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Feuer Frei!

12-28-10, 09:54 AM

For those who play(ed) the new(ish) xpac, your thoughts so far?
My thoughts? The usual grindfest (to 85 this time), grinding faction rep, gearing up for raids, grinding professions, BG's, HC's and the many many vote kicks and "nerf hc's cause they are too hard" screams, elitist 'tards who think that any wipe is YOUR fault and either vote kick or leave group, the many WOTLK players who think that Cata isn't a faceroll anymore, ie should be nerfed so that hc's can be completed in 2 to 3 mins and that hc's should have epics dropped instead of blues, errmm....
For the record, i no longer play WoW, after power-levelling a rogue to 85 from 80, in 1 and a bit days, then gearing up for hc's and maxing my professions, raiding with guildies, doing bg's, levelling a mage to 80, in short, WoW has many things going for it, however Cata was a big let-down in my opinion, sure, lots of new content, both starter and end-game, plus all the side-quests and guild perks, etc etc...however, at the end of the day, and quiet bluntly put, the usual grind fest, just with another name really.
'twas fun while it lasted...
Bring on Diablo 3!!!!!

Dowly

12-28-10, 10:45 AM

Spike88

12-28-10, 11:23 AM

MMORPGs have become too damn competitive. It's all about me me me nowadays. :nope:

I remember when I used to play Warhammer Online more frequently, once I had leveled to Tier 3 and gathered some extra gold, I used to go back to the tier 1 areas and run treasure hunts for the newbies; who found me got 15 gold or something like that. Everyone thought I was running a scam of some sort. :doh:

Samething happened in RO, people use to only have 1 account, and would need someone else to help them level, so parties were required. Then people started dual clienting, and finding ways to quickly level their main using a second character.

Arclight

12-28-10, 02:17 PM

Finally! Was saving this one.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/EZatHome/original.jpg
:O:

ReFaN

12-28-10, 06:25 PM

it was ok, bought it too just level up too 85, quests were fun, with the scripted cinematics etc, but it is just one long grind, only played for like a week and i quit again.

kranz

12-30-10, 02:02 PM

@up: lol, bcoz of WoW I do not remember my last 2 years.
The problem with Cata is that it won't work on pirate servers.

Ducimus

12-30-10, 03:08 PM

Finally! Was saving this one.
http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj2/EZatHome/original.jpg
:O:

ALL MMORPG gameplay, summed up in one picture:

http://www.ducimus.net/mmorpg/gameplay.jpg

kiwi_2005

12-30-10, 06:24 PM

Actually I prefer Cata to Wotlk and BC expansions, I brought a new acc and got a hunter to 85 in a 9 days playing with a friend to 60 then going it alone to 85. Need to gear up, doing BG reps now how you can get ratings from BGs is pretty cool and the new patch Blizzard included last week if you win one of the BG's forgot the name but its from Cata your get 1800 honor from a win and 300 honor from a lost, well Horde and alliance players on Tich realm are having turns at letting each other win so they can get 1800 honor each time. lol Wonder how long that will last before blizzard find out and nerf the honor :roll:

Sounds like you just burnt yourself out Feuer Frei, it happens. When you say you no longer play wow I lol'd we all say that, have a break then go back. Ive quit twice and what am I doing now? :haha:

On another note Ive ordered 'Age of Conan' mmo ive always wanted to try it out, now I can with a pc that will run it. If Conan's good i'll drop wow.... for a while. lol

Feuer Frei!

12-30-10, 08:14 PM

Actually I prefer Cata to Wotlk and BC expansions
Yea, for sure, Cata isn't a faceroll anymore, like BC and WOTLK, people are whining about the HC's being too hard lol. But that's what HC's are meant to be, hard.

Sounds like you just burnt yourself out Feuer Frei, it happens.Yea, i know, but, i've pretty much finished with it, too many elitist idiots, plus, grind, grind, grind, Cata did disappoint me, it has some great new content, both starter and endgame, Uldum is just amazing, scenery-wise, however Uldum was probably the most boring of all the levelling areas.
Cata is just the usual grindfest, only with some new content, glossed over. I couldn't justify playing on.

kiwi_2005

12-31-10, 02:35 AM

Yea, for sure, Cata isn't a faceroll anymore, like BC and WOTLK, people are whining about the HC's being too hard lol. But that's what HC's are meant to be, hard.

Yea, i know, but, i've pretty much finished with it, too many elitist idiots, plus, grind, grind, grind, Cata did disappoint me, it has some great new content, both starter and endgame, Uldum is just amazing, scenery-wise, however Uldum was probably the most boring of all the levelling areas.
Cata is just the usual grindfest, only with some new content, glossed over. I couldn't justify playing on.

I understand :up: See you in Age of Conan then? :haha:

CCIP

01-12-11, 01:42 PM

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/2634-World-of-Warcraft-Cataclysm

Zero Punctuation review.

Call me biased, but I totally agree with his conclusion on the numbers thing. Yes, we know Yahtzee hates MMORPGs, but he's also kind of right :O:

Dowly

01-12-11, 03:14 PM

Goddammit! Forgot it's Wednesday.

You won this battle CCIP, but there's still war to fight. :stare:

(all in good fun naturally... and maybe with some swords and other things that can really ruin your day :O:)

EDIT: Ow and he makes good points, especially the 'numbers'. :yep:

Falkirion

01-12-11, 06:42 PM

The thing i like about Cataclysm, is the run from 1-60 is completely improved and made enjoyable. The zone flow just feels better.

Haven't seen the new 80-85 content yet as I've got 2 characters on the roll up to that.

SgtPotato

01-12-11, 07:08 PM

I quit playing WoW before Cataclysm because it bored me the **** out. :zzz:

too much drama and repeating the same instances/raids runs again and again until you get the gears that you want.

Suddenly, everyone in my old guild want to and became furries when Cataclysm released...

****ING FURRIES!

Feuer Frei!

01-12-11, 09:25 PM

The thing i like about Cataclysm, is the run from 1-60 is completely improved and made enjoyable. The zone flow just feels better.
Yea the starter areas and starter levelling areas have been remade and are incredible, a job well done Blizz.
However the true 'cream' of Cata is it's end game content, with HC's, quest rewards, PvP and the 80 to 85 levelling content being really good. Blizz have done a great job with this x-pac.

Haven't seen the new 80-85 content yet as I've got 2 characters on the roll up to that.You will enjoy it, whichever starting area you go to first, either Mt Hyjal or the underwater world. Both amazing.
Also Uldum is probably the most amazing area of the whole lot, with it's Egyptian influenced architecture and 'feel' to it. Uldum shows off really well that Blizz are actually very good at designing levels/areas. :up:
Plus, you get the chance to have a camel mount when exalted with faction, now who doesn't wanna ride a camel :yeah:
Must admit though, from lvl 84 to 85 it's a loooong slug/grind, you need approx 6 million xp pts to reach 85 from 84. :cry:
It took me to get from 80 to 85 a day and a bit, i reckon the 84 to 85 took me the longest.

I quit playing WoW before Cataclysm because it bored me the **** out. :zzz:
With the new content, it's far more enjoybale than WOTLK.

too much drama and repeating the same instances/raids runs again and again until you get the gears that you want.I will also admit that Cata, once you reach lvl 85 is all about gearing up for HC's, BG's and professions, but hey, that's WoW though isn't it?

It will be interesting to see where Blizz goes with the next 2 xpacs to come.

kiwi_2005

01-15-11, 04:36 PM

Must admit though, from lvl 84 to 85 it's a loooong slug/grind, you need approx 6 million xp pts to reach 85 from 84. :cry:
It took me to get from 80 to 85 a day and a bit, i reckon the 84 to 85 took me the longest.

84 to 85 was very quick. 82 to 84 was slow for me. When I reached 84 I dropped the questing and just did dungeons and BG's. Got a faction change to Alliance cause BG's are instant on alliance side, where with Horde its a 15-20min wait. Plenty of Horde players faction changed over cause of this. Dungeons + BG = quick leveling. Downside is I never got to know the Cata lore as I would of liked.

I'm way under gear though, only got 4 pieces of pvp, not playing wow as much just don't have the free hours and you need plenty of free hours to always keep up. Limited to just a casual player where i pop in every now and then.

Feuer Frei!

01-16-11, 12:00 AM

When I reached 84 I dropped the questing and just did dungeons and BG's.

Yea, i can see that would have been quicker, dungeons and bg's.
I didn't do that, just ground it out from 84 to 85.

Iron Budokan

03-27-11, 03:45 PM

robbo180265

03-28-11, 10:46 AM

I don't like it too much, I guess. I don't like how the talent trees have been streamlined and the quests are now so linear it's taken a lot of the exploration aspect out of the game. At least for me.

I haven't played it in months, but my two little boys still like it.

Completely agree with you.

The 1 - 60 zones are a blast , completely revamped and loads of fun, 60 - 80 is soooooooooooooo boring now BC areas are dull, dull, dull. Northrend is stuck in the past - didn't I kill the Lich King on my main? And yet there he is popping up every other quest.

The Cata areas are the worst though, far too linear, any alt you roll has to do exactly the same quests, in exactly the same order and you have to do all of them for the rep /sigh.

I like the HC's and the fact that they are not faceroll any more, but did they have to take that long to complete? When I only get around 3 hours play time in an evening just doing one Hc takes up a good chunk of that time.

And the nerf fest is getting silly. I play a shaman and the earthquake spell has been nerfed, buffed, nerfed ad infinitum.

IMO they need to do something quick before a huge chunk of the player base quits for good.

kiwi_2005

05-10-11, 08:00 PM

I would just like to add that in 3 weeks time the WoW tourament starts I would also like to warn any WoW players here that dont bother entering it as I will kick all your srub asses back to kingdom come OK? :D

I was rated 2nd best Warrior on tichondrius US late last year (was) So I am very good pvp player (pve player Im just a srub).

I play a Taurean Warrior (before faction change he was a Nightelf) 3s and 2's teams arena, rated battlegrounds and any thing else that is to do with pvp like even hanging outside orgrimmar pwning all the scrubs. 2s team is really for players who want to get rating so hirer me to help them get it up (payment in gold) Yes I play arena for gold as well If you need your arena rating up.

I will be entering the WoW tournament in 3 weeks time, I will win! The 50k will be mine! :smug:... (I hope :03:) :DL

Feuer Frei!

05-10-11, 10:31 PM

kiwi_2005

05-11-11, 02:35 AM

WoW lost 750,000 players since the new expansion came out I was one of them. I only came back to do arena and try out the tournament. Give your 85 rogue a go at the tournament runs for 8 weeks and cost me $20 USD once you enter you get 50k in gold, all the gems available and all the best gear for your character. You can enter the tournament matches later on or just dual others for fun.

Just the other day I rolled a Druid just for fun said to myself I'll only spend a couple of hours leveling him. 13 hrs later I was still playing :o The game sucks you in. So I deleted the Druid. Just running my 85 warrior in arena's is safe enough. Works out a couple times a week for 1 or 2 hrs.

kiwi_2005

05-11-11, 10:47 PM

correction:

Dad man get some sleep :O: It doesn't start in 3 weeks its started last night! Entered found an arena team we did well won all our arena games and got ranked (1st) still far to early days, when I checked our rank today we were dropped to 7th. Going to try and catch up tonight.

PS this is not Kiwi_2005 (Dad), I'm Mischa have posted here couple of times should really make my own account i'm not really a forums person come in here from time to time to read about games here.

Ria

05-25-11, 11:21 PM

Lmao at the comic strip. OH BOY I'm about to get nerdy! I've played WoW since 2005 (with a couple months break every other year or so...) So about uhmm... 200+ days of game play? It's my favorite MMORPG game, not because it's game mechanics are just SO SOLID (cough) and the system is TOTALLY FAIR (cough) but because it can captivate SO many people... including myself.
I think Cataclysm is an okay expansion, but I've been on Hiatus since January... for school. I think my favorite expansion is the Burning Crusade, but I miss the good ol vanilla days... In BC I did arenas nonstop, hardly did any end-game raids, and got several titles (but not gladiator :( my boyfriend got that multiple times)

I must say that I might play it in summer... if it wasn't for the monthly subscription I'd never de-activate the account, and just play randomly; But I think friends make the game a lot too, I probably wouldn't play very much if my boyfriend and I didn't play together or have friends to play with. I have lots and lots of screenshots though....and videos! *Sigh* I played that game so much.

I have a resto druid (I played her from 1-70 as resto, and as dream state in season 3-5 in BC), a disc priest/spriest (I played her all through WotlK) and then switched to horde and made a BE mage for raids and leveled her in Cata. Not a whole lot compared to some... But I get bored of the tiresome grind from 1-80+.
I remember so many old things...and met lots of friends.

CCIP

05-25-11, 11:35 PM

but because it can captivate SO many people... including myself. .

If you ask me, that's the scary thing about it :O:

I have a few friends who are into it, including a married couple whose life totally revolves around WoW events. You could set watches by their raiding schedule. And of course because they've got such a social circle around it AND have their significant other raiding right there with them, they don't even think about giving up the game. It's like a substance addiction, but in a very large group, haha.
Scary prospect to me, anyway :dead:

kranz

05-26-11, 01:57 AM

It's like a substance addiction, but in a very large group, haha. Scary prospect to me, anyway :dead:
Indeed. After a few years you may realize that the only "achievement" you really (no distinction between game and RL) got is only your orange legendary gear.
Blizzard has built their empire on this "sociality". I prefer to call it a false one.
They introduce more and more "social" features (e.g. take a look at Starcraft 2) just to improve the efficiency of sucking your money. I don't blame them. Business is business after all. It's about this unanswerable question: whether the product is adjusted to the masses or the masses to the product.
I know many people who have downed Lich king several times and go for a raid for only one reason:"pve is boring as hell but we have Mumble and we gonna have a little chit-chat". In that case the primary function of the game is kinda dead.
I've never played WoW for its "social" functions. My ignore list is longer than the friends' one. I play for pure competition, so pvp only.

kiwi_2005

05-26-11, 04:38 PM

Indeed. After a few years you may realize that the only "achievement" you really (no distinction between game and RL) got is only your orange legendary gear.
Blizzard has built their empire on this "sociality". I prefer to call it a false one.
They introduce more and more "social" features (e.g. take a look at Starcraft 2) just to improve the efficiency of sucking your money. I don't blame them. Business is business after all. It's about this unanswerable question: whether the product is adjusted to the masses or the masses to the product.
I know many people who have downed Lich king several times and go for a raid for only one reason:"pve is boring as hell but we have Mumble and we gonna have a little chit-chat". In that case the primary function of the game is kinda dead.
I've never played WoW for its "social" functions. My ignore list is longer than the friends' one. I play for pure competition, so pvp only.

and I can't believe how easy it is now to level, the questing is now hold your hand stuff. I started out with WoW just before BC came out and I remeber it taking me ages to level up, saving gold to get my first mount, getting lost, getting ganked and getting teabagged...:DL

Platapus

05-26-11, 05:19 PM

I am taking a break from WoW in order to concentrate on my paper.

But when that is done, I am looking forward to leaving my high toons alone and starting a level 1. Been so long since I played the lower levels and Cata seems to have improved them.

Wow is a fun game, but it can eat a lot of time. :yep:

Feuer Frei!

06-29-11, 09:26 AM

The Rumours that have been circulating for a while now have been realised:
WOW is now free to play until level 20! That's right kids.
Blizz has done away with the 14-day trial period and given a free, no need to pay reign to you, until level 20.
Some other restrictions apply, a Gold cap of 10 G, a trade skill cap of 100 and also unable to trade via player to player, mail box and the AH.

SOURCE (http://us.blizzard.com/support/article.xml?locale=en_US&articleId=20590&parentCategoryId&pageNumber=1&categoryId=2331)

The start of the end of WOW, Titan and Diablo 3 will be the future for Blizz.
WOW won't die but support will be scaled back, slowly.

kiwi_2005

06-30-11, 08:10 PM

^ If your a veteran player its free to play to 70. Meaning if the veteran player recruits someone that recruit gets WoW & BC expansion for free & can level to 70.

kiwi_2005

07-18-11, 08:48 PM

Wow! Swifty the warrior sponsored by Razor gaming hdware manufacturer to play wow got banned last night. Swifty is well known for his warrior skills, videos, prize giveaways blah blah got banned for crashing 3 realms - apparently he asked his fans to roll level 1 toons resulting in a crash. Blizzard have warned him before.

Watch the video, Im laughing cause its like if a death was in the family or something. There is life after wow swifty. lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-DFfBUA6vM

Edit: Ah forget about that, he just got unbanned. Thanks to his fans.

Falkirion

07-19-11, 12:02 AM

And I've seen rumoured a big cash injection from Razer (his sponsor) into the pockets of Blizzard is another reason he got unbanned. Swifty crashed the Darkspear server incase people are wondering.

And Blizzards response via MMO Champion.http://blue.mmo-champion.com/topic/186552/actions-for-recent-realm-disruptions

kiwi_2005

07-22-11, 02:59 AM

Check out LUI, a UI mod for WoW. Very nice!

Latest version (with screenshots)
http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info14130-LUIv3.html

LUI site
http://web3.india025.server4you.de/

Just a note - this is a suite where you delete certain folders (eg WTF, Cache, Interface,) in your wow directory and replace with their folders. I did not need to do this instead I just grabbed the folders from their Interface folder and copy/paste into my one. Then loaded up wow, went to addons and added the LUI there.

Feuer Frei!

07-22-11, 04:22 AM

Interesting. Thanks for sharing, although i can't seem to load the screenies on the site, my dam usb wi-fi is crap.
And the replacing of folders is all koscha with Blizz i assume.

kiwi_2005

07-22-11, 04:36 AM

Interesting. Thanks for sharing, although i can't seem to load the screenies on the site, my dam usb wi-fi is crap.
And the replacing of folders is all koscha with Blizz i assume.

okay try these screenies

http://i54.tinypic.com/k2judw.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/mbu87l.jpg

And what does Koscha mean? Not even google helped, I presume you mean replacing folders will stuff up your game?. No. Well if done incorrectly then it could but there is always the go back to default button if things get messy. Blizzard don't mind addons making changes to their game unless it messes with the core files.

But as I mention no need to delete the folders just copy whats in their folders into the wow folders required.

Feuer Frei!

07-22-11, 07:07 AM

okay try these screenies

http://i54.tinypic.com/k2judw.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/mbu87l.jpg

And what does Koscha mean? Not even google helped, I presume you mean replacing folders will stuff up your game?. No. Well if done incorrectly then it could but there is always the go back to default button if things get messy. Blizzard don't mind addons making changes to their game unless it messes with the core files.

But as I mention no need to delete the folders just copy whats in their folders into the wow folders required.
Screenie links are better, yea, looks pretty cool, very modern :DL
Kosher i meant, spelling was wrong. Kosher as in it's all good or it's cool to do that.
I used to use bartender, recount and a few other addons when i was playing.
Can't remember now, too long ago :yep:

kiwi_2005

07-26-11, 01:57 AM

Damn you blizzard!

Any other hunter trying to tame that new cat in 4.2 patch - 'Skarr' what a beast! I have been farming that area off and on for two days waiting for him to spawn hes on a 20-35hr spawn rate so he only spawns once during that time for 1 hour.

Anyways there is this nasty Orc Shaman player :damn: who pushes you off the cliff Ive ganked him twice but he must have a great hatred for hunters or is just bored cause whenever I'm there hes there waiting... I know what hes going to do if Skarr shows up and I start to tame him, while taming him (about a 15 second timer) hes going to push me off the cliff then when I'm running back he will kill Skarr. Once Skarr dies or is tamed his spawn time restarts so another 20-30hr wait.

I could kill the shaman first then tame Skarr but this shammy is not easy to beat I just beat him twice out of 6 or 7 fights. Then again while im fighting this shaman another hunter could turn up and tame Skarr!

Damn you blizzard.

A vid of a hunter taming him. Hes a beautiful beast even though hes just a bunch of pixels! :DL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq6p3OT2iIc

Feuer Frei!

09-03-11, 11:09 PM

kiwi_2005

09-04-11, 06:25 AM

Hey kiwi, are you able to let me know what server you play on? EU or US?
I'm thinking about starting up again, until Diablo 3 hits.
I was wondering if you had much free time to spend in WOW, what I wanted to ask is IF and that's a big if, we are on the same server, would you be able to level me up?
Sorry to all others for the bump, as I couldn't message kiwi in private about this.
Thanks in advance :salute:

PS I'm on the EU server.

I play Age of Conan mostly now I'm liking AoC 2nd time round far better than WoW, the pvp side is brutal but at least my barbarian can stealth. :DL And the quests are worth doing with leveling up quite quick.

I only log into wow may twice a week for a few hrs at a time to do the dallies and mine some ore to sell on the auction house, not full time cause there's nothing for me to do in WoW until the next season comes round. And Im on US servers.

If you try AoC look me up im on the blood and glory server, name - Nimrod (US).