***World of Warcraft : Warlords of Draenor***

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Grognak said:
I really want to be excited for WoD bit nothing grabs me abou it, i guess the Garrisons are kind on interesting but it seems more like a extended pandaria farm. When i first heard about the Garrison concept i thought it would be some kind of old school RTS side-game that'd expand my garrison by succsesfully completing missions.
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I believe you can level your Garrison like that basically the story is your "character" lands on Draenor to meet/fight the Iron Horde and you have to build an army and garrison and followers to do that.

In each zone you build a related outpost linked to your main buildings of which ten slots are available from Inn,fighting ring, Fishing hut, Mine, Engineering works giving people access to potentially three professions so yea the main questline is garrison linked like a mini game if you want but otherwise you can ignore it and buy the garrison plans to build from other players.
 

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So much effort to enter that competition, especially seeing as I don't even have a subscription anymore. :p

Would like to check out the BETA mind.
 

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anyone been following the latest drama with the expansion.

They have moved the Horde and Alliance hubs from Bladespire and Karabor to Hubs on the new PvP island of Ashran.

https://twitter.com/mumper/status/482381728393072641

This sparked a lot of nerd rage as you would expect and one of the Blizz staff jumped in to try and clear it up

Okay, there’s a LOT of misunderstandings and misinformation floating around, so let me try to clarify what I can.

Warlords of Draenor’s story is about the people of Azeroth (namely, the Alliance and the Horde) venturing into an unknown world and building up a force strong enough to take out an enemy stronger than anything they’ve encountered before, on that enemy’s own turf. While there are certainly some alliances to be made along the way, and those are definitely major parts of the story, the core theme is about you and your faction fighting for survival.

So, as development continued, we came to the realization that it just doesn’t make sense for the Horde and Alliance to spend so much energy and resources building up a stronghold on Draenor, only to base their efforts out of someone else’s city. We’re not helping the Draenei or Frostwolves fight off the Iron Horde – they’re helping us. The Alliance and Horde both have major bases of operation on Draenor. That should be where they’re working from.

That, along with the continued development of Garrisons into the overall quest and story flow of the expansion, led us to the decision to develop the Horde and Alliance bases on Ashran into the major faction hubs instead of Bladespire and Karabor. Promoting the world PvP area on Ashran is a nice perk, but it wasn’t a factor in making that decision.

That said, the Temple of Karabor and Bladespire Fortress are still there. We haven’t removed them or anything like that. You won’t be able to use your bank or check your auctions there, but they’re still fully built home cities for the Karabor Draenei and Frostwolf Orcs, respectively. You’ll still be able to explore them in their full glory.

As to the Alliance and Horde staging areas on Ashran, allow me to lay out a few key facts to hopefully allay some concerns:

They’re located on Ashran as a geographical location on the map, but they’re not part of the Ashran world PvP zone. They won’t be subjected to the realm coalescing we’re using to keep Ashran’s PvP area populated, and they won’t flag you for PvP on non-PvP realms.
We’ve also made some major improvements to the way PvP flagging works on non-PvP realms that removes “accidental flagging” from mistargeted abilities or ground effects. Unless you manually flag yourself by typing /pvp, you will simply not be able to attack enemy players, or heal friendly players who have flagged themselves.
They’re populated with guards, and the only land-based entrance is directly through the Ashran world PvP zone (including a major fortress). It’s certainly possible for someone from another faction to attack it, but it’s not any easier to do so than it is to attack the enemy faction’s shrine in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.
There will be a fast travel option between the staging areas and your Garrison. You can pop over there quickly, conduct your business, and leave again if you like.



This isn’t a question of whether or not Bladespire and Karabor are cities. They are. It’s just a question of whether the portals to Orgrimmar or Stormwind are there or somewhere else. You’ll still be able to explore them, they’ll still be fully populated, and they’re still going to be every bit as beautiful as they would have been with a Transmog NPC. We’re looking forward to them ourselves!
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For the entertainment factor you can check out the thread here

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/13273197249?page=1
 

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Oh crap. The bug is nibbling me again :(

I've played every expansion for a month or two before quitting. Think the last time I played Pandaria were a good 18 months ago.

I do have a question though. I've moved to NZ since my last hurrah into Azeroth, does anyone know if I can switch my account automatically to the Oceania region? Playing on the European servers ... ping is not your friend.
 

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benny90125 said:
It's not like Wowhead is a small website, anyone who tries will get hammered cause a lot of people want a key...
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I can deal with it getting hammered but it's just overflowing with database errors, queueing not working properly, registration problems and issues.

By all means bung me in a queue if it's busy but it's when the system crashes when i've queued down from 3000 to 100 that I get annoyed.

[Edit] Okay, so the queueing system works in Chrome but not in IE, Safari or Firefox. I'm still not letting you off with that, wowhead. *narrows eyes*
 
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I'm just downloading the client after being away from WOW for quite a while.

I haven't got the Mists of Pandaria upgrade yet, do I need it just to 'get back into it' ?

My level 84 Priest will live again!

Do I need a sub to play, or can I just quest till I hit 85?
 

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griffy said:
I'm just downloading the client after being away from WOW for quite a while.

I haven't got the Mists of Pandaria upgrade yet, do I need it just to 'get back into it' ?

My level 84 Priest will live again!

Do I need a sub to play, or can I just quest till I hit 85?
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You need MOP, old content is irrelevant unless you're interested in achievements/item transmorg. I'm quite sure you need a sub too, unless you've received some free days as a returning player.
 

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I just got a key from IGN Prime however when I redeem it I get an error:

An error has occurred.
You need at least World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ to claim a beta key for World of Warcraft®: Warlords of Draenor™.

I have Pandaria but my account is frozen - do you need an active sub to play the beta??!
 

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n111ck said:
I just got a key from IGN Prime however when I redeem it I get an error:

An error has occurred.
You need at least World of Warcraft®: Mists of Pandaria™ to claim a beta key for World of Warcraft®: Warlords of Draenor™.

I have Pandaria but my account is frozen - do you need an active sub to play the beta??!
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First of all you lucky ***** I was hoping to get one :(

I did notice on the IGN giveway that it said you needed to log onto the US battle.net maybe that's the issue?
 
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