I'm not sure why you still post here, shauk, but since you seem so intent to, let me respond to your blunt opinion of what wow is with an opinion of my own: whatever happened to you is a result of what you chose to do, not what wow made you do, since wow doesn't make anyone do anything. It's a game that people play in a thousand different ways, some more healthy than others. My comment about Rossi wasn't that he wrote what he wrote, but that it contradicts other things he has said very recently.

Wow is a big game and there is a lot to do. It sounds like what you want to do is raid, but you feel you can't both raid and maintain a healthy balance with the rest of your life. That's fine and I understand, but I don't think that means you need to come shit on the parade in a thread in which most people are relating their experiences or frustrations playing the game.

I'm on Garrosh, but I'm a Dwarf...

I suppose I might see you on the battlegrounds in a few more levels. =)

If its a PvE server you can make a horde toon.

It's funny how I was obsessed with the game like you were and played it for 40 hours a week for years, yet I came away with good memories, not bad. Yeah I missed out on a lot during those years but when I was having fun in WoW, I was having fun in WoW, and I don't regret it at all. I still miss it actually. If I were single I would still be playing it without a doubt.

Shauk it sounds like you're struggling with addiction. I dislike WoW now, but I have fond enough memories of it.

Really?

I thought you couldn't have an Alliance character and a Horde character on the same server.

Interesting...

EDIT: Thanks for the info Scorps.

I now have a Troll hunter in Garrosh =)

:eek: PoA is a carebear?! Fo shame! ;p

Look, attacking me makes you appear foolish and addicted yourself. Nothing I wrote had anything to do with me and had everything to do with the observational change in behavior from people I know.

I didn't come to shit on your parade frosty, this thread isn't a dedicated lovefest, I'm perfectly within my means to point out the negative elements of the MMO model and how it impacts people psychologically based on documentaries and polling data. People find it hard to give up something they worked on. It's the same mentality of gambling. Could you pay 150$ of your real money to walk in to a casino and up your bankroll to 1000$ and then just hand all the money back to the casino and quit gambling cold turkey? it's the same thing really, there is an assumed sense of real value in this fictitious NOTHING that keeps people addicted.

Feel free to disagree, but don't overstep your bounds and tell my that i'm wrong for sharing my opinion on the matter, just because you want to stick your fingers in your ears and cover your eyes and "LALALALALALA" over it.

there is no restriction on any kind of server now, actually. Hasn't been that way for quite some time.



P.S. my account + authenticator is for sale if anyone is interested in a Original Collectors edition/glory of the raider (black proto drake) extremely overplayed account.

PM me with offers, 500$ minimum.

Really?? Just a slight observation here but complaining he's attacking you making him appear foolish and addicted is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black. Especially when you just attacked everyone in thread calling them mouth breathing retards in your previous post. I suggest you find a healthier way to deal with your issues with gaming then putting down the people you "used" to be like.

Think orchrist summed up my feelings on that response as well and politely as I could. Well said.

Is a carebear a troll hunter?

I'm still a n00b...

No, he's referring to the PvE nature of the server. Carebear is MMO terminology referring to players who avoid PvP.

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It went from being an opinion to a personal attack when you called me a mouth breathing retard just because I play WoW, so nobody's overstepped their bounds here. Just remember that next time you decide to share your "opinion" with other WoW players in a public forum.

It's ok to hate on WoW, create a separate thread for that; you'll probably get a good discussion going. But to come into a WoW thread and start insulting everybody who plays WoW just because you've "seen the light" is a wee bit self-righteous and guaranteed to rub people the wrong way. Don't act all surprised at the reaction you got.

I think you guys need to learn to read.

Last I checked you aren't writing for wow.com


It's the "World of Warcraft" thread, not the "World of Warcraft lovefest egosucking" thread.

you're the 2nd person now to try and push and bully me out of this thread simply because you don't like what I have to say. lol. typical.


My opinion should be a non-issue for you. If you're so confident and secure in the fact that you're a model citizen who's not overindulging in to the whole MMO lifesink, then more power to you.

I know the problem is more based on the individuals approach to the game, but there are a lot of people who take it to unhealthy levels, and sure, while the best thing to do would be to probably figure out a way to address the psychological profile of 11m individuals, it's not going to happen, so the only thing *I* as a single person can do, is voice my concerns about the common denominator, which so happens to be WoW.

If you play and take care of yourself, and your social relationships are still strong, and you still prioritize reality over fantasy, great, you've proven yourself mentally fortified enough to avoid getting sucked in to the neverending meaningless money fleecing hamster wheel.

However, if you're one of those people who put in 6+ hrs a day, tell people you can't go out to dinner, hang out, watch a movie, go have a drink, are missing work, are regularly obsessed with the content of the game to the point that you're writing an article about it every day, while yes, it's the individuals problem, I just have to blame WoW for being the catalyst.

Oh. I don't avoid PvP. In fact, I enjoy PvP quite a bit...

When I started playing I didn't really know the difference between the servers and figured I'd be best off to start out on a normal server.

I now play my Dwarf on Garrosh most, because he's my favorite and highest level, but I also play a Tauren Druid on Agamaggan (PvP), a Blood Elf Mage on Boulderfist (PvP), and a Night Elf Rogue every once in a while on Blackwater Raiders (RP)

I play horde on a PvP server also (bonechewer) I got it on a sever my friends had horde on and it just happened to be in the same battle group as Windrunner my alliance server. now to just get my DK to 80 and PvP geared so I can kill some Windrunner alliance :D

Here's the GM of my server's "Number 2" guild ranting in vent while doing Freya Hardmode this week....


Took this screenshot today while playing around in Pit of Saron after clearing it.

Im Level 39 now. (elf hunter)

To be honest, since Ive been working away from home a lot the last 2 or 3 monthes I probably spend one night a week playing 3 or 4 hours (cos there's nothing else to do at the hotel but watch TV or sit in the bar drinkingO... and I still have no clue what most of the language in this thread means!

(I play a world where you just do missions and other players cant kill you)

We dropped Arthas tonight! Felt pretty fucking amazing. I don't think I've been that excited about a boss kill since Nefarian back in BWL. Only 10 man, but I have hopes that we'll be there in 25 soon enough (10/12 right now). We got the healing mace and the dagger.

congrats. we're still not getting past Putricide.

Grats on downing arthas, we been having issues with the blood queen, but I have been away for a week so I have no idea what are progress is, but we are doing good for a casual 3 raid nights a week guild.

I got my flying machine today!

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I am now fully aware of why I went with engineering and not blacksmithing...

downed putricide last night for the first time.

That's a lot of heals...

I can't wait until my druid heals like that.

Trauma drops off Rotface.

It's absolutely nuts.

I miss this game bad. I miss having the time to raid bad.

my friend has been trying to convince me to play. I don't understand why people can't enjoy this game without trying to involve the people they know. Especially when I've made it clear that this kind of game isn't something I deal with well. It's funny because he claims to want to quit, and he hangs out with me to get back in to reality, but sometimes he just needs his fix I guess.

That's not much different then any other sort of activity that you'd find more fun when you get to enjoy it with your friends. I enjoy going to the movies and love getting my popcorn fix. However one of my friends doesn't enjoy crowds... Doesn't stop me from trying to convince him to go thought because going to the movies with friends is infinitely more enjoyable then going by yourself.

Nah it's just that I've expressed clearly that I have no interest in going back before cataclysm if I'm going to go back at all. Yet he tells me he'd like to quit. So I'm kind of his anchor to reality, if he gets me to play, he probably would just play even more.

Don't just tell him no, tell him to stop asking you to come back because the game is a serious problem for you. I understand where he's coming from. The game just isn't as fun when you not playing it with friends, actually I'd say the game isn't worth playing at all if you don't have friends to play it with. Every time I've quit the game is because my friends had, and every time I came back to the game is because my friends begged me.

My RL friends don't play WoW, but I have made lots of friends online which is great.

So, I finally hit 80 last week!

Decided to dual-spec prot (so I don't have to wait on tanks in dungeon queues anymore) and got my tier 9 tanking armor.

Working on my arena PvP gear now...

80 rocks!
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Does that mean I win the game?

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you've got to move from XP to getting higher gear levels.

Yeah, I've started using WoW Heroes. It's all very confusing to me about what direction to go.

I'm a holy/disc dual-spec'd priest with (essentially) no guild, and I'm pretty casual as a player. If you didn't notice, I'm currently wearing the Wyrmcrest tabard with hopes of getting some of their gear next. I just don't know the best way to tackle instances.

I'm assuming Heroics are still out of reach because of my gear. Does this tabard work in any instance? How does this work?

Any other tips for getting gear? The only two purples I have I bought from the AH, but that gets expensive, of course.

you're 80 you'll start on heroics. Wear your tabard for every heroic instance you are in so that you get the faction. Do the daily quests for that faction as well.

The random system will put you in Utgarde Keep initially and as you progress as far as gear level it will put you into the other ones appropriately.

So starting with Heroics should be fine even with the gear I have?

Remember, I play the crucial role of healer. :)

yeah you should be fine.

most people are well geared by now and you can consider that little bit of crutch. Skogafoss has always been undergeared as a healer and does fine.

Okay, cool.

I think I'm starting to get it. I see that the rewards for random dungeons lean towards emblems. I only started earning Emblems of Triumph recently, and so I only have about a dozen. But below level 80, I could only get 2 per day with normal random dungeons. Now I see I get 2 Emblems of Frost for the first heroic dungeon, and then 2 Emblems of Triumph for each one I do thereafter.

Should I start building a shopping list?

I did not know people still played this game.

Baraka, it is insanely easy to gear up these days. Now only do you get 2 emblems of frost your first random and 2 emblems of triumph each thereafter, you get 1 emblem of triumph for every boss you down in heroics.

Tier 9 armor now sells for emblems of triumph. My t9 tanking set cost a total of 210 emblems of triumph. Considering you get from 5-8 emblems per random, depending on the dungeon, it's really not very hard to attain that many.

Oh, and your gear is fine for heroics. Wrath heroics are actually fairly easy. Especially, now that such good gear is available without much effort.
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