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[PA Comic] Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - Digital
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I feel like this album needs to be an actual thing.
With tracks like Suite Jenny Bloodaxe, Gonna Die With My Warhammer in My Hand, and Walkin' Back to Thunder Bluff.
Also, until someone can prove otherwise to me, I'm going to assume Thokk there isn't wearing anything below the shoulders except his guitar on the album cover.
Kinda interesting. I can't think of any other MAJOR visual overhauls since launch that weren't new content.
Must resist.
It is unavoidable. It is your destiny.
Pins!
To find the hand of Arthas reaching for the Frozen Sea...
No worry on the leveling, they have that covered with the free boost one character to 90!
As for the profs, you'll have to wait until the actual expansion for leveling improvements.
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Seriously, though...I was a bit late to the WoW party. My first character was actually on my brother's copy of the game back in "Wrath of the Lich King." I got my own copy shortly before "Cataclysm" launched. I played for quite awhile during that expansion, but I mostly kept to myself - leveling different characters to max, going after quest achievements, etc. I would say that "Mists of Pandaria" was the closest I've come thus far to being a true WoW player. I played PvP battlegrounds and did the easier versions of the raids. I still wasn't "hardcore" enough to do rated battlegrounds or heroic raids, but hey...at least I was associating with other players from time to time!
I have to admit that the "Warlords of Draenor" storyline is only mildly intriguing to me, even though I did play through the Warcraft III campaigns back in the day and thus am familiar with the background story. I probably WOULD come back and play it out of sheer nothing-better-to-do-ness, but I just started taking college classes again for the first time in 16 years, so I think I'll resist so I can take my studies seriously. I have a hard enough time some days finding time to eat between my full time job, school, and homework, so I can't imagine finding time to play WoW with any degree of seriousness.
Perhaps I'll catch up again a little further down the road.
-Tycho Brahe
Tiny bit eery. But mostly awesome.
I guess an orc would have to be crazy to wanna be a folk singer...
Yep..
If you buy the expansion you get a free level 90 character boost. If you level the character to 60 before using the boost(which takes all of a few hours nowadays) you get your crafting/gathering professions boosted to 600(Mists of Pandaria max).
Just sayin'.
Also, professions are becoming much friendlier. They've already been a lot easier to level than they used to, and some big changes with the expansion are increased amounts of skill from gathering, and you can now keep all your crafting mats (which stack to 1000!) in the bank and still craft things from them anywhere, much like Diablo 3 did.
EDIT:Yay! Guess not hehe.
I don't think this got the appreciation it deserved.
I appreciate this.
it sounds like you just don't like MMOs. There's nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't make the people who like them wrong for playing WoW, because it's still far and away the best of its kind.
No, no. I don't mean to imply everybody who likes and plays World of Warcraft is wrong or dumb. I fully acknowledge that it feels less than epic to me. What I crave is a way to have a tangible impact on the world I dive into, otherwise it breaks the immersion for me.
However, MMOs can entice me, and some, like EVE Online, do. Firstly, it features spaceships and lasers. Yay! It also allows players to claim sectors and build their own little theme park, with blackjack and ... whatever ... it might be. Time and dedication can turn players into magnates in the game world, and that right there makes more sense to me than avatars being told to hunt something, be rewarded with Ye Boots of Worthlessness, and then proceed to the next guy who needs absolutely every player please, please to return his escaped dog. One game allows for player agency in a meaningful way (again, my opinion), the other only ever tells you to do things, with the added benefit of seeing all the players doing it along with you. That is my, somewhat oversimplified, objection to Worlds and the alleged Craft of War therein.
WoW wishes it was half as addictive and half as much of a money sink as pachinko.
The lines I have seen, stretching around buildings, before opening door time. The haggard, weary faces hungry to get the first crack at a shindai, at a new machine... Yeesh.
I mean, that expresses it rather prosaically but, yeah, sounds like something I would like?!
And as for the addictive qualities of teh Warcraftz, I have known people who played day and night, neglecting social life, eventually steering themselves into depression. Might've colored my impression, come to think of it.