World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Question

Hey guys, Im not a big time PC gamer. But my dad is. I was thinking about getting him Cataclysm for christmas but i honestly have no clue how WoW works. I know that he has the World of Warcraft Battlechest, so having that can he play Cataclysm if i buy him a copy? Is Cataclysm like an expansion pack? If so what does it feature? How would he be able to access it? Does he need to have the Lich King in order to play Cataclysm? Lstly, do you have to pay a monthly fee or can you just play single player without anyone else? thank you, any information is greatly appreciated! =)

Hey guys, Im not a big time PC gamer. But my dad is. I was thinking about getting him Cataclysm for christmas but i honestly have no clue how WoW works. I know that he has the World of Warcraft Battlechest, so having that can he play Cataclysm if i buy him a copy? Is Cataclysm like an expansion pack? If so what does it feature? How would he be able to access it? Does he need to have the Lich King in order to play Cataclysm? Lstly, do you have to pay a monthly fee or can you just play single player without anyone else? thank you, any information is greatly appreciated! =)

holladios

Cataclysm is an expansion and requires all prior expansions to upgrade. There's a monthly fee of $15.

I suggest you get him another game if he aint playing wow right now. Or else you will have to buy the expansions + gametime for him... so :P

Or if you really want to give something WoW related, get Wrath of the Lich King for him since I assume he got original WoW and Burning Crusade with the Battlechest. When he's through WoTLK content he can buy Cata himself if he still wants to continue? :) And having WOTLK makes him able to create a Death Knight.

great thanks guys!

One thing you need to know if you already decided, you need to level to 10 fast, use dungeons and alternate with questing (for gear mostly), at 15 do pvp till 30, once you have prereq levels for dungeons do each at least 4 times (this is 15-30, and I mena dungeons that are red for your level), at 30 something start questing in tanaris ungoro and feralas ( don't remeber their levels sorry :(), continue to do pvp and dungeons from time to time and you should reach 60 fairly fast, clean hellfire, nagrand and go borean t or howling f, they're the same, depends on what you like more, clean one of them of quests, clean dragonlight, grizzly hills, storm peaks, sholazar and at 76 be sure to do mostly pvp since you gain more levels at 76-80 through pvp in one day than you get questing or doing dungeons in days, you should be 80 already.

That's the best route imo since all of it is fun especially storm peaks, you should be 80 in 5 days if you use qhelper because it will eliminate most of the back forth wasted time, but if you play casually should be easy to get to 80 before cataclysm.( posting from the phone, sorry if there are mistakes :p)

One thing you need to know if you already decided, you need to level to 10 fast, use dungeons and alternate with questing (for gear mostly), at 15 do pvp till 30, once you have prereq levels for dungeons do each at least 4 times (this is 15-30, and I mena dungeons that are red for your level), at 30 something start questing in tanaris ungoro and feralas ( don't remeber their levels sorry :(), continue to do pvp and dungeons from time to time and you should reach 60 fairly fast, clean hellfire, nagrand and go borean t or howling f, they're the same, depends on what you like more, clean one of them of quests, clean dragonlight, grizzly hills, storm peaks, sholazar and at 76 be sure to do mostly pvp since you gain more levels at 76-80 through pvp in one day than you get questing or doing dungeons in days, you should be 80 already.

That's the best route imo since all of it is fun especially storm peaks, you should be 80 in 5 days if you use qhelper because it will eliminate most of the back forth wasted time, but if you play casually should be easy to get to 80 before cataclysm.( posting from the phone, sorry if there are mistakes :p)

OR he can take it slowly and enjoy the game at his own pace doing the things he wants to do :P Leveling was much funner back in the day without all that auto queue bs and crazy exp you get from BG'sPrexxus

This is my 3rd WoW account (first in WoW, 2nd BC and after a while, this year I started again from scratch), the game becoming easier is kinda bad but when it's about questing and dungeons, it's much better than getting stranded somewhere without a clue as to what to do next, or searching all day for a party for dungeons, also cross realm pvp is a great addition but can't wait for ranked pvp :) since alliance on Ragnaros is decent at best.

[QUOTE="Prexxus"]OR he can take it slowly and enjoy the game at his own pace doing the things he wants to do :P Leveling was much funner back in the day without all that auto queue bs and crazy exp you get from BG'sDanielDust

This is my 3rd WoW account (first in WoW, 2nd BC and after a while, this year I started again from scratch), the game becoming easier is kinda bad but when it's about questing and dungeons, it's much better than getting stranded somewhere without a clue as to what to do next, or searching all day for a party for dungeons, also cross realm pvp is a great addition but can't wait for ranked pvp :) since alliance on Ragnaros is decent at best.

so the only game you like.... admitted in another thread... is also mostly horrible except a few things? i really dont understand why you play videogames anymoreRoland123_basic

[QUOTE="Roland123_basic"] so the only game you like.... admitted in another thread... is also mostly horrible except a few things? i really dont understand why you play videogames anymoreDanielDust

What I posted almost one month ago on this thread is a quick and fast guide to reaching 80 since the TC was worried about not being able to do so until Cataclysm.

If you, really want to know what I hate about WoW then I'll write them down.

Desolace (the old one, the new Cataclysm Desolace is superb)

Burning Steppes

Redridge Mountains

Deadwind Pass

Blasted Lands

Why did I say from the horde side? because except Desolace the others are all from Eastern kingdoms and for horde it's a bother to quest there.

Shadowmoon Valley

Blade's Edge Mountains

Icecrown

Those are all, I don't like them, but I do travel through some because of certain factions. That's the best thing about WoW, it has soo much content you can avoid what you don't like, but each zone has certain rewards so, you'll have to go through them "if" you want those rewards. Yet here I am after 1000 hours + on my *new* main and I'm still not even close to needing to complete those zones just for the sake of completing them, except Netherwing reputation.