Some time ago, a friend turned me on to World of Warcraft. Despite being an uber Blizzard fan for the fact that their games are simultaneously released for Macs and PCs alone, I never even tried their MMO. I got sucked in. I started after they released their last expansion (The Burning Crusade), so Azeroth has seemed rather static.
Today, the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, was released. This expansion adds another 10 levels your characters can achieve, a new continent, Northrend, and a new class, the Death Knight. While many WoW fans braved the elements last night to get their copy at midnight, I resisted the urge and will wait for Amazon to deliver my copy today. I got to hear the chatter last night as my guildies all set foot in the new continent.
Sadly, I won’t get a chance to check out all the new zones until later tonight after work. I’ll be concentrating on leveling my shaman and my hunter first. I started my hunter on my tiny Powerbook, which ironically enough, can’t handle the latest expansion, so my adventures will have to solely happen on my Mac Pro. Have any of you enterprising readers gotten their expansion yet? Am I going to like it as much as I hope?
Yea, Cryistal first herbalist on french server medivh.
So I played it for a couple of hours last night and it seems to keep its promises.
Runs surprisingly smooth on a P4 HT 3GHz.
Didn't try it yet on mbp, but it should be about the same.
have a good night playing ;)
I'm in many of the same boats as you are, Derik. I resisted playing until a couple of buddies talked me into it and I'd been playing the game (Classic and BC) on my venerable 12" PowerBook G4 all this time. It always handled Azeroth well enough, but started to show its limitations in BC (even with all effects turned to lowest settings, I'd get rather low framerates in high-graphics zones like Shattrath and Eye of the Storm). In fact, I must admit that, between Wrath and Photoshop CS4, it's a big reason I bought the new unibody MBP instead of waiting.
Oh, and I'm also stuck waiting today for my Wrath to arrive (I ordered the Collector's Edition). That's fine, though. The last thing I needed was to be up til 4 am fighting a thousand new Death Knights for framerates in all the new starting zones. :)
I can run it on the same old G4 I've been using, even though the system reqs say you need a G5 or Intel Mac to do it. It even runs exactly the same, so I don't know why Blizzard felt like upping the requirements.