seeing as you shit-talk vanilla and then say how amazingly original the TBC encounters were (they weren't), i kinda doubt your credibility. the 40 man raid gear was "meh"? it was the best... by far. in terms of appearance and bonus-benefits. if you put the time, effort and dedication in to get the tier-gear or epic-pvp set in vanilla, you genuinely felt as though your character was powerful and could take on (multiple) noobs. in TBC it went all "WoW is a serious e-sport now kekeke" and gave everyone the exact same fucking gear with shit-loads of resilience (the worst thing to ever happen to WoW PvP) because all of a sudden being able to kick-ass in an MMO is poor-form and everyone needs to have 10 minute borefest arena matches to be 'skilled'. when blizzard changed their design philosophy from 'hardcore to get top gear' to 'everyone is entitled to the same opportunities so the 'competition' can be fair'... the game went badly astray.JohnG@lt wrote:
Right. They were all unique bosses and I loved that. Gruul and his damn earthquakes that dropped the ceiling on you. A'lar and his fire bombs. Vashj and her green batshit of doom. Archimonde and the magical tear drops or whatever that people always said didn't work when they died Even Kara, and the chess board were all cool stuff (I hated kara).UnkleRukus wrote:
Agree'd, BC was the best. Kara, Gruul, Mags, TK, SSC, BT, MH, all were awesome and fun raids each with their own challenges.JohnG@lt wrote:
Vanilla sucked compared to BC. The armor alone was god awful. 40 man raids were meh. Too many people to keep the attention of and someone inevitably fucked up when the doorbell rang, their kid set their hair on fire, or the climax of a tv show came on and the persons attention was riveted. I didn't play in WotLK so I have no idea how that expansion went. From what I heard, they turned it into pure easy mode and made raiding completely pointless. If that's so, then BC was the perfect mix of hardcore raiding content and difficulty. Sunwell of course was released too late in the expansion and many of the top guilds had their playerbase erode over the almost 1 year wait. That said, killing Brutalus was one of the things I remember fondly from my time playing WoW. I never gave a shit about pvp. Resto druid in arena was simply annoying (yes, yes, easy mode, but still fucking boring).
I like how you had get keys to unlock the tougher instances, forcing people to actually earn their way through the raids instead of instantly being able to jump into any 25man.
I simply got burnt out in the end. I had full T6 resto and T6 feral gear by the time Sunwell was launched
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