Hey just a question to you guys in Oceanic server. When you're online its basically peak period for the server... is it laggy?

Reason for asking is because I'm on a US server so when I play its off peak and its not laggy, but if I log on mornings (night in US), there is a slight noticable lag at times (like instead of 300-500ms, its 500-700ms)

yep laggg during peak hours....but most ppl wount want to start wow alone so you might as well play on malaysia populated servers and REMEMBER RUSH to 70 in 2 weeks then achive 200 arena games b4 april for the arena competition you can be the next ming!

Yes, although laggyness depends. It's not so much as the overall server though methinks. It depends on your location.

E.g. Shattrath at 8 pm is bad. FPS and latency stops up. Shattrath at 3 am has no lag. Why? Less people around Shattrath.

So, If i have to start to play this game. I have to get a starter pack first.. And the starter pack cost around RM70 with 1 month playable. So, questions here:

1) I have to buy another CD to get the expansion? Or i can use my friend punya?
2) Can i just get the 1 month reload card rather than buying the starter pack?? Than use my friend's CD to install

I dont have credit card le, so how?? can explain further abit??

Erm, u need the cdkey to activate your account, and since an online cdkey( buy from blizzard) and the cd cost almost the same, u might as well buy the cd lo. You dont need a credit card to play wow, just buy the reload card from your local game shop/cc. just like reloading your prepaid phone.

To play the expansion, you need to buy the expansion cd OR buy the cdkey online, and download,use your friend cd to install. like i said, an online cdkey and the cd is about the same price, so u might as well get the cd, at least can see all those manual and stuff

BTW the WOW battlechest is selling for 40USD in USA now, you get both ori and expansion cds, and 2 game guides from bradygames (quite useless IMO)

What i did was i used my friend's credit card to buy the cd key. Then pay him back lor.

But like orangbulu said, the price is roughly the same. Plus having a wow box seems more meaningful. haha to me, at least :/

But i would suggest you ask a friend for the guest pass that was included with the starter pack. Use that first for 10days, then upgrade the account to permanent. U upgrade by buying a reload card.

When you upgrade, you get 1 month free and so does your friend.

actually u ask ur friend to use (The Invite a Friend) from the manage account page.. then u use the cdkey that is emailed to u for trial.. then u upgrade to Normal to starter pack.. then next subscrition.. u MUST subscribe using credit card or paypal.. then only YOUR friend can get 1 month free for the 1st month u subscribed..u WILL not get a month free

What does the features of expansion?? Increase lv cap only izit?? XD Izit necessary for me ( starter + noob ) Oh and in the expansion set, did the package include 30days free play??


Icic.. Actually, what is their purpose to ask us to subscribe using credit card/paypal?? Izit if the play time credit over edi, and we play some more right, they charge us 1 month play time credit with our credit card? ( u get what i mean?? ) ...

This post has been edited by siew14: Mar 7 2008, 06:47 PM

The game usually comes with 1 month free gametime, so when you install and reload 1 month of gametime, you get 2 months to play lah.

Oh, if you want to start off playing as either Blood Elf or Draenei, you need the expansion. It's worth it, and you will have to upgrade to get to 70 later, so might as well wat!

Wish i had bought the expansion and started as Draenei pally ):

Oh yeah. Forgot how it works d


But I did use the 10-day Guest Pass that came along with my friend's starter pack.


Burning Crusade expansion :
lvl cap raised to 70, new world - Outlands, new race - Draenei, Blood Elf

Lich King expansion :
lvl cap raised to 80, new world - Northrend, new class - Death Knight, profession cap to 450 (shit man)


Because if you use a guest pass or an invite, you can only upgrade to a normal account using credit card/paypal (since you have to buy the cdkey online).

Then after that it's up to you to buy the reload card or subscribe using credit card.

correct me if i'm wrong

This post has been edited by chaqxxish: Mar 8 2008, 01:58 AM

I also want to play but I am studying and I scare I will fail if I play

wont fail la if u knw wat you doin

Icic.. Talk bout leveling to lv70, took you how long??? Coz i m a typical stingy fella, hehehe.. 5 hours per day, u think enough or not leh? XD


BTW, did they sell 1 month prepaid card in malaysia?? XD So far i only heard of 2 month prepaid card..

if u follow a guide, like joana horde guide or barkinkopp alliance guide, it will take around 7 game days to get to lvl70

so fast???? Omg.... expansion is a must then.. lol

buy the box keep it safely write down your sec q and answer then live happly ever after in wow unless you get banned...
and that 7 days to lvl 70 is impossible.....unless you got fingers of fire and dont want to explore..which you would end up doing....98% of the times..

7 days game time. Entirely possible to be 7 days rl time, assuming your body can sustain itself on WoW only.

"My body converts pwnage into energy, thats why I must gank players 20 levels below me."

oh my bad lol i tot he ment 7 irl game days....in that case i dont mind to skip 1 week of uni for a lvl 70 @.@" then again....7ig days is better then mine....but i feel with questhelper you dont need to keep alt+tabbing to read the guides.....

Huh.. I thought i thought ingame day time same with real life game time??? lol