The 'Ask a Tester' threadFollow

This is the internet. Wherever you go, there will be chumps like that. There will be people who buy the game and then spend all their time whining on the forums. That's the MMORPG way. Most people I meet in game are usually far more decent people than anyone on the forums. In history, and WoW is no different, the whiny punks on the boards have been a vocal (very vocal) minority.

The new push is fine. Better than fine, as I can finally play on the FvF server. Minor changes happen to classes and people cry bloody murder. Some things certainly still need changing, and we're getting there, slowly but surely.

SM=Scarlet Monastery. Last push it was the highest level instanced dungeon, and people were abusing certain game mechanics to quickly farm large amounts of blue (powerful semi-rare) items, which meddled with the economy. Two glaring instance exploit problems have been fixed, and we'll see what happens now that the cap is 45 and we have some new places to go.

WoW is not BNet. Never confuse one with the other.

Edited, Wed Jun 16 22:14:59 2004 by JAEFo

I doubt their mommies trust those little snots enough to give them their credit cards for an MMO.

And they'd quit after a month because they had no idea what they were getting into.

I have a few questions then.

1) How much do people have to work together? Is grouping necessary? I want an mmorpg, not an rpg that other people happen to be playing.

2) Are the system requirements higher or lower than FFXI? I'm having to buy a new graphics card before I can play it (and the best I can get is junk cause I can only use low-profile cards), and I'm hoping I can play this too. So are the graphics more demanding or less?

2.6 ghz pentium 4
256mb ram (sd or dd, I dunno, this will be upgraded soon I hope)
and... if I can find an actual nvidia kind, the same card as you, cause it's the best card that will fit in my case. All I can find are other brands using the geforce technology. I'm kinda afraid of those. Any suggestions?


And about the first statement, why would you want to solo all the time in an mmorpg. I just can't understand the urge to pay $10 a month to play morrowind, basically. I play online games to meet people and have fun in groups. (Btw, morrowind is a dull, boring, stupid game; it's an mmorpg without the mmo)

Azuarc I play from midnight to about 2 PM. During the night when I was playing there were 300 people (I had just relogged to check server amount and see how many people were playing horde), and when I needed a group for something, I got one.

And yes sub. More RAM. But don't get any GeForce MX. Any other card should suit you, but don't get one from the MX line. I can't recommend any specific cards, though. Maybe someone else can help out on that.

JAEFo: my parents for some dumb reason decided to buy us a Dell Dimension 4600c. In case you don't know, the computer case is tiny and I can only fit low-profile cards in it. I spent all day yesterday and a good portion of today so far looking for other options that will fit my case, but the geforce4 mx440 is the only one I can find. If you want to look and find a better one, then feel free.

Money: 100 copper is 1 silver, 100 silver is 1 gold. Money comes and goes pretty easily. You'll be spending it mostly on equipment upgrades and your new skills when you level (and trade skills if that's your thing.) Right now, if you have money, there's probably something out there to spend it on.

Right now I'm barely buying any equipment for my 17 pally and I'm doing pretty well just using drops from mobs and quest rewards.

Subverted: Looks good, I'd go for that one.

1) Are any of the Rogues skills usable with ranged attacks?

2) Can Rogues use their poison on arrows or bullets?

Thanks in advance.

SOOOOO, seeing as how grouping is "required", how many testers have/are steadily seeking joining groups over soloing, and for those that are, are the required archetypes of players readily available or are you forced to sit in town for 30 mins waiting on a tank.

As a side note id also like to know if anyone looks for groups not for a quest but just to group and kill things/explore.

Vamp - nobody sits around and waits for a group unless they're trying to do something out of a select list of quests and activities that nobody can *really* do alone. Nobody can solo most elite quests at a semi-reasonable level. Nobody can fight into and through Scarlet Monastery and kill the bosses there without using exploits. (This was the place to be for farmers.)

Otoh, people aren't afraid to make groups to make doing certain non-elite quests easier on them. I have to kill 8 Shambling Skeletons, and so does this guy I'm fighting over the spawns for? Simple solution. You both get credit for each kill while grouped, and each goes by smoother with a second person helping.

Grouping is not required for at least 70% of the material in the game. Soloing is not more desirable for most of that 70%.

As for doing things with a group other than questing, yes sometimes. People who want to explore a new zone, particularly an intriguing but nasty cave, or who want to farm an instanced dungeon (like Scarlet Monastery,) will just run around killing stuff. Truth be told, this is usually more for the benefit of seeing items drop than it is for gaining exp.

Blizzard has been very careful to tune out the mindset that the best way to level is to endlessly kill the same creatures over and over again. Because of the quest rewards - exp and loot - and the implementation of the rest states, (which is still being fine tuned and still broken,) the game does not lend itself to mindless slaughter. Which is good...I think my retinas are burned from how many hours I sat in Velk's Lab fighting white spiders on a white ledge in a white cave for 90+ hours across one week. (But darnit, I got from level 53 to 59 in that week!)