World of Warcraft: Retail, Classic and Private

[Val the Moofia Boss]

No idea which Death Knight that is supposed to be inspired by

The Lich King but with a hood over the helmet.

Monk

Could be Taran-Zhu, though Taran-Zhu leaned towards being a warrior as he ran around swinging that two-handed mace of his. Could also be new Golden Lotus armor.

[J1M]

No idea which Death Knight that is supposed to be inspired by

The Lich King but with a hood over the helmet.

Monk

Could be Taran-Zhu, though Taran-Zhu leaned towards being a warrior as he ran around swinging that two-handed mace of his. Could also be new Golden Lotus armor.

As I stated, that misses their target by 2-4 expansions.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

[Shillitron]

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

Which expansion?
Mostly text boxes but they try to voice more stuff in later expansions.

[Finarfin]

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

50:50, most important quests have voiced textboxes, but the text of the quests aren't exactly long so it shouldn't be too annoying to read them. Are you planning to play? I'd play Ascension but can't play Retail with you guys since EU and US is seperate and I'd have to buy the game again for US.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

There is an opportunity right now to make an ingame profit here buying tokens low and selling high. Right now, a new expansion has released, and people are gearing up in preparation for the new raid which will unlock in 3 days. Crafting professions are ruinously expensive, costing at least 500k gold to train up. So people have been selling tokens to buy gold so they can buy gear or to train their crafting professions.

It costs $20 to buy a Token through the ingame shop. When you right click a WoW token, it can be redeemed for $15 Bnet balance or 30 days game time. You cannot sell the same token you bought. So there is an enormous 25% cut that usually makes buying low/selling high unprofitable, but in this case the cost difference is so large that you will almost certainly be able to turn a profit. Once it goes back up to over 300k in a few months, you will make a profit selling tokens then. The big question is whether or not it will reach the historic 400k peak from the month before patch 10.2 released. If you sell then, you will make a 100k/50% profit.

I am not sure if it is safe to keep waiting and hope the token goes down any lower. Historically, the token price goes down lower when mythic raiding and M+ starts, but this expansion we had heroic dungeons available before, and the heroic dungeons give you good enough gear to start the normal raid or to do M+. When the season starts, I think a lot of people will say "my heroic dungeon gear is good enough" and won't buy as much gear. You rapidly get gear from doing M+, which will began on September 17th.

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

Starting with the Warlords of Draenor expansion, most main story questlines are voiced. By BFA/Shadowlands, several of the sidequests are voiced, but not most.

[Finarfin]

There is an opportunity right now to make an ingame profit here buying tokens low and selling high. Right now, a new expansion has released, and people are gearing up in preparation for the new raid which will unlock in 3 days. Crafting professions are ruinously expensive, costing at least 500k gold to train up. So people have been selling tokens to buy gold so they can buy gear or to train their crafting professions.

It costs $20 to buy a Token through the ingame shop. When you right click a WoW token, it can be redeemed for $15 Bnet balance or 30 days game time. You cannot sell the same token you bought. So there is an enormous 25% cut that usually makes buying low/selling high unprofitable, but in this case the cost difference is so large that you will almost certainly be able to turn a profit. Once it goes back up to over 300k in a few months, you will make a profit selling tokens then. The big question is whether or not it will reach the historic 400k peak from the month before patch 10.2 released. If you sell then, you will make a 100k/50% profit.

I am not sure if it is safe to keep waiting and hope the token goes down any lower. Historically, the token price goes down lower when mythic raiding and M+ starts, but this expansion we had heroic dungeons available before, and the heroic dungeons give you good enough gear to start the normal raid or to do M+. When the season starts, I think a lot of people will say "my heroic dungeon gear is good enough" and won't buy as much gear. You rapidly get gear from doing M+, which will began on September 17th.

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

Starting with the Warlords of Draenor expansion, most main story questlines are voiced. By BFA/Shadowlands, several of the sidequests are voiced, but not most.

Now, if only I had 200.000 gold.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

There is an opportunity right now to make an ingame profit here buying tokens low and selling high. Right now, a new expansion has released, and people are gearing up in preparation for the new raid which will unlock in 3 days. Crafting professions are ruinously expensive, costing at least 500k gold to train up. So people have been selling tokens to buy gold so they can buy gear or to train their crafting professions.

It costs $20 to buy a Token through the ingame shop. When you right click a WoW token, it can be redeemed for $15 Bnet balance or 30 days game time. You cannot sell the same token you bought. So there is an enormous 25% cut that usually makes buying low/selling high unprofitable, but in this case the cost difference is so large that you will almost certainly be able to turn a profit. Once it goes back up to over 300k in a few months, you will make a profit selling tokens then. The big question is whether or not it will reach the historic 400k peak from the month before patch 10.2 released. If you sell then, you will make a 100k/50% profit.

I am not sure if it is safe to keep waiting and hope the token goes down any lower. Historically, the token price goes down lower when mythic raiding and M+ starts, but this expansion we had heroic dungeons available before, and the heroic dungeons give you good enough gear to start the normal raid or to do M+. When the season starts, I think a lot of people will say "my heroic dungeon gear is good enough" and won't buy as much gear. You rapidly get gear from doing M+, which will began on September 17th.

Is WOW mostly text boxes when talking to NPC’s or is it voiced?

Starting with the Warlords of Draenor expansion, most main story questlines are voiced. By BFA/Shadowlands, several of the sidequests are voiced, but not most.

Now, if only I had 200.000 gold.

Last Saturday I made 250k gold doing the fishing quest in Hallowfall for one hour and then using the fishing tokens to buy recipes, and then selling those on the AH (I bought one of each of the four recipes to diversify my investment). Checking right the AH history right now, it seems that the highest selling recipe has declined in price by 1/3rd but it's still a respectable 100k. I had not levelled fishing at all when I did that quest. Just go to the AH, buy the food that increases your fishing skill, eat that, then go to Hallowfall and accept the quest. Set your minimap to display pools of water, and then just fly around fishing in them. You get 25 fishing tokens if you get the three quest fish, and then one token per unique fish caught after that. The recipes cost 10 tokens each, so by the end of the quest you should be able to buy four recipes. Use the SpeedyAutoloot and Better Fishing addons and bind the key to side of your mouse to make this go fast.

Speedy AutoLoot. I have this turned off when going through a new expansion story, as I like the tactile feel of clicking on things in the game world, clicking on containers or bodies and seeing an item and mousing over it and reading flavor text and then click to take it and put it into my bags. Once I am finished with the story and am just doing the tedious farms, I enable this addon and it skips the wait time and the loot window entirely, so you just click a container or a corpse and immediately loot it and move on.

BetterFishing allows you to cast your fishing pole and loot the fish by simply pressing a single button, rather than having to press the ability to cast and then move your mouse to click on the bobber. Combine with SpeedyAutoLoot. Use it if you're going to fish a lot to get cosmetics, such as if you are doing the Angler's rep to get that cool oriental fishing pole, or if you are doing Tuskar rep to get the wooden boat or beanbag chair.

[Finarfin]

There is an opportunity right now to make an ingame profit here buying tokens low and selling high. Right now, a new expansion has released, and people are gearing up in preparation for the new raid which will unlock in 3 days. Crafting professions are ruinously expensive, costing at least 500k gold to train up. So people have been selling tokens to buy gold so they can buy gear or to train their crafting professions.

It costs $20 to buy a Token through the ingame shop. When you right click a WoW token, it can be redeemed for $15 Bnet balance or 30 days game time. You cannot sell the same token you bought. So there is an enormous 25% cut that usually makes buying low/selling high unprofitable, but in this case the cost difference is so large that you will almost certainly be able to turn a profit. Once it goes back up to over 300k in a few months, you will make a profit selling tokens then. The big question is whether or not it will reach the historic 400k peak from the month before patch 10.2 released. If you sell then, you will make a 100k/50% profit.

I am not sure if it is safe to keep waiting and hope the token goes down any lower. Historically, the token price goes down lower when mythic raiding and M+ starts, but this expansion we had heroic dungeons available before, and the heroic dungeons give you good enough gear to start the normal raid or to do M+. When the season starts, I think a lot of people will say "my heroic dungeon gear is good enough" and won't buy as much gear. You rapidly get gear from doing M+, which will began on September 17th.




Starting with the Warlords of Draenor expansion, most main story questlines are voiced. By BFA/Shadowlands, several of the sidequests are voiced, but not most.

Now, if only I had 200.000 gold.

Last Saturday I made 250k gold doing the fishing quest in Hallowfall for one hour and then using the fishing tokens to buy recipes, and then selling those on the AH (I bought one of each of the four recipes to diversify my investment). Checking right the AH history right now, it seems that the highest selling recipe has declined in price by 1/3rd but it's still a respectable 100k. I had not levelled fishing at all when I did that quest. Just go to the AH, buy the food that increases your fishing skill, eat that, then go to Hallowfall and accept the quest. Set your minimap to display pools of water, and then just fly around fishing in them. You get 25 fishing tokens if you get the three quest fish, and then one token per unique fish caught after that. The recipes cost 10 tokens each, so by the end of the quest you should be able to buy four recipes. Use the SpeedyAutoloot and Better Fishing addons and bind the key to side of your mouse to make this go fast.

Speedy AutoLoot. I have this turned off when going through a new expansion story, as I like the tactile feel of clicking on things in the game world, clicking on containers or bodies and seeing an item and mousing over it and reading flavor text and then click to take it and put it into my bags. Once I am finished with the story and am just doing the tedious farms, I enable this addon and it skips the wait time and the loot window entirely, so you just click a container or a corpse and immediately loot it and move on.

BetterFishing allows you to cast your fishing pole and loot the fish by simply pressing a single button, rather than having to press the ability to cast and then move your mouse to click on the bobber. Combine with SpeedyAutoLoot. Use it if you're going to fish a lot to get cosmetics, such as if you are doing the Angler's rep to get that cool oriental fishing pole, or if you are doing Tuskar rep to get the wooden boat or beanbag chair.

Ok, I'll try fishing, any idea if mining and blacksmithing is good to get money?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

any idea if mining and blacksmithing is good to get money?

They're okayish. You're not going to make tons of money off of it. Putting up my mats on the AH after a play session nets me 5k to 10k when I next log on and check the mailbox. It adds up over time if you are consistent. It's a nice supplement if you spend a lot of time out in the game world doing questing, world quests, or world PvP. The main issue is that during the final patch of Shadowlands, Blizzard made the commodities for the auction house region wide, causing the price of mats to plummet, and you are also now having to contend with lots of more botters too. Spending an hour gathering will never be more efficient than working a minimum wage job and selling tokens. Crafting will make you much more money than gathering, but requires a lot of money to train up in the first place, and you have to spend a lot of time in the city advertising and explaining to people the process, and the actual crafting gameplay is navigating menus. Versus gathering which can be done in addition to what you might already be doing, being out in the game world, and you occasionally click on stuff nearby.

[LemonDemonGirl]

Shadowlands is just WoW's version of Planescape.
I mean, look at this ****.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I joined a PUG and did the underwater Rak delve over and over until I unlocked tier 8, and then went and did the bountiful delve to get an ilevel 603 necklace. The content is not hard. Don't overpull, rotate your defensives, use your stuns and interrupts on the problem mobs, etc. But for whatever reason, people were getting antsy, thinking you needed to be overgeared, or expecting other people to have all of these mechanics memorized even though it is the first day of the season.





I did the Aggregation of Horrors world boss. It is modeled after a GW2 styled meta event where you have to escort the three Goblin shredders up their lanes to the world boss, though unlike a GW2 event, the distances are so short that there is no challenge. In a GW2 event, you have to have people staying put in each lane, but here the shredders are just 100 feet away, meaning you can mount up on your dragonriding mount and get there in 3 seconds. So there is just a zerg bouncing to whichever shredder is being attacked by mobs. The world boss' design himself reminds me of Shadow Behemoth. The boss was also bugged and did not give loot when killing him in a raid group, so I had to kill him again without a group to get credit.

[Classix]

Been away for almost 2 weeks now. Brother got sick with something he shouldn't have at 25, Shingles. Previous health issues has his immune system ****** up. Been on a multiple private servers for awhile now. Rolled a new character, his favorite class; Priest. Been trying to go undefeated for him in a show of support. Says he feels like he's burning constantly. fuckin killing me I can't do **** for him. So I'm trying to go as long as i can without losing a BG. I'm trying to hit 25 for every year he's been alive. Using best enchants I can, max engineering, food, bufffs of any kind I can. Might soudn stupid or silly but he watches my progress and screenshots and it's distracting him from the pain. Currently in queue right now sitting at 22 wins 0 losses. Won't mean much, as Im no one but any love for these last 3 would be greatly appreciated. I've been fighting hard everyday after work to not lose. Can't believe it's lasted this long fuckin unreal. Hit level 35 on the new toon so more engi goods are available. Just want 3 2 more boys. /cheers lads.




*edit* Thank you Val, much love brother, thanks boys. 2 More.

[Classix]

Match 23 finally underway. 10:41 pm est.

[Classix]

WOOOOOOOOO WE STILL ALIVE 23-0 holy **** thought it was done last 4 mins LOL this is insane.

No more for the night, fuckin done. Not pushing my luck. 23 and FUCKIN 0 for little bro.


victory song.

[OnTilt]

Reading all this nonsense going on with live has made me both repulsed and nostalgic at the same time. I guess I'll see what's going on with Turtle WoW these days. It's time to level a new character halfway up until I get bored again.

[A Chinese opium den]

WOOOOOOOOO WE STILL ALIVE 23-0 holy **** thought it was done last 4 mins LOL this is insane.

No more for the night, fuckin done. Not pushing my luck. 23 and FUCKIN 0 for little bro.


victory song.

Nice job.

[Oyster Sauce]

What server? I'm gonna put an end to this little charade....

[Classix]

lol OH no... not going to give away the character name or server since this site gets a lot of traffic from guests from what I can tell. Probably from the BG3 NA mod, in case anyone has geared toons in this bracket on the server that might want to stop the streak, report me for nonsense/made up bs or as a some kind of "win over the bad guys" or something against the evil HQ people. Have to get a couple levels here now to get to the bracket level cap so I can at least try to get these last 2 wins with everything bis I can get a hold of.

[J1M]

Shadowlands is just WoW's version of Planescape.
I mean, look at this ****.

And Outland is Canada.
And Northrend is upside-down Iceland.

It's tradition.

[Classix]

SM/gear farming time for bis.

Edit-1:

Had wand and neck already, bought pants cheap 15g and staff for 150. Farming RDF right now for chest; Robes of the Lich. 4 runs so far nothing. Still queueing.










Edit-2: Chest finally dropped so thats done. have to make Green Lens's now for Shadow wrath or of Healing.

[Classix]

Only took 7, thank ****.






Next is Nifty Stopwatch trinket + maybe Arena Master STV absorb shield trinket. Always high levels guarding it for alts so I doubt I'll bother with it.

EDIT 1: Got Stopwatch. Checking AH for a couple more potential small upgrade greens and farming some materials for potions and food, mechanical dragonling, grenades and I should be good to queue in the next few hours.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

I did the Dawnbreaker dungeon (for the weekly quest). It's nice being able to mount up and fly around between airships, and it does the GW2 thing (Wyvern boss at the end of Verdant Brink, Mordremoth, Soo-Won, etc) where you have to leap off of the platform as it becomes enveloped in fatal AoEs and you have to fly back in when it's safe. It is quite odd however that the airship gets completely enveloped in void energy (which the story since BFA (perhaps even WotLK if you consider Saronite) has emphasized is highly corruptive and will literally twist material and render it uninhabitable and unsafe to be in proximity to or touch) and yet you immediately return and hop on board the ship no problem. It also feels odd that every flying mount besides the Dragonflight species does not have a fly-in summon animation, so it doesn't feel like you are calling your dragon to come rescue you. It just poofs out of thin air and then poofs out.

[Classix]

Finished off a few more items, crafting some food and bombs and we're good to go soon for 24 and 25

[Xenich]

Btw, am I the only one that seems to notice that the Alliance side is full of cringy memes, references to pop-culture be it scenes or characters? And also the horde is always stereotypically portrait as some mustache twirling villain, yet I don't see the same on the horde side. Alliance behaves somewhat normally considering the circumstances

Pop-culture reference has been a Blizzard staple since the beginning all the way back to The Lost Vikings.

[Classix]

Almost ready to go. Cracked a beer for my brother, waiting for some " ...hic! " and we queue up lol

[Finarfin]

Almost ready to go. Cracked a beer for my brother, waiting for some " ...hic! " and we queue up lol

Gotta have the "tipsy" debuff from WOW in real life, kek.

[Classix]

That's right my man! Most fun I've had in a long time. I won't lie I'm nervous but this has been a crazy ride, going to enjoy it to the end.

[Finarfin]

That's right my man! Most fun I've had in a long time. I won't lie I'm nervous but this has been a crazy ride, going to enjoy it to the end.

I hope you'll succeed!

[Classix]

Thanks brother, cracked another, picking some music and having a smoke then we queue up.