This post on Dear Gnome could really be copied word-for-word and reposted here. I wasn't having fun on WoW pre-Cata, and it's so much worse now. I hate this expansion. I really, really do
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On the FFXI note I've been trying hard to want to like it. It is just too...well easy all around for me. I mean, I know I bitch endlessly about how easy things were (in terms of leveling) in ToAU but at least the missions were hard, and the events were hard (Salvage, HNMs, Einherjar, Higher Tier Assaults). But I can't help but feel they sold out to the "WoW Casual" model. I can understand why they did it (tons more people love that model then the "actually work for things" model they used before). But let me give you an example of what I mean:
Leveling in ToAU: Puks (crazy AoE knockback, requires positioning knowledge), Fire Crawlers (crazy cone of death, requires positioning and actual tank), hell I'll even include Colibri (steals your food/TP, pecking flurry can be painful, requires fast kills to avoid damage overflow).
Leveling in Abyssea: Get an alliance, and go beat the living shit out of X mob for 6 hours (requires at least 1 BLM who isn't an idiot). Assuming someone doesn't do something stupid, there is absolutely no risk in
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On the FFXI note I've been trying hard to want to like it. It is just too...well easy all around for me.
Wow, that's wacky (and sad!) to hear. I never ever ever would have thought that FFXI would go that route. I guess in a way they sort of had to, but... we already have WoW, we don't need two too-easy games!
I can understand why they did it (tons more people love that model then the "actually work for things" model they used before)
Sad but true. :/
Abyssea just needs lots of people to run around going "derp derp I kill teh mobs!" and like 2 people who actually know what they are doing. I give it to SE for understanding their player base (specifically the "derp derp" people) but even the events are just silly easy.
Blah. Blah, I say! That does sound very WoW-ish. D:
It's annoying. I don't think I want to go back to where the game would just eat the face of anyone who wasn't hardcore, but I would at least like some challenge or to actually feel like I accomplished something, instead of just grinding EP mobs for 5 hours...So
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Good lord, the horror the healers are currently experiencing is right. BUT. I am of two minds about it. I think once dps gets used to having to use crowd control again, it won't be as bad.
I hear about it multiple times a day on LJ. I really feel for healers! I wonder if DPSs will learn though, or if Blizz will give in and nerf things back to WotLK-ish? I don't have much faith in the average WoW player.
The downside is: now there are no pugs, because the experienced players don't want to deal with "Wrathbabies" (yes, this is a term people are actually using for people who started in Wrath),I would never want to pug either. Chry and Morny pug endlessly, and I just sit in the corner and rock back and forth for the trauma they go through
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I don't expect them to nerf Cata 5-mans -- I expect they'll gradually get easier as content patches are rolled out and the 85s start quickly outgearing the stuff.
And I haven't been through too much PuG horror, really... probably because I'm not a healer. :D;;; But when I tank and have a pocket healer along, I have a lot of fun... but it's probably too nerve-wracking still for me to recommend it to you. Stay away!
Also, I think Arthas and the Lich King can be thought of as slightly different characters... I'm way more enamored with the Lich King and Scourge culture (OURS IS NOT TO QUESTION, ONLY TO ACT) than with prima donna Prince Arthas myself.
Poor Sandy is probably happy to be in your pocket! And yeah, LK 5 man things were stressful for me, so I'm hiding from Cata dungeons. I'll cheer you guys from over here!
Good point on the LK! And agreed!
I don't know how we're supposed to take the Twilight Cultists seriously, not after we did those pre-Cata quests where we so easily fooled them to think we were one of them. They were more slapstick than serious bad guys. The Scourge and the LK on the other hand! Yummily evil.
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Leveling in ToAU: Puks (crazy AoE knockback, requires positioning knowledge), Fire Crawlers (crazy cone of death, requires positioning and actual tank), hell I'll even include Colibri (steals your food/TP, pecking flurry can be painful, requires fast kills to avoid damage overflow).
Leveling in Abyssea: Get an alliance, and go beat the living shit out of X mob for 6 hours (requires at least 1 BLM who isn't an idiot). Assuming someone doesn't do something stupid, there is absolutely no risk in ( ... )
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Wow, that's wacky (and sad!) to hear. I never ever ever would have thought that FFXI would go that route. I guess in a way they sort of had to, but... we already have WoW, we don't need two too-easy games!
I can understand why they did it (tons more people love that model then the "actually work for things" model they used before)
Sad but true. :/
Abyssea just needs lots of people to run around going "derp derp I kill teh mobs!" and like 2 people who actually know what they are doing. I give it to SE for understanding their player base (specifically the "derp derp" people) but even the events are just silly easy.
Blah. Blah, I say! That does sound very WoW-ish. D:
It's annoying. I don't think I want to go back to where the game would just eat the face of anyone who wasn't hardcore, but I would at least like some challenge or to actually feel like I accomplished something, instead of just grinding EP mobs for 5 hours...So ( ... )
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I hear about it multiple times a day on LJ. I really feel for healers! I wonder if DPSs will learn though, or if Blizz will give in and nerf things back to WotLK-ish? I don't have much faith in the average WoW player.
The downside is: now there are no pugs, because the experienced players don't want to deal with "Wrathbabies" (yes, this is a term people are actually using for people who started in Wrath),I would never want to pug either. Chry and Morny pug endlessly, and I just sit in the corner and rock back and forth for the trauma they go through ( ... )
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And I haven't been through too much PuG horror, really... probably because I'm not a healer. :D;;; But when I tank and have a pocket healer along, I have a lot of fun... but it's probably too nerve-wracking still for me to recommend it to you. Stay away!
Also, I think Arthas and the Lich King can be thought of as slightly different characters... I'm way more enamored with the Lich King and Scourge culture (OURS IS NOT TO QUESTION, ONLY TO ACT) than with prima donna Prince Arthas myself.
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Good point on the LK! And agreed!
I don't know how we're supposed to take the Twilight Cultists seriously, not after we did those pre-Cata quests where we so easily fooled them to think we were one of them. They were more slapstick than serious bad guys. The Scourge and the LK on the other hand! Yummily evil.
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