best WoW expansion: Burning Crusade

best ranged class: mage

best melee class: paladin

best faction: horde

once you play with those two classes, the rest are going to be meh; after Burning Crusade, the following expansions are meh; the goblins should have been the neutral race, but Blizz decided that pandas are more suitable for that, so, oh well, for the Horde anyway.

Originally posted by Badaboom

Originally posted by umcorian

If GW2 is so amazing, why are the hours played in a total freefall since September 3rd? 

I bought the game. I honestly found it to be very uninspired, the gameplay extremely bland... with neither fun abilities nor any sense of progression after level 30.

I've played MoP for longer than I did GW2. It's actually fun and interesting to quest there. 

I would think that you are in the minority with that assessment.

Two weeks ago, I would have said maybe. Now, I'm pretty sure I'm not. 

I just finished giving wow its 3rd and final chance cus the account was free on my end. My friends kept trying to tell me "you didn't get to the fun part yet".

Note: If a game is not fun within the first 27 hours (/played on one toon not several).... your so called "best game/mmo ever" isn't even mediocre.

The combat is soooooo boring and stale, the whole game just feels very very dated. It honestly feels like playing a free mmo, and I've played MANY free mmo's. The whole game is just an endless "carrot on a stick" (gear grind). Dont forget the fact that all the gear looks terrible and the game isnt fun enough to be worth the grind even if the gear was awesome. Not to mention the terrible graphics and animations. And i dont mean art style cus thats an opinion. I mean really low polygon count and really low res textures, thats numbers, you can't debate math. FFS the loading screens arent even the right resolution to fit your screen, not only that but most are low res and stretched so theyre blurry.

In trade chat I got hundreds of people to admit that they only play because their friends play or all the time they have invested in it, and that they wouldnt play if they had to start over from scratch without a linked account. News flash, if you wouldn't do it over again or alone, the game isn't really any good.

Originally posted by Nevulus

Originally posted by mikuniman
I know the game is dated but those combat animations are just bad. This has to be the first wow xpac since launch I passed on, after this vid I made the right decision.

agreed. First WoW expac I passed on, and by everything that I am hearing from my friends, I made the right decision. 

Well, my old WoW guild (I haven't played WoW for quite a time now, but I'm still active on the forums) mostly was pretty amazed by MoP. They were positively gushing. In a moment of weakness I snatched myself a free trial and tried out the Pandaren starting zone. Yes, that is included in the free trial.

After having played through it, I am utterly relieved that I neither purchased MoP nor spent money on game-time.

- It's the same old, same old to a T.

- The story-telling is as childish as Diablo3's. It tries to sound meaningful and grave, but only succeeds in lampshading itself. Somewhat.

- The worst moment is when you enter your new faction's capital for the first time. You have spent the last few hours exploring the home isle of the Pandaren. It's tranquil, peaceful. Every Pandaren gets along with each other, even those of different philosophies. You unite first the spirits of the island with the help of two diametrically opposed Pandaren (rash/active/heart, brazen, 'red' vs. tranquil/passive/mind, considerate, 'blue'. They share a mutual respect/affection for each other). You then unite Horde and Alliance to fight with you against a bigger evil and save the island.

...And then you join your faction. And the first thing you get told?

"Yeah, there are Pandaren that joined the other faction. You might know them as your childhood friends. Well, they're your mortal enemies now. If you refuse to fight them to the death, you commit High Treason. Welcome to the Alliance/Horde!".

And your accompanying Pandaren (the blue one for the Alliance, the red one presumably for the Horde) just nods and says: "of course" as if this was the most natural thing in the world.

And at that moment, I had just one thought: "You know what? Those people are ax-crazy. I'm packing up and going home."

Some people like Wow, some don't.  Silly to argue about it.  Fortunately I got to find out I did not like it in Beta.  

One thing I could not do is play a Panda.  I just thought that race looks so ridiculous in Wow, but I bet it will be popular in the east.

I will be willing to bet more than half the people who bought the expansion are not playing after the first month.   I think finally Blizzard's ship is sinking, it will take awhile, but it is definitely on it's downward spiral.

Originally posted by rmk70
Omg... Combat animations looked like a crappy F2P ripoff... Maybe I'm just used to other games, but was WOW always that bad? 

Theyre actually not THAT bad but this video...the angles and zoom are what make it look so bad...

Originally posted by rmk70
Omg... Combat animations looked like a crappy F2P ripoff... Maybe I'm just used to other games, but was WOW always that bad? 

Yup WoW has been like that since day 1, now that graphics have evolved this 8 year old titan is far behind. They also make their games to play on ANYTHING, I've seen WoW played on a netbook.

Was that painted-on armour (chest, pants) I saw? Still?

Anyways, that looked baaad. I think people are snapping out of it. This must be the first WoW expansion that I haven't seen news bits stating how many units were sold in 24 hours of its launch.

Jan. 2007: 2.4 million Burning Crusade copies sold in 24 hours

Nov. 2008: Wrath of the Lich King breaks day one sales records

Dec. 2010: Cataclysm sunders 3.3 million in 24 hours

Sept. 2012: No new record. Not bad, but this is WoW we're talking about so: Sad Trombone.