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World PvP and leveling brings back memories of Hellfire Peninsula and Vashj'ir. Complete cluster@#%^ for the first couple of weeks. Literally could not finish a single quest there because I got jumped by gangs of enemy players.



There, fixed. The reason Cataclysm has sucked harder than the vacuum of deep space is because Blizzard moved their A-Team developers to the Titan project. The remaining B-Team, which apparently consists of people who have never played the game, then had to split their time between providing more content for the active subscribers and create an easter egg of unprecedented proportions. Since the latter is more funztiems, we ended up with an acute lack of stuff to do. Good times.

And I know that Blizzard's official statement is that no one left the development team except for the code monkeys, but anyone who's played the game for the last couple of expansions knows that something happened between late Wrath and Cataclysm launch. The developers didn't listen to the beta feedback, didn't manage to complete the major revamp of the combat system (triage healing), leaving it in a severe state of retardation (healed like in Vanilla, took damage like in Wrath).

And then came the class balancing, or lack thereof. Frost Mages were given a hilarious amount of roots/stuns and Feral Druids, the previous hard (and only) counter to Frost Mages, had their root-breaking removed - after seven years of that functionality being in the game. I've seen 10-year-olds do better math than that.

The entire expansion seemed like it was developed by a bunch of developers who either didn't know sh*t about the game, or didn't give a sh*t about the game. Still haven't figured out which it is.

And while I thoroughly enjoyed the talent revamp on my Warlock, it felt like a kick to the groin on many of my other classes. My Druid now has to choose between previous core abilities and several old-time abilities have been renamed for no apparent reason (Bash > Mighty Bash). And Feral Druids, after seven, or eight, years in the game, are now split into Ferals and Guardians. I don't dislike the playstyle of Guardian and Feral, but the division of the spec is retarded - especially since a lot of abilities are missing from both forms depending on your spec (Bear is useless for Ferals, Cat is useless for Guardians).

I don't care about Pet Battles and Farm... thingy. They can put as many pop culture references in the game as they want, in my opinion, as long as I am not forced to use them. It's just not enough for me to continue playing this mess. I don't mind the stuff, it's just not enough to get me back into it.

Have fun in Pandaria!

Edit: Sorry if this comes off as another "oh Maz, ranting about them Druids again" post, but it is my main class and this last content patch broke it. Not that I can't still tank or deal damage, but they removed so many things from each form that the versatility is gone. There's no reason to shapeshifting anymore, which sort of breaks the class in a horrible way.

Edited, Sep 21st 2012 11:51am by Mazra

Star Wars didn't just merge servers, they collapsed them. They went from over 100 active servers down to I think 12. Starting the game with 100 servers may have been a little bit of wishful thinking, but at least they acted when they realized a lot of their playerbase was playing on dead servers. I also like how they did the server merge. It started out as voluntary and free, but if you chose to do it, you got a free pet and some Commendations (similar to JP in WoW). It wasn't enough to even buy 1 piece of gear, and it wasn't even BiS gear, but they gave it to you. Later, when most people had taken the voluntary transfers, the remaining characters were migrated and the servers were closed.

Figures. I was waiting for it to go F2P before transferring so I could make sure there wasn't anything sitting in the mailbox of my lapsed account.

2.0 looks and sounds great. I really do hope it can finally take me out of Azeroth. I recently re-upped for FFXI last month to play with an old friend and I didn't even make it a week. I love that game dearly for what it was, but the leech to 99 and pop mini bosses endgame has ruined it for me (Though I'm happy that a lot of veterans welcomed the change and enjoy it.) I've decided to finally let my memories in Vana'diel rest and remember it for what it was pre-wotg and definitely pre-abyssea.

*sorry I could have combined those posts in to one but I wasn't thinking. Too late now.

Edited, Sep 21st 2012 8:08pm by Transmigration

Sod negativity, I'm hyped for the expansion. If it turns a ****, well, I'll pass, but no point being negative about it before you try it out. Can't wait.

Yeah D3 actually pushed a couple of my friends and longtime Blizzard fans to cancel all their subs and vow to never purchase another Blizz game again. So far it's been a few months and none of them have showed even a spark of interest. It really is a bummer. I don't think it's because WoW won't get better or that D3 isn't salvageable, it's more based on the principal of Blizzard's direction and letting down their fans for money. I personally don't really care as long as I'm enjoying myself, but I can see where they're coming from.