[WoW] I Was a Teenage Alpha Tester

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Originally Posted by Walk

As for uber guilds, I don't see how they can "farm" more than 1 server at a time, so as long as there are as many servers as "uber guilds" it shouldn't be a problem. If anything, being able to move your characters to another server helps solve this problem because if you have 2 "uber guilds" on a server, one of them can go somewhere else.

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This is a more EQ specific problem - how it applies to WoW depends on the relative predictability and rarity of high end content. For example, on Everquest there are popular encounters that take about an hour and can be killed once per week. With free server movement a single guild could kill that particular encounter on every single server each week, depriving everyone else of the chance to try it.

We can hope that WoW does not go with a similar setup for 'raid' type content ( looks promising so far, but no raid content is in yet apparently ).

So, how hard is it to make 1 gold?

Is it something you will have in sufficient supply whenever needed for any purchases and training, or do you regularly have to save and forgo certain things to get others?

For the most part, you will earn the money you need for your level-based expenses (spells, etc.) without much trouble. That is, if you're not spending a lot of time buying stuff from shops, trying to buy a tabard, and so on. In those cases, you may find yourself sweating a little bit more.

Of course, that's without factoring in the player economy. Smart folks are able to make quite a bit of scratch at relatively low levels, but this is all subject to change as everyone gets comfortable with the good quests, populations age, etc. The level restrictions on ALL items should cut down on some of the worst of the market distortions that EQ has, but there's still the question of how many obsolete items will still be in circulation. NPC vendors do offer a fair price for items, though, so plenty of people skip trying to sell something in the Trade channel and just remove it from circulation entirely.

Can you tell us a little about what are the available pet commands and how dungeon friendly are them? Do they respond well to commands? Can you back them off from a creep and redirect it to another? Can you tell it to stay in a spot no matter if it is been attacked? Are there any big pathing problems?

Are pets aggro magnets, since they are usually lower level than the player? Do they benefit from auras and totems? Can they be buffed? Can other players heal and buff them?

Is there a "voice grafft" type spell? (talk through the pet) Do pets "poof" if you go invisible? Can pets keep up pace when you are riding a mount?

Do warlocks get any defensive spells for when the pet is dead? (ex:snare, root, stun, sleep, etc.)

Is there a variable pet level when you summon them like in EQ? (get a level 20-22 pet with the same summon spell when your character level is constant)

Can you give emote commands to pets? (/pet dance, /pet laugh)

Thans for answering so many questions and taking time from your playing fun.

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Originally Posted by Lunal Toadsnatcher

Some names do make me ill, but I find this one to be pretty funny actually.

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It was like everybodys dream to get a name like that in WC3. Computer(Easy), Computer(Hard), Computer(Insane) w/ an I, Computer(lnsane) w/ a lowercase L. Closed. Open. :p

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Originally Posted by Skif k'Sheyna

does anybody else think the felhound picture (which I missed earlier due to Pedi's bandwidth being hammered) looks kinda like a zergling? Not that I think its a bad thing, it'll always remind me of the good old starcraft days.

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For what it's worth, in Warcraft III, there was a hidden Zergling unit (as well as several others). What's special about the Zergling, is that it actually is a re-skinned Felhound. Looking at it, the Zergling has a pair of pincers the Felhound doesn't - but I don't recall if the Zergling actually gets its own version of the model with pincers added, or if they simply added pincers to the Felhound but made them transparent for the guy.

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Originally Posted by OrcishSpacesuit

For what it's worth, in Warcraft III, there was a hidden Zergling unit (as well as several others). What's special about the Zergling, is that it actually is a re-skinned Felhound. Looking at it, the Zergling has a pair of pincers the Felhound doesn't - but I don't recall if the Zergling actually gets its own version of the model with pincers added, or if they simply added pincers to the Felhound but made them transparent for the guy.

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Yea I was talking about the WarIII zergling. (<3 the new Zergling blood). I suppose it really is just a reskinned felhound, but that's not gonna stop me from calling the felhound a zergling (And if warlocks can name their pets I'd name mine Crackling )

Could someone explain about the group linking system in detail. And or answer these questions please.

1 is there a linked group chat channel ?

2 Can you see what was looted and by whom?


3 Is the experience shared by all the linked groups or simply the most damage done ALA raids are not for xp which was the cry of the people who got all the xp on the raids.P


4 Can you set looting rights on the mobs that die to linked groups?


5 Is there a WOW DKP program in the game or on the way thats user friendly and easy to update and maintain ?

6 Are there parse programs for melee and spell casters ?

Although these may seem premature I am asking because these were and are
very real issues that were not adressed until very late in Everquest. My sole online gaming experience so far which I admit is only about 3 years in total.
While I readily admit my knowledge of gaming systems and how they should and should not work is far from complete. My knowledge of people and how they value their time is not. While a DKP system is not perfect its far better than any loot division system I have seen or experienced so far.
I would not tolerate a variable salary for a set amount of performance or the mandatory workday. I definitely wont tolerate it in a game I play or may play for entertainment purposes either.

In the current push, there is no facility for linking groups to form raids. It is a future feature.

I think it was mentioned previously, but group looting has 3 options; FFA, Roundrobin and ML. Roundrobin is a hoot. I was exceedingly lucky last nite, while my partners in a 3 man group were not so lucky. Of course I relented relented and gave them some of the crappier items. LOL

I love round robin looting, FFA loot is something i try to shy away from, and when someone tosses the group to FFA, i become wary....dunno why.

ML in a group is fine if you have someone with a lot of bag space, but i've found that bag space is at a premium with all my characters, so much that i've got 10-slot bags in my bank vault. I've destroyed grey-items to make room for something, or destroyed tradeskill stuff to make room in my bags for something that just dropped.

In 99% of the groups i've been in, round robin is the way to go. You can always set rules for your group that green or better items will be randomed on prior to starting the adventure. I did Wailing Caverns instance with a really nice group of people, we all left with a 10-slot bag and some item that would be an upgrade for us. I picked up 4 of the bags myself (they called me the bag lady afterwards).

The guild options are coming. Considering that the WoW dev team is lead by a former guild leader of one of EQ's biggest guilds, I have faith that the tools will be robust and useful. (I STILL love LoY just for giving EQ guild leaders a semi-decent tool, and I'm expecting WoW's to be even better.)

I assume there is some sort of /random command?

it is /random 100, for a random number between 0 and 100

Thank you for answering my questions. It is very appreciated having less and less free time I am kicking the tires so to speak. I like the ideas the beta info and all the posts and screenshots. I am also curious and like lotsa info on something that I plan on doing as a hobby.




Mykel Farslayer
65 Mage /kudos to WOW team simply for getting the name right of casters P

Patiently waiting for the last ship to the west that is most likely sailing to points unknown or Azeroth whichever comes first P

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Originally Posted by Telegareth

it is /random 100, for a random number between 0 and 100

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Good, for some reason there is no in game /random in AO, which never really made any sense to me.

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Originally Posted by Skif k'Sheyna

Yea I was talking about the WarIII zergling. (<3 the new Zergling blood). I suppose it really is just a reskinned felhound, but that's not gonna stop me from calling the felhound a zergling (And if warlocks can name their pets I'd name mine Crackling )

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Where is the zergling in Warcraft 3? I found the Hydralisk in the second Night Elf mission, but I don't remember seeing a zergling anywhere.

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Originally Posted by aerynelf

Where is the zergling in Warcraft 3? I found the Hydralisk in the second Night Elf mission, but I don't remember seeing a zergling anywhere.

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I honestly do not know. I don't think I found him in the campaigns. He's in quite a few custom maps though, once people were abled to crack the editor and unlock the hidden models. I wasn't joking about the zergling blood, someone made a really nice version of it for Warcraft III: FT. Maybe they appear during the end sequence when you beat the game (Origonal i think, on hard for the last mission) and it has the Marines vs the Space orcs part.

Starcraft units are available in the editor because of that end sequence, yes.

iirc, that sequence first has space marines beating off a zerg attack (hydralisks and zerglings), and then getting overun by the orcs.

Given how the hydralisk gets beaten down in Night Elf II if you use him as one of your troops for the attack on the undead base, I'm not surprised.