New to the game

Macseamusa

Hi, on tuesday, im gonna buy WoW. I have been waiting to play this game for ages and on tuesday ill have enough money to buy it.( Im a poor student type)
I was thinking of making a NE hunter because I think that class will help me get used to the game and won't be getting killed all the time. I am going to play on a pvp realm, but im not sure which one to go for.
Have you guys got any suggestions as to which one I should go for?
I checked out the realm status on the WoW site and I was wondering, about the populations... When it says Medium does that mean that I'll be able to find a group easily enough? Also is there any way to see if the population is made up of Lvl 60's or of new characters? cos I don't want to be running around trying to lvl and quest at a low lvl all by myself as thats just boring.
Your help would be appreciated.
Merry christmas.

Dr_MaSoN

BOOO!! go horde not ally,less kids imo and more fun

Dustaz

BOOO!! go ally not horde, less goths imo and more fun


Generalisations FTW!

DRakE

Dustaz wrote:

BOOO!! go ally not horde, less goths imo and more fun


Generalisations FTW!

AHAHAHA

(and alliance are better pvpers)

Dustaz

Drake, dont you know that when you press the "4 DA HORDE LOLZ" button, you instantaly become imbued with the pvp madskillz of the elders?

Macseamusa

i like the sound of those mad leet skills, i bet they are mad haxor skillz too.


but seriously, which server?

Dustaz

most servers at this stage have a pretty mature population (read: everyone is lvl 60). I think your probably better rolling on a full server if you want a steady stream of alts to keep you company. Or else go for one of the newer servers like bronzebeard, lightnings blade or haumorsuch and level up madly and be on of the first generation of 60's

Thren

I'm on Dragonmaw, nice PvP server with a good mix of ppl - Alliance ftW!

Macseamusa

might just go with dragonmaw... it has a high population and had the warning sign on it..
that or one of the new ones.
hmm decisions

joe.

Go to Zenedar. You'll pick up bits of Swedish and Russian to boot.

Wherever you pick. For the horde!

dlofnep

Alliance = Noble heros, brilliant players and good looks.
Horde = Emo kids with long hair.

Whatever you pick, come to our brilliant Bladefist server. Queues FTW!

Dr_MaSoN

dlofnep wrote:

Alliance = Noble heros, brilliant players and good looks.
Horde = Emo kids with long hair.

Whatever you pick, come to our brilliant Bladefist server. Queues FTW!

Brilliant players where?

dlofnep

Dr_MaSoN wrote:

Brilliant players where?

I notice you didn't dispute our noblity and good looks.

NeoSlicerZ

dlofnep wrote:

I notice you didn't dispute our noblity and good looks.

Your backstab is not noble

dlofnep

NeoSlicerZ wrote:

Your backstab is not noble

Please.. April fools is 4 months away. Don't scare people like that.

Evac101

Omg - Omo is on Boards too? Emeriss is pleasent and unlaggy muh friend

-Gadaí/Boggle/Herne

dlofnep

Evac101 wrote:

Omg - Omo is on Boards too? Emeriss is pleasent and unlaggy muh friend

-Gadaí/Boggle/Herne

I was wondering where you went. I miss you friend ;(

Message me your msn or aim bud.

CeldorDK

Nonono, let me tell him what to do!

Ahem..

Realm: Dunemaul
Horde or Alliance?: HORDE!
Race: Taurens, they are good, overall!
Class: Druid.. mmmmm, druiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiids! ... gaaaagagagaga

Horsefumbler

i heard thers no alliance on emeriss. masiv bg queues for fa horde:eek:

Evac101

The ratio Alliance-Horde atm is roughly 30%-70%. While this does mean that Horde queue for a long time to enter BGs, Alliance rarely queue longer then 10 minutes and generally for minutes. This is only for the higher level ranges however - 50+ I suppose. There is an up and coming crowd of new Alliance chars from what I see however, alot of lvl 10-35 chars running around the various lower areas (visiting them alot atm farming linen, silk and leathers) so I would anticipate that there will be 30-40 and 40-50 BG's in the near future as their guilds explain the benefits of high rep/honour to them.

On the subject of guilds..... I come from a MUD background and there guilds/clans/organisations are very much orientated towards the idea of leveling their lower members and assisting them with quests/equipment. From what I've seen of WoW this doesn't seem to be the main focus of the guilds, most seeming to specialise in end game content? Am I correct in thinking this?

Dustaz

yeh. The focus of guilds is far more towards endgame raids in WoW, mainly because really thats all there is to do once you hit 60.

They should still be able to help twink you though

Evac101

Yeah - I think that a bunch of us Irish on Emeriss (all three of us :P ) intend to change that. Currently have a single 60 (holy/prot spec pala) and a host of level 40 chars between us. We've been discussing the idea of creating a 30-60 focused guild with some end game raiding but that the main thrust would be to raise people from 30 --> 60 and teach them the basics of BG's, good group behaviour etc, then let them get poached after that by a more high instance orientated guild.

The reason? Personally I've only been on pug high instance raids and frankly there are always pr*cks involved who, without exception, have made my raiding experiences un-fun. I kinda came to the conclusion that I would rather not get a full LF set for my paladin and avoid the annoyance of raiding altogether. That does leave my highbie at rather a loose end so I thought I would try being helpful to others instead of gaining for myself. I can't really speak for the other two - I'm sure that they have their own reasons for backing this plot of ours but I'm unsure what they would be

Caliden

since you're on emeriss do a /who 1-60 and check do you even have enough for one guild.
record low was 8 at 4:30pm....

Evac101

Generally there are 60-100 alliance logged on at a time in my experience on Emeriss. The majority of the players on that server seem to be Western European, older, working people though which would explain why there would be very few on during work hours This will change soon though as it seems a fairly large number of people who passed on the Kor'ghall/Bladefist migration in December have reconsidered their decision in light of the repeat migration later this month. Which is nice cos that way myself (60 holy pala) and two level 40 friends won't be the only ones protecting the prince in SW from 3 epic'd level 60 hordies :P (and that would be a roundabout thank you to Reynard and Freaksout, the two level 40 chars who assisted).