I thought Cata was okay with some flaws, but Pandaria has just been completely uninteresting to me. Going with the monotone of PANDAREN bores me, especially when I don't find Asian culture all that interesting to begin with.
I thought Cata was okay with some flaws, but Pandaria has just been completely uninteresting to me. Going with the monotone of PANDAREN bores me, especially when I don't find Asian culture all that interesting to begin with.
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Words to live by.
Patch 3.5? That's a new one. You probably mean 3.3
And frankly, 3.3 heroics were ridiculously easier than the Cata ones at the start. Because - guess what - people were already running a lot of stuff, including a perfectly puggable TOC and the TOC 5-man providing 219 (iirc) loot. While in Cata, people were at most in blues to start heroics, which were longer and probably harder (at least as healer) than the 3.3 ones.
Yet they were infinitely easier to complete.
In a perfect world where people do not pay subs, perhaps. In practice, most people are not very good at what they do, and if they don't get the bang out of their buck, they just go try something else.
There was the DS heroics to correct the situation. They were quit easy to complete and provided people with a catch-up (whether it was a good idea or not is another discussion). Also, there was LFR. Those two combined have indeed lured a lot of players back, because they could - for once - do something besides dailies and BGs.
As I was saying in my initial post in this thread, Cataclysm poured a lot of resources into Old World revamping. As a corollary, there was less resources left for everything else.
Not really, no. I could talk to you about 4 hours heroic SL (without me, thank God), people leaving after the first wipe and so on. Nothing unusual compared to Cata initial heroics.
Nothing. Because - guess what - raiders are a tiny minority within WoW population. You don't design content based on that. People level to max, do (easy) 5-man and then do LFR. Most of them stop there. Everything above (raiders) is a tiny population.
Don't get me started about skill in BC. BC was even more about gear. Because don't tell me that an imba rotation of BC enh shaman consisting of 3 buttons required skill. Or the legendary shadow bolt spam (or immo/incinerate) of warlocks. Compared to today, DPS rotations and healing toolkits are much more complicated than in BC. Tanking is easier, that's true, but that's about it.
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As I already said, yes, it's true because the old world revamp took a lot of resources. It may not have been the best decision, but in my opinion it had to be done. And it would have gone infinitely easier if they didn't screw up the initial 5 mans in the process.
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Cata was pretty good tbh,, (apart from the obvious bad things) the only thing i didnt like was the separate zones and the shitty story and cack assed boss called deathwing who nobody partcularly gave a shit about ;p
Cata is/was far more enjoyable and fun than this pile of shit that is MoP !!
........THE WRITING'S ON THE WALL !!!!!
No actually, I haven't heard it anywhere but on some forums where the whiners were crying about mop as usual at the beginning of a new expansion.
I hated Cataclysm pretty much tho. The first tier was amazing bar Al'akir and his bitches. Firelands nearly burned out my eyes and DS was around for way too long. I don't say that it wasn"t useful either: the reform on the old content questing system made leveling few alt characters bareable as opposed to the old one ( tough the linear quest system was not my favourite)
As for MoP I think it is a pretty good expansion so far, the amount of lore they could squeeze out of an unknown continent was actually amazing, altough I think the new raid is coming out a bit early. The horrible rep/daily farming is really out of its place, that is for sure and some raid encounters were horrible, but other than that it is pretty cool imo
Nope, I still hate Cataclysm. The story/questing in WotLK was great, but heroic dungeons were a little too easy and raids were too PUG-abble. I can't speak for BC, because I wasn't around when the content was new.
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The first tier was good, but subsequent tiers of PvE and PvP in general were pretty poor, in my opinion.