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That kinda worried me on thier website when a developer said "...I think its 8 per account..", but then later someone said they had 8 characters on one server and a few on PvP, so that made it slightly better.

Hero classes sound fun when they're finaly implemented, and epic/life quests are rather nice.

I would kind of like it if they had an AA type system where after you hit the cap you could dump your exp into different abilities/modifiers(yes I know the whole talent tree thing, but I mean a way to further use exp beneficially after the cap). That would add almost endless level possabillities.

Yes.

Got one thing to say about this. Leveling is only about 1/4 of the game. There are many more things to do than leveling in any game, the problem with the grind heavy games is they effectively cancel every thing that happens on the way up.

I have played AO, AC, AC2 (only briefly), E&B, RYL, and FFXI. Among all these games FFXI was the worst. They took a franchise with immense potential and filled it with fluff and a heavy stone to wear away your patience leveling.

In many of the other games they fell to the same fate, the levels were filled with fluff or nothing. Until you got close to the max level you just were forced to grind out another night. This was fun in some games, AO and E&B as their penalty for death was not as bad as many other games. But I was disappointed in the content available to those who didn’t find a group.

I found that many of those who I meet left rather promptly, about 2-4 months after they joined because of missing content. Blizzard decided there might be some profit in giving them a reason to stay.

To continue beating a dead horse I have to add the crafting aspect of gaming. Those of you who are complaining about the speed of leveling have never mentioned you do anything else with your time but level (and I am amazed how anyone has this much time in their day for a game). I and many others like to craft. Exploring comes to mind also, many of these games these experiences were totally missed. There is much more to a game than level grinding.

I want to join WoW because I can take a break from leveling without a severe penalty. I don’t have to hit the max level before I try any other activity. I don’t have to suffer a huge penalty whenever I die looking around a new area.

To shorten this up a bit only 10% of the population of an average game is hardcore, the rest of us have less than 5 hours a day to spend online. In most cases we are also the ones who have the income and long term prospect to shell out $15 a month for 5 years or more. Blizzard made this game for us and its about time someone did. If the power player in you wants a hard obnoxious level grind go to FFXI I have never seen a more useless grind in my life.

We each have our own opinion, now those who have one similar to mine have a game to share. Sorry to all of you others, yo’ll have to find a different one, no matter how loud you clamor.

ok here is what i have to say. i havent played WoW yet but i have played FFXI for a year. and hardcore gamer or casual gamer that game is not catered to your time. I am glad to see a game where you can log on for an hour or 2 and progress somewhere. hell in FFXI last week i sat for 7 hours and got nowhere at all. its to the point now (lvl 50) where if i dont have 4 hours or more i shouldnt bother loggin on. And thats how the game is. i dont complain about it because thats how the people who like that game want it. i am looking at WoW because its catered to the casual gamer. I dont expect to lvl as fast as everyone else but i do expect to have a purpose to log onto the game if i dont have over 4 hours to play. I could care less if i lvl in that time but i want to be able to do something. seriously it took an hour just to get the items and such to try and craft in FFXI and i am glad that there is finaly a game that is catered to a more casual gamer.

Also lets think about blizzards past. do they have any games that take a hardcore gamer to get good at? Any of the Diablos for example. hell today i got all the way to nightmare difficulty in a day. Blizzard is a company that in general is catered to the mroe casual gamer. You cant expect them to change that because they have steped into the MMO field.

Square Enix is a company that makes games to be teedious and slower. Every FF game has damn near hundreds of hours of playtime to get anywhere and there MMO reflected that. Its the way that they make games

Okay I'm now level 32 and it's taking me about 4 or 5 hours to level I believe. The next level requires about 50000 exp and I get about 200exp from 32-34 level mobs. Quests give me around 2000 exp per if I can find and complete them solo. At this point I'm wiling to bet that most people will take a few months to get to level 60 at least except for the hardcore that play nonstop 24/7.

4-5 hours a lvl at 32? Sounds about right really, in EQ i could do that with my necromancer soloing the bard in south karana, and in FFXI I was able to do this easily if I were lucky enough to get into a good party. Doesnt really seem all that out of line with other MMOs, i bet the real difference occurs when you reach 50+.

In most MMOs lvling times increase exponentially past lvl 50,FFXI it takes 10k at lvl 51, where lvl 50 was 7k, then 20k per lvl at 55, i think it gets up to 35k per lvl at 70+. In EQ you could easily get 1/2 a blue bubble of experience per kill below lvl 50, past lvl 50 it might take 3-4 kills on blue xp giving mobs before you even noticed a change in your blue bar. Unless you were killing PoP mobs, but that requires alot of time and is super risky, and with EQ death penalties it could be disasterous.

What I'm expecting from WoW is that this exponential increase is avoided, allowing for a linear progression that still requires a lil bit more time per lvl after each lvl, but without making it a digustingly noticeable increase.

Yeah, I have the same question as Puzo, you guys only answered the first part of his questions. This game seems to have a lot of emphasis on soloing and quests. The question is can you still play together all the time when doing those things, or are there points where you and your friend get separated for days at a time and are unable to play together?

But to answer more of your questions more bluntly, You can have up to 8 characters on one account. On each character you only get one class(job) that you can do, not 12. But yes, if you guys are separated, and don't want to level there are tradeskills that you can do. Also, from what I've heard, you can PvP practically at any level. As for the complimenting there is always the priest/warrior duo, but other than that no. WoW seems to be pretty balanced, you could be any two and do just fine... I would think. And if your hesitant about being a preist because it seems like it is going to be monotonous healing, blizzard has done a good job in adding other skills that they can use to damage and such.

Note: No, I am not in beta, I am getting my info from the WoW forums, these forums, and friends that have beta.

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Yeah, I have the same question as Puzo, you guys only answered the first part of his questions. This game seems to have a lot of emphasis on soloing and quests. The question is can you still play together all the time when doing those things, or are there points where you and your friend get separated for days at a time and are unable to play together?

But to answer more of your questions more bluntly, You can have up to 8 characters on one account. On each character you only get one class(job) that you can do, not 12. But yes, if you guys are separated, and don't want to level there are tradeskills that you can do. Also, from what I've heard, you can PvP practically at any level. As for the complimenting there is always the priest/warrior duo, but other than that no. WoW seems to be pretty balanced, you could be any two and do just fine... I would think. And if your hesitant about being a preist because it seems like it is going to be monotonous healing, blizzard has done a good job in adding other skills that they can use to damage and such.

Note: No, I am not in beta, I am getting my info from the WoW forums, these forums, and friends that have beta.

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Of course you can play together. It is a MMORPG after all. I'm not sure why you would get seprated unless you wanted to.

You don't really need a tank in this game. You can solo all you want so that means any duo would be fine. Even hunters I'd say as my highest level char is a hunter.

There are elite quests that no duo will complete at the level the quest is saposed to be completed. For that you will need a group. Even some of the normal quest require a group to suceed. Most don't though.