The dual server thing wouldn't work for the simple reason the raiders wouldn't have non raiders to condescend and show their gear off to.

A hen house isn't nearly as fun when it's filled with roosters.

 

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Agreed on everything but the PvP which I couldn't care less about.



Disagreed. I think the new system is better. Guild talent trees would only have lead to whining if the guild leader and officers had decided to take a talent some kind of minority didn't want. The actual system leaves no room for whining.


Heh, that's sad.



I won't touch Rift with a ten foot pole now that I've been in several beta events, it's just another sub-par WoW clone tentative, but I'm also eagerly waiting for SW:TOR and also Guild Wars 2. Looks like GW2 will try to create a more dynamic world, with unexpected events happening, and I'm looking forward to that, while SW:TOR is a Bioware product, so it will most likely be high quality and worth trying and getting some chars through the story to max level even if it reveals not being a keeper after a few months. I expect SW:TOR to be similar LOTRO, but with better mechanics and even better story due to the Bioware Brand on it. Hopefully neither SW:TOR not GW2 will screw up the combat mechanics and dynamism, and make it as dynamic as WoW.

By the way - the people who didn't like the way the new zones in WoW:Cata work probably won't like Rift either. Rift is totally linear. It sadly also lacks the creativity and variety of WoW's quests.

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The idea of "easy mode WotLK" servers is hilarious. I thought WOW was easy, and everybody could faceroll it?
Truth is, as soon as presented with a challenge, most people retract into their "whiny casual" shell instead of trying to beat it. I suggest The Sims or Hello Kitty Online.

 

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Nah, wouldn't work. Those of us in i245+ gear that carried pug nubs through our 15-minute frost runs wouldn't be there to carry them through Cata content. So, none of the folks on that server would ever gear up. Of course, if they did gear up, it would give the lie to the folks who claim everyone but them is a scrub. Might be interesting just to see that happen.



heh...you (and others) trot out this false dichotomy every time you get the chance, conveniently omitting any other explanation or context. As amusing as it is to see a few folks get butthurt by that, can't you come up with anything better?

 

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Post proof of your Sim with eight babies from eight different fathers or retract.

 

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Quit long before Cata came out.

No time to play and was not going to pay for it especially since LotRO is F2P and I was still having fun in that with the 3 hours/week I have to play any game.

Well then start off with one or two "raiding" servers and go from there.

I'm not sure I made it clear what the differences would be. Basically Easy Mode (Pre-Cata, Post-WoTLK) servers would be your norm. Post-Cata, Original WOW Raiding would be your new server type. you know, with the mana changes, actually needing to CC and think your way through a raid dungeon instead of AoE everything and rarely worry about dying.

At the very least, if this were put into play we'd all find out who the "real" raiders and the wannabes are

 

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I've dialed back a bit. I've actually had a little more fun replaying the old zones than I have bringing up my 85s. I've started a fresh reroll on a new server with no resources, just to try the experience anew, but I'm also the kind of player who likes leveling more than anything else, part of the reason (the other being a stunningly superior loot/tinkering system) that AC will always hold a place near and dear.

I'm mostly curious to see how quickly they patch additional content. I know it's not like guilds have heroic on farm yet, but it still feels content light to me (in terms of life at 85, of course). I'm guessing they're probably going to be pushing new stuff quicker than we're used to, which could be nice (or, you know, it could be a slow march towards facerolling and sadness).

 

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I'd like to see the numbers on new subscribers. Anecdotally, at least on my server, I'm not seeing new subs. Outland and Northrend are invariably underpopulated. I went an entire 5-hour play session in Howling Fjord the other night and I saw exactly two other players in the zone.

 

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Newsflash: less than two months after the release of a new expansion, people are doing the new content and no longer the older content they've been doing during the previous two years.
You've read it here first.

 

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Where are people leveling up from 58-80 in the "new content?" I have several toons in those level ranges and I'd love to experience some of this new content.

 

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