30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 03

Every time Dan vendors a 20 stack of cloth, an angel's wings are torn off.

@pepeman:

Rorie: I can show you the woooorld!

Dan: A dazzling place I never kneeew!

@rayethhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf

"I think a dire wolf is a real historical creature" - Brad Shoemaker 2014.

If only this were true. That would be so rad. I want to see Dire Bears and Dire Owls and everything Dire.

I laughed so much at that. Rorie is so great.

you and your stupid monk DPS talk made me download Diablo 3 again.. haha

Great video!

I'm liking Brad's old geezer "back in my day" shtick he's got going on.

Love this content, Wasn't big on WoW myself, I gave my heart to LotrO. But I love how clueless Dan is, How Brad wishes for the Vanilla version and how patient Rorie is being. LOVE IT

What's a good primer for someone who's never played WoW and is interested in learning the basics - game mechanics, character classes, etc?

It's been a while, but isn't that small house right beside where they were trying to pet battle the place where you can buy a few different cats for an inconsequential amount of silver? Also battle pets tend to be listed for more on the auction house than the regular companion pets, most of which can be converted at a click of a button.

So Brad gets all obsessed with Enigma but doesn't even notice that Morphling is standing right next to him? Bah!

Thanks to this feature, got back into WoW and played nothing but it last week. Currently a level 27 Draenai shaman. Man do you level up fast in the game. I never reached max level (furthest was level 37 I think with my night-elf warrior) but deleted that character since it put me in the middle of nowhere after the big pre-Cataclysn release patch and gave up. I just like playing it casually and not get super serious with the resource gathering, professions and the like but quest, do dungeons and get cool loot. Played FF XIV: ARR that way and had a blast.

I thought Rorie would help but he is just as bad for helping and knowing early stuff.

I guess Rorie doesn't spend much time with dps warrior.

If the next episode is the last one, i hope we get to see Rorie take Dan on a tour around Azeroth with one of his 90 level characters. Just picture the magic carpet ride scene from Aladdin, but only with these two duders.

@salvationtwist: Yes he is! ;)

RORIE IS AWESOME!

"Rorie, I want you to watch me and tell me what I'm doing wrong."

"Well, your shoes are broken."

@bearpawb: Yeah, I've seen the pictures and they do look a lot better. Do you know if they are doing any work on the animations? The human running animation in particular always looked super dumb to me.

Rorie our savior has come, rejoice!

@cale: well the new expansion is revamping all of the character models

Here's Rorie's original WoW guide.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/world-of-warcraft-walkthrough/1100-6114179/

@cale: well the new expansion is revamping all of the character models

Yeah, I liked those too, running with a group of guildies who all were on vent and knew their characters. I can very well understand how it could be frustrating with randoms though, I tanked through most of it and it was rough at times.

I am thrilled and scared by the fact that I look forward to this feature. Keep up the devil's work, Dan.

"And Rorie exhibits extreme patience."

Well, looks like this is going to be another painful, grueling, masochistic experience for us veterans.

This series got me to try out the trial version but the magic is gone. Playing it used to be addictive, it had that hard-to-put-down stickiness. Alas, no more! I'm bored of it almost instantly! If only the me of several years ago felt the same, I'd have saved myself a lot of anguish.

Each time I'd restart playing my first order of business would be to replace every vestige of the default interface with addons because I found it so repulsive. Now I can barely bring myself to pick a race because they all look so damned ugly. The content of the game isn't the problem, it's these little things that make it unplayable to me now.

What got me interested in WoW in the first place was a late 2004 pre-release beta video of somebody kiting Stitches into that little Human starter village and seeing him tear absolutely everybody including the then-weak guards up.

Rorie's got Dan checking the auction house for a pet! This is almost too painful to watch.

Thank god Rorie showed up for this! It's been hard without him.

Dan's adventures make me want to play WoW again but when I look at what I'd need to pay it's a real turn off.

My last expansion was Cataclysm so I'd need to buy Pandaria ($20) and then eventually the new one ($50) on top of $15/mo.

I would love to see them get the free lvl 90 characters and do it. Totally cheese it, not know what they are doing, and piss a bunch of players off.

I don't know what Rorie is talking about - those first months of super hard dungeons in Cataclysm were probably the most fun I've had with the game. I didn't play Burning Crusade, so I just might not know better, but running those dungeons with my guildmates in QUEST GEAR was so much fun. Too bad it all quickly changed, when all the nerfs started.

This

I'm really enjoying this series, I would easily watch two of these a week.

Fuck you, Dan. I bought up to Mists of Pandaria last Friday. I hadn't played since Burning Crusade I've put 20 hours into WoW already. You owe me a summer.

Is there a Giant Bomb guild in WOW?

The problem with Duskwood is that they really never updated it. Still, there is a neat little undead bit with the graveyard and town. Really, it was a good one to pick to show what the old game looked like. Yes. Stitches is still there, but he is phased content.

Stonetalon Mountains seems like a cool zone for them to try next.

Here is a guide for the cool zones in the game.

http://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/1r4x9m/which_leveling_zone_has_the_most_interesting/

Hell yeah Rorie knows what he is talking about (except Pet Battles apparently)!

I hope Dan sticks with it, if only to see him confused when WoD hits.

EDITS:

Nooo! He sold the bandana :(

Goddammit, I was about to hit B to open my bags and use the Balloon... then I remembered it is a video.

Oh thank jeebus that Rorie is sitting in on one of these.

Oh god, when he sold that wool stack to the merchant it hurt me inside. I remember selling stacks like that at the auction house back in the day for many gold.

My most recent return to WoW was two years ago, but I think I got to 60 in about 14 hrs total. The first time I played, it took me a month and a half I think.

Yes. A pairing with Rorie. I am sure he will blow Dan's mind.

@amyggen: Sure. Doesn't take as much XP, you get mount early, there's good quest design now, they actually thought about leveling flow when redesigning the zones in cata, etc.

@somejerk: It's not a week of casual play to 90 now either though. That's Rorie talking about running zones he's done a million times before, probably not optimal paths but certainly a LOT closer than anyone just starting out.

Months to hit 60 for casual play was quite true. I speedran using that insane Hunter guide in the early days, was the second 60 on one fresh Euro server back in vanilla , first 60 on horde, even with taking a weekend off partying in another city worrying that I'd lose out.

I celebrated being the first 60 on horde by using the Mark of Shame quest-fail debuff to gank NPCs in Orgrimmar.

There's no denying that they've made the leveling process a LOT easier. Some people will always level extremely fast, but in general the leveling process has only been made easier with each expansion pack. It was never hard compared to a lot of other MMOs, but today's WoW is a cakewalk in that regard compared to vanilla WoW.

Rorie droppin' the knowledge bombs.

People were totally hitting 60 in a couple weeks back in vanilla too, if it took months, that's because you didn't know what you were doing.

ok thank god, someone with some knowledge about wow,

BLACK HOOOOLE.

The ongoing saga of Cerebral Ass is my third favorite thing on the site now. The other two are Demo Disc Derby and Pogs.

e: I love how Brad continues to forget Dota is just hacked-together copyright-infringing garbage. Also fuck Giantbomb Jenkins.

ee: Oh god, I lost my shit when his mount was swimming. And then the level up with new abilities, and the spec screen. I think I'm gonna have to resub with Draenor.