Heya guys!! I had planned on deleting my WoW goes Green post and reposting later, because I’m putting some hardcore work in on the site this weekend. I plan on putting out between 5-10 MAJOR posts in the next few days. And I want my WoW goes Green post the be on top. As I plan to leave it there for a few days as my header.
But that would delete the MULTITUDE of comments, and that’s just not cool. So it stays for now. I made a mistake in writing that post while aggravated, so I did not coherently get all of my points across. Which in the end lead to a good deal of “flamer” replies. The fact is I know most of my facts, and I can show you guys how Blizzard has dropped the ball. But I did it in such a way to where it fell flat.
Have no fear, I will repost it better later. Which is why I’m only approving comments, even inflamatory ones, atm. And not replying. It’s not to say I don’t have rebuttles, but to say I need to delay it for something else.
That said, what’s coming?
DPS results from SIMS for trees, some explanations.
Some amazing mods, and why/how to use them to redefine your gaming experience.
Insights in how to bring the most possible dps to the raid environment.
Tricks of the trade to improve yourself as a gamer.
APE values, linked to lootank for ranking your BISI’s.
Pawn values as well for in game measurement.
And some of my own personal wisdom.
Why so much in such little time?
I’m revamping the site. And taking it on as a casual endeavor. I came back to WoW not because of burnout or lack of it. I came back not because of a driving need. I came back to see if it could be done as job, and how it would work out for me… And now I know the answer.
I needed to answer the same question posed to ever human being in the world. Why do I want to be doing with my life. And this website, of all things, has helped me do just that. Is the website going away, being ignored, or whatever else could be possible? Nope. It’s paid up for the next 1 1/2 years and I plan on keeping it. Just my focus and plans are changing.
More on that later. But before I become a “casual” blogger, doing it for fun instead of as work. I plan on giving you guys some of my best knowledge, tricks, and tools. I’m giving you guys the keys.
Heya guys!! Long term readers know by now that I’ve suffered the burn out blues on several occasions when it comes to WoW. The only reason I came back was to try my hand at this internet thing as a business to see if it was something I wanted to do. Yet now I find that 3.2 is making my stomach turn so much I’m really wondering if it was worth it.
Patch 3.0
Basically the intro of LK was amazing. The zones, the content, the quests, the Death Knight class, the introduction of hard mode 3 drake Sartharion. It was good enough to knock your socks off. But then after about 3-5 weeks, the new flavor wore out. Something was missing…
Naxx was a joke. Sure, it was fun the first few times. But then, it got stale quickly. Even for those people who had never been in Naxx40, you could know all about it. The lore, the bosses, the fight mechanics, the screenshots, the videos, etc… None of it was new. You knew what was coming before hand. And as far as difficulty was concerned, you gotta be kidding me…
Sure Blizzard says that it’s supposed to be the introduction to raiding, and therefor easy. But just because they think that, and want it to be, doesn’t make it a good call. The fact is that the vast majority of WoW players, even the newbs, find Naxx too easy.
In the end Naxx was pure misery to be farming over and over again. And at this point, I know people who are farming it for Conquest badges only. They couldn’t care about the drops or the encounters. How sad is that?
And let’s not forget PvP. Not only has Arena been a joke since release, but the armor models are a joke.
How broken were DK’s? Seriously, it was retarded. The resilience system was completely newbed up, and since they scaled DPS up across the board without scaling up HP or RES, everyone died in a heart beat.
And then these stupid lame pvp armor graphics?!? When the players cried out and complained about re-using PvE Tier sets, we didn’t mean for Blizz to give us one suit of armor forever. It’s not ok to just slap a new coat of paint on an upgrade and then pat me on the fricking head. I’ll bite your fucking damn hand off.
Patch 3.1
So now we get Ulduar. Big improvement. All kinds of new bosses with unique looks, an amazing dungeon design, lots of hard mode encounters. We’re getting somewhere right? Not really.
When you think about it, Ulduar was really too little too late. Far too many players suffered under the yoke of Naxx by this point that burnout had settled pretty deeply under their skin. There were scars that would be ready to rise again if not enough “healing time” was given.
As to PvP? Did they make it better? Hell no. Still workin on bugs/problems, still slapping new coats of pain (pain/paint? it’s the same by this point) on our PvP armor patting us on the damn head. I swear to God I would punch the Dev group right in the kitten that approved that moronic concept.
And they still can’t get Arena right. Everyone gives up on 3v3 and 5v5 for the most part because 2v2 is where it’s at. It’s easier to get rating, there is more competition, easier method to getting shoulders/weapons, etc…
So while Ulduar has been amazing, everything else has tanked. It was too easy to progress into Ulduar from Naxx, and because of that (and the ilvl of drops), everything outside of raids becomes pointless outside of the novelty/fun aspect. There are no Heroics worth doing from a “gear standpoint”. You’ve basically outleveled all of the content once you’re entering Ulduar.
Outside of Uld10/25 you really just have rep grinds (which don’t yield anything gear wise), novelty item farming (pets/mounts), achievment whoring (fun for some, boring as hell for others – like me), and PvP. Oh yeah, they borked up PvP. 2v2 is the only viable Arena alternative, and BG’s award less than a new PvE raid called VoA10/25… Morons…
Patch 3.2
Yay!! New content here I come!! First night of raiding…kill one boss. Next please!! Whadda ya mean no?!!? WTF DO YOU MEAN NOT TILL NEXT WEEK!?!?! WTF KIND OF BS IS THIS?!?!!?
That was me. Right there. *grumble* And don’t even get me started on the stupid lame armor graphics. I’m sharing the same armor skins as paladins and warriors? Oh, I’m sorry. You gave me a fresh coat of paint. If you reach to pat my head, I will bite you. I swear it.
First off, every single damn boss has been re-used from previous content (read: graphics, skins). Second off, we’ve been waiting for months for new content just to be told you only get to see one boss per fricking week?!!? Are you kidding me?
And the dungeon? The trash mobs? The cool exploration? Gone. Have fun standing in a big fricking circle for the next 3-6 months while Blizz sits on their asses. GL with that!!
No new Arena season yet. But who cares except for the super hardcore pvp’ers since they’ve not been properly supporting PvP anyways. The ever present promise of upgrades to the BG’s resulting in progress outside of Arenas still fails to appear.
And now they’re telling us they will bring us back Onyxia!! Seriously? o.o You’re joking right?
Think about it for a minute…
Blizzard makes billions per year off of WoW. Not millions. BILLIONS. And their big new exciting content is going to be a re-release of old content. Again… LK has been nothing but re-releases of old content, finding ways to make people repeat current content (hard modes), etc… And then making us wait for it all…
WTF happened to the concepts out of BC? Where there were MULTIPLE raid encounters sitting there waiting to be unlocked!! T4, T5, and T6 content were all in place rip, roarin’, ready to go!! Why doesn’t anyone remember this?!!?
Blizzard spent 2 years getting BC out. And they had 3 different tiers of dungeons ready to go. They had Gruul, Magtheridon, Karazhan, Serpentshrine Cavern, Tempest Keep, Mount Hyjal, and Black Temple. Stop. Go back and re-read this paragraph. LK also took two years btw. BC = 2 years. LK = 2 years.
Seven. Count them, SEVEN RAIDS ready to go for BC release.
LK? One raid ready for release, and it was just a re-do of an old vanilla WoW raid… Blizzard is spending their billions on us guys. Obviously… No seriously. I mean it. Really.
Things like this make me sit here and question my resolve to continue playing WoW.
What do you think?
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
P.S. For those wondering where this is coming from…
Everything was cemented in place once I saw what the 3.2 content release was going to actually be. I had been holding out hope that they’d revamp the PTR again before going Live. But they didn’t. While in some ways the Onyxia thing is really really cool, overall it’s just another reminder of how weak ToC is.
Combined with remembering how well done the BC release was while knowing how much money Blizzard makes off of WoW, and it leaves me here fuming. The kettle’s been steaming for a while now, but it’s finally boiling.
