WoW Ascension (Classless Realm)

Sylas said:

i'm playing this exclusively, got my feral druid i've prestiged and back at 60 and leveling a shaman tank right now.

i've seen a few new quests that they put in but it's not enough to be noticable. This is mostly an explore all the new things, figure out the puzzles for these enchants. Basically this is a SOD like experience more so than a classic+ experience.

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What are you doing other than leveling other characters to 60 though?

? playing the game? What am i doing other than playing the game? I don't even know how to answer this question.

If you are asking what i'm doing in the game, as I've said before many times i'm spending most of my time exploring the world and finding all the neat little things they added, enchants, world forge stuff, etc. i leveled to 60, prestiged, leveled to 60 again, and now i'm playing a different class.

until like this last week, there wasn't enough people playing to really do anything else. I never played much on A52 so I never unlocked any of the raids so those flags didn't transfer over with the vanity xfer

Yes. But if you're just leveling to 60 and dicking around this communicates that there isn't lasting appeal. As you can dick around and level to 60 anywhere.

All of the new features Bronzebeard is providing have to do with its reforging and difficulty levels in fiveman and such.

i'm not sure if you are retarded or i am for not understanding what you are saying.

A) Theres not enough players to do anything other than solo activity. it is a payed alpha and there are other free options out there.
B) This, in of itself, has nothing to do with the longevity of the server, which is focused almost exclusively on solo exploration and rpg stuff
C) All of the stuff that you incorrectly seem to think are bronzebeard features, are just ascension features that are available on every ascension server. I guess you can say the ascended reworked legacy raids are BB specific but all the servers have the mythic++ ascension shit that isn't exclusive to this server.
D) This server is more about getting rid of ascension stuff, like it got rid of manastorm. i'm hoping it gets rid of RDF as well and just puts in a LFG tool, running random dungeons only to the first boss is gay as shit, but the population has not really been enough to support forming specific dungeon groups and traveling to the dungeon directly.

The lack of players more indicates lack of broad appeal for a SOD like server, rather than lack of longevity. but since it's a paid alpha private server it's really hard to judge. there seems to be a fuck ton of new players within the last week or so.

Also I guess I understand your viewpoint because BB does have a lot of raid options with the scaling 10-25 and the mythic and ascended raids but tbh that has not been the focus of testing thus far (only MC and ony out) and also, it certainly hasn't been my focus while playing.

i'm on my 3rd run through hitting zones I didn't hit the first 2 times and i'll still not see everything. I also haven't even touched horde side yet. There is a metric fuckton of "wow thats cool/interesting/rewarding for exploration" content that i'm doing because by the time this actually launches all of that shit will be compiled somewhere on some website and there won't be any wonder or amazement left ppl will just follow leveling guides and only venture off the beaten path for must have world items

when it launches I can raid log all day every week and do that content then, i'm not concerned about it now at all.

Almost everyone playing is just enjoying the leveling experience. One of the most popular game mode challenges is adventure mode, people are turning this into everquest. it makes every single mob an elite and basically forces you to group or hero-mode solo to your dying breath for every scrap of experience.

Sylas said:

i'm not sure if you are retarded or i am for not understanding what you are saying.

A) Theres not enough players to do anything other than solo activity. it is a payed alpha and there are other free options out there.
B) This, in of itself, has nothing to do with the longevity of the server, which is focused almost exclusively on solo exploration and rpg stuff
C) All of the stuff that you incorrectly seem to think are bronzebeard features, are just ascension features that are available on every ascension server. I guess you can say the ascended reworked legacy raids are BB specific but all the servers have the mythic++ ascension shit that isn't exclusive to this server.
D) This server is more about getting rid of ascension stuff, like it got rid of manastorm. i'm hoping it gets rid of RDF as well and just puts in a LFG tool, running random dungeons only to the first boss is gay as shit, but the population has not really been enough to support forming specific dungeon groups and traveling to the dungeon directly.

The lack of players more indicates lack of broad appeal for a SOD like server, rather than lack of longevity. but since it's a paid alpha private server it's really hard to judge. there seems to be a fuck ton of new players within the last week or so.

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I am definitely a retard so bear with me.

I will muscle through to 60 here soon enough. I guess my primary thing here is that up to level 20 on Alliance I have not really noticed any new quests or experiences per se. I have tried their hardcore challenges on COA a little and I do like the adventure mode. I am just not doing it right now. I do like finding enchants and all of that additional character building. That is awesome. I have only found a few and they are not for Shaman but I think that whole system is great. Something that is also awesome on the Ascension Live modes.

I like that they redid crafting and the upgrade system is a good way to spend mats rather than making things you just vendor. On the flipside of that gear rains from the sky so while the flavor of it is very good its impractical. If launch Bronzebeard retains the ascension items and their current rates I see this as systems that will simply be ignored. Because there is too much pinata going on to make use of them.

I appreciate their end game difficulties. I really do. For me the heart of Classic WoW is really the leveling experience and the slow(er) grind to certain goals. Like epic mounts, faction rewards, rare crafting recipes, some degree of rarity in the world for this or that. RDF, Manastorm, and the like all take away from that. Their general hardcore challenges like do this elite quest before level 24, Artisan mode, Ironman, and so on all add to the classic experience.

I don't truly mind the prestige items and I will happily pay for gigantic bag space the second I start a character because f that noise. The inventory management boss is the one I hate the most. Even though it is a kind of progression.

I think bronzebeard absorbed all the epoch players who couldn't get in to that shit show, pop is like 3k a night now chat is popping off.

Every 30 seconds someone asks why they can't equip heirlooms and what prestige level means

I am going to play a lot this weekend. My Shaman is level 20. Should be fun.

Sylas said:

I think bronzebeard absorbed all the epoch players who couldn't get in to that shit show, pop is like 3k a night now chat is popping off.

Every 30 seconds someone asks why they can't equip heirlooms and what prestige level means

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Been playing on Area 52 a ton with some RL friends/family and been having a blast. Might check out Bronzebeard to see whats up.

Shaman tank fucking trucks. Seemed aight up to about 30 but once I got lava sweep it took off, 35 I got sundering artifact enchant, I got windfury totem, etc.

I don't think they are particularly that good at tanking, at least not mid 30s (don't yet have all the tanking/shield talents). I ran a few dungeons yesterday and my health was yoyoing like crazy, and I've heard they are rough in raids (relegated to off tank mostly)

But my damage and ability to just solo shit is off the charts. I was #2-3 on dps in dungeons grouped with a bunch of 55-60s at 35 (to be fair i don't know how dmg numbers are normalized in groups or how details handles it) but i am soloing group quests, rare named elites, etc. Normal mobs i don't have to peel off stragglers i can just run into the middle of camps like 6-8 normals leeroy jenkins style np.

This is with the tank buff that gives a flat -25% melee dps debuff/+5% tank buff. Really the reason you use that tank buff at all is it changes primal strike into an aoe/mana refiller. Combined with lava lash becoming an aoe with the Lego enchant, add in fire nova, you can just run in and aoe the fuck out of everything and never run out of mana.

I chuckled on Area 52 whenever someone buys the compendium to allow travel to Northrend it spams the server with "BOW BEFORE YOUR KING" from the Lich King lines.

Lol, the entire chat is just BAU BAO BAU BAO BAO.

sadris said:

Rexxar > Bronzebeard !

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Which classes do you like?

sadris said:

I've played those listed below as tank. If nothing else changes, I would play Templar on release. It has the best mobility and survivability and utility spells. I really wanted to like Starcaller from a lore perspective but it has shit mobility. Reaper takes way too much damage, but if you wanted to DPS and PVP, its amazing. Guardian is buggy and you can get stuck in combat forever, but otherwise its better than Reaper.

Starcaller
Templar
Reaper
Guardian

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I thought Reaper and the Blood Mage were cool so far. I also liked the demon / hell knight one.