Capt Sephiroth
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Posted - 2015.06.21 15:59:44 -
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I was a part of a group that competed on a global level when it came to PVE. I played most hardcore during TBC and WOTLK and it was satisfying. I cant speak for PVP cause I stopped playing that seriously in TBC after a priest in a 2v2 arena got resurrected by a trinket that has 1% chance of doing just that to its user, I yanked out my keyboard and smashed the hell out of it, deciding after that it was too stressful for me to continue that part of the game and never did I return to it. But for PvE in TBC and Wotlk you had to grind as well, however very few people found it a hustle, and it was far more time consuming that it is now.
When it comes to dungeons and raids, you didn't have LFG in TBC, nor cross realm groups. You had to go into town and spam channels to find people, and that is not easy when you are in a low populated server. You had to be good and keep pushing yourself to be better to get the equipment you desired.
After Wotlk it started to go downstream, instances were dumbed down, you could run trough dungeons with no CC, I still remember Shattered Halls or Magister's Terrace, you got LFR to help you farm gear, bosses were pretty easy, AoE is virtually the only thing you use in dungeons, and the numbers, god, hundreds of thousands, millions even, WoW was becoming more and more a childish game and of course that attracted a childish audience which if they couldn't attain something cried about it and when they cried enough they got their nerfs, their gear, everything.
When the newest patch came I was excited cause it was supposed to bring back WoW to the early glory days, that didnt happen. I level up, found it was exactly the same as before, also if anyone else played the expansion you had the constant breakage of the garrison servers, which caused severe anger in my case at least, cause I needed to turn in and get quests to progress.
Dungeons were nothing innovative again, I didn't mind the new models, found them bit refreshing to be honest. But again, something was missing, all that LFG, LFR and cross realm group finding disconnected you from the people of your own server, there were no new friendships to be made while you were sitting in a group waiting for that one tank for 20-30 mins, no hardships to endure and that feeling after you finally got that boss down after countless upon countless wipes, dungeon boosting has become a thing and people just farm and then pay to someone else to clear the content for them and so on and so forth, lots of things weren't fixed.
Maybe I, we, just simply got older and WoWs basic mechanics aren't really that appealing to us anymore so we moved on to something else, or simply life made us quit it by giving us obligations and responsibilities that we must adhere to.
Woah, that wall of text. I just started writing and nostalgic came over me I guess.
Just my 2 cents
Best regards
Capt Seph |