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30 Day Trial: World of Warcraft - Part 03

Dan takes tanking literally, Brad gets awkward around Voidwalkers, and Rorie exhibits extreme patience.

Aug. 11 2014

Cast: Brad, Matt, Dan

Posted by: Jason

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I was wondering when the oft mentioned Rorie would show up in this series :D

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been waiting for this

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This is gonna be good.

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OH God I may just re-sub for a month, just a month! or two.... = ( oh god.

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Edited By notasfarwest

I didn't expect to like this feature, but I've really enjoyed the past two. I kinda hope Dan subscribes so we get to see a raid.

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The quest Dan did at the start of the video seems pretty messed up. It's like something out of Spec Ops: The Line.

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i love this feature!!!

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I've been waiting for this all week.

I would love to see a live stream with all the GB crew raiding together.

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Glad that Rorie is getting all up in this! Always nice to see him take a break (dude works harder than you think) to be in goofy stuff like this. I also think it's hilarious that he INSTANTLY points out stuff that Dan didn't even realize.

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Finally. This is going to be something.

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Damnit this makes me want to play again :(

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Oh thank mercy, Rorie is here. Save us, Rorie!

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Love it: less than a minute in: "Well, your shoes are broken."

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I'm pro continuing this series beyond the thirty day trial.

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black hooooooooooole

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I hope this feature keeps going. I really enjoy seeing how the game has changed since I last played and seeing how Dan is learning the ropes and seeing stuff for the first time.

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I'd be tempted to resubmit for a vanilla WoW server, I loved the grind not the end game.

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Rorie is the true Cerebral Assassin

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Dan got a head piece for like the first quest he did. It's sad he didn't realise it.

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When he finds out there is a mailing system in the game, I bet there is going to be a lot of useless stuff in the Inbox. like Pet, Cloth and Noggingfogger.

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Nice - one of my favourite features recently. Keep it up!

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I resubbed... God damn it.

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Edited By LarryDavis

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.

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BLACK HOOOOLE.

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ok thank god, someone with some knowledge about wow,

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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.

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Rorie droppin' the knowledge bombs.

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@amafi said:

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.

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.

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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.

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@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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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/

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Is there a Giant Bomb guild in WOW?

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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.

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

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

This

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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.

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@kmaura said:

I've been waiting for this all week.

I would love to see a live stream with all the GB crew raiding together.

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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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"And Rorie exhibits extreme patience."

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

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