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Apparently it's just XP that you earn from anything is more than it used to be for those levels... I completely forgot they were going to implement that. I might have to get back into it as I always seem to lose interest around level 40. If I can level faster I would love it.

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But knowing Blizzard, i doubt It's anything noticeable beyond a simple "Oh ... 50 extra XP".

I remember from when I was levelling to 56 or something that the required xp amount dropped from 156000xp to 134000xp after 2.3....not too shabby.

XP from quests have also been boosted considerably, its definitely noticeable all round.

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Shadrack

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Meh, the guy is right.

I had 3 level 70's and It's the same **** all through the game, grinding! 1 to 10 and you've experienced the game, except a few crappy dungeons, some ingame pixel "Epic items" and the odd PvP.

( You can see i lost the "WoW Spark" a long time ago :laugh: )

Your signature is great. I was totally trying to get the bug off my screen, and was like wtf?.

As for your comment... solo play is definitely not what WoW is suppose to be about. If you are questing with someone the game is a lot easier and the time passes a lot faster. Still, think of all those hours of gameplay you got out of the game as you leveled 3 characters to level 70. Do any other games even come close to the amount of hours you invested in WoW? What does that say about re-playability? Obviously you found that it was worth your time when you were playing it. It is easy to talk some **** about a game once you've played it to death and you're sick of it.

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Your signature is great. I was totally trying to get the bug off my screen, and was like wtf?.

As for your comment... solo play is definitely not what WoW is suppose to be about. If you are questing with someone the game is a lot easier and the time passes a lot faster. Still, think of all those hours of gameplay you got out of the game as you leveled 3 characters to level 70. Do any other games even come close to the amount of hours you invested in WoW? What does that say about re-playability? Obviously you found that it was worth your time when you were playing it. It is easy to talk some **** about a game once you've played it to death and you're sick of it.

That's just the thing. WoW is nothing but the old grind formula. Walking around waiting for mobs to spawn and killing them hundreds of times is not my idea of fun. No-one has made my ideal MMO yet. Though Hellgate London is probobly the best casual game I've played online.

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WoW is not a grind fest per se. What WoW tries to do is target anyone. You can level to 70 soloing, you can group together and level. In terms of endgame, you can PvP if Raiding is not your style and if your a casual and cant run Black Temple weekly, theres ZA that can be cleared in like 2 hours.

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From what I've been told ZA isn't casual friendly at all. Neither is Kara imo. Starting from scratch, with casuals, would be quite a undertaking.

You have been told incorrectly. **** even Hellen Keller could solo ZA. There are tons of guilds on my sever who are casual and can clear the place.

Yes, I'm going to hell.

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Depends on what you consider casual... There's no raid instance which will only require you to play 1 hour a day, not check tactics for any of the bosses, not prepare for the raid, and still have a great time + clear it without problems.

But Kara and ZA are the most casual friendly instances of all.

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gregb0b

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Depends on what you consider casual... There's no raid instance which will only require you to play 1 hour a day, not check tactics for any of the bosses, not prepare for the raid, and still have a great time + clear it without problems.

But Kara and ZA are the most casual friendly instances of all.

Causal in definition of WoW is not raiding 6-12 4 days a week.....

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I Was a level 53 almost 54 Paladin but some how my computer messed up on me and glitched and caused them to think I was running "Third Party Software" so they banned me for 72 hours the day after the 73 hour ban I received an E-mail saying that I was using software that enabled me to move illegally WTF So I contacted them and said that was imposable why would I jeopardize my account to cheat and wheres the fun in that right if I wanted to cheat I think Id try it on thows privet servers... well any ways I wasn't even back for an hour playing when I got disconnected and a new e-mail telling me that my account is permanently banned for using Illegal Third Party Software and our actions are FINAL.. being ****ed I contacted them thinking this might have been an error but they replayed back 5 days later saying that It was further invetaged that the programs i was using was a third party and the action was to bann me from game play ... now being really ****ed thinking that maybe i was hacked or something i sent them a nice 4 pg e-mail asking for full details on why and all they could tell me was that there action is final so ya thats my wow experience ...

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brentaal

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Causal in definition of WoW is not raiding 6-12 4 days a week.....

Yeah I know, I was answering to Spookie who said he's been told about ZA and Kara not being casual, but you've posted just a few seconds before me so I didn't bother editing my post and adding his quote.

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I Was a level 53 almost 54 Paladin but some how my computer messed up on me and glitched and caused them to think I was running "Third Party Software" so they banned me for 72 hours

yea... its actually funny because cheaters always use 1 of 2 excuses when they're caught

1. Someone else did it - the computer was hacked, it was their friend, it was their brother, whatever. its never them.

2. The computer mystery - their computer crashed, messed up, glitched, the software somehow got on their system without their knowledge, etc.

its never a new story.

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gregb0b

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yea... its actually funny because cheaters always use 1 of 2 excuses when they're caught

1. Someone else did it - the computer was hacked, it was their friend, it was their brother, whatever. its never them.

2. The computer mystery - their computer crashed, messed up, glitched, the software somehow got on their system without their knowledge, etc.

its never a new story.

KEY LOGGERS! Its funny that people get key logged... It makes you wonder what kind of person they are in real life. Lets just click on anything or install add ons by exes!

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That's just the thing. WoW is nothing but the old grind formula. Walking around waiting for mobs to spawn and killing them hundreds of times is not my idea of fun. No-one has made my ideal MMO yet. Though Hellgate London is probobly the best casual game I've played online.

You do know that WoW has these things called "quests" right? They actually eliminate the need to grind. If you don't know how to get from 1 to 70 without grinding, then you don't know how to play WoW.

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Spookie

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KEY LOGGERS! Its funny that people get key logged... It makes you wonder what kind of person they are in real life. Lets just click on anything or install add ons by exes!

Some sites have scripts built in to steal accounts. Even I had my account hacked in Feb. Was one of the first on the server to 70, first in Kara then bang.

Everything DE'ed and gold sold. :(

Started on a druid to get away from the drama of it all in the end.

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Shadrack

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That's just the thing. WoW is nothing but the old grind formula. Walking around waiting for mobs to spawn and killing them hundreds of times is not my idea of fun. No-one has made my ideal MMO yet. Though Hellgate London is probobly the best casual game I've played online.

Can you name a game for me that you didn't think was repetitive? People always complain about how repetitive WoW is but compared to what? I don't think it is anymore repetitive than any other game I've ever played. What happens is some of you people have just played the game to absolute death. If you would put the same amount of hours into any other game you would be saying similar things about that particular game.

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Spookie

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If your in a good kara group, you can clear it in less than 3 hours. We cleared in 5 hours last week and that was when we were farting around looking for a lock for illhoof/netherspite.

Good. Meaning past experience? As in knows the bosses and has downed them at least once?

If I took my sister and a bunch of other casuals threw some blues on them and said kill Shade they would wipe on the first explosion.

Point being it's catch 22: I have no doubt casuals could clear Kara with practice. But to kill the bosses and get them on farm. You have to invest hours on consecutive days to learn how to kill a boss. Which most can't.

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