I highly recommend anyone that was debating whether or not to come back to definitely give it a try.

For me anyway, the lag is non-existent.

Over the last few patches there has been a lot of improvement in this aspect of the game.

I will do my best not to let mistakes like that happen again.

Stay safe everyone and I will post something out as soon as I get a chance.

Just FYI

Personally, I am going to take a bit of a break till they get things sorted out and develop the game a bit more. I really enjoyed it for all the time I had placed in it but right now, it has to mature a bit and lines need to settle down. It gets a bit irritating when they dont refund AP when your time gets invalidated during the ‘tuning’ process with no means of recapturing any of it.

Any player arguing for no respecs are just trying to keep the advantage they have over those who have messed up in their specs. The company defending no respecs just wants your money so they see you rerolling as a good thing. IMO “because its hardcore” isnt even remotely close to a good enough reason to not have respecs and if anyone actually has a good reason by all means I’d love to hear it.

When we move to new games and try them out, we never find that same type of group – so we keep searching for it but never find it unless we’re in WoW.

Warhammer Online is probably my favorite MMORPG of all time, but I missed having that solid group of friends and family to play with and call home.

The new guild features sounds awesome. Cataclysm sounds awesome

If you take away fights that are based purely on skill and make the fights rely on a certain tier of gear combined with the understanding of the encounter – you’ve now included nearly any player in the progression.

Developers (Blizzard has almost trademarked this) have figured out that you don’t want to exclude players from content. This was done a lot in the past (Naxx for example, though this was probably the final dungeon of that era for WoW anyway), and the developers would take a look at their metrics and say, “Wow, we spent X amount of dollars and resources on the creation of this encounter, and only a tiny percentage of players used it.” From a development standpoint, it’s just really not much bang for their buck.

But by having various sets are gear for almost any style of player, from badges and PVP tokens and honor to drops and faction, and let players advance incrementally based on their style of play versus their skill level of play, they probably find they keep a larger number of players busy. Which shows a higher return on their investment on the development of said content. Versus basing the encounters off of a players skill – where you’ve automatically excluded a potentially large number of players at concept.

But that leaves the old “hardcore” raiders hopping from game to game trying to find their fix.

Good read.

The addition of professions and achievements in games makes progression even less valuable as a tool to measure completion of an MMO. Unfortunately now gear is the measure by which we rate players, it is the most direct way of judging a players history in the game, and I don’t just mean purples I mean specific purples. As a ruler of completion gear scales, bosses simply do not.