I'm downloading World of Warcraft for the first time in my life

Nice piece of technology here.

What a wasted opportunity.
Are there any ways to actually get skull for a head further in game?

I already have 2k hours in PSO2, I want something not anime.

Nope, I'm soloautist.

I don't have any nostalgia for it as I never played it.

50% of the time Holla Forums shits on game it turns out to be good, so I take always with a grain of salt.

I didn't buy anything, game has trial so I can start playing for free and see if it's any good. Pretty cool move if you ask me.
So I can uninstall it at any time with no regrets.

Game was always shit but the fact it had a huge community made it entertaining.
Blizzard has pretty much killed all sense of community with cross-server, LFR, dungeon finder, etc. Every single thing they added reducing more and more the 'world' aspect of the game and the chances of meeting the same faggots again, all in order to make casuals who just want the loot pinata aspect of the game without actually working together for it, and after that without actually working at all for it.
Once the community was dead there was pretty much no reason to play the game anymore unless you needed your gear threadmill fix really.

Probably the best MMO for you then.

Sounds good actually.

Oh so you're one of THOSE people who buy into the false "Holla Forums hates vidya" meme. Nevermind that our consenus on retail WoW is not the consensus of shit posters and shills, but the result of discussion and love for the game that was.

Gotcha, forget about anything I ever said, go right ahead and waste your time on this conglomerated mess of a game that Blizzard turned their morepig into.

I do not buy into no memes bruh.
Apart from nobody even tried to elaborate on why the game is so shit.
He clearly didn't like the switch of focus from co-op game to soloutism friendliness, and that I can understand. Good thing it panders to me specifically.

Boring quests with shitty wall of texts lore snippets attached to them, really boring gameplay and bullet sponge enemies.

Also the game looks like shit.
Also the new additions are terrible.
Also the whole point of the game is grinding for gear so that you can get better gear.

Wow might just be one of the most boring games ever made.

You picked an interesting time for it, given that the Legion pre-expansion patch is coming out in a few days.

I suppose at least you won't need to worry about wasting your life away inside of a Garrison like the rest of us have had to endure the last.. how many months has it been now? Jesus christ Blizzard are the worst when it comes to content droughts.

A shitty mmo.

It always was a warcraft everquest shit. Trinity, grinding, all the cancer.

is the entire basis of these opinions. "we" cant deal with change.

To be fair at the time it was still fairly new.

So?

I wanted to play it but the fact Blizzard added the character level up puts me off.
I'd imagine everything except the latest expansion content is barren.

So it still wasn't overdone cancer.

But it was still cancer.

kike shill

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Considering its age game doesn't look half bad.
But dear got combat animations are shit. It though FF14's combat animations are shit, but these are ultra terrible.

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Disappointment.

Yeah the animations haven't been updated for the longest time. Legion is updating melee animations though so there's that. I've played a little of the beta and combat feels a little more engaging than it does on Live purely from the improved animations.

To be more accurate, the pre-expansion patch is updating the animations. In fact most changes are in the patch, buying the expansion just unlocks the actual Legion zones and content and allows you to level past 100. If you're just starting out there's no real need to buy the expansion, don't fork out for it unless you feel like you want to continue that far.

Sounds like the game is still in active development.
I wonder how long will it last in the end.

But so far I don't feel like spending anything on it, it really feels old.

If I'm not mistaken, normal retail gives you everything up to and including WoD at this moment.

Well, the good news is that a lot of the game's changes favor you. 99% of quests are soloable, which is a huge change from the days where that number was probably closer to 80%, not counting quests that you outlevel by a significant margin. You can queue instead of spamming chat for groups for group content (which basically fucked the community hard). You can also solo queue for Battlegrounds, but I'd strongly suggest against it, unless you like dying against tryhards in heirlooms over and over.

All in all, it could go either way for you. The game in its current state is pretty much as formulaic as any AAA title nowadays, so if you enjoy that sort of thing, you might enjoy things, particularly since you decided to start up right before a world event. If you prefer older-type gameplay, you probably won't enjoy it as much, and a private server for an older version of the game may be more for you.

It really depends on how Legion does. WoD was a massive flop, so people are real skeptical about the future of the game. If Legion does well, it will probably allow WoW to exist for several more years. If it ends up becoming WoD 2.0 from a financial standpoint, WoW will still probably have a few more years in it, but would likely end up going F2P by around 2018 or 2019.

So about two days of autistic meme quests then facebook garrison game?

OP I was in the exact same position as you not but a month ago, just quit while you're ahead. There's nothing but regret and boredom to be found where you're heading.

I'd be interested in your reactions to it once you've been max level for a while. Most of us are measuring it by what it once was, maybe someone totally unaware of all that might still find some fun somewhere.

all MMOs are cancer user

Well WoW is an ancient game, though they've been updating the engine over the years (it's leaps and bounds better graphically than it was a decade ago). And the UI itself is getting some much needed changes in Legion (really 7.0 is a pretty decent Quality of Life patch with the new wardrobe system, updated nameplates, higher resolution damage fonts etc.)

Yeah, a brand new account has access to all content currently available, no need to buy WoD.

From the little I've played of the Beta it honestly looks pretty decent (I've got a much better feeling about Legion than I did with WoD before it released). Still, there's a few things I'm not so sure about (the idea of classes being balanced and designed around a welfare pseudo-legendary don't sit right with me and I haven't had a chance to test out the new PvP system yet).

Ultimately though after the disaster that was WoD I think Blizzard will have to really step it up with Legion. If Legion doesn't do well I'm be shocked if WoW didn't go F2P (read P2W) by 2018.

Good thing by the time he hits Draenor the Garrison will be pretty much irrelevant.

Seriously, be glad you don't have to put up with that shit like we all did.

If you like the game, I would recommend checking out Wrath or Vanilla on an active private server which requires re downloading the game to get the server's client. I personally didn't like it myself and found it boring on both private servers due to inactivity and being unable to raid because of how long it takes to get good gear. That along with the repetitive gameplay mechanics. All I had to do to level up was spam fireball over and over which killed the immersion.

On the Wrath sever I was on, I quit before getting close to getting actual raid material gear and on vanilla the server was so empty that no one was able to actually do any of the dungeons or raids.

They're not really that great, but they are being updated.
youtube.com/watch?v=aX_xEywMYoY

I'm still ass blasted about how they handled the shipyard too.

To be fair, he didn't have to endure hours-long conversations about futanari.

I didn't even get invited to the beta. It's the first time I haven't been since I started getting invited to them in Wrath. Either way, I'm not a huge fan of the artifact weapons myself. Apparently, it eventually comes to a point where you can unlock every perk, which kind of makes em moot. And don't even get me started on how silly they are lore-wise. I think WoD's biggest issue was that Blizz didn't think of longevity. It was fine early on, but once the repetition of it started to kick in, it got stale fast.

On the upside, you could at least name your ships, so I decided to name one "STFU Tyrande", in honor of that bullshit that happened back then.

Why would they make Sylvanas the new Warchief when it is clear to anyone that she is the next Lich King?

Basically fucking no one to take mantle
See Orcs
Baine has basically done fuckall
Fuck elves
>Trusting Goblins
LOL

It's even worse than regular goblins, considering their faction leader basically tried to sell all of the other goblins into slavery. I still have no idea why Thrall didn't smash his skull in when the player character was rescued.

People get ass blasted over the dumbest stuff, like that one pervy guy on the panda starting zone.

Sylvanas is just another elf. Why did they bother with making Vol'jin become the Warchief when Blizzard is just going to replace him (for no reason) with the bitch that happily uses her new plague on everything she can?

REDEMPTION ARC

No really, they're already doing that with Illidan and I see no reason why they wouldn't with her.

I don't know what would be worse, a redemption arc or her becoming the last boss of a raid.

Well shit guys, I played for maybe an hour now, and already feel like uninstalling. It doesn't get better, does it?

Metzen is racist against trolls

Why couldn't if have been the Forest Trolls that joined the New Horde?

Fuck, I'd have taken Sand or Ice Trolls over fucking Darkspear Trolls.

Warcraft 3 was a mistake.

That's more or less how leveling is. At most, you get more buttons to hit as time goes on.

well if you make a warlock you could summon a succubus. thats kind of awesome

Does this come before or after she kills the king of Gilneas?

The combat is just getting more and more dumbed down with every expansion since WotLK, classes are gutted from abilities and everything gets more and more streamlined and casual friendly as the years go by.

The most annoying thing is that the Forest Trolls that joined the old Horde are still in the new Horde, but you can't play one because fuck you you don't get green trolls.

Also the new Horde made the Darkspear give up cannibalism. Yet that's what the Undead did all the time. Fucking why are the Undead allowed to do it?

Think about it. Kerrigan was leagues worse after the whole zerg rape thing, but then they turned around and made her a saint.

Oh yeah, he's the new king aint he?

Well fuck it. Uninstalled.
Since I already have this launcher might as well try D3 and HOTS.
Actually allowing you to try games before buying is at lest one decent thing Blizzard has going for it.
All publishers should do it.

Nah, man. Anduin becoems king of Stormwind. Sylvanas supposedly kills Greymane shortly after Varian dies.

And I'm sure Anduin will still ask for peace like a little bitch.

hope you enjoy the "encouraged" even win loss ratio

its WoW you stupid nigger, it is the gold standard for generic MMO

How the fuck have you gone from something like PSO2 to this, that alone should imply you have enough taste and basic ability to research shit to avoid this garbage

The gay

oh. welp

good

I know that it is a moba, so I have zero expectations of it.
The last moba I actually tried was original dota on some cracked version of WC3 in local game club years ago.
I'll probably just click around for a while and remove it too. I'm just curious about all the characters it has.

PSO2 and generic MMOs have nothing in common apart from being online games and concept of grind.
I wanted some relaxed endless grindan where I can just keep putting new gear on without paying much attention to what happens.
I just didn't expected it to be THIS relaxed.

According to the wikis they only fought and he seeks revenge, not that he's died. But yeah, I've always had trouble taking a lot of the horde seriously lore wise.

Orcs invade Azeroth powered up on demon semen, repeatedly attempting to kill all humans? It's balanced out by the fact they're kept in camps to watch them afterwards. In fact they're the real victims!

Zombies break free of legion control, and the first thing they do is betray humanity. It's also ok that they're invading people for funsies and using biological warfare!

You're the gay.

at least there are objectives so the advertised pvp aspect is actually there instead of avoided entirely.

I only got an invite last week (actually I got two invites for some reason, maybe because I have two accounts but they're both under the same login and one has been inactive since.. fuck I don't even know when)

Seems they're trying to stress test a bit over the next few weeks.

The only games wroth playing right now on the launcher are Starcraft 2 and Overwatch. Diablo 3 was shit when it came out, but I've heard news that Reaper of Souls fixed many of the game's flaws so I don't really know about it. Hearthstone and HOTS are casual crap not wroth playing. Hearthstone is a card game that relies too much on RNG and HOTS is Blizzard's failed attempt to cash in on LOL and DOTA.

Eh most MMOs are like that, even some of the ones that people swear black and blue are WoW killers.

You're about 12 years too late, OP.

You're 10 years late.

What gives?

You're 11 years too early. The 9th expansion is really where WoW hits it stride.

11 expansions any they still haven't added Ogres as a playable race. I won't tolerate this for more than 3 more expansions.

i dont think wow did at first. they wanna milk people. how long can goys resist temptation? all their friends are playing it

Well I don't have friends and I don't like shooters.
Asses however are relevant to my interests. And from outside it looks that Overwatch did asses right.

This game is ass.
-Nintendo Power

The game is ok. Competitive is super garbage though, throwing pugs against premades and failing to compensate for people doing shit like leaving in the middle of the match.

Not having singleplayer is my biggest gripe. I'm not buying multiplayer only shooter for 40 fucking bucks ever, asses or not.
But I would totally try out a demo and whatnot.

6/10 I chuckled.

There was once a huge party at this empty house with old people long time ago.

>there are people on this board who even liked this MMO at one point

Wow was good because it was casual. I never played a lot of the other mmos that came out at that time but installing them and hopping around on private servers shows me that the absolute autism required to do anything overshadows any other gameplay involved.

I can hardly consider myself qualified to argue for this but can someone tell me why I am wrong?

wow was never good

your character doesn't count as undead mechanics wise though, its just graphics.

very accurate description. you just grind gear so that you can grind new gear forever.

no it wasn't, its just a reskin of EQ

you'll get new combat animations on Tuesday also pick sub specialisation when it allows you to so you can gank the shit out of anyone you come across.

Lineage 2 came out before WoW and had better graphics.

Bolvar is the new Lich King and in Legion the Scourge fight against the Burning Legion.

The Blackrock Clan should take over the horde.

No all quests are exactly the same with just re-skinned monsters and NPCs

Troll Empire should rise and become a 3rd playable faction against the Horde and Alliance.

Garrosh did nothing wrong.

They were heavily considered in Cata and were heavily developed but got changed to Goblin last minute.

Starcraft 2 is Warcraft 4 gameplay wise. We will never get a true sequel to Starcraft…

this looks terrible. at least old Blizzard games had the tight budget excuse, but this looks like they went out of their way to make it ugly.

why live ?

These dubs.

What's wrong with that?

disappointment.

Lineage 2 had better animations on launch, WTF is this shit.

The game that popularized the most boring combat system ever.

fug

dubs ?

I aint seeing not dubs

you should kill yourself.
but try GW1 first

We can try again.

a shit thread

Of course, since they keep oversimplifying everything and removing abilities, the levels where you get a new button to push get further and further apart.
In Legion at max level you'll barely fill up the first action bar.

WHY ARE YOU FALLING FOR THIS OBVIOUS VIRAL MARKETING ATTEMPT

Nostalrius was a lot of fun, I hope to burn some nelf cities again one day.
Infinity was great. Are you fucks still out there?

We have a Discord, just trying to find our fix until a good server comes out while keeping the boys together.

spam Holla Forums when you find a server you want to play

what's wrong with kronos?

No idea, main goal right now is trying to concentrate everyone onto one server since the fun comes from playing with friends and having a guild chat that you can say nigger in.

Everyone I've seen try to get into post-WotLK has dropped it pretty fast. You might get sucked in and enjoy it for hundreds of hours like people have in the past, but probably not.

Oops, just read the thread. I'm a faggot.

dissapointment

Go play EVE.
There is EVE and MMOs you play when you realise you are too casual to play EVE.

Well good. Nothing great awaited.

Hots is great because it is casual crap.
No bullshit metas and people shouting and reporting everyone. It doesn't even makes you time your attacks to last hit minions.
You jump in, enjoy it, and leave.

Hearthstone is bullshit because of how much on uneven playing field with other people you are. RNG makes it even more annoying.
On top of progression so slow it is just not worth it. Either learn arena and play it 2 times a day or enjoy having half of the deck you want.
HS have same purpose Hots and Overwatch have, to be casual fun but also makes sure to be as annoying to casual players as it can be.

Bump

I don't know mister shill, maybe these dubs

op is a shill kek fagggot nigger
enjoy your sodomy

Delete your account.

WoW was NEVER good don't let the nostalgia fags tell you otherwise.

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Warcraft 1-3 was better. WoW was a mistake.