04-22-2006, 03:59 AM
Warlock,Apr 21 2006, 10:12 PM Wrote:Mongo, please stop referring to non-raiding players as casual. Gaming is my major hobby; I'm serious enough that designers have had to revise games after strategies I developed became popular. I am not a casual gamer. However, despite averaging over forty hours a week of WoW at my peak I am not and will never again be a raider.
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Likewise, except no one has adopted things I've developed as far as I'm aware :)
Just because we don't doesn't mean we don't have the time to do so. I have enough spare time to be able to attend maybe 80% of raids, but that doesn't mean I'm going to spend that spare time in them. I much prefer the feel of 5-mans (especially tanking them) to the 20-man and 40-man zergs; when someone dies in a 5-man, everyone feels it and everyone immediately notices. When someone dies in a zerg, they're rarely noticed until after the fact, unless they're an important class like a healer or tank, or are an important person, like the raid leader, main assist, puller, etc. It's nice to feel like a person and not a statistic.
ArrayPaladins were not meant to sit in the back of the raid staring at health bars all day, spamming heals and listening to eight different classes whine about buffs.[/quote]
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