Meddyck24 posted:
I prefer to keep subscribing to Dark Age rather than invest my time playing some other older game that I'll just put aside in a few months.
I prefer to keep subscribing to Dark Age rather than invest my time playing some other older game that I'll just put aside in a few months.
I fought playing WoW for a long time, and if it wasn't for my wife I probably would not have played at all. But that said, I've been super impressed by Blizzard and what they've done to the game in the last year.
* You don't have to form dungeon groups anymore, you hit a button to queue for a dungeon (selected or random) and it gives you a perfectly made group - 1 healer 1 tank 3 dps. I don't really like questing, so I leveled a Pally 1-80 solely through the dungeon finder. 1-70 I tanked, 70-80 I healed. Now 80-85 I'm staying in my healing spec (which is actually a good questing spec if you hit the few dps talents in the trees.
* They recreated almost the entire old world, completely changed every single class, and re-made the talent trees. The classes now feel like they were designed in 2010 and not 2000/EQ-era, and the old world quests (1-60) are not so archaic.
* They took every "essential" addon and built it into their standard UI. IE QuestHelper / Raid Frames. At some point (or for aesthetics) you'll want addons but you don't need them the way you did before.
This xpack adds rated battlegrounds for guilds on the pvp side, and obviously tons of raiding content on the pve side. I'll probably dabble in a little of both.
Although, the bottom line that I'm sure you wouldn't like still stands, WoW is a gear-grind. Even if the entry point to gearing for pvp or raiding is pretty quick it's still there. In WoTLK my mage went from 80 to raiding-ready in about 1.5 weeks, including getting professions up to 450.
