World of Warcraft: Current Year

Neranja

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Unless someone I know is playing, yes. Way to old and tired to be finding new WoW friends/guildies to tryhard raids/M+.
I'm not judging, just curious. Season 3 is just more of the same. If you are not into grinding delves you might as well not subscribe. The story jumped the shark expansions ago, and the writers don't know how to write a likable character even if their life depended on it. The once fabled cinematic team seems to have been gutted as well, especially facial animations. If you want to have a look, wait for Season 4.

This is just my opinion, but WoW is in a steady decline right now. Frankly, Microsoft leadership has no clue what to do with the game, and Blizzard leadership has been lackluster since the original devs left.

The worst part about all this are the broken promises:
"You will see if an item is an upgrade" - Nope, you still have to Sim your character.
"Damage profiles will be less spiky, we'll increase health pools" - Nope, the encounter team decided to ramp up damage as well. Now there are less outright one-shot mechanics, but hard ticking DoTs if you fuck up, so healers will get blamed even more now when they can't outheal the stupid.

One very enlightening video was the discussion Lying Max and Dratnor had with Ion, where Dratnor said shit like "When I decided on a new main, and had to read up all these things about the gearing and optimal rotation", and a few weeks later Blizzard is parading "One Button Rotation" as this big success--because the dps rotations got too complicated.
 
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Cynical

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I'm not judging, just curious. Season 3 is just more of the same. If you are not into grinding delves you might as well not subscribe. The story jumped the shark expansions ago, and the writers don't know how to write a likable character even if their life depended on it. The once fabled cinematic team seems to have been gutted as well, especially facial animations. If you want to have a look, wait for Season 4.

This is just my opinion, but WoW is in a steady decline right now. Frankly, Microsoft leadership has no clue what to do with the game, and Blizzard leadership has been lackluster since the original devs left.

The worst part about all this are the broken promises:
"You will see if an item is an upgrade" - Nope, you still have to Sim your character.
"Damage profiles will be less spiky, we'll increase health pools" - Nope, the encounter team decided to ramp up damage as well. Now there are less outright one-shot mechanics, but hard ticking DoTs if you fuck up, so healers will get blamed even more now when they can't outheal the stupid.

One very enlightening video was the discussion Lying Max and Dratnor had with Ion, where Dratnor said shit like "When I decided on a new main, and had to read up all these things about the gearing and optimal rotation", and a few weeks later Blizzard is parading "One Button Rotation" as this big success--because the dps rotations got too complicated.
I'm just a miserable cunt, don't worry about it.

This game is like an old ex. I don't give a shit about it's feelings and problems, I just want to ride it till I'm bored, then dip out.

It's still F2PI still have almost 200k gold left lol

 

Juvarisx

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If you just want to solo and enjoy a story IDK why this would be chosen over FF14 frankly. Even Dawntrail got back on track with post expansion patches from what I gather.
 
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Juvarisx

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Free.

These tariffs bruh.

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Cynical

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Have an account, haven't played for a few years, updating the expansions usually what makes me go "nah" I tried playing again this spring, but they kept rejecting my CC, even tried the wifes, no dice.

The players in that game creeped me the fuck out, not gonna lie. Maybe I had a bad server lol
 

Juvarisx

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Have an account, haven't played for a few years, updating the expansions usually what makes me go "nah" I tried playing again this spring, but they kept rejecting my CC, even tried the wifes, no dice.

The players in that game creeped me the fuck out, not gonna lie. Maybe I had a bad server lol

If its a monthly sub thats the problem and its been that long, just create a trial account and create on Gilgamesh (there is a FoH guild on there IDK if its active atm). You dont need a CC to create a trial account. There is at least 200 hours of MSQ content alone + raids, dungeons, trials, 25 mans etc all accessible via group finder that is puggable.

Honestly last time i played I dont even remember talking to people outside the guild even during dungeons.
 
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Cynical

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If its a monthly sub thats the problem and its been that long, just create a trial account and create on Gilgamesh (there is a FoH guild on there IDK if its active atm). You dont need a CC to create a trial account. There is at least 200 hours of MSQ content alone + raids, dungeons, trials, 25 mans etc all accessible via group finder that is puggable.

Honestly last time i played I dont even remember talking to people outside the guild even during dungeons.
Honestly FF just didn't occur to me this time, saw a new season was out, and figured why not. Dune is what I want to be playing right now, but knocking out some server issues, and I grabbed some new RAM & new SSD to get a little boost to performance, just gotta go pick it up.

The payment thing was apparently an issue on their end, and was affecting a bunch of people at the time. Just bad timing.
 
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Leon

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I've had two DVTs (ironically not from gaming sessions...) so I ended up getting a standing desk and a walking pad underneath. I just walk through all my EQ raids, now, and even if I'm just having a regular night and I don't want to sit anymore, can just pop the desk up and stand for a while. Might be worth a shot for you.