World of Warcraft

[IrishG3nt]

I never could get into these games...always been the sports and FPS shooter types...but I do have one favorite memory anytime someone mentions WoW....

[Darkgod]

LOL... I laugh at that every time

[DMHead777]

I like MMO's, but could never fully get into WoW. I think there is way too much going on now in the game to even get started so..

Plus everyone is leaving WoW for Rift and Star Wars

[IrishG3nt]

"ight chumps lets do this LEEEEEERRRRRRROOOOY JJJEEEEEENNKINS"

hahah

[strtfghtr]

no matter how many times I watch that it always makes me laugh

[asbest]

Yea, the leeroy jenkins movie is awesome.

I just don't know why people WOW is so amazing, there are better mmorpg to play and are free.
I tried to play WOW on a private server but still hated it.
I'm never going to pay anything for that game.

[FrighT MasteR]

I played again about a month ago for a few weeks. I won't be going back to it again.

[BurnetRhoades]

Leeroy is funny still. For the longest time I had his yell as my ringtone. I don't know how many times it scared the shit out of someone in or near my cube if I left it sitting out on my desk on high and someone called, lol.

I saw that, the "Switcher" videos and this one before ever playing and they helped motivate me to give it a try...this one is is even better than the Leeroy vid in a way because it's real...




...I've taken a look at and/or played several other MMOs but none have the appeal of WoW for me. None of them have any animation talent working in their ranks. None of them have good character design. I like the "illusion of life" that you only find in WoW that makes it possible for the tens of thousands (or more) player made videos possible and capable of holding a viewer's interest. I like PvP videos more than straight machinema but recognize the effort folks put into either. Can't really do it to the same level with other games.

[Darkgod]

I loved that video Burneett... first time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing.... as for WOW... i played it a long time, but as I said in this thread before... the expansions are killing it off... EQ was the greatest MMO probally ever, but it killed itself off when it kept expanding because you never give it a chance to let new people in an enjoy. You have to be upper levels to enjoy the game now... what level 60 raids are still done?

[BurnetRhoades]

Actually, I do quite a few lvl60 (and sometimes lvl70) raiding solo now, to get items for transmogrification. It's pretty common now to see groups forming to go into older raid content specifically to get older items for the "bling bling", even on a server like Skullcrusher that's had its population dwindle a bit during Cataclysm. Transmogrification has added renewed interest in older content, a lot of which is more interesting than current instances.

They added that in a previous patch, transmogrification. You go to an ethereal shop in either Stormwind or Orgrimar and you can make any current piece of gear look like another that you have, for nostalgia or just because the stats are great on a new item but you don't like the looks. For instance, I've got most of my rogue's current gear looking like Tier1 (Nightslayer), with a mixture of Dungeon3 (Assassination), just 'cause I always liked the looks of it and I knew most other rogues are gonna be running around in T2 (Bloodfang) or T5 (that one that makes you look like Skelator).

You're right though about this expansion though. Wrath of the Lich King, though it had its critics, was a much cooler experience. The dungeons, although short, were definitely nicer to look at (nicer than BC dungeons as well), besides the Argent Tourney stuff, which was boring after the first time or two you did it.

Blizzard's attempt to create a "PvP Zone" has improved from expansion to expansion (Tol Barad in Cataclysm>Wintergrasp in Lich>Halaa in BC>Eastern Plaguelands and Silithus in Vanilla), though spontaneous World-PvP is at an all-time low currently for a variety of reasons that hopefully they'll fix in the next expansion. Concentration of each faction to a single capital city each and less need to actually go to instance/raid portals and meeting stones was a bad move on Blizzard's part.

But, they have continued to make it easier for folks to jump in or level alt characters. If you already have at least one high level character you can purchase several pieces of what are called Heirloom gears which scale as your character levels and are bind-on-account so you can send them between alt characters. About half of the gear slots are currently covered, giving you a possible rare/blue quality item that you never have to replace during the leveling process.

Four of these slots (head,shoulder,back and chest) are also itemized to boost your XP gained by 10% each (5% for the cloak) for a total of 35% free XP. This sums with other boosts like Rested-XP (double experience killing monsters) and there's also an XP boost you can get from a guild perk (among other benefits, like lowered vendor pricing, higher probability for skill increases, etc.).

They've also compressed the XP necessary to level with each expansion so even without the gear getting from 1-60 takes about half as much effort as it did in Vanilla, 60-70 about half the effort it took in BC and 70-80 goes much quicker than it did in Wrath. I played only one character in Vanilla, my rogue, and made my first alt character near the end of BC but the inclusion of heirlooms and XP compression has meant it was finally fun to play with other classes, because the leveling is so fast now.

With rested and a full set of the boost heirlooms it's not uncommon to get upwards of 2.5 levels out of a single dungeon run. That's no exaggeration. Or half a level out of a single BG played.


edit: there's an interesting alternative for folks who are only interested in the original WoW 1-60 content. One of the more famous players from my server, Gummy, has been putting in a ton of work on World of Scriptcraft, which looks to be the first ever "private server" experience worth investigating. He's been putting in a lot of effort to faithfully recreate the original experience and isn't adding the cheeseball "godmode" stuff you find with others.

[FrighT MasteR]

[Halcon Loco]

Ugh, I hate WOW. I have two friends that are obsessed with that game. When I ask if they want to hang, they say sure but I have a raid later tonight, so they could only hang for a few. Plus they talk about it alot and try to get me to play it.

[BurnetRhoades]

Yeah, I know. Wall of text crits you for over nine thousand.



Here's another funny one:



...made by Mute/Kishkummen, creator of the infamous World of Roguecraft series. Like Leeroy, Mute sorta had to go underground with his playing on account of being hounded so much by fanboys, going so far as to spread rumors of his own death I've read.

[FrighT MasteR]

[BurnetRhoades]

My favorite in-game event ever...

[FrighT MasteR]

I must've been around for that event, cuz I don't remember it

[BurnetRhoades]

It coincided with Hallow's End just before the release of Wrath of the Lich King. These mysterious crates started showing up at the docks and in cities that would start slowly changing folks that got infected by their aura into ghouls if they weren't cleansed. The rate of contagion got shorter and shorter progressively through the event.

Once turned into a ghoul all other players became attackable, allowing you to infect them. This caused quite a ruckus on PvE realms because it didn't matter whether they were flagged or not, in a city or not. Nobody was safe from the ghouls which would spread from NPC to NPC, via AI interaction but also player to player and player to NPC, etc. Towards the peak of the infection the Auction House became almost unusable, not to mention flight masters and major leveling quest hubs. The QQ was epic but very short sighted.

Eventually folks started organizing ghoul raids on cities, coordinating getting infected, spreading to as many nearby NPCs as possible, rallying the newly ghoulified NPCs and then attacking as a giant group. This necessitated counter-ghoul defensive parties formed by the goody-goody types, especially those playing paladins. And more QQ.

The epidemic eventually spread to Outland and even the Island of QD where not even the nagas were safe from being infected and turned to ghouls.

edit: oh, and near this time Blizz also brought back the Argent Crusade event, like the one that preceded the addition of the original Naxxramas (Tier 3) raid in Vanilla WoW. All over Azeroth would be attacks by floating platforms spawning various types of undead that had to be attacked in groups for drops, tokens and various event-specific rare and epic items, including the brief return to availability of the Argent Crusade tabard.

[FrighT MasteR]

Damn, sounds like I really missed out

[IrishG3nt]

Ugh, I hate WOW. I have two friends that are obsessed with that game. When I ask if they want to hang, they say sure but I have a raid later tonight, so they could only hang for a few. Plus they talk about it alot and try to get me to play it.

that's the shit I don't understand...how a game can take over ones life...I really don't feel like I am missing anything by not playing this game...there is no way I could devote 1/3 of time to it....let alone 6 yrs like that one guy in the video did

[Halcon Loco]

I know what you mean man. I laugh to myself when they say they could hang for a few but have to be back by 7 for a raid. Like it's mandatory.