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I quit WoW

Matt i dont know where all this angst for wow comes from...but your impressing me that you dont have a clue how to play wow

A rong time ago I was one of the first to discover you can tank with a paladin, especially larger number of weaker enemies. Played for 2 months, got insanely bored, then quit till Cataclysm came out.

When Cataclysm came out I was among the first to discover that you can disenchant this alchemy stone Lifebound Alchemist Stone - Game Guide - World of Warcraft to get a Maelstrom Crystal; sold like 20 made lots of $$$$$, I still have like 20 Maelstrom Crystals in my bank. Played Cataclysm for 2 months, got insanely bored, then quit again.

Me and 2 other peckers were constantly in a bidding war with maelstrom crystals, if I can only find where he lives I'd wring his neck!

I should have known Blizzard was going to patch the game to prevent that alchemist stone from being disenchanted into a malestrom crystal, I would have made much more. I had 2 voices in my head at the time:

"This game is lame, I've got more important things to do."

"BLIZZARD IS GONNA PATCH IT AND TAKE AWAY THE DISENCHANTING ABILITIES, GRIND 20 HOURS A DAY! Make 100 Maelstrom crystals!!!!"

The first voice won out.
 
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A rong time ago I was one of the first to discover you can tank with a paladin, especially larger number of weaker enemies. Played for 2 months, got insanely bored, then quit till Cataclysm came out.

When Cataclysm came out I was among the first to discover that you can disenchant this alchemy stone Lifebound Alchemist Stone - Game Guide - World of Warcraft to get a Maelstrom Crystal; sold like 20 made lots of $$$$$, I still have like 20 Maelstrom Crystals in my bank. Played Cataclysm for 2 months, got insanely bored, then quit again.

Me and 2 other peckers were constantly in a bidding war with maelstrom crystals, if I can only find where he lives I'd wring his neck!

I should have known Blizzard was going to patch the game to prevent that alchemist stone from being disenchanted into a malestrom crystal, I would have made much more. I had 2 voices in my head at the time:

"This game is lame, I've got more important things to do."

"BLIZZARD IS GONNA PATCH IT AND TAKE AWAY THE DISENCHANTING ABILITIES, GRIND 20 HOURS A DAY! Make 100 Maelstrom crystals!!!!"

The first voice won out.


WOW...just wow Matt...you dont need to play wow anymore...if your going to rage about the auction house economy and take pricing so damn personal.....ITS A GAME...lol....AH prices fluctuate all the time and your always going to have someone who is hardup for gold or has a goal to reach that he needs more money for ...undercut you to sell his stuff.
I disenchant and the price on all the mats differs daily...I just go with it....thats why I have over 150k gold across my toons and thats with giving alot of gold away to noobs.....
Im going to cancel my acct with my 3 month sub is up because Ive been playing it along time and its just gotten blah to me lately....If you play a game you have to have fun..when the fun stops...you need to find some fun...thats where im at.
I tried AION..what a fail...I tried Rift, it was much better..but not good enough. I just bought tera and DLd it...and Ill post her my OPINION of the game...once it gets rolling..

Relax matt :) find a game that doesnt piss you off and instead makes you grin...

Oh btw....Tera is rated Mature...and when you go to buy the game it tells you that you must be 13 yrs of age...of course they cant police that...but I found that interesting
 
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I quit several months ago but honestly I'm starting to miss it a little. It is nice not feeling like the world is going to end because you missed a raid, didn't get your arenas in for the week, or got behind on your dailies though.

I played a raid main tank in wrath and they really laid the guilt on nice and thick if I had to do something off line or just wanted to take a break. In Cataclysm I feel like in their effort to make it more challenging they just made it tedious.


Wow lost over a million subscribers during Wrath...the pvers were totally unhappy with the changes...to my knowledge they have never gotten those numbers back....it APPEARS...that blizz is catering to and wooing a younger crowd....I have a 9 yr old in my guild...he calls me grandpa...Im ALWAYS flying all over the place to either help him or save him or just make him feel comfortable..lol....hes one of the really nice kids.
 
Relax matt :) find a game that doesnt piss you off and instead makes you grin...

Being pissed off is infinitely better than being bored from mind numbing tedium.

What kept me playing WOW for those 2 months was undercutting that one particular bastard who seemed to be updating his AH info every 5 minutes for hours on end, in fact I saw him many times hanging out at the AH in Stormwind. But I couldn't attack him! WOW game mechanics, meh.

What kept me subscribing to WWIIONLINE for 5+ consecutive years was my burning hatred of the easy-mode allied players who brag about their leet skillz on the forums. Every kill on an allied easy-moder was a rush of endorphins. I even payed for a 2nd account for about 3 years so I can tow around an 88/Bofors.

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Nothing says, "hello enemy tanks," better than an 88 with excellent accuracy, excellent optics, quick projectile flight time, and the ability to relocate with a halftrack faster than a tank.

And then the developers introduced the Churchill VII tank, and the Sherman76 which isn't suppose to be immune to the 88 on the frontal plates but is. Then I shifted my hate from allied players to the developers, so the game lost it's flavor (no endorphine rush) and I quit like 3-4 years ago.

Being pissed off is better.
 
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ok have at it then...nothing more to say :)
 
Being pissed off is infinitely better than being bored from mind numbing tedium.

What kept me playing WOW for those 2 months was undercutting that one particular bastard who seemed to be updating his AH info every 5 minutes for hours on end, in fact I saw him many times hanging out at the AH in Stormwind. But I couldn't attack him! WOW game mechanics, meh.

What kept me subscribing to WWIIONLINE for 5+ consecutive years was my burning hatred of the easy-mode allied players who brag about their leet skillz on the forums. Every kill on an allied easy-moder was a rush of endorphins. I even payed for a 2nd account for about 3 years so I can tow around an 88/Bofors.

figure13b.jpg


Nothing says, "hello enemy tanks," better than an 88 with excellent accuracy, excellent optics, quick projectile flight time, and the ability to relocate with a halftrack faster than a tank.

And then the developers introduced the Churchill VII tank, and the Sherman76 which isn't suppose to be immune to the 88 on the frontal plates but is. Then I shifted my hate from allied players to the developers, so the game lost it's flavor (no endorphine rush) and I quit like 3-4 years ago.

Being pissed off is better.


OK, you played wow for 2 months, on one character...

congratz, stop dissing a game you obviously can't play.
 
WOW is pointless, there's no point to all the grinding. What's the point?

You iterate by this you merely don't understand the game.

Every game has limitations, wow even with many constraints is open to many playstyles.
 
Wow lost over a million subscribers during Wrath...the pvers were totally unhappy with the changes...to my knowledge they have never gotten those numbers back....it APPEARS...that blizz is catering to and wooing a younger crowd....I have a 9 yr old in my guild...he calls me grandpa...Im ALWAYS flying all over the place to either help him or save him or just make him feel comfortable..lol....hes one of the really nice kids.

It is the same direction that UO took...I loved UO. It forced a lot of us to quit. Damn.
 
perfect solution,there is a game called real life,it completely rules,well not so much i dont know anywhere in real life you can be a dark elf,but hey its life you learn as you go.

when ya get to be around my age(actually close to 26)you learn to not care about video games,they are fun and relaxing but achieving something in a video game is time you could have spent bettering your life.by all means that doesnt mean you cant play games,you are just going to hit a point where competition dies and you will be happier playing video games 4 hours a week vs everyday.

When you get around my age and your sick and tired of real life and made it most of the way through it....its nice to dive into a video game :)
My entire working life there was either no PCs or I didnt have access to any...no cellphones.....you just worked...and Id bet a donut people were more attentive to their jobs then than now...I wonder really how many man woman working hours are lost to Forum Posts, video games, facebook, twitter and surfing...costs employers....really costs employers...Id bet its MUCH more than smoking..
 
Here's how to improve WOW and bring the WAR to World of Warcraft.






1) Create a new gigantic continent, generously populate it with wildlife and mines, but no buildings and NPC's.

2) What you do in Vegas stays in Vegas. The stuff you collect in this new continent doesn't go to the mindless grind-world. But you can use stuff in the grind-world in Vegas. Also no flying mounts so strategic chokepoints actually work and there are no flying combat mechanics to speak of.

3) Allow any 1 player to plop down any building they want: towers, houses, blacksmith buildings, keeps, castles, etc. Your type of building depends on your race, so humans can plop down human blacksmiths and undead can plop down undead blacksmiths. Yeah, just like in Warcraft RTS games. The purpose of these buildings is like RTS games.

4) The cost and hitpoints of these buildings is NOT Eve Online style where it takes you 5 years of grinding to to build one lousy POS. It should take 5 minutes of 1 player mine-grinding to build a small house or an hour of 1 player mine-grinding away to build a keep. And the hitpoints are not Eve Online style either where it has a bajillion hitpoints that takes 20 players 10 hours of constant pounding to bring it down, it takes 1 player 5 minutes to bring down a small house or 1 player 1 hour to destroy a keep.

5) Equalize levels and equipment bonuses, everyone is at the same level. Although going in as a level 1 with limited amount of skills, weapon/armor modifiers, and professions would still be a considerable disadvantage.

6) Allow players with professions to craft weapons/armors/gem stuff for the NPC's they hire, just like they beef up their own characters. Say your average crafting recipe in the mindless grind world takes like 10 copper to create a glove. Multiply it by 100. You use 10 copper to create 100 NPC gloves for an army of NPC's you want to hire. Then you can arm your naked NPC's with what you want, customizing them. So if you're a maxed out blacksmith, and you want to create 20 warriors following you, you can do it.

-The added benefit of a system like this is creating massive demand for the low-level crafting materials, instead of focusing the economy on all of the top end stuff, which makes the economy totally lame. NPC's you arm are going to be dying like flies, just like in an RTS game.

7) Allow players to control the actions of NPC's they hire, creating patrol way points for defense, auto-mining for gatherer NPC's, chase distance (in case enemy players like to kite allot), or just follow the player around as your little army.

8) No set flag capture rules, the goal is to control raw material resources not "capture the flag" *rolls eyes*

There you go, you just got 1 million more subscribers who will never leave the game, and created meaningful PVP, not mindless grinding for the sake of grinding, not mindless PVP for the sake of PVP.

This should require minimal effort on the devs part, all of the buildings are already standardized and modeled, all of the NPC's are already standardized and modeled, everything is already balanced, all of the professions are already modeled just add an X100 modifier.
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No, they would rather work on increasing the level cap (been there, done that), more groovy looking weapons/armor that somehow look worse than the original Tiered ones (been there done that) more zones to grind in (been there done that), another meaningless profession (been there done that), and pandas. Ugh
 
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/startattack
/click MoltiActionButton4
/castsequence reset=target/12 <spell1>, <spell2>, <spe3ll>, <spell1>, <spell4>, <spell5>
/cast <petspell>
/use 13
/use 14
/script UIerrorsframe Clear()


Oh look at me I'm playing my hunter:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh no, a rogue!
RRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
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My favorite thing to do in WoW is collect/kill rare pets.

There's a trick to each one since Cata. One spawns in a PvP zone and the only way to tame it is to take everything off. Another flies out of range of anything a hunter can stand on to tap it (you could fly up and dismount by hitting the pet with a spell, but then you fall to your death). One has the strength of a raid boss and can't be tamed until It's hit points are around 1/4, requiring at least 10 people to help you. One requires you to solicit the help of a raid-geared healer, who can keep you alive through the taming timer while not drawing agro with said heals (since agro is generated by casting, this is best accomplished with high level HoTs). Some are just in hard to reach places.

Even if you look up how to tame each one, it can still be difficult to actually do.

After server maintenance a small group of us would take our hunters, well, hunting. Each would take an aria and search the known spawn points and flight paths. When we found one we would /roll for it. With 6-7 hunters working in concert we actually found quite a few in only a few days. If we found one everyone already had we would kill it for the loot. Good times.
 
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/startattack
/click MoltiActionButton4
/castsequence reset=target/12 <spell1>, <spell2>, <spe3ll>, <spell1>, <spell4>, <spell5>
/cast <petspell>
/use 13
/use 14
/script UIerrorsframe Clear()


Oh look at me I'm playing my hunter:
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh no, a rogue!
RRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I forgot what E does

So what do you think about my idea about bringing the WAR to world of WARcraft?
 
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Here's how to improve WOW and bring the WAR to World of Warcraft.


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No, they would rather work on increasing the level cap (been there, done that), more groovy looking weapons/armor that somehow look worse than the original Tiered ones (been there done that) more zones to grind in (been there done that), another meaningless profession (been there done that), and pandas. Ugh

That right there would be huge.

Actually, I really liked your ideas...it is a mesh of UO, Eve, SWTOR. I am a fan.
 
After over 6 yrs..im tired of wow...Ive bought...Aion...Rift...Tera...Im playing or was Mists of Pandaria beta and Diablo2...Mists is pretty good but im still tired and Diablo is horrible to me....I deleted the beta and I have the Release coming free and I wont even install it.

Yesterday I joined guildwars2 forum...and there was alot of discussion and everyone was great helping a noob out...I never played guildwars 1
Anyway..actual in game videos, nothing enhanced graphics look good...character movement looks like wow not jerky and goofy like aion and rift
and it seems to be a combo between a FPS and MMmorph...Im liking it...no release date but they had and are having more beta weekends...
If you want to take a look go to their forums...theres in beta videos....the world looks vast...cities huge...there is no flying but there are portals to travel faster....there is daily grinds like wow..no lvl grinding...no boring redundant daily quests etc....
 
I forgot what E does
I bound the aforementioned macro to "e". With every button-press, the macro tries to automatically target the nearest enemy in front of me, cast whatever spell with a casting-time I've placed in milti-action-button-4, and if the macro can not (the spell is on CD) then it tries to cast a spell in the 'cast sequence' order instead. Also, in the same button press, the macro tries to use relics and cast a specified pet spell.

I typicaly have 3-4 diferent versions of this macro. 90% of everything I do on my hunter is by macro command. The only 2 exceptions would be movement and clicking a hot-key I've moved to the center of my screen, next to IceHud, using Bartender. Most of my macros assist with targeting, though, to be sure I'm attacking the tank's target, or getting a mob off the healer, etc, without having to click on anything.

So what do you think about my idea about bringing the WAR to world of WARcraft?

I think if Blizz is willing to take non-combat pets and turn them into Pokemon with the MoP x-pac, then they should seriously entertain your much more intelligent suggestions.
 
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I bound the aforementioned macro to "e". With every button-press, the macro tries to automatically target the nearest enemy in front of me, cast whatever spell with a casting-time I've placed in milti-action-button-4, and if the macro can not (the spell is on CD) then it tries to cast a spell in the 'cast sequence' order instead. Also, in the same button press, the macro tries to use relics and cast a specified pet spell.

I typicaly have 3-4 diferent versions of this macro. 90% of everything I do on my hunter is by macro command. The only 2 exceptions would be movement and clicking a hot-key I've moved to the center of my screen, next to IceHud, using Bartender. Most of my macros assist with targeting, though, to be sure I'm attacking the tank's target, or getting a mob off the healer, etc, without having to click on anything.



I think if Blizz is willing to take non-combat pets and turn them into Pokemon with the MoP x-pac, then they should seriously entertain your much more intelligent suggestions.


They wont of course...blizz is very cocky...they never take any suggestions that are major...they do little pacifying things....besides what foley presents even though I like it...would be a pretty big overhaul..i would think anyway

Ive gotten some feedback from guildies and others...seems likeing and disliking mists of pandaria is pretty split...
 
Here's how to improve WOW and bring the WAR to World of Warcraft.






1) Create a new gigantic continent, generously populate it with wildlife and mines, but no buildings and NPC's.

2) What you do in Vegas stays in Vegas. The stuff you collect in this new continent doesn't go to the mindless grind-world. But you can use stuff in the grind-world in Vegas. Also no flying mounts so strategic chokepoints actually work and there are no flying combat mechanics to speak of.

3) Allow any 1 player to plop down any building they want: towers, houses, blacksmith buildings, keeps, castles, etc. Your type of building depends on your race, so humans can plop down human blacksmiths and undead can plop down undead blacksmiths. Yeah, just like in Warcraft RTS games. The purpose of these buildings is like RTS games.

4) The cost and hitpoints of these buildings is NOT Eve Online style where it takes you 5 years of grinding to to build one lousy POS. It should take 5 minutes of 1 player mine-grinding to build a small house or an hour of 1 player mine-grinding away to build a keep. And the hitpoints are not Eve Online style either where it has a bajillion hitpoints that takes 20 players 10 hours of constant pounding to bring it down, it takes 1 player 5 minutes to bring down a small house or 1 player 1 hour to destroy a keep.

5) Equalize levels and equipment bonuses, everyone is at the same level. Although going in as a level 1 with limited amount of skills, weapon/armor modifiers, and professions would still be a considerable disadvantage.

6) Allow players with professions to craft weapons/armors/gem stuff for the NPC's they hire, just like they beef up their own characters. Say your average crafting recipe in the mindless grind world takes like 10 copper to create a glove. Multiply it by 100. You use 10 copper to create 100 NPC gloves for an army of NPC's you want to hire. Then you can arm your naked NPC's with what you want, customizing them. So if you're a maxed out blacksmith, and you want to create 20 warriors following you, you can do it.

-The added benefit of a system like this is creating massive demand for the low-level crafting materials, instead of focusing the economy on all of the top end stuff, which makes the economy totally lame. NPC's you arm are going to be dying like flies, just like in an RTS game.

7) Allow players to control the actions of NPC's they hire, creating patrol way points for defense, auto-mining for gatherer NPC's, chase distance (in case enemy players like to kite allot), or just follow the player around as your little army.

8) No set flag capture rules, the goal is to control raw material resources not "capture the flag" *rolls eyes*

There you go, you just got 1 million more subscribers who will never leave the game, and created meaningful PVP, not mindless grinding for the sake of grinding, not mindless PVP for the sake of PVP.

This should require minimal effort on the devs part, all of the buildings are already standardized and modeled, all of the NPC's are already standardized and modeled, everything is already balanced, all of the professions are already modeled just add an X100 modifier.
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No, they would rather work on increasing the level cap (been there, done that), more groovy looking weapons/armor that somehow look worse than the original Tiered ones (been there done that) more zones to grind in (been there done that), another meaningless profession (been there done that), and pandas. Ugh

oh, boy, youre smart, i bet you like... almost manage a mcdonalds...

lol, anyways... im sure wow will do fine without you :)
 
I'll level a panda through lvl20 just to see the new starting aria, but I don't care for the model. I'm looking forward to the day Blizz upgrades the existing toon models.
 
Ninja looting isnt a problem... all you have to do is pvp and slay the matt foleys of wow over and over and over....
 
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