There is not a single thing I will ever miss from cataclysm. That expansion was just completely AWFUL.
There is not a single thing I will ever miss from cataclysm. That expansion was just completely AWFUL.
I actually like Cata more than MOP. I know it's been said 100 times but doing all those daily quests and valor capping is really burning me out.
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False. Maybe you couldn't, but with some gear you very well could.
That's not to say that Wrath's heroics were piss easy. The real issue is everyone compared 4.0 heroics to 3.3 heroics with everyone in t9+ gear. In 3.0 they were a decent challenege. Probably about 30% harder than Mists' heroics (which are a bit too easy)
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Words to live by.
Nope still didn't like Cata. MoP is fine, its just a little boring right now because it's end of content patch.
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If Cataclysm is suddenly good, then it means that MoP is even worse.
Loved Vanilla and tBC only because I had so much time (was slacking off in highschool) to dedicate into those two games. If I had a job/college when Vanilla/tBC was around. . .I probably would've hated it. Vanilla and tBC were also both new gaming experiences for me.
Only liked Wrath because of the lore figures. . .as well as Cata. I've enjoyed all the leveling of each expansion, including MoP.
Only reason why I havent cared for MoP is because there aren't any lore figures that I would normally look forward to (Illidan, Arthas, Kil'Jaeden, Sargeras, Titans, Deathwing, etc). Then again, using an expansion to really branch out a minor figure from the old warcraft games (Panderan) was a smart move on Blizz's part (IMO).
From what I've played of MoP (not the past few months) I'd still say MoP is a good expansion, but not one I personally want to pay 15 bucks a month to continue playing. However that's just my personal opinion, millions would disagree with me.
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I didn't like Cataclysm when it was current and I don't like it now. I dislike it to the point where I won't play any of my alts past Northrend anymore.
Don't be fooled. The other day a poll asked "which xpac was the worst" and Cata won with well over 50% of the vote. Blizzard is largely correct when they talk about "the silent majority." MMO-Champion and forums tend to draw the most extreme players, and about 33-50% of these extreme players were the only ones to like Cata and hate on Mists the day it was announced.
Mop sucks Cata sucked the only decent x-PAC we had recently was wotlk. Even that wasn't that great but it was bearable. The last x-pac I had fun in was tbc. So ur last x-pac nostalgia philosophy is false. All u have too do is look at mop and u"ll see how far this game has fallen.
Each expansion has tried a different method to impress people. Vanilla was an appeal to the raiders from Everquest and Warcraft fans. Burning Crusade was another attempt to appeal to raiders. Wrath was an appeal to a more casual audience. Cataclysm was an appeal to a hardcore crowd, again because apparently Wrath was "too easy." Mists is an appeal to the average player as it tries to give everyone something to do.
Say what you will but the game itself has never been "bad" or "good." It's been excellent and I have never had a bad experience.
Yes, cataclysm is suddenly good now that the novelty of MoP has worn out.
The best thing about WoW is not the community, the game play, the end-game, the quality, etc. All of those are fairly mediocre by today's standards.
The best thing about WoW is the nostalgia, and for that reason the current expansion/patch will always be generally viewed as crap, while older expansions/patches will be venerated.
It's like high school, you complain about it endlessly while you're there, but 5 years later you look back and say "best time of my life". Not because your current life is worse, but because certain types of experience are better appreciated in memory, not during the experience itself.
I didnt complain about BC one bit...not even once. I loved it then and still do.
Because a bad expansion can have good things about it. People forget how shitty most things were and remember the thing that was good compared to MoP's similar, but worse, thing.
I.e., you could gear up your alts through dungeons and go into LFR in a short period of time during Cata. Now, gearing up an alt is a more involved and lengthy process. People enjoyed Cata's gearing process for their alts more than MoP's. So, even though everything else in Cata may have sucked, they remember being able to gear up alts faster and easier and then have this memory of Cata being good and enjoyable compared to MoP.
An expansion won't ever be just flat out better. They will always change things about this, that, and the other thing, and some things may be better and some things may be worse. It happens every time and it fully explains why people complain about the current expansion and praise the previous one. It's not confounding at all.
Cata started out very rough, leveled out and was ok in the middle, got horrible again, and ultimately ended on a good note. I'd happily erase all memories of Wrath from my head, though.
By "good note" I mean I said goodbye with a friendly handshake and a smile, but wasn't sad to see it go. I left Wrath screaming in bloodlust and stabbing it in the chest.
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