World of Warcraft: The Current State of Affairs
I've been playing this game ever since Icrontic first got me into it, and I've often found myself reminiscing on thoughts of Icrontic's WoTLK days. Throughout 2008 to present day, I've been consistently interested in continuing my adventures in Azeroth and over time, I've learned a lot. I began playing this game at an early age, and I was never prepared for the level of experience that everybody else played at. Just as I was getting a grasp of what the game was all about, the IC guild slowly started to fade away until eventually, I left too.
When Cataclysm was released, I began to play again. I was a bit more mature at this point, and I wanted to really get into this game. Over the past two years now, I've played with three different guilds... And only one of them let me raid with them. I had figured everything out at this point, and now, at long last, I'm confident with my level of playing. I'd like to get a few people to join my guild, if this is possible. As of this point in time It's just me and two of my friends, and I'm getting really anxious with all of these new patches coming out. I have nobody to raid with, and again, I'd appreciate it if a few people would join me on my quest to glory!
-FreshyP
When Cataclysm was released, I began to play again. I was a bit more mature at this point, and I wanted to really get into this game. Over the past two years now, I've played with three different guilds... And only one of them let me raid with them. I had figured everything out at this point, and now, at long last, I'm confident with my level of playing. I'd like to get a few people to join my guild, if this is possible. As of this point in time It's just me and two of my friends, and I'm getting really anxious with all of these new patches coming out. I have nobody to raid with, and again, I'd appreciate it if a few people would join me on my quest to glory!
-FreshyP
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If you're Alliance or I just need to be on your server, let me know what and where.
Some people say tiers should be switched or changed and I agree some aren't great. It's still an improvement even if you didn't use cookie cutter builds because all you did was hang out in Goldshire.
People think the old one is better because of nostalgia, a desire to have a talent-tree, and/or mostly because it felt like you were getting stronger and progressing because every level you got a point and even though it didn't mean anything you got one every level.
Overall they have greatly expanded the choices you can make in the game; mostly in choices of how and what to play. Expanded race-to-classes, more efficient and varied leveling experience, 11 battlegrounds some of which you can access at earlier levels than before, better choice of appearance barring class limitations, meaningful content progression for most group numbers, maybe "all group numbers" with the new Flex Raiding, and more. Letting one little change get in the way of the bigger stuff just doesn't seem logical. Granted if there is much more that one is upset about then it can be justified.
The way I see it, WoW is a HUGE timesink that will be meaningful if you have friends to play it with. Even through the dull between patches I would still play because I had a group of friends to play with and we had fun. That group is mostly gone now for tragic reasons, so my WoW time has greatly declined. I'd like to get back to that with new and old friends if it at all possible.
This was my general impression around the time I played the game the most heavily (WotLK)-
Lvl 1 - Starting Point
Lvl 20 - Walking places sucks a little less
Lvl 40 - Walking sucks a lot less also OOH SHIT I CAN ACTUALLY WRECK A TINY BIT OF FACE NOW
Lvl 50 - Fuck this place fuck this place so hard uuuuggggghhhh
Lvl 58 - Screw Azeroth, let's go to a new dimension and immediately dump all this old gear
Lvl 60 - Yay I can fly oh wait no I can't afford it SHIT
Lvl 66 - oh dear sweet mother of god i just wanna get out of this place it's so boring
Lvl 68 - SWEET RELEASE let's get summa dat Northrend gear
Lvl 70 - END OF SKILL TREE - THE CIRCLE OF WRECKING FACE IS COMPLETE
Lvl 72 - Fucking christ all of this Northrend gear looks the same
Lvl 74 - 4 entire areas worth of quests later and my sword is a little more blue YAY PROGRESSION
Lvl 76 - Ok screw this I AM GOING TO GRIND OUT THE GOLD TO FLY IF IT'S THE LAST THING I DO
Lvl 78 - No
Lvl 78 - Plz no
Lvl 78 - Come ON
Lvl 79 - Just
Lvl 79 - Fucking
Lvl 79 - DING ALREADY
Lvl 80 - REAL Game w/ the bulk of your friends and all of the content ACTUALLY begins
....at which point I suddenly lost my account because Battle.net's security is an absolute joke.