Dave Noonan on WoW

[Charwoman Gene]

FWIW, The Draenai are basically just selling out the Alliance to the dark force behind the Naaru.

 

[Wystan]

My 70 Dwarven Hunter agrees that all the other races are evil.

Come back soon Titans...Come back soon...

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Durotan&n=Thuren (Note no real PVP)

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

My wife and I play WoW. We each have a level 69 character, and largely we play together.

My character I started two years ago or so, not long after the game came out, anyway. And I have realized something about myself in that time:

"I really suck at World of Warcraft. Alot."

I think she has a half-dozen characters or so, while I really only have the one. The game is HARD for me to play. The grinding and the PVP just suck the soul directly from my body. Can't stand it.

But I love a good instance run. Love love love. I love going on quests and following the story chains, I like boss fights and the intricate maneuvering of an instance ... when to pull, how, tanking and DPS and the rest. That's all very interesting an entertaining to me.

Which says, to me, I like WoW when it is most like D&D. When I'm uncovering an ongoing story, doing quests, adventuring with other people, and thinking tactically.

If I'm just killing seven thousand demons to gather components to make fifty-three pairs of pants I'm not going to use to get my tailoring up to make one something that I want that I will use for three weeks before discarding? I want to scream.

And, generally, I don't go in for chest-beating and twitch gaming that comes with PVP. Again, I'm terrible at it.

So my hope is the table will be stable and usable and cool and will allow me to host games with people I know who have moved, or people I have met online that I like.

Tonight, after the baby goes to bed, we're going to run Shadow Labrynth and probably hit 70. And, as I've told everybody in my guild: "Then I've beaten the game."

--fje

 

[Kaodi]

I've never played any MMORPG, but I used to play MUDs a lot. I'm not sure whether that would have proofed me against wasting a lot of time grinding, or if I would go back to my early days on my favourite MUD when I was one of the level 100 remorted badasses.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

Of course, if we're talking about Gnomes nuking their own city, I'd like to point out that the Trolls were driven out of their home in the Echo Isles.

By a level 12 non-elite guy.

Yeah.

Brad

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

FWIW, The Draenai are basically just selling out the Alliance to the dark force behind the Naaru.

I'm curious what that is, although it's obvious that something's up. Of course, if they aren't explaining why the heck the naga are draining Zangamarsh, they may not explain the big skeleton in the Narrus' closet, either.

 

[Sunderstone]

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Fenris&n=Healmore

One of my 70s (my main actually). I was GM of a high end raid guild, currently guildless, and semi-retired to Horde on the same server.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Fenris&n=Xanjin
went back to my above Troll Hunter after a 2 year hiatus and formed a pvp guild (my alt Xanhoof). 1231 ap at level 62

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Of course, if we're talking about Gnomes nuking their own city, I'd like to point out that the Trolls were driven out of their home in the Echo Isles.

By a level 12 non-elite guy.

Yeah.

Those are fun War3 levels, though.

 

[Man in the Funny Hat]

I gave up on WoW entirely well over a year ago. I play City of Heroes exclusively, and though I'm a 2 year veteran my highest level character is currently 31.

 

[Doug McCrae]

I always felt WoW was at its best in 5-man instances too, which is pretty close to D&D. That actually never occurred to me before.


PS It fills me with great confidence to see that some of the D&D design team play World of Warcraft. That they are keeping up with current trends in gaming and have their fingers on the pulse, so to speak. These guys are gamers, through and through.

PPS Horde are teh suck.