Gamescom Interviews, Class Guides, CE Mount and Pet, Blue Posts, GW2, WoW in 2001

[gyver]

That discipline guide is total balls, the dude actually wants you to reforge to mastery three quarters of the time. He doesn't seem to have understood that to make mastery effective as a disc you'd have to spam PWS all day long, which is sure as hell not gonna happen in MoP and rarely happened in Cata. haste>crit will see you through much more effectively.

Spamming shield was fine before the mana pool nerf. I could have shield as 50% of my healing with only 2,200 spirit(no trinket) and be fine on every heroic fight but spine(equiped the spirit trinket for that one). Now that my mana pool has gone from 175k to 100k, I've had to reforge a bit and alter my play style.

Also mastery benefits divine aegis(100% chance with prayer of healing) and spirit shell.

[KevyB]

They did. Mage portals and tables, warlock summoning.

Also, doomguard summoning, where one member of the summoning party was sacrificed.

Those were good times...

Anyway, back to GW2, i have a whole new world to discover and enjoy, and sure as fuck, i am.

---------- Post added 2012-08-29 at 06:52 PM ----------

yeah 400k subs, clearly wow is dead you retard.

Clearly, your pathetic fanboyism clouds your mind so hard, you don't even realize he said that in a sarcastic manner.

People like you are pathetic, and the scum of the WoW community.

[Deleted]

The old Alpha WoW magazine pages were great to read and look at!

[hythos]

what i thought was interesting was the page that said "two humans and an orc standing around goldshire looking cool." like the original idea was to be able to get rep between alliance and horde and team up.

It really is too bad they didn't take it that direction. There are screenshots around of early WoW with language profficiencies and other mixed-faction elements. It would seem like they had taken those from Everquest, which may be the reason they dumped the idea. Dark Age of Camelot having three distinct realms may have been an added factor, though the mixed-faction screenies of WoW were as late as 2003 (along with housing), so that was scrapped late (anyone know if those were in open Beta?)

[lavafoxx]

It really is too bad they didn't take it that direction. There are screenshots around of early WoW with language profficiencies and other mixed-faction elements. It would seem like they had taken those from Everquest, which may be the reason they dumped the idea. Dark Age of Camelot having three distinct realms may have been an added factor, though the mixed-faction screenies of WoW were as late as 2003 (along with housing), so that was scrapped late (anyone know if those were in open Beta?)

Yeah, its a shame. I would have loved to party up with my orc brothers and downed me some fools.

[ashas]

It's amazing what nostalgia can do.

What a revolution this game was to the industry. Truly the most groundbreaking.

I'd love to rewind time back to November 2004.

[Kuja]

MMO news on the front page of MMO-Champion. Is there something im missing...?

Maybe he's confusing MMO-Champion with WOW-Champion.

[deplorable]

I did giggle at article 9 at the bottom.

Blizzards No No list -

* the need to camp for crucial monsters

If only they had known what the future would bring.


Original goldshire was far better than what it ended up as, good thing they never kept the "2 humans and Orcs working on the relationship" which sounded very kinky and wrong the way the article was worded

[Kaleredar]

Maybe he's confusing MMO-Champion with WOW-Champion.

Its Not like mmo champions description reads "world of Warcraft news and raiding strategies"


Hmmm...

[Orodoth]

holy cow... 2001 news article? that was a very good read For a brief moment (what with a new and moderately unexplored xpack coming out) I felt like I was being introduced to WoW for the first time, and got that little tingle of anticipation in my chest. I rather enjoy little treats like those scans

[Adlian]

35% Dragon soul nerf is also up.

[Deleted]

World lag is a nightmare (EU). I want 2006 back.

[Okacz]

There won't be any server merges, as cross-realm zone technology will be applied to the problem.

And Blizzard proudly said "problem solved" and celebrated day and night.

[kojinshugi]

Maybe he's confusing MMO-Champion with WOW-Champion.

To be fair, MMO-Champion pretty much is WOW-Champion, and has been for years.

[Deleted]

Goldshire looks so much bigger in WoW 2001 than it does now :P

[kazso]

There won't be any server merges, as cross-realm zone technology will be applied to the problem.

Fixing problems Blizzard style

[Nyteyes]

Ugliest mount and stupidest looking pet I have ever seen. I normally get the Collector's Editions for Wow but this time I think I will just get the normal version..

[yetgdhfgh]

World of Warcraft Huh im sure that will never take off

(My thoughts back in 2001 when that magazine was released LMAO)

pretty cool to read that again

[Deleted]

Thanks for GW2 news

[Azrile]

400k before release, 1million preorders so far. 1.4 million at an absolute minimum is the current number, its safe to say

Your math skills astound me. You realize that the 400k is ALL the 1M. 1M got in early, 400k happened to play at the same time (probably when headstart launched).

Just to put it in perspective.. AOC presold more boxes.....

---------- Post added 2012-08-30 at 01:18 AM ----------

Goldshire looks so much bigger in WoW 2001 than it does now :P

They actually nerfed Goldshire when they realized they didn´t have time to make all the starter ´towns´ the same. Their original plan was for all the towns to be as big as goldshire... but instead of making 7 big towns, they just nerfed one.