I H8 WoW

[The Saltman]

It's no more addictive than any other game. The only difference is with other games you go through all the content at a certain point.

ya that's the problem...no ending.

[Kettle]

i never get enough of killing people online in shooters like MW2

[Samuel L. Jackson]

I've never had the desire to start playing WoW... LOTRO is awesome though...

[blackcatgrowl]

I go through cycles with wow. I played a lot at release and quit a while before the first expansion. Then I played a good bit through burning crusade and quit a while before lich king came out. Then a played a good bit right when ulduar was released, and then quit. I came back briefly to see icecrown citadel but didn't stick with it. If I wasn't in a raiding guild that didn't mind me quiting for long chunks of time I probably would have never started up again all those times.

I was going to check out everything with the new patch but it seems like fallout will keep me occupied until the expansion comes out. I'm sure I won't be able to resist my curiosity and buy the expansion.

This is almost identical to my history with the game.

I played the original right past the release of Ahn Qiraj and the original Naxxramas. My guild was just starting to get into Blackwing Lair, when DKP points started getting inappropriately adjusted, some other turmoil caused a bunch of drama, and the guild pretty much fell apart. A few of us joined another guild briefly, but we always felt like outsiders, and eventually left. All I was left with was getting PVP gear, which at the time was the ranking system, and I didn't play nearly enough to get High Warlord... so I left the game. Oh... and the wife was seriously over me playing 40-hours a week... and my job at the time had me traveling all over... so life conspired with in-game events to end my playing of WoW.

I came back right before Burning Crusade. I had vowed to my wife not to raid. I accomplished this and then some. I ran through dungeons TWICE in the whole year and a half I played BC. All I did was solo quests, all the open-world PVE quests, ran BGs and eventually arenas, and... I was on a PVP server.... so I ganked and ganked and ganked and ganked some Alliance. I ran with a guild of nothing but gankers. We were horrible. We killed so many alliance. They hated us. It was honestly the most fun in an MMO I've probably ever had.

And the BG/Arena PVP system was keeping us in gear to make ganking a reality... it was a little bit of a grind, but we didn't mind. It fueled our evilness. Times were good.

I'll never forget standing on the edge of some pier in an alliance town in Outland, where one of their flight points lands. It was just out of reach of their guard's aggro radius. People would land and we'd spring on them. We didn't care about honor kills. We just killed. :reddevil:

Then my wife had our first kid. After 4 months, it was obvious my WoW days were done for awhile. And again, the game conspired with my wife... they started putting Rating requirements on Arena gear. We could only manage a 1650-ish rating, because we had a couple weak links.... so that was the end of that. Cancelled, Dec. 2007.

When Wrath came out, I took a long hard look at what they were doing and easily passed it by. Nothing really interested me about that expansion.

But now, another kid later... I can't resist the lure of Cataclysm. With my friends all wanting to come back, it's a no-brainer. And to be able to fly my wyvern to the top of Blackrock Spire is too tempting....

[blackcatgrowl]

i hate people who abbreviate words to save 2 characters

Umm. Dude. It's standard practice to use l33t Speak when talking about WoW.

[Kettle]

joking man. it is lazy though

[blackcatgrowl]

joking man. it is lazy though

Me too . And it is

[TarPanther9180]

I think it's funny they are showing the World of Warcraft South Park episode now.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

World of Pullcraft.

Its so dumbed down now that its not even a shadow of its former self. I'm glad I cut ties during Burning Crusade, and even if they went full blown p2p I wouldn't go back.

Grind xp.

Farm some bullshit.

Go pull some mobs in a dungeon.

Repeat infinitely.

The whole game boils down to little more than stat stacking and "on to the next pull".

You guys probably play alliance on PVE servers too. :|

[blackcatgrowl]

World of Pullcraft.

Its so dumbed down now that its not even a shadow of its former self. I'm glad I cut ties during Burning Crusade, and even if they went full blown p2p I wouldn't go back.

Grind xp.

Farm some bullpoo.

Go pull some mobs in a dungeon.

Repeat infinitely.

The whole game boils down to little more than stat stacking and "on to the next pull".

You guys probably play alliance on PVE servers too. :|

My two 70s are on Gorefiend, a PVP server. Orc Warrior and Orc Warlock.

[bredy087]

I have been doing everything in my power to not reactivate. I dont have the time or money...at least thats what i tell myself.

[blackcatgrowl]

I hit 60 with my Death Knight last night. It's an interesting class. Death and Decay is fun.

[natty]

The most fun I had playing was before honor/battlegrounds came out. Me and a few buddies would roam the high level areas (plaguelands mostly) tearing up anyone we came across. The best was facing another group of players. This was WAY before people were playing organized group pvp - me being a healer that actually healed in pvp was huge. One time 5 of us almost took out an entire horde raid heading to blackrock mountain.

Resilience and arenas really killed pvp imo. Once BC came out I transfered to a pve server to play with a co-worker and never went back.

[blackcatgrowl]

The most fun I had playing was before honor/battlegrounds came out. Me and a few buddies would roam the high level areas (plaguelands mostly) tearing up anyone we came across. The best was facing another group of players. This was WAY before people were playing organized group pvp - me being a healer that actually healed in pvp was huge. One time 5 of us almost took out an entire horde raid heading to blackrock mountain.

Resilience and arenas really killed pvp imo. Once BC came out I transfered to a pve server to play with a co-worker and never went back.

I totally agree. Resilience was and still is a garbage stat to try and keep raiders from dominating PVP. It doesn't work unless the Raiders run into high-rating career PVPers. The answer is to make gear more accessible and promote some sort of other character advancement besides gear.

And yes, Arena's suck. I hate em. Skill has a factor, but less of a factor than being a boxed-in gear check.

But yeah, World PVP before BG's was epic. The back and forth battles at Tarren Mills/Southshore are things of legend. And while we were out-numbered 4 to 1, we still managed to beat them back multiple times.

I remember the complete chaos the day the Honor System was patched in. A force of about 200 alliance showed up at the gates of Orgrimmar. We had about 40 or so to fight back, but the guards were super tough then, and helped considerably. Eventually a bunch of Horde showed up and we pushed them back to the river just west of the gate. I'll never forget Intercepting the guild leader running the attack in the middle of the battle at the river, getting a monster Mortal Strike/Enrage Crit on him with my Blackhand Doomsaw, and executing him to the ground.