Depends if you go Hard Core or not. If not its fine, but if going hard core there are other professions that make more sense, like potion crafting and others that actually help with survival. Especially with how the ruleset for that HC mod is set up basically making you solo self fund. On the new HC Blizzard servers im sure those rules wont exist as a "server rule" but who knows what self imposed rules the meta will set up on those servers. IMO the no trading stuff needs to go. I like economy and fucking with the economy and actually making some cash. IMO economy and trading is a big part of the game.
Many are saying that these Blizz HC servers are dead on arrival because the lag deaths and disconnect deaths will not be able to be appealed. You know they wont be, dead is dead and this will turn off many a people from doing HC on blizz servers. And I think they are right. Some of the bullshit lag deaths I have seen, shit I even posted one above, are pure bullshit (the dudes death was overturned the next day). And its not like getting a class to lv 30-50 is a cakewalk and trivial in classic. Takes many many hours of playtime and concentration not to die.
This is why games need a "vision" and stick to it kinda like EQ did back int he day. Problem with WoW was even from the beginning they were caving to all the people (mostly casual plebs) complaining. And this is what you get in the end, which is today an entirely 100% different game and a mediocre product. Shit, even during vanilla they started to "normalize" the shit out of everything different.
I don't mean to sound cliché here, but we had the alpha chads as the original developers and now the beta socialist's are the developers. The betas are the type that think if everyone has a Ferrari then everyone is having fun. They don't understand the journey and the rareness are what make things fun.
Well put, and its why I kept playing EQ for years being a casual and not even seeing one fucking raid in all that time. I always thought I would, someday.
It’s funny because even in these forums years ago I remember lamenting arena items saying they needed to add rating requirements (which they eventually did do) and was lambasted by nearly everyone. Our hearts are deceitful. Many times the very things we wish for are the things that destroy the game.
