World of Warcraft - lol wow sux, *plays Rift*, lol back 2 wow

[greenspandan]

i am Pizzapants the Elemental Shaman, proud Tauren master of the elements. 6k gearscore. over 12,000 DPS on Festergut. founder and GM of Mannoroth's oldest active guild.

[greenspandan]

i'm getting pretty tired of WoW though ... i'm way more into StarCraft 2 these days.

[Unforgiven]

WoW is just way too easy. I don't mean time-wise, but the content is too easily beatable by the average player to provide any sort of challenge worth mentioning.

I played in beta and the first year of it going live and got bored and quit. About four months ago I got convinced by a few friends to try it out again. I made a hunter, got 80 and rolled through ICC 25 man all the way through to lich king all within like two and a half months. I've already quit again because repeating daily quests over and over and waiting on new content is painfully boring.

Oddly enough I loved diablo 2 and still make a new character on ladder resets to mess around and that is way more repetition. Though it's kind of depressing because that game is always hacked and items duped so fast that it's economy is a mess.

Anyways, just playing Heroes of Newerth till d3 comes out.

[mal21401]

hope you all get carpal tunnel......go out and mow your mom's grass, for god's sake.

[IONTOP]

hope you all get carpal tunnel......go out and mow your mom's grass, for god's sake.

But... My mom lives in Florida, and they have people that mow their grass in the community they live in... It just doesn't seem worth it to buy a plane ticket, go down there, rent a car, mow the grass, get back in the car, return it, hop back on the plane and come back..

But... Maybe with the new wifi on planes, I could play WoW on the way down there! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mal21401]

But... My mom lives in Florida, and they have people that mow their grass in the community they live in... It just doesn't seem worth it to buy a plane ticket, go down there, rent a car, mow the grass, get back in the car, return it, hop back on the plane and come back..

But... Maybe with the new wifi on planes, I could play WoW on the way down there! AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a skins fan with a sense of humor......shocking i tell you, shocking.

[IONTOP]

a skins fan with a sense of humor......shocking i tell you, shocking.

I was being serious...

[Soup]

Heys guys, I've got a question maybe someone could help.

I don't play the game a whole lot but I want to beat my little cousin. I keep on getting owned every single time. I don't understand what I do wrong. I can't use the keyboard, I only use my mouse. Do I really have to get deep into the game and learn how to use my keyboard and the mouse to play well?

I don't do the whole internet thing with world of warcraft,I just play one on one against him.

Tips or any hints would help.

[IONTOP]

I don't play the game a whole lot but I want to beat my little cousin. I keep on getting owned every single time. I don't understand what I do wrong. I can't use the keyboard, I only use my mouse. Do I really have to get deep into the game and learn how to use my keyboard and the mouse to play well?

I don't do the whole internet thing with world of warcraft,I just play one on one against him.

Tips or any hints would help.

Personally, the mouse is a beginner tool... If you want to beat your cousin, I'd use the keyboard. You have so many more options, the length of the keyboard facilitates range, although you could use your mouse as a ranged weapon by holding the end of the cord and swinging it around your head, or like a rock, and cup it in your hand and bash your cousin over the head repeatedly.

The keyboard could also be used as a dull sword, if you hold it horizontally, it is pretty aerodynamic and if you're going for a surface area hit, you could imprint his face with qwerty...

Good luck man, I hope this helps...

[Soup]

Personally, the mouse is a beginner tool... If you want to beat your cousin, I'd use the keyboard. You have so many more options, the length of the keyboard facilitates range, although you could use your mouse as a ranged weapon by holding the end of the cord and swinging it around your head, or like a rock, and cup it in your hand and bash your cousin over the head repeatedly.

The keyboard could also be used as a dull sword, if you hold it horizontally, it is pretty aerodynamic and if you're going for a surface area hit, you could imprint his face with qwerty...

Good luck man, I hope this helps...

are the orks the best to use? I use them becuase my cousin uses them.

And since I'm asking anyways, Do you have a link that can give me an outline to the keyboard shortcuts, I don't know any of them?

Thanks

[greenspandan]

WoW is just way too easy. I don't mean time-wise, but the content is too easily beatable by the average player to provide any sort of challenge worth mentioning.

if you didn't find it challenging then you either weren't attempting the hard stuff or you were being carried by others. did you beat the lich king on heroic mode?

hope you all get carpal tunnel......go out and mow your mom's grass, for god's sake.

are the orks the best to use? I use them becuase my cousin uses them.

Soup, it sounds like you're talking about WarCraft 2 or WarCraft 3 (as opposed to WoW). if it's Warcraft 3, then i would say try out a different race. the night elves are pretty good for beginners. humans too. undead are a little weird, though.

what you should do is come up with a good quick "rush" strategy. if you get a nice tight build order to mass first-tier units, you will probably overpower your cousin early on. specifically, build 2 or 3 of whatever building the first-tier units come out of, and just pump a whole bunch in a short amount of time.

[MrSilverMaC]

My account got hacked on Wednesday. My guild bank was cleaned out and all my characters stripped clean except for my main (80 pally, which I've played since 2005) which was deleted completely. Blizzard is looking into it and has assured me they can restore everything. So far though all I can do is wait.

Blizzard sells an authenticator for $6.50 on their site which makes it impossible for anyone to access your account without it, even if they find your password. I'm getting one, and highly recommend you all do the same.

Actually, I was hearing from some of my guildies the other night that they were hacking the authenticators not too long ago with some virus that gave them a quick opening.

Not sure if it was fixed yet or not. They were talking about it while one of our guildies accounts had been hacked and foiled since they demoted them to the point of no bank access. Sucks for him though cause I am sure he had well over 100k gold all legit.

[ixcuincle]

i'm getting pretty tired of WoW though ... i'm way more into StarCraft 2 these days.

Lol I still haven't won a Starcraft 2 game yet

****ing keep running out of resources, or get invaded 5 minutes into the game when I'm trying to build up an army. Back in Starcraft 1 days they had "NR20", now everyone just comes after you after 3 or 4 minutes with 4 Zealots and you're dead.

The last game I played, I was able to avoid being eliminated for a while, mainly because I played as Zerg and had Zerglings ready for my opponent's rush. Eventually I didn't have enough Vespene gas despite committing a massive amount of drones to the geysers, I ran out of minerals, and was overrun.

That game is tough for me

[greenspandan]

well, you've got to get some troops up fast to counter a rush. that's just part of the game. you can't simply tech up to higher class units without earning a tactical advantage.

[Homercles82]

Actually, I was hearing from some of my guildies the other night that they were hacking the authenticators not too long ago with some virus that gave them a quick opening.

Not sure if it was fixed yet or not. They were talking about it while one of our guildies accounts had been hacked and foiled since they demoted them to the point of no bank access. Sucks for him though cause I am sure he had well over 100k gold all legit.

The only way they can hack your account is if they are able to infect your system then they have to monitor your system constantly and wait for that 60 second window of when you authenticator code available. It is a very timing specific situation and is not common enough to warrant a fix and besides there is nothing Blizz can do to fix the problem. The only way they can get the spyware into your system to perform this is IF you click on one of their links in the fake emails or visit suspect WoW websites.

If he had 100,000 gold that has a street value of around $10,000 assuming they are sellling it for $10/1K which is what they are spamming in the game. And that is a payday for them.