Opening Day WoW Stuff

Just finished. Shaman to 3 solo, Paladin to 5.5 grouped with DuckiDeva. Great launch, IMO. Great game. Loads of fun. Very deep. Zero downtime. Good, good stuff.

Actually, I just got off some time on the West Coast ""Low"" population server. It was pretty good for a while with minimal hiccups. I just left because it became a loot/quest npc lag disaster.

Blizz has some work to do.

All pacific servers are now down after being very sporadic and lagging out, this of course after a 45 minute queue to get in the door. Yes great launch indeed :P.

"griffon" wrote:

All pacific servers are now down after being very sporadic and lagging out, this of course after a 45 minute queue to get in the door. Yes great launch indeed :P.

I was kicked out of a West coast server right before I tried to log out. I hope that my hours on that character are not lost. That would hurt.

I''ll try again tomorrow. So far, not too impressed with the role out. I expected some hiccups, so I am not too concerned . . . yet.

Supposedly we got hit by all the aussies who were directed to log into the west coast servers.
Overloaded em is the theory.

There were a lot of aussies on my server just before it crashed. A lot!

which one was that Edgar? I was making my first tentative steps into the game.

Apparantly Blizzard are toying with the idea of a dedicated Aussie server, but in the meantime we are being guided towards the pacific servers

I had absolutely no problems with Zul''jin, an eastern server. Got a Tauren Druid to 11.5 after about 6 hours of play. Sorry to hear you guys are having so much trouble... hopefully things will be fixed by the weekend.

"Undisclosed" wrote:

I heard somewhere else that if you have the most recent patched version of the beta client, you don''t have to patch or anything to play. You just log in.

Yeh, this one really threw me for a loop. Restarted the game twice, because I thought something was wrong, when the ""please wait while patch downloads"" message never popped up.

"Goo" wrote:

which one was that Edgar? I was making my first tentative steps into the game.

Apparantly Blizzard are toying with the idea of a dedicated Aussie server, but in the meantime we are being guided towards the pacific servers

I think it was proudmoore. When I last checked, WoW the server was still down.

Most of the West ones were back up within half hour or so, after which it seemed to work fine. For me anyway.

I had absolutely no problems with Zul''jin, an eastern server. Got a Tauren Druid to 11.5 after about 6 hours of play

Hey Warlock, Chumpy and I are on that server, we should hook up.

Hey Warlock, Chumpy and I are on that server, we should hook up.

Indeed. I''ll probably be on a bit tonight and over the weekend. Name''s Ataxa. I''m assuming you''re Horde.

This will definitely be my main Horde character... I''m in a pretty active guild of guys from my area, and if they''re not complete tools (requiring me to do stuff, having to be at a certain level, etc.) then it won''t be so bad.

"phragged" wrote:

Supposedly we got hit by all the aussies who were directed to log into the west coast servers.
Overloaded em is the theory.

He has risen from his post child birth husband hibernation. Now he''ll probably hit snooze and roll back over.

Hmmm... I had no problems at all this AM - saw Flux, Sanjuro, JMJ and a couple of others... A brief minute of loot lag, but I cruised through the first 11 lvls with no worries... Never ran into this waiting in line issue and I logged in and out 3-4 times.

- Spy

I am an East Coaster as well - I will make an alternate Spynavius on that server as well, but Blackhand will be my main unless we move en masse.

I will make an alternate Spynavius on that server as well, but Blackhand will be my main unless we move en masse.

Oh definitely. I''ll be playing Blackhand with you guys... the Zul''Jin character is another group of peeps. My comment wasn''t meant to make you guys think of straying... just simply noting that some of the servers are, indeed, working fine... if there are other GWJers with characters on Zul''Jin, I''ll definitely play with them, but not in lieu of the Blackhand server.

Next time we pick a server, let''s go with the second one from the end, alphabetically. Just for future consideration.

Quit confusing me... Here is hoping we dont have to pick a new server - I think GG is right the lag will thin as people start moving out and not everyone is in the same areas...

So. To review:

NO CHANGING SERVERS. BLACKHAND, I TELL YOU, BLACKHAND.

If you have other characters that want to meet up in other worlds, DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Just got dual wield on my lvl 10 rogue. Server was lag free up until just a few minutes ago. I think as the population gets spread out in levels it''ll work itself out. I hope.

I made 11 on my NE warrior - the guy is like a cuisinart of doom - I have died one time and that was due to sheer idiocy of walking away to get a drink and answer the door... Anyone know where i can train 2H Sword and 2H Axe for the NE Cuisinart of whoop ass?

Ironforge for axe

Stormwind for sword

No place to train in the NE territory? Why in the world would I get a nice 2H sword as a reward if I cant use it- Bastids all of them - the Cuisinart has spoken...

"fangblackbone" wrote:

Ironforge for axe

Stormwind for sword

""Guns for show,

Knives for a pro""

Seriously, is there a list of all the weapon trainers somewhere?

Why in the world would I get a nice 2H sword as a reward if I cant use it- Bastids all of them - the Cuisinart has spoken...

Well, there are probably classes that NE can be (Warrior?) that can, at default, use 2H swords. Or, I''m completely full of sh*t.

But that would be my guess.

Anyone else having trouble loading the character list right now?

Yes, hanging for multiple minutes for me. When I do get it and try to enter, I get the message ""World Server Down"". Done this about five times now, trying to be patient.

Just remember folks it''s only a beta. It''ll all be fine when it goes to retail!

I wish because I am a NE warrior and got a nice 2H sword as a quest reward and cant use so I am looking to train... I am going to go thru my guide and online as well to see if I am going to have to make a Storm run just to train. As for the server problems since I am at work (hahahahahah) seriously though - I think they may be doing maintenance to provide for the influx of folks over the long weekend so it may be a good thing.