official World of Warcraft

[S00N3R FR3AK]

They said they want to get the expansions out quicker. With more and more mmos they don't have time to sit around on 2 year breaks for expansions because content is to stretched out and they lose people.

[Dotdot]

Since peaking at an all-time high player base of 12 million in 2010, WOW has steadily shed subscribers, dropping to a current tally of 10.2 million.

Well I went back about a week ago and the server Im on is doing fine. 10.2Mill is still a hell of a lot. So hes quiet right in what he saying.

[Prosidius]

So since I started playing WoW in 2007 I've had to reinstall Windows countless times and I lost most of my Burning Crusade screenshots. I'm glad I uploaded images here every chance I could get in 2007-2008. Got tons of them back. Evn is probobly the only one that would remember them. :p

[Lyric]

I just recently started playing again with my free 80 when I came back. I successfully geared my 85 mage which was still in all Season 9 PvP gear from my year break in about 4 days....so easy to get gear now, lol. Hes all in 384-397 gear completely with a bit of gold spent, and perfect timing when I came back for raid finder. I came back on a monday, did all of LFR, then logged in tuesday and did LFR again.

It's kind of boring really.....both LFR can be cleared in one day as well as valor maxed, and JP.

Guess I'll start leveling my free 80 rogue I got now while waiting for LFR to reset again.

[the evn show]

So since I started playing WoW in 2007 I've had to reinstall Windows countless times and I lost most of my Burning Crusade screenshots.

I uploaded videos from everything to youtube this expansion for the same reason. Try and pug heroic nef with openraid some time. Then

It's kind of boring really.....both LFR can be cleared in one day as well as valor maxed, and JP.

Worse, heroic dragon soul can be cleared faster than a typical LFR run (because your people are competent and not AFK half the time). If you've got an 8/8 heroic toon you can easily find 5/8 heroic pugs for your alts if you want to: but what's the point? The gear reset is coming so you can't prepare for the Tier 14 race, having more 410/416 just means the content we do have becomes even more trivial, and selling mounts for gold (my current hobby) seems like a waste of time now that we're in the "gold has no value" days. I wonder if there's an "undergeared" raiding project I could get in on. Farm up a set of blue gear on an alt, see how much heroic content you can clear without ever equipping an epic item before the next expansion comes out. I'm willing to bet you could do all of Tier 12 and 13 heroic modes with 346 blues or crafted PVP gear, Tier 11 hard modes would probably stop you at the 6/13 mark.

[Yorak]

So do you guys think Guild Wars 2 will put a significant dent in WoW? I know every new MMO that comes out is deemed the "WoW killer", and none of them have...lol.

[Blackhearted]

So do you guys think Guild Wars 2 will put a significant dent in WoW? I know every new MMO that comes out is deemed the "WoW killer", and none of them have...lol.

Yes. Cause unlike most new mmo's, it's doing more than just trying to copy wow with very few changes. That and the next xpack just sounds terrible. Which will combine with gw2 to cause an even larger sub drop than cata did.

[Asharae]

We need people to come join our guild on Quel'Thalas EU, trying to get guild XP with only two active members is insane! :(

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/guild/quelthalas/The_Council_of_Shoop/

[S00N3R FR3AK]

So who has gotten invited so far?

[Slane]

So who has gotten invited so far?

Yup.

[Shaun N.]

So who has gotten invited so far?

Me

[Shaun N.]

Ooo! Just got Beta :p

[firey]

Same here, but I can't login to the website. And I am 100% positive the only reason I got beta was because I had to pay my way in.

[Shaun N.]

Transfered my main characters and a premade lvl 85 monk :D

[firey]

I would, but I keep getting the "Down for maintainence" message. However, their twitter doesn't say anythng about it being down.

[firey]

well bnet is back up. Copied my main over, and made a premade pandaran monk. Though I will probably start a fresh one too. Download is crawling though. Getting 150 -> 300kb/s which if I was getting full speed I should be getting 3-4mb/s

[Shaun N.]

I have the installer on my dropbox if you want to try that? Could be faster. Although your paranoia could be too much for you :p

[firey]

well.. considering it's 17.7GB that I need to download.. at 150kb/s it would take forever. So anything that may provide quicker speeds. I'm going to update WoW to the latest first and see if it helps.

[Shaun N.]

ahh wait, it's only the 30mb installer :/ - Make sure you untik P2P in the connection settings. Generally speeds things up for me

[firey]

ahh wait, it's only the 30mb installer :/ - Make sure you untik P2P in the connection settings. Generally speeds things up for me

I tried with it unchecked, didn' seem to make a difference. I am currently letting WoW Update to the latest (Currently "Reconfiguring game files"). I am wondering if updating it first may make the downloader go faster? I don't know haha.

[Lithelinia]

I am downloading it now. Still not sure if i want my priest or DK.

[firey]

I am downloading it now. Still not sure if i want my priest or DK.

you can make 3 premade, and transfer 6 existing, so go with both!

[Lithelinia]

GRRRRR. I just checked my computer and it failed to download it. So now i have to restart it. GRRRRR

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Same here, but I can't login to the website. And I am 100% positive the only reason I got beta was because I had to pay my way in.

After not making the beta for Wrath, SC2, Cata or Diablo 3, I know this is why I got the invite last night lol. Have had the game downloading since then. Transferred my hunter and pally over as well as a druid and warrior pre-made as those are the two classes I am thinking of leveling next.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

So after downloading most of the beta I had to shut the client and restart my computer as it was just starting to clog up cause I had to many things open. I open the client back up and it acts like it hasn't downloaded any of the beta. I have 16gb of useless data just sitting there now but I don't want to delete it just in case. I think I'll just wipe everything tonight and restart the download.