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A true dilemma? Having a main but being unable to decide on a main spec! Results in my paladin hoarding VP and tokens since I just can't make up my mind about what to spend them on. Holy stuff? Tank gear?

Such a waste...

I have 6 85s, although my feral druid has been my main since I started playing WoW. Currently, I have

85 Tauren Cat/Bear Druid
85 B Elf Disc Priest
85 Tauren Prot/Holy Paladin
85 Orc Resto/Ele (or Enh) Shaman
85 Orc DW Frost DK
85 Tauren TG Fury Warrior

80 Human Lock that I haven't played since he got left behind in a guild server transfer

The DK and Pally I initially leveled because they both have a mount speed bonus I wanted to use for gathering. The others are crafting alts that eventually made it to level cap because they were fun to play.

That's why i have the druid - Bird form + herbing

I have several 85's I play, which one is my main depends on how bad my last main got nerfed by Bliz. This way, when one gets nerfed and one gets bumped up, instead of complaining as we know it does no good (as they think they know everything which is why after all these years they are "still" trying to "balance them" and have yet to complete that task). The nerfed one gets leveled and basically parked hoping for the next round of balancing to bring them back up to be enjoyable to play again. Now if they could finish their "balancing game" and leave it the hell alone, we would be able to decide and play without going through this over and over.

Edited, Jan 11th 2012 6:01pm by ourdoc

Trying to compare Wrath of the Lich King to 4.3 LFR is a joke. The looking for raid finder is so laughably easy that my guild full of middle aged + casual gamer parents and grandparents are saying its too easy.

Wrath of the Lich King was easy, but not as easy as LFR. At least in Lich King you felt like you accomplished something. Even when you had full ICC buff, there was still a challenge to a group of casual pugs. LFR is not challenging. It is a time sink. There is no skill, no challenge, no nothing. The only skill needed is the ability to keep your eyes open while you hit the target dummy boss and occasionally switch targets or move out of stuff. The only fight that came close to challenging is the very last DW fight. Beyond that its a joke.

So yes, I guess technically there are things for casual players to do...but only if you're looking for a waste of time. I personally don't find a raid that's easier than a heroic entertaining. If I'm going to spend my time doing something I would like it to be at the very least mildly stimulating.

Which brings us back to the point. Cataclysm was a failure and it has not been accessible. Save for time sinks like the Firelands dailies and LFR. In Wrath, at least on my server, if you had a full set of gear from heroics/justice points you could get into any pug raid you wanted. There were nightly raids for heroic lich king and whatever else you wanted. Come Cataclysm the only pugs you can get into are with people who expect you to have better gear than you could get from the raid they are trying to bring you to.

Wrath was the expansion of Gearscore PuGs. The only raid being somewhat more accesible was ToC 25 at a time where ICC was in full progress. Cata wasn't any different, with the exception that in addition to Blizzards own score, you had to be willing to have yourself "inspected" by somebody. After having to experience the same kind of crap on 4 different servers, I find it terribly hard to believe that it could have been any different elsewhere without putting on them pink nostalgic glasses.

Cata failed in the accessability of 5-man heroics. All the QQing about those in Wrath being too easy lead to a barrier that the vast majority of players simply had a hard time overcoming. Even worse when the troll dungeons came back, and you absolutely had to do those if you wanted to cap your points in order to gear up further.

LFR is just fine as it is. I just need to look at how many people fail to push a single button during Ultraxion, or the stupid wipes on Spine and Madness to see that the difficulty level is still challenging enough for the massive amount of stupidity surrounding me.

Very easy solution, though. If you don't like LFR, don't do it!

I'm having a good time pushing my alts trhough it every week, toons that otherwise would see very little TLC because they're not needed for my "normal" raiding efforts. And while doing so, I'm getting to play them in any freaking way or spec I want.

And just as rotations and stuff keep changing for every set bonus I manage to get, so does my preference as to which ones of those toons would be a little more "main" than others.

Good stuff, really. An altoholic's wet dream come true.

Edited, Jan 12th 2012 10:30am by Kanngarnix