08-27-2005, 03:48 PM
You know I read this and think that you want them to do with WoW what Horizons tried and failed to do. I would love to see it as well but it's difficult and time consuming to do unfortunately.
I've done a fair bit of high end raiding and I do enjoy it, but because of my playstyle I'm going to be broke because of it. :)
I however love the 5 man instances though they all start to become trivialized by gear and repitition. I'm fortunate to play with people that will pretend they have never been to a place before for me though so I can still get that thrill and I've been able to do the same for new players, though at times I fail and start spewing the formulas for success. :(
I do want to see a more dynamic growing world with reason to be in it. I do want a real crafting system. The game is still a shopping list much like D2 became and items really become more important than anything else in the game. Look at warriors a class I know well. I don't think your spec matters at all in MC for Luci, Magmadar, Ghennas, or Garr (the only MC bosses I've faced) or for Onyxia for that matter. But your gear certainly does. And the auction house can make it so that a 60 can start a new char and be able to solo instances where you just one or two levels higher than the biggest mob in there if you want to put the time in because of the gear.
The reality is that Blizzard made a game where they wanted everyone to PvP and spend time getting items in which other choices you make don't really affect you that much. This isn't a bad thing. It means that given time anyone can succeed because money isn't that scarce and choices about skills (for PvE) aren't that important because they can all be made up for by gear. When you reach 60 you either keep spending time going after gear or you PvP and cookie cutter your spec, which won't really hurt you much if you want to PvE because again the gear is more important than the spec. But this is enough to keep people paying and that is all that really matters.
I'm glad I went slow and made a lot of alts on the way. I'm glad I'm in Molten Core and sharing that experience with friends, but I'll be happy when I set the game down because I was able to prolong the exploration and small group experiences for a long time. I love that playing a mage in a group is so very different from a warrior or paladin or druid or any other class. Actually every class, even filling the same role in a group as another class, plays differently for me and that keeps things fun and fresh. I've been the only healer in an instance with a shaman, druid, paladin, and priest. Every one of them was a different experience even though I was just watching health bars or whatever. I've been main tank in instances with a hunter, druid, paladin and warrior (not with my shaman yet) and again all of them played differently. I've been DPS with hunters, rogues, warriors, paladins, druids, mages, and warlocks, it was not the same thing. I've also been a utility man will all those classes.
The game is really holding me with the social aspect now, though when I was suffering my worst with my condition I admit that I burrowed into a progress this character for the sake of progression mode. I really enjoying interacting with the people in the world that I know. I wish my condition allowed me to more freely do this but oh well. It was tough to have Treesh on teamspeak last night since we are in the same room but it worked out.
But yeah through all this rambling, I wish that WoW could be something more. I wish that some of the ideas I've seen in other games could be presented in this world and setting but they won't be. So I've tried to embrace the other good things about the game and just keep having fun with it. The ability to have 50 alts (so many other MMO's limit you to 5 or so characters) the ability to play on both sides of the "conflict", the ability to succeed in so many places with so many group compositions and character set-ups. But most of all the ability to have a fun way to interact with people that I like to interact with. Many of these people I think it would be a real blast to go on a float trip with or work with or just hang out and watch TV with as well. WoW is just another way to hang out with these folks and do something we all enjoy.
I've done a fair bit of high end raiding and I do enjoy it, but because of my playstyle I'm going to be broke because of it. :)
I however love the 5 man instances though they all start to become trivialized by gear and repitition. I'm fortunate to play with people that will pretend they have never been to a place before for me though so I can still get that thrill and I've been able to do the same for new players, though at times I fail and start spewing the formulas for success. :(
I do want to see a more dynamic growing world with reason to be in it. I do want a real crafting system. The game is still a shopping list much like D2 became and items really become more important than anything else in the game. Look at warriors a class I know well. I don't think your spec matters at all in MC for Luci, Magmadar, Ghennas, or Garr (the only MC bosses I've faced) or for Onyxia for that matter. But your gear certainly does. And the auction house can make it so that a 60 can start a new char and be able to solo instances where you just one or two levels higher than the biggest mob in there if you want to put the time in because of the gear.
The reality is that Blizzard made a game where they wanted everyone to PvP and spend time getting items in which other choices you make don't really affect you that much. This isn't a bad thing. It means that given time anyone can succeed because money isn't that scarce and choices about skills (for PvE) aren't that important because they can all be made up for by gear. When you reach 60 you either keep spending time going after gear or you PvP and cookie cutter your spec, which won't really hurt you much if you want to PvE because again the gear is more important than the spec. But this is enough to keep people paying and that is all that really matters.
I'm glad I went slow and made a lot of alts on the way. I'm glad I'm in Molten Core and sharing that experience with friends, but I'll be happy when I set the game down because I was able to prolong the exploration and small group experiences for a long time. I love that playing a mage in a group is so very different from a warrior or paladin or druid or any other class. Actually every class, even filling the same role in a group as another class, plays differently for me and that keeps things fun and fresh. I've been the only healer in an instance with a shaman, druid, paladin, and priest. Every one of them was a different experience even though I was just watching health bars or whatever. I've been main tank in instances with a hunter, druid, paladin and warrior (not with my shaman yet) and again all of them played differently. I've been DPS with hunters, rogues, warriors, paladins, druids, mages, and warlocks, it was not the same thing. I've also been a utility man will all those classes.
The game is really holding me with the social aspect now, though when I was suffering my worst with my condition I admit that I burrowed into a progress this character for the sake of progression mode. I really enjoying interacting with the people in the world that I know. I wish my condition allowed me to more freely do this but oh well. It was tough to have Treesh on teamspeak last night since we are in the same room but it worked out.
But yeah through all this rambling, I wish that WoW could be something more. I wish that some of the ideas I've seen in other games could be presented in this world and setting but they won't be. So I've tried to embrace the other good things about the game and just keep having fun with it. The ability to have 50 alts (so many other MMO's limit you to 5 or so characters) the ability to play on both sides of the "conflict", the ability to succeed in so many places with so many group compositions and character set-ups. But most of all the ability to have a fun way to interact with people that I like to interact with. Many of these people I think it would be a real blast to go on a float trip with or work with or just hang out and watch TV with as well. WoW is just another way to hang out with these folks and do something we all enjoy.
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It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.
It's all just zeroes and ones and duct tape in the end.