Comments on: The Ole Dusty Road

By: Foton

Foton — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:51:16 +0000

I might check that out too, thanks for the heads up.

I like free.

By: Saccia

Saccia — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:25:40 +0000

Btw, Foton. If you were looking for a beta to hookup with. Fileplanet has a preview (for everyone not just subscribers I think) for Asheron's Call: Throne of Destiny. I suppose since AC2 sucked so much Turbine decided to try to revive ole AC1 through an expansion and a free preview. I'm gonna go check out my old favorite MMORPG and see how it's changed.

By: Foton

Foton — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 03:15:18 +0000

The queue system for Battlegrounds is definitely NOT the one good thing I heard. I’m sure it’s been suggested and is difficult to implement, but inter-server queues for BGs would solve the queue problems. (i.e. your group, or partial group joins a queue and you’re matched with players from other servers)

@Saccia, I have noticed that warlocks hit their stride in the late game. Wish I knew more 60 warlocks. (In fact, the few I knew before may not even play anymore. Damn.)

By: Saccia

Saccia — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:38:20 +0000

Yep. The BattleGrounds (mostly Alterac Valley it seems) are fubar. I hear Warsong Gulch isn’t too bad of a wait if you don’t mind doing MMORPG Capture the Flag. And when I’m talking wait, on Azgalor it’s a 1:40 wait for a single player for AV. When I joined with 2-3 guildies it was WAY past 2:20 and still no entrance. The problem is that no Horde are playing in AV so the conditions are never met to open more than 1 BG. Hopefully, the next patch will fix this by allowing Horde to join all the way from Orgrimmar. WHY wasn’t that put in when BG was released?

As far as LFG goes, I’m a Warlock. So after 6 months of being crapped on by patch nerfs, I’m feeling pretty good at the top of the game. Saturday I put out a LFG in IronForge that looked like this “Saccia the Drunken Warlock is here. I’ve had 2 dirty martinis, 2 red wines, and a couple beers but I can slice/dice and hand out healthstones with the best of ’em. Invite me for Strat, Scholo, etc.” Believe it or not, I got 2 invites for Strat and a Molten Core invite. Warlocks at about 60 have groups by the balls almost as much as the healer does. Perhaps more. A healer can’t do shit for you when 2/3 of the way through MC you wipe.

By: Indy

Indy — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 04:51:52 +0000

I’m more or less in a similar situation, as far as looking to take a break. I recently hit the 50’s in WoW, and I’m just not feeling enthused about the top-level content I have to look forward to. (For my tastes, anyway. YMMV.) I’m just not that interested in PvP, and I dislike their ladder system — oh, great, another treadmill, except *this* one moves backwards on you! A Red Queen’s Race is NOT my idea of enjoyment.

Then again, I never played the Warcraft games either, so I’m probably not their core demographic. Maybe this appeals to the BattleNet types. Considering the queue times, it would need to be excellent just to be worth the trouble, I’d think… Nor does the thought of trying to get 40 man raids for the hope of a useful drop appeal to me.

I’m considering trying out City of Heroes; I grew up with comics and superheroes, I played Champions, it has real appeal to me. I like the lack of itemization, limited bank space has been driving me nuts in WoW.

I dunno what it is… but frankly I just haven’t felt like logging on. So I think I’ll cancel my subscription before it runs out in two weeks. Maybe they’ll add some cool casual level 60 content in the coming months. Maybe I’ll decide raids are cool. Or maybe another game will come out first that I’ll spend my time (and money) in…

Right now, I’m going back to Dungeon Seige, for some good RPG action. Plays a lot better on the computer I built for WoW than it did on my old one…

Never go on an adventure without a hat!
Indy

By: Abalieno

Abalieno — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 03:41:08 +0000

I’m more or less in a similar situation.

The WoW guild where I am has around 200 characters in it and it’s falling apart because not enough 60s to farm MC. Which is pretty much the same is happening everywhere with droves of guilds spawning and disappearing in a matter of weeks. Peoples arrive at 60 and then leave to join another guild offering access to phat leet.

The rest is about sitting in IF for two hours trying to join WHATEVER. And even if after two hours I find something, about 90% of the times the raid/group falls apart.

The BGs aren’t even a possibility. I’m not going to wait in queue to rinse and repeat that mess. Alterac is unplayable to me since I do not have broadband, Warsong, when I can enter it, is fun for an hour, then bores me to tears.

I wish I could play. But the endgame is screwed between insane grinds and content completely inaccessible to me. The rest is sitting LFG in Ironforge or in a queue to enter a BG.

Fun.