Catriona R
11/7/2012 1:14:00 PM
On 7 Nov 2012 08:32:28 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>Well my friends, my two months of revisiting WoW have run out on monday. It
>was fun coming back to try out MoP and I'm glad I did but I'll be away from
>the game again (maybe until the next expansion, who knows...).
:-( Glad you had fun anyway, and hope you stick around in the group at
least! :-)
>A few things to recap:
>- knowing I would only play for two months allowed me pretty much to do what
> I wanted without having to cater to my OCD personality :-)
Hehe yeah, sounds like it was a good way for you to get to enjoy it
without enjoying it too much.
>- playing my panda monk to level 12 was a disappointment, I didn't warm up
> to the pace of the starting zone at all. I can't say anything about how
> playing a monk would feel, because at that low level, it didn't feel much
> different from any other melee class
I'm finding my monk is getting more interesting now I'm over lvl 30,
took a while to warm up as a class though. Personally I loved the
starting zone but then we're all different anyway!
>- making achievments, pets and mounts account wide is a great improvment, if
> they can extend this to reputations in one of the upcoming patches,
> rotating between alts will be even easier and less of a frustration.
They *are* making it possible to at least speed up rep gaining on alts
if you already have one character exalted, thank goodness - in 5.1
there'll be an item on the quartermasters of Pandarian factions which
increases repgain for the rest of the account. I shall definitely use
it for Golden Lotus, may not for the others since I do enjoy rep, but
the gating with Golden Lotus is pretty obnoxious I must say (the only
faction-related thing I actively dislike; I am 100% sick of that first
batch of dailies by now, thankfully I hit exalted yesterday! :-))
>- gathering and crafting (at least herbalism and alchemy; can't speak for
> the others) seems to be pretty painless. I like the new search/filter
> possibilities on the crafting dialog as well as the indicator for
> multi-skillup recipes. In the month since MoP launch, I've seen exactly
> two Lotus spawns, that seems to be about in par with Black Lotus back in
> vanilla (unlike Frost Lotus which seems to have been everywhere)
Yep, Mining and JC was painless as well, thankfully Trillium veins are
not so rare as Golden Lotus spawns ;-)
>- in the month leading up to MoP, my guild was dead. I saw one or the other
> person occasionally, but only two of them and never more than one at a
> time. In the month since MoP, there were about 10-12 people regularly
> online, usually about 3-5 at the same time, a few times we were as many as
> 10. Many of the core of the guild no longer seem to play.
That's quite an improvement though regards numbers. My friendslist was
dead before MoP and would remain dead after, except that I ran across
a name I recognised from years back as a friend who transferred off
the server - asked him if he was the same person and sure enough he
was! So ok, I now have *one* friend playing lol. (Actually, haven't
seen him for a week or so but eh, hopefully he's remaining active and
it's been bad timing that I've missed him)
>- I absolutely loved the pet battling system, that was the only part of the
> game that managed to grab my OCD trait, during the last 10 days that was
> the only thing I did (forgoing questing in the Steppes, Dread Waste and
> Valley of Everlasting Blossom)
Hehe that is indeed addictive, I've managed to resist getting totally
hooked on it yet but I'm very much enjoying it, got my team up to lvl
23 and into Northrend at present and I can see myself eventually
trying to capture rare versions of every pet...
>- I didn't take to the farming "minigame" all that much. The "game" part
> where you need to tend to your plants after sowing got boring very fast.
> However, apart from that I like the concept of being able to grow your
> cooking ingredients (in a way it's a bit like a limited supply ingredient
> vendor :-) I never got enough reputation with the tillers to get more than
> four fields
The tending is a bit irritating I agree. When you get exalted with an
NPC you can ask them to help on your farm, but most of them do nothing
- would sure be nice if they actually did help you tend things, say
each one have a special type of plant to help out with and then I can
hire someone to deal with the most annoying (wiggling or wild, I
think!). As you go along you at least get one-click watering and pest
spraying items as static objects on your farm that cure all affected
plants, so those save on keeping the watering can and bug sprayer in
your bag, but the rest of the ailments get tedious when you have a
16-slot farm and do it every day. That being said, other than that I
love the concept and it's always my first stop ingame, so I guess it
doesn't irritate me *that* much :-)
>Having said all that, the game no longer had the same "pull" on me as
>before. I'm not sure if this is because I knew I'd be gone again in a month
>or if not having played it for over a year gave me a bit of distance to it.
>On the other hand, *if* I'd been back for good, I could very well see myself
>being totally addicted again, what with all the new things to go OCD about:
>- more achievments (also more of them obtainable, now that they are account
> wide)
>- six types of cooking to max out
>- more reputations
>- pet battling
>- another new class to level
>- maxing out all my classes (in Vanilla I managed to have 3 at 60, in BC I
> got 3 to 70, in Wrath 3 to 80, in Cata 2 to 85 (though one of them hadn't
> been 80 in Wrath; it seems that it gets harder and harder to bring all of
> them to max, as more and more lag further and further behind, and having a
> max level healer in Cata really took my time out of playing the alts, as I
> spent so much time in /lfg runs)
>- scenarios, shorter /lfg queues, feasible /lfr runs
Hehe yeah I'm working on basically all of those, although maximing
other classes isn't happening since I have so many things to do on my
main. Only got one character past 85 yet... my druid is 86! Monk is
lvl 32 now so that one's progressing a little but yeah, too much for
my main to do right now. LFR is perfect at preset, new one opens today
which I haven't seen but with the first one split into two bursts,
it's just a 30 mins blast now people know the general idea (so we're
not wiping over and over like the first week), actually I tend to
spend more time in the queue than in the raid at times (not through
the queue being long but through being too short - as a healer it is
VERY difficult to get into a fresh run since you always get instantly
invited to runs with 1-2 bosses already dead, sigh, wtb more healers
in the queue)
>Anyway, that about sums up my experiences over the last two months, it was
>good being back. I'll probably keep lurking here every once in a while, but
>I'll stay away from the game at least to the next expansion.
>
>Thanks to everyone for the advice I got during that time, and may your
>swords stay sharp!
Hopefully see you around here still! :-)