[PC] World of Warcraft

I also just started playing again... Noobing it up on Mug'Thol.

I think alot of people started playing again, hopefully no one deleted their toons when they quit!

I quit a few months back, sold my account had 4 70's for 900$. I got bored shortly after and started anew. I tried horde side since all I heard about when I was alliance was how much more awesome the horde was, players were much more mature, pvp groups were alot more organized..blah blah. Now all I hear about is how the horde side is filled with alliance rerolls who wanted blood elves. I really just think its a lame cop out by people who cant accept that maybe the Alliance side isnt as bad as its stereotyped to be.

On another note, I am wondering how different itemization will be in Wotlk. I can see blizzard itemizing certain two handed weapons just for titan grip (which I still cannot believe thats actually a real talent). Also as someone whos played a feral druid through hyjal/bt and now starting sunwell...the new feral talents looks pretty badass. A last stand/cloak of shadows like roar all rolled into one will be epic.

So basically new patch was released yesterday, Lovely patch indeed.

Gave us the ability to ride mounts at level 30, I am level 36 right now (Hunter in bloodchewer toon named LoliconDesu)

Originally Posted by Knighthawk

On another note, I am wondering how different itemization will be in Wotlk. I can see blizzard itemizing certain two handed weapons just for titan grip (which I still cannot believe thats actually a real talent). Also as someone whos played a feral druid through hyjal/bt and now starting sunwell...the new feral talents looks pretty badass. A last stand/cloak of shadows like roar all rolled into one will be epic.

I'll be honest, I pretty much figured that Titan Grip wouldn't see the light of day, because it's a great talent. People screaming nerf on it before it was officially announced. Much like the lock spell Cripple was. Except Cripple actually got removed before beta has even started. :|

Beta Started. MMO Champion has a shit pot of stuff, as well as some loot from WotLK. Enjoy

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Spoiler:

Talent Calculator

Runeforging only available to Death Knights.

I just got my beta keya day ago, and let me tell you something:

Spoiler:

TITAN'S GRIP. FUCK YES.

I'm in beta but, I don't have any time. It makes me kind of sad. I know I'm not going to have time to play WOTLK either. Sad, sad, sad.

I'm still waiting for my "Sign up to opt for beta but we really still choose who we want which is pretty much end game raiders" key to be sent.

Actually I've been browsing the beta forums recently and have seen such sad shit. People in full T6/Sunwell complaining that the new instances like Nexus and Utgarde Keep are "too easy" and they "need to be tuned harder", completely forgetting that their current gear is supposed to last up until 78-79 when Sunwell upgrades fall from Halls of Stone (according to MMO-Champion). Also complaints from the length of these instances (which blizzard has stated shouldn't take more than 45 minutes to complete anyway) that they're "too short". WTF? I'd rather them be about 30 minutes in length so I can run about 3-4 in a setting than they be about 1-2 hours long for one. =\

It doesn't give me much hope that there's going to be any sense in tuning raids. If they'd stop the whole "well it works this way for Nihilum and Death and Taxes, so this is the way it will only work" and actually tune the encounters for every possible group make up, it wouldn't bother me as much. Just tired of the min/max crap.

I doubt they will. If you hadn't noticed the trend, the game has been becoming a LITTLE more casual friendly with time. I don't think they'll reverse that.

Only time will tell. With the rumor of raid bosses dropping tokens to purchase instance drops (can't remember exactly where I saw that, so it may not be how it works but I believe its been said that they will drop unique tokens) makes much less for drama and more for people like me to want to raid. I didn't care much for the 25 mans from when I did them so even thought it'll make me a "10 man scrub" I'd rather do those.

Also I like how pets and mounts are now learnable and will no longer take up bag space~

personally I'm in love with the enh shaman changes.

Ghost Wolf breaking snares/roots? Yes.
Maelstrom Weapon giving us instant-cast spells after melee crits so we can actually BE A HYBRID and use all our skills? Yes.
Condensed hit/crit/haste ratings so we can actually be a hybrid and have all of our spells scale instead of one attack and Windfury? Yes.
Spirit Wolves with a stun? FUCK YES.

Also I gave my war a quick respec to fury a while back to help a resto drood friend of mine farm some powder for a PVP gem pattern. And despite my utterly shit gear (have enough hit rating, but I ALSO have only like 1.7K AP unbuffed, AND only 71 DPS blue weapons) my GOD is it fun. I sorta wish that bloodthirst did more than my white attacks though.

It should. Especially right now, since mobs all have 0 armor. I have been doing 4k crits with BT and Slam all day.

lol, I'm not in the beta, actually. I'm just speaking from the perspective of a person from the outside looking in. Trust me, if I were in I'd be rockin' a death knight right fucking now.

See, and I felt like that too. Doing the starter quests you're like "FUCK THIS IS AWESOME" Then bam, you're in Hellfire Peninsula digging through felhunter shit again. Not only did it sort of turn me off of the class, but it really ruins their supposed "epic feel"

Things could change, however.

I quit shortly after the NAX patch was released, sold my account for about 800.. I still get the urge to play but man I HATED MC so much that it always reinforced me not going back.. So I've been out of the loop since 06.. Do you still have to go thru MC to get to any areas or is it possible to skip it?

You can skip everything up to and including the 60 areas if you have the expansion. Once you hit 58, just go to Outland and you're all set.

You'll also find that leveling up to 60 goes by easier, a previous patch made it so levels 20-60 required less exp to level and 30-60 quests gave 20% more exp. I just leveled a rogue from 1-63 in about 2 weeks.

lol i've been taking my dear time lately concerning leveling, Level 50, just heading to azshara right now.

Blizz Downloader for Wrath of the Lich King opening Cinematic

Opening Cinematic released today. Looks pretty good. The Narrator sounds so familiar though. Almost like Tony Jay.. but we all know that's not possible...

Sounds like the same narrator as the cinematic race intros. This ones pretty different from Wow and BC's intros but still very cool.