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What server and faction do you play in evn.?

Mostly I spend my time on shadowmoon (us). I bounce back and forth between factions.

I have a human paladin and undead priest + mage. My priest is going either goblin or gnome we just

haven't decided what faction we want to play on for this expansion (I'm pushing for alliance).

My mage is in queue to become a gnome, my paladin is in queue to become a tauren. I'm just waiting

for the servers to come up.

I also have a bloodelf DK but it gets played exclusively to tank our Saturday alt run. As soon as Dec 7

roles around and I'm not indebted to 24 people that fed me shadowmourn shards I'll be parking it forever.

DKs aren't fun and haven't been for months.

Questing while in que for dungeon finder is by far the fastest way to level

Yeah I agree. I started playing my Hunter that was about lvl 18 a week ago, I'm now on 66.

Quest and do random dungeons. Plus I have 2 pieces of gear that give me another 20%.

Now says 5:00PM PST. Good, I gotta go to work. I hope the queue won't be too long when they come back up. I re-subbed just to see the shattering :p.

The last time i saw a server queue was when BC launched :p our server has a low population

The last time i saw a server queue was when BC launched :p our server has a low population

i went to the midnight launch party thing at my local eb games and updated in time to get in the game within minutes of midnight and had no queues on my server.

although the server was like only a month old at the time.

although now dungeon finder queues with 2 dps takes only like 5-10 minutes(well it seemed pretty fast anyway)

i went to the midnight launch party thing at my local eb games and updated in time to get in the game within minutes of midnight and had no queues on my server.

although the server was like only a month old at the time.

although now dungeon finder queues with 2 dps takes only like 5-10 minutes(well it seemed pretty fast anyway)

I have Dungeon Finder queues of around 15 minutes as a DPS and as fast as i can click as a tank or healer however never see a queue to log into the server.

So no one is going to hunt down Deathwing

He will spawn in random zones, at random times, and it might be weeks before you see him, also you CANNOT target him from the ground due to his height. Being that we cannot fly until Cataclysm you wont be able to attack him and if you could he would insta kill you anyway as that is what he is meant to do if you are in the zone he is in you will die. Period. (and get an achievement.)

although now dungeon finder queues with 2 dps takes only like 5-10 minutes(well it seemed pretty fast anyway)

I have the exact same results on our server. 1 Mage, 1 Feral (Cat) druid and our queues are 5-10 mins max

So I was alliance. Did loremaster. Faction changed to horde and kept Loremaster. Patch comes I still have loremaster, but (by my reckoning) since I never did the actual horde quests for each zone, I gotta go do 'em all again (even though I have loremaster which says I did do 'em). This blows.

So I was alliance. Did loremaster. Faction changed to horde and kept Loremaster. Patch comes I still have loremaster, but (by my reckoning) since I never did the actual horde quests for each zone, I gotta go do 'em all again (even though I have loremaster which says I did do 'em). This blows.

More gold

It should have been downloaded in the background. 4.0.3a is only a small patch, most of what is needed for the shattering was downloaded in 4.0.1. This is just a switch to turn on all the changes :)

Ive just loaded the client at work and it's downloaded :)

I was really hoping they would sneak in some updated models for the vanilla races. They look so dated now. Maybe they still will with Cataclysm, but I kind of doubt it, since 4.0.3a is (almost) everything Cataclysm is without the new content. Still going to cross my fingers for it though :p

wow dual spec only 10g! woohoo! bought some cool glyphs and then still had a bunch of money left so i bought 3 frostweave bags so i have 4 20 slots bags now :D(had a primal mooncloth bag from tbc already). back down tot 150g from 450g and now to hit 80(hit 79 tonight :D) and farm some more goldzorz!

actually got out dpsed by my bro on his dsic priest in a dungeon tonight, but there was a hunter with top epics in there intagibbing everything including the bosses though. even replaced another one of my tbc arena epics :D

countdown to my transfer out continues.

does anyone know if you can queu for dungeons with a lower level? my bro is 69 on his priest on aegwynn and once i transfer going to help him level.wonder if we can do dungeons between quests in tbc land till he hits 80 or if the dungeon finder has a level restriction on it.

also i vaguely remember reading some thing about gear in cata being like tbc where it instantly replaced vanilla epics. has anyone heard any thing more about this? or is it just rumour?

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