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Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
I'm a fully paid up member of the casual club.Yes I am elitist.
Unfortunately I can't devote every waking minute of my life playing games.
Don't know if it is tired or too easy. Blizzard play with the game mechanics all the time in order to tweak the difficulty level/character balance.
A pretty regular stream of new content is stopping things getting stale and you do need skill to play in the high level instances - ask any group that's had the misfortune to have a nab eBay account buyer who thinks that because they paid £200 for a lvl 80 hunter they can run HCs.
Daily Quests can make it feel repetitive but you can opt not to do them and run off and pursue the various loremaster acheivements which will keep you busy on q chains that you didn't do on the leveling route.
A pretty regular stream of new content is stopping things getting stale and you do need skill to play in the high level instances - ask any group that's had the misfortune to have a nab eBay account buyer who thinks that because they paid £200 for a lvl 80 hunter they can run HCs.
Daily Quests can make it feel repetitive but you can opt not to do them and run off and pursue the various loremaster acheivements which will keep you busy on q chains that you didn't do on the leveling route.
I'm definitely in the Casual Corner, I reckon I've /played about 14 days altogether since Christmas (across all my characters), which is an average of about an hour and a half every day, though I don't play every day. Idid get a bit carried away at the start, but I use the Parental controls to stop myself from turning into a zombie.
I used to be hardcore... back when the level cap was 60. I had pretty much full T2 healing gear and most of the best tanking gear. I was the first Druid to tank BWL on our server and would tank all the main instances when required. I broke the mold when people were still convinced Druids couldn't tank anything 
I used to play probably 7-8 hours a night and the only nights I wouldn't play would be Friday (out on the piss) and Saturday (working).
I used to play probably 7-8 hours a night and the only nights I wouldn't play would be Friday (out on the piss) and Saturday (working).
Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
Don't think this is the case. Yes raiding is more accessible now but try and attempt the hard modes for bosses and the difficulty is still there.Yes I am elitist.
Downed Yoggy 25 man last night and got myself a new dagger so happy day today.
Edited by Plaice on Wednesday 19th August 11:17
Plaice said:
Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
Don't think this is the case. Yes raiding is more accessible now but try and attempt the hard modes for bosses and the difficulty is still there.Yes I am elitist.
Downed Yoggy 25 man last night and got myself a new dagger so happy day today.
Edited by Plaice on Wednesday 19th August 11:17
GnuBee said:
Plaice said:
Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
Don't think this is the case. Yes raiding is more accessible now but try and attempt the hard modes for bosses and the difficulty is still there.Yes I am elitist.
Downed Yoggy 25 man last night and got myself a new dagger so happy day today.
Edited by Plaice on Wednesday 19th August 11:17
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Plaice said:
Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
Don't think this is the case. Yes raiding is more accessible now but try and attempt the hard modes for bosses and the difficulty is still there.Yes I am elitist.
Downed Yoggy 25 man last night and got myself a new dagger so happy day today.
We're up to Versax (10-man guild) and have been having fun with some of the hardmodes (FL+2 was fun).
I find the 'l2p raiding n00b' attitude kinda funny. Bliz made a big mistake with SWP and admitted so. From a business modeal excluding >90% of your subscription base from content that takes significant effort to produce is pure fail.
IainT said:
JJCW said:
Well my comp didn't want to install it for some reason - kept getting an error as it was installing TBC.
Guess i'm not supposed to start playing again
If you're on vista try running it as admin.Guess i'm not supposed to start playing again
JJCW said:
I'm tempted to have a dabble again... anyone got a guild somewhere i could join?
If you create a char on Nordrassil (or for anyone else either) my guild (social + raiding) is open to anyone 16+ 
www.prideofstgeorge.com or search for any chars with 'ulv' in the name in the guild and it'll be me IainT said:
JJCW said:
Well my comp didn't want to install it for some reason - kept getting an error as it was installing TBC.
Guess i'm not supposed to start playing again
If you're on vista try running it as admin.Guess i'm not supposed to start playing again
I run through all the TBC CDs.
Then i go into game, it downloads a little update then seems to want to install TBC... but then gives me an error about reading from an install location
Plaice said:
Carfiend said:
Why? It is a tired repetative game that is constantly being dumbed down for the casual club. It was fun before the expansions came in since there was some organisation and skill needed for the top end stuff.
Yes I am elitist.
Don't think this is the case. Yes raiding is more accessible now but try and attempt the hard modes for bosses and the difficulty is still there.Yes I am elitist.
Downed Yoggy 25 man last night and got myself a new dagger so happy day today.
Edited by Plaice on Wednesday 19th August 11:17
Carfiend said:
I don't play anymore because I don't have the time and I don't like doing anything half hearted. I also just got fed up with the unending drama llama that always goes on since everyone thinks they are a special snowflake.
Isn't that a problem with people rather than the game ? t84 said:
Does anyone who play it manage to lead a normal life? I played Legend of Mir once and I don't remember actually doing anything else apart from go to work...
I dont know about anyone else, but i used to play anarchy online - pretty much ate my life.In the end i sold the account (150 notes
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