VN Delivers!


As far as rerolling.... yup they've changed some parts of the zones (same cattle-chute feel). Taken away some old favorites and added new ones. Some new quests are 'meh' and they totally overdid the easteregg A-Team stuff in redridge (imo).. it was funny... to a point...and then stepped into Gnomeregan and found more!


Although I love being able to jump from instance to instance to level up. Using 2 level 80's to fly quickly to meeting stones then summoning part of the group, logging, summoning the alts was very timely. Our alts got 12 levels Friday and Saturday night doing orange-level elites in the instances then leveling up, picking up the quests inside and running them again.


Was shocked to find how much of the trash mobs were taken out (and in Gnomer, how many the quests let you skip.)


I was also a little disconcerted to find that we could easily do them with 4 of us when the trash mobs were orange to us. Prot pally/rogue/hunter/resto shaman. My hubby who was playing shaman was barely having to heal me (pally). He started DPSing, lol.

We did Stockades, BFD, Gnomer, and a bunch of multiple runs through everything in SM except the cathedral. Trash mobs were red there when we finally logged off.


Those regular instances felt way too easy from what I remember. Maybe it was the 2 pieces each of heirloom pieces. Maybe it was that we could just pick up blue items from doing the instance quests before moving to the next instance. I do know we all had some really low level greens (some of them for 10 levels lower) and we never really had problems.


Curious to see if they've slimmed down the TBC instances.


I had to warn myself (as well as hubby) not to get too complacent about how easy they felt. And I wondered, if somebody new to the game would find those difficult or easy. And what kind of expectations those might set....


Guess I just turned the thread back around, huh?

 

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/cameo

 

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Full of heirlooms i guess? Try those instances with regular gear.

One shoulder and one chest piece. The rest are at or waay below level greens with one blue piece thrown in.


I guess that's "overgeared". <cough>


Yeah. So, trying that without those 2 heirlooms would be a legit "new to the game" experience as far as gear goes. One run through for comparison to collect data might be worth it just for curiosity's sake.


And.....


/target Arc


/poke


How's Rift?

 

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I found the early instances much easier when I came back from what I remember from vanilla. Namely Gnomregan. That instance use to be the bane of my existance, when levling alliance I would avoid it at all costs, which was a shame because it contained 5 or 6 good quests.


With both my Shaman, (Healer) and Pally (Tank), we just smashed it. No hierlooms at all, just quest greens and the odd blue. Thermaplugg dumping aggro was the only challenge, and now they have even changed that and removed his immunity to taunt.


Sunken temple is a joke now. We discussed this in an ealier thread before actually seeing the dugeon. It is just one level now, a small circle with bosses down each hall way. It may have been to long before, now it can hardly be called a dungeon at all.


Blizzard knows no middle ground.

 

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Syrus,

I probably tanked ST 20 times on my warrior recenty, before the change to the dungeon...

It was a joke then.

Heirlooms + changes since vanilla > old content.

 

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Fair enough. ST was a little tedious before. Now its a smash and grab. Even with out heirlooms though, just with the changes in itemization, class development and talents, the current game is much easier then the vanilla version.


Is that a bad thing? *Shrug*

 

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http://vnboards.ign.com/world_of_warcraft_general_board/b19789/114279346/p1/?34

 

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I have access to that thread as well thank you. Infact if you read the thread you'll notice quite a few replies from both myself and Gutter. If you have anything relevent from either thread please feel free to chime in anytime.

 

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Relevant? Not really. The find the entire argument ludicrous from a business and a player standpoint so that's about all the time I wanted to waste with it.

 

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