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ShadyMilkman
Banned
Did all the quests I could and got the 365 cloak. Went pretty smooth once I disabled all add-ons.
Quests seem cool.
Quests seem cool.
Tamanon said:
I miss being assigned to heal the main-tank on my Paladin during Majordomo despite being 31-point Prot, back in the days when hybrid = healer no matter what spec you actually were. I also miss being referred to as a "cleanse-bot" and having to individually hand out Blessings of Wisdom & Might to 39 other people, only to have to re-apply it after 5-10 minutes.
Yeah, "the good ol' days" of raiding
I used to have fun raiding back in the Vanilla and BC days because I did it with friends on a really laid-back guild. I only played Wrath during 4.0 and raided Naxx casually, but decided to join a top raiding guild on Cata.
Worst decision ever. Fun stops being fun when it becomes a responsability.
Worst decision ever. Fun stops being fun when it becomes a responsability.
cuevas. PhD.
Member
Alex said:
Whhhat? Things don't work on first day of patch? This is so unlike blizz.
Alex
Member
Heck, they were probably broken on the PTR for the entire duration anyway.
I remember the 4.1 PTR where Death Knight runes didn't work the entire time and despite a dozen big threads they ignored them all, let it went live, then shit out a bunch of hotfixes and server resets after people started to go into arena with no-cooldown oblits. :lol
What's the point of these PTRs anyway though, if they dont fix this shit.
I remember the 4.1 PTR where Death Knight runes didn't work the entire time and despite a dozen big threads they ignored them all, let it went live, then shit out a bunch of hotfixes and server resets after people started to go into arena with no-cooldown oblits. :lol
What's the point of these PTRs anyway though, if they dont fix this shit.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
You were 31 pt. Prot in Vanilla? What was the benefit of that?Loxley said:I miss being assigned to heal the main-tank on my Paladin during Majordomo despite being 31-point Prot, back in the days when hybrid = healer no matter what spec you actually were. I also miss being referred to as a "cleanse-bot" and having to individually hand out Blessings of Wisdom & Might to 39 other people, only to have to re-apply it after 5-10 minutes.
Yeah, "the good ol' days" of raiding
Brazil said:
Yep, I was on a hardcore progression raid team for the last 2 months and was recently 'demoted' off the raid team as they decided to switch to 10man. Honestly I don't think the very rare thrills of downing a difficult heroic boss outweigh the long hours and heavy feeling of responsibility you get from being on a hardcore raid team. I'll miss having the best gear/biggest epeen of those around me but it's much better just pugging these raids when I have the time or rolling with the hardcore team's alts.
I also hear Firelands is going to be horrifically difficult due to Blizzard not being finished with the later bosses.
Sebulon3k said:
You need to look deeper.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/guild/alterac-mountains/vodka/achievement#15079:15087:a5983
Deputy Moonman
Member
I loved vanilla. Maybe it's nostalgia. I liked 40man raids and only having to down content once, and not a 2nd time on heroic difficulty. That was when good guilds received a lot of respect and world pvp happened a lot more often. Maybe raiding was more of a pain, but it was also far more rewarding. Now it's like, "been there done that. when is new content coming out?"Brazil said:
Alex
Member
Classic raiding was pretty miserable in retrospect. Very content starved, often gated by bugs and intentional overtuning and was largely driven by insane requirements on farming and gathering and recruitment. I'll never forget some of the ridiculous things we had to do just to scrape by in Naxx 60. Far too much work for half-assed standstill bosses.
Modern raiding is an improvement in pretty much every way. Custom size/difficulty, little gathering, all specs viable and most importantly the bosses are night and day better. Cataclysm's issues don't spur from raiding, though. It's the world building and social content that's missing, it's barely an MMO anymore. People live in the hub towns entirely. Queue for dungeons, queue for PvP, get a summon from one person for the raid, buy things on the AH from bots.
They need to get their game world back. Static dungeons and raids can only last so long, even with more difficult and complex design. They go by even quicker than ever because of how powerful the interface has become and how few roadblocks still exist. That's ultimately good game design, but without a greater game world and anything to prop it up, it turns into more of a Monster Hunter, PSO, etc, no matter how good the static content is, you're eventually just going to get sick of this shit and they'll never keep up with demand.
I'm done until at least the next expansion, myself. Took me two hours to just completely throw my arms up during Firelands and logout. Hope they can get off of this troublesome course, but I somehow doubt it.
Modern raiding is an improvement in pretty much every way. Custom size/difficulty, little gathering, all specs viable and most importantly the bosses are night and day better. Cataclysm's issues don't spur from raiding, though. It's the world building and social content that's missing, it's barely an MMO anymore. People live in the hub towns entirely. Queue for dungeons, queue for PvP, get a summon from one person for the raid, buy things on the AH from bots.
They need to get their game world back. Static dungeons and raids can only last so long, even with more difficult and complex design. They go by even quicker than ever because of how powerful the interface has become and how few roadblocks still exist. That's ultimately good game design, but without a greater game world and anything to prop it up, it turns into more of a Monster Hunter, PSO, etc, no matter how good the static content is, you're eventually just going to get sick of this shit and they'll never keep up with demand.
I'm done until at least the next expansion, myself. Took me two hours to just completely throw my arms up during Firelands and logout. Hope they can get off of this troublesome course, but I somehow doubt it.
ShadyMilkman
Banned
Downed the Spider guy. Easy, but fun.
Waiting for Shannox to pat over after wiping blows though.
Waiting for Shannox to pat over after wiping blows though.
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Some interesting stuff - definitely trying to get people back/to stay in the game:
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EDIT - Also while checking the blue tracker I totally forgot that character rearranging on the login screen was in this patch. That's something to look forward to whenever I play again...
Blizzard said:
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Blizzard said:
EDIT - Also while checking the blue tracker I totally forgot that character rearranging on the login screen was in this patch. That's something to look forward to whenever I play again...
water_wendi
Water is not wet!
Trials were able to do BGs before but you get xp in games now so you couldnt sit at 19 forever. 3-4 matches would be a level. The good news is that after 5 years of complaints Blizzard finally made the brackets in level increments of 5 instead of 10 so even at 20 you would at most be playing against 25.JesseZao said:
This could be a pretty monumental patch in mass subscriber exodus. There really wasn't much content added and many non-elite guilds are already at 5/7. I have no clue what is going on at Blizzard. If the next patch takes another 7 months, I'm out.
With that said, I will say the quality of the content is all really great. I like what they've done with the progressive dailies (even though it took me under 5 mintues today). Also, the first couple Firelands fights were great.
With that said, I will say the quality of the content is all really great. I like what they've done with the progressive dailies (even though it took me under 5 mintues today). Also, the first couple Firelands fights were great.
Trickster
Member
Thrall questline was pretty underwhelming from a design standpoint. You bassically just had to do the same thing 4 times over...
About firelands quests. Well I wouldn't know, apparently we have to do mount hyjal dailys for 3 days before we can even get to the firelands zone. Don't know what the fuck is going on in minds of the developers, because I can't imagine any sane person thinking it'd be a good idea to make players wait so long for this stuff. Then when it finally does hit. Have us do dailys for 3 days before accessing the large majority of the new non raid content.
I really hope the raid instance is better than the rest of this patch so far.
About firelands quests. Well I wouldn't know, apparently we have to do mount hyjal dailys for 3 days before we can even get to the firelands zone. Don't know what the fuck is going on in minds of the developers, because I can't imagine any sane person thinking it'd be a good idea to make players wait so long for this stuff. Then when it finally does hit. Have us do dailys for 3 days before accessing the large majority of the new non raid content.
I really hope the raid instance is better than the rest of this patch so far.
wonderdung
Member
Alex said:
Yeah it's awful. The whole instance feels like Freya trash. So far at least, I mean I'm sure we'll whip through it in no time at all after a few weeks of gearing, but there's no way I want to be killing all of that for the next 9 months.
We killed the spider boss in like 2 or 3 pulls, killed the hunter one in 3 or 4, spent the rest of the raid on trash with a few attempts on the volcano guy at the very end. It's regular mode though, can't judge an instance on it. I wouldn't be surprised if 150 guilds have Rag down by the end of the week. The only real tragedy is that normal mode is ranked anywhere.
Trickster said:
I can't remember the last time I've done a questline that bad. Doesn't bode well for any of the rest of the content. So far outside of the raid the entire patch is "stand here, kill elementals" then move somewhere else and repeat.