wow patches?

going to go out and buy wow today and was just wondering if when you buy it does it come with any patches or should i start downloading them now?

 

you have to download many patches and i dont think u can download em befoe u installed the game.

 

yh gamershell has all the patches on there, just thought there might be an addition that includes them.

 

I picked a pretty bad time to start wow!

I could only get the base pack on Saturday so after installing it downloaded the first old 1GB patch and a few smaller ones which took the whole evening because I didn't know about restarting with msconfig set to not load startup items or enabling the Blizzard Downloader on my Firewall. I got it from 2kbps to 44kbps lol Also the username and password isn't working for my Router login so I couldn't set up port forwarding.

Then I picked up TBC on Sunday. I was still downloading one of the huge 2.20GB patches for the first game when I started installing TBC, which took ages.

I decided to restart my laptop because it had been on all morning and when I did, I guess that base pack patch was already installed from the TBC disk because when I loaded up the game it went straight to the login screen, so that was lucky...

But then it kicked me off and proceded to install the smaller 11MB and 28MB TBC patches.

But then... I got hit with the last TBC 2GB patch so I reckon that will be done on Tuesday night.

After that, it's still got to install 2 more TBC patches and then it's probably going to try to install the pre-WotLK patches...


Bad thing is though I'm back where I stay during the week and they're on Pipex, I have a feeling that this ISP might slow down the torrent, my Virgin Net one at home didn't seem to affect it too bad. Though maybe it should have been over 100KBps instead of around 50...


So it's been a long road for me. I'm hoping I can finally start playing by Wednesday night because I've got Thursday and Friday off work

I recommend manual patching these if you know what you're doing I didn't want to screw anything up (I heard some people get BSOD's from messing around with the patches?) so I've stuck with using the Blizzard Downloader.


Why on earth can't they provide game suppliers with the patches on a disk or at least some extra servers, making you pay for the games+subsrciption and then making you download the patches with your bandwidth is just a little bit too far in my opinion but that's business...

 

well they are offical patch releases so i guess aslong as i download them all it should be ok. Its probably gonna takeme an age to patch the game up then rofl. so would you recommend getting wow and tbk or just buy the first game?

 

I got TBC firstly so I could start as a blood elf, but then I thought I might as well upgrade to it if I'm going to be paying anyway. It's got more stuff to do and I would have upgraded eventually. I think either way you're still going to be downloading loads of patches lol

It might be cheaper to get Battlechest if you want both, I would have done if it was available at the time.

 

nah, you can go to filefront and get the major 3.02 patch from before, just to have it ready.

with wow you don't need to go from patch 1.01 all the way, a few of the major patches smetimes have all the stuff you need.