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[Column] World of Warcraft: The Journey Doesn't End at 100
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
As with all things World of Warcraft, simply hitting the level cap is not the end of the journey, though many might expect it to be. So what should one do upon reaching level 100? We've got a few ideas in mind that can still bring months of quality time to WoW players.
Read more of Suzie Ford's World of Warcraft: The Journey Doesn't End at 100.
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Paragon lvl in WoW
True Story, just wait.
l2p
Boooring...Most boring WoW expansion ever. No new race, no new class, no new bg, no new arena, professions are dead, no open world content, everyone is in garrisons, everything is on a 24h cd and the list goes on and on...
10 days remaining in my 2nd month and then i m over. Playing FFARR trial a couple of days now and i must say i have much more fun than in WoW.
Anyway, have fun if you like the game.
All Time Favorites: EQ1, WoW, EvE, GW1
Playing Now: WoW, ESO, GW2
The leveling content from 90-100 is probably the best blizzard has done to date. The 100+ content however is probably the worst. I got my moneys worth and called it quits for now.
Yeah I started this with a new level 1 BM Hunter (my driving motivation is that Galeras pet :-) and I'm found the first 61 levels to be just that "banal". My son says it gets tougher, after 60-65, as I'm just starting BoC content (Outlands). I've never been through it all end-to-end so I'm not sure if this is a true statement or not (yet).
Raids have always been WoW's bread n butter.... and you actually call their dungeons content? It's a facerolling snoozefest of horrid stat RNG. There was no challenge in the dungeons that allowed palyers to faceroll right though it. Dungeons might be worth something if the made challenge mode worth the effort.
Apexis upgrades are the worst itemized crap gear, worse than Highmaul's itemization. There is ONE piece what has decent itemization but that is if one can bear the boring grind of apexis crystals. The only point to apexis crystals is the legendary quest line n thats it. People typically don't touch the apexis crystals after thats completed.
And crafting... you honestly believe the garbage you spew? Crafting got gutted big time to the point that it's a unan4imous "I don't like" 20+ pages of responses on the official forums.
Garrison is an affront to MMOs and furthur advocates anti-social behavior in a world devoid of world content.
Pet battles, achievements, old content.... seriously... you call that content at lvl 100.....? If you call that content then there is a serious flaw in said MMO.
My lvl 100 conent is summed up as ... log on for raid nights... and log off besides garrison maitenance. This expac is the one I grew bored the quickest with by far. My sub ends next week and I'll try a different MMO or take a break n play some single player games since there is nothing to do in WoW outside raiding where you actually play the game instead of playing Farmsville... excluding PvP since I don't PvP but thats in a horrid state also since not a single BG was added.
level 90-100 by far some of the best WoW leveling I have done and I still not done 50% of the quests. So lots to do before raids and all the other end game nuggets. Im having a blast with my Garrison and the quests you get in there. By far my fav building is the stables. Capturing wild bests to make them mounts is just awesome. Cant wait to start dungeon crawling when my wife gets 100.
Agreed, its hysterical how Suzie is calling OUTDATED content being content for lvl 100s. They are desperate if they have to resort to calling old content that has already been experienced as content of lvl 100s.
It is something to do, particularly for players who are new-ish or who like the achievement grind or transmog thing.
I never said the stuff post 100 is great, simply that it is there.
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I just want to point out that I don't think this article was paid for... I was just amazed no one else said it was yet. Usually that's the first thing said on any positive article.
Again, no one has claimed that the post 100 stuff in place is great, or even good, content. It is content that is there for those who choose to wade and grind through it. Raids are the defacto end game but not everyone who plays WoW logs in for raids and garrison maintenance only. Some folks like to do old content, pet battles, achievement runs, etc. whether you do or not.
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Wait...it doesn't?
And here I thought max level focused bimodal MMO's simply just stopped after you hit level cap and weren't primarily built around post-level-cap progression : 3
Enjoyed getting to lvl 100 greatly. It was very fun.
But then once you hit 100 its old - get loot to get to raids to get loot so you can get lot.
Its boring. Nothing more.
Daylies are fun for a while but shortly...
It was a blast to get to 100. But then I hit that brick wall.
It seems that the "journey" or the "leveling" has always been my favorite part of any MMO.
Perhaps a clever developer that can find a fun way to perpetuate the "journey" will find the next big MMO. Raiding doesn't do it for me anymore, and I've given it an honest go, been there done that.
A few gimmicks don't change the fact that WoW has a lackluster endgame. It is by definition a 1-2 month wonder. Now don't get me wrong, it's still one of the only decent MMO's on the market right now but endgame has never been WoW's strong suit.
You play it for a few months then quit for a year and play it again cuz nothing else is worth playing. It's what we refer to as the "WoW Dance."
I seem to be in the minority. But I prefer the old content up till Wrath over anything available in Warlords of Draenor. I liked the questing just fine my first time around but that was about it. I got my fill of the interesting lore but Garrison's were annoying.
People were overjoyed when they took away most dailies. But now they get mob grind. The only thing worse than dailies. Also Draenor felt like Isle of Thunder. Meaning it felt tacked on. Which is fine for a patch but for a whole expansion? Not buying it.
Pandaria even though I was not a big fan (kind of liked it at the end) felt like a whole country. Northred also did and so did Outland. Draenor just felt small to me and Garrions turned it into a single player game.
That is not how ADD works most of the time. Someone with ADD may be playing a ton of other games the makes the progress even slower. You may not get to max level at all. Or you could level so many alts you don't have a main class at all. May not even have a level 100 yet. Or you may want to do so many things at once you end up not even playing.
The rushing aspects comes from people who prefer to play the way. On top of the fact they sometimes have limited attention spans. Limited attention spans is laziness. Where as ADD is a viable mental disorder. I have ADD and I unsubbed right at hitting 100 two days ago.
What a ignorant a lazy comment. You sir are a perfect example of the WoW community.
So, you mean the same thing that the game has done for the past decade? : P
Raiding and Dungeoneering - this has been the staple of wow's success, but this time around I just couldn't bring myself to do it. I have finally decided to do this in other games though and the great thing about other games, I can Raid and Dungeoneer for free. I would probably still do this if wow was f2p.
Garrisons - it was cool for the first 30 days and now I'm not unique enough. - again can't bring myself to pay for this.
Pet Battles - just never got into the pet systems.
Level a new toon - now that they can be bought, I just can't bring myself to level a new toon, in fact I can't bring myself to pay for anything else.
I still think it's a great game, but it's value has dropped out, it's no longer a sub worthy game for me. My plan was to wait until 2 weeks before the next expac and then resub, do all the WoD raids and get ready for the expac, lvl cap and do all the dungeons in the new expac and then unsub.... I got to thinking though.... that's silly - which made me think again - my relationship with wow might be over - that's kind of sad, I didn't see it coming, but I also know I'm just not into it enough anymore to continue to pay a sub.
Yeah my experience with people with ADD is that they have no attention span whatsoever, they are constantly switching to something else... hence the term attention deficit...
Someone with ADD could never be described as a content locust.
Wow, didn t mean to upset some people. My nephew has ADD, and admits, he doesn t have the attention span to do anything but a couple things the game has to offer. As a matter of fact, he does raids and dungeons mostly because he can t concentrate on doing everything the game has to offer. Not sure what else I can say, just going on what someone I know says, that has ADD. As far as the rush part , that wasn t the same person as an ADD person that I was referring to. I m simply saying, theres a lot of people out there, that can t slow down, and must have everything now.
Looking forward to: Crowfall / Lost Ark / Black Desert Mobile
What a load of rubbish. The problem is there is no journey anymore.
Back in Vanilla there were 60 levels, a blue dungeon set to farm and then two raids to work thru all while crafting, earning mounts and world bosses etc. This journey took months to work thru.
Fast forward to today and you level in 3 days and then hop on the grind treadmill for another year while doing facebook level content reading trade chat IRC
Thats the problem - I kind of wish they would reset the whole game every year.