tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post605510120094225711..comments2024-03-27T07:57:48.010-04:00Comments on The Grumpy Elf: So Long Cataclysm, Thanks For All The FishTheGrumpyElfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-91445604463956272462012-07-27T08:36:03.313-04:002012-07-27T08:36:03.313-04:00As a main hunter, with 7 85 hunters, I would say t...As a main hunter, with 7 85 hunters, I would say this expansion was horrible for hunters.<br /><br />We started off so over powered in PvE content it was a joke. We scaled like crap the entire expansion, as I said, so over powered to begin with we could pull 12K in quest greens while most other classes struggled with 8 but as the expansion went on being we scaled so horrible with gear we kept needing buffs. <br /><br />Where you saw balance, I saw none. Perhaps that is because I hate survival and have been forced to be survival all expansion because it was the best raid spec. Only for some fights in firelands did MM take over, otherwise the entire expansion was "be survival or be a fail hunter". So I saw no balance.<br /><br />The focus change was awesome and sucked. I love the fact that I can hit my DPS target and keep it steady even if the fight goes on for 2 hours thanks to a never ending resource. I hated it because it forced me to relearn how to PvP from the start and I never really got a hang of it. I went from being the burst class to being the control class and I did not want to be the control class. I liked the good old days of mana for PvP where I could just go hog wild and destroy anyone without ever having to worry about resources.<br /><br />The expansion was not bad for hunter per se, but it was in no way good for them as I see it.<br /><br />I do like the new direction it put us on, but I do not like how bumpy the ride has been to get there.<br /><br />Hunters are still the hardest class in the game to master, even more so in PvP and focus actually just made them harder, not easier.<br /><br />Low level PvP and questing with focus... yes, I will give you that, it was amazing and over powered.<br /><br />But that is all my opinion of course. I still love being a hunter even with all those changes and being forced into the spec I least enjoy. So I guess it wasn't that bad. It did not scare me away and into picking another main.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-10911387274912183542012-07-27T08:29:00.118-04:002012-07-27T08:29:00.118-04:00Transmog turned out to be a huge thing for the gam...Transmog turned out to be a huge thing for the game even if it is not something I would put on my list. I can take it or leave it really. I only use it for helms normally if anything.<br /><br />This expansion seems to have held the game in a holding pattern. Not getting better, but trying to stop it from getting worse. I think in the long run, there will be little if anything that expansion was known for, outside of losing 2 million subscribers.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-66343792813612791752012-07-27T02:37:26.578-04:002012-07-27T02:37:26.578-04:00I'm with you about 50/50. Cata may have been t...I'm with you about 50/50. Cata may have been the exp that saw my entire WoW group quit the game (some never to return, others of us poping back in from time to time), but it was also the exp that gave us the great-Hunter-remake, and pushed the specs closer than they ever have been to balanced. We saw our stables explode with slots for as many pets as we could want. It's really too bad that the best expansion for Hunters was the worst expansion for most everything else. I guess I'm in the minority, but I loved the questing in Cata, perhaps more-so than in any other exp. It felt like a single, cohesive story, and I loved that. I didn't level any alts through the content though, so perhaps it would have gotten old the 4th time through, but I really enjoyed seeing the change to Hyjal through the phasing of the content; like we were actually having an impact on the world. There were a lot of issues with Cata, but there were just as many little over-looked benefits that, while not making up for the drawbacks, will in the long run make the game more fun for players and Hunters as a whole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-76409590801630168302012-07-27T00:01:06.082-04:002012-07-27T00:01:06.082-04:00Err about Cata. Damn Navi, proof read a bit why d...Err about Cata. Damn Navi, proof read a bit why don't ya... ><Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-88547905342537732672012-07-26T23:54:47.204-04:002012-07-26T23:54:47.204-04:00This is a great read about what you did and didn&#...This is a great read about what you did and didn't like about Mists, and I found myself agreeing with you on things, and then thinking back about what else was a little lackluster in this expansion.<br /><br />The problem with me is once we've moved onto something else, I seem to have forgotten what has gone before. I can't remember much in Wrath except that druid healing was notoriously easy to play and everyone and their dog was one. I remember new raids coming out and we hadn't finished the older ones. With Cataclysm I remember liking the new raids and this expansion was the first where I had seen heroic anything in a raid. I've forgotten how awesome druids were because shamans are now the great healers and druids are left behind. I am so engrossed in transmog that I forget how hard it is to get a Camel. And I love that now I can play with my realID friends cross server in dungeons and raids, making my world of warcraft a small world after all :)Navimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08504557372435466448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-1957302708316982472012-07-26T17:46:58.819-04:002012-07-26T17:46:58.819-04:00@Netherlands
That might be why I am having a hard...@Netherlands<br /><br />That might be why I am having a hard time getting hyped up for mists. While on beta it seemed okay I did not continue to end game and did not ever get to the repetitive part of the game and for games like this, that is the make or break point. Is it going to be worth doing over and over. I'll wait for judgement at the moment but I might make some predictions down the line.<br /><br />I think the account sharing stuff and even the account sharing dailies (like if I do the pet dailies on one char I can't do them on any other char) will make it worse, not better.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-73214927939730791442012-07-26T16:05:07.721-04:002012-07-26T16:05:07.721-04:00I have to agree with that, perhaps the most startl...I have to agree with that, perhaps the most startling thing about Cata is/was that it made Wrath look good in comparison.<br /><br />I did not like the setting of TBC, but, a few miffles aside, the challenge of the Questing/world part was about the same as the Vanilla content .<br /><br />With Wrath I liked the setting (except some of the art work - the shoulder armor esp. - and of course it was...heavily influenced by Angmar) but not the Quests, on top of my head only the fight with Arugal was hard. <br /><br />With Cata they managed to combine a setting I do not care for with gameplay I do not care for.<br /><br />Perhaps the most depressing part?<br /><br /> With all the accountwide stuff, disappearing Gear slots, 'Dynamic Quest rewards', over-emphasis on dailies and (yet again) a new Talent system with (yet again) less choice, they might even make Cata look good in comparison to MoP...<br /><br />*eagerly awaiting a PvE sandbox*NetherLandsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-84175381285076742522012-07-26T15:46:15.632-04:002012-07-26T15:46:15.632-04:00People love to badmouth wrath but after seeing wha...People love to badmouth wrath but after seeing what we had in cataclysm even those people realize, at least a little, how awesome wrath really was.<br /><br />Without a doubt. I would rather have played 2 more years of wrath while waiting for mist than having had to play the cataclysm we got stuck with.<br /><br />If is says anything, I spend more time in dalaran than I do stormwind or Org. I spend more time doing argent dailies than I do any others. Spend more time just flying around and farming stuff in northrend than any area in cataclysm.<br /><br />Even in cataclysm, wrath is still better.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-74609888391087551862012-07-26T14:34:46.037-04:002012-07-26T14:34:46.037-04:00Totally with you on Rag. He's the only boss in...Totally with you on Rag. He's the only boss in Cat my guild has yet to kill. And don't even get me started on the Sons. Yes, it's really really fun to heal my butt off and HOPE that the people who are supposed to be dealing with them do so properly. I may be slightly bitter about that. Also may be slightly bitter about my Firelands 4 piece, because healing fire on the ground in a raid full of OWIE FIRE is perhaps not the most brilliant idea ever.<br /><br />As far as Cat's success (or total lack thereof), I think the fact that I have two leveling toons, one in Cat content and one in Wraith, and I'd rather play the one in Wraith (even though she's a rogue and I am not a melee dps person) says it all. Vash and Deepholm were great the first time, but by the third time the complete linearity meant boredom, leveling while doing other things, and wanting so badly for Storm Peaks and Icecrown to give decent leveling XP.Melfinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14939155022202916671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-60955202832777491232012-07-26T12:42:24.645-04:002012-07-26T12:42:24.645-04:00Absolutely. We wiped on the first part of nef doz...Absolutely. We wiped on the first part of nef dozens of times. Then on the transition because people got caught under the platforms because they got to close. Then from a missed interrupt here and there. Then to too much fire or adds eating the add tank. Blah, blah blah. You know the story, you probably did the same thing. But it was one fight, one task after another, and you got better each time to push it further each time.<br /><br />It felt like a real progression fight and I liked that. Madness was boring as sin until the last platform and when you wiped there you knew you had to do all that boring repetitive crap all over again and it was not really fun.TheGrumpyElfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07621615711198405365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9015737272343810105.post-25614436700261765362012-07-26T12:28:23.478-04:002012-07-26T12:28:23.478-04:00One of the things I really enjoyed about Tier 11 c...One of the things I really enjoyed about Tier 11 compared to specifically Ragnaros and Madness of Deathwing, was that in tier 11 you didn't generally end up with the first 75% of a boss "on farm" and then end up wiping to the last 25% over and over again, and then have to do it all over again. I think that was the most frustrating part of Ragnaros - you just did those first two phases SO MANY DAMN TIMES. A really good comparison would be Heroic Zon'ozz or Heroic Yor'sahj, where the first 3/4 of the fight wasn't just "warmup" for the hard part. Like, it sounds silly, but I loved wiping on the first minute or two of learning those fights. Fast progress, not wasting time on parts of the fight you already had down pat, just nice steady difficulty throughout the whole thing.Radeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09530448668257881842noreply@blogger.com