HYPE!!!

Will be the stress test only for NA or others as well?

Will be the stress test only for NA or others as well?

this post called it a "global" test so i would assume the final stress test will be for everyone.

So you need an ongoing subscription in order to participate I suppose.

Wew lads
So you need an ongoing subscription in order to participate I suppose.

Probably. But launch day is coming up in less than four weeks at this point. It's less of an issue now than it was subscribing 6 months in advance to try and catch a beta invite. We're creeping up on launch day where we all need subscriptions anyway. It's almost go time.

At the same time I don't feel like it is that good idea for me to participate in the final stress test as I don't wanna take the freshness from it.

Yeah that's legit too.

I've been doing the opposite and spending 4-5 hours a day grinding classes to level 20 on a private server to pass the time, lol. I'm gonna be tired of all the starting zones by the time classic actually launches.

Wew lads
So you need an ongoing subscription in order to participate I suppose.

Probably. But launch day is coming up in less than four weeks at this point. It's less of an issue now than it was subscribing 6 months in advance to try and catch a beta invite. We're creeping up on launch day where we all need subscriptions anyway. It's almost go time.

This was my line of thinking too. I went ahead and put down a 6 month subscription for the drake in retail. Now I'm good to go (theoretically) for the final test, name reservation, and game release! Super hype :)

I can haz a stress test plz?

Yeah that's legit too.

I've been doing the opposite and spending 4-5 hours a day grinding classes to level 20 on a private server to pass the time, lol. I'm gonna be tired of all the starting zones by the time classic actually launches.

I did the same things for weeks too, but since it's less than a month away I'm not doing it right now. Instead I'm playing warcraft 3 RoC and FT again to get back into it like I did before I touched WoW that many years ago.

Yeah that's legit too.

I've been doing the opposite and spending 4-5 hours a day grinding classes to level 20 on a private server to pass the time, lol. I'm gonna be tired of all the starting zones by the time classic actually launches.

I did the same things for weeks too, but since it's less than a month away I'm not doing it right now. Instead I'm playing warcraft 3 RoC and FT again to get back into it like I did before I touched WoW that many years ago.

I never played warcraft 3. Maybe I should do that for the next few weeks instead. Diablo 2 was my game leading into WoW the first time around.

Maybe that's what I need to do... go level up a paladin on D2.

D2..ohwwww...when paladins were actually fun!

D2..ohwwww...when paladins were actually fun!

Remember the older patches before Zeal was capped at 5 swings? Put enough points into Zeal and get stuck there taking 20 swings at a time with something slow :lol:

Remember the older patches before Zeal was capped at 5 swings? Put enough points into Zeal and get stuck there taking 20 swings at a time with something slow :lol:

Oh god I did this, wield a big slow 2h weapon with maxed zeal and get stuck surrounded by some Corrupt Rogues!
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Frost Zealot paladin was easymode in normal/nightmare/hell.

This thread is about D2 now, lol.

I was around 11/12/13 years old when I was playing D2. I didn't know wtf I was doing, and thought my Minotaur 2H axe was the shit at the time. I ran around with a big 2H axe on my Paladin for a long time before my buddies pointed out that paladins needed a fast 1H weapon and a shield to be viable, lol.

To this day I even still remember the name of that damn Minotaur axe.

I also remember replacing it with a Baranar's star and that made a huge difference.

There was also that damn block rate bug at around level ~95 or something. Go past that level and the block rate would go down and you'd lose duels. I had to pitch a level 99 paladin and level a new one until like level 92 and leave it parked there.

D2..ohwwww...when paladins were actually fun!

and druids were.... still kinda bad

Baranar's star
Baranar's Star Devil Star - stupid name, great paladin weap (pre-runewords).

Stress Test is usually lvl 0 - 5 only I believe. You might not feel that steals away too much from the experience.

I wanted to go on simply to time how long it would take to run over to Mulgore from Orc starting Zone, without using a pserver.