World of Warcraft Battle Chest (PC) $5
 

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World of Warcraft Battle Chest (PC) $5
 

Amazon.com has World of Warcraft Battle Chest (PC) for $4.99. Free shipping with Prime (free student accounts available) or if you spend $25 or more. Thanks yuugotserved

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Does not include the 2012 expansion Mists of Pandaria, nor does it include the 2010 expansion Cataclysm.

Can be purchased directly from Blizzard for $5. Digital (play as soon as the download finished) or Boxed.
http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000044

This is a "PC only" version, but the CD key will work any Mac. Just download the client from Blizzard then enter this key.

This has monthly fee, right?

Yep, but it comes with the 1st month included.

Yes sir 14.99 per month but that's very cheap for the endless hours of time you will spend. I notice a 500$+ spending drop in the months I get very into WoW. Unfortunately it just doesn't happen anymore with my work schedule.

5 bucks? well hell im bored lately. time to check out WoW again.

Does not include the 2012 expansion Mists of Pandaria, nor does it include the 2010 expansion Cataclysm.

This could mean the end of the world...of warcraft.

i was reading the reviews and they said it might bump u up to Wrath of the lich king for free when u register it on battle net.

it is 15 a month
it is even cheaper if u buy a year pass.
15 a month is amazing for the amount of hours and time you spend on it.
HUGE DECREASE in monthly CC billl. especially in the forms of entertainment.
Really nerdy / geeky / dorky, but spending time with your gf on this thing is friggen cheap. you can cook her amazing food that gives buffs for an hour.
You can take her on a magic carpet ride.
You can show her the world.
You can /flex to show her how strong you are.
You can go fishing together, catch fish, and not spend a single penny on IRL bait.
You can get on a giant mammoth mount and you can take her around town.
You can explore dungeons together.
Get enough gear and you can explore her dungeon.
It might even be on heroic.

You would need WoW Battlechest to start a new subscription, I think.

Possible to buy this for just the game time for existing frozen account? I don't mind noodling on WoW but its really not worth 15/month for me.

I know very little about WOW,any help = TY. Is this $5 from Amazon very rare discount? Any idea how long it will be only $5? I saw WOW web page and they have free version to level 20.Is the Free Level just a limited trial for couple weeks or forever? Is the $15 a month really worth it if I dont play often? How do I talk to any friends I make inworld,is it a typing Chat Box thing? Im not set up for voice/microphone thing. If I pay $15 fee and decide to take a few months off from paying,do I lose my Stuff=the Battlechest expansions and avatar forever or can I Renew=$15 and get my stuff back? Sorry so many questions but their online site gives very few details.

Doesn't affect me--I play Hello Kitty Island Adventure :lol:

1. I'm assuming for a week, but I could be wrong. Best Buy has it for $5 this week along with an expansion for $10 and the most recent expansion for $20. All needed for you to reach the level cap (90) and do end game stuff.
2. Free Trial has no time limit, up to level 20, account restrictions
3. Depends how you value $15, some people pay for it every month and only login 1-2 times a week.
4. Yea its a chat box so you can chat through public, whisper, party, raid, guild ect
5. You won't lose anything if you stop paying the subscription. Not paying just means you can't login.

Thanks Uzy,you answered most questions I had....So if I buy the Battlechest and start paying the $15 month, I can take months off here and there and they just Freeze my account and I can get everything back when I start paying again? Is any time limit to re-activate account before losing it totally? I presume I can still start a new Free Limited account and leave the Paid account frozen? thanks

the wrath of the lich king expansion is $5 too so like $10 for those 3 if ur into WOW good deal for those interested but ill pass

http://www.amazon.com/World-Warcr...d_sim_vg_3

Can't you basically gift a character to a certain level these days with the RAF type bonuses? If you're going to back to WoW, look into the RAF stuff before you buy this. I know they had free months, free mounts, and even some free level type stuff.

That's right, your account is just frozen with your things while you don't subscribe. No limit.

i think this comes with wrath of the lich king so you dont need to buy that specifically.

i played WOW for a month 5 or 6 years ago. People on it were very friendly but i forced myself not to renew after the month.

So if you can now play until level 20 on a free trial, I would think one should do that and then put the one month key in. Is that the case?

Bravesfan87.Just a heads up. I believe this newer Battlechest version includes the Lich King expansion,but does not come with the last 2 expansions. So for $5 at Amazon and I think Best Buy too,you get a nice package....just need the latest 2 expansions for total set.

Darn, was thinking it was the warcraft RTS games

Just FYI for you and anyone else looking at getting this.

Even if the box for the battlechest doesnt include the actual media for Wrath, if it is a battlechest the key still covers up through wrath.

I know, because I recently purchased a battlechest that was old stock and the box only included classic and BC inside, but when activating the key online it activated up through wrath.

So no matter which battlechest box you get (with or without Wrath inside it), it will activate up through wrath.

That being said, anyone that purchases a copy of Wow BattleChest only needs to buy Cataclysm and Mists to have the whole game. No need to purchase wrath separately.

cheap but does cost monthly.

Multiboxers rejoice....

or for those who want to make their own Refer a Friend account for cheap....

or those who need four more accounts to form guilds all over the place...

or just to have a cheap source of burnables for your fireplace!

This is PC & Mac. Not just PC as the listing says.

Can you use still apply the free month to an existing account like you used to be able to?

Can't pass it up for $5. :)

Weird that this deal got no love the other times it was posted, but it goes FP when it's posted by a mod. Good deal, though. :)

Me too. :-(

To be able to get WoW and ALL of the expansions for about $35... this is a hell of a deal. If you've never played World of Warcraft and enjoy MMOs (or RPGs/adventure games for that matter), this is a very wise investment... aside from the countless hours you'll waste in-game! :X

If only we could go back to vanilla WoW... when times were simple. I'll never forget my experiences during the first year or two it was released. It was by far the most fun I've had in any game to date. Leveling up in new areas, world PvP, 40 man raids, discovering new instances, learning the crafting system, playing with the skill tree... good times, good times.

Nice!!

I would imagine that answer is no.

The key would create a new account that has the month gametime. I can't imagine being able to apply the key to an existing account to get gametime, as the key is for the client, not the time.

Well, this used to work. I bought like 10 copies of the original game box at $2.99 a piece on clearance a couple years ago and applied all the codes to my account and had a full year for $36.

From what I gathered online, the Battle Chest comes with a license code that applies 30 days upon activation, but you can't use it to apply game time to an existing account.

Ironically, my account expired last night after trying it again for a few months after not playing for over three years.

Still fun! Just not a lot to do after you hit the level cap... or at least, I couldn't find a lot to do that interested me besides going after rare/vanity items. Finally got my Time Lost. ;)

so my account was hacked a few years back. i tried to log in and I want to get it activated again. the freaking blizzard site is noob. they do not give any number to call, just the pos website. I dont want to restart a whole new character, however I dont have the two expansions as i was too lazy to buy them, Ill pick this up now but does anyone know of a number to call to get your account activated? Thanks in advance!

Blizzard has great customer service, just call or email them..http://us.battle.net/en/security/help

i just ran all these things by my wife as a possible plan for valentine's day. she gave me the "no sex for months" look.

i guess YMMV...

I don't think you need to buy this do you? I think just purchasing the latest expansion is all you need to start off playing.

Nice try, Blizzard. Not gonna reel me back in that easily

As a WoW player and from what I can remember from reading this thread I can help answer you this:

1) This deal come and go often now, most times from the wow website.

2) By buying this part of the expansion you will get upgraded up to Wrath of Lich King which you can play until lvl 80. If you want to advance after that you will need Cataclysm for 80-85, and the latest Pandaria to lvl from 85-90.

3) It comes with one month game time which you cannot apply to another account. It will be activated when you enter your key, so it goes directly to this account. After that it's a 15 dollar month fee.

4) You can freeze your account at any time and will stop at the next monthly payment. If you decide to come back, everything will be the same way you left. They will save your account forever. In case you get hacked or anything like that, you can contact them, and they will restore your account as it was, they have saved log's and everything.

5) Trial accounts today can go up to lvl 20 and you can play as long as you want, but you will be very limit to, advance in lvl after 20, no general/trade chat and lots more.

6) if there is any trial days and you upgrade your account, the trial days will be added to your month subscription. for example: 10 day trail then you add 30 days game card = 40 days.

7) If you want to refer a friend or yourself, you can invite another account and you be able to lvl 3x faster up to lvl 80. Pls google wow refer a friend for this.

Well for me this is a very fun game with lots to do. Most of the times when I read online about wow, it's people telling that it's a really old game. Well this is true, I believe since 2004-05, i started in 2006-07 but they are always adding stuff, raids, dung, professions, mounts, contents in general which makes the game never goes old. So for 5 bucks try it out for a month and see if it's worth for you or not.

Requires you buy basic game first. This battle chest will get you to lv 80 max. Cata expansion will allow you to get to 85 and MoP Pandaria will open up everything up to 90 (which is max now)

no kidding man. i quit right before TBC came out but i'm tempted to just set up the 30 day trial and run around ashenvale listening to the music

This post made my day.

I fully expected to see a thread full of negative comments, quite surprised to see what is here!

A few things to note. With the most recent expansion they allowed players to create all races (and I believe classes), not just the limit the race to what expansion you have purchased. With the free trial you are limited to not being able to do some things, but you can get an idea if you will like the game or not if you have never played. Though, for $5 you might as well buy it and get the full experience with 30 days to decide.

I've played WOW for too long and listen to a few WOW podcasts. A lot has changed over the 8 years it's been running and I think they are always trying to make it better. I enjoy the game where it is now, though I am not a fan of the dailies at max level for gear to raid, but that will change with the upcoming 5.2 patch. This can consume as much time as you will allow it, especially if you get into a good guild and/or play with friends. If you are thinking of trying this and don't know anyone that plays, you might ask for anyone here to show you the ropes, or dive in and ask if you have questions. There are sooo many aspects to the game that there is always something to do.

And those asking about this deal, Blizzard runs this every now and then. Usually it is around the holidays, but htey just did it for a week in late Jan, so who knows when it will be again. If you're thinking about it, you can buy this now and then activate it when you are ready to play! Also, if new to the game NEVER give anyone your password, even if they claim you've violated rules and they are a GM or they send you an email. Basic security measure, but worth noting.

Having said that, I might have to grab one of these for my oldest son for a RAF...
You should look at reactivating your old account or find an old friend that still plays for a scroll of resurrection. They were offering some very nice incentives for reactivation, free level 80, free server transfer to a referring friends realm, free wraith and cata expansions. There are some limited factors on that, but if you had a clean account and hadn't used one before, a scroll of resurrection can be a nice way to go.

It's a TRAP!

or buy guild wars 2

best buy has this as well with free store pickup. Have to pay tax but i think this is better for me since i no longer have prime and can pick up in store later today

Best Buy also has the other two expansions you will need on sale, Cataclysm for 10 dollars and Mists of Pandaria for 20 dollars.. Honestly not a bad deal, it's even tempting me to play again and I already tried Mists when it first came out.. It was a little stale and honestly boring but maybe things have changed..

Fair warning to those asking about if WoW is worth the 15 dollars a month or whatever.. If you are a very invested gamer and have lots of time to put into it, WoW is the best game out there to play pretty much.. New content pouring in constantly, good server and customer support, as well as a helpful community (do server research first! some are def. better than others). Honestly the only thing that irks me about this game is that they focus too much on gear rather than gameplay.. WoW is the biggest gear-grinding game out there in my opinion, and half the time you are frustrated that your Raids are on cooldown since not too long after hitting 90 raids are pretty much the only way to get upgrades.. So as I've pretty much already said, once you cannot raid any longer for the week it pretty much defeats any purpose of logging on.. Before long you become known as what the WoW community calls a "raid logger" and only care to even come on to do Raids and then you're gone until the next one.. I think Blizzard needs to bring back the communal sense to this game that it had in Vanilla.. Back before all this Cross-Server garbage, when everyone felt more linked in.. Back then there was always something you could do to benefit your character or guild that actually mattered.. Now it's either do Arena in your offtime or become and achievement whore.. Orrrrr just bot, lol.. If they fixed this problem I would be an avid WoW player once again.. But thats just my c2

That reason sounds like it comes with a +1 Sword of Limpness. And yes, I know IRL couples/marriages that game together, and that's ALL they do together. :shake:

BTW, I DID try that once, and DID get andy4theherd's results. You have been warned.:eek:

never played thsi before but for 5 will give it a shot... thank you

Yea this is a pretty good deal I grabbed 1 for $5 and cata for $10 and mists for $30 from blizzard over xmas.

If you are coming back to the game you can still have someone send your email a scroll of resurrection or whatever and you get a free copy of cata as well as a free level 80 character and 7 game days free too. if you need someone to send one let me know I will send one because I think the sender gets a free mount or something.

this or 2moons

Be warned, youll finish this in like a couple days, leveling is so fast. I go from 1-70 in a day or two.

It's basically to hook you into buying the other expansions +gametime.

This is essentially a masked trial version that you pay for.

Agree...

Wrath is Included in all battlechests new and old. So buying it is a waste of money.

If your account hasn't been active since before March 3rd or 9th of 2012, I can send you a scroll of resurrection and you'll get some pretty nice rewards.

Umm. Guys? I used to play WoW when it first came out. Don't underestimate that $15/month fee. That's $180/year. Over the 4 years that I played I spent $720 on the monthly fee's alone. Plus more money for the continual expansions.

In contrast, a game like LOTRO is free to try. [lotro.com] Supported on Macs & PCs. Works under WINE too. No monthly fees are required, though you can subscribe if you really really want to (for minor benefits). The expansions do cost extra, which can be earned in-game or paid for with dollars/euros. And the older ones are discounted and frequently offered up on sale. You pay what your comfortable paying. All the content is unlocked up to L20 or so. You can earn enough in those first 20 levels to unlock more content if you don't wish to pay. (And if you do wish to pay, wait for a sale, buy TP at discount (1.67/cent), then buy expansions at a 30% off sale.)

So, what's WoW offering here? Why is it "better"? Lotro has a good dungeon system. You can enter anywhere from anywhere in the realm. There's a good mix-and-match pairing system for pick-up groups. There's global (player-created) chat channel (glff) for organizing pickup games. Crafting. Lots of crafting. Which is optional! Higher level items can be upgraded. And you can own your own hobbit home, to say nothing of your kinship's (guild's) home.

What am I missing here?

I suppose it all depends on how much time you put in. I am lucky to get about 45 minutes a day and it took me 3 months to level to 90 from 0 when I switched to a new server. Leveling has been reduced up to 80, and if you buy heirloom items it goes even faster, but if you don't spend 8 hours a day playing, you're not likely to level to 70 in "a day or two" as a new player (maybe you mean played time, but you don't say that and someone that doesn't know wouldn't have a clue what that means.)

If you do get Wraith as people are saying, then those next 10 levels will add more time. If you just buy the battle chest and power grind, you may get through it fast, but if you enjoy a story line, there are a ton of quest story lines that can take a while to progress through. they are generally interesting and you will outlevel them, but if you're there for the story it doesn't matter too much.

Overall, yes the goal is to get the player to buy the most recent expansion, but if you are just wanting to try it, this is a great way to do it. If you even *think* you might want to continue on, then go ahead and buy the expansions. At $35 it is still less than most console games and I guarantee more play time from WOW, even with the monthly subscription price. If you don't enjoy it, then don't activate the expansions and return them or sell them.

And regarding the monthly fee... how much do you spend going to a bar or in gaming terms, how much do you spend on a new console game? I know many people that play wow instead of going out or that used to buy a new console game every month (or every few weeks) at $60 a game only to beat it in a few weeks. Yes there are other MMORPGs out there that are free (Star Wars The Old Republic, Lord Of The Rings Online, Guild Wars, EVE, Rift...) and they have their good and bad points and all of them together don't have the player base (in numbers) that WOW does. I'd recommend trying them and see what you like. Most of them are going to have a higher entrance fee than $5, so if you think you might want to try WOW, then get this, you don't have to activate it immediately.

You can even send yourself a scroll of resurrection and get a cool mount out of it. :)

Just activate a 10-day trial online (if you can log in to your old account), then send a scroll to one of your own characters.

Call up Blizz and tell them you found out about the Scroll, but you already activated a 10-day trial - and they'll apply the scroll for you. If I remember right, you even get some free game time out of this.

Log back into your account, and click on the rewards to choose which character to have instantly leveled to 80 (or log in to the game, create a new character, and have that one bumped to 80) - and which character to send the mount to as well.

YES, this works. I did it a few months ago. :)

You will not finish it in a few days if you have never played WoW before.. that's silly. No heirlooms or guild bonus, etc? No idea where you are going or what you are doing? An entire big world to explore where you have no idea where anything is and you are being distracted by exploration and random stuff? No money from other toons to buy gear on the AH to buff out your leveling toon? No money to buy all the different flight speeds necessary to quest as quickly as theoretically possible past 70? Stuck with random drop and quest 6 or 8-slot bags probably well into the 40s or 50s because of lack of funds? Folks leveling their 15th toon forget what it is like to be resourceless and leveling their 1st.

WoW + BC + WotLK is a good several months of playing for the uninitiated, except maybe those who have active friends at max level and their purpose of buying the game is to get to max level ASAP to join their friends in endgame. Most new people trying to game out for $5 are not like that though. This is a lot of content and will last a true newbie months and months.

Anyway, this is a good opportunity for somebody to try the game out will full features activated for a month on the super cheap. There's a reason this game, despite having a monthly fee, obliterates the closest MMO competitor in subscription numbers. It's a quality, albeit aging, product with a lot of value. If you've always been curious, $5 is a great price to pay to try it out. Then at least you can say you tried it when you go on forums to talk crap about it. ;)

Direct from Blizzard: " In addition, all World of Warcraft subscribers will now automatically have access to all of the content and features of both The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King, even if they never purchased either expansion, at no additional cost."
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/...-9_19_2012


So actually you don't even need a battle chest. You could get just the small box of vanilla (original) WoW and you would still have both Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King expansions. You can find the old vanilla original WoW box for cheap all over. (This Battle Chest comes with a cool book, though, so that's cool.)

I am willing to bet money that most people buying this have played it before.

90% of people returning to WoW are not new customers. It's been out a very long time.

1-70 has been nerfed so much that 1-70 is now faster than hierlooms used to get you there. Having hierlooms now adays just makes it stupid-easy instead of very easy.

Edit: I just read the rest of your paragraph. WoW/BC/WotLK cannot take several months because of dungeon grinding. Nobody plays those expansions except for leveling, so there is no "stopping" you just keep leveling through it. Exp is so fast now that you dont even need to quest until 85.

I leveled 1-70 without doing more than the starter quests to get off Panda island. I literally grinded dungeons entirely in 2 days, that is how easy it is now adays and it is faster than questing. Leveling is so fast that at some levels you outlevel some dungeons before ever getting the chance to do them via random dungeon finder.

They want you to level fast as possible so you spend money more, and before you know it you gave Blizzard almost $100 buying up all the expansions and a few months gametime.

Now that I think about it, they literally reduced Cata exp in half. 9 mil for one level is now 4.5mil.

(I really need to quit WoW)

People still play this? :shake:

$15 a month sounds like a lot, but it's totally worth it.

When I was addicted to Wow, I stopped buying other games, and pretty much stayed in on weekends. Sure, it was bad for my social life, but I saved so much more money.

Nowadays, I go out drinking every weekend and usually spend $50+ at the bars/clubs lol. Ugh.

http://us.blizzard.com/store/details.xml?id=110000044

Try "1-85," lol.


The best deal is to get a friend to signup with you using Refer-a-Friend. You both buy the Battlechest for $5, tack on Catalcysm when it goes back on sale, and then BAM! two level 85's in a week (if you're so inclined).

I originally played WoW for 3 months around the time the first expansion came out, then I let my sub end. A few months ago Blizzard sent me one of those e-mail offers from playing Diablo 3 and offered me a free digital copy of Wrath of the Lich King and a month of play time.

Now I don't feel so special knowing that anyone can get all of the WoW games that I have for $5 :'(

I didn't ever get too into WoW, although I played it quite a bit. From what I hear it's not really the same at all anymore. I would probably check out Guild Wars 2 before I got back into WoW.

Because you've played it before doesn't mean there are no new players. Look at this thread, there are a few people saying that they might try it. A new player that HASN'T done all of the content, might want to explore and see the story, not just grind through the leveling and get to max level. On my newest toon I'd do a few quests while in dungeon queue (usually 10 minutes if that) up to MOP content, but I had 4 85s at the end of Cata, so I've seen the story. And if you like story content, once you get through the story line on both continents for one faction, you can switch to the other faction for more stories. With Cata they did so much to improve the stories of the races and areas, but if you only think end game then you grind 2 days and get through the vanilla and BC content and woudln't have a clue about what they changed. Even someone that played in vanilla or BC hasn't seen what WOW has become (for better or worse). It is a totally different game than it was in vanilla and BC. Yea they took the necessity of guilds out with Looking For... but you can still be in a guild for the social experience, I still see PUG groups getting together for non LFD runs, Guilds bring perks to give incentive to join one, understanding skills is easier to understand and able to be more customized than ever before (again for better or for worse), farms, pet battles, and so on. A lot of changes and if you played in vanilla, BC, or wraith, this isn't THAT WOW.

Either way, as was said above, if you start playing wow and don't go out drinking one night a month, you've probably paid for the subscription and then some. For $35 for all expansions (or even for $5 for just this battle chest), WOW is worth it in my book. I suppose YMMV.

side note: if you get this game and have a smart phone, you might be interested in the Mobile Armory with auction house capabilities on it. It is free and can keep you intouch with your guild or help you make some extra gold from auctions. And I strongly recommend an authenticator - free smart phone option if you have a smart phone or they sell for cost ($6.50 last I saw) from blizzard.

There are enough really good free to play MMOs out there, that this is not really a slickdeal. If you've never played WOW before, I'd highly suggest you try those as you'll be able to play more casually and save yourself $180 dollars a year.

WOW remains the top polished MMO, but the others are good enough to justify not spending the money and saving on the sub which is far slicker.

I know this is seen as a good deal however this is false. If you start the free trial of WoW to level 20 (recruit a friend or on your own), you get the first 3 expansions for free. You will just have to buy the last 2 (cataclysm and MoP). My sons girlfriend just recently did this and all she had to buy were the last 2.

I'd be down if it was the WCII Battle Chest

You need to purchase this.

How is this a masked trial version? Are you stupid? Everyone knows it has subscription fees @ 15/month. You get into the game knowing that. How the hell is it masked? One of the stupidest things I've ever heard.

FYI, with RAF, Cataclysm is free.

Every "free" MMO I have played actually ended up costing me more than $15 a month to play. I just stick with WoW because I still enjoy it after all these years and as mentioned many times before, you actually save money if you get hooked. I never buy games anymore. I used to buy at least 2 games a month before I started WoW.

BTW - This is the same price on the worldofwarcraft.com site and you can get digital download. No reason to have the boxed version.

The first month is FREE. If you want to play more, you have to buy more expansions and pay $15/month. This sale is to GET YOU HOOKED so that you shell out a lot more than $5. By the time your free month is up, you can easily (it took me 2 days) be moving on to other expansions. Hence why I said it is a masked trial.. Drop the name-calling and go to school.

Sounds accurate. Free to play games make closer to $30/month per paying customer. Free to play is the future, but WoW being the monopoly has certainly delayed that from happening.

if you like WoW try Dekaron.

Sorry if this was mentioned earlier - I don't see it, but a few asked about time for the sale...
Not certain on Amazon's, but Blizzard's $5/$10/$20 is for the next two weeks.

No, you do not get the first three free in RAF.
RAF gives XP bonuses to both players, and it gives level bonuses, a mount + a month of game time to the referring player, and the trial lets the new person play up to level 20 (just as the non-RAF trial does). However, the battlechest is the first three expansions up to level 80 and you still have to buy that before buying Cata or MOP.

Now, after you have a trial they will offer 'everything up to Cata' and 'everything up to MOP' upgrades in account management which include the battlechest for less than list price (but not beating this sale), so you can get them all together and not buy each separately.

It's possible he had a free reward game that he gave her - some long time players did get those quite a while back and may not have activated their extra key, but that's separate from RAF and you either have one or you don't - you can't just get more free. Some players would probably buy you the game, though, if you use RAF with them, since they'll get a free month after you subscribe.

SCARED of restarting Wow again. When I play it, I want to start doing all the achievements. I had a level 85 with 9000 points (which are nothing but I was getting started) and the max now is 20,000. There's so much to do in the game. You never get bored. Great game, but can take a LOT of your free time.
I miss it. Staying away from the game for now. I know if I play it, I will have no free time.

I can't wait to see the look on my gf's face when I explain my reasoning behind giving her WoW for Valentine's Day

If you do, check out the music around Storm Peaks. Or at least give it a listen on YouTube. Around 5:00. So serene!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIGROVO4wUg

I chimed in earlier on this topic... Think I might elaborate... Try LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online). Yes, there's a lot to spend money on. But you also earn a lot of that store-credit in-game. You can buy stuff with dollars/euros, but you don't need to. It all depends on how you want to spend your time. Generally figure 1TP (Turbine Store Point) is 1 US penny, though you can get deals up to 1.67TP/cent. Similarly, discounts of 20-30% off list prices (in TP) are common. The first 3 game zones are free to everyone. Beyond that, the quests and deeds are considered content and need to be purchased. But the cost is relatively light. Beyond the initial game areas, the expansions are sold as packages. (Much the same as earlier higher-level zones.) Discounts are common. Yes, you could wind up spending a lot of money. I've probably spent over $300 or $400 over the 4+ years I've been playing. On the other hand, I buy expansions at their most expensive price (prerelease, with goodies bundled in). I have about $90 worth of TP credited that I can't seem to find any way to spend. And 4 years of WoW is $720 for the monthly fees alone. If I never spent another dime on LOTRO I could keep playing it until Turbine goes out of business. WoW, on the other hand, locked me out when I stopped paying.

Nice price but I got it for free some months ago. (On a mail from blizzard)

can someone send me a scroll of resurrection? i'd like to start out at lvl 80 :) the upgrade to cataclysm is nice as well.

This is dead now, comes up at $12.something

shows up as $12.16 on my amazon. why?

Are you serious? The greatest thing about WoW was that you could come back anytime and not be too behind in gear.

The worst thing about traditional and eastern MMO's was that if you didn't play for 1 year, you were literally 1 year behind in gear; good luck catching up with that. Even in some modern games today, the difference between noobie gear and top gear is astronomical. In Tera, the best geared people hit others in for 1 million damage. A fresh max level char will be hitting for a 100k. Unless you join a guild that funds you, don't expect to catch up anytime soon (1 year). Most good guild won't even want you because you are too weak. In WoW you can get geared in 2-3 weeks and start being competitive.

If you are interested go to worldofwarcraft dot com as they have this special running until the 24th I believe.