Hey guys, I havn't really given WoW a chance since my guild disolved about 3 years ago. I was not a fan of MoP and havn't even bought WoD. However, today i found myself questioning whether a return to the game is merited. If i choose yes, where's the good community at? where's the family oriented guilds at, i've never played wow casually... so im going to give that a try.. Is it worth it? is WoD really that bad? as bad as i read on these forums and elsewhere?? why is it so bad?? any help is appreciated.
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No world pvp, no players outside anymore, battlegrounds full of bots, an expansion designed to make an mmorpg NOT an mmorpg. Raids are so casual it hurts...yes i know there is a mythic lvl, but the existence of the other lesser lvls actually make it casual...ppl are not forced to be good like the old days.
Classes are dumbed down to the skill lvl of a blind monkey masturbating. Actually EVERYTHING is bad.
There will be some guys here who will tell you otherwise. Dont trust them. Trust the numbers. Check the sub numbers. There is a reason why they are so reduced.
I really hope Legion will deliver. I ll buy it of course and i ll give Blizz a last chance. I think they deserve it. Worse games had a glorious comeback.
My advice, dont return. You ll get disappointed and you might lose interest in trying Legion which MIGHT be good.
Whoa, thanks for the heads up i guess??? since im starting at level 1 and don't plan on buying WoD until legion, take that into consideration.
Also what happened to gems and putting them on armor, did they SERIOUSLY take that away from us?
I suspect it depends on where you play. PvP server at the endgame may be full of immature kids. I was playing PvE levelling up and that was amazing.
Also, there will be a lot of other returning Wow players at the same type if you jump in when a new expansion hits and that is always nice.
Can you have fun? Sure you can but I am hoping they re-think some of the design decisions with crafting, garrisons, class balancing. I actually switched from my beloved warlock to a shaman after a particularly nasty nerf this past patch which makes no sense in a 10 year old game.
Best of luck.
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I kind of equate it to buying a brand new car then complain that the company is so horrible when you go and rev the engine to 8,000 rpm until the engine blows, then say, "What a piece of junk, I only had the car for a day!"
And if you left (in part) because your guild dissolved. The EU guild METHOD has recently fragmented - broken up / dissolved / split. Raid problems action being the first reason given. Action on EU in general seems to have gone very, very quiet. US servers seem "better" but everything is relative.
Prior to Q2's sub number mmorpg.com's SBFord predicted that the big sub drop would be Q3 . If that does indeed prove to be the case - and I wouldn't bet against it - subs will be below 4M. Maybe it won't get that low (yet?) but people ae posting about server cluster's being "dead".
And then of course anything you accomplish before the next expansion will become useless. If you were a new player ...... but you are not ..... maybe you like taking selfies (one of the highlights of the not-a-patch 6.1.)
I actually liked MoP - but I had been away for 7+ years when I got around to trying to trying it. However what I pick up is that "the people saying how good MoP when talking about WoD was are being "somewhat sarcastic". They are that impressed!
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3 weeks ago i "came back" and now i cannot bring myself to log in. (its been 3 days..)
Raid or die mentality is still there anything outside of that or pvp and you don't have any community support. Not going to grind up gear to increase a number that will ultimately be reset in a few months.
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More money for less content.
I've dropped all my subs to help send the message to Blizzard that this isn't something I'm going to put up with. Not only is the game not friendly to veteran players (made more for newer players and made easy to catch up with your friends without making it a deeper and richer experience for the rest of us), WoD has already had it's one and only and last "major patch", which was a huge disappointment to the majority of players. There are some things I like in WoD, but the amount of content is abysmal.
So, no, I don't think anyone should subscribe now. I think the best thing anyone can do for the game, if you really love it, is to drop your sub, or if you are thinking re-sub then wait until maybe a month before Legion comes out. Send the message to Blizzard that more money for less content isn't acceptable.
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The people saying how great MoP was are generally referring to the amount and quality of the content along with good design decisions. It was a huge improvement from Cata wrapped in a stupid Panda/Chinese theme no one in the West wanted and most players in the East found offensive.
Of course no one one would have known that from day one. All we knew then was lolkungfupanda.
I have returned after a layoff and found it worth the price for a few months. If you like advancing characters then WOW does a real good job. Going from 90-100 was a nice trip and has kept my interest tell now.
The garrison stuff is good until you start running several characters through the daily grind. Then it starts to feel like a job.
All in all the experience is pretty good. Just don't look through 2007 glasses. Don't get stuck on the hay-days of WOW (for me its Lich King) and take the game for what it is... a few good months of gaming. When it's no longer fun, move on.
People asked for pandaren since WoW came out, there was even posts why the game had quest regarding chen stormstout while he or any kin of pandaren were absent from game. When tbc was announced and it was confirmed that pandaren would be alliance race, everyone rejoiced and when blizzard said a few weeks later that they can't add pandaren due to opposition from chinese government, everybody went "boooo". but when they finally add pandaren with MoP every went ape shit even as far as claiming they stole idea from kung fu panda when the truth is pandaren was added in 2003 and kung fu panda came out in 2008. People are stupid that way.
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As if it could exist, without being payed for.
F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
It costs money to play. Therefore P2W.