Zealous Mon Jul 13, 2009 7:53 pm
Yeah, the "good old days" would be welcome. I've been on WoW from day one, first as horde as my first level 60 - a warrior - then to alliance with my paladin namesake as my first level 60 alliance char, with about 7 months to spare before T.B.C. was released, and I still remember the days when seeing an epic item really was rare and very very cool. Now epics are the new blues imo, but thats just my opinion ofc.
The old days will never truely be back because of instances like Naxx25, OS25 and VOA25, because the simply are too easy to PUG. Ulduar looked like it was gonna be a way to bring back the older style of raiding, but now its been nerfed to oblivion, in the old days if you complained about BWL or AQ40 being hard people just nodded and told you to get on with it. I can see why the new content is PUGable, because Blizz want to give everyone the same chances to get the same stuff as everyone else...enter the achievement system. It blow that all out the water, and instead of being a cool archive of the stuff you've done in WoW, its now some sort of pass system that alows you access to certain raiding groups if you have a certain level of ach status. Emalon being the first example of this being used. If the ach system never existed, then people wouldn't know either way if someone did or didnt have the ach they were after, and EVEN IF YOU DO have the ach, iv seen some people with it perform horribly in the raid and iv seen people without it outdo themselves - like our raids we do on Sundays.
And as for the Tier armour, before T.B.C. we had 2 tiers. Now by the end of September (just throwing a month in) we will have 9. So in the first 2 years of WoW's life we had 2 Tiers, and in the following years we managed to gain another 7...something isnt right, the game is moving too fast for my liking. Back in March/April whenever it was Ulduar was released we had upto tier 8, and within the space of 4 - 5 months we now jump another half tier to 9, TECHNICALLY rendering 8 obsolete to 9, as 8 did to its predecessor. And by christmas-time(ish) we will either have another filler expansion, or the chance to take on the Lich King himself.
This rant prob got off track from topic, but i felt i needed to get that out in light of the vanilla comment. I welcome the vanilla raiding guilds, and will prob consider putting one of my 60 alts into a vanilla guild to relive the experience...its just a shame that people have to go backwards to enjoy the game, when the new content should be doing that.
All this is my opinion, and not intended to annoy or infurriate anyone, so sorry if it did.