Thnking of getting a laptop for one of my kids to play WoW. Any recommendations on a minimum spec ? Never bought a laptop for games and don't want to go nuts.
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Porkchop
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I would recommend a laptop that can double as a Blizzard realm server.
But seriously, anything relatively new will run wow. The more RAM the better, 8GB if you can, 4GB at least.
Thanks Porkchop. What about graphics ? No idea about laptop graphics and whether onboard graphic chips will be powerful enough.
kaid
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The nice thing about wow is it was designed to run on a pretty low horsepower computer when it was released and still will run on pretty much anything with even a half assed video card these days. It is one reason it keeps its sub numbers so high because it simply can run on that many systems.
kaid
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I could see that since the dwarven bunker gives upgraded chances to get upgraded loot during questing which could be nice to gear up while leveling but removing the barracks removes patrol missions from the follower mission chart which tend to be really good XP boosts and pretty easy for your followers to do.
Sinzar
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That would give you slightly better quest gear rewards while leveling, at the cost of losing a little bit of garrison resources re-building later. I found leveling to be completely trivial with the random green quest rewards, so I didn't go that route.
Vorph
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I would not waste the GR on that; demolishing a barracks only to rebuild it later costs you a full day's worth of resources. Just level to 100 as fast as possible and upgrade the garrison to rank 3 to unlock the second large plot. It's not like having a bunker early is going to matter. You don't need it to work on the achievement that unlocks the rank 3 bunker, and getting a couple blues/epics instead of greens/blues isn't going to do a thing for your leveling speed.
The Dwarven Bunker / War Mill is awesome. It can even upgrade your followers that you get from quest rewards.
j00t
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Attog
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Thanks, I'll skip that then. I think as soon as the servers come back up I will build a barn over the top of my Inn though.
Vorph
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Are you sure about that? None of my follower upgrades showed the message that appears when you get an upgraded piece of gear from a quest or drop.
What are you talkin about bro? The official forums aren't full of entitled people who have only played WoW and no other mmo. THEY ARE CUSTOMERS
I think the value of the war mill comes from your final area of questing, being able to get level 99 epics would potentially put you in gear that's better than heroic 5 man before you even start your gear up process.