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World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth

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    #212
    MagicIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 6,902 ✭✭✭MagicIRL


    The game has gone extremely single-player focused. It's a shame. If you really want to experience the content I'm sure you can do it all solo without any issue. More so if you play specific class/specs - like Beastmaster Hunter.

    I still keep my ear to the ground on the latest happenings in WoW and despite a new patch (8.1.5) around the corner, I still can't bring myself to re-subscribe or even find a desire to play the expansion at all. Nothing seems exciting and the entire expansion seems to be an un-fun mess.

    I do miss playing Battlegrounds with my friends but even then - I know if I came back for that, I'd still have nothing to work towards. Especially considering how stupidly restricted Rated Battlegrounds are to participate in. Mind blowing.


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    #213
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Its not even fun solo stuff anymore, the class design is terrible and the current systems in place are not fun to play. Allot of people i know who are doing allot of solo activity is down to achievement hunting rather than the newer content.

    The only hope is 8.2 where they drop the original azerite system and replace it.


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    #214
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Calhoun wrote: »
    Its not even fun solo stuff anymore, the class design is terrible and the current systems in place are not fun to play. Allot of people i know who are doing allot of solo activity is down to achievement hunting rather than the newer content.

    The only hope is 8.2 where they drop the original azerite system and replace it.


    Replace it with what? Unfortunately it looks like its too engrained in this patch for it to be crowbarred out.

    I havent been on in months and i dont see myself going back anytime soon.


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    #215
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Replace it with what? Unfortunately it looks like its too engrained in this patch for it to be crowbarred out.

    I havent been on in months and i dont see myself going back anytime soon.

    Apparently the new system has all the rings unlocked by default. Below is from mmo champ, excuse the formatting I'm on a phone so won't be cleaning up .

    As the team looks ahead, they want to significantly change how they are approaching the system.
    This will be the last tier that you’ll have to unlock the powers on. Moving forward, they will probably be unlocked, giving you armor that presents choice.
    The team will shift AP to the Heart itself, allowing you to make choices about permanent powers, potentially active abilities. More to share in the future!


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    #216
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I don't know why, but i'm reinstalling this at the moment.


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    #217
    Xenji
    Registered Users Posts: 11,505 ✭✭✭✭Xenji


    Has it got any better since the launch, I have not touched it since September.


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    #218
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Xenji wrote: »
    Has it got any better since the launch, I have not touched it since September.

    Not really and it won't get better until 8.2, when they change how the neck piece works.


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    #219
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    So you can buy game time with gold now? Is that new?


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    #220
    Glebee
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Kiith wrote: »
    So you can buy game time with gold now? Is that new?

    I thought it was always there but it took an awfull lot of gold, saying that i could be completely wrong....😀😀


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    #221
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    This was 160k i think. Figure why not, saves me paying anything and assuming my urge to play only lasts a few days, it works out well.


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    #222
    d00mk1n
    Registered Users Posts: 116 ✭✭d00mk1n


    Kiith wrote: »
    So you can buy game time with gold now? Is that new?

    Feels 2ish years old


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    #223
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Yeah thought that gold for subs thing is old.

    Is there any major shakeup in classes for 8.2? Like the Shaman being useful again?


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    #224
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Vicxas wrote: »
    Yeah thought that gold for subs thing is old.

    Is there any major shakeup in classes for 8.2? Like the Shaman being useful again?

    To be honest I don't think so , I believe allot of the class mechanics team got **** canned during the week.


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    #225
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Calhoun wrote: »
    To be honest I don't think so , I believe allot of the class mechanics team got **** canned during the week.

    I'd say that'll be me then until the next expansion if at all, game has become too dumbed down over the past few years that any choice to be different in a class is gone.


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    #226
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    I want to like and play the game, i love the lore but there isnt enough of it to keep me interested right now.

    I have started playing FF14.


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    #227
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Calhoun wrote: »
    I want to like and play the game, i love the lore but there isnt enough of it to keep me interested right now.

    I have started playing FF14.

    Is it any use? I watched a few streams of it but its all end game and i have no idea whats going on.


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    #228
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I've tried to get into FF14 a few times, but can't get past the levelling. It just seems so slow, and i've no interest in the story. It's supposed to get really good during the expansions though (one of the better FF stories from what i've heard). And the end game is supposed to be excellent.


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    #229
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    I like it one of the things that always out me off was that it was on rails compared to what wow used to be. The game has allot more complexity and depth than wow does now.


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    #230
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    well finally the trolls and fat people will be here next Tuesday i think


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    #231
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,221 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Lone Stone wrote: »
    well finally the trolls and fat people will be here next Tuesday i think

    Mind deciphering that one for us?


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    #232
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    the zandalari and kil tirian can be unlocked come Tuesday i believe


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    #233
    Calhoun
    Registered Users Posts: 7,447 ✭✭✭Calhoun


    Not Tuesday, it's Tuesday US and Weds Europe.

    Some nice things coming brawlers guild, a nice new Hunter only quest and the new miniraid open soon .


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    #234
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    Also currently their is a rep buff bonus till the update so you get like double the rep to help hit those cap's required.


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    #235
    Noxin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Noxin


    I had said I'd probably return when the Zandalari Paladins are available but I actually don't think I will. I've had zero draw towards the game at all this year.
    I'll wait and see what people are saying about whatever number they're up to now on the patches. Will see in a month or so.
    The Division will keep me occupied until then.


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    #236
    Lone Stone
    Registered Users Posts: 3,405 ✭✭✭Lone Stone


    yea i subbed with gold, and the game is dead like i dont think i ever seen it so empty before. And i feel like they have added nothing at all since i left, i mean they added some raids but besides that the game just dead it's weird, the quest lines i read about were really short when i actually played them. Playing on and off since vanila and usually you always have some thing to do but it's just weird to see wow like this.


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    #237
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I played a bit over the last few days, and the world definitely seems more dead then it has in a long while. Seems to have had a mass exodus in the last few months, which isn't surprising. They'll probably all come back for whatever the next expansion is though.


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    #238
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,258 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    Kiith wrote: »
    I played a bit over the last few days, and the world definitely seems more dead then it has in a long while. Seems to have had a mass exodus in the last few months, which isn't surprising. They'll probably all come back for whatever the next expansion is though.

    If they keep moving towards making the game more like a mobile game nobody will come back.


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    #239
    Noxin
    Registered Users Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭Noxin


    Classic will have people back in the summer. Including myself... at least for a while until we realise how much of a $hit show it was levelling unarmed skill in Scarlet Monastery was again :pac:


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    #240
    Glebee
    Registered Users Posts: 6,582 ✭✭✭Glebee


    Running to dead mines i will never forget.


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    #241
    Kiith
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 23,055 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kiith


    I think everyone just wants to recapture that feeling that we got when playing classic, without realising that classic was an absolute mess by today's standards. That feeling isn't coming back, as most of us are 15 years older now. I'll never forget that first deadmines visit...it was absolutely amazing walking through that door and seeing the ship. But that won't happen in Classic.

    Most people will play it for a month or two, and then leave.


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