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Paragon calls it a day and ends raiding
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I'm a MUDder. I play MUDs.
Current: Dragonrealms
The changes in LEGION look pretty good, hopefully they will provide WOW with a much needed boost. I find it curious that changes in the raiding part of WOW have been associated with this guild..no no and definitely not. Any changes made by blizz have been down to multiple sources, no one guild has had a major impact.
The day WOW changes based on what one guild does, is the day WOW goes bottoms up and sinks.
Even then who has 2 weeks to no life it, unless you're unemployed, a student, or a professional WoW player which most people are not.
I just don't see the appeal to being world first, it's one thing if I'm being paid to do it, then yes I'd do it, but just to say I'm World first, lol no thx Jeff.
I fail to see any type of individual skill or personal achievement in raiding. You are one of 20 or 40 players who is simply spamming abilities making an individual neglible difference on a boss with a huge amount of HP. And it is often a game mechanic requiring the repetitive use of the a system not unlike hamsters on a treadmill. It is just a tiresome time consuming waste of time. There simply is not other way to put it.
I clicked this actually thinking it was about the game Paragon,stupid me.Last thing i care about is Blizzard gaming,they make more than enough money from very average games,i'm not about to give them anymore than i already have.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
There is no skill required. The only thing that is required is for you to be what society deems a "loser." You make a huge time commitment an ignore your real life for set amount of time needed. Skill is not involved and anyone can do. If you hate your family and friends it really isn't all that hard.
So again, if being a loser is appealing then I just don't understand.
An epic game for sure, and one of my favorite pc games of all time. My hats of to everyone who does mythic raiding.
Those guilds have to figure out how to beat a raid and do it with great coordination. This is where guides for raids come from. The people that coordinate those attempts will need certain skills. But still, most of those group will be just followers that do what they are told.
Can be a fun achievement for anyone who has the interest and the spare time, but a weird thing to boast about. Many people will just shrug because raiding is of no interest to them.
Usually between 2-4 guilds are competing for a world's first kill. Although I haven't been playing WoW post Arthas kill but I still keep contacts with tons of those people. Many of them became eSports managers, successful streamers, got jobs in Riot, Blizzard, etc. It certainly worked out well for a lot of them. Many also quit the gaming scene and have their job and family going on and occasionally play other MMOs or WoW. Calling them a loser is a bit out there.
Anyways, those competing for world's first kills usually take a break from their job or whatever they are doing for 1 week, rarely 2 weeks, and play some days up to 16 hours a day to clear the contents first.
They are not doing it for the money really, the amount of money sponsors actually pay WoW guilds are like 1/10000000th of a medium LoL or CS:GO team. It's just the crazy spirit of competition. Although the yearly trip to Blizz HQ and BC were nice! Not all got that though.
Besides early TBC I never went crazy like that myself. But all those years when early content was released I played WoW between 4-8 hours a day for 1 or 2 weeks, then just every Wednesday 3 hours. As I said before always among world's top 10. I was employed (with way too many responsibilities - and no I wasn't in charge of the donuts!) during the WoW phase of my life, and was in a ridiculously serious relationship, I never had to let go of my life or become a no-lifer to clear the content. Neither did anyone else popping the world first kills.
But, there's some truth to what you guys stated. There were many wanna-be pros playing WoW. Especially when there was a famous guild on 1 server, the 2nd and third guilds on that server acted god awful. Because lots of people chose those servers but of course they couldn't join the top guild so they had to go with these jerks to climb their way up. They raided a lot more (way fucking more) than the top guilds, they were rude to their guild members and had this OMG I'M SO PRETTY attitude going on. Yeah they were totally like how you described them. Many had no life. But we didn't even recruit them in the few guilds I had been, funny thing was whenever one of these people filled an application they wrote "no-lifer" somewhere as a positive thing.
The important skill about being among the top raiding guild was to recruit and manage +40, after TBC +25 people. Finding people who could move out of the fire in time (inside joke back then) and be cool to socialize with. Yeah we all tried to maximize our efficiency but it wasn't really about that. It was about coordination and mechanics. Every time we cleared a raid with our main toons we could easily do it (with some wipes) with our less geared alts too. No one had a real special skill, no one had inhuman reflexes and no one was a supermodel. Game was easy if you had enough good people to play with, most guilds didn't.
What did I got out of it? Well I had retired from playing Q3 but I still had my addiction to some sort of a video game generated adrenaline. Got some good kicks out of those fast paced raids. It was fun for a few years.
Raiding? not really sure what all the big deal is tbh, as it sounds like a whole lot of pain for very little gain, and i play for fun.