Rein will probably delete this thread, but oh well.. I want my own thread where I can post thoughts, screen shots, and answer questions about my beta experience thus far.
I’m tired as hell, been up playing all night.. so just gonna post random thoughts / first impressions.
- Wanted to make a Gnome Rogue named Spork.. but some asshat took my name already. All my other normal backup names taken also. Ended up making female gnome rogue naming after a friend of mine
- Graphics are amazing.. Screen shots and videos really don’t do the game justice. 1440x900 supported.. that’s the default res for my laptop. Didn’t need to hack any registry entries (All Right!)
- Newbie experience was painless. After making char, logged in right next to a NPC who gave me my first quest.
- Lots and lots of quests. Seemed like 60% of my exp came from quests, 40% from killing.
- Fights are fast, and I had like ZERO downtime from L1 to L10. Even if I’m almost dead at end of fight, by time I loot the monster and find my next target I’m full health again. Don’t need to stand still or sit down, regen HP/MP while running around.. and it’s fast.
- Mobs dropped lots of armor/weapons that I could use right away.. Also got a lot of equipment from quest rewards. I think I only bought one item, a dagger at like L8. Sure beats selling earth crystals at AH and trying to get enough money to buy armor.
- You can run away from monsters that are chasing you … AND SURVIVE! They don’t chase all the way across the zone and hit you from 100 feet away like in FFXI… they give up after a little bit.
- I never zoned.. one huge seamless world.
- Death is painless. You die, you just run back to body as a ghost and come back to life. No exp loss.
- I never had to say, “where do I hunt next?”. Every time an area started to get too easy, I was given a quest that took me to a different area where monsters where good exp again.
- I didn’t find the NPC’s to teach me the trade skills I wanted, but I did find a NPC that taught me First Aid. First Aid lets you make and use bandages to heal. Very little down time as it was, but slap a bandage on and I was good to go in seconds. A lot of monsters dropped pieces of cloth, you can use cloth to make bandages.. this is where I sorta got a taste of the trade skill system. I had like 15 pieces of cloth at one point, Instead of having to create 15 bandages one at a time, it had a batch production system.. I just set the amount to 15, hit the craft button, and my character sat there and made a bandage 15 times without me clicking anything.. I just watched
That’s all for now, I’m falling asleep. Here are a few screenshots. I didn’t take many, was too engrossed in the game and forgot. Lol
Me fighting early on.
At the end of the evening, L10 brought me to Ironforge. Here is the main entrance. My first major city.
First thing I did when I got to Ironforge was find the AH. Tried to find a new weapon, but I was too poor irl
Here is me at AH.. one last screen shot of character before logging off for the night.
Yeah ok, so the SS's where not that exciting, I'll try to do better next time
Man this game is going to be addicting. If you plan on playing, better take like 2 months off of work starting Nov 16.. you're not gonna want to stop!
