah...place...whatever. But well I guess that plan fell through cuz he never called me and I'm not gonna pay if I'm not gonna play. <_< I'll probably quit again right after though.
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Post by Norfy the Walrus on Nov 14, 2008 11:17:02 GMT -5
You're close enough to 58. If you do come back you should seriously look into doing instances. You're missing out on a big part of the game by not doing them. Hell, if all I did was questing I'd be bored with the game too. If there was one thing I didn't like about the Death Knight quest line was all the damn idiots playing it. The chat channel was bombarded with "wur do i go for such n such quest?" Someone would be nice enough to give an answer only to be responded back with "ok....wut do i do there?" And this is where I'd join in and tell them "Read your damn quest log!"
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