I'm playing Legion tonight

[Burk]

I pre-ordered. Mainly because nost shut down and I had an itch to scratch. It does look pretty good tho.

[Spyder73]

I think I will be will playing very very casually - but thats how it always starts =(

[maskedmelon]

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

There is a 99% chance your hard drive is a SATA connection if it was purchased in 2012, which is still the current popular standard today. With a terabyte-ish amount of data, your best option is probably to just connect it as a permanent second drive in the new PC.

For instance, in my PC I have my C: drive, which is a 500gb SSD containing Windows, games, and commonly-used programs that I want to run fast. I also have an S: drive, which is a second 1Tb HDD I use for general file storage - movies, music, pictures, shit like that.

Ok good, that was my thought too, but wasn't sure :/

What is the best value card out there right now that will work with Windows 7? Like, seems if I remember like with all things there were diminishing returns in performance/$ once you got past a certain point?

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think I will be will playing very very casually - but thats how it always starts =(

さよなら(p_; )

[Chaboo_Cleric]

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

I need a new machine too. We should all build them together as a sort of community bonding. We can discuss parts and colors and get matching thingies ^^ We could even do a theme.

Only if we can discuss it in Wow like discussion threads or similar. Then... I'm game

[Trollhide]

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

Ok good, that was my thought too, but wasn't sure :/

What is the best value card out there right now that will work with Windows 7? Like, seems if I remember like with all things there were diminishing returns in performance/$ once you got past a certain point?

Completely subjective on what games you play, what resolution & refresh rate you run, what your budget is, whether you have a FreeSync or G-Sync monitor or neither. If all you play is Project 1999, you don't need a $400 graphics card.

http://gpu.userbenchmark.com/ is a good site to compare GPUs' relative power and value to each other. If you can swing around $200-250, the new Radeon RX 470 (AMD) or the GTX 1060 (Nvidia) are pretty widely regarded as the sweet spot in performance to price but either of them may be overkill for your gaming needs. Also lots of used GTX 970's on the market right now for under $200 which is a great card.

Personally I just recently bought a Radeon R9 380X, which is last year's model. It's not as powerful as either of those cards, but for the games I play and the $138 I paid for it after promotions and rebate, it was the best deal I could find.

[Chaboo_Cleric]

Always buy PC parts in the mid range. Otherwise you getting ripped.

[Lune]

It's very tempting to my inner crackfiend who aspires to binge on MMOs, but then I remember all the stuff like how the world and the BG's are full of bots, they cross-server you with Russians and Brazilians, they've dulled the strengths and weaknesses of every class, and the game has been designed to appeal to people like Azzar.

I'll probably still try it at some point though just because I'm a sucker. What I really want is another Nost

[Dillian]

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

What I really want is another Nost

this

[burkemi5]

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

Wait for Nost 2. I'm assuming everyone ITT hasn't played in the last 5ish years or they wouldn't be considering live WoW.

It's incredibly bad -- the balance has been mangled to the point you can tank 5-6 even level non elite mobs down at the same time solo. It's almost impossible to die even in elite mob group content (gnomeregan takes 15 min to run, etc). The game is literally a treadmill and so condescending that it assumes you will instantly unsubscribe if your group wipes. No challenge, no community, no gameplay besides mashing buttons with no threat of bad consequences if you fuck up. Just the acquisition of pixels. Yuck.

It's really disappointing what wow has become. I resubbed for a month cuz a few RL friends were doing it, and I wanted to chill and try it out. You're not kidding when you say you can tank 5-6 even level mobs, any class can, clothies to plate users. And dungeons are an absolute fucking joke. Remember the days when you would assign each member of your group a symbol and they had to CC it? Remember when people had to actually communicate? All the dungeons have been reduced to the lowest possible common denominator, there are packs of "elite" mobs that die so fast a single person could take them all down. All the longer classic dungeons are broken into smaller parts, Maraudon, BRD, LRBS, etc. All the bosses are complete jokes. I was in a BRD group this weekend, we started at the very beginning, and I had queue'd with a RL friend. Gradually every left after we beat the last boss for the section of the dungeon we had joined, and the two of us (resto sham prot pally) were able to easily solo the rest of the dungeon. I remember running BRD and getting my shit pushed in for hours back in the day, not being able to progress past certain points after people had left, etc. Instead, the two of us are now able to do this dungeon so easily that we may as well have just queued on our own. I'm afraid to see what TBC dungeons are like, when that expac first dropped it really pushed everyone to utilize CC and keep things under control.

Not to mention that the game feels so quiet. Maybe everyone has me on ignore or something, but people literally never respond to anything I say. Something like "hey does this quest npc spawn here??" Crickets. Even though there's 6 of us standing around waiting for him. Perhaps everyone is just so used to rushing through all the leveling content that they can't be bothered to talk to one another. And that's not to mention that the leveling is way, wayyyy too fast now. You can get 1.5 levels in a dungeon that takes 15 minutes. The legion invasions were such good exp that I got to an area, had a few quests to turn in, and by the time I spent about 30 minutes doing invasions, all my quests for that area were now grey to me. And good luck trying to keep your tradeskills up to par with your level. Run one dungeon, you've nearly outleveled the zone you're in. Enjoy grinding trivial mobs for materials. Maybe you want to buy the materials instead? Well good luck with that too, because inflation has hit so hard that fucking copper bars are like 5 gold per 1. Good luck affording that as a new player.

It's a real shame because the mechanics of wow are pretty damn fun. The PVP is pretty good, except it takes forever to kill anyone. Hopefully blizz mans up and releases a legacy server, because live wow is complete garbage. Maybe the higher levels are fun and raiding is fun, but to any of you "classic" purists out there, stay far away. I'd only recommend it to a group of friends who want to play extremely casually.