[PC Game] World of Warcraft: Catch All Thread
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... and I think I may have spoken too soon. Tried a blood elf warlock today. Just spent like 10 hours in Ghostlands because it's FULL of shit to do and none of it was fun. BC content at it's finest.
Well this one's more about the races getting makeovers so they don't look like something out of a PS1 game anymore. Also, they're doing a "stat squish" in order to keep items/stats from continuing into ridiculous numbers (you could easily get well over 20k of a stat and some classes were hitting in millions of damage on rare occasion). There's a lot being revamped from a tech standpoint, so I can see why a new class/race isn't on the docket this time around.
That's not really a part of the expansion, though. It's modernizing the game because the older models and stat systems are really showing their age, but that would happen regardless, and players would experience it whether they bought the expansion or not. It just seems odd that there's nothing super enticing about this expansion to draw in players other than end game content, whereas every expansion prior had new stuff at multiple levels, and convinced players to make new characters with the new races/classes.
I think the issue is that the race options are dwindling. The Horde can always get Ogres, but short of making something up for the expansion, what would you give Alliance? Maybe doing humanoid dragons for both sides instead?
As for class, what would you suggest?
Honestly... I always wanted to play Naga, but I don't think it's going to happen any more than Murlocks would.
Kobolds!
YOU NO TAKE CANDLE![DOUBLEPOST=1410322052,1410321885][/DOUBLEPOST]For serious though, don't you think it's about time that the gnomes take back Gnomeregan. Just flush that instance down the toilet where it belongs. If achievement folks will get bent out of shape about it, just get rid of the achievements related to that dungeon altogether. EVERYONE hates Gnomeregan. On the Horde side, there's no reason they couldn't build up the new troll starting area into an actual city.
Graphic enhancements have been xpac content before, like in EverQuest 1. I think the major "hey look" of this xpac is getting to experience things in old Draenor, around characters that we've never really gotten to interact with before from other WC titles. It might not draw in a lot of new blood, but it has a shot at pulling back veterans.
Garrisons are probably the biggest non-endgame addition, though they do serve as a hub for endgame activities too(dailies and whatnot).
Well... the major character enhancement update for EQ was Shadows of Lucelin which introduced the Vah Shir (cat race) and the Beastlord class.
Make something up? They'd NEVER do that *cough*draenei*cough*
Ah, that's true, I forgot about them. Haven't played EQ1 since the days of forwarding phone calls and asking permission to get on the internet.
To be fair, since the beginning of MoP that is what they have been doing with races anyways. Pandaren for instance don't require you to own MoP, nor do Worgen/Goblin require Cata anymore. The only thing they have kept expansion exclusive is the new continents, quests, and classes.
Really, the big thing taking away the new race is the character models, since they want to replace nearly all of them before release (BE is the only one that didn't make it), while the big thing preventing a new class is Garrisons, which are pretty involved once you try them out.
The new troll models are pretty fab though, I am in love with the new female.
I'd love to play more of this but I'm getting weird latency problems all of the sudden. Over the last two days, I'll just get cut off from the Blizzard servers, but everything else net wise is fine.
I had that happen the first day I started playing again, and was wondering if Blizzard had really let their servers go.
Then I read that they were getting massively DDOSed that day. Haven't had a problem since.
It's only been the last two days. Any other time it's been fine. But since everything recent of theirs requires direct interaction with their servers (so no Hearthstone or Diablo 3 ether), I kind of just threw up my hands with it today.
Well... you have two options then. Other than not re-subing.
- Make new characters on a new server
- Transfer to a new server
Give me Hellfire, Bladesfist, and Shadow Moon Valley any day over Nagrand. I hated Tekkrodar (sp?) the most though. The whole zone feels like a Halo rip off. Couldn't get into Zanger Marsh either (Avatar wannabe).
I always hated Shat too. In fact, Im not at all a fan of the artwork and design associated with the Drenai.
Logged in today to find 120 gold worth of auction house emails, from my little run up the river between Durotar and the Barrens to increase my fishing skill. Nice
I don't know why, but I always liked Zangarmarsh.
Yeah, I'm kinda regretting that pre-purchase too. I haven't even played my boosted 90 character.The more I think about it, the more I just hate the concept of WoD entirely. I hate the time travel, I hate that it basically says lore lol. I dunno, we'll see. I already prepurchased it, so no going back now
I haven't even boosted a character yet. I'm saving for when I really really want to do it. My characters are either mid level or high level for the most part, so I'd rather grind from 88 to 90 on characters than waste a boost on them. All my low level heroes are classes I'm not that familiar with so I feel like I would suck on toast with them if I just boosted them right up to 90.