For some reason, I don't think that you'll be able to use air travel for getting between the two continents. Otherwise boats would be pretty pointless. But that's just a guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoLucifer
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For some reason, I don't think that you'll be able to use air travel for getting between the two continents. Otherwise boats would be pretty pointless. But that's just a guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoLucifer
just a guess too but i'm more thinking that boats asides from quest and pirates events will be there for entertainement mostly , you can already see screens of some portals . i think transport will be evolve around air and portals but thats just a guess
I think they'll use the boats as the main transport route between horde and alliance lands. It would emphasise the fact that travel between these two is a sizeable undertaking not to be considered lightly.
But ideally they'll also realise that waiting for a boat, having to deal with bugs, or the boat being slow in relation to the distance travelled, should not be excessive.
Also, there may be Player owned and operated boats. If this happens then boats will be fun to get on to gather for a raid and raid a town or something.
Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of rum
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To the best of my knowledge in EQ the boats zoned at the speed of the person with slowest connection on board. If you had a lag spike and took X minutes to zone everyone else on board did to. Falling off the boat was teh suck to if you were a gate inhibited class. Gate being a low level self only port to bind point spell for casters only. Getting dropped from the boat due to lag, server glitches and just acts of god IE undupilcatable and unexplainable.
Impromptu swimming skill up sessions as the theme from jaws surfaced from the dark recesses of your mind were always fun.P
There was also not a damn thing to do on the boat whatsoever except run in circles around the mast. /tell gullible person 001 if you do this enuf times you will get a permanent 1 point stamina increase per trip /shh its a secret.
Ok so I am bad at times /deal. The complete lack of a /push feature for obnoxious indviduals made me come up with some innovative ways to make them shut up. Hard to type when you have the arrow keys pressed P.
Sorry but there are times when I really do not give a shit about your unasked for comments on life the universe or everything. Keep running we are almost at the zone for encouragment. Me? I have maxed my stam for the trip this way it only works for me going in the opposite direction for 5 points then it switches back P. Obnoxious people are not always stupid just obnoxious so I had to do a little extra creative bullshitting occasionaly. )
Getting off the boat had its own hazards as well. Everytime I got off the boat and wasn;t really sure if I was in the right place. I heard Chef no not the guy from South Park. Chef " STAY ON THE BOAT NEVER EVER EVER GET OFF THE FING BOAT EVER" /Apocalypse Now .) forgive my bad translation but I have to. LE Chef Rasion De etere or close hung in my favorite kitchen
rough translation THE CHEF IS ALWAYS RIGHT P.
What did I learn from EQ about boats a few things.
1 Never ever be without some form of self gate spell or item.
2 Never ever get on the boat if you can get a port instead.
3 If you see someone visibly having connection problems stay on the dock and keep fishing. Or go get a snack or do laundry or something its going to be
a long zone time.
4 The addition of friendly NPC"s that teleported you from dock to dock was a great feature.
5 When in doubt on a waterborne craft refer to Chef's First Rule of Boating ).
6 Lets hope Blizzard has learned something from the EQ Shipping designers .
About boats; I heard somewhere, forget where, that they plan to have encounters on boats, like sea monsters and pirates. That would be cool.
Also, from previous Warcraft lore, it seems that it would take a couple of months to cross the ocean between continents. I wonder hwo they plan to address the sudden increase in boot speeds.
whats the current status on fishing ??? Do the fish species changes depending on locations ? how many species are there ? What about their sizes ?? Can you use different foods to lure them ?? Does a specie got tates and preferences ?? :p
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Just wanted to drop a general 'thanks' to the collected beta folks for the highest quality info you can find.
excellent, excellent stuff.
I carried around a 10 pound fish in my offhand with my orc warlock for a long time, which I'd fished up, just because I had nothing else to use there and wanted to look different. ;)
Haha, i remember the 9-pound fish for offhand. Was a trophy fish!
I carried around that lantern thing from one of the WC quests that trigger cast light heal or something with a 30-second cooldown. Pretty useless, but it looked neat.
I had apprentice fishing at one point, but got the skill point back so i could get expert engineering quicker. Never really took the time to sit and fish.
Yah, I took up Engineering later with my orc. I love the offhand lantern, though, not for the effect, but the +2 spirit and +30 health, woo! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Telegareth
I do engineering just for the goggles. Goggles > all. Exploding sheep and harvest reapers are a bonus. I'm also looking forward to the Gnomish cloaking device, :)
Aye, I thought I'd want the goggles for my orc, but opted to keep his Brightweave cowl instead. I use the goggles on my Tauren Warrior, though, simply to further his "oddball" appearance, hahaha :) The bombs and blasts and even the zoom-in device are all great pluses. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Telegareth
I remember that! I rolled my eyes at the cooldown timer once I equiped it. I can understand 30 seconds between heals, but a 30 second wait upon equipping? Clearly designed to keep people from swapping weapons for a quick heal here and there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Telegareth
Amazing look though!
Now, is that REAL time or "Impatient player who exaggerates" time? EQ had a lot of the latter. A LOT.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedi Dustyboots
I enjoy traversing the world on foot and taking boats. It's a relaxing zen-like experience for me. Even before that one expansion in EQ that enabled everyone to teleport everywhere, my ogre shaman was able to get around fairly quickly for a non-teleporting class (something I also did rarely) especially once I got that Overethere TP proccing hammer. But I still never tired of traveling by foot. I suppose having speed-increasing spells like SoW, SCoW, and SoC helped. Still, I ALWAYS opted for that than hanging around a place for 10 - 20 minutes begging someone for a teleport.
I think impatience describes a lot of MMORPGers, and not just in terms of travel. They want everything now and those levels/items cannot come quick enough. Even quite a few of the non-=powergamers exhibitied this.
The journey is lost on many.
It's probably real time. I ran from the Wetlands to Southshore, (Wetlands > Arathi Highlands > Hillsbrad Hills > Southshore) stopping once to open up the flight path to Refuge Point and it took me about 30ish minutes real time. Of course i got jumped by some raptors and spiders along the way, so that's like 5 minutes of fighting thrown in for good measure. I also was following (but staying far enough behind so i didn't get my brains sucked out of my skull) an undead courrier and his bodyguards and i was too low level to try the cross country trip.
Well, I was not kidding on the hour long swim. I had stupidly bound in Grom'gol (back when there were binders instead of the current spirit healers) without unlocking the flight path near Searing Gorge first (can't remember the name of the place). So that meant if I had any hope of getting back to undead lands, I had to swim back north from Booty Bay to Thadol Span (broken bridge that connects Wetlands to Arathi Highlands). If I died while swimming, I was sent back to Booty Bay for another long swim and I did die at least three times. It took all day just to try to get to Thadol Span. I remember looking at the clock to see how long I had been swimming along the coast, while avoiding mobs in the water and forty-five minutes had passed just before I reached Menethil Harbor. So it was close to an hour by the time I got to Thadol Span.
Also there is a timed quest that requires you to make a booze delivery from Thadol Span to Southshore in 15 minutes or less. So ... that totals one hour and 15 minutes so far. From Southshore to Undercity, I would estimate a twenty minute run, maybe 30, but let's not exaggerate here. So that would make it one hour and 35 minutes. But Undercity isn't at the top northern most portion of Azeroth. So I have no idea what's further north (west I believe is the plaguelands which is a huge area in and of itself), but I will spectulate that it will take up to 30 minutes because the roads aren't stick-straight. They wind and weave back and forth which can make travel take longer.
The reason why I estimated two hours was because the first hour was accomplished via swimming along the coast. I suspected running would take longer if people stuck to the roads, which again, aren't straight.
And buddy, my last name is Dustyboots. We love to travel. Going to places by foot doesn't bother me one iota. (Unless I'm late for a raid.)
Very great post there Mr. Dustyboots.
Seems no one can find anything wrong with WoW as of now. My hope is that the Developers do not get lazy as or after the game goes retail. I Expect them to continue listening in and being as attentive to the game as they have been.
*wishes he was in beta*
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Originally Posted by Pedi Dustyboots
From that tale, i think you need to change it to Soggyboots