AT World of Warcraft Thread (Warlords, Where do you play, General BS and all that)

[AznAnarchy99]

Then again buying a scroll off a vendor and mailing it to alts is a trifle bit easier than the staggering number of hoops you need to jump through for pathfinder. In the home stretch where you just mindlessly grind cat people for hours for rep I wasn't having any fun at all and seriously just wanted it to be over.

Funny cause people always complain about how Vanilla was so much better and this game is too easy now giving everything to everyone but forgot the endless rep/mob grind that people did.

 

[Sonikku]

There is nothing "hard" about mindlessly beating on mobs for hours. That sucked then and it sucks now. The reason why people miss vanilla is the sense of community and camaraderie that existed on servers that is now nowhere to be found. WoW today is practically a solo experience.

 

[Anubis]

There is nothing "hard" about mindlessly beating on mobs for hours. That sucked then and it sucks now. The reason why people miss vanilla is the sense of community and camaraderie that existed on servers that is now nowhere to be found. WoW today is practically a solo experience.

yep

 

[nurturedhate]

There is nothing "hard" about mindlessly beating on mobs for hours. That sucked then and it sucks now. The reason why people miss vanilla is the sense of community and camaraderie that existed on servers that is now nowhere to be found. WoW today is practically a solo experience.

100% agreed and maybe it's just me but I miss that feeling of fostering new friendships and building a community around shared activities. Somewhere around halfway through WotLK this was lost, at least for me anyways. I played WoW since release up to halfway through WoD and am considering not going back for Legion. I wouldn't really even know where to start. I was an officer/tank/mt/gm in some capacity for my own guild through MoP. The guild my wife and I joined for WoD are rather nice people but now quite of the same mindset when it comes to raiding. Finding a new guild that both needs our respective, and quite flexible, roles while also meeting our schedule and desire for somewhat serious raiding feels like a herculean task at this point. Changing servers at this point would also be an expensive endeavor seeing that we have basically every class leveled except shaman for me and rogue for her. On Korgath if anyone cares.

 

[Phoenix86]

100% agreed and maybe it's just me but I miss that feeling of fostering new friendships and building a community around shared activities. Somewhere around halfway through WotLK this was lost, at least for me anyways.

While there are a ton of factors, the fluctuating raid sizes is one thing that constantly irritated our raid group.

 

[DarkRipper]

WoW today is practically a solo experience.

This sums up the current game so succinctly that it should be stickied somewhere.

 

[Rebel_L]

Can anyone give some ideas of the class ranking these days for achieving the most in a solo fashion. ie what classes are the best for doing older (or current) group content solo or with perhaps one other (the other likely being a rogue). I am thinking of getting back into the game, I would be starting a brand new account and I generally only play solo as my play schedule is so all over the place I would never be able to make any sort of raid schedule. The last time I played was during wotlk.

 

[MustISO]

Can anyone give some ideas of the class ranking these days for achieving the most in a solo fashion. ie what classes are the best for doing older (or current) group content solo or with perhaps one other (the other likely being a rogue). I am thinking of getting back into the game, I would be starting a brand new account and I generally only play solo as my play schedule is so all over the place I would never be able to make any sort of raid schedule. The last time I played was during wotlk.

For me the easiest solo experience was with a hunter. When I came back after a 3 year break that's the character I started with. It's very hard to die and very easy to do content above your level or for more than one player.

Then I leveled a DK, then a rogue and warlock. DK is crazy easy as well if you didn't want to start at level 1.

 

[Anubis]

pet class
hunter or warlock
prob hunter

 

[Rebel_L]

The first char I played was a rogue, then I leveled a warrior and mage, the last class I had for a main was a paladin. During wotlk the paladin was pretty indestructible. I was enjoying leveling a hunter slowly so that sounds like a fun suggestion. I never could stand warlocks.

 

[Sonikku]

I too started with a Rogue and it's one of my greatest WoW regrets. I practically had to beg for groups no matter how good my dps was. Even with friends that took pity on me it always felt like they were doing me a favor in vanilla. I leveled a Holy Paladin in TBC and good god what a change. It got to a point where I couldn't log in without 3+ whispers and usually a ninja invite out of the blue. It was quite a change going from largely unwanted to suddenly being able to dictate terms.

 

[Rebel_L]

I too started with a Rogue and it's one of my greatest WoW regrets. I practically had to beg for groups no matter how good my dps was. Even with friends that took pity on me it always felt like they were doing me a favor in vanilla. I leveled a Holy Paladin in TBC and good god what a change. It got to a point where I couldn't log in without 3+ whispers and usually a ninja invite out of the blue. It was quite a change going from largely unwanted to suddenly being able to dictate terms.

My server was pretty rogue friendly, I never had problems with groups and played my rogue all through the vanilla endgame, I also loved doing rogue/druid stealth runs, I ran up the warrior in vanilla still because I had gotten bored of just being dps and wanted to tank, but it getting towards the end of vanilla and I had way more trouble getting groups for my tank as we had lots on my server than I ever did for my rogue.

 

[Sonikku]

Guess I picked the wrong realm back in the day. Oh well.

Just finished the Demon Hunter starting zone and it felt very dull. It was like a chore I was glad to have over with by the time it was finished. I was expecting Death Knight starting zone level of awesome but walked away extremely disappointed. :'( If this and Garrisons 2.0 are any indication I fear Legion will only cement the decline instead of averting it.

 

[Rebel_L]

So I played a little this weekend, boy what a shock, not only has so much changed, hunter especially, looks like no melee weapons anymore, focus instead of mana but the biggest shock is that wow still has the worst ui of any of the games Ive played recently. Spent most of my time finding and settting up mods, I play on triple screen monitors so its worse, move anything really becomes a life saver, but its a pain to set up when you dont know what half your windows are called in the first place.

 

[Anubis]

elvui

google it

itll make your life easier

 

[Rebel_L]

elvui

google it

itll make your life easier

Ive got bartender and move anything atm, and for the most part configured, is it worth it to replace them with elvui? I am not going to be doing any high end raiding so I'm not too concerned with raid frames etc.

 

[Anubis]

if you have things set maybe not, but its easy to configure and setup when starting from scratch

 

[maevinj]

Wow, I didn't think this thread would ever get un-stickied..

 

[Anubis]

happens like once a year, I think the sticky just times out on the backend

 

[JujuFish]

One of these days, I'll get a beta invite. Maybe. Probably not.

 

[DarkRipper]

This is one time I'd have enjoyed a Beta invite - I want to try the DH out.

 

[Rebel_L]

I always liked the mass open betas before a games release to see if I was going to like a game, but for something like expansions beta's I can never understand why they are so popular. You just end up having to do everything you did on a beta server all over again once it hits live and you have already taken the new feel out of it by doing it on the test server.

 

[lupi]

I've (eventually) gotten an invite to each one since BC....this time seems to be sucking on amount of invites.

 

[DarkRipper]

I've never gotten a beta invite, and I've been a player since 2005.

 

[Slacker]

Did you set the opt in on your battle.net account?