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[Column] World of Warcraft: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to WoD
SBFord
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I don’t normally do lists. In the spirit of full disclosure I think I’ve only written one list on this site before. I’m not really sure what sparked me to create a list for this week’s column. It probably had to do with all the David Letterman I watched last week, which is something I also never really do, but they had the Foo Fighters on all week as their house musical guests and had some tremendous performances. I’ve also been on a bit of a World of Warcraft kick since I logged back in last week to check out patch 6.0.2. For those that have missed it 6.0.2 is the patch prepping the game for the launch of the fifth expansion Warlords of Draenor. So in the spirit of Letterman and with an eye to next month’s WoD release here is my list of the Top Ten Reasons to look forward to Warlords of Draenor.
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Although I like the new character models, I'm not coming back to WoW. Level-wise, the game is so stretched out now that the expansions are just stand alone mini-MMOs. I can't see paying $50 and a sub fee for a tiny MMO. If Blizz does the Emerald Dream and makes it large and seamless, I will come back for that. I will take advantage of the 'Instant Level XX' feature with one of my Druids and play it as the brand new game it will be.
WOW is anything but tiny.
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this is false really.. people complained about it being to easy in wotlk so they gave them harder dungeons in cataclysm.. and then the community raged about it not being faceroll
I had fun once, it was terrible.
All dungeons in WoD will have 3 levels of difficulty at level 100: Nomral, Heoric, and Challenge. Normal are going to be like heroic dungeons in WotLK/MoP. Heoric will be like heroic dungeons from BC/Cata (perfect level of challenge imo), and challenge will be harder than they have ever been (very interesting imo).
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Thats true, which is why they are giving dungeons the same treatment they have given raids the past few years (adding multiple levels of difficulty ranging from easy to really hard).....though knowing the haters, they are gonna run normal dungeons and complain that "WoW dungeons are faceroll".
Doogiehowser said:
"WOW is anything but tiny. "
Actually the game is now very tiny. There is a small amount of active content with lots of dead material to wade through to get to it. The active material is in the form of little islands isolated from the rest of the game, with the exception of a major city on each side. Bliz acknowledges that with its 'Instant 90' option. I don't have a problem with the 'Instant 90s', but the feature shows that the game has evolved into what, is, effictively, a mini-game.
The best part of the expansion is the new Looking for group tool. It is so much easier to get into a heroic raid now. I used to only be able to get into LFR but now I con do proper raids
Also the stat squish was much needed.
Thats not what he said at all. he said (and reality is) the exact opposite. The dungeons were easy in WotLK, and Cata made them extreemly hard (Grim Batol, for example, is the hardest dungeon WoW has ever had), and players freaked out. The initial batch of sub drops happened after they switched back to being hard. I am not implying correlation is causation, just correcting you.
subs where at the highest then.. they started going down with cataclysm
I had fun once, it was terrible.
"You can get boosted to 90 and forget that Mists of Pandaria ever happened!"
What a noob. MoP was great
The raids were great, the dungeons were terrible IMO. ToT was the best raid instance since Ulduar.
maybe you'll get what you want in WoD but over time i fear it will be the same old when everyones raidgeared and blazing through it like it's nothing.. cant really do much about that unless there's absolutely no reason for raiders what so ever to do dungeons.
I had fun once, it was terrible.
At this point in time, absolutly...but in its history? No way. FFXIV and LorTO never had any dungeons on the level of WoW BC/Cata.
That was never really a huge issue in previous xpacs because Blizz would always release new tiers of dungeons throughout the xpac's lifespan....that didnt happen in MoP...the dungeons you ran in SoO mythic gear were the same ones you were running in lvl 89 greens. Blizz said they are going back to tiered dungeons in WoD.
that's cool
I had fun once, it was terrible.
"1) You can get boosted to 90 and forget that Mists of Pandaria ever happened!"
Truer words never spoken.
I don't know to be honest, yeah cata was when sub dropped, but not sure it was the rise in difficulty. The entire xpac they nerfed everything left, right and center. dungeons where out a month or 2 then nerfed. it was horrid. also you have to remember this is when they made the majority of the "convenience" changes, Df, Lfr, major changes to leveling and questing, talent trees simplified, etc. The xpac had more nerfs than buffs. Then DS came out, lord have mercy on what ever that raid was. The final boss battle, for me, was very anti-climatic imho. I was expecting more from a creature that had the power to shatter a world, instead i was slapped by tentacles.
tbh i don't know, only can guess. but lets hope all goes well.
Depends what you're taking into consideration. If you are one of those people that enjoy running old raids like a brainless zombie then I'd imagine the game is pretty large to you. If you're just looking at current content available though or recent patches, then its not as big as you think.
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I broke down and downloaded Warcraft for my wife. She wanted to start playing an MMO and I figured this would be the easiest. If she likes it, she can get leveled before the expansion. So it was good timing.
So basically, I'm looking forward to WoD to possibly getting into an MMO with my wife.