World of Warcraft: Beta Begins

[Diff-chan]

I gotta admit, Im a bit underwhelmed by the game. Its gorgeous, and the cast of characters are great, it seems like they genuinely tried to make every class play differently, and the world looks very nice, but it just doesnt play like anything special. I got to level 10 with my warrior and I went across this fucking bridge to talk to a warrior trainer (figuring he was gonna give me some cool talents or something), and he was like... here is a fetch quest. Then I talked to some other characters there and they were like... here are some fetch quests.

Make no mistake, the game is definitely a solid MMORPG but I am already feeling a bit burned out, which is not a good sign.

Also, I just havent seen enough of what the high-level game is like (level 30+), which is what really matters for a game like this (youre gonna play it "forever", so it better have a lot of good stuff for people who arent n00bs). Ive read some stuff that Blizzard wants to implement heroes like War3 has but I have my doubts on putting uber-characters into the game, as its destroying Star Wars Galaxies as we speak.

I realize all of this may be unpopular as it looks like the game is already being christened as the best MMO ever and is destined to put every other one in the bargain bin (check out Got Next's horribly written preview for some of this hyperbole)... but thats just not the case. Its good but nothing special. Dont believe the hype.

[Rumpy]

I'd be cool of they had "storm the castle" kind of quests. Something different to do. It looks like there are a lot of trade skills though. Machinery, hunting (skining), fishing, mining, cooking, herbology, blacksmith...that's just the ones I've seen so far.

[Diff-chan]

Yea, there are, but Ill tell you, I signed up for mining with my dwarf and its lame... you click on this "find ore deposits" button and walk around and try to find the copper veins in the area. There arent enough veins, and its tedious as hell. Its actually worse than Ultima Online's mining system, because UO at least had rich deposits on certain mountainsides right outside of town so you can just plop yourself there and mine to your heart's content.

I also tried First Aid with my warrior, thats a little better, because you use cloth you loot of dead guys. The crafting interface itself is very similar to SWG's, but slightly better because you have to click a few less times.

But in all honesty, crafting in WOW just isnt that good. It sucks in all the other MMOs Ive played, so its not like its fucking up something that other people have gotten right, but Blizzard in their infinite wisdom has not made an enjoyable crafting system from what I can see.

[Mode7]

Its good but nothing special.

Word. It's like they built this fantastic world filled with solid characters, but forgot to give them anything meaningful to do.

[Rumpy]

Damn it, I can't get on for some reason.

[Drewbacca]

I'm going to see if I can log back on and play right now.

[Mode7]

Um, she's workin' for me.

[Rumpy]

Nelth was going up and down...not sure why. Seems fine now. EDIT: "World server is down."

[Rumpy]

Me and Andrew did some traveling, the human city is amazing, and the forrest is sick. Lot of fun flying over the undead area.

[Drewbacca]

That was definitely a lot of fun. I experienced a huge lag spike when the Griffin came in for a landing, but other than that it was amazing. I wish that the Griffon trainers would give you more options of towns to visit, but it was so great. We didn't fight too much stuff but it was fun.

I bullied around a few chickens. FuryFox: Where are you? I'm planning on travelling around a LOT. This thing ends on Thursday so there's no point in levelling up very much since it's wasted energy so I'm wasting my time seeing the sights. I really like the undead territory.

Does anybody know if Orcs and Undead are killed on sight in the Alliance towns? I know the Undead can swim underwater forever, so sneaking in to a human village would be easy pickens.