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So, after all this long World of Warcraft still the best option?
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I have been playing MMOs since WoW came out and I have never played WoW.
does that make it the best option? I don't know but I do know I find it unintresting
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Yea I have seen people on both sides of this fence. Some say WoW is harder, others say Rift is harder. The fact that it goes back and forth based on a per person basis says they doing something right in difficulty scaling imo.
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as an aside:
playing Wurm with no assistance from others is the hardest thing I have ever played other than Kerbal Space Program which is about just as hard.
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Not to mention that we have different skills which make some games harder for us than others.
I can say which games are too hard, good or too easy for me, but many of my friends have very different lists of hard and easy games.
And of course, it also differs for different types of gameplay, like raids, open world, PvP, dungeons and so on...
I played WoW till BC and really never went back so for me it aint the best option.
I can not speak for anyone else.
But regardless me not playing or going back to WOW does NOT make it a bad game, it's just not the game of choice for me.
WoW was not the best for me, I could tell that in the first six days I played. And the things I disliked were not ever going to be changed. Of course, others mileage may (and apparantly do) vary.
Gear score minimaxing is a complete turn off. Not a end raider fanatic either, especially as every video I have seen of WoW raids resemble a giant game of Simon Sez.
If you are holding out for the perfect game, the only game you play will be the waiting one.
You obviously never played EQ in its heyday...72 man raids that very often ended in wipes and had to rez that many people...There were ramifications for dying then, unlike WoW.
The parts that are invalid are essentially you judging content you haven't completed, which you openly admitted to doing in your comment. You also must've not been monitoring the world first Heroic clears this expansion, especially thunder king and garrosh. Even to this day only about 2.5% of the pop has downed H garrosh and hes been out for....how long? Long. There are guilds everywhere constantly setting their roster standards higher to down him before the release of WoD where mythic will be the new competitive raiding scene.
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i was a solo player in WoW. i could pug a group in which i was tanking and run through dungeons literally in 10-15 min max. even heroic becomes easy once u have a decent geared tank. as long as the healer can keep the tank up its easy mode on any difficulty. rift isnt quite like that. so imo, wow is easier than most. even raids become easy. this is where wildstar will shine. u can run the same dungeons but they will change so it will add a degree of challenge that wow cant match. and yes wow can b run on emachines. most people will say wow is easymode for mmo's.
First line is all I needed to know.
You don't clear WoW's hardest content as a solo player, or a pug player. That is fact. That is also why you think its easy, you CHOSE not to enter hard content because blizzard didn't force you to.
Wildstar doesn't do anything different other than force all players, including solo, into difficult scenarios from about level 20 and on where as WoW at no point forces you into difficult content, you have to go after it.
The amount of people I see like yourself that make this mistake of not entering the gates the are difficult content and then coming to forums or any discussion board calling WoW easy is getting more abundant by the day.
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How is rift harder? Only 1% of raiders in WoW have beat the final boss right now. I doubt rift has anything like that. Been awhile since I played but I dont remember anything hard about it.
I don't think otherwise.
Most resources, longest development times, hardest end game, best responsive combat.
Furthermore: connected realms, seamless open worlds, 7.5 million subscribers after 10 years in an industry that turned free to play for every game older than 1 year ...
WoW is the reference and the other Fantasy based MMO's are surrogates of it. Even EQ was adapted.
The only valid alternatives would be EVE for hardcore science fiction space ships freaks and probably the upcoming space shooter -semi MMO- Destiny.
But looking back over these past 8 years ... most of the others were simply a complete waste of time and effort.
I wonder what happened to the guy who camped for 2 days in Sep 2008 before a shop to get the first copy of Warhammer On Line ? Did he go mental when they announced the end of WAR in 2013?
Vanguard fans, Tabula Rasa dudes, Hellfire London fanatics... A long list that gets longer each passing month...
Complete waste.
SURE! But, NO.
I'd have to go with FFXI, FFXIV and Age of Wushu as being my favorites right now.
FFXIV has the best instances of any MMO in my opinion.
WOW was never an option (for me).
Wurm online, EVE, TSW... all much much better games.
No fate but what we make, so make me a ham sandwich please.
It still doesn't prove much one way or the other.
First we don't have that number for Rift, secondly Wow might have less actual raiders than Rift and thirdly it's player might be worse...
I do think that Wows top stuff is somewhat harder myself but there is no actual proof for that, and there is always the chance that the time to get the gear so you actually can beat the toughest boss in Wow is way more time consuming than it is in Rift which would affect the numbers a lot.
Myself and three friends are basically sitting back waiting for WoD. The group of us PvPed in MoP until we were candidates for psychological intervention, then froze our accounts to wait for the next big thing from Bliz. Nothing seems to be lighting the fire like WoW for us. One of the group tried the ESO beta and gave it a thumbs down. I'm trying to get everyone to try Wildstar but so far I'm getting a "meh" response - everyone seems to be busy for the summer.
WoW? Yeah, I'm ready to go back to Az. No rush, but I'm ready.
best option for what? I was sick of the game a year or two ago, and quit .... i don't see it as a best option for anything. There are plenty of other games to play.
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Most who've disagreed, have said anything but failed to mention a MMO (which they think) is indeed a better option than WOW, which only further proves that's indeed the best option. After all the thread was intended for that purpose those "who think otherwise are welcome to share their opinions, why in fact they don't think it's the best option".
You think there is a better MMO out there than WOW? Well, let's hear it and your opinions why you disagree with this thread, thx.
Most who've disagreed, have said anything but failed to mention a MMO (which they think) is indeed a better option than WOW, which only further proves that's indeed the best option. After all the thread was intended for that purpose those "who think otherwise are welcome to share their opinions, why in fact they don't think it's the best option".
You think there is a better MMO out there than WOW? Well, let's hear it and your opinions why you disagree with this thread, thx.
Again, WoW is the best mmo for you. Why do you feel the need for outside affirmation? Is it not good enough to enjoy an mmo you like without seeking validation from forum members? Or are you trying to discredit other people's personal favorites?
I don't like WOW, just about any MMO I do like is a better option for me.
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I fully agreed with the arrow change for hunters, it was a ridiculous burden on a single class to have 1 less bag slot and always have to fill on arrows.
I always felt that things started turning south when they removed the hunter dead zone and started not requiring stance dancing for warriors both of which dramatically reduced the skill level required to play the game.