so i started playering Wow on the Shandris Server have recently dinged 15. I am a destruction Warlock and love every second of it. Tell me a bit about your character and/or game experiences

I'm a 70 priest and I heal things.

lv 16 duid.

cool. what guild you with?

None.

The whole getting on every friday thing isn't worth it.

I am a level 70 druid.

I play on the Private servers because they are free, and most private servers have increased rates.

[joke] Its so nice for you to tell a Blizzard GM this. <3 [/joke]

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Private servers are bought, then self-managed. After all is said and done, the only differences are to the GM's extent and the fact it's not run by Blizzard (this usually means there's some bugs and more lag, but hey, it's free).

And if someone completely makes one illegally, Blizzard takes care of it with their... various methods.

Player run servers, are however, illegal per the Terms of Service.

V 70 Affliction Lock. Mostly PvE on Stonemaul, but I have some PvP gear until i get those badge rewards.

Theres about a 1/700 chance, but has anyone been on a RP server, I'm VERY curious. Must be a load of DnD themed chatter and stuff based in the Azerothian universe, but I'd like the facts.

I haven't made one, but to my best knowledge, the priveledges are bought under the table.

You wouldn't believe how little actual RP I've seen on RP servers...

I'm trying to get a RP guild going on a server tho, seperate from my main server

Lvl 70 pally. Lvl 70 warrior. Lvl 70 Destruction lock. And a level 15 shaman.

*points to siggy*

Also, lvl 7 druid, lvl 4 shaman, lvl 11 warlock and lvl 17 mage. Thing is I hate to play these as they go so slow without a mount.

I guess I'll answer what I play more clearly....

I'm a level 70 Demonology Warlock. I am slowly gearing out, but even with the gear I do have, I pwn on BGs and Arenas. Regularly in EoTS and WSG I rank in the top 5 for Damage overall, normally one or two in the alliance...there have been many times where I'm #2 overall between horde and alliance. While I'm not a PVP whore, I do enjoy PVPing and take great pride in what I do as a demonologist. I know that if I was afflicition specced I'd pwn the field, but I'd also end up being dead more often than I am now...and now i am often hunted and killed ASAP on fields when I start pwning te healers...I'm a healer killer. I hate healers in BGs (they're my best friend if they're on my side)

Then I have a 59 resto druid. She was feral before that but due to instances needed healing, my guild paid for me to respec to resto as I was healing great as a feral, but was running out of mana. I prefer DPS feral druid over tank druid...

I also have a level 29? Or so Shadow Priest and a 26 warrior.

Lvl 70 warrior, Hirad on the european eonar server, also have 3 alts in the mid teens.

Still enjoying wow, but I am building a strong dislike to the huge lack of manners more and more people are showing.

As an example, I was in Alterac Valley last night enjoying some bgs, at about midgame - 100 points ahead (not a huge margin) and with the horde holding the north alliance towers, 2 or three of the players used combinations of "FFS NOOBS ATTCK SOUTH" or comments thereabouts.

As I was one of the people up north I had a quick goosee at the map, around 10 people were trying to get the towers back, big pile in the middle, and another pile attacking. I replyed, saying "we're trying to get the towers back, we need to attack AND defend", reasonable enough you would have thought, however I was rewarded with comments like "its because of people like you that we loose idiot" etc. Unsurprisingly we lost the towers up north thanks to being outnumbered and then lost the matchup.

I am as I said still enjoying the game, but having to put up with comments like this when I'm on to win as much as the next person is very frustrating.

How many of you have had to put up with this sort of thing?

Level 70 Shaman Enhancement.

I quit back in October for my birthday. Life is so much better!!!!

Oh thankfully you play on US servers Kay, otherwise you'd have caused me numerous nightmares on the rare occasions that I DO go and PvP. PvE is the way for me...provided I get to work with some nice people who can take a wipe with a healthy amount of cheerfulness.

Ah, memories of Kara PuG's...got saved to Kara after killing Attumen, just so the group could fall apart on Moroes after one wipe when people start lashing out and "WTFZOMGUNUBWTF"-ing.

As for RP...well, the best RP moment I've been in recenty was the Curator battle, when our MT, when taunting the big bad robot, yelled "Your momma was a vending machine!" We all lol'd hard.

That's the main reason I don't do BG's much. it's sad that you are almost required to play them to get good gear at 70 tho. I just don't want to play 500 BG's in order to get my gear. I'd rather do Instances. Untill then, I play a 68 shadow priest who will respec when 70 comes along in order to be an Über-healer. I'm planning my primal mooncloth set but having a hard time gathering the necessary mats. Plus, ever since I startedgoing out with my Girlfriend, I have been playing verry sporadically.

I know the feeling ghis, it was due to the last gf that I gave up wow for a year so I could spend more time with her (dedication +1 lol).

Thats the thing, as a warrior getting the gladiators gear is the easiest way to prep for heroic runs, then I can change the gear out as and when, that means a lot of hours and having to put up with eejits like I mentioned in my post who have a leader complex. I've made it a bit easier for myself though, I tend to go in with a mate or 2, then at least we can joke away while we're in the bg, not to mention double teaming hordies, charge and concuss on my part then bothe fly the dps, lol.

It helps to make friends in your early levels. I know I've mainly been running high-end instances with a priest I met in Scarlet Monastery. I don't PuG much. Too much potential for frustration.

Yeah, thats part of why I'm PVPing is for the gear for heroics. I hate playing alliance because alliance just doesn't work together. Even in PUGs, Horde works together and defeats us. The only way We've won lately is having either 5-10 of us in a given BG and doing what we do best, holding, defending and backing each other up. Yesterday we went in with 3 of us and we knew from 2 minutes in if we'd win or loose.

Somehow, Alliance can't get it through their head in EotS that you have to have bases to bring the flag back to, so 11 people camping the middle and two each at two bases is just gonna get us zerged and no base....

The reason I gave up PvP. Just farmed enough honor to get me a few welfare epics that helped me start with raiding. Replaced most of them with PvE gear...only the sword will be a problem since an upgrade for those comes as late as SSC for a rogue...

Yeah, as much as possible I stick to teaming with guildies, friends, friends made in the game, and friends of those friends. I don't think i've used the LFG function in a long time, can usually build a pretty decent team out of contacts in the game and their contacts with reasonable ease. It helps that healers like me as they are my first priority, if someone pulls aggro, I'm rescuing the healer, he or she is the one that keeps me breathing as a tank!

Yeah Kay, thats what I've been doing, going in with an established small team. EOTS isn't too bad on our server, its either a tough worn fight or a walkover for us allies, most of the time you get the group leader telling everyone to ignore the flag and rush the bases when I play, normally we have 3 of the bases pretty fast, then its just the grind down, ofc sometimes we get lucky, get all 4 and its a total wipe, lol.

Yeah somehow on our servers the whole "GRP 1 go MT, GRP 2 FRR, GRP 3 DR, leave 3 on D once capped before going to middle" doesn't work. Normally one or two from each group will go to appropriate locations and the rest go middle.

Can't take FRR when you do that.

I've only had a few experiences like that, only around 5 EOTS runs I've been in and lost (I think, I have 40 marks sitting ready for the sword and shield I want-had 41 handed it in for a quest).

Alliance do have some serious organisational issues sometimes it does have to be said, but when you get a team of experienced people it really does show. Blitzed some horde in AV a few days back, such co-ordination, was so happy to win for once in a while by a big margin I think the people downstairs probably heard me! When we blitz on EOTS I do feel sorry for the horde sometime, jumping off their start point into around 18 waiting alliance peeps, tis a tad harsh, but amusing.

Curiously, when it comes to European servers, Alliance is much better at PvE than Horde is, though.

Must come from the fact that raidgroups generally aren't composed of random people who think they know it all.

Horde on US servers work well together. Alliance doesn't. They insult each other, call each other morons and idiots and berate each other. I got bitched at about "what the hell are you doing when I was staying at a base"

I replied "It's called defense, you know, where you fight to hold what you've already won?"

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/120.html
I think Donald pretty much wraps it up...that's Alliance in BG for you. If I had a 0.01€ for each time I hear "All to Galv kill Galv" in AV when there are ~20 Hordes defending him...

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/117.html
And this, of course, too.

yup, sounds like what I was complaining about, I only seem to see it in AB and AV though, our lot on eonar seem to be reasonably switched on that you need defence in WSG and EOTS, however they seem at the same time to think it unnecasary in AB and AV, strange that isn't it? May just be different kinds of people playing different bgs, I dunno.

I'm often berated for defending, but I'm a prot spec warrior and cannot be bothered to respec for pvp (going better than I thought it would so far) so defending or holding aggro on boss and group mobs in AV suits me better than an all out charge.

Lol...Kodo capping and defending ftw.

Personally, I have too many toons and I don't spend enough time on any of them. I play mostly Horde, which I can blame CAD's Tim Buckley for. He did get me interested enough to get into the game and on the Horde side, but thats about all I can say thats positive about him.

Mainly, I play my 70 druid, but I have a 70 shaman and hunter as well (with at least 3 more that are 40+). My toons are also spread out, but I'm mainly on PvP servers.

i think it's funny how both the mods didn't say a word about there being another topic not too old >.>

Nope, they both went head on to boast of their characters without too much of a second thought <.< >.> <.<

lol

The other thread I saw was WoW PVP and questions on it. This is WoW Characters and servers since the last topic on this died off a while back.

Currently my homework is building up, so I definitely don't have time for an effective 4-5 hour kara run, so I'm stuck with drops off heroics and PvP, even though I prefer PvE. Its hard for a lock to have feelings about a healer, 'cause in PvP we can't live with 'em and can't live without 'em, as a good source of health is always nice, but they screw up your damn DoT kills. I don't quite get raiding pugs though, it must be hell keeping everyone together and the spammers at a low level. Guilds are more reliant, but aren't for people who have lives to live, or at least to some degree.
The problem is i feel so unimportant in most instances, cause I'm usually third in dps because I have a few rares, and my DoTs can't keep up with the enemies dieing so quickly. No way can I expect to get my epic mount ANY time soon, as I'm still lvling my enchanter (or should i say moneybags) profession to get my spell dm sword enchant on the cheep.

And FYI, in any situation that you are kicking a$$ that hard, you are probably dealing with a pre-made that gets together just to lose and get quick badges

im a lvl 64 orc hunter named chilargar on nazgrel.....

I have a 70 Tauren Hunter and a 70 Dwarf Warrior on the PvP servers. These are my two mains, but I have some others I play on other servers when the ganking becomes excessive. Lately I have been doing the BGs and almost have all my Champion armor. I am a casual player and I do not belong to a guild.

I was a guild master in EQ, and I just got burned out from it all. So, no guild for now I don't want to have to play just becasue some guildy wants an epic piece of armor from some raid. Maybe later I'll get involved again. Right now I am happy just teaming up with friends.

Got my gladiators slicer from pvp last night, have yet to hit anything with it though.

I am all cranky because I went through the 2.4 badge items I can buy afetr we get that anvil done, and realised there's absolutely nothing useful for my build.

Guess I'll have to go raid SSC if I want a better sword...and hope that Curator and Malchy drop my tier tokens before moving up to Gruul/ZA/Maggy....

Welcome to the world of Blizzard's design, wherein they can't determine that a Hunter and an Enhancement Shaman require different stat distribution even though they're both physical dps mail wearers.

The best gear for my class/spec is always rogue gear. Without exception.

im a lvl 70 shaman 70 hunter 70 warrior 70 paly and other olw levels i dont give a crap on a private server

Nightcorsair pls tell me more about the tower deffeinding thing i never heard of sumtin like that... i mean u play to conquer lands and areas in wow? is that with wrath of the lich king or has it yet to be implemented in Bc on my private oh also does any 1 play wowscape-private?

My game experience is a bit long seeing as how sometime last year I couldnt resist making one of everything - I have a troll priest, a BE mage, an undead lock, a dranei pally, A Nelf warrior, a dwarf hunter, a human rogue and another nelf druid. I may be missing some in that list...

I only actually play 3 of those characters - 70 warrior, 67 lock and 60 pally. Warrior is my main but lock is my favorite. Demonology FTW.

=)

I play a RP server now! I got tired of all the idiots and the catassing on my last server, so I shuffled Pan over. I picked one that was high RP, low PVE progress (halfway for the fun, halfway to wave around my "I'VE BEEN TO TK AND SSC, DROOL OVER ME" hardon), and it's actually FULL of RP, and the people actually treat each other like human beings. A shock, I know. It suprised the hell out of ME. I don't think all RP servers are the same, though; apparently most of them have little to no RP (besides naked-related activities in Goldshire) and are full of idiots. If you're looking for just some straight up RP or at least polite people (with really low pve activity beyond Kara, there's like one guild in BT), try Moon Guard.

I myself haven't directly RPed yet because I haven't done that in 10 years and it makes me feel pretty rusty, but a lot of it seems pretty fun. There's a billion bloodelves everywhere though. I guess the whole extermination thing by the Scourge didn't really go through, they breed like pretty little bunnies. I DID manage to figure out something really, really awesome and start some cool stuff in the Under-Kara, though. See, there's this secret place under Karazhan that is FULL of really, really creepy things; the only way to get through is to either be feared through a gate or.. I guess a sheep would work if you/the mage has good reflexes. From WoWwiki:



Anyway, I guess I'm rambling now. Seriously, go check it out, it's amazing and fun.



Man, there is no need to be a resto druid to heal until at least mid-Outlands. Feral works just fine as long as you keep healing gear on you; sure, you run out of mana a bit faster than resto would, but you can actually solo without wanting to scoop your eyeballs out with a melon baller. If not feral, then balance at least; this gives you the mana you need to heal a ton, the gear overlaps a bit with your healing gear, and you get to be a giant crazed chicken with satellite-guided orbital laser beams. Not to mention that until you're 70 and have +1k healing or so, Dreamstate is a better build to be for pure healing (go down Balance for the Dreamstate talent to give yourself some hell of mana regen, focus on the healing touch talents in resto) and also lets you solo better. No one should ever have to level a druid as resto. I did this when innervate was the 31 point talent for resto and therefore required, and feral/balance sucked balls. That was something I'd never wish on *anyone*.



You play a shaman? An enhancement shaman? That explains a lot.

What's wrong with an ench shaman?

Pay our subscriptions and we'll play the game your way - otherwise, I'll kindly ask you to refrain from such comments because they imply you're being holier-than-thou and doing that old "I > u because (something)" trick.

ENHANCE. There is no enchanting shaman spec.

And I wasn't saying he sucks, I'm saying no wonder he's so bitter and hateful in the way we all know and love. Blizzard really loves to shit all over shamans. I think you're a bit defensive for nothing.

Well when we were running out of mana for BRD (yes we were doing BRD) for healing down there on a group of hte appropriate level and being the main healer (paladin was back up)....that was a bad thing. When I respecced, we didn't die.

I heal quite well as a feral druid, but i had already played in outlands and knew that I needed more mana as resto.

I play with druids quite a bit...and even the druids have told me "Sometimes you'll have to respec for healing".

And I don't mind it. THere isn't one way only to play a class...and I know that and embrace it.

Nah I'm just generally cranky

And I didn't even get to raid Kara this week as I was working *whine*

I won't talk about what happened with our Kara run....

It is quite apparent the Raid Leader in our guild is all about "Friends" rather than gearing up the longer playing regular players who were on time for the raid not half an hour late....

Hack his account, have him walk into the deepest depths of Orgrimmar, stip him naked and TOSS HIS HEARTHSTONE AWAY.

Then again, our guild has difficulty with time too....8pm CST normally means 9pm ....idiots.