WoW

[dunia]

After a quick trip to Fry's yesterday, and an awesome sale, g00n and I are now the proud owners of WoW. Tyson installed it for me on the new, super-sweet system, and I downloaded all the updates, so I'm ready to go. I expect he will be soon as well

Comments

[otosan]

I'm on Dark Iron for the Alliance side, it's the famous Penny Arcade server and I'm in one of the Penny Arcade guilds. Dennis is here as well (which will mean more to Tyson than you, but should still be noted).
Because the end game unplayable without a large guild (not "you need one to do well in it", but "You can't see it at all without one") this is where I spend most of my time, because for all my playing I never got to see the end stuff before now, and it's really pretty cool and worth seeing. Also, it's a PvP server, which I've come to find more interesting than the non PvP, not because I like PvP, but because it fits the world better and keeps you on your toes.

For Horde, there's Bronzebeard with the good folk mentioned above, or there's Uther, which is where my co-workers play.

In my honest and biased opinion, if you're going to level and invest the time, do it somewhere you can see the end payoff. I recomend Windrunner for Horde and Dark Iron for Alliance and be in a group at least big enough to see the 10 and 20 man stuff even if you don't want to commit the time for the absurdly hard to get to stuff (you should see ZulGarub and Scholomance and Stratholme.. even Molten Core isn't that hard to get to with a large guild. Black Wing Lair, now that's when you've signed your life away).

[otosan]

Not to revise my comments, but to add in stuff I left out...

If you want to play with the cool peeps, then go Windrunner/Horde and Bronzebeard/Horde. That's where the cool people are, and cool people are teh r0xx0rz. The only reason not to do this is that the game experience will be largely the same in both cases, both horde, both PvE. Of course, the game is insanely large, even playing on the same side there's still a lot to see.