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That's exactly my point - raiding for the purpose of having people masturbate over your T2 armor was stupid in the first place. Is this really what motivates people? If so, praise allah for my lucking into a place that raids because, oh I don't know, it's good fucking fun to beat bosses after...

I suppose it comes down to what you get out of the game. If I cared about my 'standing' amongst the general population in the game, what you describe might be important to me ... but what keeps me subbed is VERY simple and what I alluded to earlier - I very much enjoy beating tough raid...

Well grats, but I think you have completely forgotten. At some point I guess it stopped being fun? I gave you thereasonto progress and that's the fun and common sense of accomplishment you get from killing shit as a team. I'm guessing somewhere along the way, you lost that connection...

If MMOs were about witnessing pixelated death animations instead of the journey, you'd be right. But what I get out of progression and finally defeating a heroic Ragnaros or Lich King or Lei Shen has nothing to do with "seeing the fight". When I'm in Mumble reminiscing with 30 or so guildies...

Well I'd fucking expect it to be smooth as a baby's ass if their solution is keeping the vast majority of people from logging in. Not sure what's worse, EA's solution for Ilum in SWTOR (i.e. NONE - you can log in but pray you're not doing something that a lot of others want to be doing at the...

Haha. I have very low expectations in terms of infrastructure for every MMO release, but this game has defeated even that low bar. SWTOR, Rift, GW2 all had their issues, but at least they could meet the basic requirement of allowing my group of friends to roll on the same server at different...

I see chatter about people starting somewhere and then transferring later; is this based on some tidbit I missed about a pending service or is it based on assumptions? As decent as the actual game looks, everything on the periphery is hot garbage so I'm taking nothing for granted.

Sounds like a stressful way to game. Feel free to work yourself up to an aneurysm if you like, it's a pretty simple formula for me - as long as Blizzard doesn't cross the streams of pay-to-win and progression raiding (i.e. the reason I still play), I just don't care. They can add as many...

Given how old the game is and how marginalized the leveling component to it has become, I barely view this as news. I suppose an exception might be at xpac launch, but I doubt something like this would be available for the first X weeks anyway, which punts it back to who-gives-a-fuck territory.

That was basically my only fun in the game. Izual and Diablo were 20+ minute fights pre-RMAH as a S&B Barb. I lost interest pretty quickly after that. I came back for a bit, trying to get into farming with whatever was popular at the time (perma-WotB nado) but it just didn't have the same...

This is as foolish as a fanboy saying "It is and always will be". You're drooling all over yourself with hatred. It's embarrassing

Happens anyway. It'd be fun to see Paragon step up to 25 again to take a run at Method.

The giant hit box makes it pretty forgiving on melee as well. Your description is pretty accurate. Guilds who are killing it in normal mode aren't full of insanely skilled players. There are cues and patterns like any other boss. Once you get used to it, it's not that big a deal. It's...

In terms of server, I would recommend perusing highly active servers based on your preferred faction. While not perfect,Wowprogresswill give you a good indication of realms you should consider. This keeps your options open later in terms of looking for guilds or even participating in a more...

Well, they learned a harsh lesson via subs lost when they made entry level content even a little challenging. They're probably scared shitless of making missteps like the initial Garalon LFR encounter again. They've basically migrated that kind of play/experience to challenge modes...

So that article shits on "social game" designers for basically failing to capture the essence of what actually makes a fun game. One of the first comments is a good one: "There is one of the most simple game play elements missing in most Facebook games: being able to lose. Without being able...

Maybe not forever, but enough people have shit on the idea for them to reconsider. The actual tweet: Greg Street ?@Ghostcrawler @Dristereau ATM, we are planning on no upgrading during 5.2. Too early to evaluate how well it worked. I'm sure it will need tweaking.

'Progression' raiding is essentially the only reason I remain subbed to the game. It's the one area of content that is done exceedingly well IMO. I suppose I live in a bubble with respect to community and the typical 'guild experience. I've been in the same place for ~3 years and, by some...

The only acceptable answer to 'streamlined' character models to me would have been performance related. Apparently that wasn't even on their radar, which explains A LOT about my post-launch experience and how shitty the engine/responsiveness was.

So they're extremely good at maximizing their subs because they're great at... tricking people? Lulling people into an addicted state? Man, I want to learn the art of making a shitty game that makes me rich via smoke and mirrors.

The synching is a big performance hit, especially in a 25 man setting. I suppose I'd value it more if WoL live logging wasn't so ubiquitous. As for tainting the UI, there are a few addons that fuck up your glyph/talent respecs, but a quick /rl fixes that so I've learned to ignore it.

http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/skada Lightweight compared to Recount.

Depends on your stage of gearing, but PvP gear was rebalanced such that PvP-specific stats no longer count towards the item level budget. So while you don't get anything other than PvP gear, it's very useful for PvE if you don't have good alternatives for that slot. Considering how easy it...

The two most cited resources from our apps seem to be: - The official recruitment forum -http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/1011639/ - Wowprogress -http://www.wowprogress.com/

Were you burned out by DS (which was shit) and Firelands (which only Rag saved)? If so, I can appreciate the hesitation. Spronk accurately describes LFR, but if you're thinking of doing normal/heroic, I think it's well worth it. It's been a good tier and the next one looks promising (12...

Really fun class IMO, nice variability in playstyles between the 3 specs if your interest is damage dealing. Only shitty thing is not having access to short queues; make friends with a tank or healer to fix that if you care (I tend to just quest between queues). People are pretty chill while...

Not sure about next tier, but Fire then Arcane have been top specs since we began the tier over 2 months ago. We have 1 heroic boss left and our 3 Mages have consistently wrecked the meters all the way through. At least in my experience, Fire and/or Arcane have been strong over the past 2-3...

Aside from the phasing issues, you're just missing lore. They've embedded a lot of the 'storytelling' into the questing, especially in Pandaria. Choosing talents for each of your six tiers is more of a situational decision thing now. There are still some 'obvious' choices that people...

Well, fuck Blizzard in the ass for doing something crazy like appealing to a ridiculously positive market response to an idea. Here's a thought -- marketing gifts from god can easily be fucked up via poor implementation and game design. You need look no further than the TWO failed Star Wars...

Prot is pretty ridiculous at soloing stuff, Second Wind alone can carry you. The raiding has been fantastic as well, which is a big relief after the shitfest that was DS. We've been through 12/16 of the bosses on heroic and there's been a great mix of difficulty. Sha of Fear looks legitimately...

Can't dispute that the trial was handled in a retarded fashion, especially given all of the best systems are at max (love Brawler's Guild and Challenge Modes in particular), whereas in Cata at least you had the revamped leveling zones. Had friends in the same boat.

This fatty is playing the halftime show at the Bills vs. Seahawks game in Toronto soon. He's fucking everywhere.