Diddums

I wanted to type out a bit of a post based on my experiences so far. As someone who played retail extensively on and off throughout the game's lifespan, I feel I am fairly qualified to comment on this. The retail game is, without wanting to sound too politically correct, a load of wank. It started off as a the game we all know and love and slowly devolved into little more than a boring, lonely race to max level. The zones all feel dead and unoccupied as everyone's either in their garrison or class hall, or dawdling in a city waiting for the dungeon queue to pop, professions have had so little love that Blizzard even went so far as to remove some of them (first aid for example). The community is toxic and hateful, the ease at which anything is achieved is clearly not intended to be fun, it's intended to make money. This seems to have happened when Blizzard merged with Activision. I know, shock horror. It got so bad that I was literally forcing myself to play as there was nothing else to do. Everything felt like a chore, there was no challenge, no satisfaction, it was literally just start at point A, do the things to point B, level up, rinse and repeat. Absolute dogshit and a real shame. The return of Classic is so refreshing, it's genuinely amazing to be playing the game I once loved. For the uninitiated, every MMO that's launched since WoW has at some point been "The WoW killer" - yet they've all failed, each and every single one of them. WoW still stands as the benchmark for all the other efforts and the yardstick against which they're measured. The game had fourteen million people worldwide all paying £9 a month to play it. On top of paying for the expansions. This is on one platform. No game in the history of games can claim to have achieved it. That said, the WoW killer has finally arrived and it's driven such a hard nail in to the game that it's very possible it never recovers. That game is WoW Classic. Blizzard has removed all the things that make the game too easy, in fact it's completely back to barebones stuff. No pets, no achievements, no dungeon / queueing system, no quests on your map, nothing. Every single thing you do in the game now feels like an achievement. You have to actually fight for stuff and if you aggro too many mobs, you're gonna die. End of. In retail I could happily chain-pull 10-15 mobs and zerg them all to death, in this, pulling two mobs of my level or even one below can, and often will result in death. Due to this I am constantly helping others out, even if my efforts are for nothing other than their progress. The amount of lives I've saved is insane and each and every time I get a little thank you. This of course happens to me too, far too many times I've been one-hit away from dying only to have a heal randomly appear out of nowhere, from a passing by priest. He'll then often buff me and leave me to it. As I'm a blacksmith I can make sharpening stones and weightstones to help others out too, so I dish those out like candy too. The fact that the servers aren't all just one big soup of clusterfuckyness any more and are actually generally single entities mean that your reputation matters, just like the good ol' days. Naturally being the lovable, affable happy chappy that I am I'm already starting to become known. My little warrior is only level 16 at the moment, but I'm in no rush and am happily just taking it nice and slow and chilling. This means my mining also comes along nicely as I tend to mine everything I find. When I eventually move in to new areas I'll certainly be ready. The community in this game is completely unrivalled. In fact I'd put money on there not being another game out there with a community like this, it's genuinely fun and helpful. The fact it's so nice and relaxed is great, there's no pressure, you can literally just chill out and kill a mob at a time if you want, or join a dungeon and go ham, it's entirely up to you. I honestly implore all of you to give it a go. Spunk the £9 for a month and see how you get on. If you don't like it, I'll personally give you that £9 back, that's how confident I am. @Plumbers Crack you in particular.

BOSH!

Just a heads up that Chris (naereet) is planning something. I have no idea what or when, but he's taking FG down or something, who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ First he sent this: Then I blocked him, he then followed it up with another headshot, straight for the jugular: I've blocked him on that too, he's banned from here, I suggest you all just block him on whatever social media you have him on as he's clearly still sulking about shit. I'd be lying if I said I'm not intrigued to see what he's up to, exciting stuff! Just watch out for any shady shit going on, I don't think he's much of a threat but I don't want any of you clowns getting dragged in to his little pity party.

So much fun last night, I was actually sore from laughing.

Flamelash it is, join in peeps! Shortest queue with a decent pop, 25mins wait on a friday night is palatable.

ASSFLUTE!

There are literally thousands of mods and addons for WoW. None of them are "cheats", Blizz is shit hot on them, but they all enhance the game in some way, usually by simplification, categorization or organization of items. All they do is take info which is already in the client and format it to make it more accessible / visible /easier to understand. The ones I use for WoW retail (so no guarantee they'll be on Classic, we'll see) are: Bagnon - organizes all your bags in to one nice big bag, also adds colours to items based on rarity, so greens get a green border, blues get blue borders, etc. I couldn't live without this one, it's always the first one I download. Always. Auctioneer/Auctionator (pretty much the same thing) - Load it up, scan the auction house once, and it'll present you with a tooltip for every item in your bag showing loads of useful info, in particular vendor pricing and average auction price. This helps when out and about to decide if you want to keep stuff to sell, or vendor it without heading back to a main city. Recount - This is for dungeons / raids. It'll show how much DPS every person is doing, as well as healing, damage done, activity, etc. This is hands down the most useful addon in dungeons. It'll help you with your rotations as you can click on your name and it'll show you a graph with every ability and how much damage it does. Invaluable, the gold standard of damage meters. You can also broadcast the numbers in any group you want (say, yell, party, guild, etc). Questhelper - Been absolute yonks since I've used this one so it wouldn't surprise me if it's been replaced / surpassed. It helped with quests by placing an arrow on your screen showing where you had to go for certain objectives. Excellent stuff. Gatherer - The more people in your guild who have this, the more powerful it is. Every time someone mines / herbs / skins / fishes something, it saves that data and can overlay all the points on a map, so if you're grinding mining for example you can load up the map, see where all the spawns are, and formulate a route. Healbot - This is the healing addon of choice for me, it arranges all the people in your raid / dungeon in to a nice grid which shows their health, debuffs, etc. Each square in the grid is a clickable item which is a player in your group, so you can simply bind spells to various mouse buttons, mine when I was priesting was left click = flash heal, right click = heal, middle click = greater heal, shift left-click = power word: shield, etc. Sounds complicated but it's a game changer once you get the hang of it. Tidy plates - Organises all the health bars of enemies around you, shows their debuffs, who's got aggro, etc. Coupled with the tanking addon Threat Plates, this will also show who's got threat on various mobs so you know who to taunt and who to intercept as a warrior. Of course none of these are mandatory and I highly recommend the new folks start with the game as vanilla as possible, you can always add the addons as you go. Best Addons for WoW Classic - Wowhead News WWW.WOWHEAD.COM Addons are an important part of WoW's gameplay, demonstrating the dedication and passion of the community to the game. We prepared a list of addons that you can install ahead of time in your Classic client, so... To download addons, you'll need to download the Twitch client and use that. I'll assplain tonight after some MW shenans.

I played the little 2v2 arena thingy which was ok. It was barely enough to scratch the surface, but it did change my opinion from "lolno" to "hmmmm, this might not such that much after all". Again like any AAA title I won't be splashing on release day or pre-ordering but it's certainly put itself in a better light than any CoD before it. We'll see.

Welcome aboard dude, I knew you'd get your shit together and join us one day 😎

Ten Storms was full earlier, maybe Blizz are tweaking atm. Let's see what tomorrow brings, all hop on Discord and pull the trigger 👌

Blizz have got until tomorrow evening. I tried a few different servers this evening and the only one I could log straight in on was that RP server. The rest were massive queues. Let's see tomorrow, I want the decision made tomorrow evening.

I never even knew you know how to internet. Welcome to the forum and stuff?

There will be a guild. It will be called Forever Gaming and it will contain the most awesome motherfuckers (or fatherfuckers, we don't judge) in the world. This thread is where we will discuss this guild.

Here's a site showing all the current waiting times like a good little website does: Launch Classic WoW Server Queue Times (EU) - Wowhead News WWW.WOWHEAD.COM Wonder how long you'll have to wait to get in on EU servers? This will continue to be updated with the current number of players in queue and the estimated time that Blizzard shows on each server.

Go on, tell us about yourself. I'll update the OP as we go. Here's a copypasta for the form: Name: Battletag: Character name: Class: Role: Professions: Awesomeness/10: Name: Diddums Battletag: TBC Character name: Diddums Class: Warrior Role: Tank / Deeps Professions: Mining / blacksmithing Awesomeness/10: 10 ofc. Tagging in a few others here to join in: @Greboth @Bluebear (Already playing, add deets pls) @Misneach_ (MATT KEEP IN MIND YOU NEED AN EU ACCOUNT, DON'T SUB TO A YANK ACCOUNT AS YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO ROLL WITH US) @Plumbers Crack (we'll crack you eventually Dave, resistance is futile) @GazzaGarratt (Mr Density will succumb too, it's only a matter of time) @crispymorgan (If this was a game, Cripspeeee would be the tutorial, the easiest level, just give in dude, succumb to your curiosity) @phil bottle (if this was a game, Philly would be the end boss, will take some convincing but as a team we can defeat him) Elliott - I dunno. This dude's nuts as a fucking hatter. Hasn't even signed up to the forum yet the useless twat.

The million dollar question. At the moment Blizzard can't tell their elbow from their arsehole so the queues are out the door for most servers. They did however make some changes last night which reduced the queues, keep in mind that this was the exact Vanilla experience all those years ago so it will be fixed one way or another, it will just take a bit of time, but hopefully by this weekend. The options in the poll are suggestions from all the various sources I frequent: Flamelash PVP - Elliott plays on here, says queues are decent, PVP so you're gonna hafta fend for yourself. Firemaw PVP - Bakes0310 from Overclockers recommends this one on Alliance, I'll ping him to come and vote here. Noggenfogger PVP - This is where most of the Overclockers Alliance guild have ended up but they're a bit disorganized so I wouldn't count on them for anything. Pyrewood Village PVE - @Bluebear is on this one because he's a chickenshit fanny scared of the other faction. I say we all boo him together. If you have any other suggestions chuck them in here, I'm closing the poll tomorrow night, keep in mind queue times, population, language, you ability to move, etc. I KNOW THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO SACRIFICE YOUR PROGRESS SO FAR BUT SUCK IT UP BUTTERCUP, IT'S FOR THE GREATER GOOD.

Pick your addiction peeps. We'll do server selection in a separate poll.

This will be a sticky so if you have any important stuff you'd like to add, we can add it here and I'll add it to the sticky over time. I'm thinking Battletags, server, faction, etc.

That looks pretty fucking superb!

Well, I have no choice but to be here, I built this bloody place and since handing the keys over to @GazzaGarratt I can't escape 😄

Well there's a name we haven't seen in a while! I always remember you as having the most deceptive username ever, you all-caps'd MDMA-RAMPAGE UK and ended up being such a nice polite and well spoken person that it was confusing. Anyway, glad to see you back dude!

1. You overestimate my ability to read. 2. Shirley you can tie this in with another holibobs or something? Maybe come along in a car for a part of it? You can rent in Europe cheaper than here, and we can meet up. Plenty options 😉

Rightey-o then ladies and gentlemans, I've been floating this idea around lately and there seems to be a fair amount of interest, so I'm going to start making plans. The initial idea was to do it on 125s, we may stick to this idea, we may go a bit bigger, depends on what you lot want. The idea is to have a road trip around Europe, anything from a week to two weeks, on bikes (motorbikes, not bicycles, we're not idiots). This will be: Long Tiring Uncomfortable Painful Wet Expensive THE ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME To put a few ideas and facts in writing: You will need a full UK or international motorcycle licence, regardless of what bike you use. We will likely be raising some bank for charity, charity/ies to be decided. We will likely be doing a Youtube series. We will likely be bringing on some of the Overclockers folks. I started a thread to gauge interest here. We will likely be imposing a budget to keep things interesting, to be decided. We will definitely require a support vehicle. @GazzaGarratt is keen but is time limited and also doesn't want to ride a bike, so he may end up driving. Kyla said she'll ride shotgun with him. If he can't make it we may need to rope someone else in, @Bluebear might be a good one. In the support vehicle/s we'll have tools, fuel, food, luggage, whatever. This will only happen in two years at minimum, so it gives everyone time to start saving, get their licences, save up for gear, and accommodation / fuel / spending money. The route / time is also still yet to be decided, but the only two places I'd like to really visit are Rome (Kyla has been wanting to see Rome for ages, I don't know how bike friendly it is), and my mum here, in one of the most beautiful cities in Holland: This is of course purely a wish, I am not expecting anything, but it'd be fucking awesome to ride past on whatever contraptions we end up going on. If it's not practical then we skip it, no biggie. And on that note, please can all those interested start listing destinations they'd like to go to, that way we can start formulating a route. @Stretch616 is also planning a large road trip in his camperfagon, so maybe we could tie the two together and meet up at a few places. @Misneach_ even said he might be interested, but it might make more sense for him to hire a bike. I'll start compiling some resources, but please ask as many questions as you want / can, I'm going to make this happen one way or another so start saving! Links: HOW MUCH IS A MOTORCYCLE LICENCE? What’s the real cost of getting a motorbike licence? | Highway Code Resources MOCKTHEORYTEST.COM How to get a motorbike licence and pass your test - Confused.com WWW.CONFUSED.COM Here's all you need to know to pass your bike test with flying colours. I'll post up more as we go, but let's start off my formulating a route! Cheerio!

I had a wee lil' peekaboo at this last night and I gotta admit it looks pretty decent. The lack of minimap is going to be a big one for me.

No sir! That's Windows telling me to stop being a tightarse, but luckily, and I'm sure you can relate to this, when it's in the last few pixels of a 32" monitor you don't even notice it 🤣