tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post1357624935757538988..comments2024-03-21T23:18:45.644+00:00Comments on Priest with a Cause - A World of Warcraft (Classic) blog: The (Lack of) Allure of Classic WrathShintarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-39170809958362761182022-09-26T19:31:34.045+01:002022-09-26T19:31:34.045+01:00Have you considered playing on era at all? There i...Have you considered playing on era at all? There isn't an active RP realm, but I've found the regular PvE cluster to be pretty chill too.<br /><br />And ah, the Wrathgate... another one of those things where my personal opinion is probably quite different from that of the majority. It's a cool cinematic, but I remember the first time I did that quest, it bugged out and the cut scene didn't play; the area around me just phased from snowy to burnt and I was extremely confused. Looking it up outside the game afterwards just didn't have the same impact.<br /><br />I think the follow-up, Battle for Undercity, is hugely overrated as well. I even wrote <a href="https://priestwithacause.blogspot.com/2010/07/battle-for-undercity-revisited.html" rel="nofollow">a whole post about that</a> back in 2010, heh. Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-7262087396704102722022-09-26T16:10:54.175+01:002022-09-26T16:10:54.175+01:00Hydraxian is still alive. Groups can be formed, al...Hydraxian is still alive. Groups can be formed, albeit very slowly, and guilds are active and recruiting. But I'd say it's only 10% of it's original playerbase now, with the rest being populated by a couple of servers being merged into it (other RP servers). Almost all my characters are still there and I've been playing it this week but Wrath doesn't have the allure of the classic game for me. Still, I'll probably get Padwell to L73 so that I can re-experience The Wrathgate, WoW at it's peak - that, alone, is worth re-experiencing Wrath since it's no longer in the main game.Padburynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-14413470674899522262022-09-26T13:50:02.733+01:002022-09-26T13:50:02.733+01:00People definitely matter a lot. I can have some fu...People definitely matter a lot. I can have some fun playing an MMO solo, but the ones that have stuck for me long-term have always involved some sort of guild or community. <br />There isn't anything about Wrath that would excite me into wanting to play it solo either. If I just want to feel some nostalgia for the Northrend zones, I can get that particular fix in retail too.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-27493566418858218332022-09-26T13:01:07.002+01:002022-09-26T13:01:07.002+01:00The run up to Wrath Classic highlight to me how mu...The run up to Wrath Classic highlight to me how much I've changed in how I play Wow. When I originally started I didn't know anyone who played so I was a solo player. It wasn't until mid to late BC that I really started being involved with a guild and doing raids on a consistent basis. Of course, as is all too common with guilds, each expansion seemed to kill the guild I was in so I'd end up soloing for a time while chatting with a few folks that I was able to keep in touch with. It wasn't until Cataclysm (Dragon Soul, specifically) I ended up with a group of folks who've I've ended up playing with ever since.<br /><br />Which is all a long-winded way of saying that part of my lack of interest in revisiting the Classic versions of Wow is the fact that I find myself unable to sustain a motivation to solo the game again. Without those folks who I enjoy playing the game with I find I just don't want to commit long term to any version of the game. Sure, doing a short-term goal with the Wrath pre-patch was fine, but even that event -- that I loved in the original experience -- just didn't hold my interest. :/<br /><br />Quite a change for game that used to be my 'home MMO' where I would always seem to end back up at, if only to putter around.Pallaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01052537793722183657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-30074194203767136682022-09-24T18:59:03.031+01:002022-09-24T18:59:03.031+01:00That's a really good question. After I posted ...That's a really good question. After I posted the comment I thought about exactly that and also what it is that makes me feel uncomfortable about going back... and I came to the conclusion that it's all about doing what I said I would do. In other words, it's entirely about me, not about Blizzard at all.<br /><br />I can't even say with conviction that I know where things stand there now. I have been keeping tabs on it's going but only by reading the regular news reports on the kind of sites that cover this stuff. I don't know any more than that. My impression is that a lot of smoke was blown and Blizzard made some easy-to-make concessions and apologies before hiding behind the screen of the takeover and kicking the problem down the road. But that's just an impression. I'd have to do a lot more research than I have any interest in doing to find out more.<br /><br />No, the real issue from my perspective is that I've said publicly that I wouldn't play Blizzard games again until it felt comfortable to do so and that I would probably feel comfortable when the takeover had happened. Leaving aside why that would make me feel comfortable about playing, which is sonething else that deserves some rigorous critical analysis, it's clear my real issue is being seen as someone who does what they say they will do, not someone who chops and changes according to convenience. You'll note I say "being seen as" not "being". <br />Whatever the reason, the upshot is that I definitely don't yet feel comfortable about playing so I guess I clould just have answered your question with "Yes, it's a gut feeling". It's always been my experience that those are the feelings to follow. If something feels wrong, probably best not to do it, especially when it's something as trivial as playing a video game.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-52314174937736297162022-09-24T15:48:44.349+01:002022-09-24T15:48:44.349+01:00I found that I actually wrote a post back in 2009 ...I found that I actually wrote a post back in 2009 that was literally called <a href="https://priestwithacause.blogspot.com/2009/08/why-i-dont-like-death-knights.html" rel="nofollow">Why I don't like death knights</a>"! Though my attitude towards them <a href="https://priestwithacause.blogspot.com/2010/09/sunday-night-pug-musings.html" rel="nofollow">did seem to soften a bit</a> after a while.<br /><br />Monks are not dramatic and edgy! They just spin and punch things. But I get that instinctive dislike for whatever's the "flavour of the month". It's been different for me, getting introduced to both monk and demon hunter at the point where they are just classes like any other.<br /><br />Demon hunters are super edgy for sure, but at least you don't spend your starter experience doing evil as someone else's mind slave, so they've got that over death knights.Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-738159463883204432022-09-24T15:40:26.019+01:002022-09-24T15:40:26.019+01:00Is there something specific you'd need to happ...Is there something specific you'd need to happen before you'd be willing to give Blizzard money again (e.g. Bobby Kotick's departure)? Or is it just a gut feeling kind of thing?Shintarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758343475446510635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-14394260217834938502022-09-24T08:46:22.365+01:002022-09-24T08:46:22.365+01:00This is a weird one for me in that Wrath was my in...This is a weird one for me in that Wrath was my introduction to WoW and far from feeling streamlined or dumbed down from the earlier versions, I was surprised by how slow and serious it was. Having never played before but having heard many reports from peole who had about what a silly, frivolous, childish game it was compared to just about any other mmorpg you care to name, I was expecting something that wouldn't hold my attention for a week, let alone the six months I did spend there.<br /><br />Now I've also played Classic, which is the closest we're going to get to having a time machine, the whole "WoW is for kids" argument makes even less sense. Classic wasn't as slow or grindy as Classic EQm sure, but I still didn't make it to max level because of the pacing towards the end, just like I never made it to the cap in Wrath.<br /><br />Anyway, with all lof that in the background, I would probably be quite excited to revisit my own first experience in WoW right now... except I am not giving Blizzard any money. It's disappointing, although not in the least surprising, to see the way everyone's flocking back as if everything's been put right, when it patently hasn't. I'm waiting on the Microsoft deal to go through before I re-assess my own position on playing WoW again. Until then I'm not even willing to log into my free account, although of course I could change my mind at any time because humans.Bhagpusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03499162165023939880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4659326122793396570.post-47454213865581340662022-09-24T07:31:59.296+01:002022-09-24T07:31:59.296+01:00I never liked the "redemption" ending fo...I never liked the "redemption" ending for a DK, and I've seen tons of them rolling up to SW and telling Varian "We're all good now!" and he goes "Okay!" like an idiot.<br /><br />Ergo, I have never bothered creating one and never will. Just like I won't create a Monk or Demon Hunter, ever. Not that because it's not a "Classic class", but because Blizz tried too hard to make things, well, dramatic and edgy. Maybe not so much with the Monk, but there were so damn many of them <i>everywhere</i> when Mists dropped that I grew incredibly sick of them. Kind of how now, on the cusp of Wrath Classic, had I not been invested in a Paladin from original WoW Classic I would probably have not created one either. Kind of like "it was a miserable, grindly slog of an experience leveling a Pally in Classic, and <i>now</i> when Ret finally gets some love and attention people come out of the woodwork to play them? REALLY?"<br /><br />As for when Wrath Classic drops, I suspect that when most of the big servers start hitting huge queue times people won't be quite so enamored of these megaservers.Redbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05306063084983025771noreply@blogger.com