What Do You Need For WoW

I would like to play wow as I have seen a lot of my friends play the game and I know how fun it can be... most people that i know that play RS and WoW like WoW better... But... I have a problem... i have really slow internet... RS runs just fine but I was worried about buying WoW and then having trouble playing the game.... Could someone please let me know the lowest speed internet that the game can run on? I have an awesome computer that is built for gaming it just has crappy internet.... I think my speed is .7 or something like that... its the best for my area so i can't get anything better... Thanks for any help...

Thanks Again In Advance,

-Deathmaul-

PS. I can play RS in the highest quality and it
runs fine. Sometimes in a crowded world its laggy
but other then that its fine.

 

Well, the game CAN run on a dial-up connection, though that being it will disconnect you a lot, and you will suffer quite terrible lag, so bad that you might want to punch a whole in your monitor (trust me i know). If you want to do raids, probably about 30kB/s would be alright, usually it doesn't use more than that, it's only an MMO after all and really none of them use much.

 

i used to have the same problem you have, and it really isnt gunna effct you too much. you will be able to train dungeon and battleground all normally, jsut my suggestion to you is avoid the high popluated main cities (dalaran, SW, org, IF) especially if you are on a high populated server. yest you may have to travel a bit and go out of your was but it is better than moving in frames and not being able to control your character

 

Yeah you should be fine just avoid dalaran and I wouldnt get too keen on 25 man raids.

 

i played on a shitty connection for 2 years and it was fine, massive pain in the ass at moments, had to skip on raids because of my internet. i pretty much DC'd at every boss fight haha.

you can get awesome plans anyway these days for cheap, just convince your parents to change

 

Might also be worth grabbing WoW Tunnels or something similar which can really help.

 

I played on 500kb/s (0.5 mb) for about half a year, it wasn't that bad.

 

Okay thanks for all the help.... I pay for my own internet I live in my own home so yea... no parents here... I saw the game and liked and and thought i might check it out since I played RS since i was 10... gosh i feel old now... haha anyway.... I live on a mountain and I have the fastest internet possible....

-Deathmaul-

 

Honestly what you probably should try is get someone to toss you a 10 day free trial if they're not still offering them, and run it for a few days start leveling and see how it goes.... then decide if you wanna invest the money.

 

Don't I need to buy the game from the store before I can run the trial? or how would that work... i have a friend with the game so if i borrow it and install it can i play the game without the disk? or can i down load it...?

-Deathmaul-

 

No he can go into his account management, and send you a "Recruit-a-friend" thing to your email. It'll give you steps how to download the game, and setup your trial account. You can't trade, or talk to anyone while on trial unless they add you to their friends though.

And once you've made your decision you can go to the store, and buy the full game and upgrade your account, and play the full game. A trial account can't go over level 20.

EDIT:
Though warning, when you upgrade your account some restrictions may take 72hrs to remove. But you'll be able to exceed level 20 right away after the upgrade.

 

Hey thanks thats an awesome piece of info... my internet speed is like .30/kbs is that enough to run WoW?

-Deathmaul-

 

If you're keen on fast paced raiding or pvp(arena), you need fast internet.

 

Not sure, I was always an RS nerd when my net was slow. Always had the best internet here which is really fast since I've started wow so I couldn't tell you. :[ Sorry.

 

Haha I play RS more then i breath.... haha I feel ya on the nerd thing haha... yea wish i lived close to a town so i would have better internet connection but for now I just am getting info and trying to figure out what i can do....


-Deathmaul-

 

"wasn't that bad" I don't think there would be any reason you would ever even need that speed lol

 

Yea i had a cousin that played WoW on dial up. He said all he couldn't do was sit in Dal or do big raids like ICC.
And on battle.net you can sign up for a trial .

 

I have satellite So Maybe it will work... i will look into getting the game soon... I do think I have the internet speed to play but yea... Idk.... I hope that I can figure something out...

Thanks again everyone,

-Deathmaul-

 

I wouldnt recommend downloading the game through RAF if you have shitty net though, could take days xD

 

I am downloading PW right now its 56% and it has been 24hours... lmfao.... A friend said that if i wanna see what WoW is like to play Perfect World so I decided to check it out.... idk... but thanks for the heads up...


-Deathmaul-