Quit WoW...

[CKent]

I got sick of warlocks being overpowered and getting continually buffed, sick of the developers ignoring most of the playerbase while designing endless new content for the elite raiding minority. Their beyond-apathetic stance toward bugs didn't help either.

I guess I never *really* realized just how much of an addict I was. I mean, I knew on some level, but wow... (pun intended) I'm literally going through withdrawl. I quit WoW a while back (~May '05) for about 6 months, and quit EQ1 in early '04 for good (fsck Sony), but this is different.

Any stories to share?

 

[Aikouka]

My name's aikouka and I haven't played for FOUR whole days! :Q

No really, I got incredibly bored from PVP. Oh if you can't beat em, join em!

/roll warlock

 

[nageov3t]

if it's any consolation, locks are getting a pretty hefty nerf in about a week

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: loki8481
if it's any consolation, locks are getting a pretty hefty nerf in about a week

As I understand it, it's around a 10% dot damage nerf due to the way percentages are calculated, that really doesn't sound like much.

 

[thawolfman]

Been clean for like 3-4 months....loving every minute of it, but I still miss it every now and then...

 

[Schadenfroh]

Quit it for six months, just found other distractions from reality (TV watching went way up), its the person not the game.

 

[naddicott]

Clean since November. Really no question that I'm coming back for the x-pack, just whether I can leave again once I reach the "endgame" grind.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

Originally posted by: CKent
I got sick of warlocks being overpowered and getting continually buffed, sick of the developers ignoring most of the playerbase while designing endless new content for the elite raiding minority. Their beyond-apathetic stance toward bugs didn't help either.

I guess I never *really* realized just how much of an addict I was. I mean, I knew on some level, but wow... (pun intended) I'm literally going through withdrawl. I quit WoW a while back (~May '05) for about 6 months, and quit EQ1 in early '04 for good (fsck Sony), but this is different.

Any stories to share?

Hi my name is makoto00 and I used to be a WoW addict. I've quit a powerhouse dwarf warrior a year and one month ago. The first couple of weeks I actually had dreams of playing my 2ndtier-ed out ashkandi wielding sword spec 31/20 warrior. Dreams! I knew then how serious my addiction was, and I've quit real gaming altogether.

 

[Luthien]

Yep, it is hard to quit. It has been over four months since I quit and until I sell off my character I will be in danger of going back. The amount of time invested in my one character is like 130 days played so in hours played that would be 3120 hours! CRAZY!!!
As I said in other posts it's the psychological aspect of helping your guild and abandoning them when you quit that makes it so hard. Your basically saying goodbye to a lot of people you spent a lot of time with online.

 

[Bateluer]

Blizzard has really lost their edge.

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Blizzard has really lost their edge.

Do you ever not crap in a thread about Sony's competition? Go make love to your ps3 and dream of writing rootkits when you grow up. Shoo~

 

[rh71]

I quit MUD (text MMORPG) after college and it wasn't by choice - it simply went away as it was run by some college kids somewhere in Iowa. After 2 years of not MUDding at all, I was still missing it.

WoW is the perfect resolution... and it isn't going away anytime soon. Me = happy.

 

[Sylvanas]

Been clean for 4 days....It's a start

 

[Tequila]

If you think locks are bad you should see what they did to hunters in 2.01. Twinked hunters especially in the < 50 brackets are just sickening killing machines. They can lay traps in combat without FDing now and arcane shot hits for a ton.

I still have fun however. Maybe because I have a hunter alt but it's more than that . If you don't take the game too seriously, load up on a few beers then PvP is one hell of a good time despite the imbalances.

BF2 and WoW are the only games that keep my interests nowadays.

 

[skace]

Immune to the addiction. I quit for a year but I'll be back and playing Burning Crusade because it is new content. People usually have to drag me back to the game kicking and screaming.

 

[Aikouka]

I took a sip last night!

Logged in to talk to someone who I was chatting with on the forums and then later to give someone some runecloth (since my one character has around 600). I was dancin' with the devil and he is one hell of a partner!

I said it in another thread (I think) and I still stand by it that hunters shouldn't have all received the ability to lay traps while in combat. If anything, either

a) Make scatter shot immediately leave combat or make an improved scatter shot (1 point) to let you leave combat immediately. I think the prior might be the best.

b) Make the ability to lay traps in combat a talent in Survival. Maybe they could even sweeten the pot by providing another talent to lower the cast time while in combat?

It's definitely a problem with game design when a class can DoT you and run around like little school girl sissies until you die. The only classes that stand a chance against any of these are Paladins, Priests and Druids (mostly the first two as they can remove almost every Warlock DoT... albeit Unstable Affliction may not be something you want to remove). I know some people complain about rogues and them being highly overpowered, and you really only see that in well-geared rogues and who's complaining? Undergeared players. I actually saw a Warlock complaining in AV about rogues. I just said, "A warlock is complaining about another class being overpowered?"

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Tequila
If you think locks are bad you should see what they did to hunters in 2.01. Twinked hunters especially in the < 50 brackets are just sickening killing machines. They can lay traps in combat without FDing now and arcane shot hits for a ton.

I can attest to this... as a clothie lock I get 2-shotted by hunters who sit way back in the crowd. The only thing I can do is run like a b!tch, but I hardly have the time to even turn the other direction... or I can get into their dead zone first while they prey on my fellow clothies instead.

Giving the hunters the GM bows was just insult to injury.

Funny my rogue stalks hunters first too... nerf hunters.

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I just said, "A warlock is complaining about another class being overpowered?"

haha, but I do it in good fun... my lock is an alt and I only started it to wreak havoc. I do a /lol as they die but it's only because I know it's so ridiculous that most classes can't do anything about it.

If you think about it - when it comes down to the dot-and-run game... what alternative do locks have ? Even mages have blazing speed/frost nova/blink to get away. We have fear but it's just as bad - take your pick - either you run or they run. Locks aren't going to just stand there and take it. (wishful thinking coming from a rogue main).

 

[crystal]

Quit for about 6 month around June last year. Just started again because of the BC. The toon I am lvl right now is the 49 lock. I doubt I will be able to get him to 60 before BC hits lives next week since I only able to play him on the weekend (3-4 hrs per day if that much). After BC goes lives, I will play with my hunter.

hunter 60 - my main for BC
paladin 60 - collecting dust
rogue 60 - collecting dust
warrior 60 - maybe - likely very little
priest 60 - maybe
mage 60 - water making for my hunter (and priest if I decided to play him)
warlock 49 - only play him if he got rest bonus, hehe.
druids 34 - the thought of grind him to 60 make me

My toons don't have anything powerful. Mostly blue drops from UBRS and down + some easy pieces from 0.5 set.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: crystal
Quit for about 6 month around June last year. Just started again because of the BC. The toon I am lvl right now is the 49 lock. I doubt I will be able to get him to 60 before BC hits lives next week since I only able to play him on the weekend (3-4 hrs per day if that much). After BC goes lives, I will play with my hunter.

hunter 60 - my main for BC
paladin 60 - collecting dust
rogue 60 - collecting dust
warrior 60 - maybe - likely very little
priest 60 - maybe
mage 60 - water making for my hunter (and priest if I decided to play him)
warlock 49 - only play him if he got rest bonus, hehe.
druids 34 - the thought of grind him to 60 make me

My toons don't have anything powerful. Mostly blue drops from UBRS and down + some easy pieces from 0.5 set.

damn...6 60s...i don't even want to think of how much time you spent on that game or how you even managed to stay interested that long. i had 1 60, and one high 30s and a few low 20s or lower alts. i couldn't play through again because it was so boring.

 

[BZeto]

The only thing that ever brings me back is chatting on vent or in game with old guildies/friends. It's all about community to me now, the content and actual gameplay is stale. Maybe BC will change that.

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: crystal
Quit for about 6 month around June last year. Just started again because of the BC. The toon I am lvl right now is the 49 lock. I doubt I will be able to get him to 60 before BC hits lives next week since I only able to play him on the weekend (3-4 hrs per day if that much). After BC goes lives, I will play with my hunter.

hunter 60 - my main for BC
paladin 60 - collecting dust
rogue 60 - collecting dust
warrior 60 - maybe - likely very little
priest 60 - maybe
mage 60 - water making for my hunter (and priest if I decided to play him)
warlock 49 - only play him if he got rest bonus, hehe.
druids 34 - the thought of grind him to 60 make me

My toons don't have anything powerful. Mostly blue drops from UBRS and down + some easy pieces from 0.5 set.

damn...6 60s...i don't even want to think of how much time you spent on that game or how you even managed to stay interested that long. i had 1 60, and one high 30s and a few low 20s or lower alts. i couldn't play through again because it was so boring.

Yeah, I was doing it like crazy awhile there. Rest bonus really help. After the first toon hit 60 (a paladin), you pretty know your quests route and what to do. Since I played with my brothers and they also got 60s toon, from Uldaman instance on down, we help each other cleared those quests in there pretty quickly. For ZF or sunken temple - 1 or 2 60s in the grp will make it a one time run rather than a major headache.
But for sure this time I will play much much less and only on the weekend. Kid in your lives will do that to you for some strange reasons.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: crystal
Yeah, I was doing it like crazy awhile there. Rest bonus really help. After the first toon hit 60 (a paladin), you pretty know your quests route and what to do. Since I played with my brothers and they also got 60s toon, from Uldaman instance on down, we help each other cleared those quests in there pretty quickly. For ZF or sunken temple - 1 or 2 60s in the grp will make it a one time run rather than a major headache.
But for sure this time I will play much much less and only on the weekend. Kid in your lives will do that to you for some strange reasons.

I thought about leveling more than my 4, but I eventually got so burned out from playing after work (say 5-11) to get a level (level a day was a pretty easy guarantee) and I always did the same thing, since it works fairly well for playing alone.

But I'm in a bit of a conundrum... I have an alt rogue and a main rogue. I originally made the alt as he'd serve as a PVP rogue where my main was strictly PVE (17/34/0). Then I switched to daggers to change things up a bit and now that ruins the need for my alt rogue. The only thing is, my alt rogue is also my alchemist and I think he knows just about every single recipe up to level 225 (he's only 32). My plan was to originally get him to 35 and get Alchemy up to 300 (not a hard task, I have a ton of high level herbs and my mage is a 300 herbalist), but now I'll have to level up even higher after TBC comes out, or I'll be stuck at 300. Should I just "cut my losses" and make my main rogue into an alchemist (currently 300 leatherworking and ~60 (dis)enchanting) since they changed disenchanting with the last patch? My alt mage was also supposed to be an alchemist, but I dropped it to pick up Tailoring for the Robe of Power.

Current 60's are:

Rogue: Leatherworking (Elemental) 300, Enchanting ~60
Priest: Tailoring 300, Enchanting 300
Warrior: Engineering 300, Mining 300
Mage: Herbalism 300, Tailoring ~190

 

[crystal]

Originally posted by: Aikouka

Originally posted by: crystal
Yeah, I was doing it like crazy awhile there. Rest bonus really help. After the first toon hit 60 (a paladin), you pretty know your quests route and what to do. Since I played with my brothers and they also got 60s toon, from Uldaman instance on down, we help each other cleared those quests in there pretty quickly. For ZF or sunken temple - 1 or 2 60s in the grp will make it a one time run rather than a major headache.
But for sure this time I will play much much less and only on the weekend. Kid in your lives will do that to you for some strange reasons.

I thought about leveling more than my 4, but I eventually got so burned out from playing after work (say 5-11) to get a level (level a day was a pretty easy guarantee) and I always did the same thing, since it works fairly well for playing alone.

But I'm in a bit of a conundrum... I have an alt rogue and a main rogue. I originally made the alt as he'd serve as a PVP rogue where my main was strictly PVE (17/34/0). Then I switched to daggers to change things up a bit and now that ruins the need for my alt rogue. The only thing is, my alt rogue is also my alchemist and I think he knows just about every single recipe up to level 225 (he's only 32). My plan was to originally get him to 35 and get Alchemy up to 300 (not a hard task, I have a ton of high level herbs and my mage is a 300 herbalist), but now I'll have to level up even higher after TBC comes out, or I'll be stuck at 300. Should I just "cut my losses" and make my main rogue into an alchemist (currently 300 leatherworking and ~60 (dis)enchanting) since they changed disenchanting with the last patch? My alt mage was also supposed to be an alchemist, but I dropped it to pick up Tailoring for the Robe of Power.

Current 60's are:

Rogue: Leatherworking (Elemental) 300, Enchanting ~60
Priest: Tailoring 300, Enchanting 300
Warrior: Engineering 300, Mining 300
Mage: Herbalism 300, Tailoring ~190

Since your priest already Ench. at 300. You don't need another enchanter - just make your 60 rogue into Alchemist.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: crystal
Since your priest already Ench. at 300. You don't need another enchanter - just make your 60 rogue into Alchemist.

My rogue was actually a pretty good disenchanter back before they changed it. For example, Small Radiant Shards always went for 4-5g a pop and the easiest place to get them? Herod in the Scarlet Monastary. Everything he drops will shard into one. My rogue simply stealthed in, killed him, left and reset. Just rinse and repeat . Unfortunately, Blizzard changed it, so I probably will do that. I'll also need to find someone to be a Jewelcrafter... maybe my mage? Or switched those and have the mage be a pure herbalist-alchemist combination.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Haven't touched the game since October.
I had 3 toons that were MC geared or better (with my druid wearing pretty much all BWL/AQ40 gear).

Best fun I ever had in WoW: all druid ZG raid ... I switched between Tanking and DPS .. Actually had the second best DPS and the Second best Tank gear out of all 18 druids that showwed up ... Since then I'd even gotten some more tanking gear. My druid was way better than my tier 1 warrior, and I had more hitpoints that the guilds full tier 2 warrior (though thanks to block/parry ... he took about 10% less damage in battle when he was MTing ...)

Ahh well ..
I played it way tooo much
Raiding got to be a drag

Waste of time
I quit that.

PS I quit smoking 2 weeks ago .. so far so good.