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[WoW] Is it worth it to come back?
Alchemist449
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Okay, let me preface this by saying I have quit WoW twice now. First time was after BC came out. I hated playing my 60 rogue (so boring in groups) so I started a new character. A priest that I played for a month before realizing that I did not want to do 20-60 again, and since I knew it wouldn't be fun for me, I quit. A few months later I started up again with a friend on a dif. server. We both quit again after realizing we just did not feel like doing the 20-60 grind again.
I just heard about the changes to the lengh of the grind. I'm not afraid of a little challenge and time investment, I just don't want to put in the same amount of time it used to take to level a character that it used to. I just don't have that kind of time or urge to do so. So would it be worth it to pick up the habit again?
I just heard about the changes to the lengh of the grind. I'm not afraid of a little challenge and time investment, I just don't want to put in the same amount of time it used to take to level a character that it used to. I just don't have that kind of time or urge to do so. So would it be worth it to pick up the habit again?
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I have no problem with the post-60 grind, 'cause I've never done it. It's just I've already done 1-60. The prospect of doing it all over again just doesn't seem that fun. Though 30% might just be fast enough to convince me to do it...
*BUZZ!* Wrong!
It's about twice as fast now. You need 35% less experience, and you get 35% more experience from doing stuff. Also, since you haven't really done any of the BC content you will have quite a bit of fun. 60-70 is great the first time through.
(100%x1.35)/(.65) = 207.5%
Old Grind:New Grind::Walking:Epic Mounts
"Go up, thou bald head." -2 Kings 2:23
In one night I made 60. 4 levels.
I was amazed.
I'm having a hard time getting into my 66 warlock, cause just running quests in nagrand all day long, seems like it's not doing shit for me. And let see my last set was
30/30/30 kill then
30/30/30 kill then
1elite/1elite/1elite - So I got 9 quest turn ins, and ground 180+ mobs (random adds that came by, not to mention I also did some of the elemental quest chain at the same time) .. and still.. that wasn't a huge chunk of my rested experience bar.
However my first hour in zanga lead me to about 15-16 quests. That's retarded.
Apparently though, you're not supposed to the cenarion quests till you've ground the shit out of underbog/sp for maximum faction ease? IF so I'm screwed, on my WL anyway.
I mean there were at least 10 quests to go find mushrooms
when the entire zone is just a bunch of mushrooms
There's ALOT of content to get you from 20-60 more than most people think, try taking in some of the other races starting areas, if you were an Orc before, try going through trisfall and silverpine.
The game is what you make of it.
here is wisdom
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Plus their new content is taking ages these days.
It's got a fresh coat of paint, but it's still the same old tired game. Some people pretend to only do PvP, but if instanced PvP is your thing then maybe that will keep you playing eventually.
- Gary Busey
A Glass, Darkly
If you have not played BC yet you owe it to yourself to check it out. It is a fantastic expansion on the game, and does add a lot of nice stuff. The nicer stuff costs 6,000 gold to get... but it is there.
It's actually only 30-60.
Well, there needs to be a point to the endgame beyond simply logging on and wandering around. Back before BC, there seriously was nothing else to do in pve besides raids, or the totally retarded rep grinds. Goals make the game go 'round.
Short answer, yes
Long answer, no, with a but.
This close to the end of Burning Crusade as a viable content package, its really not worth it. Its not goin to take you from now to Wrath of the Lich King to level to 70, and chances are that if you go 1-70, you'll only have a few months to experience the content at 70. So I would suggest to you that if this is you, to wait a few months, then come back, level to 70 just before Wrath of the Lich King, and jump into Northrend with everyone else.
I totally agree, and I was afraid I might have come off that way. But you don't need to play every night, and obtain Tier 6/Season 3 gear. If you have friends, just play casually with them. Do some instances, maybe some arena and battlegrounds, and even a raid if you have enough people. I think if you don't have the "must hit 70 ASAP, must have T6 ASAP" mentality the endgame can be slightly less of a grind.
Grinding is still as slow as ever...
But QUESTING is faster now...
It also depends when you quit. If you quit before TBC, you can roll a new race (1st 20 levels in a new area), hit the new quests in dustwallow by 32 ish to 40 or so, and then select which quests / instances to do till 58 (as opposed to previous, when you had to do pretty much everything. My paladin completely skipped Un'goro, Azhara, Silithus, Winterspring, Felwood, EPL, and only did 5 quests in WPL before dinging 58).
If you level on the rested xp, it's even more amazing. If you have a pre-TBC toon, he'll have 1.5 levels of rested on him, and you accumulate with about 0.3/day. Means that if you only play on weekends, levels from 30-60 will be as fast as 2 hours each.
Has much changed about the basic game though? No. Quality of players fluxuates drasticly, and finding a good group for an instance can still suck, at any level. DPS classes have it especially hard, as it seems they outnumber healers about 5:1 and tanks 10:1 for instance runs (on my server), especially past 50 or so (when tanking/healing offspec becomes nontrivial). It's still a huge glorified grind, that's the nature of the game. You set a goal, you work towards it, you are happy when you complete it. Getting epic gear has become significantly easier through badges, nerfed heroics, and PvP, but you still got to work for it.
My druid went 23-70 in 2.3. I had 5 days, 2 hours /played at 60. Early on I used a lot of rested xp, but by level 40 or so it was gone, and I never really let it build back up again. You won't run out of quests to do in the 40s the way you did before; in fact, I found myself abandoning perfectly good quests in Arathi because I outleveled them. The quest reward increase is fantastic; in the high 40s and 50s, even most of the "go here and talk to a dude" quests give you a thousand or more experience.
It's still a grind, but it's unquestionably easier to catch up to established "endgame" players than it's ever been. Between PvP, badge loot, craftables and 10 man instances you can gear up a very capable character in (comparatively) little time.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
If you have a group of friends who want to reactivate their accounts and one friend with an active account, you can theoretically chain the Scrolls of Resurrection. So that each person gets a free month (except the last person who can't find anyone to send a scroll to).
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On that note, I'd say it's worth playing WoW again if you enjoyed the game at all. There have been lots of changes since before BC, and even since right after BC was released. Once you get to 70 it's REALLY EASY to gear up. The PVP gear in itself is good enough to raid with, and you can get battleground gear on your own, or you can get arena gear if you make a team and play 10 games a week (about 1-2 hours of PVP). Even if you're bad you can still get at least 400 points a week, and you could get an epic (from the latest season) in just 3 weeks. As far as PVE gear goes, most guilds are clearing Kara in just a few hours now, and that gives you more than 20 badges that you can spend on epics, PLUS each boss drops epics, and if you're a new 70 you will probably not have any competition for the items you need. My guild ran a new warrior through Karazhan and on his first trip he ended up with 4-6 pieces of great epic tanking gear.
I'm at the point were I have almost full arena gear Merc/veng on three characters so arena is kinda lame. I still like to raid but logging on to find nothing to do at all is pushing me to the point of just selling the account off. My battlegroup is part of the many that think AV is completely Horde controlled and don't even bother to change tactics or queue up for. Gladiator for honor isn't helping that situation at all, since now you get people in full greens getting slaughtered in the BG's or still AFK botting even after Blizzard started acting upon them.
This is mostly from an Alliance perspective but I do play Horde, similar situation on Horde is I have nothing to do but raid or PvP. I guess if you haven't experienced BC you should try it out but the endgame for me at least is crap. I'm not really a completionist and don't care about exaulted with everything, fishing/cooking, ect. I guess what I want out of this game is some good world PvP again, which I already know I'm not going to get