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B|*ZZ4rD newsThursday, 17 February 2005
WOW half week
back to work, just finding my feet after a few days away :-)
before i forget a new penny arcade on wow ;-)
http://img.penny-arcade.com/2005/20050216l.jpg
anyway,
well had a few days of work to play www.worldofwarcraft.com
and it was great fun :-)
I'm now very tired and finding it hard not to try and click on things in real life
and fighting the desire to sell things on the Auction house and check my in game mail!
lol
anyway, have taken around 500 screenshots already 0_o;;
and the plan is to post some here and create some kind of diary,
I don't know if that will really happen as I just don't have the time...
a quick run down of the last few days...
Friday
started the game, headed home little early, got home around 6 ish I think
the account creation servers were down for a few hours, so had a look over all the collector edition,
a few hours later, just as I had about finished looking at stuff,
Lowe and behold the account creation servers come up,
I spend a few more hours trying to create an account!
as thousands of people trying to connect to the same webpage..
not fun :-) so frustrating.
it's funny people posting on the forums
"blizzard should have know better, it happened in US so they should have fixed it"
yeah fair enough, but blizz arn't gonna buy a load of new servers JUST to deal with one night of heavy traffic!
anyway, eventually get on and play till 2 I think
finished at lvl6 maybe, after doing a few noobie level's around night elf starting area.
oh yeah, I started a night elf Druid btw ;-)
Saturday
band practice with da band, which ended up being cut short ;-/
did more night elf areas
Sunday
saw Maria through most of the day
but in the evening did the rest of the night elf areas, played till 4am
Monday
got the druid bear form, had to do some missions to get this, is pretty cool :-)
at around level 15 moved over to westfall in human lands, also made a run to the dwarf area and got all the flight roots
was funny running the wrong way to iron forge (dwarf land city)
bumped into some dwarfs, I thought hey im going the right way, they killed me.
turned out they were elite 'dark dwarfs' :-/
played till 2am
Tuesday
more quests around westfall, and in alberdine, another night elf place.
got the druid water form, which was a pain in the arse to get and although handy looks like an ugly seal :-/
played till 5.30am
Wednesday
got cat form, which I was pleased to say didn't have a quest to it ;-)
and a load of new spells! I haven't even used fully yet!
I made my first visit to Auction House in iron forge, like an in game E-bay,
so that was interesting and will be selling some stuff there ;-)
did some little quests and helped a lower level group with some quests and in the evening...
myself Dan and a few others from the 'blackcats' guild did the Deadmines instance :-)
great fun, we did really well, only died once...and apart from me missing a mission and crashing before hand went very well!
ended up level 21 (and a half ;-) night elf druid after all this :-)
I'll post some screen shots soon when I can
before i forget a new penny arcade on wow ;-)
http://img.penny-arcade.com/2005/20050216l.jpg
anyway,
well had a few days of work to play www.worldofwarcraft.com
and it was great fun :-)
I'm now very tired and finding it hard not to try and click on things in real life
and fighting the desire to sell things on the Auction house and check my in game mail!
lol
anyway, have taken around 500 screenshots already 0_o;;
and the plan is to post some here and create some kind of diary,
I don't know if that will really happen as I just don't have the time...
a quick run down of the last few days...
Friday
started the game, headed home little early, got home around 6 ish I think
the account creation servers were down for a few hours, so had a look over all the collector edition,
a few hours later, just as I had about finished looking at stuff,
Lowe and behold the account creation servers come up,
I spend a few more hours trying to create an account!
as thousands of people trying to connect to the same webpage..
not fun :-) so frustrating.
it's funny people posting on the forums
"blizzard should have know better, it happened in US so they should have fixed it"
yeah fair enough, but blizz arn't gonna buy a load of new servers JUST to deal with one night of heavy traffic!
anyway, eventually get on and play till 2 I think
finished at lvl6 maybe, after doing a few noobie level's around night elf starting area.
oh yeah, I started a night elf Druid btw ;-)
Saturday
band practice with da band, which ended up being cut short ;-/
did more night elf areas
Sunday
saw Maria through most of the day
but in the evening did the rest of the night elf areas, played till 4am
Monday
got the druid bear form, had to do some missions to get this, is pretty cool :-)
at around level 15 moved over to westfall in human lands, also made a run to the dwarf area and got all the flight roots
was funny running the wrong way to iron forge (dwarf land city)
bumped into some dwarfs, I thought hey im going the right way, they killed me.
turned out they were elite 'dark dwarfs' :-/
played till 2am
Tuesday
more quests around westfall, and in alberdine, another night elf place.
got the druid water form, which was a pain in the arse to get and although handy looks like an ugly seal :-/
played till 5.30am
Wednesday
got cat form, which I was pleased to say didn't have a quest to it ;-)
and a load of new spells! I haven't even used fully yet!
I made my first visit to Auction House in iron forge, like an in game E-bay,
so that was interesting and will be selling some stuff there ;-)
did some little quests and helped a lower level group with some quests and in the evening...
myself Dan and a few others from the 'blackcats' guild did the Deadmines instance :-)
great fun, we did really well, only died once...and apart from me missing a mission and crashing before hand went very well!
ended up level 21 (and a half ;-) night elf druid after all this :-)
I'll post some screen shots soon when I can
