I bet he sucks at pinball

I recharge my WoW account every time they come out with an update, play a little here and there until I reach the new level cap, then quit again. I solo most of the time, since it's hard to get into a guild with this method, so I've never done a raid or any of the heroic stuff. I don't even know what people in articles are talking about half the time. Every 18 months I have to remember how to play, basically.

All that said, I am utterly amazed at the degree to which WoW has become near-science to many of these people. The precision, the vocabulary, the choreography that goes into some of these encounters is astonishing to me.

"Well I use this mod for to chime a bell when I'm standing too close to another player, and of course I have this mod that does this and that, and as everyone knows when you cast this spell it swivels you around to face the target, which helpful, versus this other spell that shoots out in a straight line to the target, etc etc etc."

"It's hard, but it helps that are pulls are well-planned. I know when my warriors are going to be over there instead of over there, depending on what the boss combos with. I mean if he does Deadly Blast of Arcana, then of course I'm going to have do a swift Spell of Mending followed by a Incanta Prayer to the main and tertiary tanks. We have another healer that handles the secondary tank, of course yadda yadda yadda"

Mind boggling stuff.

ARGH, I miss Vuhdo and Deadly Boss Mods. Need some soon for Rift. I think it's awesome that his prog raid group doesn't seem to see an issue with having him along for the ride, he must be a good player. Also, if his disease is progressive as well and he's known these folks for a while, well, you don't just drop someone, man.

Good lawd, there are people that don't get the "Tommy" reference? Um, they made a movie out of it...Elton John? Tina Turner?

unicron702: Aphoticamy: Rift

God I loved Rift when I first started playing, but around level 15 it was so mind numbling repetitive I couldn't keep going. I love premise/lore, the 3 class sytem is great, Rift fights are some of the most fun things I've done in ANY mmo, but it's just the same thing over and over and over. I know that's a weird thing to say about an MMO but the excitement just faded so rapidly. It started to feel like an "MMO Simulator" for lack of a better explanation. The game just has no soul to speak of. Couple that with everyone talking about how their was no end game I just couldn't go on. I really wanted something to be my bridge between WoW and ToR but Rifts just wasn't it, and I would've really liked it to be. The setup is their, but the execution fell apart. I believe it's fixable, but it's not just there right now.

You only got to lvl 15? Of course there is endgame, I'm bewbs-deep in endgame content right now. It will just be a matter of expansions, and I'm sure they'll come up with those. They keep it fresh, the graphics are BEAUTIFUL, the raiding is challenging but fun, there is just so much to do.
Rift > WoW imho AT LEAST FOR NOW--I am notoriously fickle when it comes to these things. I played FFXI for about a year, I played WoW for around 9 months before I decided I hated Cat and dropped it, didn't play anything for a while. I've been pretty heavily into this game for a while now, and I'm in a pretty close-knit progressive guild and I'm playing a class that is very versatile so I'm never bored. I really can't say enough good about it, honestly. It does help if you end up on a server that's not full of shiatheads. :-)

unicron702: Zimmy: unicron702: What the hell is a 25-man discipline/holy priest? I love it when non players write articles.

A priest who has opted to focus primarily on the discipline talent tree with a secondary focus on the holy talent tree in a manner which suits a twenty-five man raiding environment.

He conquered raid healing as a disc priest? He IS incredible!

Disc has been viable for PVE since wrath.

Contents Under Pressure: I view raids as a colossal waste of time. Srs Bznz raiders actually sit with spreadsheets and work out spell rotations. They speed level through each expansion and make pugs miserable for the casual players. It was seriously un-fun for about 8 months after Cata came out and I avoided pugs like the plague. Now, they are fun again because the raiders are making each other miserable in their little ghetto.

That said, yet another guy with a female character. As some guy said on Durotan, when asked for a definition of MMORPG said, "Many Men Online, Role Playing Girls."

That's a girl goblin/gnome? I can't tell. You speaketh the truth, however: my guild probably has 40ish members and only around a 1/2 dozen of us are actually women, although there are a lot more female characters. I did have a guildie in WoW that was a young, very pretty female and she had a male draenei character. :-)