The Cataclysm Ending (Spoilers!)Follow

I'm kind of in this same boat at the moment as well. I'm thinking I'm going to wait until I can try Guild Wars 2 and The Secret World before jumping ship, but I might end up with TOR beforehand anyways. Despite my complaints in another thread, the game is still just an assload of fun.

It's kind of sad, I had this fantasy of playing my main until WoW was shut down. I often wondered where I would park him when the servers went offline for good. But I don't think it's worth it to stick around that long. Maybe I'll come back when they announce the end, but there's better stuff on the horizon than the abortion Mists is looking like.

I'm undecided about MoP to be honest. I think pandas could be a lot of fun, and I like the idea of an Asian themed expansion. But having the focus be on the war between Horde and Alliance really doesn't do much for me. At least not the initial idea of it anyways. Maybe things will get exciting for me when I have a chance to look at the beta, but for now I'm just feeling meh about it.

I think he means from an Alliance point of view. Since the start of the game, Blizzard's tried to work up hate between the two sides, and it just kinda feels half-hearted.

Oh yeah, definitely agree there.

Hell, as a Horde player, I've practically heard nothing of the Alliance all expansion long. Wasn't until I transferred my Druid over that I realized it's still a playable faction.

Have you not quested in S. Barrens yet? There is tons of opposing faction hatred going on there. It's a ******* warzone for crying out loud.

You don't have any classes that still need to be leveled? And I take it you have no interest in going back and doing lowbie zones just to see the story? That's a shame. Hell, the only reason I don't have loremaster on my priest (at least for the under 60 zones) is because I leveled up a priest in the beta and I'd already seen most of the zones from doing that. I really should finish the zones though.

Also not sweetness and light: Ashenvale/Stonetalon. I wish leveling was slower - even without heirlooms there were more new zones than one toon can see at level. So I might have missed some other conflict spots.

Ashenvale, Stonetalon, S. Barrens, Whatchamacallitwood (forsaken second levelling zone), Swamp of Sorrows, Western Plaguelands all have some bits of the conflict between horde and alliance, I dunno if alliance-only zones do as well (aside from Gilneas). Then there's the intro to Vash'ir and Twilight Highlands.

I don't think you're allowed to say "this doesn't get addressed" if you skip half the expansion's content. You're certainly not required to play it, but it exists.

Was one of my motivations in re-rolling on a new server.

It's not that bad really. Maybe 3 to level 60 and 3-4 more into the 30s and you'll have seen about everything. It goes pretty fast these days.


Edited, Dec 9th 2011 3:45pm by someproteinguy

You know, I don't think you're allowed to quote me saying "you're not required to play it" then complain that I said you're required to play it. It's part of the game whether you play it or not. If you never go into Vash'ir you can't say "Blizzard talked about this underwater zone with swimming combat and such but never included any sign of it."

you can go back without being level appropriate and do it, I always laugh a bit when y'all get on here and "there's nothing to do" but haven't necessarily done the low level stuff, it's all NEW LEVEL CAP NAAAAAAOOOOOWWW! Dungeon gear up heroics gear up raid.... nothing to do.

At the same time....the whole world was redone... not really reinvented though it feels that way in some of the zones. My guildies sign on run a random, sign off, while kvetching there is nothing to do. While I'm clearing zone after zone questing (what my connection allows) with my time. I complete a zone whether the quests are grey or not, I change up what zones I do but if I'm there I'm doing them. There's a whole world to experience, just because you're endgame focused doesn't mean there's not a lot to do.. I still have dungeons from this expansion I haven't seen, not to mention raids.

Yes on my 3rd 80-85 character grinding through the cataclysm zones with their linear / prescribed path it's getting old but when it gets too old I hop to an alt and quest through a zone that I haven't done since Cata.

There's things I haven't touched yet or haven't got very far in like Archaeology, there's professions to work on. There is more than just raid raid raid ... OMG I'm so burned out on this raid they need to put more content...

Maz gets grumpy sometimes. We usually try to get him more beer about then.

For what it's worth I can see his point that there's comparatively little of the conflict at end game. It's all Rag is bad, Azshara is evil, Twilight cult is bad, where's Jones taking me now, don't put a squid on your head, etc etc.

Edited, Dec 9th 2011 6:04pm by someproteinguy