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Wintrow
22-08-2007, 12:07 PM
Ok, I'm still on my long trek towards Outland and getting closer by the week (L56 atm).

My brother has been L70 for some time now and even my brother in law who took a break for a couple of months is getting into swing again and levelled his L60 to L65.

This has spurred me on to get on with it and has thus brought me within two levels of the promised land. Still, all the reading up, all the watching of movies, made me wish I could simply have a glance of life at L70. What is it like having an epic flier (any flier really) or to be wearing nice endgame gear.

Then I found out:
You can copy a premade L70 of your choosing onto the test-server and play. The character has:
- L70 (off course)
- an epic flier
- an epic ground mount
- epic gear for all the roles your class is capable of and often in multiple tiers
- 4 x 36-slot bags CHOCKFULL of first-class gems !!
- top of the line drinks and bandages
- two professions maxed out

Not every class/race combinations is available, but every race is as well as every class on every faction. Like: Gnome Warlock and Undead Warlock, but no Human Warlock.

On first login you can even name the char what you want.

Since then I've been soaring through the skies, checking out the dark portal, harassing the Fel Orcs at Hellfire Citadel. It makes me wanna get there sooner :grin:.

PS: I'm sure a lot of you guys already know this, but it has apparently escaped my attention for some time.

PPS: I actually WAS aware of the possibility, but I thought I'd need to make a full copy of the client and patch that one. Which would give me diskspace troubles. But instead it neatly sticks onto your regular installation and makes a nice subfolder called WoWTest and only installs the difference with the full client. It has it's own addon folder and it's own addon-data folder. Simply wonderfull I tell ya.

Maticus
22-08-2007, 12:12 PM
Glad you're enjoying it :grin:

Just hope when you go back to playing your regular character it won't be too boring for you, now you've tasted the high life :wink:

Wintrow
22-08-2007, 12:56 PM
Nah, still wanna enjoy the ride up there. That's why I'm still L56. I took my time to enjoy the levelling up content.

Twoflower
22-08-2007, 02:09 PM
have fun saving the 6.7k gold for the epic flyer ^^ once you know the feeling, there is no going back :(

Caderbery
22-08-2007, 04:06 PM
I was playing a level 70 warlock on the test serve and i was loving it, but it gets boring quite fast because i had noone to play with. So i went back to my level 59 warlock to get her to 70 asap, she is 61 at the moment.

coani
22-08-2007, 04:34 PM
I been trying out a pally on test server, just to see how aoe grinding worked (my pally alt is just a lowlie level 27 nobody).
was fun to solo BRD and clear all bosses ^-^

Elly
22-08-2007, 04:59 PM
Glad you're enjoying it :grin:

Just hope when you go back to playing your regular character it won't be too boring for you, now you've tasted the high life :wink:

That's why I've never taken a lvl 70. Well partly, I want to work up to it for one but also I know I'll be fed up having to go back to my lowbies after experiencing all the new goodies. It's like someone giving you a really nice bar of chocolate, having half a bite and them taking it off you..... "that's your lot". Whaa. but, but?

moopy
22-08-2007, 05:22 PM
That's why I've never taken a lvl 70. Well partly, I want to work up to it for one but also I know I'll be fed up having to go back to my lowbies after experiencing all the new goodies. It's like someone giving you a really nice bar of chocolate, having half a bite and them taking it off you..... "that's your lot". Whaa. but, but?

This is why I avoid the test realms unless I want to try out a specific new mechanic. If people take chocolate away from me, I tend to growl a bit, even if they're quite cute- I don't handle these things well (most things, yes.. but chocolate?).

It's enough effort to get my "real" toons to stretch their wings fully, especially when they start to become ridiculously overpowered. My nominal "main", a geared-to-the-teeth raid healer, always feels a bit underused to me.