Top World of Warcraft raiding guild quits; "We’ve basically been killing ourselves off slowly since - Sensationalist Headlines

i sometimes feel like i'm one of the only people that play wow to enjoy the game and world, not do beat a raid in .7 seconds or to get the best pvp gear possible. i've spent around a year levelling one character (fire wizard) to 90 because i take time to explore and enjoy all the aspects of the game. i like levelling, as long as it isn't just a series of "kill x and gather y" quests (like 50% of pandaria)

[QUOTE=Fhenexx;40498338]I quit World of Warcraft right before Cataclysm came about, I think, and I know I'd never go back. But damn, sometimes I miss it. It felt like WoW, as generic as it was, had this kind of... [i]magic[/i] to it. Somewhere between the dungeons, exploring about, the people, fucking around, and all that, I grew really fond of it, and I guess I still am.[/QUOTE] your use of the word "generic" is funny to me when wow sets the bar for the entire genre, every other mmo strives to imitate wow, and many good mmos have had to shut down because they couldn't compete with it [editline]2nd May 2013[/editline] unless you mean the fact that it's based heavily on d&d is generic, which would be true for the entire fantasy genre

[QUOTE=Cushie;40488226][I]I have had a similar story... I think the game itself is good, the mechanics, spells, animations etc, its all really well made, but the actual game in terms of gameplay and goals is just becoming more and more shallow as time goes on. I started playing it in vanilla and I had a great time raiding, our guild was not the best by far, and it was a lot of fun and a real challenge trying to get past each boss in Zul'Gurub and Molten Core. As its stands now the game is beautiful and controls well, but it is literally just like an asian grindfest MMO except they give you 3-4 different things to grind instead of just one. Raids are the only redeeming quality because they have some new and interesting mechanics but ultimately they feel like they have no impact on your game yet its still like taking a second job where you go on, do your dailies, raid and log off. Kind of hard to explain why the feeling changed so much, personally I think its down to the fact that players are drowned in a sea of epics now. In vanilla it was very difficult to get yourself a full set of tier 2 or get to grand marshal PVP and get the awesome set of gear for it, and people would revere you for it, nowadays its like they are releasing a new tier of dungeon armor every few months and everything is easy to get as long as you play 8 hours a day. Its all extremely impersonal now as well. While leveling you use the dungeon finder and get placed with random people on other servers you will never see again, it plops you straight in and its just like clockwork, no more world LFG conversations or making new friends while running dungeons.[/I] [U][B]There are no more local 'celebrities' anymore that everyone would know/see around for whatever reason.[/B][/U][/QUOTE] And the only way to be the "local celebrity" is playing 30 accounts at once paying 500 bucks a month and owning 15 computers.

WoW was such a good use of my time when I was younger, nothing was more fun than playing with my friends in some huge fucking world just ganking and doing dungeons and Vanilla, then raiding with my friends in BC. Then late wrath it started feeling like a waste, then in cata it just felt like a fucking chore, shit like instancing, and LFD and LFR pretty much killed what made WoW fun, you sit in org, press a button, and get shit, class homogenizing is shit, items are boring as fuck, the communitys are cancerous and no one gives a fuck, and gearscore sucks. I will only go back if they include demon hunters in the next expansion because I want to feel edgy and be Illidan.

wow was fun up until TBC and some way in wotlk (ulduar), after the introduction of LFR and LFD, item level and the revamp of talent system, the game has begun stale, unpersonal, less social, bad change to azeroth and basically a cake walk. It's defintely not the fun experience i used to have where outdoor pvp was fun, world raids and pugs was the shit and actual effort was required to gain epics. progress raiding was my favorite thing too. i quit 2 months in cata and haven't looked much back since..i remember when their used to be a server community, known top players and fun n banter in shattrath city and outsid org, wow is long gone.

[QUOTE=thisispain;40498963]but when you just want to gear up and get through three different expansions worth of content it stops being fun[/QUOTE] I guess, but personally I never felt rushed, took my time, enjoyed the journey, met lots of cool people along the way.

[QUOTE=Atlascore;40503592]I agree with you, although Gearscore has been dead for over three years now, that shit died at the beginning of Cataclysm.[/QUOTE] Thats because Blizzard put in Gearscore themselves which is Ilvl and is the same thing. Funny thing is, one april fools Blizzard made fun of gearscore because they knew it was shit, but then they officially added it.

What's world first/us first/realm first?

[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;40507986]Thats because Blizzard put in Gearscore themselves which is Ilvl and is the same thing. Funny thing is, one april fools Blizzard made fun of gearscore because they knew it was shit, but then they officially added it.[/QUOTE] Items always had an ilvl it just wasn't shown. Gearscore was an arbitrary third-party mod that was abused by bad raid leaders to get carried by inviting people with only 6000 gearscore for a raid that only dropped 5000 gearscore items. ilvl is the base requirement you need to do content. If you don't have the minimum ilvl, you literally don't have the stamina (health) to take boss hits that aren't meant to be one shot kills.

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;40508010]What's world first/us first/realm first?[/QUOTE] The first guild to down a raid boss of a particular tier. Method got world first Heroic Lei Shen 25, although i think DREAM Paragon beat them to 10m.

I used to be into WoW for the leveling in Vanilla, the raiding in BC and the PvPing in WOTLK but since I've discovered roleplay. I've never looked back, ever.