World of Warcraft

[LOG]

Damn...can't wait to see what my HP does on my warr tank :D

Imagine what the bears are gonna be like now when they blow all their cooldowns... 0_0

[defcon6000]

I'm going to Vashj'ir after Hyjal.

Also, Worgen starting zone is fecking amazing!!
I did hyjal first but I like Vash waaaay better.

Worgen starting is awesome but mine was buggy and I had to log out a few times to fix quests (i.e. people not showing up). And I missed out on the last Q in their starting zone 'cause I jumped on the boat too soon. Now I can't go back and do it. :(

[Tasmin21]

When I found the quest titled "What what, in my gut?" I about choked on my dinner.

(If you don't know why that's funny, count yourself VERY lucky)

And yes, I rolled a worgen, but no I haven't tried to play it yet.

[IdiotsRUs]

Why sharing q's with horde is bad.

Because when you're trying to right click on the q-giver to turn it in, only a Tauren parks their mammoth's arse right over him, so you right click him instead and....(Actually, and then we had a damn powercut for half an hour)

Now I just have to remember how I got into this squid thing so I can get back from the graveyard!

[LOG]

Nameplates are helpful :D

I enjoy the Druid's new solar/lunar mechanic, tis fun.

Also, new song by Blizz (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyOcFtzyjbc)
It's for all the Warriors :)

[defcon6000]

Why sharing q's with horde is bad.

Because when you're trying to right click on the q-giver to turn it in, only a Tauren parks their mammoth's arse right over him, so you right click him instead and....(Actually, and then we had a damn powercut for half an hour)

Now I just have to remember how I got into this squid thing so I can get back from the graveyard!
lol, there's been a few times I accidentally flame shocked a horde or they got hit by my lightening chain because they were too close to the stuff I was killing. Sadly, I can't pvp worth a damn.

[LOG]

Cata rep guide (http://www.wowhead.com/blog=176361/cataclysm-reputations-guide-vendors-rewards-and-more)
FAQ (http://www.wowhead.com/blog=176356/faqs-of-the-week)

Guide to Stonecore (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAwqhD-GbbQ)
Guide to BRC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyAjhaIe5v0)

Neat little examination of WoW's starting zone progression through the years. (http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/12/10/the-design-evolution-of-home-life-in-the-starting-zones/)

[defcon6000]

Cata should be renamed: CC EVERYTHING!

I never realized how easy WotLK until now, healing is hella hard. And less tank 'n spank.

[LOG]

Back to the days of DPS actually making use of their snares and actually killing packs one mob at a time. :)

[LOG]

Unsurprisingly, Cata becomes Blizzard's next fastest-selling PC game of all time. (http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/company/press/pressreleases.html?101213)

[WritingDemons]

So, just returned from spending almost all day every day playing Cata. Tanking in heroics = awesome fun.

Except for Setesh in Halls of Origination. I fail so hard on Setesh. WTB bear tank ranged AoE. :(

I'm so excited for raiding. Although really, the 5m heroics are pretty damn close to mini raids. They certainly take for freaking ever. Especially when the (fail) bear tank is learning the mobs and boss fights. :D

[LOG]

How insane is your HP now? I've gone DPS on my warr for the moment, and just with pure DPS gear and only level 82 she has 50K HP.
It's madness.

[WritingDemons]

You know, I forget. Mostly because I don't pay attention to that. I've been more worried about getting my dodge back up to a decent level, and freaking out about hit cap, since feral no longer has a hit-cap spec. I think it's around 150k now. Our healer is sitting at 105k. It's crazy stuff.

[SPMiller]

Disclaimer: I once had two humans, a gnome, and a Forsaken, all top-level.

That said, the nerfs to EMFH and WotF seem ridiculous. Re: EMFH, the long cd means people will either trinket-juggle, which is a hassle, or avoid the racial entirely. I do understand the mechanical implications of an extra DPS trinket in PvP (at the cost of resilience), but it'd be better to just nix it and add a different racial. Re: WotF, sharing a partial cd with the PvP trinket means it's risky to use, at best. It therefore seems unreasonable that EA remains unlinked with any other cd, given that its utility is roughly equivalent.

It's almost like Blizzard introduced two new races with great racials to encourage people to roll them... or use a paid race-switch service. Looks like they do that now. Cynicism increasing.

[CheekyWench]

I'm a lowly lvl 80 without Cata. :sadface: And I tanked Heroic Utgarde Keep last night for the 1st time. I'm DPS. Not tank. But have watched enough to know kind of what to do... I needed a stiff drink afterwards but the healer said I was awesome. I'll take that. LOL

[WritingDemons]

I'm lucky my guild puts up with me. I can be a little dense. As a healer, you watch the green bars, and the ground beneath you. Tanking, I have to pay attention to rage, AoE cool downs, lacerate stacks, mangle mini-bezerk procs, aggro, how close I am to CCed mobs, what's under me, how much damage I'm taking so I can pop a CD if I need to, kiting when needed...

My simple mind boggles.

[CheekyWench]

yeah, all that stuff? not me. I just make sure everyone's hitting me and not the healer. LOL
See? I'm DPS. I just want to hit stuff.

[WritingDemons]

Now that I'm on my tank, I can tell you with some certainty that buffed for 5s, I have 129k health.

[LOG]

Now that I'm on my tank, I can tell you with some certainty that buffed for 5s, I have 129k health.

That is just sick, even for a bear tank. We've never had an HP increase this big from one expansion to the next, especially considering it's only 5 levels.
I'm looking forward to see how Blizz deals with the HP/dmg problem, they'll need to fix it relatively soon before it gets too ridiculous.
Still, when my guild goes back to Northrend for easy achieves we are totally going to roflstomp the place.

This thing is getting ridiculously long. (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/1232869#blog)

[defcon6000]

I'm lucky my guild puts up with me. I can be a little dense. As a healer, you watch the green bars, and the ground beneath you. .
Eh, not so easy anymore. Now you have to watch your mana as well or else you go OOM 30 secs into the fight. So many previous healers have given up on healing because of it. I stick with it just 'cause I get into ques in no time (and why the dps in my guild love me :D). But yeah, it's tough been a healer now.

Also, unbelievable amount of bad people in PUGS. Just got back from a sit out where hunter pulling 5k dps (yes they were lvl 85) and ALWAYS stood in stuff and ended up dying first. We couldn't kick him so we told him he should leave. He wouldn't then we had to tell him he was bad and holding us back. So he goes off and griefs us, insults Americans, blah, blah, blah. Then server restarted and we never down last boss. :(

[LOG]

Why couldn't you kick him?

[WritingDemons]

Log, the pally tank in my guild has 139k unbuffed, and the HP/dmg probably isn't an issue. Could be that I'm still slightly undergeared, but my healer complained about the amounts of damage I was taking. I almost have to keep barkskin up constantly to survive some fights and trash pull.

But, bears don't get the HP boost they used to. It converts more like the other tanks. I dunno, I think bears are still a little broken (in a bad way) right now. :(

[WritingDemons]

This sent me into a giggle fit! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E54wycZaYE&feature=player_embedded)

[LOG]

the HP/dmg probably isn't an issue.
The HP/dmg issue I am referring to is the matter of escalation. As bosses and players get stronger, we keep having to get our HP and dmg scaled upwards. Eventually the numbers are just going to become ridiculous to the point of being meaningless.

[WritingDemons]

Ah, I understand. I dunno. I think they've doen an okay job of scaling things. Or so it seems to me in raids. Except for healers. They got hit pretty hard.

I refuse to even gather gear for my resto set, I hate what they've done to druid healing so much. :(

[LOG]

I'm liking my DPS set, so fewer responsibilities in fights now, it can be a relief.

[efkelley]

Mage-wise I knew fire was going to take a hit due to its reliance on criticals. Frost is fine, except for the damn pet. I don't mind it TOO much, but the thing just gets in my way. If I wanted a minion, I'd play a warlock. Or be a blood elf.

Arcane isn't too bad a spec, but the mana management aspect is somewhat irksome. Still, at least I don't have hunters looking at my damage meters and threatening to change classes any more.

I can't complain too much though. A full month of godlike cosmic power was fun. :)

By the by, anyone completed Uldum? Pretty entertaining.

Oh, and archaeology is a hoot. Got me a skeletal raptor mount. :D

[WritingDemons]

I've given up on healing completely. Switched my off-spec to boomkin. Now to read up on it so I have some vague idea of what the hell I'm supposed to do with it...

Uldum was fun. There are some quests in Twilight Highlands that had me snorting hot chocolate (or coffee, demanding on time of day.)

Got into Blackwing Descent with the guild last night. First time raiding since we got our frostwyrms. No bosses downed, but we messed around with Omnotron for a while, and got everyone excited about gearing up so that we can go in on Tuesday and kick ass. :)

[LOG]

"This is MY beach.

The Horde WANTS my beach.

They will NOT have my beach.

Is the beach situation clear?" -Lieutenant Emry

[WritingDemons]

And because I'm nit-picky, the emphasis on the third line is wrong! It'd flow so much better if it were "they will not HAVE my beach..."

Okay, stopping now. >_>

[LOG]

And because I'm nit-picky, the emphasis on the third line is wrong! It'd flow so much better if it were "they will not HAVE my beach..."

Okay, stopping now. >_>

I disagree, the emphasis works better on 'not.'

[LOG]

My plan for Archaeology farming: Window WoW and write while flying :P

For others doing Arch, good news this in the 20th hotfix: The search radius to find an Archaeology node from the Archaeology ability Survey has been increased. This will result in fewer searches needed while in the "green" range of surveying.

Triage Healing (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1406725794)

[efkelley]

Bah! As if they needed to make archaeology easier. Red searches have a potential 90 degree margin of error. Survey twice in the same location on large digs, then hop to a point bisecting the overlap. About 90% of the time, this gets you to a yellow.

[defcon6000]

Got my raptor skelly mount today. :D :snoopy:

Archaeology is easy but REALLY time consuming. Flying here, there, then back over there. If it weren't for the cool rewards I'd probably pass it like fishing.



Triage Healing (http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/1406725794)
Interesting post, although I do allow DPS to drop I try to keep tank up 80-90% just because a lot of them aren't geared right now nor do the DPS interrupt when the need to. *coughheroicSFKcough*
And of course I get whined/kicked when DPS (and tanks) die when they stand in stuff. Methinks the learning curve is a too steep for many WoWers.

[Jettica]

Thought I'd pop by here seeing as I'm getting into WoW again for the first time in ages. I have a level 76 warrior, no idea why I stopped playing, I'm loving it. My boyfriend has a level 85 healer shaman and he leads raids and what not as part of our guild.

I need to get to 85 because raiding and instances are the part of the game I enjoy the most.

I'm on the server Aszune.

[LOG]

I got my Raptor pet, but apparently before the last hotfix, missed out on the triple skill up.

[defcon6000]

I got my Raptor pet, but apparently before the last hotfix, missed out on the triple skill up.
Damn. No wonder my guildie got hers maxed out in 3 days. >.>

[LOG]

Damn. No wonder my guildie got hers maxed out in 3 days. >.>

The hotfix for triple skill ups from rares was applied yesterday :S

[defcon6000]

The hotfix for triple skill ups from rares was applied yesterday :S
That makes me sad.

[LOG]

This was...interesting. (http://www.thenobleeskimo.com/wowadmin.html)

[efkelley]

At time of me posting this, there are 292 pages worth of replies. And maybe three posts worth reading.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2053469#blog

Of course dungeons are hard. Those of us that enjoyed Burning Crusade would like to welcome our new Heroic Overlords.

[LOG]

A pretty good article on difficulty. (http://www.gamingunion.net/news/wow-cataclysm-proves-too-tough-for-general-player-base--3695.html)

I've stopped playing WoW for now, no idea when I'm coming back.
But even when I did play, dungeons weren't really my thing, so this isn't really an issue for me :P

[SPMiller]

Yeah, heard through a friend they made stuff tough like the early-BC heroics again. I remember those days. It was great fun getting gearchecked and roflstomped in 5-mans even with our most skilled players. Big change from vanilla. WotLK threw all that away, as I recall. AoE tanking through instances was stupid.

That said, never forget that the vast majority of WoW players are casuals, and being competitive in more than one aspect of the gameplay requires a nontrivial time investment.

[defcon6000]

So I've been at this stinkin' NE trinket from archeology for the past couple of days, got all the other NE epics, which only took about five commons to pop up. But this thing refuses surface! And I'm beginning to really hate fossils...

[efkelley]

Right there with you on fossils. I'd like a 'reshuffle digsites' button on a cooldown.

[LOG]

Paypal and Blizzard join up. (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/32745/Blizzard_Moves_To_Close_Gold_Sellers_PayPal_Accoun ts.php)
Dooooooom! for the gold-sellers :P
Not quite, but it's a blow.

[Konah]

Yeah, heard through a friend they made stuff tough like the early-BC heroics again. I remember those days. It was great fun getting gearchecked and roflstomped in 5-mans even with our most skilled players. Big change from vanilla. WotLK threw all that away, as I recall. AoE tanking through instances was stupid.

That said, never forget that the vast majority of WoW players are casuals, and being competitive in more than one aspect of the gameplay requires a nontrivial time investment.

Making the heroics more challenging was something that I liked, made me remember when I actually enjoyed playing the game (started at BC launch). I stopped playing the March following the Wrath launch and came back like two weeks before Cata to test it out... But after a few weeks the dungeons were again too easy, and I wasn't willing to spend the time raiding like I used to in BC.

In terms of difficulty, it was nice that it was more challenging than Wrath, but it still is not even close to Vanilla or BC - and you can get yourself geared in BoE epics very quickly with how easy it is to make gold.

That said, I'm done with the game for good now, I canceled my sub about a month ago. I'll be holding out for Guild Wars 2 and Diablo 3, filling in spare time with FPS games or Civ5 when I wanna veg-out :)

[LOG]

http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/101539-full-retail-copy-of-world-of-warcraft-free-to-starcraft-ii-owners.html

[LOG]

Blizzard turned 20 on March 3rd, and Mike and Frank sent out a message. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ0pKwZL634)

[Ludicrum]

Now this brings back some memories. Used to play WoW years ago, but left after the release of the first expansion pack. I'd gotten burned out and swore never to play the game again.

As far as MMOs go, I can only play the ones that make it easy to log in, play solo for a bit, and log out. Anything more involved and it would seriously distract me from my writing. I'm not very good at balancing super-addictive games and work, unfortunately.

My siblings got back into the game and have been pestering me to rejoin. I refuse every time, because I know what will happen to my work if I get sucked into that game again.

[cutecontinent]

Been awhile since I've played. I miss the arena... and 19 twinks... ah, the days of 1v5ing people in BGs (my bf at the time was my healbot :D)

[AngelRoseDarke]

Coming into this thread a bit late (didn't see it before).

I have a level 85 Tauren warrior named Strykerius and a 78 (currently) undead priest named Gothika on the Skywall server.
For the Horde!!

[Her Dark Star]

Used to play, quit after getting a few level 70's when all there was left to do was dailies. WoTLK was a massive improvement to the BC and drew me back in for about another 6 months but again, rapidly got to the point where I was just grinding the daily quests for no real reason and I wasn't hardcore enough to be do any serious raiding. THoroughly enjoyed it all up until that point when I just realised that it was consuming vast amounts of my time for very little fun.

Was still tempted to go back when cataclysm came out though.....

[LOG]

This is awesome: http://www.thedailyblink.com/2011/03/mages-get-a-slight-buff-in-4-1/

[Her Dark Star]

Lol, I'm out of touch with WOW these days but I guess the whole overpowered/underpowered arguments are still going on.
Vendors vengeance was funny, would be good to payback all those party members who hounded you for food

[efkelley]

Grab a space goat and get out on the floor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxDfGLbP4E

Gotta get me some Sequins of the Glimmering Noob.

[Matthew Colville]

Ahh WoW. I played the CRAP out of that game. Though I find a lot of my memories, the most fun I ever had in the game, was in the Friends & Family Alpha when everything was new. My friends and I would bring our computers over to a friend's place and spend all night running around in a group. I remember in the Alpha or Beta, I'd been crunching all month and this was my first day off in weeks and I show up at the LAN and my friend from Blizz says "No WoW tonight. A hurricane hit the server complex."

It was as disappointed I can remember being. I think perhaps I had an unhealthy relationship with that game. :D

I don't play anymore but when the Invite a Friend program went live a friend of mine convinced me to Dual Box and I kinda went off the deep end there for a while and Five Boxed. Had 5 Death Knights running instances. 5 Tauren Shamans. That was...too much. :D I did it for like a week and burned out. Pretty amazing though. Loved the reaction from people who'd see my SQUAD of DKs all jumping in synch and bowing.

[defcon6000]

Grab a space goat and get out on the floor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPxDfGLbP4E

Gotta get me some Sequins of the Glimmering Noob.
:ROFL:

Boomkin in space!

Ahh, well I quit WoW about a month ago to level up my writing skill. And plus, I *gasp* got bored of Cata. Dunno if I'll go back to it anytime soon. I'm still miffed that my state charges tax on online subscriptions. :rant:

[Kyra Wright]

Ahh, well I quit WoW about a month ago to level up my writing skill. And plus, I *gasp* got bored of Cata. Dunno if I'll go back to it anytime soon. I'm still miffed that my state charges tax on online subscriptions. :rant:
Same here (minus the tax part). I've canceled my subscription and am seeing how many honor kills I can wrack up on one of my warlocks before my time runs out in May. If I'm still bored with the rest of the game, I'll be off to something else.

[LOG]

Same here (minus the tax part). I've canceled my subscription and am seeing how many honor kills I can wrack up on one of my warlocks before my time runs out in May. If I'm still bored with the rest of the game, I'll be off to something else.

You should consider joining the rest of us who got tired of the WoW setting in Rift.

[defcon6000]

You should consider joining the rest of us who got tired of the WoW setting in Rift.
Boo, why would I leave WoW only to play a different version of it? I know, I know, there are differences, but it's the same: questing, killing shit and looting.

Not to mention, I'm not loving online subscriptions right now. >.>

[Kyra Wright]

You should consider joining the rest of us who got tired of the WoW setting in Rift.
No thanks. I don't think my computer could handle it, plus it just doesn't interest me.

[LOG]

Well yes it's the same Everquest game model, but the setting and the dynamic gameplay can make all the difference, and I love the lore.

[MkMoore]

The Rift interface is similar to WoW, but the class system and the events make it a different game. You can start an event by yourself, and by the time it's over you'll have a 30 man raid. Last night we had a group on an Invasion boss from both factions, and when it was over, we started fighting each other...

[LOG]

Last night we had a group on an Invasion boss from both factions, and when it was over, we started fighting each other...
Sounds about right :)

[efkelley]

... and I love the lore.

Have to say the RIFT setting is quite a bit better from a standpoint of originality. Of course, Warcraft started life back in the mid 90's, so the tropes we see there weren't so trope-y back then.

Still, neither game does a good job of making me care about what's happening. I don't particularly care who the major figures are or what they're up to. Warcraft is doing an interesting thing with Sylvanas apparently going insane (or just showing her true colors), and Thrall is always a sympathetic character. King Wrynn is apparently a complete idiot, with no particular reason for anything he does. But, as for me caring, meh. Granted, that's crazy hard to do in an MMO.

[mmallico]

I used to have a Warcraft account and my character's name was my MC in my novel. I know, I'm obessed.

[LOG]

Just found out about the Children of Goldshire. Kinda creepy.

[parumpdragon]

I have only ever played Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, and Warcraft III: The Frozen Thrown. It has been a while. Does the new Warcraft still have a single player campaign mode? I loved Warcraft II, it was and is my favorite, but I like old school graphics a lot.

[efkelley]

Well, World of Warcraft is an MMO. It is decidedly not single-player.

I haven't heard anything about a new RTS coming out.

[bearilou]

I used to raid with my 80 tauren druid in WotLK. Then I moved and have to use satellite internet. Had to say goodbye to raiding and heroics, my lag times make me all but useless except to farm.

Unless I can come up with a way to not have a 1.5 second lag, that's all I'll be doing and really not the reason why I got into WoW to begin with.

Alas, maybe it'll leave me more time to write?

[Anna L.]

I was a raider until a couple weeks back, when my raid group exploded from drama. Right now I'm on hiatus, spending my time on writing forums instead. I'm sure I'll get back into it after summer is over and there's no reason to go outside anymore...

[Chumala]

I know you guys will all hate me....


But I multiboxed 5 Draenei shamans on BlackrockUS (It's still full so you still need to GTFO). Gosh I miss them sooo much!!! They were so cute.... and deadly! :evil

[LloydBrown]

Multiboxing 5 toons? You can solo instances like that. Crazy.

[Chumala]

Multiboxing 5 toons? You can solo instances like that. Crazy.


Yeah, only a few instances with my five.

However I know people who do ten toons who have soloed much of ICC.

[Monkey]

Wow now has unlimited-use trial accounts...you can play for free all you want, but you're limited to level 20 and have some other, more minor limitations.

I've decided to give it a try. :)

[bearilou]

Wow now has unlimited-use trial accounts...you can play for free all you want, but you're limited to level 20 and have some other, more minor limitations.

I've decided to give it a try. :)

:hooray:

[LOG]

Wow now has unlimited-use trial accounts...you can play for free all you want, but you're limited to level 20 and have some other, more minor limitations.

I've decided to give it a try. :)
Copying AoC's previous plan.
WoW devs are good at copying, and then implementing it better.

[LOG]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQaDkkbTbGA

[glendalough]

Yay! Just found this thread. I have most of my chars on Nazgrel and have an 85 Mage (she pwns, btw) named LilTuscany and an 85 hunter named Imscoutfinch. I also have a pally at, I think 74, and she is just so boring to play alone. She's Monicabing :) My whole family plays. LOVE Warcraft, unless they nerf mages, then I'm gonna be ticked.

[glendalough]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNJNht8LR08&playnext=1&list=PL0BCEA088F13FA6CD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5mD1n4v2JA

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4TyqYsC26g&feature=related)

[Chumala]

I play a holy paladin currently level 46.

Pretty fun since no one seems to interupt my heals in pvp. :P

[LOG]

Down another 300K subs this quarter. (http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/read/21419/World-of-Warcraft-Down-300000-Subscribers.html/)
Personally, I think it's kind of a good thing. At the least this will hopefully mean more people looking into more and different games.
It's still far from being in danger. They could drop straight to a million tomorrow, and while it might cause a panic, it wouldn't kill WoW. Hell, WoW could probably survive on a measly 300K total if it had to. It'd be kind of sad, but it could.

[JimmyB27]

Down another 300K subs this quarter. (http://www.mmorpg.com/newsroom.cfm/read/21419/World-of-Warcraft-Down-300000-Subscribers.html/)

Including mine. Way bored of WoW. Might look into SWTOR when it comes out.

[LOG]

Including mine. Way bored of WoW. Might look into SWTOR when it comes out.
Yeah, there's some interesting stuff coming up that I want to look into.
In the meantime however, it's back to LOTRO and AoC (now F2P as well) and single-players, oh, and Minecraft :)

[Mharvey]

Yeah, I just quit WOW for the 3rd time in 6 months (each time being a month off).

The magic that game had to captivate me for almost 7 years is just gone now. Of course, that's about 3x longer than any other MMO kept me going.

Bring on Titan, Blizz. We're ready now.

[Chumala]

Yeah, I just quit WOW for the 3rd time in 6 months (each time being a month off).

The magic that game had to captivate me for almost 7 years is just gone now. Of course, that's about 3x longer than any other MMO kept me going.

Bring on Titan, Blizz. We're ready now.


Wow does that do you.

I started playing back in 2004, up until Wotlk. Then I quit to play Warhammer.... we all know how that worked out.... Anyway I returned to WoW, soon to get bored. Then I made five accounts and multiboxed up until Cata. Then I quit shortly after Cata. Now I am back playing one account.

IT'S A ROLLERCOSTER WOOSH WOOSH!

[defcon6000]

Just curious for those who quit the game some time ago: did any of you receive a free time for a week? Because I swear, a month or so ago, Blizz gave me a free week and I was saving it for when all the kiddies go back to school. But then I look today, and I don't have that free week anymore. : /

[LOG]

Is it finally nearing the end? (http://www.wowheadnews.com/blog=194570/in-with-the-newb-out-with-the-old-the-future-of-world-of-warcraft)
Has the game simply become too stale? The setting too familiar and wrung out?
I think so.
I also think that about the time WoW is undeniably on the decline, Blizzard will reveal Titan. By the time WoW is dead they may actually have it ready . . .

[JSDR]

Haven't played for months. Poor shammy's gathering dust. But no, I didn't get anything for a free week of play.

I think for me, it *did* get kind of stale. I feel like, ever since EJ started showing how to down monsters, all we had to do was watch their vid, show up for raid time, and down the dude. Loot. Repeat for next week....
I tried switching it up and playing on a roleplaying server for a while, but no one would roleplay with me. I probably wasn't doing it right....

[defcon6000]

@ JSDR: Heh, I also play a shammy - draenei to be specific. ;)

You know, I really liked Cata at the start, when it first launched. Granted, the revamped healing system took a moment to get use to and dps, as well as tank, had to learn (though quite a few didn't) to NOT stand in the fire. But it was challenging and I enjoyed that.

But ultimately, it did get stale for me. I leveled three toons to 85, got two of them geared enough for raids. Then you hit this wall. My server is low pop, not too many raiding guilds, so you can't be choosy. I got tired of being in terribad raids where raid leader screams at you, meanwhile he's carrying his buddies who can neither do decent dps nor tank very well. And I'm NOT paying 25 buck to transfer my toons, because it really isn't worth it. I've seen and done just about everything.

This is where mods would have come in handy, because as I recall, NWN lasted quite a while thanks to individual modders and the variety of servers they offered. But I guess that's what the hacked servers are there for (besides being free).

[efkelley]

The game is getting up towards seven years old. Graphics are standing still next to games like Rift. Our 'top tier' 5-mans are recycled from BC. My mage gear looks like warlock/priest/pally gear. The writing has never been spectacular, with our characters being mere bit players to the likes of Thrall, the Dragon Aspects, and King 'Big Pants' Wrynn... Nothing about Warcraft's decline should be a shock.

[Wesley Kang]

I stopped playing WoW and it has done wonders for my writing. Good riddance.

[LOG]

The game is getting up towards seven years old. Graphics are standing still next to games like Rift. Our 'top tier' 5-mans are recycled from BC. My mage gear looks like warlock/priest/pally gear. The writing has never been spectacular, with our characters being mere bit players to the likes of Thrall, the Dragon Aspects, and King 'Big Pants' Wrynn... Nothing about Warcraft's decline should be a shock.
The only point I would contest is the graphics.
Yes, they haven't really improved, but I've never felt that they needed to. There's really no need. Graphics nowadays have reached the point where, years from now, even when the difference between the modern and old will be obvious, the graphics will still be easily and instantly recognizable.
Now, you play Crysis one minute and then look at Diablo 1 the next, and the screen resembles nothing so much as a mass of giant pixels arranged in blobs.

[JSDR]

Defcon! was a draenei too! but I didn't know how to spell it so I didn't specify! :)

My PC sort of forced me to quit. It freezes up if there's a lot of mages in a raid.... bad mages....

[LOG]

Defcon! was a draenei too! but I didn't know how to spell it so I didn't specify! :)

My PC sort of forced me to quit. It freezes up if there's a lot of mages in a raid.... bad mages....
Mages = lots of particles.

[defcon6000]

Defcon! was a draenei too! but I didn't know how to spell it so I didn't specify! :)

Hehe, I'll be honest, I looked up "draenei." Why can't we just call them Russian goat-people from space?

I don't mind WoW's graphics, and I kinda like the cartoony feel. It's cute.

But I did hate Blizz giving mages their own version of heroism/bloodlust. They took away shamans' specialness!! WTH???

I tried Rift, and although it's all nice and shiny, it didn't impress me enough to buy it. The races are meh (you're either purple or flesh colored), and the world looks like any other RPG. Except for the flaming squirrels, I did like those. :tongue

[LOG]

Yeah, I quit Rift too.
If I pick up an MMO before TSW/SWTOR it'll probably be LOTRO or AOC as an F2P.

[Martin Persson]

My joy for WoW died yesterday when I watched the Blizzcon stream. I liked The Burning Crusade the most but it is barely the same game any more and now they will change it even more.

And besides, the more I started reading books the more I realized the Warcraft universe if so full of rip-offs I don't think they even try.

[LOG]

I've heard of the Mists of Pandaria, but nothing on Outland.

[Monkey]

I stopped playing a while back. It seemed like I never got to "the good part."

It was like, "kill 20 of these..." so I go off. One. Two. Three. Four. I'm getting bored. Five. Six. Where the hell is number seven? And what's this glowing thing I can't pick up? Seven. Eight. I finally get to twenty, go back, and my next job is to go get that glowing thing I couldn't pick up earlier. So I go back, but now the monsters are back. Hack, hack, hack, get the glowing thing, come back, but now I need something else that was RIGHT THERE next to the glowing thing, so I have to go back and kill all those monsters again...

I was like, really? You can't just let me pick up all the obvious glowing little things on the off chance that when I get back, they send me right back out to get them...just like they do EVERY FRICKIN' TIME?

And why did I go through all those boring, "kill 20 of these quests?" So I could go kill 20 of the next thing?

Everyone kept telling me that what I was doing was "the grind" and that communicating with the other players was "the fun part." Except that pretty much every player I talked to was either a dick or, I suspect, a coked-up twelve year old. Because I wasn't on a full account, I couldn't party up with any of the decent people I ran into, as far and few between as they were, and so ended up wandering alone, killing 20 of these so I could go fish for 20 of those...

As a last-ditch effort at enjoying myself, I went back to the start zone and helped the very noobest of the noobs get started. Made sure they didn't die and knew how to work stuff, showed them around. That got old. I quit.

[jaeladarling]

I started playing WoW shortly after it came out. A friend of mine let me play on her account once in a while. Then I got my own account and made a Night Elf that I still play. I have other characters, but that one is my nearest and dearest. :)

Way back when, there were lots of great rp'ers out and about. That was my thing. I wasn't much into grinding, and it took me forever to level. This, of course, brought much teasing and taunting from non-rp players (which really shouldn't be playing on an rp server, but that's a whole 'nother thread), but I didn't care. I had fun with the two or three guilds I was part of over the years.

But then the rp'ers started disappearing, and now they're hard to find. I find myself playing alone most of the time, especially since I'm not interested in PvP, and I don't have all the latest "gear" to do high-end dungeons.

So, last year and this year, I played during Hallow's End, a bit during Christmas, and a smattering of free time here and there. But I've let my subscription continue this month, and I've started my own guild. It's just me so far, and I don't really expect anyone to join. But it's an adventurer/storyteller's guild, and I've been writing up short little stories to tell 'round the town fountain every so often. We'll see how that pans out.

But if anyone still plays, give me a holler. I have several characters on Shadow Council and Steamwheedle Cartel, and I wouldn't mind starting a new one somewhere. Heck, I might even give PvP a shot just to try something "new". :D

By the way, you all hear about the pandas? Oi...

[Satsya]

Jaela: I play on Wyrmrest Accord. If you want RP and great people, that's your server. Even our Trade chat is witty, at least most of the time. Although I personally do not RP, I know that we have a very strong community here in general, with quite a few regular RP events and walk-up RP.

We get RPer refugees coming in from other servers all the time. Any trolls get laughed off the server pretty promptly. We have a healthy balance between Horde and Alliance, too, and (though I only play Horde here) I believe that both sides have comparable community spirit.

On the other hand, our raid progression is abysmal. :D

[jaeladarling]

Hmm...I think I have a character or two on that Wyrmrest Accord. I'd heard elsewhere that it was a better-than-most rp server. I'll have to play over there a while and give it a shot. It would be nice to find like-minded players.

Thanks for the tip. :)

[bearilou]

Jaela: I play on Wyrmrest Accord. If you want RP and great people, that's your server. Even our Trade chat is witty, at least most of the time. Although I personally do not RP, I know that we have a very strong community here in general, with quite a few regular RP events and walk-up RP.

We get RPer refugees coming in from other servers all the time. Any trolls get laughed off the server pretty promptly. We have a healthy balance between Horde and Alliance, too, and (though I only play Horde here) I believe that both sides have comparable community spirit.

On the other hand, our raid progression is abysmal. :D

What if we don't want to RP but want to hang with the cool kids? Can we still come?

[jaeladarling]

What if we don't want to RP but want to hang with the cool kids? Can we still come?

Long as you don't come to an RP server and complain that some of us are in-character! :D

[bearilou]

Long as you don't come to an RP server and complain that some of us are in-character! :D

I'm a 'have fun' kinda hordie.

[jaeladarling]

I'm Alliance all the way, baby.

Sometimes I think we're a growing minority. Although, I have played a Tauren and a Blood Elf. Made it to about 43 on the Tauren and 14 on the Blood Elf. I probably should give Goblin a try just to say I did.

[jaeladarling]

Welp, I was right, I have a Night Elf named Miray on Wyrmrest Accord. Guess I'll play some before bedtime. :)

For the Alliance!

[Satsya]

Welp, I was right, I have a Night Elf named Miray on Wyrmrest Accord. Guess I'll play some before bedtime. :)

For the Alliance!

Yay! I hope you have a good time here. The Horde and Alliance have a pretty friendly rivalry, and I think quite a few people do have characters on both sides. I know I would, if I had more character slots.

What if we don't want to RP but want to hang with the cool kids? Can we still come? There are plenty of non-RPers here (myself and the two I play with included). Like Jaela said, so long as you respect the RP folk, it's all good. I find that the RPers wandering around just add a bit of spice to the world.

And if PvP happens to be your thing, we do have some PvP guilds and folk around. I don't know their quality, but I think they're at least decent.

[JSDR]

I tried to RP. It took a lot of patience...

[jaeladarling]

I tried to RP. It took a lot of patience...


Don't rp a doctor, and you should be fine. :tongue

[Kyra Wright]

Don't rp a doctor, and you should be fine. :tongue
I used to RP an undead warlock who tried to convince people he was a priest. He'd try to heal their massive wounds with bandages. Good times.

[Martin Persson]

I just noticed this thread was about sharing your characters. So here is a video of me tanking Illidan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtAnUPMrR2E

[MoLoLu]

Man, the RP thing sounds cool.

Played ud warlock extensively until the end of Season 3, then quit.

Still a great game. Kinda glad to hear it's still going strong.

*snif* powerful memories

[akbowens]

I played the game for years. I had a handful of 80+ level characters. It was great fun but ultimately, I quit playing and decided to level up my own skills rather than that of a fictional character I did not even own. Sometimes I would rather create than enjoy someone else's creation. :)

[Jess Haines]

I used to play. Gave some thought to opening my account back up, but it's been so long, I'm not sure what I'd do. I'd be way behind level-wise, and hardly any of my friends play anymore.

It was fun while it lasted, though. Loved to play MMOs like WoW and EverQuest when I had the time for it. :)

[SarahHobson]

My main is a Horde Hunter on Stormreaver, name Sukinorthman (and all my pets are named after Brothers from BDB. I'm not a book nerd, no... not at all).

[LOG]

I bought Dragon Age: Origins a couple of days ago. Playing it a lot. It's fun.
Okay . . . do you want this thread (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200479) then? :)

[Nephytis]

If i could tell you all of the character's i have we'd be here all night. so ill post the current servers they're on, and then the ones i've played on but the chars are no longer there(*). if you've seen names like Anarya, Kynelle, Iyna, (they're mine and were the only ones that i was aware of about a year ago.) Those are alliance names not horde.

Alliance: Alleria*, Malfurion, Shadow Council*, Emerald Dream*, Khadgar, Echo Isles*, Sen'jin*, Azgalor, Greymane, Bloodhoof
Horde: Undermine, Sargeras
Both: Firetree, Baelgun

Nephytis, horde firetree is my MC. I've been on that server now for 3yrs and counting.

I'm the original Cailyn, Alyria from Alleria server. The originial Iyna from Shadow Council. Ther orignial Anarya from Alleria and Emerald Dream as well.

Since i've been playing from beta vanilla wow...i can't even begin to share what i've done/seen. I've survived it all... barrens chat and leeeeeeeroy. I've played every class/race, i've hit the maximum char amount on my main account so many times i lost count which is how i ended up with another account attached to my credit card so i could run MC by myself to get thunderfury.

Since i've been playing so long, i am my own thottbot or wowhead, whichever you prefer. I was really upset with the blizzard team this past year when they decided to sunder the world with deathwing and have thrall go do his own thing. They butchered the story line, of which i have been following since warcraft inception.

Alleria is my fav wow char of all time and i'm so thankful they haven't destroyed her char like they did with so many others. I'm really hoping mists of pandaria is better than cata.

[shaldna]

Anyone else getting bored flying around to honor the elders?

I've spent two days doing it, and it's getting OLD.

[Anjasa]

RPing in WoW was, like, the best part about the game. I loved creating new outfits, meeting new people, exploring new characters.

Spent about 5 years roleplaying in WoW before my partner and I quit, after leading our heavy RP guild for over 4.5 years, though a server transfer and raids and everything. It was hard and rewarding and awesome. The guild was transferred to a friend last May and it's still going strong.

[LOG]

I'm waiting for some fresh mechanics.
Rift had a nice thing going on with the near-constant zone attacks, which were nicely implemented, but it couldn't seem to hold me for some reason . . .

[Mharvey]

I'm waiting for some fresh mechanics.
Rift had a nice thing going on with the near-constant zone attacks, which were nicely implemented, but it couldn't seem to hold me for some reason . . .

That's the story of like everyone who played Rift. For the life of me, I can't put my finger on the reason I didn't keep playing.

I think it comes down to Rift tried to out-WoW WoW. And, well, you can't. You can do everything right, but you're still going to fail. Because there's already a WoW and no matter how much you try to compete with it, you're not going to succeed.

[Kyra Wright]

Anyone else getting bored flying around to honor the elders?

I've spent two days doing it, and it's getting OLD.
I found that all the holiday activities got tedious after I completed them on one character. I never completed them all on any alts.

[Romantic Heretic]

Okay . . . do you want this thread (http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=200479) then? :)

Oop. Just realized I posted in the wrong thread. My bad.

[defcon6000]

Dunno if this a phishing scam or pure desperation, but they're offering kind of a nice deal if you return.

Upon your return you'll receive:
• A FREE upgrade to Cataclysm
• A single character boosted to level 80

Plus:
• An optional FREE Character Move to your friend's realm/faction (for the boosted character only).
• Seven Days of FREE Game Time.


I wonder if they'd refund my cataclysm so I can have a free upgrade, too. :rolleyes:

ETA: lol! I see that this "Narukashi" person who invited me back is on Horde, and I played Alliance. They're not even on a server that I recognize.

[Anjasa]

I think people are randomly inviting individuals so that their chances of getting the special mount are increased. My partner got a random invite from a stranger as well.