World of Warcraft

[Garrett]

You know... I love healing. I started my WOW career as a lock and enjoyed the lock OPness of BC... but when I leveled a druid for the first time and raided with him Resto, I fell in love... and it's something that I never got tired of. That's all I want to do. What that attidude does though is that it limits what I can do at other times... there's pretty much nothing I want to do when I log on. I used to love PVPing, but the days of really enjoying healing in PVP are over. And for PVE... well Naxx got old in January... and Ulduar just didn't appeal to me all that much. The difficulty of heroics is pathetic (come on now... even after you were Kara geared, heroics Slabs and Arc and SH could still get interesting... ) So I dunno... not much I want to see or do in WOW anymore.

A friend of mine just left for Warhammer... may give it a try and see how that goes.

That was probably a poor choice of words on my part. I don't find tanking itself boring, more tanking the same stuff over and over. More than that, though, is that is the expectation that my play time belongs to everyone else if they need a tank for something. I didn't want to be tanking the same heroics for months on end when I no longer needed anything from them, especially if the groups were going to terrible on top of it.

The way they did badges this time around makes sense, but might hurt the desire to run heroics in the long run. Once you're geared up in 25 man raiding, there's probably not a lot of stuff you need from heroics or heroic badges.

 

[Roshi]

Love WoW. I play a level 80 Death Knight on the European Krasus server. Guess what my name is

Arf !
If you've met a bad - no skill - warlock named Ilvana on Krasus that was me
I've not played her recently, I plan to reroll on a roll playing server.

OH NOES!!!!

 

[Teelie]

And yet another I have some Alliance characters I haven't touched in months. Highest I think is 16. I just never got into the Alliance side. I tried but most of my experience with them hasn't been that impressive.

I started off Horde, and played through BC on the Horde side. I switched to Alliance right before WotLK to follow some RL friends and I've been Alliance ever since... but I sure do miss the Horde side. Everyone talks about it, and most people try to dismiss it, but in my experience there really is a big maturity difference between the two sides... from what I've seen there are just so many more idiots on the Alliance side then there are Horde.

My RL friends have actually gone back to the Horde side and want me to go back too... but I've leveled three Alliances toons to 80, my resto druid is fgeared and my rogue and my lock are decentl... just don't want to do it again. I've finally reached leveling burnout.

I didn't want to step into that but it is a maturity thing. Maybe it's just because there are overall more Alliance players (or seemingly so) but my experience with players (both on Alliance side and against them) has been a lot of them are just childish. Not necessarily all children either.

Horde does have its fair share of them too but IMO Alliance is already unbalanced in numbers and the immaturity within it just seems to stand out more.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I played Alliance for about 8 months before I started playing Horde. Okay it was on a different server but I'll admit I was shocked at the difference. Less childish and less actual children was my experience.. where were all the Trade insults and puerile wankery? Clues to the age difference: on the Horde servers the spelling was dramatically better. Also noticed a huge difference in the names of characters, many great names and far less names about pwnage.

However your point about population is a good one. My Alliance server is very high pop and the Horde ones are lower pop. If you have 30% of players acting childishly this will stand out a lot more on a high pop server or faction.

 

[Geckothan]

Faction has no correlation with maturity. When I play Alliance, I encounter idiots. When I play Horde, I encounter just as many idiots. They're different breeds of idiot, but idiots nonetheless. The Alliance kids tend to be naive while Horde kids tend to be hostile and aggressive. The game is just full of idiots, you'll encounter them no matter what.

 

[TheBrew]

I have a few 70s and a 60. My current main is an 80 Orc DK on Runetotem called Saltine. Currently I'm on break, but I might sign back for some summer raiding. I tend to have a new main for each XPac.

 

[FordSVT]

Haven't played in about a month... that's why I started coming around here again... to distract me.

My main (and my love) is my 80 Resto Druid (no dual spec, thank you), and I play on Azuremyst. While I'm trying to quit now, I'm waiting to see what the 3.2 Battleground looks like... (AV of old? I'm in!) ... but I find Wrath really made end-game PVE and PVP boring... it seemed like a great expansion at first, but it just doens't have any lasting appeal.

I think Ulduar is one of the most entertaining and most challenging instances they've ever created. It's not without it's faults, but it's certainly in the BT/Sunwell level of difficulty, especially on hard modes. To date only two guilds in the world have downed Algalon the observer. Only 16 guilds have even opened him up. The dailies are a bit more interesting, the dual spec has finally been implemented and is very useful.

I miss the really big raids, but I do understand why Blizz went with the 5/10/25-man structure in Wrath. It was simply far too difficult on any but the most populated servers to get a decent group of people together to raid unless you were in a large guild.

Really, unless you are hardcore into pvp or plan to raid regularly at 80 with a group of people, WoW is not going to be interesting. I understand that some people level to 30 or 40 and say "Meh, not for me", but levelling isn't why most people play the game. And as far as levelling is concerned, if you pay attention to the dialog, play out the quest chains, check out all of the cool dungeons and items and characters and landscapes Blizz has created... there is as much to the game as you want to make of it. People skip over 95% of the content levelling now, old world adventures that used to take months to complete and a lot of effort. Newbs take it for granted or miss it entirely. "Killing animals for fur" is missing the point, IMO, but I sympathize people who hit that wall and don't enjoy it. If you just pick up the game an hour or two a couple times a week over the months it probably would feel like they were going nowhere, especially since they'd be unlikely to encounter other people on the same curve to progress with. Max level is where the real fun is outside of maybe arena and BGs for those who like to twink.

Cursalock, Horde, Azshara Realm. Afflock/dual PvE-PvP spec.

"Lok'tar Ogar! For the Horde!"

I'm such a dork!

 

[Xevious]

I have an 80 Orc Deathknight on Uldiman. But most of my play time anymore is just running easy instances with RL friends on rare occasions.

 

[RichMerk]

I'm not one of those people with a dozen 80's. I still actually enjoy doing the low level quests. I read all the quest text and get into the lore and backstories. The best quest chains are the whole Sven thing in Duskwood, and the giant Missing Diplomat chain.

Shandris server
80 Slikk Nelf mutilate daggers rogue
64 Slyk Nelf unholy deathknight
45 Slykk Nelf combat sword rogue
32 Slik Nelf druid
01 Zlikk Troll shaman
36 Sunwalker Belf ret paladin
14 Arthalion Human holy paladin

There's little confusion in other player's minds who my alts are.