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Re: Been away for a while

#349906
From: Jimbob
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 10:39
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On Saturday, 18 January 2014 02:01:53 UTC, | || ||| ||||| || |  wrote:
> On 18/01/2014 12:01 AM, Jimbob wrote:
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> > Hey,
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> > I've not played WoW for a few years now, i only own up to The Burning Crusade :D
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> > Anyway, i have an urge to re-install and try out the new content as have a 10 day trial for Mists of Pandaria. The thing is, i'm a bit concerned with all the changes that have gone on in the past few years.
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> > My main is an Undead Mage - current level is 71. I used to use addons from Curse which i'll have to download and install again :(
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> > Anything major gone on in the time i've been away?
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> > Thanks.
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> Don't do the trial.
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> You should qualify for a scroll of resurrection.
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> With that you get a free lvl 80 ,upgrade to cata, and 7 days trial
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>    that should keep you going for a while.
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>    then mists upgrade is only $10 , or was recently.
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> Taking the trial kills the SOR date. ( I am pretty sure )
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> You will find a full installation is huge, 27 gig or so.
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> Try and get a copy from someone then just delete the addons and wtf 
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> contents to make it your own.
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> You will also need to create a baatlenet account, once that is done and 
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> you are at a browser anyway may as well ask on the sor forum for a scroll.
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> A lot has changed , actually almost EVERYTHING has changed
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> so I won't say much apart from
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> *levelling is a rocketroad..
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>    For levelling get some of the heirlooms.
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>    If you don't have those you can get xp gear and guild xp increase
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>   guild exp gear for , 1k?? Also a banner that adds even more xp.
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>    You could probably do 70-80 in a day if you tried.
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>   1k gold is not a lot now. Ah prices have inflated.
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>   stacks of the lvl 85 ore are 50g/20 even though you can't fly 100 
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> metres without finding a node :-)
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> *mounts and some gear is account wide, glyphs are a one-time purchase.
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> join a lvl 25 guild and get a lot of other perks,faster travel, more 
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> loot and profession increase, mass party res, lots more.
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> Doesn't have to be a lvl 25, just get one with max xp increases.

The download was about 23gig. My 60mbit connection was the savior, only took an hour :)
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