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Falstaff

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Does anyplace stream Blizzcon, or portions of it, for free? Was never really interested but I'm at home today so figured I would check it out if possible.
 

Ukerric

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Does anyplace stream Blizzcon, or portions of it, for free? Was never really interested but I'm at home today so figured I would check it out if possible.
Battle.net streams the opening ceremony, plus the finals of e-Sports I think.

You won't get the detailed panels on the expansion, but you'll have the bullet points description.
 

Caeden

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You know, if you think about time as a fourth dimension that can be traversed along, then the suspension of disbelief is thrust on to the present.

Trans warp beaming. Precisely Mr. Scott. 1.21 gigawats and great scott!!

How will my pally react when he finds out my death knight that's the same age fathered him. With pre-undead Sylvanas.
 

Eidal

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I haven't played since WOTLK and I haven't gotten the energy (burnout) to play more than a few days of Cata or MOP. The game has so many additional layers on it now, that I don't know if I could really have fun coming back.

In any case, I wonder if there is some kind of hard reset coming? I heard stuff about an item squish and some time travel. Is the new expansion just going to be another layer on top of the exisitng world or are they maybe going to put in some kind of reset once you get through a lot of the older content? I'm curious.
Blizz is 100 percent for hard-resetting at every expansion. That being said, you don't need it due to the catch-up mechanics currently in place. I went 1-90 as a new monk with no friends in about 3 weeks just questing/dungeoning, then was raid-ready in the same day with the Timeless Isle. The raid scene is in a great place, and I had a good time. That being said, I think I'm done until the expansion because my friends persuaded me to play red 99 with them and a substantial part of what game I play is dictated by what my friends are playing.

If you're interested in raiding in any form, then you'll like what blizz has created with the LFR/Flex/Norm/Heroic progression. If you aren't a raider then PVP is the end-game and I can't enjoy WoW PVP -- LoL is just so much cleaner. My limited grasp of WoW pvp is being annoyed at CC and thinking "this is dumb".
 

Draegan_sl

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I'm completely aware of all those mechanics, wasn't really referring to all that when I posted.

edit to clarify:

Hard Reset: I meant the whole game in general. Like a new area of the expansion where you can go 1-90 quickly and get into the new stuff. Instead you have to slog through the new 1-60 and all the expansions before getting there. More layers that I don't really mentally feel like doing even though it's 1-3 weeks of casual gameplay.

I was hoping that item squish would actually bring number back to reality. Instead of people doing a billion dps, it would bring numbers back to reality. I suppose it's really context. If you've been playing all along the progression means something to you. To me it just looks nutty.
 

Falstaff

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I'm in the same situation as you Draegan and the game has kept my attention for the past week, albeit I've only put in about 8 hours of /played time.

I haven't touched my 80 Paladin at all, just started a goblin rogue so I could see newbie zone and what old world changes were made in Cataclysm.
 

Draegan_sl

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I did that with a level 30 goblin shaman back in Cata. I bought MOP to try to get into the game as a Monk. I ended up doing just the Monk newbie experience and quitting.
 

Falstaff

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Yeah, I am in the middle of the 10 day free trial. If MoP goes on sale for $10 on Black Friday as someone in this thread said it would, I will probably pick it up and get a 3 month sub or so and see how it holds my attention.
 

Arch

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Yeah, I am in the middle of the 10 day free trial. If MoP goes on sale for $10 on Black Friday as someone in this thread said it would, I will probably pick it up and get a 3 month sub or so and see how it holds my attention.
I'm in the exact same boat, enjoying a Monk so far.
 

Cybsled

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Monks are great. Been taking a break since I discovered a PvE Dayz Epoch server where the admins are trying to make it MMO like (missions, raid spots, GM events, etc). Fun stuff ;p
 

Iadien

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Oblio

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The people on the pre-show have no idea what they are talking about, it is so obvious they are commentating on things they have no knowledge of.
 

Oblio

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I am curious to learn about the expacs for WoW and Diablo 3, but I mostly want to hear about Blizzard All-Stars or whatever the name is now.