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as gone on people have left the game split for other guilds or simply vanished right now we have 2 3 people including me who login with regularity i suppose that those people who thought that the guild was my own personal guild can be forgiven for that misconception since i m the only one they see around azeroth and to be perfectly honest i have trust issues concerning guilds in mmos it s not like i ve never talked about them here so i m not gonna rehash them too much and to be perfectly fair the guild i run with has been nothing but welcoming to me and the few others who aren t guildies so it s nothing they ve done to make me feel that way instead it s all about me the tl dr of my mmo guild history has been about series of guilds blowing up guilds reforming blowing up again and guilds fading away as time has gone on the situation i find myself in with retail orphans is a mirror of what i experienced in mists where the guild i d joined in cataclysm slowly faded away until i was the only person who regularly logged in and while i see active guilds around that would love to have me join i keep having the doubts in the back of my head fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me fool me 4 or 5 times what kind of sucker am i so right now where i m at is where i m likely to stay for a while my wow activity is relatively stable and stability is nice the rest are a few people like me who are part of different guilds posted by redbeard at 4 24 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels aq40 guild wow classic friday october 23 2020 i ve seen this before it goes without saying that shadowlands is the talk of the blogosphere these days even blogs that rarely dabble in wow at all have cast their eyes upon the upcoming wow expac and have created posts on the level squish the experience getting to l50 and discussions about the late somewhat unlamented expac battle for azeroth this is not one of those posts if anything else the hype feels like a huge case of deja vu like oh cataclysm or for those of us who are pencil and paper rpgers the pathfinder d d 4e split all of these events promised us major changes in the game played and yes that was a completely accurate promise but i also wonder whether the changes became a case in be careful what you wish for because you might get it cataclysm revamped the original two continents of azeroth but at the cost of making the storyline disconnected from the burning crusade and wrath zones the revamped story in azeroth made sense to older players but left new ones scratching their heads in plenty of spots wondering just what on earth they missed in effect blizzard cut off their supply of new players by the cataclysm revamp wizards of the coast looked at the d d 3 0 3 5 landscape saw it was getting inundated with splatbooks and overloaded with feats and skills and whatnot and decided to blow it all up with d d 4e 4e promised a total revamping of the system and wotc delivered unfortunately for many the video game nature of abilities in 4e drove long standing rpgers nuts leading to the rise of pathfinder pathfinder promised a similar yet more streamlined system from d d 3 5 and they delivered but they also kept up the splatbook treadmill which ended up with them back in the exact same problem that d d 3 5 found itself in all those years ago so i look at shadowlands as effectively cataclysm 2 0 it is blizzard trying to forget their greatest advantage over every other mmo the gigantic world of azeroth itself complete with questing and story and all sorts of other quirky things each zone has in favor of focusing on the newest expac i know exactly what at least someone will say in response all of that stuff is still there and anybody can access it after having gone through the new intro zone and bfa to which my response is really do you really think that a new player is going to go back and examine all of the other areas after they get done with bfa and they get railroaded toward shadowlands especially after you re so overleveled that your toon makes a mockery of the in zone experience from previous expacs trying to make sense of the overall story in the old world alone so many expacs later will cause an enormous amount of head scratching trying to figure out burning crusade vs warlords of draenor alone would be a huge problem no i don t think that is going to happen and neither does blizzard they point you at shadowlands because that s where they want you oh sure they ll happily take your money for a subscription they do that from me already courtesy of classic but they want you at endgame they want you doing all the things in shadowlands because they know that in wow the game begins at endgame and every little subgame or whatnot that blizzard introduces into wow via shadowlands becomes just one more thing that you have to do to get better at endgame and if you re not happy with shadowlands there s classic ready just for you fewer races fewer classes no cataclysm 1 0 no phasing no proliferation of mini games etc or in this case deja vu all over again as the late baseball player yogi berra once said known colloquially among pencil and paper rpgers as d d 3 75 then again marvel and dc have made their living on alternate earths for so long maybe nobody will notice the longer i ve worked in corporate america the more obvious it s become that anything to increase profits is on the table when it comes to product development my enjoyment of classic aside if i thought that blizzard was doing this out of the goodness of their heart i d be next in line to buy a bridge in new york city blizzard likely views classic as a hedge against the inevitable dropoff that comes when people get to max level in shadowlands and the trade channels start becoming inundated with cries of i m bored posted by redbeard at 11 06 am 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels wow wow classic wednesday october 21 2020 why can t i just enjoy the ride part whatever work has been kicking my butt the past few weeks and between that and the stress relief of raiding i ve not had much time for writing hopefully this post will get me back on track a bit i ve been enjoying my time in classic and as i believe shintar put it that it s more enjoyable when you re with a group of people a guild or a cross guild group that you enjoy hanging with and in true wow fashion while the focus is on downing the last boss in aq40 viscidus raid chat has been filled with what s coming up not naxxramas mind you but a bit farther down the road than that burning crusade to say that people are excited for bc to drop is probably an understatement draenei alliance shamans outland draenei flying karazhan and draenei are just some of the things that people are excited about and did i mention draenei of course all this excitement for the burning crusade left me with an uneasy feeling oh not that i d be not interested in playing through outland when it was relevant or any sort of other petty reasons in fact i d love to see some of my long time blogger friends hi vidyala and voss come back and get a chance to play burning crusade again then what s the problem in a word guilds yeah i m just a ray of effing sunshine what will happen when bc drops and people start raiding the requirements will plummet from 20 and 40 man raids to 10 and 25 man raids and dropping the number of people in a raiding team by 50 and 63 respectively is going to result in some tension remember we re coming at bc from an entirely different place than vanilla from what i ve been told by people who were there raiding was something that few guilds were able to do in vanilla so dropping the raid requirements to 10 and 25 people were a godsend but in classic the situation is reversed a lot of guilds raid in classic so when you take a raiding team and chop it down like that there s going to be some tension the larger guilds with multiple raiding teams can probably absorb this adjustment but the smaller guilds that field only one that s another kettle of fish for example i m one of six mages in our aq40 team i m also quite aware that due to a combination of lack of experience skill and gear i m probably 5 6 or 6 6 so when the time comes to make up raids for bc i m likely to be left off the main team i m okay with that since you want the best people in your raid but i m also not a member of the guild either being demoted as a guildie however is going to have a completely different impact guild leaderships throughout classic are going to have to navigate this minefield and i m not sure a lot of guilds will survive people will want to get a chance to raid and see the content they never got a chance to see and to be put on the bench will hurt hell look at sports just how many sports figures take being pulled from the starting group well you spend your life competing you re a proud member of the starting lineup and then the coach pulls you over and says look we ve got this kid here and while we still value your contribution we ve gotta look to the future it s a business you understand sure some people handle a demotion with grace and think of the overall team as the important part but there are others lots of others who still want to prove that they ve still got it they re upset and angry and they ve got instant motivation to prove their coach manager wrong they split for another team that gives them the chance they wanted and this is what worries me the necessary demotion of people from a raid will cause drama more drama than was experienced in the original bc i suspect that the drama will be closer to what happened to guilds in wrath when the requirement to raid was only 10 and suddenly less than half of a guild was needed to put together a raid team it could get ugly really fast with a lot of guilds blowing up into chunks effectively balkanizing the guild environment on classic servers and seeing some of these guilds that i ve run with breaking apart is not something i want to have happen there are a lot of great people i ve gotten to know through raids instances bgs and just goofing in general around azeroth and i would really prefer that my nightmare scenario never happen i play to have fun and socialize and dealing with drama is not what i signed up for sure i realize that some drama is inevitable we re talking people here after all but the less drama the better perhaps my concerns are overblown perhaps things will work out and there won t be an excessive amount of drama in classic but if nothing else the year 2020 has taught me to not be optimistic i m on myzrael us in case you re wondering it s west coast time so more in line with your own time zone just leaving it out there posted by redbeard at 10 59 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels burning crusade guild musings wow classic sunday october 11 2020 this is why i don t stream part whatever oh sure i ve got a sense of humor about my limitations playing games but this video illustrates perfectly why i don t do livestreams i really feel for the guy who was showing how to do a slow fall to get right to the black lotus location i ve done that exact thing and discovered too late that i don t have any feathers left posted by redbeard at 10 45 pm 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels humor videos wow classic thursday october 8 2020 know when to hold em one of the major reasons why i like to play a rogue is the thrill of outsmarting the enemy not tactically mind you but being so clever that you can sneak around and bypass enemies to get where you need to go it s that rush you get when you sneak through timbermaw hold and none of the firbolg find you or when you re sneaking around orr in guild wars 2 trying to avoid having to fight your way through every five feet or so it seems being able to get all the way to frostwolf hold in alterac valley and drive the horde nuts by moving back and forth and assaulting the two frostwolf towers all without being seen is a huge rush so imagine my surprise when i discovered just how much of a gambler you have to be when you play a fire mage you knew this was coming didn t you one of the major reasons why i specced frost all those years with neve was because frost is not only a great pvp spec but that it is the best spec for questing out in the field all of the damage mitigation and defensive skills that frost has means that a frost mage will typically not suffer much damage at all or if she does she can quickly escape without much issue and while speccing frost is highly sought after for raiding in molten core and blackwing lair for the rest of wow classic it is not seen as a raider s spec per se that s fire s domain when you see a max level fire mage out and about in azeroth odds are good that mage is raiding aq20 or aq40 a lone fire mage out in blackwing lair or molten core is at a disadvantage because the reason why fire mages are so powerful is that their buffs stack based on the number of fire mages in a raid put that same lonely fire mage in aq40 with 4 5 other fire mages they can wreak havoc on enemies scratch one anubisath a lone fire mage in a 5 man instance not a problem only blackrock depths has bosses that resist fire spells a lone fire mage questing in the field well that s a completely different kettle of fish the reason why i say a fire mage is a gambler s spec is because a fire mage has no damage mitigation outside of the fire ward frost ward and mana shield spells and let s be honest the mana shield isn t used much because it sucks your mage s mana dry to shield them so it s typically looked on as a spell of last resort add to that a fire mage doesn t get the slowdown or freezes that a frost mage gets when utilizing frost spells so dumping blizzard or a frostbolt on an enemy doesn t give you the slow debuff that a frost mage gets which is a huge advantage when you want to escape from or dps down an enemy no the fire mage says i bet i can throw more damage at you before you kill me every single pull i believe a fire mage s mantra is go big or go home bring it you blowhard am i comfortable with card rolling the dice like this after a month of speccing fire i m still not really comfortable yet oh i understand the rotation and i don t die if i space out my pulls in the wild but card s survivability pulling a pack of 3 or more at level enemies has taken a bit of a hit i guess i have to embrace my inner gambler a bit more or a class similar to one such as a shadowblade in elder scrolls online guild wars 2 has a thief profession and if you guessed i play that class in gw2 you d be right in star wars the old republic my favorite class and class story is the smuggler i ve played both the scoundrel healer and gunslinger dps subclasses and i ve found both of them to be a blast literally at times hmm 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