World of Warcraft: Current Year

Merrith said:

I was under the impression that most of their team expansion was to reduce the downtime in between content releases. I'm not likely to play DF, so can't comment on the actual amount of content at release, but I thought I remember them stating one of their big goals was to make the gaps between patches smaller.

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Yeah I remember them saying this is in 2013 too.


See you in 8 months for 10.1

What’s so cool about dragon riding that’s different than just flying in your mount?

Chris said:

Yeah I remember them saying this is in 2013 too.

Blizzard Wants Yearly World of Warcraft Expansions - IGN

Blizzard has confirmed it's not satisfied with the speed at which it's producing World of Warcraft expansions, and wants to speed up.

www.ign.com

See you in 8 months for 10.1

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I have no idea whether or not they will deliver on that idea, was just speculating on what the main reason for them expanding the team was. Rein in the campaign a bit, champ.

Falstaff said:

What’s so cool about dragon riding that’s different than just flying in your mount?

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What they think makes it so cool? It's really fast or something.

Merrith said:

I have no idea whether or not they will deliver on that idea, was just speculating on what the main reason for them expanding the team was. Rein in the campaign a bit, champ.

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They haven't expanded the team.

They lost a lot of people to other companies like Riot and lost more during the sex scandals.

The mass hiring was just replacing people.

When they did expand the team they had a noticable drop in the quality (Cataclysm) or couldn't manage them in a way that actually increased the content produced (Warlords).

Falstaff said:

What’s so cool about dragon riding that’s different than just flying in your mount?

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Nothing much, no one sane plays the xpac for dragonriding. It's pretty simple: WoW is no longer a traditional MMORPG. If you don't like the core activities (M+, raiding, rated pvp), there is little reason to buy this imo.

Razzes said:

Nothing much, no one sane plays the xpac for dragonriding. It's pretty simple: WoW is no longer a traditional MMORPG. If you don't like the core activities (M+, raiding, rated pvp), there is little reason to buy this imo.

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5 people on the last page alone said it was cool/neat/awesome so I’m asking why.

Because its really fast

I wouldn't say its fun or amazing, its alright. It IS better then old school flying, given its faster, its interactive and like someone said you can customize your mounts along the way. You also get it almost right away in the expac, instead of waiting for flying to unlock. Downside it does make the world feel much much smaller, you can zoom from one side to the other in time for a crate drop or even a rare sometimes. Also the daze landing talent I picked is fine sometimes , but a lot of times it just aggros neutral mobs when I drop to pick a flower. I still old man lazy and use flightpaths so I can move to other screen and do something else while it gets me somewhere.

I do wish that the gathering while mounted was something else. That its tied to knowledge now, which is a grind, annoys me atm. ON the flip side, if I do make it, its permanent. Since the old golem is basically useless now.

Now that the novelty has worn off, the fact that you can't hover/manoeuvre precisely with Dragon riding is really starting to piss me off. Never liked big flying mounts anyway, so I don't collect them, and only ever use the flying disc. In the minority, I guess. Great for zooming across the world, but for everything else, pass.

Especially on my Druid herbalist, I'd give up Dragon riding in a heartbeat if I could go back to instant flight form. (Still use the old model because I love how small it is)
I really hope they don't hold out for too long before re-enabling full standard flying capabilities this xpac. If they do, it could seriously lead me to another rage quit. =)

Argarth said:

Especially on my Druid herbalist, I'd give up Dragon riding in a heartbeat if I could go back to instant flight form. (Still use the old model because I love how small it is)
I really hope they don't hold out for too long before re-enabling full standard flying capabilities this xpac. If they do, it could seriously lead me to another rage quit. =)

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Get fucked Druid.

I’m enjoying it a lot. It’s very refreshing to not have a massive list of chores I have to do to get ready for the season. The only thing I have to do is clear all M0s, which is a one night affair. Otherwise, I can do whatever I want without missing out on something. There are tons of things you can do:
1. Professions, including flying around gathering, which is much more engaging with dragon flying;
2. Grind obsidian citadel for wrathion rep and marks, which sell for 3k per;
3. Fly around killing rares trying to get a few more ilevels;
4. Grind renown with the major factions and engage with the various systems that unlock with renown (this is a ton of content);
5. Do the weekly events: siege, feast, and the hunt;
6. Farm cobalt assembly for rep to unlock the proc rings;
7. Level and gear up alts;
8. Dailies, semi-weekly, and weekly quests;
9. Loremaster;
10. Farm for dragon appearance changes;
11. Dungeons; and
12. Dragon racing, especially the advanced courses. That was pretty fun and a challenge.

It’s shaping up to be the best xpack in a long time simply from not having multiple player power systems to deal with and grind.