Comments on: BlizzCon 2008 Day 1 Recap

By: Egma

Egma — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:09:11 +0000

I agree Kemi, thats why I have mixed feelings on it, but the one thing I like is now that Retro and Prot use basicly the same gear (or atleast alot closer then what it used to be) people can actualy quest in retro yet tank in instances where as only thing they need to worry about it keeping both 2H and 1H skills up to date and keeping a good 2H and good “sowrd and board”, I love to tank in instances but I hate to be prot while questing.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:37:57 +0000

“A brand new universe.” I’m a bit suspicious about what it’s going to be like if they aren’t basing their next MMO on Warcraft, Starcraft, or Diablo. Should definitely be interesting though, knowing Blizzard.

I like the way WotLK is turning out. I hated the “magical” land of Outlands, and tanking looks like it won’t be as boring anymore.

By: goatman

goatman — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:10:38 +0000

lol ozzy rocks, i bet hes gonna be an undead death knight. i wonder what the new mmo will be about o.O

By: Kemi

Kemi — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:22:03 +0000

I’m not worried about the dual spec thing. Just because a player *can* do something, doesn’t mean they will. Players who want to DPS will still DPS; players who want to tank will still tank; players who want to heal will still heal. It allows a larger pool of healers/tanks for 5-mans (normal and heroic), but I don’t see it hurting the “pure DPS” in larger instances (much like making pallies/druids viable tanks in BC didn’t hurt warriors much in larger instances).

By: Virty

Virty — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:58:22 +0000

thats some wicked stuff going on there

By: Egma

Egma — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 06:44:42 +0000

Well I like and dislike the way its going, I have mixed feelings on the spec swaping because it unlocks so many possibilities, too many almost… Nice thing about that is that during leveling there will be less of

“Whisper hey wanta heal WC?”
“Sorry Shadow speced for leveling”
“oh ok”

it changes to
“Whisper hey wanta heal WC?”
“I havent mastered healing because I level in shadow but I have had some practice in instances so sure let me just swap out my spell crit gear with my MP5 gear so that I don’t go OOM while healing”
“ok, cool meet you at the entrance in 5 minutes then”

It doesn’t make PuGs any better they will still be the hardest way to do an instance but atleast it will open the option of actualy having someone atleast speced to heal during the whole leveling phase of the game since so many priests level in shadow and then swap to holy once they are doing lvl 70 instancing. Same with other classes, it is very very rare to see someone actualy level up as healing spec, you see more people level as tank spec then heal spec and both are just as bad in the time to level compaired to DPS speced.

So with that said, I like it because I love to heal or tank in instances, I don’t like the DPS there is less thrill in it then having to keep someone alive or having to keep everything on you so others don’t die, so I love it its what I would do any instance run any time… if I wasn’t leveling as DPS spec to make leveling easier, I am not droping 100G each instance to do what I love to do during the leveling phases of the game due to having to respec to instance spec and then once done respec to solo questing spec.

By: Poot4321

Poot4321 — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:14:15 +0000

I really think blizzard is doing the right thing for WoW. Bc absolutely ruined this game and their trying to make up from their losses and head back to the original WoW in a sense.

By: Deadly Panda

Deadly Panda — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:59:35 +0000

Is anyone else a little disappointed in the direction that WoW is headed? I just feel that the pure dps classes are getting the shaft. Don’t even get me started on the whole SC2 being split into 3 games. What’s next? Paying for Bnet? Individual expansion packs for each class in D3? Bad Blizzard, Bad!

P.s.
Unfortunately, I’m like a crack addict when comes to their games. There’s no way to quit them.