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[DrunkenBeard]

If you're in EU, Argent Dawn is a great place to be. PvE though ... very PvE and a great RP community. There is little to no PvP though. If you want a pretty crappy community but great world PvP, the answer would be Outland. For organizedd PvP I'd suggest Stormscale.

Low population servers are never good, unless you're in a high end guild competing for server firsts.

[Lord Nite]

I am actually pleased to say that my guild is now 4/8 in normal Dragon Soul. Yes, it may not be as glamorous as 8/8 Heroic, but, for a guild that doesn't have a solid 10 man team, we're doing pretty good.

[Eric Veteran]

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[Shaun N.]

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Damn i missed it. What was it? :p

[the evn show]

I left my guild the other day. I think that some people simply weren't pulling their weight and that the close personal relationships made them immune to criticism for sub-standard performance. Rather than logging in every night and raging that we should be doing something about certain people I opted to step aside so they could find somebody to play with that will better suit their goals/play style. I left with an offer to pug-in each week until they find a suitable replacement and/or there's a policy change but I'm not expecting to hear back. I simply can't afford 12+ hours a week of raiding (as opposed to just being logged in while I'm AFK making dinner) and I think my old guild was drifting towards the mid-tier group that are fine with slow progress that chase nerfs and out-gear content. I much prefer to push content while undergeared so I can get to farming stage quicker and play less.

So now the issue of finding a solid 10m guild (I prefer 10m to 25m having done both). There are very few 10m perform at a high level (8/8) and fewer still that need a priest. I think I might get trapped into 25m content as a way to kill time going into 5.0. I have offers from every guild on my current server (last check I was the best geared and most experienced player on shadowmoon) so it's not a big deal to find "any raid" but I want to find a "good raid".

Guess I should brush up the ol' resume and start shopping around. I've never actually applied to join a guild before (and only been in 3 guilds since the game started. The first merged into the second which merged into the third). This should be fun.

[Amarok]

The way I look at this game has changed so much over the years.

I started playing WoW when it first came out and my first guild at level 60 was THE raiding guild on my server. It was fun, and I was young back then I could do the whole "You need to raid this many nights a week at this time until this time blah blah." thing but there is always the issue of having to worry about stepping on someone's toes - Or maybe that's not the best way to word it. Anyway that guild fizzled out after AQ40 - We never did kill C'thun. We wiped on Twin Emps so much for so long and then when we did get to C'thun we didn't really have the motivation to continue. From then until the end of the first expansion I was in a much more casual guild and having come from a hardcore guild I was a little annoyed at the people who just kind of tagged along and didn't contribute as much as the core members. At the start of WotLK I joined a different guild on a different server and had quite a bit of fun with that guild until it died. After that I took an 8 month break from WoW and when I went back I found myself in the aforementioned guild with dead weight - and the same people that were standing in fire in the vanilla WoW raids were standing in fire in the WotLK raids. At the time I was a little bit amused that in years of playing the game they hadn't learned anything, but most of my annoyance had faded. I did ICC with that group and then I stopped playing until Cataclysm came out.

In Cataclysm I leveled my "main" to 85, tanked a couple instances, transferred to a new server to play with some old friends, and then stopped playing from February until whenever 4.3 came out. I did the LFR thing and that was actually fun despite the people in it that set out to ruin other people's enjoyment. The thing is, now I'm 25 years old, my priorities in life are different, my circle of friends is established, and I play games solely for fun and in much more limited amounts than when I was younger - So when I read the guild recruitment threads for the guilds on my server and see that they expect 80% attendance and raid 4 nights a week for 4 hours per night - Or when I see someone tell someone else that they suck and are the worst because they have a 35 str gem instead of a 40 str gem, I'm greatly amused and a little saddened and I realize that those people that I made fun of to myself and to my friends for standing in fire and playing very casually and just coming to raids and soaking up loot, they probably had it right and they probably got more enjoyment out of the game than I ever did. Funny how that works. So now I've just been playing around on alts and doing LFR a bit while waiting for my paid time to expire until it's time to play around in panda land.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I'm going through the motions of not knowing what the heck I want to play. I'm in a pretty good leveling guild, they put caps on levels for a couple of weeks at a time, and no heirlooms allowed.

Current cap is 55.

Have a mage, rogue and warlock in the 30's. Just started a Paladin. I tried a Druid for something different but I can't handle staring at the same model for 85 levels :p I've never tried Shaman or Priest. I picked up the cata CE for ?15 yesterday so I guess I could try a Goblin and see if a new starting zone is a fresh change.

I think the Blizzard restructure is putting me off as most classes don't get their bread and butter talents till high 40's, 50's and beyond. Also I believe a hybrid class would do best for me, tend to get bored of DPS only classes, even although DPS is all I really know. Stepping outside that and trying healing/tank would be a fresh perspective.

[Joseph B]

I left my guild the other day. I think that some people simply weren't pulling their weight and that the close personal relationships made them immune to criticism for sub-standard performance. Rather than logging in every night and raging that we should be doing something about certain people I opted to step aside so they could find somebody to play with that will better suit their goals/play style. I left with an offer to pug-in each week until they find a suitable replacement and/or there's a policy change but I'm not expecting to hear back. I simply can't afford 12+ hours a week of raiding (as opposed to just being logged in while I'm AFK making dinner) and I think my old guild was drifting towards the mid-tier group that are fine with slow progress that chase nerfs and out-gear content. I much prefer to push content while undergeared so I can get to farming stage quicker and play less.

So now the issue of finding a solid 10m guild (I prefer 10m to 25m having done both). There are very few 10m perform at a high level (8/8) and fewer still that need a priest. I think I might get trapped into 25m content as a way to kill time going into 5.0. I have offers from every guild on my current server (last check I was the best geared and most experienced player on shadowmoon) so it's not a big deal to find "any raid" but I want to find a "good raid".

Guess I should brush up the ol' resume and start shopping around. I've never actually applied to join a guild before (and only been in 3 guilds since the game started. The first merged into the second which merged into the third). This should be fun.

You could just break until MoP, I mean you've pretty much experienced all of what this expansion has to offer so far, play something else for a bit?

I remember when I would break for several months, then come back and get addicted all over again... It's like taking a break from sex lol.

[Lithelinia]

Did you both level as shadow? I've heard levelling as disc to 60 (or is it 80?), then shadow, is recommended?

I leveled 1-60 as Holy and then 70+ as Shadow. Shadow is probably the easiest to lvl up as.

[the evn show]

Reading week started Friday: I'm using the week to level an alliance resto druid. Well, that and painting my house - but there's not much to do once the paint is drying. If you've got something around level 60 and want to do some RDF I'll probably log in either this evening or tomorrow for a few hours.

[04paynem]

The way I look at this game has changed so much over the years.

I started playing WoW when it first came out and my first guild at level 60 was THE raiding guild on my server. It was fun, and I was young back then I could do the whole "You need to raid this many nights a week at this time until this time blah blah." thing but there is always the issue of having to worry about stepping on someone's toes - Or maybe that's not the best way to word it. Anyway that guild fizzled out after AQ40 - We never did kill C'thun. We wiped on Twin Emps so much for so long and then when we did get to C'thun we didn't really have the motivation to continue. From then until the end of the first expansion I was in a much more casual guild and having come from a hardcore guild I was a little annoyed at the people who just kind of tagged along and didn't contribute as much as the core members. At the start of WotLK I joined a different guild on a different server and had quite a bit of fun with that guild until it died. After that I took an 8 month break from WoW and when I went back I found myself in the aforementioned guild with dead weight - and the same people that were standing in fire in the vanilla WoW raids were standing in fire in the WotLK raids. At the time I was a little bit amused that in years of playing the game they hadn't learned anything, but most of my annoyance had faded. I did ICC with that group and then I stopped playing until Cataclysm came out.

In Cataclysm I leveled my "main" to 85, tanked a couple instances, transferred to a new server to play with some old friends, and then stopped playing from February until whenever 4.3 came out. I did the LFR thing and that was actually fun despite the people in it that set out to ruin other people's enjoyment. The thing is, now I'm 25 years old, my priorities in life are different, my circle of friends is established, and I play games solely for fun and in much more limited amounts than when I was younger - So when I read the guild recruitment threads for the guilds on my server and see that they expect 80% attendance and raid 4 nights a week for 4 hours per night - Or when I see someone tell someone else that they suck and are the worst because they have a 35 str gem instead of a 40 str gem, I'm greatly amused and a little saddened and I realize that those people that I made fun of to myself and to my friends for standing in fire and playing very casually and just coming to raids and soaking up loot, they probably had it right and they probably got more enjoyment out of the game than I ever did. Funny how that works. So now I've just been playing around on alts and doing LFR a bit while waiting for my paid time to expire until it's time to play around in panda land.

I'm 26 here, and your story matches mine nearly 100%

edit: have to add in that during one of my prolonged breaks I got married, and now have a son. So now even less time to play WoW but I still try because it entertains me, even if it is just for an hour every other night or so.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

Yeah though I'm only 20 college is eating up a lot of my time so I really like LFR. I'm not sure if I will go back to a set raid schedule anytime soon in any game. SWTOR might be it where I make a night or two a week as my guild there is pretty casual. I would just drop wow but I took the annual pass for the beta.

[Lord Nite]

My guild got to Spine last night and, after 3 attempts, we called it. We are making some excellent progression, in my mind, and I'm glad to be part of a guild that really wants to try but isn't being elitist about it.

[Ricktown]

hey guys, would someone send me a scroll of resurrection, just pm or reply and ill PM u my email. thanks sorry for the random post

[the evn show]

Selling PvE mounts: 135k. Heroic rag, glory T11/12. I can probably work out titles for 50-75% off that (ie: if you just want Dragonslayer or Firelord) and if you wanted a heroic deathwing mount and are prepared to eat a server transfer (plus, possibly faction change) I could make that happen for 2-3x more.

@Ricktown if you need a scroll, I could send you one.

[Prosidius]

So a bunch of new MoP information got released yesterday. The final raid of the expansion will be interesting...

[Lord Nite]

Honestly, I can't wait to slap the taste out of Garroshs mouth. I couldn't stand him in Burning Crusade, and I can't stand him now.

By the way, Beta Testing coming soon!!

[Dotdot]

anyone need a scroll pm me plz

[S00N3R FR3AK]

So they say MoP isn't a joke and then they go and do this. I'm still buying the CE for this xpac but come on blizz this is just bating people.

Within the Brewery, for instance, you'll face a giant rabbit boss called Hoptalus. After you fight your way through packs of vicious bunnies, some of which carry explosives, Hoptalus bursts from a beer keg and assaults you with a whirlwind (which Blizzard is calling a furlwind), a carrot breath attack and a hop attack. "He actually hops can land on someone," said Stockton. "When he does that he puts a giant marker on the ground so that you can see it and know where he's coming."

IGN

[Muhammad Farrukh]

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria beta 'very close'

Blizzard says testing period for upcoming expansion is imminent, all can opt in, but "primary focus" will be adding Annual Pass holders.

Beta testing for World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria will begin shortly, Blizzard has announced. The developer launched a beta opt-in FAQ late last night for the upcoming expansion, filling gamers in on the trial's details.

Players interested in participating in the Mists of Pandaria beta can opt in today via their Battle.net accounts. Blizzard did not say when the beta will begin, but noted that players chosen for the trial will be alerted via email.

Players will not be forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement to participate in the Mists of Pandaria beta period. The developer made clear that Mists of Pandaria is an in-development product, and anything gamers encounter in the trial is not necessarily representative of the final product.

Blizzard did not say how many gamers it plans to invite to the Mists of Pandaria beta test, but did say its "primary focus" will be making sure all WOW Annual Pass holders are granted access to the trial period. Announced in October 2011, the WOW Annual Pass rewards gamers who make a 12-month commitment to WOW with a free copy of Diablo III, among other items.

Mists of Pandaria is WOW's fourth expansion. It follows The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of the Lich King (2008), and Cataclysm (2010). The add-on is set on the new continent of Pandaria and focuses on the Pandaren as well as the monk player class. The expansion pack, which does not have a release date, will also increase the player level cap to 90.

GameSpot

[Prosidius]

Beta started today.

[Shaun N.]

Yup - still wait on my invite

[Slane]

When did annual pass go live, and did I give anyone a Scroll here? Just noticed I got 1 month from it, but have no idea who I gave it to.

[S00N3R FR3AK]

They should be getting everyone is as the wording I believe was access as soon as it went live.

[Muhammad Farrukh]

Next two World of Warcraft expansions planned

Blizzard COO Paul Sams confirms Mists of Pandaria follow-ups already in the works for long-running MMORPG.

World of Warcraft's fourth expansion, Mists of Pandaria, only just entered beta testing this week and has no release date. Despite this, developer Blizzard has confirmed it will extend the game's life with a fifth expansion and additional future follow-ups.

Speaking to CVG at an event at the developer's Irvine, California, headquarters recently, Blizzard COO Paul Sams was asked if he saw potential for expansions beyond Mists of Pandaria. He replied, "Absolutely, because I know what the next one is. So, that being said, I think there's a lot of opportunity."

Gamers shouldn't get excited about a Mists of Pandaria follow-up too soon. Sams said the team at Blizzard has only an "idea, a general framework" for the expansion.

On top of a fifth WOW expansion, Sams said he has already seen a glimpse of what's next for the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

"I got the pitch from [blizzard senior vice president of creative development Chris Metzen] of what they plan for 6.0, and I'm pretty geeked up about it. They already know what they're going to be doing for multiple expansions ahead."

Finally, Sams addressed the health of WOW. He said he envisions the game remaining strong.

"I think the future of World of Warcraft continues to be bright, and I think Mists of Pandaria is going to breathe huge life into what I believe is the best MMO out there," he said. "I think the number of people we have playing and the level of enthusiasm they have for the game suggests that to be the case."

Mists of Pandaria will be WOW's fourth expansion. It follows The Burning Crusade (2007), Wrath of the Lich King (2008), and Cataclysm (2010).

Since peaking at an all-time high player base of 12 million in 2010, WOW has steadily shed subscribers, dropping to a current tally of 10.2 million. The developer said it has no intention to switch to a free-to-play business model, insisting it is happy with its $15/per month subscription plan.

GameSpot