need info b4 starting wow

[tomeyouareugly]

ive been wanting to play wow for about 2 weeks now since seeing it at my cousins house. so i decided to buy but wat i didnt no is there were patches
(when first heard of them thought they were gangs) and i have dial up so i was wondering if i buy burning cursade just for patch 1.12v can i play the normla wow or do i need the 2.0.1 etc patchs as well :ponder:

[Tunga]

You have to patch to the current version. You could always get your cousin to put them on a CD for you.

[tomeyouareugly]

well i would but me cousin lives aways away but ur saying if i buy bc i have to play bc???

[Gorny]

You will need to also buy World of Warcraft in addition to buying The Burning Crusade.

Then inorder to actually play you will need to patch to the current 2.2 version, on dial up this will take some time. Hours maybe.

[Tunga]

well i would but me cousin lives aways awayThis is why we invented the postal system :grin: .
but ur saying if i buy bc i have to play bc???No matter whether you own TBC or not, it will still patch to the current version (2.2.0 at the moment). You won't be able to access the additional TBC content but your client version still has to match because a lot of the changes in the patches since TBC have launched are changes that apply to the old lands, quests, items, and to class abilities and talents in general.

In short, you can buy original 'plain' WoW and play that fine without TBC but you'll still have to patch up to 2.2.0. At a rough estimate you're looking at around 600MB download I think (should fit on a CD fine).

[tomeyouareugly]

ok thx im on my cousin but he said i had to get up to patch 1.12v then he'll send me them i got to 1.10v and then downloaded 1.10 to 1.11 and it said i need patch 1.10.1 and 2???? and there no were to be found

[tomeyouareugly]

hay just wondering if i download patch 2.2v will i have to download any other patch???

[Tunga]

What region?
Filefront carries most of the patches.
Easiest thing to do would have been to just download the single 1.12 full patch which will take you from any version straight up to 1.12.
You can pretty much Google "wow 1.10.1" or similar and find any patch you need.

[tomeyouareugly]

i live in new zealand wich is by ozzy and i googled it but no downloads come up =(

[swaldman]

Before you spend your cash... can anybody here offer information on whether WoW is currently actually playable over dialup? I believe that the system requirements were quietly raised with the release of the expansion so that it isn't officially supported.