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I think you have a valid set of concerns to some extent.  But seriously.. why care what gear other people have?  Play for your own enjoyment.

And, to be blunt, with the success of WoW, other companies will do MORE of what WoW does, rather than less. 

If there is a decent way to play Warhammer with out reinstalling XP... I'll be in.  I also want to try Age of Conan when it comes out.

I've noticed that. I was on the beta for LotRO.  It looked ok, but everything was so static... and the quests were just as pointless and annoying... not a lot really grabbed me, other than walking into Rivendell. 

From what I've read of Age of Conan, the character system looks novel and fun... and so I will at least give it a shot.  I'd try to get on the beta, but I just dont have space on my MBP hard drive to install Winderz at the moment.  When my student loans come in, I think I will get the local shop to pop in a 200gig drive

The new honor system and arena system aren't perfect, but they're a hell of a lot better than the old honor system.

You just had to play for absolutely unhealthy amounts of time, or share your account, to get the best PvP gear on competitive servers, it had nothing to do with how good you were.

Let me get this straight, one of the main you reasons you played WoW was so that your gear could be better than everyone else's?

It takes the 1400 rated teams a lot longer to get the gear than the 2300 rated ones. And as for the new system giving away gear like candy, maybe the fact that you had to play 14 hours a day to get epics in the old system distorts your opinions. It still takes a lot of hours in the BGs to get 1 piece of gear.

in my opinion, partially the reason the made the changes that they did is to accommodate the player base that doesn't play 10 to 12 hours each day. to give an example, my roommate in college would literally play for 18 hours a day, provided there where no classes and he didn't have to work. While I can not say  "I didn't do that." you do have to realize that the majority of the WoW players I have met, log on and play maybe 5 hours after work or school, and goto bed. Is it wrong to deny them chances for the same gear the person spending 18 hours  a day in game earns? No. but it might take them a lot longer to earn that gear, and if Blizzard tweaks it so people don't  have to make such a long drawn out effort it's their call. If you don't like it, might I recommend you go back to playing Diablo  or Diablo 2?

Heres how I get by in WoW...I ignore all the noobs in arena gear. Doesn't matter to me if i'm not pitching with 97 dps daggers. I'm getting my stuff the original way as it was made to be done, via raiding. I'd rather not deal with pvp anymore, its always lopsided to the horde...the alliance teams generally only want to lose so they can get honor and move on....and I hate dealing with people who have their fear command bound to some extensive macro.

Oh, never drink liquid Dayquil. Worst taste ever. Nyquil is fine but forget the Day in anything but the gelcaps.

PvP gear is better... for PvP, in most cases for most classes. Exceptions would be some of the Druid stuff, and the weapons (of course). We had several Mages and Warlocks, just completely pass when the Nexus Key (staff) from Kael'thas dropped because the Merc. Glad one is simply better, and they've been using that one for a while now. I'm sporting double merc weapons myself, but thats not to say PvE originating weapons haven't dropped... they have, but this way it allows me pass those to the guys in my guild who are without a couple 1900-2000+ teams.

At first I was irritated at the 'ease' at which you could accumulate very high ilvl weapons and equipment, but after being on both ends of the new system, it really doesn't bother me seeing people in a few pieces of Merc Glad gear, because I know that for PvE Rogues, Merc Glad isn't exactly "good", and many 68-70 blues are more ideal. It's a good outlet for those people who dont have a lot of time to play and want to see character development, but it does deminish (to a degree) the 'end game' raider, and their effort in my opinion.

Last edited by christophillis (2007-09-06 6:26 pm)

i dont have much time for WoW anymore

Some1 wrote:

Chris, what character do you play on now? I just armoried your rogue and it isn't even on any arena teams.

About the time my guild started SSC for the first time I realized how sick I was of playing a Night Elf. So I spent the next week and a half and farmed ~10000 gold, and then rerolled a Human Female Rogue.

Cyrithor is logged out in as much pre-bc gear as he still had, as like ah... a token to remember the old days by I guess. My main is Rivak, I think I have a link in my sig to her armory here on the MAF.

No dailies involved. You can only do it as a combat rogue, and your server's economy has to support high price enchanting mats. Head to mana tombs and open chests. Reset and profit.

christophillis wrote:

No dailies involved. You can only do it as a combat rogue, and your server's economy has to support high price enchanting mats. Head to mana tombs and open chests. Reset and profit.

We're both on Dalvengyr, and I'm pretty sure the economy doesn't support much.

And I can easily solo 2 elite mobs consecutively on my build with my PVP combat-prep build. Despite my inferior gear.

Last edited by Some1 (2007-09-13 6:33 am)

christophillis wrote:

...how else would I have done it.

two words

dancing naked