That WoW Topic.

[Cadmas]

I noticed there was a mmo thread (thats kind of dead now), but not a purely wow thread.
I know there are a few wow players here even if they don't want to admit it.

I've played a private server known as World of Chris since patch 2.1.0 (Black Temple).
Now I'm playing retail a little on Nathrezim.

Here is my sub-par Death Knight.

I need to re-spec. 

[Mounting Jaggis]

Dwarf pally here. I had to shave his beard because the tabard wasn't visible, I'm thinking of giving him his old beard back.

I hate private servers, there's way to many glitches.

[Easy Mode]

I'm still trying to get used to WoW.

Night Elf Druid because dad said to.

[Solais]

Due to the fact that I don't have money, I only play on a Private Server. It's buggy, yes, but they try to be the best, working all-day. Due to this, there are things what we get a "little" late. Like we just got Northrend this January.

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Shaman for heals/DPS and DK for tankin' over here.

But I don't play.  I stopped playing.  I'll never play again I swear.

[Bananamatic]

I'll never play again I swear.

Just looking at the items, it seems addictive as hell.
I already wasted several years on MMOs, so I swore to not touch one again :V

[Solais]

A Hungarian one. But it's better this way, almost all quests work, and they are implementing the instances now. It takes time, but it's kinda known as the "Most Bugless Private Server", so. But there are still bugs, of course.

[Barrakketh]

Shaman for heals/DPS and DK for tankin' over here.

But I don't play.  I stopped playing.  I'll never play again I swear.

I almost came back to play again around WoTLK's release on an impulse, but seeing as how I didn't play for the entirety of TBC and (at least at the time) I would have had to buy both expansions to play I decided to give it a pass.  Used to play Warlock (from shortly after release as I managed to get my two months after it came out) and Priest.

Man, it was horrible...considering how long EverQuest was out (I played for 5 1/2 years, primarily as a Necromancer) Blizzard managed to make practically every mistake Sony did with regards to DoTs and raiding.  It took Blizz forever to fix it, too.

[Cadmas]

Impressive


Not surprising Human is most played race. Most people don't want to be freaks and furries.

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Impressive

Got a less tiny version of that?

[Cadmas]

Got a less tiny version of that?

Its already been edited before you posted.

Photobucket doesn't seem to like large images. What a Croc.

[Barrakketh]

Its already been edited before you posted.

Photobucket doesn't seem to like large images. What a Croc.

By file size or resolution for free accounts depending on what you set.  1 MB is the max file size for free accounts.  If you have a "Pro" account it's 20 MB.

[Ghaleon]

I've played wow for about 4 years, stopped just last month. I still think the game is good, it didn't take over my life, none of that jazz. I just enjoyed playing touhou and other doujin games more, and I didn't like letting my guild down by showing up to raids taking gear or whatever only to play Touhou instead every time I got the chance to...and I didn't wanna pay the monthly subscription just for the occasional 5man or whatever.

[orinrin]

I stopped playing WoW during the peak of TBC expansion.  Hit 70 and everything pretty much rolled downhill from there.

Then I discovered EVE Online.  The best MMO to date IMO.  Its too bad I couldn't afford a good clone when I died so I didn't need to spend another entire freaking month relearning half my skills again.  (WoW needs a serious death penalty  :V )

Taking a nice break from games so I can focus on academics ATM.

[Widermelonz]

I rolled a Tauren Warrior when I used to play. They were so good at first, but they kept on nerfing warriors with every damn patch that came out. I switched to a blood elf rogue when TBC came out, but then I got tired of leveling that character and eventually stopped. It was fun while it lasted, but I have no intention of ever going back.

[Easy Mode]

blood elf

Why.

[Barrakketh]

Why.

The starting zone was nice?

I dunno, I ran my druid alt over there at level 1 with an addon that automatically tracks quests (and tells you where you should go) so the whole leveling process was fairly optimized.  I think I hit level 20 or so in under a day, which is good because if you're an orc or tauren the newbie zones have too much walking (oh god The Barrens) and shitty old equipment (yay, as a rogue I could really use that sword with...spirit and intelligence).

[Cadmas]

Nobody wants to do Omen on my server. Its the only thing I need to do to get the elder title.

[Helix ⑨]

I played for 4 years, stopped last summer.
I hope I will never start again, the system is just stupid. It's either join a good guild or don't count. PvP is horrible so that's not an option. And being in a guild basically means you have give up like 4 nights a week to raid, altough the time consumed seems to have slimmed with WotLK

[Cadmas]

altough the time consumed seems to have slimmed with WotLK

Now you just queue for random dungeon and get badges to buy tier or season sets.
I could get full t9 in less than a week if I really played a lot.

[Nobu]

Here was my main, Sierra back when I played regularly. I stopped playing in March because I couldn't keep up with my ball-and-chain obligations in my raiding guild anymore. (That and I was already pre-Ulduar geared out.)

I was thinking of starting to play again someday, maybe once I have some extra free time to burn (yeah, like that's happening anytime soon :V) Maybe when cataclysm comes out.

[Ghaleon]

Now you just queue for random dungeon and get badges to buy tier or season sets.
I could get full t9 in less than a week if I really played a lot.

I hate it when people qq about how easy it is to get good gear now days, they think it makes raiding less rewarding. Fact is, the level of difference between good raid gear and badge gear is still quite large. The item level may be the same as recent entry level raiding, but it's never close to hard modes or heroic difficulty gear, and those are never purchasable via badges without some kind of component you coudln't get without doing hardmode/heroic in the first place.

Personally I think wow is really improving, I just don't want to play that over other games anymore atm >=(. Wish I could fool around single-player offline from time to time, that way I could check out what's new without really getting committed with my guild again >=P.

[Cadmas]

Indeed its better than doing 40 man raids for a week to get blue items like back in per-BC.

Which everyone seems to defend to the death is the Best version of WoW.

[Nobu]

Fact is, the level of difference between good raid gear and badge gear is still quite large.

Don't forget the level of difference between good raiders and bad raiders. :V I've seen toons geared to the teeth, but couldn't raid their way out of a paper bag.



On a side note, is anyone surprised that I used to be a healer? \o/

[Ghaleon]

Indeed its better than doing 40 man raids for a week to get blue items like back in per-BC.

Which everyone seems to defend to the death is the Best version of WoW.

Lol yeah. My guildies would always whine and qq about how it's dumb how easy it is to get good gear now...The same guildies who would qq about how they can't get enough dkp for what they wanted pre-bc. Our guild dkp rules gave absolutely no preferential treatment to anybody, including the guild leader, and long-time raiders.. We'd wipe it with every new dungeon too, so there would be no carry-over from old content....I had #1 dkp every damn time it was wiped. Then the one time I was really low because I had to move and missed like 2 months of raiding.. oh no wipe.. siighhh.. but that's another story.

Don't forget the level of difference between good raiders and bad raiders. :V I've seen toons geared to the teeth, but couldn't raid their way out of a paper bag.



On a side note, is anyone surprised that I used to be a healer? \o/

Yeah, that's not really related to the topic though (not the thread, just what I was talking about at the time >=P)

as for you being a healer. I was an altaholic.. Though I was main tank forever. I stopped being a tank with WoTLK for a number of reasons. Mostly because I knew that with the changes to the so-called sub-par tanking classes, everyone and their pet dog would want to become a tank, so I figured might as well let them have their turn.

I really enjoyed healing (as a holy priest, I think resto druid looks like fun too, holy pally looks boring as #%#@% however) when I got the chance to in raids (5mans is fun too but you can do wtf you want in a 5man), kinda upset that I never got the chance to do it as a main at one point before I quit.

Honestly though, pretty much every class/role in that game was fun for me. The only things I think I wouldn't enjoy would be holy pally, pet-spec hunter/warlock (having my pet own stuff for me just doesn't sound fun), shadow priest, boomkin, and maybe prot pally (looks too easy, feral druid looks easy too, but they got some funky mechanics that are breakable in certain situations).

[Cadmas]

I was part of a dkp guild back on woc. We only did it to keep newber guildies from taking gear, but it was kind of pointless since it was a small guild of only staff members and close friends. We were also the only guild on the server. Anyways never again will I go to a dkp guild. Atm I'm pretty much trying to stay out of any guild.

[Ghaleon]

Speaking of bad players though, what is everyone's fave example of a terrible player? Please say something you honestly been a part of/saw. No bs stories that you see on the wow forums >=P.

Back when BWL was new and hard as #@%%@, a guildie whom I rarely spoke to (not only was she dumb as #@%#%, but she was a total ass too) was chatting as she usually did in vent. I don't know how often you guys raid, but generally girls in raids tend to fit in one of these 3 catagories 95% of the time:
1: I never ever talk on vent, and you'll never get me to because I know the 50 15 year old boys are going to be all over me if I do
2: I'm already someone's wife...Or I'm the guild leader's daughter, or something like that, I'm immune to the side effects of online femininity.
3: I'm a gurl lol! <3 Regardless of if I'm single or not I'm going to act as girly and possible and milk it for all its worth to suck up to the whole guild!!! *giggle*.

Anyway, she fit into catagory 3. girls who fit in that catagory are not neccesarily stupid, or assholes, but she was both.. ANYWAY

During the raid, she was talking about "wtf are you talking about, I don't see that talent"
guildie: "It's at the bottom of the affliction tree"
Deci (what we called her): I'm showing ____ at the bottom of my tree
guildie: That's your 21 point talent, not your 31
Deci: well that's the bottom of the tree for me!
guildie:....
(10 mins pass)
Guildie: *HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!*
guild: what?
Guildie: Hey Deci, open your affliction talent tree
Deci: yeah ok
guildie: Push the down arrow on the right of the window
guild: HAHAHAHAHAAHHA!!!

True story, truly the most epic moment of dumb I've seen. This Deci was raiding in our guild for like a year btw, so she totally should have known better. Honestly IMO, she would never have gotten away with being in the guild in the first place if she wasn't a catagory 3 girl IMO >=P

I was part of a dkp guild back on woc. We only did it to keep newber guildies from taking gear, but it was kind of pointless since it was a small guild of only staff members and close friends. We were also the only guild on the server. Anyways never again will I go to a dkp guild. Atm I'm pretty much trying to stay out of any guild.

why to both statements? Personally I don't really care if a guild uses dkp or not. I'm pretty open to any loot distribution medium. I personally don't like officer assigned loot though...and not for the reasons you think, I was on the assigning end, and I fucking hated it. Everyone thinks that no matter what you decide it's unfair. At least if people th ink dkp is unfair they don't point their finger at you about it.

Also with officer assigned loot, alot of the times you know there is no real outstanding person to give it to. I frequently would have the following situation:

1: Person A needs the item most because their piece is the worst, but they only show up once a month
2: Person B needs the item less, but still gets a reasonable upgrade, and is a more reliable raider than Person A
3: YOU need the item more than person B, but not as much as person A, but you know you raid more...

In my mind, I know that Is hould give the item to myself over person B logically, but I know I could not without people thinking I'm being greedy, so I rarely did get anything that way. Regardless of who I decide, everyone else thinks it's unfair. Myself included, I just don't complain about it to myself, but to you guys instead! >=D

[triangles]

MJP and I used to play, we quit last year in like May and July, respectively after ~2 years.  It was fun to keep in touch with friends from out of state, and with each other when I was away on a summer internship, but then it just reached a "meh, not worth it" point.

Tankadin 4eva fyi.

I kinda want to check out the new expansion when it comes out but ::effort::

[Cadmas]

why to both statements? Personally I don't really care if a guild uses dkp or not. I'm pretty open to any loot distribution medium. I personally don't like officer assigned loot though...and not for the reasons you think, I was on the assigning end, and I fucking hated it. Everyone thinks that no matter what you decide it's unfair. At least if people th ink dkp is unfair they don't point their finger at you about it.

I'm all for giving a guy that needs the loot more than another person in some situations.
It just with dkp I hate the whole imaginary points thing. I want real roll numbers.
also the time it takes to do the biding portion is stupid long.

Speaking of bad players though, what is everyone's fave example of a terrible player? Please say something you honestly been a part of/saw. No bs stories that you see on the wow forums >=P.

The type of player I hate the most is the "Hold on guys I gotta take a 15 minute smoke break" guy.
The main tank for the ally back on woc would take a smoke before every boss till the point where it just got annoying when 1 hour raids turned into 2 hour wipes.

On a side note, is anyone surprised that I used to be a healer? \o/

Not really more surpised that you are a priest. I myself Can't play anything that doesn't live in plate or mail.

[Momiji]

Main:  Lv80 Survival Hunter
Healer:  Lv75 Resto Shaman

Waah, I haven't playing in a month now.  Used to be a full-time raider back during BC, but lost the taste of it real quick (Zerosum DKP, blech).  I still have my final BC gear set though.