World of Warcraft

I started playing WoW around 3 to 4 years ago. TBC IMO was a major disappointment. There was nothing I liked about TBC. I didn't like most of the zones, the pve content, EotS, areNAH (it could've worked if done correctly), flying mounts (ruined what was left of world pvp), races, shat being the new IF/Org, and some other crap. There's a lot of thing I like about WotLK... Like the zones, another class, and new profession. Now for my concerns... I really hope they don't balance everything around areNAH and focus on it too much (like TBC). Flying mounts need to be fixed to bring back world pvp. Making the game too casual... I hope it doesn't get to the point were Blizzard holds your hand 1-80 and then gives you endgame epics in a gift basket as soon as you hit lvl80.BTW, seeing scrubs running around in epics defeats the purpose of calling the gear EPIC.

Also we better be getting a cool BG.

Originally posted by Rogue420

I started playing WoW around 3 to 4 years ago. TBC IMO was a major disappointment. There was nothing I liked about TBC. I didn't like most of the zones, the pve content, EotS, areNAH (it could've worked if done correctly), flying mounts (ruined what was left of world pvp), races, shat being the new IF/Org, and some other crap. There's a lot of thing I like about WotLK... Like the zones, another class, and new profession. Now for my concerns... I really hope they don't balance everything around areNAH and focus on it too much (like TBC). Flying mounts need to be fixed to bring back world pvp. Making the game too casual... I hope it doesn't get to the point were Blizzard holds your hand 1-80 and then gives you endgame epics in a gift basket as soon as you hit lvl80.BTW, seeing scrubs running around in epics defeats the purpose of calling the gear EPIC.

 

Also we better be getting a cool BG.

Just curious how flying mounts killed world PvP when flying mounts aren't even allowed in Azeroth and they couldn't have killed world PvP in Outlands since Outlands didn't exist before TBC?

TBC >>Classic WOW

WOTLK >> TBC

The game is becoming  better and better.

Originally posted by Pappy13

Originally posted by Rogue420

I started playing WoW around 3 to 4 years ago. TBC IMO was a major disappointment. There was nothing I liked about TBC. I didn't like most of the zones, the pve content, EotS, areNAH (it could've worked if done correctly), flying mounts (ruined what was left of world pvp), races, shat being the new IF/Org, and some other crap. There's a lot of thing I like about WotLK... Like the zones, another class, and new profession. Now for my concerns... I really hope they don't balance everything around areNAH and focus on it too much (like TBC). Flying mounts need to be fixed to bring back world pvp. Making the game too casual... I hope it doesn't get to the point were Blizzard holds your hand 1-80 and then gives you endgame epics in a gift basket as soon as you hit lvl80.BTW, seeing scrubs running around in epics defeats the purpose of calling the gear EPIC.

 

Also we better be getting a cool BG.

 

Just curious how flying mounts killed world PvP when flying mounts aren't even allowed in Azeroth and they couldn't have killed world PvP in Outlands since Outlands didn't exist before TBC?

Because everyone 58+ moved to outlands with TBC and the flying mounts worked there.  the only exception being taneris because the CoT are there.  other than that everyone left the zones where flying mounts aren't allowed.  thats how they killed PvP.

riginally posted by Rogue420

I started playing WoW around 3 to 4 years ago. TBC IMO was a major disappointment. There was nothing I liked about TBC. I didn't like most of the zones, the pve content, EotS, areNAH (it could've worked if done correctly), flying mounts (ruined what was left of world pvp), races, shat being the new IF/Org, and some other crap. There's a lot of thing I like about WotLK... Like the zones, another class, and new profession. Now for my concerns... I really hope they don't balance everything around areNAH and focus on it too much (like TBC). Flying mounts need to be fixed to bring back world pvp. Making the game too casual... I hope it doesn't get to the point were Blizzard holds your hand 1-80 and then gives you endgame epics in a gift basket as soon as you hit lvl80.BTW, seeing scrubs running around in epics defeats the purpose of calling the gear EPIC.

 

Also we better be getting a cool BG.

The section in green is the only real problem I have with the current players of WoW who think this way.

I play wow on a pvp server also (that is important to note), and I am also in a guild that does endgame (currently in sunwell). However to look down on players who do NOT prefer to waste their time or life in an MMO by raiding 40 hours a week is retarded.

Blizzard gave PvPers epics. So what. They have to earn those epics through pvp. The suits are also NOT the same as the ones we get out of BT and Sunwell or so on. The stats of these epics are built around pvp, just like ours are designed for pve.

Actually in our guild being on a PvP server we each have 2 suits. 1 suit of Arena armor for world pvp and 1 suit of PvE armor that we wear for the raids.

However that being said, I could give 2 shits less about anyone on the server running around in S1 2 or 3 and now 4. Who cares really, If they have S3 or 4. They more than earned it usually. If they have S1 or 2 then it's easier to get but it just gives them a way to even the playing field so to speak against the raiders.

People whine about this but it is stupid really. PvP and PvE are both time sinks. It is just 2 ways to get armor for the 2 diff types of players in wow. Hell even for those who Don't want to do either, they give epics to the crafters.

QQ and stop worrying about PvPers getting some purple armor. The people who cry over this annoy me because it is like they think their time in game is somehow much more important than anyone else playing.

Nerve of some people I swear.

We raid for the epics because that is what we do.

Originally posted by Nekral

TBC >>Classic WOW

WOTLK >> TBC

 

The game is becoming  better and better.

 

 

Yes ,  TBC is better than Claseeic WoW.  But the Aren  destroies the game.
 

I agree with some of what the OP says.

In order for the concept of arena to work, all classes must be balanced at PvP. This is especially the case given the high cost in time of levelling up and gearing a replacement character for arena play compared to other arena based games (cf guild wars). If characters are unequal and cannot be readily replaced, then the result is a large number of disappointed PvP customers (it didn't matter if people were unequal in battlegrounds, since in a 10 person team, teamwork and gear tends to outweigh any small differences between class capabilites).

Hence the games is forced to be balanced around arena. Especially 2v2 arena, which is where most arena people can be found.

However only a small proportion of people play arena with any seriousness.

And the balance of other parts of the games (e.g. PvE, battlegrounds etc), gets messed up in the interests of keeping arena working.

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I used to agree with the OP about the concept of epic flyers ruining pvp. However that isn't really the case. If someone wants pvp on a pvp server, there are plenty of places where pvers must operate on the ground, and will be forced to fight  e.g. meeting stones, quel'danas, the elemental plateau etc.

If anything the balance has gone the other way. Whereas beforehand, if a raider was out farming mats or whatever and he was jumped by a PvPer, he would have at least some chance of defending himself. Nowadays, if a PvEer is jumped by a S3/4 subtletly rogue, he is pretty much auto-dead. And that's even if the PvEr has put some effort into getting himself a PvP gear set (e.g. S1).

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It seems to me that the next expansion is likely to continue the direction of TBC. There will be arena. There will be flying mounts. Blizzard is a commercial company, and will develop it's product to meet anticipated challenges from rivals. At the moment it looks like the main rivals to WotLK will be AoC and WhO, so Blizzard will develop WoW accordingly. The game is likely to become more and more pvp-centric.

I don't like the expansions personally because they turn the old world completly useless and make it sooo barren, I remember before TBC the old world beign heavily populated but now everyone just stays in the expansion. Also the level cap spreads players out further and tbh I don't see the need in 10 extra levels, why not just let us make characters from end level if they are going to be sooo meaningless.

I just wish'd they'd have kept adding new content via patches.

Originally posted by JustBe

I don't like the expansions personally because they turn the old world completly useless and make it sooo barren, I remember before TBC the old world beign heavily populated but now everyone just stays in the expansion. Also the level cap spreads players out further and tbh I don't see the need in 10 extra levels, why not just let us make characters from end level if they are going to be sooo meaningless.

 

I just wish'd they'd have kept adding new content via patches.

Agreed.  They should've never abandoned Azeroth the way they did.  This is why i dislike leveling systems, because they render everything useless once you reach max level.