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...at sucking you back in.

About a month ago, I logged onto WoW for the last time to do any serious playing. Since then, I've started playing Star Wars and have only logged onto WoW to chat with friends who haven't made the jump tio Star Wars yet. However, it seems like every day I see something Blizzard is doing that makes me want to play WoW as well as Star Wars.

Unfortunately, that's out of the question. I just do not have the time to dedicate to two MMOs. I am going to be subbed to WoW for another 6 months or so because I signed up for the annual pass before considering playing Star Wars. I am also enjoying the hell out of Star Wars. It's entirely possible it's just the newness of the game that has me enamored, but there's no way to tell until that newness wears off.

So for now I'll just stay with a month-to-month sub to Star Wars and if I stop enjoying the game, WoW will always be there for me.

I just started TOR about 3 weeks ago, so I'm still working on my first character, a female human marauder. It's a ton of fun and I am already looking forward to rolling alts. It's not disillusionment with TOR that has me wanting to play WoW, it's a lot of the announcements I've seen regarding MoP and some of the other changes Blizzard is making, like the mid-expansion redesign of RFC.

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I was worried about the learning curve as well, but it's really not that steep. There are some pretty interesting class mechanics, like a light armor wearing tank, a ranged tank. There are 4 melee advanced classes and 4 ranged advanced classes.

I haven't done any PVP so far, so I don't know anything about it, but my friends all say it's a lot more fun than WoW's. I will admit Huttball sounds interesting.

That's my problem now. I have no problem paying for both and only playing TOR (free copy of D3 and all), but every day I see more and more changes in WoW that not only make me want to come back, but that make me want to almost start over and reroll. I do not, however, have time to play 2 different MMOs. Heck, I'm 3 weeks into TOR and my first character is only level 27.

I'm not going to continue the quote pyramid, but I agree with everything you said.

One of the things I am liking the most about TOR is the lack of an auto-attack for melee classes. At first I was a little concerned about this, but once I got used to it, I now love it. It makes deciding which ability you are going to use more in-depth than just "what do I have the resources for that does the most damage".

I play a class called a sith marauder. It compares best to either a combat rogue or a SMF fury warrior. I dual wield lightsabers and wear medium armor. I work off of a resource called rage, but I can never have more 12 (I think) rage. I have 2 abilities that build rage. Battering Assault builds 4 (again, I think) rage, but has a 15 second cooldown. Assult builds 2 rage and has no cooldown. Neither of them do very much damage, but BA does do more than regular old Assault.

I then have any number of abilities that use rage and do various amounts of damage. I also have a few abilities that don't use any rage. Most of these have mid to long cooldowns, like Force Choke, which is a 3 second channel that does a decent amount of damage, but has a 1 minute cooldown.

Where it gets a little involved is that you hardly ever fight just one enemy. You almost always fight groups of 3 or 4 mobs at once. So as a rage using class, you have to decide if you should use a big damage, rage-using move to finish a mob off, or hit it with a couple of Assaults to build up some rage for the next mob.

I have heard that there is a possibility that the monk will work like this in WoW. If that turns out to be true, I don't see any way how I can not come back to WoW once MoP comes out.

From what I've read, that's basically what Monks play like. They have energy similar to rogues, and using that energy builds chi, which they use to power better moves.

Of course I could be totally wrong since I've not been paying much attention to monks.

I cancelled TOR. Had fun, I like the game, but its too hard to find groups for stuff. It plays awesomely as a single player game though.

I'm back to wow (via scroll) for at least until D3 comes out. After that I can see myself cancelling wow until MoP arrives.