Man am I tearing through the Nagrand ogres. I define my downtime by how long it takes to move to the next one.
I was helping a friend farm the Zaxxis rebels for rep for Consortium. And the two of us (prot paladin in DPS gear and a warlock) were just slaughtering them. We found our limitation to be respawn time.
There was me and an undead rogue farming the ogres. Between the two of us we caused such a genocide that the dynamic respawn rate sometimes made new ogres pop on the same spot before I looted the last one. :P
We had an unspoken agreement over there. If either of us attacked the other one, that'd start a grudge of epic proportions and we wouldn't get any more rep that night. So instead we ganked any non-70 of the opposing faction also killing ogres there so we could have them for ourselves. :P
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What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
Grinder, from Red Alert 2 by Frank Klepacki. He did pretty much all the music for the CnC/Red Alert series.
What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
Grinder, from Red Alert 2 by Frank Klepacki. He did pretty much all the music for the CnC/Red Alert series.
Question for you guys - does WoW run well on Vista? I vaguely remember a thread about it in the old forum, but a search yielded nothing. More specifically, will WoW run well on the following setup?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
MONITORS 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
Grinder, from Red Alert 2 by Frank Klepacki. He did pretty much all the music for the CnC/Red Alert series.
Except for Generals. And maybe CnC3?
Aside from the obvious, "Brainfreeze" is my favorite of his stuff. It's from RA2 as well.
What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
Grinder, from Red Alert 2 by Frank Klepacki. He did pretty much all the music for the CnC/Red Alert series.
Except for Generals. And maybe CnC3?
Aside from the obvious Hell March, "Brainfreeze" is my favorite of his stuff. It's from RA2 as well.
Yeah, I don't really count Generals as a C&C game (even though I actually like it) and C&C3 was after he moved on to work with Petroglyph with the other old Westwood guys.
Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
A few guild on our server, including us, limit raiding to three nights a week and don't have attendance requirements. We have Karazhan on farm in two nights. Another guild with the same schedule I can think of specifically is in SSC.
Question for you guys - does WoW run well on Vista? I vaguely remember a thread about it in the old forum, but a search yielded nothing. More specifically, will WoW run well on the following setup?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
MONITORS 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
No, WoW runs like shit on Vista.
I run on 2 gigs of ram, 7950 gx2 nvidia, dual core processor, everything over-clocked on a liquid cooled system and I still get pure shit fps in Shatt.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of RAM? Kind of overkill.
Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
That's how we run (Beasts of Unusual Size), we run Kara usually once a week, sometimes twice if we have enough people. Hell we didn't run it at all last week, but every time we do, we pretty much one-shot most bosses.
As much as I would like to raid more, I think the fact we keep it casual is why I haven't burned out yet. I used to be in raiding guilds, and after 3 or so months I would burn out for a few months, then come back, rinse repeat. It's nice not feeling tied down to the game, but still get to experience some of the end game stuff.
tldr: being in a casual, but very skilled guild is a nice change of pace.
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Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
I wish I could find one like this on my server. My old guild raided 7 nights a week, with mandatory attendance, and then they tried to convince me they were casual in comparison to other guilds.
Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
A few guild on our server, including us, limit raiding to three nights a week and don't have attendance requirements. We have Karazhan on farm in two nights. Another guild with the same schedule I can think of specifically is in SSC.
So I would say yes.
We do three nights a week plus Kara whenever it fits (after a 25-man or on Saturday if people are around). We have a lot of attendance issues. But if people showed up consistently on those three nights, we would have enough time to push more new bosses. It's just hit or miss every week whether we'll have enough healers or whatever.
Anyway, if all you want to do is Kara anyway, you shouldn't have a problem. No one needs 5-6 nights a week for THAT.
Do there exist raid guilds that go raiding, and do well enough at it, but only go out raiding once, twice a week? It seems like every guild recruiting post I look at is like "We raid 5-6 nights a week, all afternoon and night on weekends, (certain percentage)% raid attendance mandatory." I mean, I'd like to get back into Kara, but I've got other things to do most nights, and it'd be comforting to know if there are actually guilds that are go-at-our-own-pace like that.
Yep. On my druid, we raid no more than three times a week. I can't remember when they started running Kara, but Nightbane and Gruul went down in the second week of April(and Maulgar on March 26th), and then Mag down on June 26th. So yeah, the progression hasn't been great(although they got through Kara quickly I think) but there've been member issues. I think it's definitely possible to go at a good rate with 3 nights a week. 1-2 just woudln't be enough though. You need one full night to be learning an encounter, and you'd definitely need another full night for farm content.
Question for you guys - does WoW run well on Vista? I vaguely remember a thread about it in the old forum, but a search yielded nothing. More specifically, will WoW run well on the following setup?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
MONITORS 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
No, WoW runs like shit on Vista.
I run on 2 gigs of ram, 7950 gx2 nvidia, dual core processor, everything over-clocked on a liquid cooled system and I still get pure shit fps in Shatt.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of RAM? Kind of overkill.
And I, for comparison, have almost the exact same setup you mentioned, run in windowed mode (so I can use two screens) with quality turned up to max and I get 50fps in Shatt.
So, in other words, try it and see, and don't let anecdotal evidence on the internet be your guide.
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Question for you guys - does WoW run well on Vista? I vaguely remember a thread about it in the old forum, but a search yielded nothing. More specifically, will WoW run well on the following setup?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
MONITORS 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
No, WoW runs like shit on Vista.
I run on 2 gigs of ram, 7950 gx2 nvidia, dual core processor, everything over-clocked on a liquid cooled system and I still get pure shit fps in Shatt.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of RAM? Kind of overkill.
And I, for comparison, have almost the exact same setup you mentioned, run in windowed mode (so I can use two screens) with quality turned up to max and I get 50fps in Shatt.
So, in other words, try it and see, and don't let anecdotal evidence on the internet be your guide.
What screen rez do you run at? I think that may be my issue, as I run at 1900X1280, maxed resolution settings on a 24" widescreen monitor. If you have my exact setup and are getting 50fps in shat, in windowed mode with that resolution, i call BS.
Well, my old guild was going at (what I thought was) a good rate. Then at least half the guild decided progression wasn't going fast enough for them and jumped ship to join the 6-nights-a-week crowd, and that was the last time our guild ever raided. I'd give up going at "a good rate" in exchange for only being obligated to be here playing WoW two nights and be able to do whatever the rest of the week.
Question for you guys - does WoW run well on Vista? I vaguely remember a thread about it in the old forum, but a search yielded nothing. More specifically, will WoW run well on the following setup?
PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 E6420 Duo Processor(4MB L2 cache,2.13GHZ,1066FSB)
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista™ Home Premium
MEMORY 4GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz - 4 DIMMs
HARD DRIVE 500GB Performance RAID 0 (2 x 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 7200 RPM HDDs)
MONITORS 24 inch UltraSharp™ 2407FPW Widescreen Digital Flat Panel
VIDEO CARD 768MB nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong thread.
No, WoW runs like shit on Vista.
I run on 2 gigs of ram, 7950 gx2 nvidia, dual core processor, everything over-clocked on a liquid cooled system and I still get pure shit fps in Shatt.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of RAM? Kind of overkill.
And I, for comparison, have almost the exact same setup you mentioned, run in windowed mode (so I can use two screens) with quality turned up to max and I get 50fps in Shatt.
So, in other words, try it and see, and don't let anecdotal evidence on the internet be your guide.
What screen rez do you run at? I think that may be my issue, as I run at 1900X1280, maxed resolution settings on a 24" widescreen monitor. If you have my exact setup and are getting 50fps in shat, in windowed mode with that resolution, i call BS.
I run a 19"@1440x900. So no, not the same res, but only a step down. You can call BS if you like. I'll be happy to give a screenshot.
Oh and on Vista, I get the same exact performance in windowed and fullscreen modes.
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I think that's the difference. 1900 to 1440 is a couple steps down. I know there is a 1600 resolution choice as well.
Compared to the performance you get out of XP, Vista really does fall behind. I heard there is some dynamic vista option thing you can disable to help improve performance, but I never really researched or tried it.
Well, I'm currently using a 7 year old laptop with 1 gig of RAM and a 64mb video card to play WoW, so I'm assuming I'll see a slight improvement on my gaming experience. I just haven't used Vista yet.
I think that's the difference. 1900 to 1440 is a couple steps down. I know there is a 1600 resolution choice as well.
Compared to the performance you get out of XP, Vista really does fall behind. I heard there is some dynamic vista option thing you can disable to help improve performance, but I never really researched or tried it.
Well, one nice thing about Vista is the revamped graphics subsystem. So if you are running Aero, you don't get a performance hit (as compared to the same machine) for running in windowed mode, because programs don't have to do overlay tricks or anything to get your 3D stuff in a window. It's all being rendered through the same pipeline as if it were full screen. It's one of those really good ideas that OSX has always done, but Windows couldn't for hardware compatibility reasons.
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We raid 2-3 nights a week (2 kara groups, getting into Gruul's once a week now). We ask new member to be there (or at least show up on time) for 50 percent of raid nights.
We are not casual in that we have tards jumping around running through flame wreaths, sitting in the middle of the healers with overload debuffs, or casters who didn't bring mana potions, etc.
Well, I'm currently using a 7 year old laptop with 1 gig of RAM and a 64mb video card to play WoW, so I'm assuming I'll see a slight improvement on my gaming experience. I just haven't used Vista yet.
My almost brand new machine that was built with Vista in mind, including the video card, runs WoW much better then my wifes machine that is over 4 years old, that still runs on XP.
I believe her video card is 128 MB while mine is 256 MB.
I played WoW at launch but just started on a free 10-day trial of the BC. Quick question for you guys:
How the hell do I get mining skillups at a decent rate? Through all my questing in Ghostlands and hitting every node I see, I'm sitting at 20 in mining. My skinning is already at 80, for comparison. Is there an easier way to find nodes
I played WoW at launch but just started on a free 10-day trial of the BC. Quick question for you guys:
How the hell do I get mining skillups at a decent rate? Through all my questing in Ghostlands and hitting every node I see, I'm sitting at 20 in mining. My skinning is already at 80, for comparison. Is there an easier way to find nodes
Well, if you mouseover a node and it's orange, you're guaranteed a skillup point. If it's yellow, usually. If it's green, rarely. If it's grey, never. I forget exactly at what point you have to move on from copper and start mining tin, but it shouldn't be that low. It's just there's a whole lot more you can skin compared to the number of mining nodes available.
We are not casual in that we have tards jumping around running through flame wreaths, sitting in the middle of the healers with overload debuffs, or casters who didn't bring mana potions, etc.
Of course. There's nothing that says "casual schedule" and "class-knowledgeable, situationally aware, and dedicated enough to doing things right" have to be mutually exclusive. Especially for someone who's been playing the game early and often since the days of beta.
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Man am I tearing through the Nagrand ogres. I define my downtime by how long it takes to move to the next one.
I was helping a friend farm the Zaxxis rebels for rep for Consortium. And the two of us (prot paladin in DPS gear and a warlock) were just slaughtering them. We found our limitation to be respawn time.
We had an unspoken agreement over there. If either of us attacked the other one, that'd start a grudge of epic proportions and we wouldn't get any more rep that night. So instead we ganked any non-70 of the opposing faction also killing ogres there so we could have them for ourselves. :P
Even cooler that hes playing such a gear dependant class.
Amazing.
Sure didnt drop those fucking shoulders.
What's the very first song in this video? I know it's from one of the Red Alerts [or Tiberian Sun], but I need to know the artist, or at least the name of the song.
A bit of googling found this guy's website: http://www.frankklepacki.com/.
Edit: wait, is that not hell march?
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Wow, umm wow.
That is impressive in its own way.
I mean, it's a good reason to have to quit, but ugh. It's going to really really hurt us.
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Extra fun when there's a paladin defending.
First sap: he blows his trinket.
Second sap: he blows his bubble.
Third sap: I take the bunker back.
Except for Generals. And maybe CnC3?
Aside from the obvious, "Brainfreeze" is my favorite of his stuff. It's from RA2 as well.
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A few guild on our server, including us, limit raiding to three nights a week and don't have attendance requirements. We have Karazhan on farm in two nights. Another guild with the same schedule I can think of specifically is in SSC.
So I would say yes.
No, WoW runs like shit on Vista.
I run on 2 gigs of ram, 7950 gx2 nvidia, dual core processor, everything over-clocked on a liquid cooled system and I still get pure shit fps in Shatt.
btw, why do you have 4 gigs of RAM? Kind of overkill.
That's how we run (Beasts of Unusual Size), we run Kara usually once a week, sometimes twice if we have enough people. Hell we didn't run it at all last week, but every time we do, we pretty much one-shot most bosses.
As much as I would like to raid more, I think the fact we keep it casual is why I haven't burned out yet. I used to be in raiding guilds, and after 3 or so months I would burn out for a few months, then come back, rinse repeat. It's nice not feeling tied down to the game, but still get to experience some of the end game stuff.
tldr: being in a casual, but very skilled guild is a nice change of pace.
I wish I could find one like this on my server. My old guild raided 7 nights a week, with mandatory attendance, and then they tried to convince me they were casual in comparison to other guilds.
We do three nights a week plus Kara whenever it fits (after a 25-man or on Saturday if people are around). We have a lot of attendance issues. But if people showed up consistently on those three nights, we would have enough time to push more new bosses. It's just hit or miss every week whether we'll have enough healers or whatever.
Anyway, if all you want to do is Kara anyway, you shouldn't have a problem. No one needs 5-6 nights a week for THAT.
Yep. On my druid, we raid no more than three times a week. I can't remember when they started running Kara, but Nightbane and Gruul went down in the second week of April(and Maulgar on March 26th), and then Mag down on June 26th. So yeah, the progression hasn't been great(although they got through Kara quickly I think) but there've been member issues. I think it's definitely possible to go at a good rate with 3 nights a week. 1-2 just woudln't be enough though. You need one full night to be learning an encounter, and you'd definitely need another full night for farm content.
And I, for comparison, have almost the exact same setup you mentioned, run in windowed mode (so I can use two screens) with quality turned up to max and I get 50fps in Shatt.
So, in other words, try it and see, and don't let anecdotal evidence on the internet be your guide.
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What screen rez do you run at? I think that may be my issue, as I run at 1900X1280, maxed resolution settings on a 24" widescreen monitor. If you have my exact setup and are getting 50fps in shat, in windowed mode with that resolution, i call BS.
I run a 19"@1440x900. So no, not the same res, but only a step down. You can call BS if you like. I'll be happy to give a screenshot.
Oh and on Vista, I get the same exact performance in windowed and fullscreen modes.
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Compared to the performance you get out of XP, Vista really does fall behind. I heard there is some dynamic vista option thing you can disable to help improve performance, but I never really researched or tried it.
Well, one nice thing about Vista is the revamped graphics subsystem. So if you are running Aero, you don't get a performance hit (as compared to the same machine) for running in windowed mode, because programs don't have to do overlay tricks or anything to get your 3D stuff in a window. It's all being rendered through the same pipeline as if it were full screen. It's one of those really good ideas that OSX has always done, but Windows couldn't for hardware compatibility reasons.
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We raid 2-3 nights a week (2 kara groups, getting into Gruul's once a week now). We ask new member to be there (or at least show up on time) for 50 percent of raid nights.
We are not casual in that we have tards jumping around running through flame wreaths, sitting in the middle of the healers with overload debuffs, or casters who didn't bring mana potions, etc.
My almost brand new machine that was built with Vista in mind, including the video card, runs WoW much better then my wifes machine that is over 4 years old, that still runs on XP.
I believe her video card is 128 MB while mine is 256 MB.
How the hell do I get mining skillups at a decent rate? Through all my questing in Ghostlands and hitting every node I see, I'm sitting at 20 in mining. My skinning is already at 80, for comparison. Is there an easier way to find nodes
Of course. There's nothing that says "casual schedule" and "class-knowledgeable, situationally aware, and dedicated enough to doing things right" have to be mutually exclusive. Especially for someone who's been playing the game early and often since the days of beta.