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Did you play cataclysm at all? I played it, enjoyed it, then quit because heroics were too hard for the general stupidity of the WoW population. Never going back
I played it, enjoyed it, then quit because heroics were too hard for the general stupidity of the WoW population. Never going back
we couldn't just faceroll through *normal* dungeon anymore.
MFW this thread is from 2007.
Are you guys trying to ruin my life again
LOL, JK
I found it that the best way to quit WoW is to play it as much as you can and eventually you'll get burned out to the point where you can't even look at the log-in screen for more than 5sec. That's pretty much what happened to me. I got MoP, played it for like 2 weeks and just couldn't do it anymore.
But this thread brings out a lot of good memories. Just looking back at the first page makes me ROFL of how much of a noob I was and my journey from a scrub to joining a top guild on the server (we were top 50 US at one point). Its been a good journey but WoW as a game has peeked a long time ago and they need to do something new and drastic if they want to resurrect this franchise.
This is not to say that WoW is a bad game, its still to this day my 2nd favorite game of all time (behind Metal Gear Solid) and its the game that I had most fun playing (EVER) but if they want to lure back some of the veterans players that got burned out they need to do something more than adding new talents, bosses...
) I thought Kara was really hard and impossible to beat and had no idea there were bigger instances in the game. But as I started playing more I started hearing people talking about these SUPER HARD 25 man raids that have the most epic loot and to be honest that's what kept my interest in the game. I started doing research about my class (Mage at the time), all the instances, what the best gear was available for me to get... I remember farming motes of fire for like a month (5-6 hour per day) to craft that Fire Set that Mages used. I just kept my interest in the game. Eventually I got a try out with the top guild on the server (only guild that was clearing SSC, TK, and Hyjal, 2nd closest guild was working on like 3rd boss in SSC ). When I eventually earned my spot on their 25 man roster that was by far the most fun I had playing a game. Progressing through Black Temple was really hard at the time but never the less a lot of fun. I remember when we got the first Illidan kill people on the server started freaking out and I was getting spammed with tells from people that I knew from my old guild of how on Earth did we kill him, what was the fight like, what loot did we get...
I stopped raiding shortly after WoTLK came out and focused mainly on PvP. I did a lot of Arena through the entire x-pac and up through Cata which was a lot of fun if not more than raiding. But even that started to get old as there were no more challenges left in the game and most people have left by now and so did I.
I started playing WoW couple of months after TBC was released, right around Black Temple patch and can't speak of how intense previous content was but for my money it doesn't get better than Black Temple. My favorite instance by far. When I hit 70 (at least I think that was max lvl in TBC
Now you can just que up randomly and go kill the hardest boss in the game in like an hour
Sorry for the long write up, but yea Blizzard started catering WoW a lot more towards casuals after TBC which drove a lot more players away. There was just nothing left to keep your interest in the game anymore. You can form a pug group on the server, go clear all the instances in the matter of hours and be left with nothing else to do for the rest of the week. Before you had to plan out your week as to when to farm for your flask/potions mats, farm outside main raid for other gear, prepare for main raid and possibly new boss... It was a lot of stuff to keep track of but in the end all the hard work paid off and that kept the game interesting for me for a LONG time, but those days are long gone now
just looks like you had the same impression from TBC as I had in vanilla. I had kinda burned out on vanilla so only occasionally came back to help some high end guilds in new content in TBC. nothing like beating 90% of lvl 60 rogues when lvl 40-45 and having beaten ~80% of lvl 60s by ~lvl 50. I loved the duels outside IF was always a fun way to pass 30mins. The that odd time when you miss judge an aggro range and pull 2 packs at once and your stomach sinks! (thats alright, feign death+get naked macro worked a charm saved me thousands on gold repair costs)
