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World of Warcraft: The War Within
- Thread starter Whizbang Dustyboots
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TwoSix
I DM your 2nd favorite game
I got through the campaign and unlocked earthen, but didn't feel like getting into the gear grind rat race again. Nothing to do with the expansion, I'm just not in the mindset for MMOs right now.
I will agree that Hallowfell might be the most beautiful zone ever added to WoW.
I will agree that Hallowfell might be the most beautiful zone ever added to WoW.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
It's a really solid expansion but WoW's current endgame just isn't super-appealing to me either right now. There's a real jump in dedication and skill required going from Delves and Heroics and even Normal raiding (let alone LFR) to M+, that the compression of the M+ levels has only exaggerated further, and in general it seems like Blizzard are pretty okay with this, and it means you kind of rather quickly dead end unless you have a friendly, active guild to play with (which seem to be hard to find these days, I mean, they have been for years), especially if you don't play on a regular schedule (I have enough time to play, but it's not always at the same time reliably).
So I've largely stopped playing for now. Probably come back later in the expansion at some point. I think there's also an element that a lot of WoW's gameplay is like, good, well-designed, but in a sort of anti-sweetspot where, for me, it's slow enough that it doesn't cause the intense focus action games can, but also way too fast to be particularly relaxing or comfortable to play (unlike, say, FFXIV). WoW's on-foot movement also feels increasingly outdated (something Pandaria Remix helped show up and I suspect they might have used that as a bit of a testbed for seeing what forms of movement people liked, with the special movement skill gem).
So I've largely stopped playing for now. Probably come back later in the expansion at some point. I think there's also an element that a lot of WoW's gameplay is like, good, well-designed, but in a sort of anti-sweetspot where, for me, it's slow enough that it doesn't cause the intense focus action games can, but also way too fast to be particularly relaxing or comfortable to play (unlike, say, FFXIV). WoW's on-foot movement also feels increasingly outdated (something Pandaria Remix helped show up and I suspect they might have used that as a bit of a testbed for seeing what forms of movement people liked, with the special movement skill gem).
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