Quote:Oct 20 News

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In a topic for discussion, the question of whether or not a lvl 70 should be able to create a lvl55 of any class comes up. There are several good sides to this arguement, coming down to Blizzard claiming that part of what makes Death Knights a Hero class is their ability to start at 55. Is there much class learning done at 1-55 anymore? Is someone who's come up from lvl 1 that much of a better player than someone who created their toon at 55? Interesting questions indeed.

Quote: Idiosycrasies. We all have them. Anyone who's spent much time around my main toon in WoW knows that she must have purple things. The more purple things the better. Dragonstalker? All 8 pieces of it. Winterspring Frostsaber? Third on the server (would have been second, but I had to work that weekend). Purple Netherdrake? As soon as I was 70 and able to do the quests. Hair color? Purple. Pet? The purple and black Ravager, of course. So...what is some of your toon quirks?

Quote:Idiosycrasies. We all have them. Anyone who's spent much time around my main toon in WoW knows that she must have purple things.

Quote: Idiosycrasies.

Quote:Interestingly enough, even those who had been proponents at the start were, by the time it was around 1 minute to 30seconds per infection, saying "enough". Luckily, the R.A.S. came to Azeroth's aid and cured the plague. I do have to think that this event will be discussed for some time to come, though.

Quote:"My deepest apologies. It is my understanding that my invading forces, in their attempts to besiege your cities and snuff out all life on Azeroth, have inconvenienced the activities of common civilians. In the future, I will ensure that your commanding officers are informed well in advance of planned invasion times so that they may properly fortify themselves. I have also looked into the issue of my plague being too quick in its purpose and too difficult to cure. Please be reassured that I have taken the matter up personally with my top necromancers and that any further incarnations of said plague should be only a slight challenge for your natural immune systems to overcome. Please forward any additional complaints to either Kel'thuzad or Anub'arak.

Regards, the Lich King Arthas."

Quote:"My deepest apologies. It is my understanding that my invading forces, in their attempts to besiege your cities and snuff out all life on Azeroth, have inconvenienced the activities of common civilians. In the future, I will ensure that your commanding officers are informed well in advance of planned invasion times so that they may properly fortify themselves. I have also looked into the issue of my plague being too quick in its purpose and too difficult to cure. Please be reassured that I have taken the matter up personally with my top necromancers and that any further incarnations of said plague should be only a slight challenge for your natural immune systems to overcome. Please forward any additional complaints to either Kel'thuzad or Anub'arak.

Regards, the Lich King Arthas."

Quote:the main chunk of your player base

Quote:Is it really the main chunk? Or are people just assuming that because of the vocal people on the forums? Loud and obnoxious they may be, they hardly define the player base because they actually read the forums, and further they rant on them. They honestly tell us nothing about what most people think.

That is, unless you actually believe Ret was fine before the nerf and never has a chance to be viable again?

Quote:I guess that depends on how you look at it, then. Everywhere I went (and I was touring around Azeroth/Outlands over the last week) I heard negative commentary from folks in the public server channels. Every zone, folks are complaining about it. When it started, it wasn't too bad, and it was about 50/50 to folks complaining vs. folks enjoying. By the end, it was almost impossible to find someone who was enjoying the event.

And this was on both servers.

Now, I guess one could again say that the public channels again constitute a minority of players, but still. From what I saw, a pretty decent chunk of folks were unhappy with the 2 minutes and lower phases of the event. Was it everyone? No, of course. I know that I myself remained pretty indifferent to it, so that's at least one person who isn't in the 'didn't like it' camp.

I still have to think that such a vocal and generally negative reaction has given Blizz some pause, minority or not.

Quote:Is it really the main chunk? Or are people just assuming that because of the vocal people on the forums? Loud and obnoxious they may be, they hardly define the player base because they actually read the forums, and further they rant on them. They honestly tell us nothing about what most people think.

That is, unless you actually believe Ret was fine before the nerf and never has a chance to be viable again?

Quote:The nature of the event was such that it relied on player participation. If such a huge majority of the player base hated the event, wouldn't they stop participating? This didn't happen, because the plague obviously continued to spread.

Quote:The nature of the event was such that it relied on player participation. If such a huge majority of the player base hated the event, wouldn't they stop participating? This didn't happen, because the plague obviously continued to spread.

Quote:I'm not one to sit around in Shattrath while not doing anything which may explain me not getting irritated.

Quote:You didn't have to sit around to get irritated. In fact, that would have been the least reason. What difference would it make to sit - toon, zombie or dead? It screwed you up when you were trying to get things out of the bank or use the AH or talk to npcs or... It was a messed up event foisted on their player base and I have some anatomical ideas of placements of any future plans for such "fun".

Quote: Maybe I've just been on a pvp server long enough that leaving one area for another due to ganking is just second nature and part of the game for me now. I had little trouble avoiding it when I wanted to.