Nostalrius WoW

[11bangbang]

Originally Posted by Priceline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

There is only 1 choice if you wanna play on Nost, the others are test realms i believe.

I've been playing a month or so, some tips/things I've noticed:
Type /leave general. The chat in the 10-30 zones is akin to red99 global ooc, full of degenerate immature trolls, and just like red99 it makes the whole community look terrible.
Blind invites, you will get tons of these as with a population fluctuating from 4k-9k there will be tons of competition for spawns and everyone gets credit for "kill # boars".
Quest items are FFA, if you're in a group and a quest item drops it ignores group loot settings and anyone can grab it (people always yell about this for some reason).
No "out of range" for pvp, bored/dbag high levels on BOTH sides gank the hell out of lowbies. Once you start hitting contested zones, 20+ typically, it can be a mess depending on where you go. STV is notorious for this, don't set foot near the Nesingwary camp!!!
It's Vanilla, kill kill kill. Quest hub to quest hub wasn't really a thing till later expansions. You still need to kill plenty of mobs betwixt questing otherwise you'll quickly run out of things to do.
Rogue/Warrior. If you want to run dungeons/raid and want loot I'd advise not picking either of these, about 1/3 of the server is made up of warriors and rogues.

Lastly I'd say find a leveling and/or casual guild not full of /general trolls, helps a lot when trying to find a group.

cool thanks for the tips. right now i have a lvl 3 human pally, would you recommend horde or alliance?

[Swish]

I might come back for a new server, was fun last time out... pve, hmmm.

[Rec]

pve means no southshore vs tarren mill, that's the poopoo

[11bangbang]

ive made a undead warlock, lvl 4 right now... ya know classic WoW isnt so bad. at any rate its good to have a break from eq after 15 years of playing nothing else. if anyone wants to join me my toons name is Shaddoxx

[Riotgirl]

On leave from work due to recuperating from a minor medical procedure, so a lot of the time I haven't been sleeping has been spent playing WOW.

Good lord! I'm immersed! Finally logged off and went to bed sometime past 03:00, after a mammoth group session doing a bunch of quests in Noladaar (Night-Elf area). Grouped with a fellow Brit, a US player, and a Venezuelan couple and had an absolute blast doing quest / group content.

Started again early afternoon and grouped with a Belgium and another player, to assist them with the group quest that I completed before I went to sleep, and ended up doing a bunch of other quests with them. The Brit I met from the night before joined, as did the US player (briefly). Also ran into the Venezuelan couple.

Now at 12th level, and am going for a Prot Warrior spec (7/5/31). Not thinking about PvP at this stage as I have so much to learn. Priority is key-bindings for different abilities and stances.

Really looking forward towards 5 Player Dungeon runs! Not to mention, getting rolled by Horde once I venture to contested zones.

[Alenon]

Yeah the login still makes you select type like live would but there's only one realm and it's PvP. They're testing a pve server this weekend so we shall see

[Priceline]

Originally Posted by Riotgirl [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Now at 12th level, and am going for a Prot Warrior spec (7/5/31). Not thinking about PvP at this stage as I have so much to learn. Priority is key-bindings for different abilities and stances.

Really looking forward towards 5 Player Dungeon runs! Not to mention, getting rolled by Horde once I venture to contested zones.

Once the quests in Darkshore start turning orange/red I'd highly recommend taking the boat to wetlands and running to Ironforge, then either start the quests in Loch Modan or take the tram to Stormwind and hit up Westfall. Or do both, I've been doing all 3 on my toons and it's good starting coin and experience.

Each spell level seems to drain my wallet in half [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Alenon]

I'll be on lenaic this evening if you need a quick port to the east side

[Riotgirl]

Originally Posted by Priceline [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Once the quests in Darkshore start turning orange/red I'd highly recommend taking the boat to wetlands and running to Ironforge, then either start the quests in Loch Modan or take the tram to Stormwind and hit up Westfall. Or do both, I've been doing all 3 on my toons and it's good starting coin and experience.

Each spell level seems to drain my wallet in half [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a gnat's breath away from 16th, and things will start slowing down as I will be shortly returning to work. My fiancée has been remarkably understanding, although I suspect this will change, thus I shall be playing much more casually i.e. 6 hours per week (if that).

Settled down in Darkshore, and have been exploring, performing quests, upgrading armour sets (vendor bought - supplemented by quests), and drowning. I didn't realise at first that one needed to hit 'jump' as one emerged from the depths to re-gain one's breath. Making swimming meaningful by discovering ship wrecks, and completing quests was novel.

Once I hit 16th, I'll head back to Darnassus to start working on Herbalism and Cooking. First Aid is coming on quite nicely, and is extremely useful as a Warrior, as I have zero utility - which makes catching Rabies particularly annoying.

Thanks for the levelling advice, Priceline. I'll keep the advice in mind as I level. It's easy to get stuck on the levelling hamster wheel, and forget that you can jump to other areas to pick-up quests, and jump back.

Looking forward to contested areas [Ashenvale] and 5 Player Dungeon instances at 20th.

Another aspect that I really enjoy is the lore. It definitely helps with immersion levels, and should provide a different playing experience for an alt (not until I hit 60th and have completed a lot of content - so a long, long way off) levelling as different class / race in a completely different area, with racial quests and lore.

Vanilla WOW is delivering!

[Rec]

So did the new bluebie server pass the hype test?