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Originally posted by Arrun
This article is dead on.

The thing really killing WoW right now is not a lack of epic raiding content. My guild is struggling trying to fit all the peic instances into the game each week.

The rep grind has gotten out of hand. ZG is the worst designed instance in the game. Sure it looks cool and has some very interesting bosses, but it was hyped as a casual raiders instance and has more bosses then MC or BWL. Now with AQ open we have not one, but two new reps to grind out. Add to this reps for crafting stuff and it is nuts.

Blizzard can add more content for the 5-20 man raids and that would help, but I think the thing they reall need to add would be a better guild alliance system with a universal channel that can be moderated easier then the chreated channels currently being used. This would help build the community aspect of the game and open up the epic raid content to some of the smaller and more casual guilds.

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I like ZG, it's one of my favorite instances because I don't have to spend so long running through the whole thing :). I don't understand why the number of bosses has anything to do with it - you don't have to kill them all if you don't want to. More instances like ZG!

I could care less about PvP, it doesn't add anything for me. I see why others like it, just my personal tastes are different.

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"What a cumbersome quote system! I would like to be able to quote just part of a person's post"

Just cut-n-paste the portion you want to quote, then add your reply...like I just did with your sentence.  

If your aren't familiar with cut-n-paste it is simple and oh so handy! Just place your curser at the beginning (or end) of the text you want to quote, and hold down your left mouse button. Keep it held down and drag it in the appropriate direction to "highlight" the desired text. Then, release the mouse button, and press the control and c keys at the same time. This "cuts" the text (stores it in memory to use when you want). Then just open the message window where you plan to post. Left click the mouse once so that you have your blinking curser, just as if you wanted to start typing something. Press control and v at the same time. This will "paste" what you previously "cut". Some people do as I did with your words, and place the quotation mark, then use control v....so that it looks quoted. This can be used in posts, in your e-mails...etc. It also works with graphics and pictures, links that appear anywhere that you want to send to someone else...etc. After you do it a few times it will become second nature...and you can copy huge portions of text and move it anywhere, in a heartbeat! You don't have to drag the mouse over every letter in a paragraph..just start on the left, drag to the far right...then move your mouse up or down, and it will highlight entire lines of text for you. I could copy this entire reply by just starting at the first letter, dragging right to the end of the first line, then moving my mouse straight downwards to the last line. You'll see when you play with it.

Hope I explained that correctly :)

edit: forgot to mention...cut-n-paste goes into temporary memory. You can cutnpaste the same thing over and over....but once you use the control-c command again, you lose what you had previously cut. If you turn off your computer, etc....it wipes the "cut" from memory. So..it is only temporary, and takes up no space on your hardrive or anything everytime you copy something :) It is simply placed in random access memory and nothing is written to your drive.

I also just ended up quitting.  Kudos to the other "casual" players above.  I also beleive that they make up a strong but quiet player base of games.  If not satisfied we just leave.  If we are happy, we gladly pay even if its days / weeks between play times.

There was not alot of variety of things to do once you reached 60, & playing at late nites due to my schedule, not alot of people playing.  No pvp, no soloable quests, no soloable raiding / instances, just boring faction grinding so that i might have the chance to craft a useless item when compared to epic / raid.

The 50/50 solo/group grind up to lvl was 60 was awesome fun - too bad lvl 60 had nothing to keep me playing & paying. 

Blakeheart -

Just cut-n-paste the portion you want to quote, then add your reply...like I just did with your sentence.

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Yeah, but you don't get the same separaters automatically added :)

Thanks for your post, I'm sure it helped.

While I just starting playing WoW, my biggest concern is not the end game (I'm no where close yet!), but the fact that so many folks play the game like its a twitch FPS game. That is damn annyoing at times. I run through an instance with some friends and I have a hard time keeping up. They almost run through entire thing. What's the hurry?

I see that D&D Online is suppose to be played with a game pad! WTF? MMORPG played with a game pad?

I also don't see the deal with PvP (though I'm on a PvP server 'cause that's where my buddies hang out), seems sort of boring to me. Guess that may change.

What's life like on non-PvP servers? What about the RP servers? Is the end-game all that much different on these server types?

A large concern is how the boost in level will affect players who have reached their end-game at level 60. For example, will dungeons like Molten Core and Blackwing Lair become obsolete? Will all the time players spend farming those dungeons for epic items go to waste? With Blizzard using level based loot as rewards for questing, PvP, and factions, will these items even compare to the level seventy gear that we all expect to see? This is a very difficult question to ask and unfortunately Blizzard has not given any straight answers to their players.

Ok. Seriously boosting the level 60 epics to 70 epics sounds so incredibly retarded. Yeah people spent countless hours achieving them, but already Blizzard is making more and more raid instances with more and more tier sets all the time. Whats wrong with making new sets at 70? Yes you will have to make some tweaks here and there to the 60 epic equipment, but one of the greatest part of WoW is that you almost can never has the "best" stuff in the game all the time, theres always something better coming, and level 70 epics is just another way to enlarge the variety of epics, maybe make the level 70 stuff legendary! yeah the level 60 stuff will become useless at 70 once you get the stuff, but level 60-70 grind will be extremely difficult compared to any other levels, the epics will greatly decrease the time spent grinding or w/e. thats just my opinion.