BlizzCon tickets on sale

"It's Monday, August 11th, and that means that BlizzCon tickets are on sale. Except, they're really not. Blizzard's new Blizzard Store site is epic fail broken -- all most people are seeing is the ""error has occured"" screen above. Hopefully this isn't a preview of things to come. and hopefully Blizzard will figure out a fair way to get these tickets out (because right now, the site certainly isn't working). Expect more updates to this post as the process goes along. Update: Seems like a lot of people are making it to the credit card verification screen before things go bad, so it seems (seems) the fault may be with the credit card approvals, not necessarily Blizzard's site. Also, one big change from last year is that not only do you specify your WoW character during checkout, but they ask you to say your favorite Blizzard franchise, as well. Update 2: Alex here, seems the entire site is FUBAR pretty much. Definitely not a credit card thing. It won't even let me shop for books to add onto my order. We're liveblogging our quest for BlizzCon tickets -- lots more updates after the jump. 10:52am: Alex got this great error message. ""Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete."" Sad. And yet true. 11:08am: Blizzard's website, blizzard.com, is completely down. Whether that's because it's offline purposely (Blizzard employees reportedly showed up at their officers at 8am their time, a few minutes ago), or because it's completely b0rked, we don't know. 11:16am: At least we can all commiserate together. From commenter Boven (thanks!): 11:19am: Store's back online. 11:31am: And it's back down again. Probably safe to say that at least one of these outages is caused by all the traffic. 11:32am: Blizzard is aware of the problems and working on it.

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In the meantime they say that Billing and Account Services and the In-game Support departments are not the way to go on this one -- neither of them will be helping with ticket issues. 12:01pm: Just for the heck of it (and because we're suckers for punishment), we just called the Blizzard Store sales line, and what you might expect happened: we got nothing but beeping. We haven't heard from anyone yet who's actually been able to buy a ticket this morning. Have any of you. 12:05pm: You know how when you see a word a lot, it starts not making sense. That's happening for us with ""an error has occurred."" 12:57pm: Despite our repeated clicking, the Failoc still isn't letting us past. The farthest we've gotten so far is C. At this rate, looks like Mike Morhaime and Jay Mohr will be the only two people at BlizzCon '08. (Note: That was a joke. Jay Mohr probably won't be hosting again.) 1:51pm: The good news is that Blizzard confirms that no tickets have been sold yet. So you're not the only one frustrated and angry that you can't secure your spot at BlizzCon. We await further updates from them -- the sites are going up and down now, with people seeing all kinds of things, from Failocs to regular error messages, from XML errors to even 404 Apache server pages.wow goldBut as Blizzard has said, no tickets have been sold yet at all, so nobody panic. 2:22pm: This, from Cilos on Silver Hand: " "See what I go through to get you the juiciest beta information. That's three sharks I'm fighting off, all for you! Those things are vicious... but they were clearly have not been reading the beta forums, because they had no idea how overpowered Paladins are right now.wow goldBut enough chatter: time for your questions! Hoops asked.... How much gold roughly would you get from questing 70-77 (until you unlock the flying mount).

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I was wondering if it would it be worth farming money beforehand or would the money from questing be enough. I'm not 77 yet, so I can't exactly address the question as asked, but I can tell you that I've made about 400g leveling from 70 to 72. That's just from questing, vendoring trash & unneeded greens -- and it includes some stupid deaths, plenty of repair bills(I blame Dalaran for many of them!) , and training a couple of professions (35g to train a primary profession to the next skill level and 100g to train a secondary profession to the next skill level).mp3For more on money-making in Wrath -- and other questions! -- read on! But if you're the sort who wants to avoid spoilers, turn back now. We're aiming to avoid major story spoilers, but this feature is all about beta content and we can't talk about the beta without giving things away here and there. I imagine that when Wrath goes live, you will find more ways to make money (selling good greens or blues you come across on the auction house) and spend money (buying cool loot for yourself, further training professions). But I'm still guessing you'll come out pretty well for yourself -- doing quests has always been a great way to earn gold and Northrend zones are massive (the early zones each have three, four, or even five quest hubs per faction).wow goldI have no doubt that delicious quest money won't run dry until well after level 80. (But if you want a more direct answer, commenter Micgo did note that he netted around 2000g while going from level 70 to 77.) For my part, I'm not going to spend my pre-Wrath hours farming -- I think quest gold will flow quite nicely after launch. (Though if you want one of those Dalaran rings, you may want to get a head start.) Justin asked.... I had heard that Rogue's sap was being changed to work on more types of enemies.buy wow goldCan you list any changes to the types of targets that crowd controls like Sheep and Sap will effect. (I know I used sap as an example but I was actually more interested in Sheep specifically. My main is a Mage and I fear for the usefulness of Mage crowd control in a land filled Dragonkin and Undead, especially when other classes are having their crowd control buffed to affect those types of targets.) Sap, rank 4, trainable at level 71, has the following skill description: Incapacitates the target for up to 1 min.wow goldMust be stealthed. Only works on Humanoids, Beasts, Demons and Dragonkin that are not in combat.

 

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