F*** YEAH

Raid Members: "When are we raiding! I'm ready to go! When are we raiding!"

Me: "Soon. Like next Tuesday."

Next Tuesday comes....and then

Raid Members: "I'm not ready! I can't do this yet! My DPS/Heals/Whatever is going to not be topping the meters!"

Me: "Suck it up and get it done."

then after a good night with only 2 wipes and a few new bosses down...

Raid Members: "I don't want to raid anymore take me off the list WHAAAAH, why did we do so well even though I felt we weren't ready? ..../gquit"


/I hate people.

My mother-in-law got me a cataclysm T-Shirt for Christmas.

I haven't played in over 3 years.

//Stores will have extended sales New Years to make up for it.

Or: Blizzard saves Xmas shoppers $1 billion.

Those poor retailers.

/LOTRO free to play

Cataclysm is really fun.

Jubeebee:

I haven't played WoW since BC, and I still am happy I don't have to put up with guild drama llamas.

/although my friend was talking about the Priest Cata changes being sweet, I'm staying strong. Staying free.

Priests are pretty neat right now. Lots of good changes since BC to that class. IMO Shadow is OP, but healing is again challenging and fun.

Americans don't have a billion dollars.

Jubeebee:
I haven't played WoW since BC, and I still am happy I don't have to put up with guild drama llamas.

/although my friend was talking about the Priest Cata changes being sweet, I'm staying strong. Staying free.

I haven't either. That's if you don't count the free trial account I made so I could see what cata was all about. And let me just say...
Holy Fark!
The low levels are fluid and things make sense now. Its amazing! I leveled a Tauren Pally up to 20 (the trial account limit) in about 5 hours play time. They got rid of a lot of superfluous junk like ability level ups and weapon skill.

If I wasn't going away for the next year I'd be seriously considering getting back in.

...But then again, guild drama...

Doctor Jan Itor: Or: Blizzard saves Xmas shoppers $1 billion.

Those poor retailers.

/LOTRO free to play

LOTRO may be free, but Everquest is still fun.

NittLion78: F*** YEAH

Damn you, now I want a Butterfinger Blizzard.

NittLion78: F*** YEAH

why the fark must there be almost no dairyqueens where I live

Jubeebee: The_EliteOne: Raid Members: "When are we raiding! I'm ready to go! When are we raiding!"

Me: "Soon. Like next Tuesday."

Next Tuesday comes....and then

Raid Members: "I'm not ready! I can't do this yet! My DPS/Heals/Whatever is going to not be topping the meters!"

Me: "Suck it up and get it done."

then after a good night with only 2 wipes and a few new bosses down...

Raid Members: "I don't want to raid anymore take me off the list WHAAAAH, why did we do so well even though I felt we weren't ready? ..../gquit"


/I hate people.

I haven't played WoW since BC, and I still am happy I don't have to put up with guild drama llamas.

/although my friend was talking about the Priest Cata changes being sweet, I'm staying strong. Staying free.

The only time I've ever drama-ed in WoW was when Naxx was new in BC, and we had a sr warlock fall asleep at the keyboard.

After a few minutes of trying to wake him up, we just said F it and fought the next boss.

Hard fight, but we won. when the loot came up, there was some nice caster/healer bracers.

which the GL promptly gave to the asleep warlock. No justification was given. Quite a few of the others, myself included, had wanted to roll on them, but the GL told us no, it was going to sleepyhead.

I think we lost like, 4 people from the guild in less then 3 minutes after that one. People were pissed.

jedimk: State_College_Arsonist: NittLion78: F*** YEAH

Damn you, now I want a Butterfinger Blizzard.

Snickers Blizzard beats a Butterfinger any day!

Cappuccino Heath Blizzards, you filthy heathens!

//Or would I be the heath-en..

I could go for a Jalisco Burger and an oreo and M&M Blizzard right about now

Axel_Gear: Jubeebee:
I haven't played WoW since BC, and I still am happy I don't have to put up with guild drama llamas.

/although my friend was talking about the Priest Cata changes being sweet, I'm staying strong. Staying free.

I haven't either. That's if you don't count the free trial account I made so I could see what cata was all about. And let me just say...
Holy Fark!
The low levels are fluid and things make sense now. Its amazing! I leveled a Tauren Pally up to 20 (the trial account limit) in about 5 hours play time. They got rid of a lot of superfluous junk like ability level ups and weapon skill.

If I wasn't going away for the next year I'd be seriously considering getting back in.

...But then again, guild drama...

Meh...I get enough raid time with the dungeon finder. I feel no need for a guild right now ( my work prevents me from committing a lot of time to this game.)

/ Cataclysm is worth the $$$ just for the Goblin starting zone, IMHO.

$1 billion? It's a cattack-a-lysm, I tells ya.

EQII FTMFW.

I re-upped to check it out, got to 83 over a couple of days, then decided to re-up with my girlfriend instead. Some of the new stuff is entertaining, but I think I chose correctly.

lost a billion in sales? like the same tired crap that didn't get bought between Labor Day and Christmas Eve is going to evaporate or something before they raise the prices back to regular levels? gimme a break.

note to retailers: just wait an extra week or two before consigning the unsold junk to the surplus/scratch & dent/overstock sellers

quick! only 360 shopping days until Christmas!

I got to level 85 and then quit cold turkey. Haven't played since. I was in a raiding guild and raiding had turned into something that felt more like a job than fun.

NittLion78: F*** YEAH

NittLion78 has become a shill for DQ.

What's next? Drew selling out to G4TV?

/Cuervo moment of the week!

Forbidden Doughnut:
Meh...I get enough raid time with the dungeon finder. I feel no need for a guild right now ( my work prevents me from committing a lot of time to this game.)

/ Cataclysm is worth the $$$ just for the Goblin starting zone, IMHO.

You can get a successful raid together with dungeon finder? I would be amazed at just doing the regular 5 mans. I'm not "hard core" or anything. Heroics don't interest me.

I'll stick with Guild Wars.

Axel_Gear: Forbidden Doughnut:
Meh...I get enough raid time with the dungeon finder. I feel no need for a guild right now ( my work prevents me from committing a lot of time to this game.)

/ Cataclysm is worth the $$$ just for the Goblin starting zone, IMHO.

You can get a successful raid together with dungeon finder? I would be amazed at just doing the regular 5 mans. I'm not "hard core" or anything. Heroics don't interest me.

I didn't imply that i've been that successful using it, but i've gotten gear that i would otherwise not have gotten through solo questing...

Forbidden Doughnut: Axel_Gear: Forbidden Doughnut:
Meh...I get enough raid time with the dungeon finder. I feel no need for a guild right now ( my work prevents me from committing a lot of time to this game.)

/ Cataclysm is worth the $$$ just for the Goblin starting zone, IMHO.

You can get a successful raid together with dungeon finder? I would be amazed at just doing the regular 5 mans. I'm not "hard core" or anything. Heroics don't interest me.

I didn't imply that i've been that successful using it, but i've gotten gear that i would otherwise not have gotten through solo questing...

Ohhhhh... yeahhh... I don't know about that. PUG drama is sometimes worse than guild drama.

NittLion78: F*** YEAH

FAP

Stores didn't LOSE anything due to the weather. They certainly still made money, just not as much as they forecasted. That isn't a loss.

But if it is, well then I just lost 5 million due to not getting the Lotto numbers right. Poor me.

As for Cataclysm? Definitely an improvement. Not without its wrinkles (some profession mat costs need to be revisited, various bugs), but definitely a solid xpac so far.

But 80-85 the second and third time around on alts? Decidedly less fun. And Tol Barad is a laughable zone, so much so that I wonder if anyone was actually paying attention during beta.

Axel_Gear: Heroics don't interest me.

They're fun. IF you're at the barely-qualify level, they can feel about as brutal as some raids do (tanks having to blow cd's on trash, even with cc in the mix). Once you get through that phase and gear up a bit, they do get easier.

I play MUDs. They're free, and about as grindy as WoW.

As Horde, I'd have the worst PUG drama with Belf Paladins that never picked up their Rez skill. I was a Tank Pally and I had it, but you'd have these Healer Pallys that clicked on the HEALER role in the dungeon finder without it.

They'd crow, 'I'm such a good healer I never need it!" To which;
"This issue arose because party members are dead, jackhole! Obviously you aren't good enough!"

Cata has been quite a refreshing change from WotLK.

I remember going into Sarth with 22 people the moment they dinged 80 and downing him. The hardest heroic was Oculus because people didn't know how to use the drakes. But for the most part, we just AoE'd everything down and moved on.

In Cata, I tanked my first heroic (which was Stonecore). Wiped about 5-6 times on the first Boss, twice on the dragon and about 10+ on Ozruk. And you know what? It was the most fun I had in WoW in a long time. Wiping to a heroic boss, trying to figure out mechanics, trying to see what the hell is going on...so much fun.

We just finished raiding, downed 6 of the 12 bosses so far in the 3 raiding instances. I can already tell heroic raids are gonna kick our ass, but it will be fun.

most of the people I know who still play (*sneers*) are taking time off because there's nothing to do besides hit 85, anything new is overinflated, and returning former players are inflating everything because they're just so unaware. They think the Cataclysm oddities will be settled sometime in February.

Axel_Gear:
Ohhhhh... yeahhh... I don't know about that. PUG drama is sometimes worse than guild drama.

The only reason I'm staying with WoW is because I found an awesome, almost entirely drama free guild. They're fun, and while some of the guys raid it's not required, and most of them laugh it off if they wipe.

PUG drama, on the other hand, is ridiculous for the first 40 levels. After that you start getting people who know how to play their characters (healers that don't try to tank and the such), but below that you still have people who usually have no clue what they're doing or where they are, and make the entire process painful.

/PUG is great for leveling quick, though
//and for rep mining if you have the tabards

Once a game turns into a job, its just not fun anymore.

CraicBaby: kab: And Tol Barad is a laughable zone, so much so that I wonder if anyone was actually paying attention during beta.

Tol Barad sucks on my server because there are almost no Alliance players. No one on Alliance side ever queues up, so none of us Hordies ever get to actually do Tol Barad. I've had the Tol Barad victory quest in my quest log since I hit 85 almost a month ago and have yet to complete it. That whole queuing system was a nice idea in theory, but on a horribly-imbalanced server such as Area 52, it doesn't really work that well. I'd actually rather go back to Tenacity, because at least people could actually do the damn BG. I kinda feel bad for Area 52 Alliance, because they are never, ever going to win Tol Barad ever with this system.

/Belf hunter
// Area 52 Horde

Eh?
Cata launched 3 and a half weeks ago, and you were already 85 a month ago?

Phantom_Spaceman: I re-upped to check it out, got to 83 over a couple of days, then decided to re-up with my girlfriend instead. Some of the new stuff is entertaining, but I think I chose correctly.

I'll need to see the gear she drops before making a decision.

The_EliteOne: Raid Members: "When are we raiding! I'm ready to go! When are we raiding!"

Me: "Soon. Like next Tuesday."

Next Tuesday comes....and then

Raid Members: "I'm not ready! I can't do this yet! My DPS/Heals/Whatever is going to not be topping the meters!"

Me: "Suck it up and get it done."

then after a good night with only 2 wipes and a few new bosses down...

Raid Members: "I don't want to raid anymore take me off the list WHAAAAH, why did we do so well even though I felt we weren't ready? ..../gquit"


/I hate people.

And that is why I never tried to run a guild or raid after doing it in Vanilla. It was 24/7 drama, even being the number 1-3 guild on the server.

/just bought Cata after telling myself I wouldn't do it for the past few months
//there is still no alternative to WoW...

Just play RuneScape.

meat0918: jedimk: State_College_Arsonist: NittLion78: F*** YEAH

Damn you, now I want a Butterfinger Blizzard.

Snickers Blizzard beats a Butterfinger any day!

Cappuccino Heath Blizzards, you filthy heathens!

//Or would I be the heath-en..

You sound fat.

maq0r: Cata launched 3 and a half weeks ago, and you were already 85 a month ago?

One of my guildies got to 85 within a day of Cata launch.

But he was in the alpha & the beta, and it was Christmas break.

CraicBaby: kab: And Tol Barad is a laughable zone, so much so that I wonder if anyone was actually paying attention during beta.

Tol Barad sucks on my server because there are almost no Alliance players. No one on Alliance side ever queues up, so none of us Hordies ever get to actually do Tol Barad. I've had the Tol Barad victory quest in my quest log since I hit 85 almost a month ago and have yet to complete it. That whole queuing system was a nice idea in theory, but on a horribly-imbalanced server such as Area 52, it doesn't really work that well. I'd actually rather go back to Tenacity, because at least people could actually do the damn BG. I kinda feel bad for Area 52 Alliance, because they are never, ever going to win Tol Barad ever with this system.

/Belf hunter
// Area 52 Horde

Area 52 horde represent!

Tauren priest.

Haven't tried Tol Barad since I rarely pvp. area 52 is just plain unbalanced. I think I saw an ally questing once.

Once.

CraicBaby: kab: And Tol Barad is a laughable zone, so much so that I wonder if anyone was actually paying attention during beta.

Tol Barad sucks on my server because there are almost no Alliance players. No one on Alliance side ever queues up, so none of us Hordies ever get to actually do Tol Barad. I've had the Tol Barad victory quest in my quest log since I hit 85 almost a month ago and have yet to complete it. That whole queuing system was a nice idea in theory, but on a horribly-imbalanced server such as Area 52, it doesn't really work that well. I'd actually rather go back to Tenacity, because at least people could actually do the damn BG. I kinda feel bad for Area 52 Alliance, because they are never, ever going to win Tol Barad ever with this system.

/Belf hunter
// Area 52 Horde

Sides are win sharing now due to the new honor reward, hopefully your server has this going as well

also you can get the honor reward w/o actually getting into the fight, just hang out on the bridge and dont click the pop up box

Cheesey but takes some sting out of not being able to get in

El Uno Magnifico: EQII FTMFW.

How is it now that they are trying the free to play model? I hadn't played EQ2 in years; I never even hit the level cap. I was somewhat interested in it but I just didn't have anyone to play with. Since most of the people I knew were playing WoW I didn't bother to look into a guild for EQ2.

Do they have any kind of free trial for returning players? I've been wanting to try it out but 14 gigs is a huge download.

Niveras: El Uno Magnifico: EQII FTMFW.

How is it now that they are trying the free to play model? I hadn't played EQ2 in years; I never even hit the level cap. I was somewhat interested in it but I just didn't have anyone to play with. Since most of the people I knew were playing WoW I didn't bother to look into a guild for EQ2.

Do they have any kind of free trial for returning players? I've been wanting to try it out but 14 gigs is a huge download.

Anybody can get a 10-day free trial, but it would be a trial account, not your old account. It would let you see the changes they have made though. They also have a streaming client now. You don't have to download the whole thing to play, just a few gigs will get you started.