View from the Road: The WoW Cataclysm Cometh
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I too felt a kind of sadness about the old world getting blown up. I've spent a long time there doing painful questing and grinding, but I've spent so much time doing that that I can identify almost every tiny place by a lone screenshot.
Still, I'm excited for the new areas, many of them look pretty rockin'.
Also: Going back for Loremaster was a brutal project. I think I may have been insane at the time I did it.
Still, I'm excited for the new areas, many of them look pretty rockin'.
Also: Going back for Loremaster was a brutal project. I think I may have been insane at the time I did it.
Sorry, but the best part of the Shimmering Flats was the bright, stark beauty of the landscape.Lauren Admire said:
I will admit I'll be sad to see the old world go for good. I understand and support their reasons for it but it does show one of the problems of Gaming in that we have no history to go back too. Its an industry that is constantly trying to replace (and destroy) whats come before.
@John Funk. Go for Dwarf Shaman. You get the awesomeness of the Dwarves combined with the coolness of the Shamans. Also, the world has too many rogues.
Oh, it was pretty. My main beef with the place were those wretched basilisks. They killed me so.many.times.Plinglebob said:
Ctaclysm will either be excellent and make us forget about vanilla once and for all or be a disappointment like spore and make us forget WoW once and for all.
I too feel sad about the end of azeroth as we know it. Its not only the 5 years of wow, I feel like even the places were we commanded armies in Wacraft 1, 2 and 3 will be gone.
I have to say tho that by the looks of it, the aspect changes but the engine remains the same apparently and to be honest, a game with an engine from around 2000 (maybe even older) despite only released as beta in 2004, and that we payed a significant amount of money already, is asking for a new engine.
Meanwhile I am leveling a mage, a hunter and a warlock, as were the classes I enjoyed most leveling before, 5 to 3 years ago.
On new expansion, male human hunter. Finally humans will get it. Humans had ranged since warcarft 1. I always found unfair they didnt have the class before in WoW. Specially because humans have been warlocks in WoW and were never warlocks in the RTS's. And before someone says they didnt have pets (the archers), neither had any of the other rangers, only night elves had a scouting owl not used to fight.
I too feel sad about the end of azeroth as we know it. Its not only the 5 years of wow, I feel like even the places were we commanded armies in Wacraft 1, 2 and 3 will be gone.
I have to say tho that by the looks of it, the aspect changes but the engine remains the same apparently and to be honest, a game with an engine from around 2000 (maybe even older) despite only released as beta in 2004, and that we payed a significant amount of money already, is asking for a new engine.
Meanwhile I am leveling a mage, a hunter and a warlock, as were the classes I enjoyed most leveling before, 5 to 3 years ago.
On new expansion, male human hunter. Finally humans will get it. Humans had ranged since warcarft 1. I always found unfair they didnt have the class before in WoW. Specially because humans have been warlocks in WoW and were never warlocks in the RTS's. And before someone says they didnt have pets (the archers), neither had any of the other rangers, only night elves had a scouting owl not used to fight.
They need some caverns of time quests that take you back to the old zones and let you re-do some of the old quests with a twist.
Kel'Thuzad was a demonologist as well as a necromancer. Almost* the entire Scourge was allied to the Legion for all of RoC.Vitor Goncalves said:
*except for Arthas, who set Tichondrius to be killed and the aforementioned Kel'Thuzad, who was loyal to Arthas and nobody else.
Can't wait after seeing some of the changes, as a former Alliance now Horde Death Knight (Horde4Life Funk) i'm doing Loremaster at the moment to make sure I don't miss out on anything that other people have experience as leveling for Horde, but really, I can't wait for the new quests, the new Battlegrounds (no more forced Arena for the best PvP gear, wewt), new dungeons and new zones.
I only saw a few screenshots to convince myself its gonna be awesome, I want to save most of the "Wonder" for when Cataclysm is released.
I only saw a few screenshots to convince myself its gonna be awesome, I want to save most of the "Wonder" for when Cataclysm is released.
Indeed it is, I know many players who run WoW on rather old PCs and do so smoothly, albeit on lower graphic settings. I still think it's rather impressive what this engine can squeeze out of an old PC, doubly so for the newer zones.John Funk said:
@OT, I'm actually making time next weekend to run through all the zones to make a bunch of screenshots of my favourite places (many of them my old fishing spots). I'll make a collage and hang it over my pc when I'm installing Cataclysm!
I feel like I should level grind in the barrens one last time before It goes. I mean I've done it like 10 times now and I always ***** about it. But I will miss it when it's gone.
All i see is lest cost to us development style, with all the cash shop mounts and reused content going on i dont see how anyone can still enjoy WoW, maybe i am just asking for too much or i am just a cheap person that wont spand money onless i get the most for it, but still..............
Ive seen some of the screenshots and to be perfectly honest none of the new stuff looks particularly awesome - it's as if I've seen it all before. WoW graphics aren't technically that great and all it has going for it is its charm, but the new areas don't look that charming to me. Can't judge a game by leaked screenshots but at this point, that is how i feel. I'll probably try it out when it comes around, i cant wait to roll a Worgen Druid. Or a Worgen Warlock. Or a Worgen Mage. The heck with it, roll a Worgen Everything.
All the cash shop mounts and reused content?ionveau said:
You mean the one cash shop mount and the one dungeon that they brought from Classic to WotLK because no one ran it? Pretty much everything else is completely from the ground up, you know.
We enjoy it because it's an amazing game, and it frankly only got better with time.
I feel a bit sad hearing old Azeroth go too, this game has been a part of my life since I was about nine. But I must admit, the change is good. The game is starting to look old, so the changes done are amazing.
When I heard Cataclysm was coming out, I went out and got the Explorer achievement...
[sub][small]Also John, my vote goes to Goblin Rogue.[/small][/sub]
Bring it on, Alliance! >;D
When I heard Cataclysm was coming out, I went out and got the Explorer achievement...
[sub][small]Also John, my vote goes to Goblin Rogue.[/small][/sub]