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My thoughts on WoW (and pvp / GM event pictures)
demon-surge
Member Posts: 67
Ok, so I've played three previous MMORPG's, if you look at my join date on this website, its clear im a geek and ive been in this genre for awhile.
The one I've spent the most time with was shadowbane, a pvp based MMO that gave you something to fight for. You could build cities, have assests, basically timesinks and moneysinks that cost you time, and through intelligent defense and offense you were able to beat superior numbers and have something to actually fight for.
Im a PvP person, in WMD, a PvP guild. We are here to PvP, we arent into lore, we dont roleplay, we kill.
Levelling. A couple views on this one.
Shadowbane was good because it was so poorly designed you could macro all day, and have characters without the grind. Thats also what killed the game, every group being AFK and it being a joke.
In world of warcraft, the fastest and the only true way of levelling is through quests. The way quests are set up are to do any number of things, being both unique and sometimes repeating, but being more group heavy than solo, which is also both good and bad.
The problem with groups is they cap at 5, in shadowbane it was 10. 5 isnt very many people, I would rather it be 10 and have much harder quests, and being more group heavy than it currently is (albeit end game it does become bigger groups). I dont enjoy endlessly levelling, thats not what im there for, and I think the way its set up is for the first couple characters its bearable, which is all I really ask for.
The PvP in world of warcraft is fun, but its completely pointless. What the game needs are assets to pay for, to create, to organize, and to defend and / or overtake. It needs a point to PvP, which I understand they plan on putting in, but things that arent added in beta scare me, because that usually means it wont happen (server travel in SB anyone?).
Regardless, I think with the options that are out there, WoW will be the best game to go into and probably the best PvP.
I think it has the potential to be a great PvP game (they need a hardcore server though), and I somewhat trust Blizzard to listen to people (and they are the only company I even somewhat trust in thier word (cept when they say downtimes, then its what they say x5).
The end of beta was cool, with the Burning Legion's attacks on all the cities
The demons attack! (pictures of the entire event which lasted hours)
When they announced beta close, we jumped at the chance to invade horde areas. We were planning on it today, but had to speed up the overall process.
WMD attacks! (pictures of WMD's raid)
My only complaint is not being able to communicate with horde, or opposing factions easily. They should have atleast allowed you to use the in game mail without attachments to apposing players.
Horde clearly dominated. Every alliance area was constantly attacked by horde, they were everywhere. Alliance would run, were not organized, and I believe are clearly the underdogs. The only attacks on the horde I had seen were by us, where as even the unorganized horde easily came with the flood to alliance zones.
We'll be going alliance in release to RPK the RPKers, being the underdog is usually more fun.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
www.teamwmd.com
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Oh and since I got this mentioned to me for not warning.
The links are really picture heavy, so slow connections beware!
Weapons of Mass Destruction
www.teamwmd.com
Really cool pics! Enjoyed them a lot! Thx for posting them!
By the end of the night I seriously had over a gig worth of screenshots in my directory. Those TGA format screenshots really add up quick!
Weapons of Mass Destruction
www.teamwmd.com
Alliance is by no means an underdog. Majority of people play the "good" side.
For the HORDE! I missed on seeing anything else but infernals last night and few doomguards. So much death.
PS>
I saw mwd on third server in l2. Are you guys still playing that?
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Well, being on the ALliance I found out first hand how unorganized we were. I rarely partied with people and when I tried getting a raid together for the Deadmines, people said they'd show up but never did. I have/had COUNTLESS people on my ignore list. One guy for three days straight was complaining how he was stuck and he couldn't do anything.
For PvP, I was a rogue that only made it to level 16. At 16 I headed over to Ratchet and the Barrens to rack up some kils. My first experience was the level 18 Tauren sitting down and I snuck up behind him. I never PvPd at this point so I thought I could wipe him out. The words "Invalid Target" were kinda dissapointing. I found out that I had to wait for them to attack me first. So, I'd find an enemy that was somewhat alone. Unstealth myself right up front of them and wait the three seconds for them to figure out what to do. I'd say minimal amount of people knew better not to attack me unless they were 19+. I loved when the level 10s looked at me then tried to take me out. I nice Gouge, jump/180, backstab, SS, SS, SS, and a finshing of SnD, Eviscerate, or Expose armor was great. But there were times when I found myself in a jam and had several Horde players looking for me. At one point, there had to be about 50 people looking for me as I lay stealth in the bushes to plan my next victim.
On Thursday though, I got a first hand look on how the Alliance plans out their attacks. VERY unorganized. The Horde knew to stick together. Everytime I went to invite somene they'd decline. Priests weren't healing/buffing, warriors would attack the army one at a time, and no one had AOE spells going. NOw and then a band of about 5 people would kill as many people as possible then get slammed by the Horde. Maybe it was the fact that we were on their territory but we got our asses handed to us. The Horde was VERY organized I must say.
However, getting people to join in raids/quests or just grouping together for the hell of it isn't the only hard part. Two real life friends and myself have started a guild. We got the webpage, I'm writing a story, we have forums, and we just got Ventrilo with a 50 player slot. So far trying to get people to get on the forums and Vent is damn near impossible. Evryone is too lazy to download the program and set up the hostname and IP. I mean, we've been around for nearly two months and not one person has joined the forums to say hi and discuss WoW or anything. I am 19, almost 20, and am trying to get a good perspective on playing WoW. I understand that there ARE little kids playing this game that love complaining and think public cursing is fun. I don't want that. I just can't understand why people can't play the game as it is, get together and have some real fun like WoW creators intended, and get over the fact that to have VERY god entertainment is going to cost; even if it's 15 bucks a month. <sigh> I'm going to stop now because I'm starting to get aggrevated....
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COOL PICS!
AWESOME! It's good to see that Blizzard is going to have some sweet GM events.
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Fuego
Level 21 Gnomish Mage
Casador
Level 19 Night Elf Hunter
Silvermoon server
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the gm event was funny
i just went raiding in ne land
Rehvin: Its just who you play with, as an organized guild we will be doing organized guilds, but we expect very few other alliance guilds to do so. We're going alliance because they are indeed the underdog and they do need the help the most.
As for the pictures, we will be upgrading our website servers tonight, so expect our website to stop working later today. We received massive traffic last night (around 1k hits in about a minute at one point) and will be enusring that the server will be able to handle it in the future, as well as doing forum updates before WoW is released to ensure stability and ease.
Weapons of Mass Destruction
www.teamwmd.com