Courtesty of a guildie who manages a computer store I managed to pickup a copy of TBC yesterday but have not installed it yet.

The release date is set to the 16th of Jan and since I play on an Oceanic server does this mean I can crank it up now or do I have to wait for 00:00 16th of Jan Yankee time?

I'd doubt you would be able to sneak in, there'd be an account upgrade process that won't work until its officially released.

I thought as much, but logically speaking it would mean I could install it this afternoon since it would be the 16th in the US.. I wonder if those f***ers have put a time delay on so if your from AsiaPac you can't activate it until midnight tonight.

It will go live for everyone on American servers at the same time...so you'll be able to activate it when they do. Not that a few hours really makes a huge difference IMO...but if you've got it you might as well use it.

$5 the servers die!

Getting my copy tonight from EB at Garbo. Also got an Alliance shirt for $29.95 and the strategy guide as well.

This is very exciting!

LOL

A t-shirt?

Oh rev...

Are you also going to dress up as a night elf for the midnight release rev?

Yeah, I am. You got a problem with that?

lol rev i thought u quit!

is it to late to pre-order the Xpack?

All us quiters always return ... that's the best part of an addiction

Picking my copy up tonight at EB Indooroopilly...

And also yes, i'm expecting the servers to run like abosolute ass for the first week.

The next iteration of gayness has arrived.

Yeah sif play wow

:rolleyes:

In theory, it all goes to hell in just a little over three and a half hours..

Servers should be fine - Between the end of beta event last friday (lots & lots of uber demons/dragons invading the capital cities.. and hundreds of players swarming there to fight them) & the current dark portal event (demons swarming out of the Dark Portal.. is a quest to kill a couple, but it's turned into a mass world pvp fest on Blackrock) it's shown that the hardware upgrades Blizzard have been doing has helped significantly.

The only problem(s) you'll face will be fighting over spawns - eg. not being able to complete quests because people will be lined up to tag a specific mob as it spawns.

My advice to those who haven't been playing for a while? (and even those who have)

When you get through the Dark Portal, head straight to your town (be it Thrallmar or Honor Hold) to get the flight point - You get a freebie flight there, so you won't have to fight your way through. The Trainers for the next level of most professions are in Thrallmar/Honor Hold too (mining, smithing, jewelcrafting etc), so probably worthwhile grabbing them while you're there.

Next head out for your faction's secondary base (Either Falcon Watch for the Horde, or Telhamat for Alliance - both are on the western end of Hellfire Peninsula) to get the new First Aid skill and the flight point..

Lastly, head to Shattrath City & get the flight there. This place will be the central hub for most of your time in Outland, as it's got banks, inns & portals to all the major capital cities. There's also portal trainers for mages to learn the Teleport/portal spells (teleport: Shattrath at 60, Portal: Shattrath at 65).

While in Shattrath City, you also choose to side with one of the two factions that inhabit the place - the Aldor & the Scryers - but I'd recommend reading up first on what they have to offer you before making a choice. It's not game breaking if you choose the 'wrong' one, but swapping is a little hard/time consuming.

Oh, and on the factions? don't be daunted by the fact there's something like 15+ new factions to earn rep with.. You'll hit at least honored/revered with each one by the time you've hit 70 by doing nothing more than questing. No more stupid grinding or other crap to get rep - Blizzard learnt from their mistakes (Timermaw anyone?) and made the reputation stuff far easier to get.

Lastly, if you've got no idea where any of the above places are, check out Wowwiki's Outland page and scroll down towards the bottom to find a giant Composite map of the entire area.. Very handy map to have as it's got most of the major towns etc on it, so you'll be able to navigate your way around easier.

Oh.. and rumour has it that the servers will be enabled for us at midnight.. If you've got it already, install it & there should be a link from the installer that'll take you to the account upgrade page to enable it for the expansion :)

I'm dragging Rev to Garden City tonight to grab my copies. I'm expecting all the new areas to be inundated with people for the next few days, so I'll be holding off playing until the weekend.

Sif alliance.

Horde FTW

That is all.

I wonder if those f***ers have put a time delay on so if your from AsiaPac you can't activate it until midnight tonight.

You're forgetting it's maintenance tonight, so we won't be able to do a thing until tomorrow anyway.

Try next few weeks khan :)

Might be worth skipping questing in Hellfire Peninsula & head to Zangermarsh instead (the next zone to the west), as there won't be as many people there. Alternatively you could instance grind by running Hellfire Ramparts & Blood Furnace (first two lvl60 instances in Hellfire Peninsula - Located inside Hellfire Citadel, which is the big fortress thingy in the middle of HFP). Ramparts is a quick 30min dungeon bash with decent drops & good xp. Furnace is a little longer, but also has some nice drops.. Could also try doing The Slave Pens in Zangermarsh (First instance of Coilfang - the home to the Nagas) as well.


For the raiders here: Check out the awesome stuff you have to get done to do the Mount Hyjal raid (You know, the last mission of Warcraft 3) - http://darkjedi.customer.netspace.net.au/wow/diagram.jpg.

You're forgetting it's maintenance tonight, so we won't be able to do a thing until tomorrow anyway.

No maint. tonight! They did a rolling restart last night to get the servers prepared for the xpack, otherwise it's clear sailing from here :) Most servers have been skipping weekly maintenance in the last month or so to see how they'd handle it, for this exact reason (to launch TBC & not have servers down until 3am our time).

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You're forgetting it's maintenance tonight, so we won't be able to do a thing until tomorrow anyway.

No maintenance this week.

It's Ooooonnnnn

There is rolling restarts this week.

lol rev i thought u quit!

LOL

I've quit twice but there's nothing else I wanna play plus my PC is getting old and alot of the new stuff would run like ass on my 2800XP.

Ah cool, I havn't been on the past couple of days, and I do know about the rolling restarts, but last week they went back to the old maintenance shut down, so I figured they were doing it again this week.

I'm actually planning on rolling two Blood elf chickie babes (I 2 box) and starting again (On Eldre' Thalas).

Getting my copy tonight from EB at Garbo. Also got an Alliance shirt for $29.95 and the strategy guide as well.

This is very exciting!

LOL

REV!
u promised me :*(

bleh, i recently sold my account for $150 US. Had recently reactivated after not playing for the best part of a year, but decided to get out before TBC cause its just gonna be more of the same s*** and the game just isn't as fun as it use to be (guess the novelty wore off).

I never put wow before uni/work/social life but whenever i had wow active i never touched other games, even when i wanted to. Guess its both a good and bad thing that it eats all your free time

eb just rang me telling me i could pick up my preordered copy tonight at 12

guess i must have made a pre-order subconsciously or in my sleep or something /tinhat

Yep, I'll be in the city to pick mine up at midnight, Collector's Edition baby!

Blizzard learnt from their mistakes (Timermaw anyone?) and made the reputation stuff far easier to get.

Thank f***. Grinding Timbermaw rep to revered was soul destroying, and I was a mage and could aoe grind, I'd hate to be someone else trying. I was intending to go for exalted, but I just couldn't bring myself to do it any more.

I never put wow before uni/work/social life but whenever i had wow active i never touched other games, even when i wanted to. Guess its both a good and bad thing that it eats all your free time

Yeah, I'm having a bit of a problem like that at the moment - ensuring I don't put it before other hobbies. I've recently got really seriously into cross country riding, doing sometimes up to 3 hour rides when I get home from work (which at the moment is early due to arrangements, so home anytime between 5:30 and 6:30) - after getting back, it really doesn't leave much time.

It's not made any easier by the fact that you really need a few hours to sit down and actually do anything in WoW.

I'll add the expansion to my account just to see about getting my hunter to 70, but won't be raiding.

Hey Khel. Any chance you could burn me a copy of the DVD that comes in that collectors edition box. I've got the first DVD if you wanna copy of that.

Yep, I'll be in the city to pick mine up at midnight, Collector's Edition baby!

Me too - I'll have both CEs!

Though the first CE seemed to be better value with the art book etc. I wonder what an account with both CEs would be worth?

Hey Khel. Any chance you could burn me a copy of the DVD that comes in that collectors edition box. I've got the first DVD if you wanna copy of that.

Yeah sure thing, I can do that. I got the first one too so its all good. Flip me an email with your address and I'll chuck it in the post tomorrow.

Though the first CE seemed to be better value with the art book etc. I wonder what an account with both CEs would be worth?

This one has an art book as well as the behind the scenes DVD, soundtrack cd, mouse pad and a couple of starter packs of those wow cards. If anything I think the BC one is better value than the original one cos those starter packs of wow cards cost $20 - $25 each.

This one has an art book as well as the behind the scenes DVD, soundtrack cd, mouse pad and a couple of starter packs of those wow cards.

Haha I heard it was just the soundtrack and some random s***. That sounds pretty good! TBH just got it to pair it with my original CE anyway.

One of the chicks at EB the other day when I paid the rest of the pre-order tried to get me interested in a T shirt. I said I wasn't quite that tragic, and both of them laughed at me.

Oh well :p

People who play WoW suck at games that require skill, this is why they play WoW.

People who play WoW suck at games that require skill, this is why they play WoW.

And its a great ego boost too, cos no matter how much you suck, you can always find someone in Wow who sucks more than you do, so you can always go "I might suck... but at least I'm not THAT guy!"

Yep, I'll be in the city to pick mine up at midnight, Collector's Edition baby!

EB f***ed me royally with this - preordered it, then they go and tell me "oh no it was only for the first 50 people who preordered".

I'm like WTF, then why didn't you tell me that when I actually placed the order and I would have gone elsewhere where I know I could have secured a copy.

f***ing tossers :(

"I might suck... but at least I'm not THAT guy!"

Khel is that guy :(

"I might suck... but at least I'm not THAT guy!"

Like THAT guy from ACA who sat out on his plastic green chair and talked to his 'friends'.

ZZZ if only i wasn't going hardcore study mode this year i might of got BC, but wow + study + social life doesn't mix for me this year :|

oh btw, i have a pre-ordered copy of BC since i figured i was going to be playing it, so if anyone wants a copy come give me some cash and i'll go grab it tomorrow (f*** queueing for uu) and u can have it.

Raider i need a copy of burning crusade!

I'm tempted to activate my account and check this out :)

Is there anywhere I can buy it from tonight?

lol trin like i said, i got it on pre-order @ EB indro gimme dah cash and u can have it

not without a pre-order gimpy

Installing now but have to goto air-karate soon :(

Gimpy-fag: just try ringing some stores tomorrow, there might be some copies leftover or extras ordered - I faced the same dilemma with my Wii and after 6 hrs of being told their sold out Australia wide I finally got one.

You are not prepared.

rahhh is it all really worth it?

Leveling to 70 (which feels like 1-60)
Then all the new gear.
All the other life less fags that play 24/7 will out gear you and out level you once again.

Although I like the improvements Blizzard have made over the last month...I don't want to be sucked into the grind that is WoW.

I just wanna pew pew damn it!
>_<

I'd buy it if someone leveled my toons for me :p

wow + study + social life doesn't mix

u know it lamos

It's already live.. do a /who hellfire most servers have a number of people grinding away already.

Khel is that guy :(

All I'm good for is making water and ferrying people around with portals, and I STILL manage to f*** that up.

Though it is pretty funny when your group is waiting for a portal to Ironforge, and instead of making a portal you accidentally teleport yourself there instead and leave them all behind.

Sometimes, I'm the only one that sees the funny though. But then I give them water and all is forgiven. And cinnamon rolls.

Why haven't blizzard jumped onto the online sales bandwagon?.. seriously all the plebs who want it STRAIGHT AWAY would have it and they'd still get the phat lewts in their bank account.

Its win-win - steam has proved that it works.

LoL khel

next time your in AV make a portal and ask people to 'help summon your friend' lol fishing for nubs at its best

The best mage portal trick is to pop your MQG and cast portals to all three cities on top of each other...always amusing to see 1/2 your raid end up in darnassus.

Browns Plains has about 30 left and they are doing a midnight release so you might be able to pick one up

Wow, TBC is awesome.. install, upgrade account, watch kick ass introduction them BAMMO

http://www.gronks.com/ggc***s.jpg

A patch?

For an MMO?

BASTARDS

we already hvae a 61 in our guild...

wth Ticman, how did you get a copy this early?

Guildie is the general manager of a big computer store - got copies last week and I picked mine up yesterday.

Danm, I've never had so little competition for farming Felcloth ever!

Ack, I'm all clammy hearing about this :(

I shouldn't buy the expansion, WoW is bad mmmmkay.

I finish work early tomorrow (11am) so I'll be grabbing it then. I'm level 60 but I'm not in a clan or anything so I'm looking forward to the small group content.

Big W at Stafford had display boxes setup as you walk in $39.98

If you can wait 8 hours you can save some cash.

I'm gonna pick my copy up there, but unfortunately my net is limited at 64k atm and the last patch i got before i quit was 1.7 so yeah i might not be playing for a day =(

cant believe ppl still play this game. when will they learn?

First impressions is that it's good. Alot more focused and certianly better for the casual gamer. Quest items are very nice - for example the 2nd quest I got when arriving in Outland had a reward of a wand which is almost on par with my Touch of Chaos.

I already have a level 70 blood elf paladin. You should see me 1 shotting noobs in AV

Greetings poop sockers, it's been nice knowing you.

Have a safe trip and the rest of us will probably still be here when you get back, if you get back.

Kinda lame having a midnight launch for a game that you cant even play when you get home...whats the point?

Kinda lame having a midnight launch for a game that you cant even play when you get home...whats the point?

Why can't you play it when you get home? Have the servers crashed or something?

I think you can only start playing when it hits 12am on the east coast of America.

Nope - people been playing since 3pm this afternoon since that's what midnight ont he 16th in the US is.

hey i just got home from eb chermside with the game installing and patching now

4 f***in cd's!!


cya's in the morning lol

cant believe ppl still play this game. when will they learn?

8 million people can't be wrong. When was the last game released that had a midnight launch, let alone an expansion!!

Nope - people been playing since 3pm this afternoon since that's what midnight ont he 16th in the US is.

My bad.

So how is it? Lag wise...
Anyone rolled a new char? Must be pretty hard completing quests with 50 belfs going for the same thing.

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its a bit silly how there are 4 disks to load and after loading, when you hit play, you have to download 159Mb of "Patches"..

gg blizzard.. bunch of tossers..


O well.. bed time.. damn full time work..

All mine did was reinstall the 159 meg patch, didn't have to download it (the patch came out after the disks were burnt, thus the reason for reinstalling them).

4 f***in cd's!!

Mines on DVD :P

How long does this 2.82mb patch want to take?

Been stuck on 64% for a good 5 minutes now...

:does happy dance:

the CE is mine!

now.... stupid 160mb patch.. thought I had the damn thing already too :(

Background downloader ftw, mine went to download the patch and went straight to 100% and started installing cos it already had it all.

Edit: Oh, that 160mb patch it installs is just the one that came out a few days ago, no wonder it went so fast, I already had it in my wow directory from the last time I downloaded it. Guess it needs to reinstall it after doing the expansion.

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Mine installed easy enough.

Man, the scenery in the Blood Elf zone is f***ing amazing. Everything looks great and the music is first class as well. Had a brief look in the Dark Portal and that also looked pretty damn awesome as well. Have to wait until tomorrow night to get a better look but so far im happy with it.

Also the EB out at Garbo was packed. Would have easily been over 200 people waiting to pick up the game. So many nerds.

LOL

pick mine up this arvo from carindale, horde frostmourne zoixy =]

I swear to god my copy better come today int he mail from Gamesmarket.com.au

Zoix - when I logged last night around midnight there were already a half dozen 61 horde chars with Adept getting there first. The highest BE pally was level 11, shame you can't PK those f***ers.

Last night was great fun - myself and about half a dozen other alliance chars just sat at the dark portal and killed everyone trying to get through.

35 world PvP HKs in just over an hour, all good, no idea if that'll translate to anything even remotely useful though :( I think Blizz nerfed world PvP honour yeah?

The limited number of CE's really sucks balls. I hate blizzard sometimes : /

http://trog.qgl.org/up/bclaunchr.jpg

Gamesmarket.com.au can go suck my f***ing balls.


Looks like a might have to live in hope that the f***ing game turns up tomorra :/


f***ers

Anyone know where I can go buy it today?

What the f*** is that f***** holding up?

its got minor beastslaying on it. Is that a dirty Shammy totem? (never played a shammy past lvl 2)

Hah. Well, got my brother to go pick up BC for me - turns out they held a CE for me, since I was a "loyal customer" - I'd bought WoW CE from them, and my Wii on launch.

Works out well, now I don't have to write a letter complaining :P

What the f*** is that f***** holding up?

I might still be drunk from last night, but I think it's a home made version of that 2 handed staff priests run around with..

http://www.thottbot.com/?sh=1242
http://www.thottbot.com/?i=37916

amirite? lol

Should read "Minor f*****-holding"

But yes, does look like the staff Gimpy linked.

Making a paper mache version of your epics isn't going to make any difference... they will still be s***.

60 purples are the new greens.

yeah it does look like Bene now that you mention it, i still wanna know wtf minor beast-slaying is doing taped on there.

I guess its the same reason the tard has the staff there in the first place :S

I might still be drunk from last night, but I think it's a home made version of that 2 handed staff priests run around with..

Is there a better staff for priests than that one now? I was the first priest to get it on Blackrock and it had major oooh sparkly factor at the time. I ebayed my character quite a while ago now and the guy who bought it rang me up going off his brain cause people were giving him stick ingame for buying an ebayed toon. fkn freak.

I'm fairly sure they could call it "Burning Jockstrap" and you guys would still be salivating at its release.

Only if its your jockstrap blah!

anyone know if EB have any copies left?

How can you miss benediction? Its like the big "target me I'm a healbot" sign in pvp.

There's plenty of the normal BC copies left. And if your EB doesn't have one today, there should be more stock tommorow.
Dunno about CE though, I tried getting a hold of one today. >_<

Big W

$40

Plenty left!

will get one tomorrow, cant believe im going back to playing this game after such a long time away from it

Dunno about CE though, I tried getting a hold of one today.

CE was a limited run, no more are being made/shipped.

If you really want one, theres plenty on ebay, and they're not going for that much either, seem to be topping out at about $200.

last edited by Khel at 22:16:55 17/Jan/07

What was the RRP for the Collectors Edition?

$100

If you nubs are still trying to source copies of BC, I do beleive there are 2 copies at CA.

Please for the love of God ring up beforehand and check because I have no idea if they are still there or not. NO GUARANTEES!

Outland was so full of people today on Jubeithos it was almost unplayable :( Was lagging to s*** as well cos of the number of people in the one zone, I ended up going off and starting a Draenai priest and playing that instead.

Thats what I'm doing Khel, playing Blood elves. The BE starting area is unbelievable, far better than the Night Elf starting area. You almost wouldn't believe that they are Horde.

Ya I made a blood elf on the new oceanic sever. Level 11 :) woot

All the Chermside games shops had copies left. (2 EBs and a Gametrader)

I ported from Shattrath to Silvermoon (or whatever it's called) and wanted to start killing Elves.. but I wasn't allowed :(

bought it from kmart for bigW price match

pure and uncut

I am not playing this expansion and I am not half way to lvl 63

thats a mad case of denial you got going there boba

i walked past eb today and i got a cold chill just thinking about going in and looking at the TBC box.. i got my phone stuff and other things i needed.. and hurried out of there WITHOUT the crappy game...

woot i win the lvl wars

All my friends are slowly caving.

One by one.

So many Blood Elf Paladins. So many Draenei Shamans. So many "WTB portal to Shattrah PST!!!". So many "where's the inn/mailbox?" in the BElf newb area.

Laughable 20-stacks AH pricing of runecloth for power-levelling to 330 first aid and tailoring.

Cop your 250+ wait queues or cop a realm shift.

Need to make a drinking game..

Nice coffee table book tho..

So many "where's the inn/mailbox?" in the BElf newb area.

It's the same in Outland .. by far the worst offenders are f***wits asking about quests when the description clearly tells you what to do and if that fails they should look up thottbot IMO.

Hellfire is the new Barrens chat.

Hellfire is the new Barrens chat.

Actually, yes, I have to pay that.

I use MonkeyQuest - if for some reason I am blind, the log display actually visually indicates to you that an objective is nearby. Better yet, it also highlights when in proximity of a hand-in - something that I actually have a problem remembering sometimes, when the log doesn't say.

Hellfire is the new Barrens chat.

lol so true

It's the same in Outland .. by far the worst offenders are f***wits asking about quests when the description clearly tells you what to do and if that fails they should look up thottbot IMO.

Yeah, this s***s me too, especially since the quests in BC seem to be really well written and descriptive, more often than not leading you to EXACTLY the place you need to be. I haven't had to look up thottbot for a single quest yet, and I've only had to ask advice in-game about a couple. Some people just seem completely incapable of independant thought and can't function without being spoon fed the co-ordinates of where to go next.

I'm enjoying it so far.. really want the shoulders drop from last boss in Blood Furnace so been doing that quite a bit.

I got an a-team together from my guild and we cleared the instance in 42 minutes (18 mins left on my mongoose buff as the boss fell) doing speed pulls.

Can't handle doing it with pugs now..

Yeah, this s***s me too, especially since the quests in BC seem to be really well written and descriptive, more often than not leading you to EXACTLY the place you need to be. I haven't had to look up thottbot for a single quest yet, and I've only had to ask advice in-game about a couple. Some people just seem completely incapable of independant thought and can't function without being spoon fed the co-ordinates of where to go next.

70% of WoW players in a nut shell.

I love blizzard: http://thottbot.com/?i=55839

damn maintenance.

Yeah so far it's lookin pretty darn good. Half way through 64 and still going strong. I don't really like the scenery of Zangarmarsh...at first when I rocked up I was like "Wow giant mushrooms" but now it's just getting a little old.

Nagrand looks very nice, as does Blade's Edge Mountains.