What are you currently playing?

[Shadow Wolf]

Shadow Wolf, do you want to possibly meet up in game? My current character is a night elf druid level nine named Layno (named after my first WoW character Layna, a night elf rogue) on the PvP realm. I wouldn't mind making a Horde character though if that's what you want.

Sure, though I'm pretty loyal to the Undead, especially in regards to playing Warlocks. I'm downloading the game now. I'll probably be torn between it and finishing up my FFX run, but I'll definitely be checking it out tomorrow. I'm really curious to see if I can still hit level 20 in under a day.

Plus there was more depth. Every sort of skill used to be measured, instead of being a given. Hunters used to have Hunters Mark, you used to have to feed pets to keep them happy, hunters could use melee weapons. It is was less catered towards newcomers and more designed for the experienced RPG player.

I miss hunters having melee weapons, and it's why I enjoyed the class because they were versatile enough to do DPS or tank, and powerful enough that when played right were very deadly with the ability to inflict massive damage from a distance and then finish an opponent off with a few whacks of an axe, adding an extra layer of challenge for players who couldn't easily adapt and switch from fighting at a distance to fighting up close.
Warlocks I just really miss because if you speced them correctly they were essentially nothing less than the Death Gods of Azeroth. I knew lots of warlocks who struggled against rogues, but I never had any problems easily killing them off, even if they caught me off guard with something like back-stab. I knew a guy who played as a hunter who called warlocks "fluffy" and "squishy," and then he faced my warlock: my felgaurd hit him, then used his bear as a tooth-pick while I got the hunter down to half-health before he even moved, and by the time he could even react to cancel what he could and heal, his health was already wrecked from the DPS alone and by the time he used a health potion I had soulfire was cast (I think that was the one - the one with the really big fireball that normally took forever to cast - unless tweaked correctly to make it very short with a super-charged hit) and the fireball was right in front of his face. It hit him, dropped him dead, and he was forced to accept that pretty much everyone was beneath a well-speced warlock.
The last good PVP encounter I remember was in Un'goro crater, where I took on eight allies, mostly one-after-another, but some in a group. I gave the first few a fair chance and didn't attack at first, the next ones I didn't want the fun to end so I just attacked, and by the time I encountered the last one, a Paladin, my health and mana were pretty low, my cool-down times where resetting, and even though he didn't even show any signs he was going to attack I didn't want to take the chance so I stuck first and killed him because I knew I probably wouldn't be able to survive if he attacked first.
And what makes this really awesome for me is that I still have the original strategy guide (WoW was my first MMO, and I got off to a pretty harsh and not-so-great start) and atlas that was made when vanilla WoW was current all those years ago.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I have to admit, I found the "super population" of Nostalrius to be frustrating to quest on because there are just too many damn people running around doing the same quest you're on. I'd much rather play BC anyways. I can't even say I made decent progress because too much time was spent running around trying to aggro a mob or loot an item before one of the other 10 or so other players did. I was lucky could group a couple times, but not often enough.

 

[Mackerni]

I have to admit, I found the "super population" of Nostalrius to be frustrating to quest on because there are just too many damn people running around doing the same quest you're on. I'd much rather play BC anyways. I can't even say I made decent progress because too much time was spent running around trying to aggro a mob or loot an item before one of the other 10 or so other players did. I was lucky could group a couple times, but not often enough.

Google is your friend. Most private servers work very similarly to Nostalrius. If you can get Nostalrius to work, you can try other servers too. Below is a list for Burning Crusade servers.

List.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Google is your friend. Most private servers work very similarly to Nostalrius. If you can get Nostalrius to work, you can try other servers too. Below is a list for Burning Crusade servers.

List.

The server is working just fine, but it's that there are so many people doing the same quests that questing is frustrating because I'm running around too much trying to get to the same thing several other players are.

 

[Mackerni]

The server is working just fine, but it's that there are so many people doing the same quests that questing is frustrating because I'm running around too much trying to get to the same thing several other players are.

Erm ... what I meant to say is, that there are other servers with lower populations where this isn't an issue. If you enjoy all the other aspects of the game, why don't you try Nostalrius' PvE server? Only a fraction of the people who play on this server play on the PvE realm. You have options.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Erm ... what I meant to say is, that there are other servers with lower populations where this isn't an issue. If you enjoy all the other aspects of the game, why don't you try Nostalrius' PvE server? Only a fraction of the people who play on this server play on the PvE realm. You have options.

I don't like PVE realms.
You'd think though, given how many people are playing private servers to play vanilla and the different expansions, you'd think Blizzard would notice this and offer them again on their own servers as an attempt to boost subscriptions. Even a $20 dollar a month charge I'm sure many people would pay it just to do it.

 

[Mackerni]

I don't like PVE realms.
You'd think though, given how many people are playing private servers to play vanilla and the different expansions, you'd think Blizzard would notice this and offer them again on their own servers as an attempt to boost subscriptions. Even a $20 dollar a month charge I'm sure many people would pay it just to do it.

Blizzard claims that they get rid of their old code after every new expansion is released.

On the other hand, you are right, it would be awesome. I'd prefer it if they did it a different way, and started to charge per game rather than game time. So if you want to play on a Burning Crusade realm and you don't have an account that is authorized to play BC, you would have to pay twenty dollars per game. So vanilla would be 20, BC would be 20, WotLK would be 20, Cata would be 20, Mists would be 20, and Warlords would be 20. $120, or $100 for Blizzard because everybody playing would already be authorized to play Warlords. They could fractionalize their development team to worth with the new versions, and better yet, they could change realms to have different rate drops on each one - even allowing people on some servers to get what they want from the beginning. Or possibly cutting the experience to below 1.0 rates, making max level a rarity. And if we're going there ... why not make new features unique in every realm? Guild houses in the major cities? Unlimited bag spots? Skill rather than level-style playing? They have a development team that is able to do all of this and more. I don't see why we can't take it one step further

 

[Smart_Guy]

Day of the Tentacle - Remastered. Lucas Arts did a very good job remastering this masterpiece. It has the old art as well.

 

[Father Heathen]

The Unreal Tournament reboot is currently in pre-alpha stage but is available to the public and free to play.

https://www.epicgames.com/unrealtournament/

 

[McBell]

I have been switching up between Skyrim and Day-Z

 

[Father Heathen]

I don't like PVE realms.

The issue with PvP, at least during the vanilla era, was that faction ratios were often woefully lopsided. For example, I was on a PvE server where alliance outnumbered horde like 6 to 1, and horde towns were constantly being raided with no chance of successfully defending them. Any hordie who found themselves flagged was always hunted down and corpse camped by groups of Allies.

 

[Father Heathen]

I have been switching up between Skyrim and Day-Z

Ah, DayZ, where ladders are a bigger threat than the zombies..

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The issue with PvP, at least during the vanilla era, was that faction ratios were often woefully lopsided. For example, I was on a PvE server where alliance outnumbered horde like 6 to 1, and horde towns were constantly being raided with no chance of successfully defending them. Any hordie who found themselves flagged was always hunted down and corpse camped by groups of Allies.

I remember those days, and I just acknowledged that I'll be getting outnumbered and stomped at times. But, nevertheless, to me it was a more enjoyable experience because it added another layer of depth to the game, and it was always fun calling in a much higher level guildmate, or being called in yourself, and bringing hell down upon on a few people who troubled your guildmate.

 

[1137]

My friend and I have been playing Splinter Cell Blacklist coop which is really fun. Only downside is I'm a godly SC vet and he's a noob, so normal difficulty it is.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've made quite a bit of progress on FFX. I still need to play Blitzball for all that crap, but I've got two celestial weapons fully powered, and the rest of them (save for Waka's and Tidus') half-charged. I can do the Don Tonberry AP trick, so all my characters have been able to rocket through the sphere grid (though I still have a long ways to go to finish it for any of them). I have the omega ruins, Nemesis, and Penance yet to do, which means I also have to kill the dark aeons, but my stats are still too weak for them. My next goals are to recruit for blitzball and work towards unlocking being able to unlock triple overdrive, triple AP, and break HP limit. Or maybe the rest of the aeons, if I'm able to - I have two destruction spheres to get Anima, but I don't know if I'll have to fight a dark aeon or not.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

YES!!! I just bribed a demonolith for 30 level 3 Key spheres. It cost 900,000 gil, but it takes so long just to farm a few of them, and I need several of them to finish out the sphere grid. Level 4 Key spheres haven't even been as hard to come by as 3.
I'm going to be in the omega ruins for awhile making all that money back so I can keep paying Yojimbo - gotta keep the client/body guard relation good, especially if I want him to keep using Zanmoto, especially once I get to the dark aeons..

 

[Shad]

The issue with PvP, at least during the vanilla era, was that faction ratios were often woefully lopsided. For example, I was on a PvE server where alliance outnumbered horde like 6 to 1, and horde towns were constantly being raided with no chance of successfully defending them. Any hordie who found themselves flagged was always hunted down and corpse camped by groups of Allies.

Never forget the battles of Tarren Mill and Southshore that not only killed hundreds of players but killed hardware as well

RIP servers

 

[Baladas]

Thief and Red Faction: Guerrilla.
At any given time I will pick up Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII or X as well.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Never forget the battles of Tarren Mill and Southshore that not only killed hundreds of players but killed hardware as well

RIP servers

I didn't have any hardware issues, and I never heard of any. But god how I miss the long battles of Alterac Valley, planning attacks and group work for even the easiest of instances, the careful planning for raids, and the Horde kicking Alliance ***! (at least, we were pretty dominate on PVP on my server at that time and through BC, then we got too many people who didn't want to work as a team and we ended up loosing very consistently).

 

[Shadow Wolf]

At any given time I will pick up Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII or X as well.

I didn't realize the Romance series was still around. I thought it was replaced by Dynasty Warriors, and it's very-well-run-into-the-ground how many ever games they're at now (I pretty much quit playing after 6 or 7).