Well Aussie Gamers have chosen Blackrock as the Unofficial Australian WoW server to play on for PvP and Proudmore for PvE, so if you want to play with locals this would be the place to head. Servers are up and online now and the game goes on sale here tomorrow (the 24th).

So who's going to be playing Horde and who's going to be playing Alliance? Remember, you can't have characters from both sides on the one server (if its a PvP server).

Horde - PvP (Server unknown as i roll with a america guild. I'll do my best to convince them to hit up Blackrock as we have aussies in the guild too)

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I'll be going Horde on Blackrock.

seems i read stuff wrong, pvp seems the way to go

also horde it up.

last edited by Undertow at 23:26:32 23/Nov/04

horde but I wont be playing on any australian server becuase of goon squad server selection :(

s if go pvp, you'll get jerks camping the low level areas of the opposing faction.

Actually, fears of being ganked are unfounded. Blizzard are implementing an honor system where you will have less and less honor for killing players lower than your level. If you reach low enough honor players from your race or side (alliance/horde) will be able to kill you. I doubt many would do it as a result. Certainly no high level players...

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got 9 workmates going alliance, Blackrock PVP

see u peoples on the flipside!!

(well im getting married, so in 3 weeks ill be back haha)

Looks like i'll be with you a bit [Q] :c00l:

whats your msn so I can contact you :D

We should definately create a QGL guild of some sort if a lot of us are interested in playing. I was intending on playing Alliance but if the majority wants to play Horde I wouldn't mind switching to Tauren warrior instead.

I'll miss Stormwind City though :)

Horde on Blackrock, probably orc rogue. It will be good playing on a server with a decent number of aussies.

I'm probably going to play alliance up front (human paladin) with some uni friends and a few old time friends from fnqgl ...

Although you might see us adventuring on horde pvp later on :)

I'll be going Night eld druid again on the PvP server. Quite enjoyed when horde would start raids on arbadine and then we would counter raid and chase em back :)

im going to be on whatever else everyone is and horde too as i didnt really get to play them in the beta

alliance blackrock

Horde for the win.

Horde on Blackrock as well.

Why does everyone hate alliance? :( I played both, but I just really liked night elf as a race for my druid.

I have no idea, I really enjoyed playing my human warrior. But since all you bastards are going to play Horde looks like I'll have to change :)

Horde - Blackrock - Either
Troll Rogue
or
Undead Warlock



Eveyone post what class/horde they are going to be

I ended up just putting a deposit down for a copy at Burn.
So much for waiting... I caved! :D

I think I'll start on Proudmore, and try understand the game a bit more first
Orc or Tauren Shaman...

Freakin harvey norman sold it at 5pm tonight...AND I WAS AT WORK!! STUPID PARENTS NOT PICKING IT UP!! :@

NOOOOOOOO

Anyway!!

Characters:
Blackrock
Alliance
Nelf Hunter
and probably
Human Pally

Going to harveys at 830am tom to get it! :D

Troll Hunter on blackrock

Khel, Update ya first post with everyones details, so we dont have to search through a lot of off topic stuff! :)

Maybe add msns and stuff too?
my new msn is Fireblood@gmail.com

from now on everyone just say what your class is ...


troll rogue - blackrock

I'm going horde, probably undead

i'm going to whip up a quick db thingy for you all to post your class/server on and maybe even include e-mails/msn's/other im info.

More soon ...

well i know of a few others wanting to play alliance, i was gonna see what the majority picked, but i dun wanna play horde, so ill prolly stick to alliance, dark elf hunteress, server unknown at this stage....

Khel, Update ya first post with everyones details, so we dont have to search through a lot of off topic stuff! :)

I dunno, that sounds like a lot of work. If you want to type it all out though, I'll stick it in my post.

has the PvP server have the same amount of quests to do compared to the PvE server?

also, is it different lands, so different quests?

they all have the same quests and lands


Alliance for me, and we will destroy any people silly enough to pick the horde.

Server: Blackrock
Had a lvl 49 NE Warrior

Want a Human pally

Might go the rouge but cloth/leather armor is a worry for my hacknslash style

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Can this not become another wow discussion thread and just stay as a "Post where you will be playing" thread? Otherwise it gets too hard sifting through the trolls and the flames trying to find people's details.

Edit: Deleted a bunch of posts to keep the thread on track, dont take it personally if one of your posts got deleted, I deleted a bunch of my own as well :)

last edited by Khel at 23:05:29 23/Nov/04

sorry party pooper khel :P


What race is the best for rogue?

Im thinking troll atm because of the 10% hp regen but undead looks cool because of the corpse eating..


What is the best in your opinion?

Troll, definately. Trolls have higher agility, the beserk ability would be great with a rogue, and they get a bonus to throwing weapons.

Having said that, remember this isn't a thread to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each class and/or race. This is the closest we have to a directory of QGL's wow players at the moment so I'm going to be keeping it pretty clean and on track so its as easy as possible to find people's details. Just post details of what you will be playing, and where you will be playing it. Make a new thread if you want a discussion.

last edited by Khel at 23:08:55 23/Nov/04

tauren warrior on blackrock...

The general concensus is to choose whatever race you think looks coolest because at higher levels the race specifics make virtually no difference at all.

put your details down here -> www.mongie.net/wow.html

Undead priest or mage on Blackrock. Will decide which tomorrow.

Got a viewing page setup mongie? :)
Ill chuck my details in, in the morning. Bed time i reakon, then WoW! :D

BEST GAME EVER

me = dwarven Pally

FOR IRONFORGE

i'll organise the viewing 1st thing tomorrow... so it will be there while you're playing...

i'm hoping i get paid in the next 8 or so hours, so i can go get it first thing tomorrow morning...

who opens first? harvey norman or eb?

ud priest on blackrock. Lunchbox

just hit level 12 and now some much needed sleep :)

last edited by Lunch at 03:29:56 24/Nov/04

Here it is folks.

THE WOW LIST

last edited by mongie at 10:09:10 24/Nov/04

Just got it....installing now...probably could have used the beta game..but rather have no problems/glitches. Comawwnnn install!!

Collectors Edition is pretty nice :D

how much was it? was there many left?


Hashy: rofl have to be different dont u and play on the frost server lol

the collectors ed. is super cool. I've always wanted a coffee table book. :P

*edit* the collectors ed cost 129 at harvey norman but the indro store is sold out as far as I know

last edited by PornoPete at 11:03:03 24/Nov/04

how much are they? :(

Dont reinstall WoW if you have the Beta...i think its exactly the same!!!
I have to download the same patch as i did in the beta :S

My CE was 114! :D
And the cloth map sucks :(

how much is the non collectors edition?

- just the normal one?

It's not that bad. It comes bound with a steel ring.

oh and blizzard's downloader...sucks :(

*edit* the collectors ed cost 129 at harvey norman but the indro store is sold out as far as I know

According to the HN fellows they're sold out of all copies in all stores. Unless you've pre-ordered he reckons you won't be getting a copy from them. But that's just him. Ring around and see if you can find a free copy any where. He said their orders were all for pre-orders and they have an order in for next week which will cover everyone else.

Limit ya uploads with the Blizz downloader....then ya downloads go through the roof! :D

how much is the non collectors edition?

- just the normal one?

Burn in the Valley do it for $85
They will hopefully have my copy by this afternoon (not pre-ordered .. just waiting)

EB and HN in the city had the standard copy for $89.95. Plenty of copies too, and the CE was no where to be seen.

*Installing*

Thats s*** house. Using torrents for required game updates. Bad form Blizzard.

also when I went down to HN this morning they had stacks of regular WoW its just the CE that they are sold out of.

I hope you are not hopeing to play on horde/blackrock cause you are going to have to queue to play which is fkn gay imo, but oh well

downloading the update now, going to be playing as a NE rogue on that server and name if i get it will be Silk :D

I hope you are not hopeing to play on horde/blackrock cause you are going to have to queue to play which is fkn gay imo, but oh well

What?!? That's ass.

I hope you are not hopeing to play on horde/blackrock cause you are going to have to queue to play which is fkn gay imo, but oh well

oh my... that really sucks. :( I wonder how long it will take blizzard to iron out these kinks.

I hope you are not hopeing to play on horde/blackrock cause you are going to have to queue to play which is fkn gay imo, but oh well

Why? Is the server at capacity on the horde side?

Its saying the realm is full. Damn it that sucks

blizzard should have fixed this, in the OB i had to wait in the queue for like 20min some times. I thought they would have fixed it. Im sure blizzard could upgrade their hardware or whatever is the problem so they can allow more players in. Well im off to the city to get my copy, so it can sit here till sat when i get home :(

You know if you actually read the general forum where the developers are posting you will quickly learn the queues are in place atm to stop everyone flooding one server.

People see a queue and think .. hmm i'll roll on another server instead of driving one server to run at heavy load 24/7.

^^ yer but a lot of ppl also think.. hmm this server has a lot of ppl on it. must be a good server so ill play on it.

last edited by ravn0s at 12:48:11 24/Nov/04

> A girl here just had the game delivered, and she's been told Blizzard
> have stopped shipping the game for a while as so many have been sold
> they are worried about server overload.
>
> So if you want one, better get one now.

^^ Work email

Gogo!

I hope Gamesmarket.com.au doesn't take too long to get out my pre-order :/

i would have bought the game over the counter except for the shop being 2 hrs away :/

frag: they shipped them on the 23rd, should arrive in brissie today (if you are in brissie)

nah i'm 3 hrs north.

only thing is the status page hasn't changed yet, which has me alittle worried.

well i caved and got the CE edition only cause it was the only ones HN had... and only 1 left now...

This server queue s*** is a bit annoying.

I had a 1500 ping in-game on Blackrock, so I decided to reboot my modem / PC, see if that would help it (I was the only one in-game with a ping that high).

I reboot everything, go to log back in, and end up waiting about 45 minutes to be able to log back in.

1 minute to go - I bet the lag isn't even fixed yet.

Your f***ing kidding me?
I dont get how they have created so little servers... they shouldnt of even bothered making pve servers

130 minute wait now, and I thought 12 minutes was bad when I started thismorning. Hehe.

yeah i'm 645 in the que...

there are quite a number of PvP servers with acceptable populations. Perhaps everyone in australia joining blackrock was a little stupid.

a little stupid?

Well I didnt want to go out on a limb and suggest that the majority of australian gamers are total f***ing morons. A little moderation in these troubled WoW times is called for after all.


f*** it Im playing on Destromath.

For anyone else trying to grab a copy of this game without pre-ordering, EB in the city still has quite a few copies left if your desperate. Better ring in first though, i picked mine up 30 minutes ago.

You just have to sit and laugh at the queuing business. f*** I'd be outta and rolling a new character on another server...

maybe australians should change to another server

its a bit silly to spend 2 hours waiting in a line

Installing now, and what the hell is this queuing business?? Do yous mean queue to create a character for the server or do i have to queue everytime i wanna play the damn game on that server??

The number of players that can populate a realm simultaneously will increase in the next few weeks. Until we remove this message, please help us balance realm populations and avoid queues by selecting a realm listed in either the Mountain or Pacific tabs.

its a scam they just trying to balance the servers out... stick to Blackrock

if you don't mind waiting 2 hours....


scam or no scam f*** that. perhaps blackrock a bit later

Installing now, and what the hell is this queuing business?? Do yous mean queue to create a character for the server or do i have to queue everytime i wanna play the damn game on that server??

You'll have to sit and wait each time you want to log in, I'm affraid.

So, anyone changing servers? :)

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dont change servers... read y they are doing it and you will understand... just give it time

Here is the Vault board for Blackrock

ok my chars

Keep an eye out for them...

Blackrock Server - Alliance

Werhil - Gnome Mage
Elkin - Night Elf Hunter
Jospine - Human Warrier
StabnGrab - Dwarf Rogue


c u in the game

im not going on blackrock theres 700 people in the cue wtf ! what other server to choose?

ok im on dragonmaw, couldnt be stuffed waiting in the que of 680

Hrmm, well I was going to create an alliance alt on a server at some point, maybe I should create that first and play it until Blackrock is more useable.

2 questions,

is there a window mode with wow,
and can you alt tab

yes i alt tab out all the time... and its very painless

yay for wow, i give it one brownie point.

Yeah, it has window mode, I play in window mode all the time and it works flawlessly.

Fark that. I waited from 731 for Blackrock just then and it hung at the end of the loading screen.

Bunch of us have switched to GORGONNASH - Pacific PVP. Dirty nG! Gamers mainly :) So if you are looking for an alternative server come join the fun.

Yay i got a CE from EB :)

the queue goes down pretty fast now. it's taken around 10-15 mins for a 700th spot. may as well join blackrock now methinks. the servers will balance with spewin people. so still join blackrock ;)

For anyone else trying to grab a copy of this game without pre-ordering, EB in the city still has quite a few copies left if your desperate. Better ring in first though, i picked mine up 30 minutes ago.

i got the last copy at about 1 today :D hehehe

Are they going to fix the size of the servers or are they sticking to the limits that are on them atm?

Is there like a horde:alliance ratio limit and too many people are joining horde?

Ive given up and moved to gorgonnash. The server is experiancing AMAZINGLY BAD lagg. Like 20mins of just on off crippling lagg.

GG blizzard. Looks like the beta should have gone on for a while longer .

f***in valve!!!!@@##!!!

whats happening is they dont want 10000 ppl all rocking up at once and playing in the lvl 1-10 areas at the same time... so they are keeping the player caps ALOT lower then they would normally be...

over the next few weeks they will increase the caps till its all normal...

that way the players will be properly balanced out across all the servers

Another way to keep the population low is to not let me in at all :) Lovely time outs.

gnome rogue btw.

so what are we going to do?

blackrock dies in the arse on loading after waiting in the queue for 30 mins....

Daeos you were playing cs's the other night(prolly optus) ay?

come fly the friendly skies on destromath I say. Decent Ping no queue its all the same s*** with a different name. Asif there wont be hard core PvP love on all the servers

when you sign up your account do you need a credit card number at the begining? or do you get your month free then need to say payment methods? because i dont have credit card yet :( and i have to use parents and they are away

I cant even get a character created, i keep geting "retrieving character list" and it stays like that forever

Yep, saw you and Dais on there. My return to CS was shortlived though, kicked the habit in beta 6 and am not about to take it up again :) However, now I have a new form of digital crack...but I cant get my fix damn you Blizzard

can you change the form of payment after you have created the account?

f*** this f***ing gay s***, I go buy the game and ask the dudes at EB oh do yuo have the subscription pre paid cards in yet? hes all liek nah we not sure when they will be coming in but they will be and then he goes but its ok cuz you get one free month anyway.

Now I can't create an account because I have to select a game payment option which I cant do because I have neither prepaid or credit card so now I cant play, GG nubs f*** this game, Ill go snap the f***ing cds and give them back to eb to shove up theri f***ing dickholes.

scratch that. Ha ha all the pacific servers have gone done. stress test == failure

Woot! Got 30 minutes of play in anyway.

omfg gay thing wont let me create without a credit card :@ ffs

you can always change the payment option later spoon

Credit card my ass! Why would they not let you set up the guest account without having to enter credit card s***.

ffs piece of s***. Gay f***** Blizzard now i cant play till f***ing sunday :@ f*** ass f***

Haha that's gold spoon, pure gold. Well the pacific servers are down now, to quote Tycho "Why dont we go pound some nails through our dicks"

tension explain to me how I can create an account when I do not have a credit card or a pre paid game card? You can't, hence I am going to snap these f***ing cds on my dremel after dinner.

According to blizzard they are now rebooting the pac servers and this will take only... 30mins :P laffo.

^ i know what you feel like spoon, i was all in the mood for a bit of wow tonight. But no hang on, blizzard have to put some gaybar ass f***ing system in place so that you cant play unless you have a credit card. First month free my ass, you f***ing pay $90 for the game. Then you try to create an account to use the free month... but no that doesnt work cause you need a gay credit card to use your free month even tho you might only play it for a month :@ f***ing homo f*****s!!!

new to mmorpg's scoob? It's pretty standard. It's because it's a rolling month so basically at the end of the month if you dont cancel it rolls over and bills you.

"Kids, get Mum or Dad's 'ok' before calling..."

That a f***ed way of doing it. What if you dont live at home and your not on talking basis with your parents? You dont get to play the game. Thats pretty gay. And yes i am new to mmorg, does that make any difference. I was just saying thats its a f***ing gay way of doing it. Making you give your details for your "free" month.

Blizzard, along with id, can lick my balls.

/me hugs mastercard

EVE Online never did this, they let you sign up for your free month and when it finished you selected how to continue paying.

Perhaps Blizzard may inadvertantly be responsible for reuniting families around the world. If only for a brief 5 minute conversation to beg for a CC.

blackrock is back up.

gah the server pumping is too much

so where did everyone who didnt get into blackrock go?

go get a visa debit card, or just apply for a master/visa card, credit cards with a small limit are great for things like this, or as mentioned get a debit card...

only one mmorpg ive every played that didnt req a cc for my first month and that was uo..

Oh well ill have to wait till sunday to play :( pretty pissed off tho.

Hehe, sucked in noobs, cry more.

Maybe this is the sort of thing you should have checked out before buying the game? Oh, and for the record, asking the salesperson at EB isn't counted as checking it out, like they have any idea about the s*** they're selling half the time.

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khel

Maybe this is the sort of thing you should have checked out before buying the game? Oh, and for the record, asking the salesperson at EB is counted as checking it out, like they have any idea about the s*** they're selling half the time.

spoon

f*** this f***ing gay s***, I go buy the game and ask the dudes at EB oh do yuo have the subscription pre paid cards in yet? hes all liek nah we not sure when they will be coming in but they will be and then he goes but its ok cuz you get one free month anyway.

seeing as the sales guy told spoon that you could play the free month, i would say that the majority of them know f*** all





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Spoon I have the exact same problem. No CC and Gamecards are not even out yet. But easy up, its not EBs fault. If you head over to the blizzard site the first news item says:

We are also experiencing a brief supply delay with the retail pre-paid game cards. The game cards will be ready to ship this coming Monday, November 29 and should begin appearing in stores where World of Warcraft is sold shortly thereafter. We apologize for any inconvenience and will provide additional information as soon as it is available.

Shipped 29 so give a few days for the shops to do their work, im going to guess early December. Sucks I know.

(NO FAGHATS I CANT GET A CREDIT CARD OR A DEBIT CARD)

last edited by G.B at 21:09:01 24/Nov/04

Never EVER go to EB for advice.

The game comes with a free month of play, so stores are likely to have the gamecards in before then. They're not going to want your CC if you can pay via gamecards, surely

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anyone notice how hammered blackrock is getting? argh it terrible.. not only would most of aus wow players be on it but u throw in everyone else to :\

Undead Rogue

Nick = Taipan (no suprise there)

blackrock down blackrock down, we have a blackrock down people!

lol. Im pretty sure im gonna log back into to a corpse retreval mission. I had some serious lag before I gave up and quit.

Such gheyness

pvp = player vs player
pve = player vs enviroment

pvp you fight against other people (alliance vs horde)

pve you fight against the animals/beast/...etc


pvp is much better, even if you are a noob to mmorg

The thing is, PVP servers have virtually ZERO PVP if you dont want any. You have to go into contested zones for it. You WILL NOT be ganked in noob zones EVER.

You can have big ass battles between alliance horde in PVP. If that couldnt be done it would suck, hence by extention, PVE servers... SUCK :P

woh, lots of capitals :P

PvP in most games is for people that like a good fight. PvE is for tree hugging carebears.

The PvP servers for WoW though are pretty tame so the carebears won't have to much to cry about.

Daoc PvP is where its at.

Jameson
Human Warrior
Blackrock

Elftastic
Elf Rogue
Narzul(for the inevitable blackrock downtime)

Also, cheers to reso for unbanning me, he rocks my world and stuff.

seeing as the sales guy told spoon that you could play the free month, i would say that the majority of them know f*** all

Yeah, I meant "isn't". Stupid typo.

Also, on the PvP vs PvE thing, it should be made clear (for those who are new to it and just trying to figure it all out) that PvP is a superset of PvE, ie, you can still do everything you can do on a PvE server on a PvP server, plus the added extra PvP stuff.

Its not like on PvP you only kill other people, theres still a huge PvE component to it.

only one mmorpg ive every played that didnt req a cc for my first month and that was uo..

every mmo i've played has required a CC on registration (DAoC, CoH, Lineage II and now WoW)

so cry more newb

http://www.enfamil.com/guides/onlineactivities/images/quail.gif

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Wow, that gif sure is random.

QQquail!

i didnt need to give my credit card details for daoc when i signed up.. i played a month before i did.

wow servers are struggling a little at the moment but they will come good eventually.

Blackrock just lagged out again, didn't even manage to stay up an hour.

yep, i got a good 15 mins on blackrock before it died in the arse again

whats happening to blackrock now? I logged on but its stuck at the loading screen with the blue bar S:

the server is s***ting its pants, and blizzard are just saying in areas of lots of players the lag will be bad.. but im like by myself on some random area and lagging just as hard :\

If it hangs at the loading screen just give it time, usually around 3 minutes.

i sure hope they fix this by today >_< ive only got a week of this to play !

any other servers? i just tried blackrock, can barely get any action there :(

well ive got chars on dragonmaw, nerzhul and blackrock and none of them work

A couple of things you might want to avoid doing. Moving stuff around in your inventory, all crafting, looting, mining and skining.

These things have been proven to catch people in nasty lag spikes. It's aparently been an issues for quite along time according to some of the closed beta testers. It has of course gotten alot worse since the increase load on the servers during OB and now retail.

This is just alittle bit of info I got from guys I know that were in the CB.

At the moment I'm just hanging back in the PvE servers waiting for the retardedness to end. People are still pouring on to Blackrock and it looks like the whole idea was just stupid in the first place.

I died and can't get my body :/

Crafting, moving things around in my inventory, skinning, looting or mining never gave me any lag problems in CB at all. It was only during the stress test and open beta I ever noticed crazy lag happening with those things.

Taipan I never saw them in closed beta.

I saw abit of looting lag in my limited time on the close beta, but it was very minor.

Will the lag on blackrock fix up do you think? What servers are others playing on?

Nerzhul is a common alt but its no better.

Offical update from Blizzard on Latency

With the release of World of Warcraft in North America, Australia, and New
Zealand yesterday, we have already seen an incredible level of demand for
the game. We launched with 41 servers in the U.S. yesterday, and we are
bringing up an additional 34 servers today to accommodate the influx of
players. Over 200,000 accounts were created in just a single day! Based on
this, we can clearly tell that players are very excited about getting into
the game, and as a result, we expect to see high concurrency on the servers
for the first days that the game is available. As the rush to get onto the
servers evens out and additional hardware is made available, the necessity
for waiting queues will decrease.
We have staff working around the clock to ensure we can smooth out this
initial rush, and we will be working through Thanksgiving to address the
latency issues that players are experiencing.

In regard to waiting queues for joining servers, here are some important
tips to keep in mind when deciding which server to play on:


a.. When choosing your server for the first time, the server wizard will
suggest a server with low load to improve your game-play experience.
However, if you decide to pick your own server to play on, we suggest
picking a server where the population is not high during peak hours (peak
hours are 6pm through midnight in your local time zone). This will help you
avoid server queues.

b.. Also, feel free to play in any time zone. The server wizard
automatically chooses a server based on your indicated time zone, but this
is only intended as a suggestion for playing with people in your region, not
a requirement for better latency. Our datacenters are equally capable of
supporting users from any region in North America.
We understand that players want to play with their friends and guild mates,
but during these initial days as we bring up more servers to accommodate the
load, we ask that you please consider the options discussed above. Please
also note that we have determined that the latency issues that have cropped
up are unrelated to individual server populations. For the time being,
latency while fighting and looting monsters can be expected on all servers,
regardless of population. We are continuing to focus on resolving this issue
as quickly as possible.

We want to thank everyone for their patience and understanding as we work
diligently to iron out all issues resulting from the overwhelming enthusiasm
for playing World of Warcraft.

Now they just need to make an australian server or two and give the option of moving your character there to eleviate our pressure on the US servers.

Yeah, I really wish someone would make an aussie server, just so all the dumb people asking for one would see how barren and underpopulated it would be and stop asking for them.

its pretty easy to avoid now, just don't loot anything you do not have in your bag or you will lag out for like 5min.. if u got a piece of linin then u can loot more without lagging out etc..

blackrock ran fine for about 1hr before they took it down i was so dissapointed, just waiting for it to come back up now so i can lvl m hunter back up ( got bored of my rogue :\ )

ok.... even with extra servers..... the fact that most aussies are trying to join blackrock could still be a problem for that server...

should qgl choose an unofficial qgl pvp server and piss blackrock off ???

i second that, we should join another server =D

The thing is, in the short term, Blackrock may not be the best place to play but in the long term it is going to be.

If you f*** it off and go start playing on a low population server, it'll be good for now, until you spend all the time getting your character to a high level and realise theres no decent pvp or raid action on your server because its so low population.

Either that, or there is plenty of good raid and pvp action on the server you choose, but its all while you're asleep because the server is mostly populated by yanks.

I'm going to stick it out with Blackrock, because once Blizzard have sorted out these server problems, I still reckon its going to be the best choice. Might play some other things here and there in the meantime, but nothing serious enough to bother mentioning.

:O 400 in queue! :O

Go Blizzard! :) Keep us happy! :)

Comawwnn wanna play GOD DAMN IT!

Did anyone else get a screwed cd? My cd 2 wasnt burnt properly at the factory :( I took it back to eb and the guy said that they won't have any in until wednesday atleast and that blizard are control releasing this over 6-8 (months or weeks dont remember) and he said that i was lucky to have got one yesterday.

Can i use the beta install and just make an account? or do i have to install fully? (i know that ppl have said that it is recommended that you reinstall but i was just wondering if anyone had actually used the beta files and played without any hassles)

Is anyone playing on the aussie gamers alternative server SpineBreaker?


Khel: Will Blackrock eventually settle down and become lag free and no queues?





last edited by sc00bs at 23:19:28 25/Nov/04

It will eventually, once the initial rush dies down I'm thinking, or once Blizzard sort out whatever issues are causing their s*** to f*** up.

since blackrock came back up earlier it was very smooth. The only problem I had was was with a bugged vein. The server is very quite when theres nothing to complain about.

You COULD get drunk every night like a retard.

You COULD have a life outside of your house.

You COULD get LAID every night.

SHUTUP.

What I am trying to say is, if youre a teeny bopping f***** who likes to screw his kidneys up and have a chance to get a few STD's, go to schoolies.

If you have some sense in you, go partying but not at schoolies and not every day. At the same time you can play WoW.

Go to schoolies, have fun with all ya mates. Your friends wont be on horses...need to be lev 40 for that :(

either that, or when ya hungover go to an internet cafe! :) and play an hour or two a day just so you get a few levels up and they arent so far ahead of you! :)

God you would pass up schoolies to play wow??????????????
Thats crazy man, its just a game, go to schoolies and get pissed and have fun......

Schoolies isnt that fun.. i went down on monday for a night, i was home by 10 lol. I probaly going down tomoro to spend the last night there =D hopefully its better XD

(it was dead quiet on monday aswell so that made it even gayer, but i got free doms and red frogs!!!)

Get in Auswc Fireblood.

Been playinh on Gorgonnash. Very good. No lagg, nice population. Quite a few ausies and some sa goons for those that care...

Definately seems like a better choice after a shakey start on blackrock... oh AND NO QUEUES :P

I've got Alliance alts on some server that starts with D, Destromath or something? I dunno, I just randomly chose it cos I need to test my UI scripts and it wasn't lagging at the time.

Still mainly on Blackrock though.

last edited by Khel at 08:26:44 26/Nov/04

Blackrock was fine all night last night, no lag at all, was great finally got above lvl 10

Gorgonnash has been great, you should all *hint cough* join. Well not all of you, we saw what happened to Blackrock earlier :)

Is it 5pm yet? (well, 6:30 before I get home)
Got it yesterday and haven't been able to install it yet

arg!
*scratches WoW itch

it takes 1.5 - 2 hours to install hem :)

just lettin u scratch a bit more :P

Didn't see this posted anywhere yet:

From www.worldofwarcraft.com:

Since its release two and a half days ago, World of Warcraft has already seen incredible concurrency numbers across all active game servers. To keep up with the demand from our players, 47 new servers were made available, increasing the total number of servers to 88.

Doubling our server capacity in such a short period of time created issues in existing servers. We immediately recognized the issues and began implementing fixes. However, some players were unable to log in and enjoy the game during this period.

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience and are dedicated to providing World of Warcraft players with the best play experience possible. Therefore we'll be adding a small trial-period extension for players who created accounts before or during the downtime. In the days ahead, we'll provide additional details on how the trial-period extension will be determined. As always, we appreciate your continued patience and support; we're still monitoring the servers very closely and making adjustments as needed in order to ensure that World of Warcraft continues to run smoothly for everyone playing.

last edited by Hogfather at 11:20:49 26/Nov/04

Man, how much do Blizzard rock. Honestly, what other mmorpg has given you an extension on your free trial period when they f*** up their servers? Instead of trying to pretend nothing was wrong they admitted they f***ed up, gave everyone some free stuff, and now its all good.

Maybe SOE should pay attention, they might actually learn something about customer service.

last edited by Khel at 11:49:01 26/Nov/04

Thats pretty good. I guess that they would have probaly had alot of complaints about the downtime tho.


-> me thinks that OB should have ran for longer to stress test the servers better.

From the sounds of it though, it wasn't the fact they had heaps of people on there that killed it, it was the fact they brought 30 new servers online and something somewhere down the line couldn't handle that and caved in.

Whats that saying "Even the best plan doesn't survive first contact with the enemy". No matter how well you test and plan theres always at least one unexpected thing which is going to knock you around a bit. I think its impressive that thats the only real launch problem they've had, some other mmorpg launches in the past have been far, far worse.

yer i spose. Oh well they will hopefully fix it pretty quickly =D

/me hugs blizzard

wow you really do care I blew 130 bucks on your game. Polished game play and a respect for customers. Blizzard are the f***ing best.

Blizzard are cainers :)

blackrock still queues for 20 mins or so, but in game is great. i can cop the queue no worries.

best game i have ever played. the world blows my mind.

698 queue for blackrock...its been down all morning!
But meh! Ill finally be able to get to lev 10! :D almost lev 9 now! :D
With skinning at like 39! :D Everytime i see a saber i kill and skin the f***er! :D

blackrock has been up all day. and running quite well I must add. looks like its all sorted. I guess they are still going to up the server caps though so we'll see.

Wheres the direct link to that bit of news Hogfather posted? I can't seem to find it...

Is there a quicker way to find mineral seams? Being a miner is really cool execept copper seams are few and far between

Just a protip guys:

If you're logging out for the night or whatever, go to an Inn, and just log out (Don't close the window).

Go back to the char selection screen, and minimise the WoW window.

You don't have to wait in line ever again as long as you don't reboot or close the program.

khel:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=45561&p=1&tmp=1#post45561

so proudmore was the only pacific server with a ranking of high at 1am last night and we didn't have any lag all day.

porno pete... check your spell book there is a 'find ore' or something ability click that and it shows all ore bodies on your mini map

just installed... now i just have to wait until parents get home to use their cc, hopefully they come home today or tomorrow :/

I finally played last night :)
Almost Lv.10

Tauren Shaman on Proudmoore, name Hemerage

It lagged once for about 3seconds .. at about 2am (I think)
220~ping. Runs sweet

mines gonna lag a s*** load :(
(im over my cap, restarts thursday)

Thursday is too far away :( gaybar

900 person queues is a little silly.


I think I will start a char on another server and play that when there are huge queues.

proudmore has been fine for me, no lag and i get into the server straight away..

me: tauren warrior, name: Stormbull

proudmore has been fine for me, no lag and i get into the server straight away..

Except it's rebooting at the moment.
Other than that, flawless.

Primal, what level are you?
I'm about to tick over to 11, around Thunderbluff area

Almost Lv.10

Tauren Shaman on Proudmoore, name Hemerage

ALREADY?! c***! :P
Im just half way through lvl 11 :(

There goes blackrock. :(

10 doesn't take that long...
I need to group up with some c***s, takes ages going through some quests (and levelling) on your own

Yeah hem, it helps a heap. Some quests are almost impossible to do alone. Most of the time I meet a group at the site of the quest and ask to join. The game is ten times easier with a good group.

not to mention a lot more fun :)

proudmoore just went down while i was in the middle of a raid.

sadly however, it wasn't actually a raid but a raid group doing a normal set of quests under ogrimmar. I was unaware that raid groups don't get credit for normal quests :( That makes sense from a game design point of view but still disappointing for us.. 9 people doing four quests at once in ragefire would be fairly fair i think.

9 people doing ragefire isn't fair at all. Its an instance, its made for one group, if you want to try and be lame and do it with a raid group then you dont deserve to get the rewards.

Almost 25 ... and then the server went boom.

I'd be higher if i didn't stop to help guild mates :\

Panang, 24 Shaman

Funny how the PvP servers are struggling the most with high populations. Because I had a number of people swear that PvP players only make up a tiny percentage of all MMO players.

Nah, theres plenty of people who enjoy pvp.

Theres only a tiny percentage of people who enjoy the soul crushing pvp you were talking about though.

funny how you say that taipan, cos I had a number of people see you carry on about how carebear WoW pvp is and describe real pvp as something totally different from WoW. Now you're trying to say that when people said only a minority like the pvp *you described*, they were wrong because the type of pvp you said was carebear, is popular.

hmmmm

i cant see blackrock, or proudmoore under pacific... any ideas? it didnt say they were servers that are down either

I just hoped off Proudmoore .. it's definately up.

noob exis, i bet you havent tried scrolling down

nah, found em now

they werent there, then the list refreshed and they popped up :)

im trialing preists.. they look kinda ghey..

i have to go night elf coz me and glenny are basically playing together...

I think I will start a char on another server and play that when there are huge queues.

Moving may sound like a good idea now ... but in a few months time when you are the only f***er on at 10pm at night, you will know why there was a large push to make un-offical aussie servers.

Funny how the PvP servers are struggling the most with high populations. Because I had a number of people swear that PvP players only make up a tiny percentage of all MMO players.

Didn't you cry like a fag because of how carebare wow's pvp was?

im trialing preists.. they look kinda ghey..

i have to go night elf coz me and glenny are basically playing together...

Unless you like casters, I would recomend playing a melee class. Probably a rogue for sheer damage ability.

As for 'having to play a night elf'; It isn't that hard to get to the night elf lands as any of the alliance races. If you want to play something else it could be doable. Also don't forget that as you go up in levels you will be spending a lot of time all over the place, so don't just base the entire game over what the first 20 levels will be like.


## Edit: As much as the concept of playing the caster classes are appealing ... I prefer melee. Hunters are different though ... I don't know why.

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i like casters d00d, i had a sorc in d2 for f***ing ages, man she was pwn

also.. is there no warrior trainer in the starting area for night elfs.. cause that is so homosexual

i am lv. 11 atm heme.

just about to jump back on now..

i am just finishing up some quests below thunderbuff..

around lake stonebull.

There would be, you're probably just too noob to find it.

lvl 10 troll rogue, scoobs


i'm just outside ogrimmar skinning and leatherworking =D

ive been logged on constantly for the past 2-3 days and today , right now is the first time ive been put in a queue of 700 but at least its going down quick ;)

i absolutely love PVP and my warlock, me a lvl 21 and a guy i was questing with a lvl 15 mage absoultely smacked down a nelf rogue and druid that were both lvl 21 and 22 :D in stonetalon mouintains

I'm loving my Shaman at the moment, he's level 18.

...also, Blackrock server is going to be painful ongoing, simply because of the queue situation, I really wish Blizzard would offer some kind of character transfer service so I could get the f*** off it.

the ne warrior trainer is inside the very bottom of the tree -.-

yes it would be nice if blizzard offered a transfer option. Oh well, the community in retail isnt as good as OB was. I liked OB alot more, there were more people that would party/help with quests etc... most of the people now are just gay homos :P


We should make a qgl guild =D that would be awesome

so how many ppl are on Blackrock as alliance?

f*** my ass

when i started play OB i went night elf originally, and i asked in general chat where the closest warrior trainer was. and i seriously got about 6 replies all saying stormwind, so i was like.. f*** that

now im lvl 11 night elf priest.. and theres a f***ing warrior trainer sitting at the next town

god damnit :<

also, Blackrock server is going to be painful ongoing, simply because of the queue situation

The queing is only temporary, Blizzard have stated that a number of times.

I just took a Zepplin from undercity to orgimmar but the server disconnected me.

I think there is a bug there, the two times i have taken a zepplin it d/c's me.

Lvl 21 Orc Warrior on BLackrock

Ive never had a problem, sounds like you are unlucky or you install is fubar.

tension that happens to alot of people. There is a simple way of getting around it. As the zeplin starts to move, logout and once you have gone to the char screen wait about 30 seconds and log back in.

now they take the pacific servers down for maintainence just when everyone in OZ is playing...

wtf...

Haven't had much time to play over the weekend, been workin' :/

Lvl 12 Orc Warrior on Blackrock.

bahaha

maintenance EVERY DAY at 11pm-12pm (sydney?)

thats 8pm WA time bahahaha

I'm alliance on blackrock superform. gnome rougue. Jimwyze.


3 of my mates are alliance on blackrock also.


I just got home from work and all I wanna do is play :(

I wonder when the pacific servers will be back up... it doesn't say anything about it on the login screen... :(

my god that "temporary" maintenance time of 10-11pm is a JOKE (8-9pm in perth). Trog to the rescue? Trog do you have any contacts in vivendi that you could talk to about this? It's a joke :(

ppl shuould be complainging long and load about this... surely they will change it

bargain

i have 4 chars on blackrock

main 1 is Wehril - Gnome Mage

gnomes are just so k-radz. i can't wait to make some goggles and ride a mechanical ostrich.

we'll have to hook up some time superform, I'm still a noob lvl 10 atm. gonna bust around mining and cooking for a bit.

what 2 main professions did you choose?

give us a bloody aussie server :(

even the yanks agree that the aussies need a server, partly because they don't want to share with us and blame us for the lag :D

Aussie server really would suck.

^ I second that. An Aussie server would be s***.

Why do you think an australian server would suck? If ALL australians were forced to move, perhaps with a character move as well, what would be so bad? Surely there are a couple thousand australian wow players? Wouldnt that be enough? (Im assuming the server limit is like 6K odd. We could fill that surely.

Well if you forced Australians to play there, there would be the same sorts of huge arguments that happened when Blizzard first announced regionalised servers. A lot of Australian players has friends in the US they play with, or they are a part of US guilds, so they wont want to be stuck on an Australian only server. Also, the benefit of playing on a server with US people is there is still a goodly number of people online outside of peak times (outside of our peak times that is).

And if you didn't force people to move, odds are lots of them wouldn't, so the server would be deserted anyway.

wait a few months for the casual players to weed out, wait for all the kids playing on the month free period to run out of time, then see how many subscribers australia still has,

^^ Yeah, that too.

i'm up to lvl 15 and i picked mining engineering cause gnomes get a 15% advantage in engineering

damn its easy to make money as that combo

im up to lvl 15 now aswell =D


I cant find very many rogue quests that i can do :/

I'm trying to do the one where you kill the troll at the pirate place but mose of the people there are about lvl 15+.


Oh well.. Anyone else in here a rogue that would want to party with me?

I have Skinning and Leatherworking again. I am lvl 138 skinner and i think im about lvl 67 leatherworker.

They bring in the money aswell =D and there easy to get

Rogue quests? 95% of the quests are the same for everyone you know. Its only quests you get from your class trainer that are different for each class.

If ALL australians were forced to move, perhaps with a character move as well, what would be so bad? Surely there are a couple thousand australian wow players?

I would be moving on to another game. I won't be forced to play anywhere. What about prior guilds or alliegences?

Hi,

My name is Deficator. And i play on BlackRock, as a Night Elf Druid. Come play with me some time :).

Love
Defi

I have a friend on Nerzhul who claims when he logged back on after the server restart last night he had an extra ~400,000g. Ive seen a screenie, but when nerzhul comes back up i'll get him to confirm it. He says he lost most of it trying to trade it, but still has 29,000.

Hi I like to kill night elfs as an orc on blackrock

Thanks

I'm trying to do the one where you kill the troll at the pirate place but mose of the people there are about lvl 15+.

If you need a hand give me a message, I'm Razorfen (rogue). I'll be in the crossroads later tonight. The people in that area are around level 13 and you have to kill that unique dude Tazan. Its not very hard, as long as someone else doesn't grab him first.

I have found overcrowding in some areas to be a really really annoying problem. The unique monsters have a really long spawn time and when there are 4 groups of 4/5 all camping the one spot it can take ages to actually get the kill. I found its now an artform guessing where he will spawn so you can get the first hit.

last edited by Thundercracker at 09:42:05 30/Nov/04

It's ridiculous that your character is bound to a server at all. Characters should move freely amongst all servers.

Is the account management page working for anyone? It seems to always be broken for me. Either I can't get to it at all, or I get to the login page and then it dies when I login...

Source

As of now, we will be bringing down the realms daily for regular maintenance. The schedule is as follows:

All Central and Eastern realms will be down from 4:00AM to 5:00AM EST.

All Pacific and Mountain realms will be down from 7:00AM to 8:00AM PST.

Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

Pushed back 3hrs.
Maintenance will now be at 1am

Goody :)

Yeah im cancelling my subscription too but only for the fact that im nto going to be around for about 2 months so I hope they fix the problems during that time, also has anyone got an idea if I cancel my subscription will my characters be deleted?

ps. i emailed blizzard about a week ago about this but they havent answered yet, might email them again tonight

last edited by Darius at 13:45:06 30/Nov/04

Your characters stay

nah they dont delete ur characters. most mmorpg's only delete ur characters if u are caught cheating.

My friend on nerzhul sent me 500 gold before so I guess his story checks out. I will post the screenie up later.

How do you cheat :/

my computer restarted cause the power went off for 1 second.. And i lost all the progress i had done with my guy today ... GAY!!!

So maintenance for blackrock will be at 1am?
Thats sooo gay, thats pretty much when i play :( i normaly get on about 11-12pm and play till about 2.