It is pretty damn cool…

What realm are you on?

Get the wife hooked on leveling too. Great idea or the greatest?

My main, pictured above, is on Durotan along with nine other alts at various stages of progession. My next highest is a human mage named Trixx who’s 51.

Ah, bummer, I’m on Medivh.

How sweet it is to have friends when in need.

Well said, Momma. It certainly doesn’t need reminding Les that he’s got quite the crew here.

I was thinking an SEB member WoW game/team might be fun. I don’t own WoW though I admit, but for those interested…

Hey,hey,i’m on durotan too Les ... If you see a gnome mage called Helbenzo thats me

Coolness. I’ll add you to my friends list so I’ll know when you’re on.

Just curious - are your characters tied to the server? Or is the choice of server related to performance?

Characters are tied to the server you created them on though you can pay to have a character transferred to a different server.

Performance is affected by a number of things and server population is one of them. When a server gets overpopulated Blizzard will often offer free character transfers to a brand new unpopulated server for a short period of time.

Right now on Durotan the zone with the heaviest concentration of people (and thusly the most likely to affect game performance) is Hellfire Peninsula which is the first zone in Outland and one of the biggest in the game. For me on Durotan this results in a slightly lower framerate than I’m used to, but nothing major in the way of performance hiccups, but I’ve got a gig of RAM in my PC and that helps a lot when dealing with areas with a lot of people in them.

Uh, could some WoW player explain this comic to me.

http://www.pvponline.com/article/3093/sun-jan-21

I think I can sum it up as follows. You approach a character highly powerful compared to you - one who is certainly capable of doing the job himself.

“There have been many vicious fluffybunnies terrorizing our village. Slay these fluffybunnies - bring me their feet”

The only reason why it’s funny is because the non-player-characters (NPC) get you to do the stupidest stuff for experience. It’s senseless.

For the last 2 years I have been supporting my boyfriend and myself on a lowly government salary while he finished his college degree. And we came to the conclusion that we couldn’t afford not to play WoW. The reason being like mosts people when money is tight we find ourselves spending more of it just to pull ourselves out of the depression that comes with falling on hard financial times.

WoW was cost effective because on those nights when we were about ready to say screw it we deserve dinner and a movie. We would end up staying home and playing wow and saving what little money we had.

We figured it like this, Dinner and a movie would cost at the very least $60 and that was only a couple of hours. For about that much money you could get 1 WoW account for almost 6 months.

For us WoW most likely stopped us from killing each other during that time.

PvP Reader, popular belief has it that the reason the ratio of people playing Alliance outnumbers people playing the Horde at 2 to 1 on most servers is because the Alliance newbie zones are all ridiculously easy to level up in whereas the Horde newbie zones, particularly Durotar, were much more difficult. An idea that Scott apparently buys into. So the joke is that with the release of the expansion bringing the Blood Elves to the Horde faction there’s now a starting area that’s as easy to level up in as anything on the Alliance side.

I’ve been playing toons on both sides for awhile now myself and personally I think the belief is nonsense. Of the newbie areas the most annoying is Mulgore and that’s largely because it’s pretty damn big so you spend a lot of time running to get from the quest giver to the things the quest giver wants you to kill/collect, but a similar situation exists for the dwarves/gnomes in Dun Morogh which can be equally annoying.

All in all it takes me about the same amount of time to level a toon from 1 to 10 on both the Horde and Alliance sides.

Sad days.  I’m on Archimonde w/ my 62 paladin.
I’ve replaced 2 purples w/ GREENS...not even blues. 

I’ve been very very impressed w/ the expansion so far.  I’ve only got one quest (a dungeon) left in the first zone and have moved on to the swamp to complete a bunch of quests there.