Originally posted by krugve

 

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Originally posted by Dysmetria

 

I'd particulalry like to experience the glory of all the hacks they have since removed.  People soloing BWL a week after it was added was a pretty common occurrence.

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If you're going to lie at least try to make it credible. BWL week after it was added was bugged and it was impossible to reach further bosses. And no, hacks in WoW were never common occurence and cheaters were farming 5 man instances for gold, not raids for phat loot.

And yeah, no one who actually experienced raid content in vanilla, BC or WotLK would agrue the superiority of the former. There were some hard encounters but they were accesible only to few, in later expansions more people could enter raid dungeons but the hardest mode is still only completed by the same few.

 Actually there was such a bug with Paladins I believe. Their retribution (or something along those line) was stacking to an unlimited number, making them able to one shot bosses if they built it up enough. The exact details are a blur as it has been a long while, but such bugs did exist to my memory. Rampant hacking? I only ever saw it on rare occasion (always in Sithilas for some reason)
As per classic raids being better than current, meh. I don't really think the raid encounters are what has choked out the majority of hardcore, I think it is the over availability of comparable loot that is attainable through "lesser" means. Working for weeks/ months to get your set only to see someone who pvps a few hours a day for a week having nearly as good of a set as you is a bit disconcerting. But that can go either way I suppose, I only speculate. 
Vanilla server? I can't really say I was oh so much happier then. I've always been a druid, and lets face it, we were a laugh riot in most respects. Resto was the only thing that worked, but you were pretty much an innervate whore. I like having the option to do something other than throw HT or pray that the other druid doesn't have more +healing than me, otherwise his HoT cancels mine >:o
 

 I doubt I'll be absent much longer, WoW despite my distaste for a lot of what it has become holds a large amount of nostalgia for me. But this new x-pack is certainly interesting because it looks like a throw back to classic Azeroth. I'll be the first to admit having been overly critical of WoW in the past. Maybe I should just settle down, take it for what it is, and play to have fun.

I can see the OP's point here. I am drawn to a player driven world. Giving players control of almost every aspect (i.e economy, city conrol blah blah) is something that should in my opionon set MMOs apart from co-op RPGs. Story is secondary only because it should, in theory, be subject to what the masses are doing in the world.

I am open to this new concept of Bioware's, but will as always be careful about getting excited. As is, I reserve judgement until I get my hands on a final copy.  

Don't #%&* it up Bioware...or I'll do to you what I did to Galaxies....Buwahaha! /endjoke 

Penis is fine in games. If I have to see a bunch of boobs flooping about in EVERY aspect of media now days then let me see some pen15. 

 Hope everything works out for the fans. For the sake of the MMO community I want more sucsessful games, though this one due to it's history does seem to be bit of a darkhorse. Best of playing!

It appears as though several servers have the bonus periods evoked for the sake of raising the populations. This is in my opinion not a bad idea, but I don't feel it addresses the glaring issue at hand. The subscriptions are being spread over a vast number of servers, though now they tend to hide quite a few of them off tab. Allowing a bonus for so many low population servers at one time really seems to be doing more damage to the already well rounded servers by displacing numbers over the droves of under nourished ones.

I am not attacking the subscription numbers, 300k is a decent amount. I simply think they are perhaps doing their customers a disservice by spreading the population out so much that it is hard to get scenarios and open rvr for any extended amount of time. Thoughts?

 Pvp base games tend to make me sad as it means I have to pick up a stick and hit someone to get anywhere. I'm kinda the old SWG kinda guy who likes to chillin in a guild hall with mates and craft shyt. As lame as it may sound, any chance this game provides the pre-efup SWG exp (player house/city, vendors, player driven economy, mines,you know, all the stuff you don't see in popular mmos atm) with new and interesting features?

I'd wait mate. It's a good game at present, but it is taking a lot of flack for being grind heavy, and having the populations of servers spread thin. Give it a few month for server dencity and contect patches. A solid buy soon says I.

I fear if you buy it now, you'll lose interest fast. 

So after getting to 35, I found that I was unlucky enough to roll on a dead server, despite the numbers being high.  I haven't seen an SC on my swordmaster in over a week. So I got frustrated and went to another server to level. Got another swordmaster up to lvl 16, and all I have to say is, whats the point? Swordmaster compared to black orcs are complete crap, and order is as a whole are a head ache. 

Class balance just doesn't seem to be there in lower levels. Am I the only one that thinks healers and black orcs are God mode? Watched 5 mates of mine on one orc two lvls higher than us, with no healer in sight. He stayed up long enough to take one down. I then threw on a sword and tried to do the same. Failed miserably as I was rooted in place for the entirety of the fight. Sure, I can AE hit people, but for laughable damage. So what are swordmasters for? Black orcs seem to do fine solo killing healers.

So I said meh, destro are dominating everything, so I may as well hop on the bandwagon if I want to have fun with this title.

In short.

Any guilds recruiting? 

 Got to level 30 on Darkwald, no one even close to my level in guild, not interest in keeps. Bastards seem more interesting in PvE. If you got a vent, players who understand how to work in groups, and aren't 15, sign me up. Don't care what server, long as the odds are semi even. Got a few mates, we're semi-casual, 25-35 hours a week maYbe.

No place to cower when we burn down your gates and eat your dogs and other house hold critters in front of you with A1 and no napkins for clean up afterwards!!

But seriously I dunno.

This topic is new and interesting.

Originally posted by ILuvWoW

WoW is the reason why WAR even has any players, it attracts all the people who hate WoW.

WAR had a large tabletop community before the internet was even in full swing.

WoW created mmos  the like Nabster put pirating on the internet. It was still going on, they just put it in the spot light.

This topic is new and interesting 

My feelings on the matter

Originally posted by Celcius

 The only game you can really compare the graphics to is WoW and honestly the game has so much of a darker and more gritty feel then that..so it is still hard to compare it even then. Might look simular in videos and the like, but once you get in there you will see what I mean.

 

Irony...she's a cold bitch

Found that in WoW, being a tank was largely pointless in pvp. Either hit the dude will $%& you amounts of armor for 2 hours or the half naked midget next to him. Not like I could stand in front of the bloke; so die he did and run around doing no damage and warrenting no attention did I.

But with WoW I can stand with other big $%& off wankers and laugh at the bints who can't pass us up to kill the littluns. Makes a grown orc wanna cry...erm...tears of blood! Yea...

I kid, I'm a frilly elf swordsmen, pointy hat, bath robes, and a sword big enough to give Wallace wood.

Whats all this in h--!!!

Sweet gravy giblets of Justice this place is crawling with orcs!!

Gotta get my pointy hat and ears ahh!!

Wwe all know there are no such thing as women. They are mythological creatures who are were made up by Boris Vallejo to make men wish there was something better to do than wank off seven times a day

Now that we've got that out of our systems City of X and WAR are my selections if you have a thick enough skin to ignore the constant boob jokes, 12 year old who wish they were getting laid, and men pretending to be women to play out their fantasies. Oh sure they'll make up some shat excuse like 'I want to stare at a woman's buttox when I play the game' but really it's a trial run for the inevitable self spade. Myself I am a blantent homosexual so a thick skin is required for turning on the tele, so I'm sure as a women you're already use to the daft pricks recently back from their testosterone seminar on how air biscuits are sexy laying down pick up lines and generally being stupid. 

Originally posted by Kabbax

Originally posted by Delondial

I really hate this game for all the reasons anyone who's been playing since day one would. It's tired grind heavy class unbalances blah blah. The only problem with the WotLK is that they are doing everything I thought they should have done in TBC in that this is a high fantasy genre and not Star Gate Worlds.

 

Let me say that the last year and change have been frustrating with this game as I play a druid who is not resto and therefore get a large tri colored rubber cock award in pve and pvp for the most part. I hate the lies they spit at me about my spec being 'competitive with the rest of the spec' which is a sure fire way to ensue the wrath of God on their lying forms. The nerfs made a few months after release are being undone now which goes to show that they were in fact over doing it despite them telling the whole of the druid community to stfu and go spec resto damn it. Leave the dps and likewise cool raiding spots of shamans. However with all the changes that represent many years of "I told you so" this xpac looks more appealing despite seige looking like a sweaty heap of manmuck. It's graphic update is years overdue and the class mechanics even longer but since it's being changed now I suppose it will make up for it despite them taxing my already pissy  wallet.

 

I also have a feral druid main, and i disagree with you almost completely in any regard but arena.

Since you didn't state that you ment balance in arena specifically, i assume you didn't mean it in that way.

 

Thus why I said' for the most part'. Druid tanks are find but the scaling on cat is shat and anyone who disagrees needs to go back to high school statistics class or maybe just pull the McDonalds grease out of their face and watch the numbers not change ever. Balance is just plain undesirable for pve and most guilds dismiss them leading to your pvp sessions of frustration as you cannot kill anything respectably geared that can heal which includes warlocks.

However this isn't about Druids who are pretty much replaced at current with the Godly antics of Death Knights on the horrizen but about the overall package. I kid kinda about the Death Knight bit. The graphics and shadows as of right now look like a panty dropping sensation compared to its current state which while isnt saying much is still better than doing nothing at all. The style is back to the gritty Azeroth of timber and death as opposed to the spacey laser age with floating shiny God things that no matter how hard to wack them candy never come out. In terse its a desireable upgrade and the changes are going to be well recieved for the most part since now I don't have to wait 20 minutes when someone dies to tell them they are out of luck. I probably wont rez them anway.