I have a laptop with an Intel i5-2410M 2.3GHz, 6GB of RAM and an Intel HD 3000 integrated graphics chip and it works pretty well on low. The framerate sometimes drops down, but it isn't very frequent.
@Seppli: Blizzard has also started going down this path somewhat, given that the zones in the last two expansions have much better storytelling - they also feel more controlled.
However, this is definitely a problem that the base Azeroth doesn't have. I think that's partially due to the fact that in ToR it's just one planet at a time. In WoW, it's a bunch of zones stiched together at any given time, so even if one particular zone would feel closed off if it were to be judged alone, there's also plenty of other places you can get to from it, and that makes it feel really big. The size of the planets doesn't really help, since the style doesn't change that much.
A much bigger concern, in my opinion, is the fact that there's very little reason to return to those planets. It feels that they are going to be barren when people stop leveling through them. Most people will just hang out in the space station, which will hurt things like world PvP. In vanilla WoW, I would actively seek out world PvP in various places I knew people would want to go to and it was a lot of fun. It seems like that won't happen here. Maybe the fact that I'm on an RP-PVP server will help a bit.
My laptop with an integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics chip runs it fine on low settings (except textures which are on high). It looks great and runs fine most of the time, although the framerate does dip in a place with a lot of shaders (usually when there's a lot of water close to you or something).
I assume people who have an actual graphics card will have no troubles.
I had that too, because I got bit by the bear in the intro dungeon, which makes you get a disease. Just take a potion that heals diseases and the like and you're good to go (you can also use the shrine to whoever in the first city, that'll do it as well).
Given the fact that in essence it will be the same formula, you probably can't call it groundbreaking, only GTA III can be labeled that. It is most likely going to be great, just like this song, which might answer your question:
With this album you have to remember that it is a Lou Reed album - he wrote the songs before Metallica came in. I think lots of Metallica fans are going to be confused once they hear it, since they won't know that it isn't a proper Metallica album. It's interesting for what it is though, just the execution could have been much better.
In the UK the video quality is still quite bad (might be because I'm in Scotland). There's no noticeable input lag though, so they're halfway there. I can see it being really good, it just needs to have an amazing infrastructure.
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