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[WoW] List of game changes since I quit?
Spore Cloud
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So I kicked the habit over a year ago, my last login is November 20, 2006. But over the last few months I've found myself thinking about WoW more and more and decided to play once again for better or worse. But there is something that is troubling me, a LOT has changed. So I was wondering if there is anyway I can get caught up on whats changed since the last time I played before I start up again. A website or something? I guess I could read the patch notes since then but most of it will be stuff I wont care about.
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Yeah thats probably true, I think once I get back in I'm going to be in a perpetual state of WTF from all the changes. I mean there is just so much stuff that I think I know right now but once I start playing again I'll see that I was completely wrong.
Although this should have been in the WoW chat thread, I had a good idea.
Edit the OP to include a beginning list of whats changed, and we can all contribute to it. That way, when people want to know whats changed, they can go to here to get a quick summary.
There's really no point. The OP would just be every patch note ever. If that's what people want, they should just look at patch notes. If people want more specific information they can ask in the chat thread.
Yes, even Ret.
Aside from that it's basically the same as it always was, but the grind is more varied.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
One of our hunters is survival and frequently hits top 5 on the meters.
It's in the same way that you want an enhancemant shaman or a SPriest, really important but technically not needed (Though it makes life easy).
It's actually a waste if you have two survival hunters, since their buff doesn't stuck, you're pretty much wasting a spec.
That would be good, a lot of us ex WOW types seem to lurk here. I could tell sad tales of the patch where Warriors got the grand total of "Improved Thunderclap animation". Fuck I was angry. I couldn't even tell what the difference was.
They used to be 5 minutes, with no group cast. That's right, paladins were blessing 40 targets in a raid manually. Every 5 minutes.
when people said they were buff bots
they literally were
40 people *1.5 second gcd = 60 seconds of buffing
you would buff for a full goddamn minute, then do it again in four minutes
so glad I didn't raid as a paladin then
Oh god I remember doing MC back then with my pally. Each paladin would always do the same blessing just to try keep things somewhat easier. When people would have the nerve to bitch that a blessing was out... made me want to "pop enrage"
Or how stupid it would get when killing Rag with new people in the guild. Raid leader would say OK everyone buff up. Then spend the next 4 minutes explaining how the encounter worked. Didn't take long for that to change, and the paladins would buff then we would pull.
But really a ton has changed since you last played. I took a few months off and felt a bit overwhelmed when I played again. Maybe check out mmo-champion and read back a bit, or go back through and read all the patch notes from when you last played. If you haven't updated WoW since then you will have some time to kill while it patches.
I still don't think there should be horde pallies or alliance shammies. sure, it might have been harder for blizzard to balance, but they should have sucked it up and tried, rather than making horde and alliance functionally identical.
Shadowmelded Aimed Shot, anyone?
It's like every new arena season is a new stage of Blizzard profusely apologizing for what they did to PvPers before BC.
Oh, man. Back when I played on Akama like, two years ago, I had a night elf hunter. She never made it past 45, but I had so much fun in STV. I would stand in a bush or something, shadowmelded, on one side of the road, and have my pet wait on the other. And a trap in the middle. When someone ran along and sprung the trap, I would send my pet, wait about four seconds, then aimed shot them from shadowmeld. I play in windowed mode, so I'd just set up, read forums, and watch my tracking for targets.
Comedy gold. At one point I had a pretty good QQ thread on the realm forums about me.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget