Post by Steve Farrelly @ 02:10pm 07/12/10 | 31 Comments
Crash's write-up is for players who may have dropped off the WoW radar in the past, and are wondering just what has changed, and if it's worth firing up your account again for Cataclysm, or as a primer for newcomers interested in entering the newly scarred Azeroth for the first time. I know I'm sold after reading this.
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Posted 05:24pm 07/12/10
Posted 05:28pm 07/12/10
Posted 05:39pm 07/12/10
All they've done now is trim the fat out of the talent trees, and give you the boring passive talents which you had to take as passive bonuses for choosing that spec. Now theres a lot more talents that actually feel meaningful, and theres less chance of you being able to end up with a gimped spec. Personally I love it, a lot of the new talents are really awesome :)
Posted 05:43pm 07/12/10
there never was, that was just an illusion created with a bunch of useless talents.
Posted 01:32pm 08/12/10
To give you an idea, I've dropped about 60 hours into WoW in about 2 weeks since starting my account again. It's crazy fun, but i haven't had much time for any other games.
I tried to jump in last night but the queues were ridiculous to get into my oceanic server, took about 2 hours to move 1000 places in the queue.
last edited by Crash at 13:32:21 08/Dec/10
Posted 11:58pm 08/12/10
Posted 08:44am 09/12/10
edit: Plus lots of jokes about old content years later, which has proven amusing for returning players
Posted 01:01pm 12/12/10
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Posted 06:35pm 14/12/10
... I now have a green dragon mount.
Posted 06:51pm 14/12/10
last edited by Crakaveli at 18:51:24 14/Dec/10
Posted 06:56pm 14/12/10
Posted 07:44pm 14/12/10
They've made the game better and better, I still try and keep up with what they're doing, and I like most of the changes they make, but each time I try to get back into it there's no getting around the fact it feels like it's been played to death and run it's course :(. I wish I could get back into it but I can't. I'll finish leveling to 85 and cancel my sub again.
Bring on D3 so I can get interested in a game again.
Posted 07:57pm 14/12/10
Posted 08:01pm 14/12/10
Posted 10:53pm 14/12/10
Posted 01:13am 15/12/10
Posted 04:40am 15/12/10
New grouping system definitely rocks, I quit largely because after vanilla it seemed to become a lot harder to get groups.
Posted 08:41am 15/12/10
You're a strange one nerf.
Posted 09:19am 15/12/10
Is it just me or is anyone else running into these problems as well?
Posted 09:52am 15/12/10
I used to know this chick who used to run around killing mobs her level so she could get to a herb to try and gain a skill up in herbalism.
Trying to convince her that she should just get to level cap and come back, where the mobs dont agro and she can literally walk straight to the herb and pick it without even having to get into combat was futile. Sigh.
Posted 10:05am 15/12/10
Posted 10:06am 15/12/10
Posted 10:19am 15/12/10
Go look at the professions forum on the WoW site and it's not just me who's finding stuff like this.
Posted 10:33am 15/12/10
As for mining, I had no problem hitting the max, I found a metric f***tonne of elementium nodes in Deepholm that almost single handedly levelled me to max. It seems to be much more heavily farmed now though, so that might be why you're having trouble :(
As for cooking, easiest thing I found was do a couple of dailies and buy the recipes that use blood shrimp. I ended up with like 4 stacks of that stuff after doing Vash'jr and have been able to get to like 510 cooking just from that.
Posted 10:34am 15/12/10
Posted 10:50am 15/12/10
Maybe I'm just being unlucky with nodes. Also, I didn't realize those dailies in Org gave a recipe for those shrimp things. I collected an assload of them and was surprised to see I couldn't use them. I guess that was why.
Posted 11:13am 15/12/10
I just don't find badges interesting from an rpg'ish sense, though it's not so much that as I don't intend to stick around with WoW, and since I've made that decision building up my character for another temporary level cap is really not that motivating.
Achievements are a pretty cool progression system though, so will probably re-join when I have the time to get some of them. Again though, same problem, as I don't intend to stick with WoW, and for some reason that sucks all the joy out of mmo progression for me (maybe because it's such a particularly huge effort, which is good, if you plan to stick around, and want an unlimited game).
Posted 11:30am 15/12/10
Your doing it wrong.
Posted 11:56am 15/12/10