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war was brought to an end but before when i spent most of my time grinding rep by running instances come on i know better you could make a pretty big argument that i spent just as much if not more time dealing with the sons of hodir hodor via in game quests than three other factions combined wyrmrest accord argent crusade and ebon blade and i m only up to honored with big blue nation in the end it s all a simulation and not a very complex one at that and i shouldn t expect anything more than what i m getting but still it irks me that this wasn t what i remembered about wrath i remembered interesting stories and fun instances and unfortunately guild blow ups due to the difficulty raiding now years later i can see where wow began moving in a narrative direction that didn t appeal to me the instances are still there and i ve countered the raiding issues with being recruited into a 10s team that is focused on fun and not speeding through progression and i still have my friends it s just that the focus on the player in the manner presented in wrath classic no longer appeals to me it becomes less about you the person and more about you the wielder of great power and in that sense you are merely a tool for others something i never even thought about at the time circling back to the quote i use to kick this post off is this taste of power and influence sweet for others it might be but for me it feels tainted something feels off about it perhaps that s part of the influence of arthas himself and how he allowed his fatal flaw of revenge and the pursuit of power for revenge to corrupt him into the lich king he is today will we find this taste of power and influence so sweet that we are in turn corrupted as well and if we are how can we see it without others to point it out to us yes i m quite aware there s seed quests for both sholazar basin and icecrown at the landing platform in dalaran but i ve ignored them in favor of quests from out in the field if nothing else the overall lack of quests out northrend proper that send a player to sholazar reinforce my opinion that sholazar basin was merely tacked on because blizz felt obligated to have a place where hemet nesingwary would end up at least as far as the mists expansion hemet is considered too important a side character to not have some quest hub and chain assigned to him and his crew if that held true all the way through shadowlands i m not exactly sure i want to know how they pulled that off with hemet in the afterlife she has since had to go there because the enchanting trainer wouldn t give her outland s enchanting whereas tailoring had no issues with giving her outland s tailoring ability i m inclined to think it a feature not a bug and blizz would likely give me a weird look if i told them i skipped outland and leveled to 70 strictly in the old world a very meta way of gaining rep but hey that s how you do it in wrath classic sorry university of kentucky wildcats those overly large giants are more impressive than coach john calipari s plausible deniability about recruiting basketball players posted by redbeard at 4 27 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels musings wrath classic monday november 14 2022 meme monday frosty memes we had our first snowfall of the fall on saturday which got me in a more seasonal mood so i went with those memes that encompass gaming rpgs mmos and of course snow and this is why hogger should be a raid boss from ifunny co this is why wrath of the lich king gives you that frosty feeling from pinterest forget the dice i want to know what the hell cambridge naturals is and whether i should be concerned if it s a nsfw site or not from pinterest they re more menacing that the white dragons i knew and loved but hey still accurate from diy despair com posted by redbeard at 1 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes saturday november 12 2022 playing around with resonance playing an mmorpg is an exercise in compromises there s the ability to play with others and there s the ability to play by yourself on one side developers have to accommodate group content and make it available for all but on the flip side players want to feel like they ve affected the world in a way that a single player game provides originally mmos did not have instanced content everquest was in famous for raid bosses spawning at random times and the first guild to make a hit on said boss got the credit for the eventual kill this led to some rather dubious behavior among some guilds who would have toons parked watching for boss spawns on an around the clock basis the hardest of the hard core guilds wouldn t even allow for bio breaks which gave rise to personally disgusting methods of relieving oneself while performing your duty to your guild despite popular appearances blizz was not the first mmo to solve this problem it apparently was anarchy online even everquest beat world of warcraft by about a year however blizz integrated the concept of instanced content into world of warcraft from the start along with a lack of loading screens between world zones and other innovations that it s understandable that many still believe that wow created instanced content they merely popularized it but with the stories that blizz wanted to tell with wow they had to do more than just instance 5 person and raid content they wanted to provide that affect the game world feeling that single player rpg video games have if you ve spent any time at all in front of karazhan from tbc through wrath at least you ve seen this interaction on repeat it was into this environment that blizzard decided on a solution when wrath of the lich king debuted back in 2008 phasing on the face of it phasing looked like an elegant solution to the problem of affecting the game world yet allowing players of various levels of progression to still be there people could permanently see the results of their questing yet the important content 5 player raids and bgs arenas remained instanced kind of ironic that phasing turned into yet another method of fomo and player annoyance in implementation particularly in wrath classic fun with phasing my first exposure to phasing in wrath classic wasn t the wrathgate although that was a close second the wrathgate is easier to explain however a dungeon group of my raid team was heading out from dalaran to wherever and we passed by the wrathgate area i took note that everybody except me was marked as in a different phase and i quipped well it s easy to see who did the wrathgate and who didn t oh the tank asked everybody else is listed as in a different phase ah but people and i expected that my first encounter with phasing in wrath classic was in nearby wintergarde keep where my questing buddy needed a hand in killing a mini boss i rode up to her and promptly was attacked by a steady stream of respawning ghouls i didn t worry since she was on her priest and she could heal me without batting an eyelash the only thing was she wasn t healing uh i said to myself after the third wave of ghouls respawning so rapidly i couldn t stop to eat and drink and recover are you being attacked she asked in chat uh yeah i replied i can t see any of that shit none of it nope i eventually managed to break away from the onslaught long enough for me to get my health and mana back we then acquired a couple of other people nearby who were on the same quest as she was and we engaged the boss are you on the quest she asked me no here let me share it says you re not eligible i guess i m not far enough along the chain to get it okies the boss was successfully downed but waves of ghouls came at me again in the middle of the fight and i think i died once along the way no worries i thought i ll just rez and go back to the inn at wintergarde keep and find a vendor to repair at i arrived at the keep but something was missing lots of somethings hey i typed out where is everybody am i missing the innkeeper or something oh my questing buddy replied you have to do the first couple of quests here to unlock all of those people you have got to be kidding me nope phasing yeah it sucks do you need a hand in doing those first quests by then my stubborn streak reasserted itself and i was determined to give the game the middle finger no i ll get to it when i get to it i replied angry that the game was not so subtly trying to force me into doing quests i didn t want to do right then i came over to help someone not be helped when i didn t need it okies after that sequence of events i learned fairly quickly that wrath classic made far more extensive use of phasing than i remembered such as in zul drak with the zandalari quests or the storm peaks with the hyldnir thorim sons of hodir questline but phasing is most egregiously used in icecrown glacier where in scourgeholme that first screenshot in this post was taken just the other day my questing buddy needed a hand with some bosses and i hopped on deuce to help out i flew over and where are you i asked i m phased i thought this might happen shit i dropped into the area where the boss was and not only could i not see her but i couldn t even see any enemies at all let me send you a screenshot so you can see what i m seeing i told her and sent the pic above the unadulterated version to her via discord i was able to find a small portion of icecrown where we weren t phased so i could buff her and give her some food but after that i was reduced to being a cheerleader for a fight i couldn t even see all i could do was watch her mana go slowly down down down and then the questie alert popped up hey gratz i typed out thanks i followed her blip on the minimap until she headed south into crystalsong forest and then i was able to assist on killing some mobs but with phasing keeping us separated in icecrown and my ire at being not so subtly pressured by the game into catching up with her i told her that i was just a spectator and i logged for the night i get it i understand the why of phasing it exists so that more detailed stories can be told in the game world it s just that unless you re completely on the same phase with another person grouping up to quest together is a pretty useless endeavor which sucks layers which is wow classic s bastard cousin of phasing has similar problems such as last night when my questing buddy was going to go on a naxxramas 25 person pug after she unsuccessfully tried roping me in she asked me if i could get her some mage food sure i replied parked linna and hopped on deuce i hopped on a flight over to wintergarde keep along the way answering multiple whispers who wanted me to join the naxx raid with a no thanks and landed where are you i asked at the flightpoint i tried targeting her but no dice uh what layer are you on i don t know well crap that s probably why i can t see you you ll have to drop from the raid and invite me so i can then see you a few moments later i received an invite which i accepted and she reappeared next to me i handed over the mage pastries gave her a wave and swapped back over to linna that entire sequence was far more complicated than it needed to be mainly due to the presence of layers you should be able to go right up to someone hand over what s needed and then leave but now with layers you have to group up so you can actually find each other which is a royal pain if one of you is already in a group and if you re phased well sucks to be us i guess i already know the answer to the problems phasing creates just consume the content yeah but here s the thing not everybody wants to or is able to go at the same pace as everybody else and by creating that artificial barrier blizzard is inserting fomo into something it was never meant for i realize that i m likely the only person who gets annoyed at phasing in this way but i don t like to be pressured and told what to do whether it be directly or indirectly and wow has enough peer pressure already present in game without any more being added thankyouverymuch or a tabletop game you were expecting me to say more no way i m pretty sure nobody wants to read about that while eating a meal and perusing their blog readers and if you do what the hell is wrong with you kind of interesting how blizz has pretty much ranked what is important using the three tiered system normal quests phased quests quest chains instanced content different players might have different opinions on what they perceive to be most important but blizz put the unofficial imprimatur on their design based on which content goes into which bucket several mmos in a post wrath world that use multiple servers do have layering in place they just call it something different i think swtor calls them game worlds for example but more and more mmos are migrating toward a singular megaserver with multiple layers to accommodate the sheer population size yet also adjust the game to make the game not seem overwhelmingly populated she did give it a good attempt but i wasn t interested there was more drama in the franken guild that day that i heard about secondhand but it was sufficient enough to not make me want to go into any 25 person raids put on by the guild it s jes raid my questing buddy replied trying to lure me in and pointing out to me that it s not an official alt pug raid put on by the guild i know i replied i like jes a lot and she does a great job at raid leading but the most recent official response to an incident concerning the guild banks is to restrict the guild bank usage to the 25 person real raids only this is not what i d consider a correct response punish the offender and change operation of the bank so that withdrawals need to be handled via a banking toon identified by the guild so the capricious nature of the response just stuck in my craw we already knew that 10 person raids were considered casual by the guild s leadership but lumping our raid team in with the person who caused the problem and implying it s a casual vs hardcore issue rather than someone who abused the guild banks infuriated me from my perspective it certainly seems like they re pissing away all of the goodwill they d earned over on myzrael us and they re going to acquire a poor reputation on atiesh us if they keep this up and why would i want to be associated with that there were enough whispers that i wondered briefly if i was conned into swapping over so i could be recruited but i knew better i was just being paranoid unlike say apple stubbornly refusing to change their imessage app to utilize the rcs standard which is quite deliberate apple is in a passive aggressive way utilizing peer pressure and bullying by iphone users to force people into swapping from android phones to apple s iphones it s mainly a us based thing since most of the rest of the world uses whatsapp or signal or other messaging applications but it is 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