EPTI'm thinking of buying the whole package and playing my way to level 85. How long will that take?
I'm a lvl 9 dwarf paladin at the moment.
So I just started playing WoW...
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Arnstein
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I'm thinking of buying the whole package and playing my way to level 85. How long will that take? I'm a lvl 9 dwarf paladin at the moment. | ||
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Thaniri
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Honestly, WoW is a game that is fun while levelling, but once you get into high tier it will lose all of its purpose. Each item you get at level 85 is obsolete next patch. Thats why I quit after only 2 months. | ||
Antoine
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
if you just want to powerlevel as a prot paladin like a mofo, not more then a week. | ||
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arb
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Arnstein
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arb
Noobville17920 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:27 Arnstein wrote: How many hours? I have really tough studies, so I can only play an hour a day. uhh.. like 20? or so RAF bonus will make it probably like 12-13 i think(if youa rent using it it'll be alot longer) | ||
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Celial
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Edit: leveled 3 chars over the last two months to 85, one to 80. as alliance, you lose all bgs on europe, sadly - thats why it takes me so long. | ||
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arb
Noobville17920 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:31 Celial wrote: heh, with full heirloom + guild boni (max +exp and best dmg gear while leveling) i need about 30-50 hours, depending on how i decide to level (do mostly bgs nowadays). but pure questing should take you about 35-40 hours. then on the other hand, you dont know a single quest and have to look up everything and search and shit, so lets up that to 40-50. 80-85 alone takes you about 9-12 hours questing. 1-60 can be done in another 10, burning crusade is on the faster side, 8-10. in northrend you can think about 2-3 hours per level. Edit: leveled 3 chars over the last two months to 85, one to 80. as alliance, you lose all bgs on europe, sadly - thats why it takes me so long. Actually ingame,(maybe its just mine?) it shows you all the quest npc locations if you have tracking enabled. you can power through any of the zones pretty quickly, depending on how much you get side tracked truthfully | ||
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ShadowWolf
United States197 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:21 Arnstein wrote: It's just the starter edition, but it's looking pretty good. I'm thinking of buying the whole package and playing my way to level 85. How long will that take? I'm a lvl 9 dwarf paladin at the moment. Do yourself a favor and don't. To be quite honest, there's nothing to do at top level because you'll be fully dungeon geared in about 2 - 3 weeks of playing. After that, you'll either join a mediocre or worse raid group and kill all the normal modes within a few weeks or you'll join a really good raiding group and clear everything not heroic rags in a couple of weeks. The new content is uninspired and the new dungeons are pretty bland. Sadly, considering that, it's still the best MMO on the market now. Consider waiting for the new Star Wars MMO, which might not be better but at least has the potential. | ||
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Spray
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awu25
United States2003 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:23 Thaniri wrote: With the friend bonus I got to 85 in a month. Honestly, WoW is a game that is fun while levelling, but once you get into high tier it will lose all of its purpose. Each item you get at level 85 is obsolete next patch. Thats why I quit after only 2 months. Barely anyone quits when they reach 85 cause what's the point of putting in all those hours. After you hit 85, you get to raid and farm for gear, etc. It's pretty fun if you have friends | ||
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
MMo's get fairly grindy, and stale after a while unless you play with friends, it will make it much much more entertianing. | ||
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gds
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Whole
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Korinai
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Uranium
United States1077 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:53 Whole wrote: If you're going to play casually, it can be a really fun leveling experience for the first time. Just don't get sucked into the endless end game grind. I only find the end game content fun if you have a group of really close-knit people, Gotta disagree with these guys. Yes, leveling is fun *the first time* but end-game content is far more enjoyable. And it's hardly a "grind" unless you are in a hardcore guild doing heroic progression. The sense of satisfaction felt when downing a difficult raid boss is not comparable to leveling dungeons. I run BoT, BH, BWD, and FL in pick-up groups every week and it takes me ~10 hours to complete all of them. No guild commitment, no specific raid times. Considering that I spend close to 40 hours a week gaming, it leaves me plenty of time to level an alt (got a 30 mage now) or play SC2/LoL. Another suggestion for you if you get bored is to go and run the old content. Many classes can solo level 60 content, and you can do 70 content with a small group. I ran Black Temple in a 5 man a few weeks ago. It was really easy but it was cool to check out the atmosphere of the dungeon and the raid bosses. I earned about 1k gold doing it too | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:52 gds wrote: My only experience with wow was with that starter edition, it didnt last too long, maybe few minutes, there was that guy that stand at my respawn area having fun killing me again and again... so i just quit, maybe he saved my life that day there's no possible way you can be killed at the very first area unless you make the first attack on an enemy player | ||
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canucks12
Canada812 Posts
2500 rated warrior <-- I play probably one or two days a week for a few hours, the whole dump loads of time into the game was spent in Burning Cruasade... otherwise known as WoW's best years. If you play 1 hour a day, without the recruit a friend bonus, it will take you a long time, and I highly disagree with those who say that pre-max level is where the fun is at, because almost all of the fun I had in the game was at max level. Also, there are tons of dicks who will hate on you because you're just starting the game throughout the entirety of your leveling. | ||
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John Madden
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poundcakes
Norway239 Posts
I found leveling a lot more fun if I was on skype, chatting and playing with my friends and the main content of WoW lies ahead of you at the max level. GL to 85. | ||
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iSometric
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Spessi
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I played for years before i finally said "fuck you" for good and cancelled. , and even after everything 1-60 changed, could grind my way to 85 between a friday and the next maintenance period (tuesday). If you have a friend to do recruit a friend with...you get 300% experience all the way to 80 now...so it takes a lot less time than even that. If you want to actually read and explore and immerse yourself in the world of warcraft, you're probably not going to hit 85 in less than two weeks. personally I would use the guild finder feature, find a group of friendly people, and just take it slow. because honestly...there's NOT anything else to do than raid/pvp once you hit 85. There really just isnt. You grind dungeons till you're geared for raids, then you raid, or you find that you really like battlegrounds and you pvp till your eyes bleed. | ||
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Integra
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EscPlan9
United States2777 Posts
Regarding the time to hit 85 - without Recruit-A-Friend, guild bonuses, or heirlooms and sticking with power levelling through questing "smartly", it used to take about 5 days of GAME TIME. It's a long long road of mindless clicking. | ||
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On October 21 2011 09:06 EscPlan9 wrote: WoW was fun until you realize what you're actually doing with your time. It's a mindless grind once you learn the fundamentals of the game and do a few dungeons/raids. Well, playing with friends on Skype/TeamSpeak is alright, though that can be said for any game really. Regarding the time to hit 85 - without Recruit-A-Friend, guild bonuses, or heirlooms and sticking with power levelling through questing "smartly", it used to take about 5 days of GAME TIME. It's a long long road of mindless clicking. it's not a long road of mindless clicking unless you only want to power up to the level cap. if you really want to take in the game and explore and have adventures it'd probably take a year. did they take out 'exploration'? where you can abuse wall jumping to get into places like old Hyjal, old outlands etc. other than that there's gotta be tons of small stuff all over the place to discover, unless they redid the whole old world in a shitty way | ||
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Swwww
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Celial
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Probe1
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2WeaK
Canada550 Posts
What I would suggest, would be to buy vanilla and BC (I think they're $5 together?) and work your way up from there, unless you absolutely want to rock a goblin or worgen, then I'm sorry, but you'll be stuck having you buy Cata (Pretty sure, not 100% though) However, I do think you can have a lot of fun with the game if you don't grind it really hard. On October 21 2011 10:16 Probe1 wrote: I used to play in vanilla and tbc. It took me 3 weeks to go from 1-85 on a new account without recruit a friend or any boosts. Tbh man it's really fun until you realize how insanely empty the world is. ftfy | ||
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Celial
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2WeaK
Canada550 Posts
On October 21 2011 11:09 Celial wrote: And read the fucking questtext. The storylines are A-MA-ZING! I beg to differ. Clearly, WoW has no lore and all that happens does not make any sense. Trust me, I didn't read the quest text. | ||
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
Probably has something to do with them retconning and twisting the lore around to whatever they feel like this patch. | ||
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EtherealDeath
United States8366 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:53 Whole wrote: If you're going to play casually, it can be a really fun leveling experience for the first time. Just don't get sucked into the endless end game grind. I only find the end game content fun if you have a group of really close-knit people, As a former hardcore arena/raider in wotlk, I can tell you that it is difficult to be hardcore in Cata. It's really just that damn boring and feels shitty as hell. Hell, if you look at people in my guy (which is like #90 world or something), not many people stay on after raid/some arena. Game is just kind of boring. | ||
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Arnstein
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KeksX
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On October 21 2011 07:23 Thaniri wrote: With the friend bonus I got to 85 in a month. Honestly, WoW is a game that is fun while levelling, but once you get into high tier it will lose all of its purpose. Each item you get at level 85 is obsolete next patch. Thats why I quit after only 2 months. Yea pretty much sums WoW up. You get to max level, which can be fun with the right people, and then it's all about paying money to farm the next big item. Imho they missed some chances, because it could be different, really. I hope you enjoy your trip into WoW but come out healthy! lol! | ||
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jacen
Austria3644 Posts
On October 21 2011 08:23 John Madden wrote: It gets kinda boring between 20->78 for a lot of people unless you are on RAF 30-80 was refned greatly in the last few content patches during cataclysm. Outland (58-68) can drag a little, but it's still good fun. | ||
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Tommylew
Wales2717 Posts
One day I will get to 85.. but then its so time consuming. At least when I use to play years ago a instance run use to take hours now most isntance runs take 30 minutes-1 hour which is a lot better, most raid content is quicker then what little isntances use to be like in vanilla wow lol | ||
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chaokel
Australia535 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:40 ShadowWolf wrote: Sadly, considering that, it's still the best MMO on the market now. Consider waiting for the new Star Wars MMO, which might not be better but at least has the potential. That depends on how you measure best. While it may be the most popular and even the most polished i don't feel that those two factors alone make something the best. Gameplay wise it (for me at least) is nowhere near the best. Auto target and pressing the correct combination of buttons just isn't all that fun for long, it doesn't have the power to engage you like a fps would. Or the complexity of a real RPG / story driven game to draw you in. You also won't find yourself shaking with adrenaline in the middle of a fight as there is no consequence at all to losing. For me the WoW style genre of MMO is far from ideal, even though it is by far the largest portion of the MMO market and i have played plenty of MMO's that fit into this style. Give me a full loot pvp game like Darkfall or UO and i'd take it any day of the week over this genre of clones. For me nothing can compare to the heart pounding that you get when you know everything is on the line and your own skill is all that can pull you through. I know that this more 'hardcore' style of game isn't for everyone, not everybody can handle the loss of gear or having to manually aim spells and melee. For me though, every time i go make to another MMO i miss the emotion that comes with such mechanics, and find it hard to invest in the drudgery of grinding in such a repetitive environment that holds no new surprises once you've played for a few weeks to a month or two. | ||
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Thorakh
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If you're going to do PvE group content, just make sure you know what the role distribution in a group is (and what each role is supposed to do), don't queue for a role you cannot perform, don't roll need on items you cannot use/are not intended for the role you are currently performing and you'll do fine. Ideally you'll want a friend to teach you those things, as the pug (pick up group) community is rotten to the core. WoW just became to big for it's own good and Blizzard made wrong game design decisions and now we're stuck with a community full of jerks, bads and elitists. | ||
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Deleted User 101379
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Might also just be because i didn't know anyone in WoW and soloed all the time because i couldn't find a guild where i didn't want to leave again immedatly after seeing their guild chat... or i'm just bad :-/ The first month was quite fun but then everything got too repetitive and the "storylines" were just bad... though maybe that was because i came from Guild Wars, which was very story driven. I would suggest waiting for the newer MMOs that come out soon, like Guild Wars 2 next year or Star Wars The old Republic in December IIRC. As far as i see it, people only play WoW because their friends play it, not because it's really the best or because they like it. | ||
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chaokel
Australia535 Posts
On October 21 2011 18:43 Morfildur wrote: Man, now i feel bad because after 2 month of playing a few years ago i just managed to get to level 40. I think it was shortly after release of the first expansion where i tried WoW. Might also just be because i didn't know anyone in WoW and soloed all the time because i couldn't find a guild where i didn't want to leave again immedatly after seeing their guild chat... or i'm just bad :-/ The first month was quite fun but then everything got too repetitive and the "storylines" were just bad... though maybe that was because i came from Guild Wars, which was very story driven. I would suggest waiting for the newer MMOs that come out soon, like Guild Wars 2 next year or Star Wars The old Republic in December IIRC. As far as i see it, people only play WoW because their friends play it, not because it's really the best or because they like it. They have increased xp gain 1-60 by a shit ton since you were probably playing. As well as making the game a lot easier by removing stuff like world elites, which made the game at least a little challenging. | ||
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Kipsate
Netherlands45349 Posts
On October 21 2011 18:43 Morfildur wrote: Man, now i feel bad because after 2 month of playing a few years ago i just managed to get to level 40. I think it was shortly after release of the first expansion where i tried WoW. Might also just be because i didn't know anyone in WoW and soloed all the time because i couldn't find a guild where i didn't want to leave again immedatly after seeing their guild chat... or i'm just bad :-/ The first month was quite fun but then everything got too repetitive and the "storylines" were just bad... though maybe that was because i came from Guild Wars, which was very story driven. I would suggest waiting for the newer MMOs that come out soon, like Guild Wars 2 next year or Star Wars The old Republic in December IIRC. As far as i see it, people only play WoW because their friends play it, not because it's really the best or because they like it. The world has changed tremendously after burning crusade, entire areas have been revamped with new quests which are easy to do, all follow a linair pattern(which you can follow by just doing the quests) allowing you to move swiftly through zones and have little time traveeling from A to B. | ||
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Celial
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2WeaK
Canada550 Posts
On October 21 2011 19:42 Celial wrote: Also, automatic flight point gain. If you stay long enough in an area and level, you get all the flight points for the next area automatically. Its level dependant which one are unlocked. God I hated FP hunting when I leveld my first two chars. You mean you didn't like it when there wasn't flight path linking, so you had to go 1 flight path at a time and if you didn't have the one connecting to the next one, you were wondering why X city had a flight path? | ||
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MetalMarine
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Jayme
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On October 22 2011 03:59 Zorkmid wrote: If you have zero responsibilities and nothing else you want to do, buy it. If not, play a non-MMORPG. Back in vanilla and tbc this was true. WoW started going super casual in wrath. I thought it was going to get better when Ulduar came out because hard mode YoggSaron was fucking hard (not that I'm even really a fan of hard modes because it revolves around doing shit incorrectly) but even then easy mode let you progress without real issue. I was in a hardcore progression guild from vanilla through wrath. The time required dropped sharply in wrath, even including hardmodes sans yogg saron. Cataclysm has ben a total fucking coast. You can easily casually progress through heroic encounters. Wow is much more time friendly now. | ||
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shawster
Canada2485 Posts
On October 22 2011 14:35 Jayme wrote: Back in vanilla and tbc this was true. WoW started going super casual in wrath. I thought it was going to get better when Ulduar came out because hard mode YoggSaron was fucking hard (not that I'm even really a fan of hard modes because it revolves around doing shit incorrectly) but even then easy mode let you progress without real issue. I was in a hardcore progression guild from vanilla through wrath. The time required dropped sharply in wrath, even including hardmodes sans yogg saron. Cataclysm has ben a total fucking coast. You can easily casually progress through heroic encounters. Wow is much more time friendly now. i never played in tbc and vanilla but i played in wrath. i pvped more but no keeper yogg sounded pretty ggggg. was heroic lich king hard? i totally forgot. | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On October 22 2011 14:57 shawster wrote: i never played in tbc and vanilla but i played in wrath. i pvped more but no keeper yogg sounded pretty ggggg. was heroic lich king hard? i totally forgot. Compared to Yogg Saron it was a joke. No keeper Yogg Saron was the hardest fight in Wrath by a large margin. Raids were many times more unforgiving in vanilla and tbc. No keeper Yogg Saron would not have been out of place in Naxx40 and the like. | ||
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HyperLimen
United States278 Posts
On October 21 2011 07:23 Thaniri wrote: With the friend bonus I got to 85 in a month. Honestly, WoW is a game that is fun while levelling, but once you get into high tier it will lose all of its purpose. Each item you get at level 85 is obsolete next patch. Thats why I quit after only 2 months. Very true. I downloaded the starter edition a few weeks ago. Ended up buying the whole thing. I got my mage from 1-85 in under 2 weeks RL time, but I used to play the game when WOTLK was out so I was already familiar with 60-80. The game quickly stagnated at 85 after running all of the heroics and basically plateauing on ilvl. 85 is lame, and poeple want you to have an inflated ilvl for pug raids etc before they even invite you. Same with guilds. So that's why I quit after my free month ran out | ||
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Geovu
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This must be how parents feel watching their kids talk about Starcraft, LOL! | ||
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arb
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On October 22 2011 14:57 shawster wrote: i never played in tbc and vanilla but i played in wrath. i pvped more but no keeper yogg sounded pretty ggggg. was heroic lich king hard? i totally forgot. iirc, paragon said lich king heroic wast he hardest fight ever at the time | ||
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Thorakh
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On October 24 2011 02:47 sermokala wrote: How is that even possible? Even from my earliest memory (early TBC) there has been a quest in each starting area to lead you outside. In recent years the quest flow has only improved.I tried playing it and I could never figure out how to get out of the starting area. no quests either that follow you along I didn't like that either. | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
On October 24 2011 07:46 samw wrote: Don't do it man, the alternative title to this could be "So I just started losing my life..." I've made a friend set up parental controls for me Is 1 hour each day enough, or isn't it even enough to start doing some quests? If it's even enough for one quest I'm happy! (so far each quest have taken 10-15 minutes, but I'm only on level 20, I bet they get longer when I level higher) | ||
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On October 23 2011 22:44 Arnstein wrote: It got really boring, I will not buy the full version. Welcome back. You have no idea how close you were to horribleness. | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
My plan is to buy the battle chest which contains the original game and the first expansion, then make my friend have parental controls (in case I get addicted) so I can only play 1-2 hours a day(1 hour if that is enough for doing at least one quest). The reason why I want to buy it is because it seems pretty braindead and that's just what I need: a game to just mindlessly chill with one hour a day! Poll: Should I buy the battle chest and level to 70, playing max 1h/day? No (8) Yes (1) 9 total votes Your vote: Should I buy the battle chest and level to 70, playing max 1h/day? | ||
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BroodWarHD
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But really, if you want to play for levelling, it may be useful to try Vanilla private server.. as it is much more of a challenge there than the current vanilla and tbc content, and the content is optimized in that you can enjoy the best designed areas(the vanilla ones) the most | ||
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Arnstein
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Deleted User 61629
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Salv
Canada3083 Posts
As far as the time it takes, I have no idea where people are getting these 20-40 hour estimates. I recently just leveled a Rogue to 85 and it takes about 60 - 80 hours with bonus experience gain from items and a guild. A player with no bonus experience gain I would guess would take an extra 30 - 40 hours on top of that - so you're looking at 4 - 5 days played time honestly. | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
On October 25 2011 21:35 LEEKsc wrote: download baldur's gate 2! I love that game, but I just get addicted to that as well But I heard you guys, I'm not going to buy it! | ||
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