World of Warcraft: Classic
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misery
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I recommend everyone bookmark this. It's the best countdown I found. Shows exact time until launch and also the character creation and name reservation.
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WorryPlaysGames
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Is the "delayed and not rescheduled" stress test a red flag for anyone else? It sounded like they needed it and then now they don't?
misery
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They might just need more time to work out the kinks in their layering system or whatever they're doing to combat the problems that occurred last time. Another theory is that they could be waiting for the character creation and name reservation day to start the stress test, so they can kill two birds with one stone. It's a little odd that they haven't said anything about it in a while since people were expecting it to happen last week, but they haven't announced a push-back of the launch date so I'm not too worried at the moment.
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Yeah im not worried too much either. Im sure they have some good baseline numbers now and how the system works and what the flaws are. Im sure they also have a way to adjust shit on the fly like they were doing in the past stress tests. The opening day will probably still be a cluster fuck, but im sure that was a given on the sheer amount of people which wanna play this.
Also just learned that Destiny 2 expansion is being pushed back to Oct so this gives me like five weeks of this. which im sure I will be 60 by like 2-3 weeks. So I will be in maintenance mode by then.
Also just learned that Destiny 2 expansion is being pushed back to Oct so this gives me like five weeks of this. which im sure I will be 60 by like 2-3 weeks. So I will be in maintenance mode by then.
I remember how contested really slow spawns were on the original release day, and it was pretty fucking horrid. The orc/troll area was particularly brutal. Situations like warlocks needing drops from vile familiars to get their imp are going to be terrible.
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misery
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Yep, every questing area has those quests too. Skeletons and their parts, zombies, pelts, paws and pumpkins for Undead. Orcs and Trolls have peons, scorpids, cactus apples, imps and Sarkoth. Alliance is the same. Even Tauren have a lot of those kinds of quests. The good thing about Tauren is they're the least played race Horde side and their starting area is so expansive. It might not be the most accurate example, but here's a census of around 46,000 players from the beta to see which characters they chose. Of course it doesn't contain all the character data since it was voluntary to submit data I believe, but it gives a decent estimate I think.
You should ideally have around half the players of the other starting zones. More or less depending on if you get lucky or unlucky with layering, or if they implement sharding. That combined with the expansiveness of Mulgore, and you should have a smoother experience than the others.
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The final stress test is August 8th at 11:00 AM PDT and is supposed to last a day or day and a half.
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Tauren and NE will have a slightly easier time but yeah every starting zone is gonna be a zoo. As an orc warlock I will be beelining directly to the familiars for my imp quest while most people do the boat quest. If I wasn’t a warlock I would instead try to run to the orc that gives the Sarkoth quest and be the first to do that but that’s risky. Getting your imp as a lock is so huge though that you just need to hit 3 and then you can leave the starting zone ahead of almost everybody else and jump right into the level 5 quests.