Originally posted by: blazerazor
I am so close to buying up this game, but Im afraid of what will happen to my life after I start.
I've never done any MMORPG, but love blizzard games. I still havent gotten HL2 yet. Tough Choices.
Time for a new game this weekend too. GuildWars looks good too.
WoW really rocks! I work full time, am away on weekends, and still manage to have a fulfilling play experience.
One very cool feature is a
"rested" XP bonus.
If you are inside an inn or a major city, you start slowly earning rested XP, even if you're logged off.
Let's say you logged off for 24 hours and came back on and you've earned 1000 rested XP.
For each XP point that you earn by killing enemies, it will give you an additional XP point from your rested XP pool. It will do this until you run out of rested XP. If you earn 100 xp from killing a monster, it'll say Experience Gained: 200 (+100 rested bonus), and your rested XP pool would drop by 100.
So if your friend had no rested XP, and you had 1000, and you both went and killed 1000 xp worth of enemies, you'd have earned 2000 to his 1000.
This helps you to catch up if you've been away for a few days, so it's not as hard to take a break, and you don't need to play every single night to keep up.