what do you know about the wow world?

[35yeros]

another of my, "why wow is played like wow is" this one focuses on exploration and why its under-rated, and often looked upon as a waste of time.
once more, i (35yeros) wrote this, it took me 23 minutes, if you copy it, credit me/d3scene.
all numbers are close or are accurate.

how much does the casual wow user know about wows terrain? not much, most people only know the place's that they leveled, or partied there. few venture off the beaten path and try and climb immense mountains and fall to the bottom of gorges. mostly because when most people are playing wow they only want one thing, a level 70. and when they ding at 70 they want epics, and when the obtain epics, the duel/arena, and after a while they get bored and move on to another game. so how does wow exploration get done? by the few that either get lost, or decide to figure out why the wow map has 7 circles that have hidden places underneath. wow explorers are curious people, i am one of them, at level 19 i as a horde ventured all the way out to bloody mist isle. most are lower levels, most had a quest pointing them out some direction and ended up going to far and seeing a weird looking thing on the horizon, and deciding to venture out to that weird shape and check it out, hoping that is a vendor of Goober owniage gear, but sigh* it never is, (well once, it was, but thats a long private server story). and then when the tired level 19 makes it out there and discovers a hut with nothing inside they get bummed, but decide to post it on a forum incase on some private server its has a vendor of something.
these are wow explorers.
some may have had the luck in finding a place were so abnormal thing occurs ex. getting onto the wow plane, (a flat area) and have reported it on a wow channel and other wow players have responded to your find whit the saying of "what a noob" or "you have to be a noob with alot of time" or even the worst "hi i am a gm, we have been notified that you have accessed restricted terrain do so in the future will result in a ban" so thats why when i discover a place i copy down the xy cords and write a brief summary on how i got to the place and what i saw, since u started doing this i have filled 24 ms word pages with places/zone that i have found.
i found these pages to be of great use when i started playing private wow.reason being is that on real wow, these places are just extra terrain, but on private wow, these places tend to house sacred gm vendors that the repack creators decided were hidden enough for gm vendors.
so to sum what i have said up, "wow is like a box of chocolates, you might find a million dollars inside, or you may just find normal chocolate".

facts,
wow is 950 square kilometers of walk-able terrain,
only 400 km are know to the casual user
ever mountain can be climbed, with out hacks, using lag, try it.
112 km of wow, are "dark" meaning that they don't have sun in them.

[hydrax]

I read that all....was very good Now what about those 7 circles? > +rep btw for the interesting post

[DemonNinja]

Would like to hear more about the lag idea, like how much is needed. Ive had no luck with 2k lag, but Ive had no luck when I ran into some walls.

[35yeros]

its simple...lag out your pc to around 4k ms (really really really lagggggggy) and point your char toward a mountain and hit num lock. by the time it unfreezes your char will of successfully climbed the mountain, the server does this because it has to compinstae for your movement, and since it knows there is a mountain there it defaults you to the top, its a bug that should of been fixed ages ago, and hasn't, so i am assuming that they either don't know about it, or they are having a oober hard time fixing it.
about the 7 circles:
look on your map and and see all the fancy compasses and ships and such? most of them actually have stuff under them, like the circle off the easter coast of taniras (gadgetzan) which is roughly a 30 minute swim has a few houses, i haven't been able to enter them because i always die, don't know why, but if you have gm privileges just set your self not to die and do it.

[devindagrate]

Yeah alot of people dont explore WoW even when they are level 70 (including me) I wish I had the patience to keep on trying to explore and find GM vendors. Would be cool lol, but i like the priv servers, just hack the GM gear. Well anyways cool thread. I would add you some rep, but I already added you some rep on a previous thread.

[35yeros]

ya sometimes it is really doring and time consuming, but it usualy pays off.

[Sikozu]

I did a lot of exploration when I started wow, but got bored. I prefer to explore Freelancer, but whenever someone post a cool new place I always check it out. I remember I wuz obsessed with going to the falls behind Northshire and I did

[hydrax]

I tried to find some of these place...the only circle place i found was tanaris's.. But i did find the King of Stormwind by Theramore!

[35yeros]

Originally Posted by hydrax

I tried to find some of these place...the only circle place i found was tanaris's.. But i did find the King of Stormwind by Theramore!

sigh....i cant think for you, just look at the map, by and by you should eventually find the circles.
note: its alot of outa the box thinking to find these things, remember, programmers made these places hard to find for a reason!!!

[MacCracken]

u mean the "circles" on the zone, continent or world map? they're not in the same places..

[35yeros]

some zone maps have circular compasses in them, swim out to them, you'll be suprised at what you find

[akoglu]

Simply.. go to a GM Server.,, Type .ch explore .. mod speed 1/255 and .ch fly .. ecplore evry evrywhere

[MacCracken]

Originally Posted by akoglu

Simply.. go to a GM Server.,, Type .ch explore .. mod speed 1/255 and .ch fly .. ecplore evry evrywhere

why? then u could just as well download a map viewer and look thru it all offline..

but the challenge / fun is doing it on a live server..

[35yeros]

mea.....its a bitch to swim to some of these places, (numlock all night)
but yes it is a challenge on real servers