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Posted May 18, 2012
I enjoy WoW and play it very casually, mostly solo. I have fun with my many alts on both Horde and Alliance sides, playing the money making AH game, questing, exploring and seeing the sights, sometimes doing holiday/event stuff and crafting for fun and sometimes profit. I occasionally enjoy battlegrounds pvp too when the mood strikes. The dungeon finder is great if I feel like seeing some dungeon content. I might even eventually check out the raid finder since I can just do that when/if I feel like it.

The beauty of WoW in my opinion is that it has so much to offer players of all kinds, it will run very well on any mid-spec machine or better and you don't need to be married to guild if you don't want to be. It is pretty much first gen MMORPG perfected and that is why it remains so popular and will continue to be so. The new expansion will be a hit when it comes out I think and will draw in many players who burned out and took breaks to play other games.

WoW will easily be here in a decade. As for when and if F2P comes into the picture, who knows? There's no need now for it and it doesn't look like there is in the near future at least. Someday when subscriptions dwindle enough I suppose it could happen or maybe sooner if it is simply more profitable than subs regardless of the numbers of players. That is possible too. EQ2 was not in trouble financially when it went F2P but I have a feeling SOE is making more money on the game now than before. So at some point that could come into play for WoW as well I guess.

Since I am getting a shiny new iMac soon, I am particularly pleased that Blizzard's games including WoW all are available in Mac versions! Yay!
Posted May 18, 2012
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orcishgamer: The AQ20 boss can't hit for 20k HP still?
He didn't do anything like that on me that I can remember, but I was level 80 and a dedicated tank, so my armor and avoidance were WAY beyond what it was designed for. In my full tanking gear I had like 28K hitpoints or something ridiculous anyway. I do remember the mana leech boss being a total pushover though, because deathknights don't have any mana. When I did that boss back at 60, it was a nightmare because you had to have the exact right raid composition or he'd just destroy you. Too many mana users and not enough mana drains and it was just a waste of time... which is why they made him optional, I suppose.
Posted May 18, 2012
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orcishgamer: The AQ20 boss can't hit for 20k HP still?
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bevinator: He didn't do anything like that on me that I can remember, but I was level 80 and a dedicated tank, so my armor and avoidance were WAY beyond what it was designed for. In my full tanking gear I had like 28K hitpoints or something ridiculous anyway. I do remember the mana leech boss being a total pushover though, because deathknights don't have any mana. When I did that boss back at 60, it was a nightmare because you had to have the exact right raid composition or he'd just destroy you. Too many mana users and not enough mana drains and it was just a waste of time... which is why they made him optional, I suppose.
The guild locks wanted something off that mana drain boss, he was never optional for my guild, and the guild MTs always got sucked into AQ20 on off nights to add the few good drops to everyone's arsenal. Ironically I don't recall there being fuck all for a level 60 AQ40/BWL geared tank (and when I say tank, only warriors were tanks back then, as you likely well know) out of that instance... maybe a trinket or something, actually I think it was a pretty good tanking necklace of the end boss.
Post edited May 18, 2012 by orcishgamer
Posted May 26, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Since I am getting a shiny new iMac soon, I am particularly pleased that Blizzard's games including WoW all are available in Mac versions! Yay!
I sometimes imagine what's it like playing WoW with a Mac...wondered how Serious PVP/Raiding works with that...
Posted May 26, 2012
You know I would pay good money if Blizz reopened a vanilla server be the only way I'd go back tbh
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dirtyharry50: Since I am getting a shiny new iMac soon, I am particularly pleased that Blizzard's games including WoW all are available in Mac versions! Yay!
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Roman5: I sometimes imagine what's it like playing WoW with a Mac...wondered how Serious PVP/Raiding works with that...
It doesn't OSX gets on average 10FPS less than windows on the same hardware. I've known guilds to ban Mac users from new raids...
Post edited May 26, 2012 by wodmarach
Posted May 26, 2012
I recently quit WoW again. I first played back in 2006 just before BC came out and played off and on for a couple years. I've had a few maxed out characters but as I moved between the US and UK a few times I lost my accounts on more than one occasion. I didn't feel like playing Cataclysm until recently but I did enjoy a lot of the new content and the story was good enough to keep me interested. However, the mind numbing grind is still there and the pvp trolls are as strong as ever, I think I have the right to play a game without having to put up with teenagers slandering gays and people with mental disabilities. I might start back up when MoP comes out but I don't see it adding too much to the story, which is the only reason I got into WoW in the first place. It seems more like a gimmick to attract a bigger slice of the Asian market or maybe the Panderan will appeal more to casual gamers. It's far past the time for Blizzard to move on, in my opinion, but they seem to be doing that and WoW at the same time.
Posted May 26, 2012
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Parvateshwar: I might start back up when MoP comes out but I don't see it adding too much to the story, which is the only reason I got into WoW in the first place. It seems more like a gimmick to attract a bigger slice of the Asian market or maybe the Panderan will appeal more to casual gamers. It's far past the time for Blizzard to move on, in my opinion, but they seem to be doing that and WoW at the same time.
Watching BlizzCon, Chris said that they were going to add the Pandaren folks in TBC, but they scrapped that and replaced them with the Draenei.
Posted May 26, 2012
Stopped playing near the end of Lich King. All people did was sit around town complaining about nobody wanting to raid and then not letting people into there group cause there gear is only 5 points below what the gear checker addon states.
Posted May 26, 2012
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wolfsite: Stopped playing near the end of Lich King. All people did was sit around town complaining about nobody wanting to raid and then not letting people into there group cause there gear is only 5 points below what the gear checker addon states.
Raiding is more accessible now, with the Raid Finder tool.
Posted May 26, 2012
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wolfsite: Stopped playing near the end of Lich King. All people did was sit around town complaining about nobody wanting to raid and then not letting people into there group cause there gear is only 5 points below what the gear checker addon states.
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Elenarie: Raiding is more accessible now, with the Raid Finder tool.
Infact so accessible many people I know have nicknamed it the guild killer...
Posted May 26, 2012
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Elenarie: Raiding is more accessible now, with the Raid Finder tool.
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wodmarach: Infact so accessible many people I know have nicknamed it the guild killer...
Obviously there are some bad things about it, but it sure is allowing more people to experience raiding.
Posted May 26, 2012
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dirtyharry50: Since I am getting a shiny new iMac soon, I am particularly pleased that Blizzard's games including WoW all are available in Mac versions! Yay!
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Roman5: I sometimes imagine what's it like playing WoW with a Mac...wondered how Serious PVP/Raiding works with that...
It should work nicely. My new iMac is easily twice as powerful as the PC I've been playing on and that ran WoW at high settings effortlessly. :-)
Posted May 26, 2012
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That guy who you always see in a big city who's always there...
Posted May 26, 2012
Sorry to disappoint You all, but I'm not planning to 'come out' anytime soon.
Post edited May 26, 2012 by MoP
Posted May 27, 2012
Played since launch, quit over 18 months ago. Not coming back, good game just nothing left to do *coughDiablo3cough*
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