Noooo!
My realm is getting pseudo merged!
Getting cross-realmed. Kinda like the zone phasing between servers except this is permanent and other than players always having a realm name as part of your name ID it's like you are on the same server.
Also I installed the hearthstone beta yesterday which it seems includes the new bnet game interface. Noticed that after the install I could see it automatically updating D3. When I launched WoW from it I still had to go through the WoW logon screen. I thought this new interface was eliminating that since you are already logged into it universally?
That is the thing though. Back then, that was the basis of PvP and you earned the honor it had back then to "up rank" along with the massive slugfests that happened, because the world was "small", thus people came to help.
Since then:
- Plenty of "Endgame" non raid content: With dailies, brawler's guild, pet battling, islands to farm, LFR and flex there is so much one can do once max level hits, unlike before. (before was normally long 5 man dungeons more or less)
- So many more BGs RBGs and Arenas were added: Thus giving people who liked PvP, a way to PvP without having to wait for enough reinforcements to show up when ganking a lowbie who probably jumped on his main or called for help from the guild. Plus with them being faster way to obtain honor/conquest as they added pvp gear, people will do them more.
- Faction Xfers: Because of this, many servers went unbalanced on population. So it is much harder to find any possible world skirmishes, as the population vastly outnumbers 1 way or another
- Resilience and PvP Power: Shifting the ability of just having good gear, to the correct gear for PvP, it is no longer interesting to try and counter attack pvp geared players. Especially when a solid 5 can enter the enemies capital and cause chaos almost never dying unless an equally geared and skilled group comes. (See this plenty of times)
- Location/World size: In vanilla you had only so many places to go. Since then you have now 4 huge continents, 1 separate world, and a few extra zones. There is so much space now, that to have enough want to come together and world pvp battle, is more unlikely, especially since Flying mounts were added and once they mount up, they can run away without risking being caught, stunned and killed before they could get away on a ground mount.
ugh. the fucking legendary quest is pissing me off. I am stuck on celestrial blessing. Lag is killing me and the idiotic wraithing keeps dieing. fucker.
sigh
This might be anathema but is the legendary thing solo-able?
some things are solo-able. the part i was (just beat it) on is a solo instance. just freaking hard.
now i gotta kill the 4 celastrials and that is going to take a raid group heh
Looks like they're changing RAF rewards. A new mount coming and from my guestimate on the blurb that was posted, you'll be able to chose from any of the released mounts instead of just the current.
Also I installed the hearthstone beta yesterday which it seems includes the new bnet game interface. Noticed that after the install I could see it automatically updating D3. When I launched WoW from it I still had to go through the WoW logon screen. I thought this new interface was eliminating that since you are already logged into it universally?
I'm sure it will be a blizzcon announcement with them hoping to have it out this summer, being delayed till the fall, and extra effort spent to make sure it's done by the time of the holiday season.
That seems like a long time to wait, was hoping for March-April but I guess Blizz is not known for getting anything out fast. Maybe they will try another season pass to try to retain players, worked pretty well with D3...
