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Friday, April 07, 2006
New European WoW server farm
In a press release Blizzard announced opening up a new "site", hosting new European realms for World of Warcraft. In a first step, 8 new realms will open up there. Blizzard will also ship more copies of the game to European retailers, as more than a million Europeans have bought WoW now, and game boxes are in short supply.
I've been waiting for new servers to open to start a little experiment: Make a new character on a new realm. I don't want to abandon my two level 60 characters, or my guild, but I think it would be a good idea to take a break from them. Once you reach level 60, your meta-level progress becomes very slow. You can still advance by improving your gear, either doing lots of PvP, reputation grinding, or by doing lots of raiding. Unfortunately many of these activities feel more like work to me than fun. So while my guild is planning 5 Zul Gurub raids in a row, I'll take a weekend off and try the new servers.
The idea is to play on a server where there are many people playing in my (low) level range, experiment with a new class, and do quests I don't know too well. So I think I'll go for a dwarven palladin, having played Horde characters most of the time. I hope that palladins can easily find a spot in a group, either as tank or as backup healer.
Might be interesting to start a "new life" in WoW, something that isn't all that easy in the real world. One has a tendency to get far too attached to one's existing characters, even beyond the point where playing them becomes repetitive. It is hard to leave a rich level 60 and play a dirt poor level 1 un-twinked. And it is hard to leave your social network of friends and guild mates, and meet new people. But I think it could be worth a try, earning money on a new server using superior game knowledge could be fun, and new friends who like to group with me might be more to my taste than participating in yet another raid. Unlike leaving town and changing your name in the real world, a new virtual life is possible in parallel, if at the end of the weekend I find that the idea wasn't all that fun after all, I can always go back to my level 60 characters.
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Good idea. I've been keen to start a new character on a new server for a while now: I've played horde almost exclusively and I fancy trying the Alliance side of things out. It'll be interesting to see how horrible battlegrounds are when always losing ;)
Plus, I rather like the idea that there will be other people of about the same level as me, looking for groups at the same time. I've never run Alliances-side instances, either, which should be fun.
Plus, I rather like the idea that there will be other people of about the same level as me, looking for groups at the same time. I've never run Alliances-side instances, either, which should be fun.
# posted by 
: 7/4/06 13:34
: 7/4/06 13:34
Let me know how you find the Paladin class to be - whether it suits you or not.
# posted by : 7/4/06 13:46
: 7/4/06 13:46
After leveling 2 characters to 60 on a PvE server (1 horde, 1 alliance), I recently started a new character on a PvP server. The game is certainly different when all the 20+ zones are contested (get flagged on entering the zone)! Also I've been playing a lot of battlegrounds on the PvP server to get better in that area. I've found that horde and alliance split BG games about 50/50, so I don't know why people complain about it.
How did you get on? I created a character on the PvE server (Eomer?) and found it.. interesting. A day in and there were lvl 25s already, for starters. Ack.
And Ashenvale chat was worse than the Barrens. All these people banging on about Eric Clapton and the like. I went to Goldshire for levels 8 to 11 just to escape it all.
And Ashenvale chat was worse than the Barrens. All these people banging on about Eric Clapton and the like. I went to Goldshire for levels 8 to 11 just to escape it all.
# posted by : 10/4/06 16:23
: 10/4/06 16:23
I bought it 10 days ago as well, and it's not just new copies that are made. It's 1.09 on 5 CD's which means you just have to download the 1.10 patch and you're good to go.
I play on Eonar as well, and when I started people were saying the highest level player was level 40. Now I can see a few level 60's.
The challenge on this new server is that Auction House prices are way lower that what eg. Allakhazam says. Light leather is almost impossible to sell, goes for around 30 coppers each. So I now took up leatherworking instead of skinning, and I am buying everything for sale cheap to level that quickly.
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I play on Eonar as well, and when I started people were saying the highest level player was level 40. Now I can see a few level 60's.
The challenge on this new server is that Auction House prices are way lower that what eg. Allakhazam says. Light leather is almost impossible to sell, goes for around 30 coppers each. So I now took up leatherworking instead of skinning, and I am buying everything for sale cheap to level that quickly.
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