Accounts shelved. Keep me updated!

I leveled my multiboxing shamans for the SOLE purpose of arena. I have been running 5s with a 2300 rated priest, and I'm sitting on 4K resilience.

Let me know if you guys think I'm just way off mark here. Or maybe I just flat out suck. Maybe I'm just cranky because its late at night :P

I don't foresee a bright future for Multiboxing shamans (Assuming they buff us at all), and I'm not leveling those dam DKs all the bloody way up to 85. With class homogenization everyone in the game has every ability they need to face roll casters, even groups of casters, not to mention a ridiculous defensive cool down (Apart from Ele of course :P)

My accounts have been canceled. I will remain active on the threads to see if Bliz has any comeback to the pitiful pile of junk they call Elemental. Let me know if we become viable again, and ill reactivate my accounts.

Ill bump this thread in a few weeks to see how things are progressing.

You didn't include your progress so I can't tell you if you suck or not lol. Also, your 2300 priest, does he/she have much xp rolling with a boxer?

Apart from that, I can understand why you would want to quit, especially as it seems arena is your nieche. Hopefully even if you finish with wow you will stay a part of this community. Good luck with the shammy buffs matey.

I'd like to offer some encouraging words but all I can say is- Join the club! lol

After 6 years and 5 accounts I called it quits a few months ago. What I felt would probably just be a hiatus is turning into not wanting to go back. Once you start playing other video games and enjoying every moment of them. Everything being new. You start to think why do I blow 80$ a month on such a grind.

Having an extra 80 bucks per month for other video games has been quite nice. It really starts to add up. Now with playing DC Universe and several other games I've missed out over time. Really seems all my WOW desire is falling by the wayside.

You should ask yourself- am I having fun anymore? If the answer is no. Then you should ask- why am I paying for this? If you are good or bad is very subjective and shouldn't be your determining factor. How much fun you are having should.

Haha,
I was leveling my second team yesterday, five demo locks, and after a few quests, I asked myself, what the hell are you doing?
It is a grind, I abhor the phasings, break the follow, and the linear quest lines.

I went to account management and unsubscribed. Took my wife and my three years old out and had fun.
My wife was happy!

If anyone have details about multiboxing being allowed in the new game RIFT, please post. That game looks promising.

Multiboxing is fun, I enjoyed it but Cata sucks.

I will probably single box RIFT, and if they allow MB, then I will do five boxing too, I am thinking of the Defiants fraction, since i am currently alliance in WoW.

SaraiE

Totally agree - I stopped having fun when I got to stonetalon 2 weeks ago on a new team and realised there were NO quests at level. None whatsoever. Some stupid chain to get there. What's most disappointing is that some wotlk quests were awesome. But a whole expansion of them? No thank you.

Ok that sounds overly negative - I loved wow but you can have too much of a good thing. Time for something new.

Questing isn't even the worst of it in my opinion.

I enjoyed the first time up through to 85 (Excluding Uldum) however it gets tedious just like leveling any alt. But I am a very casual player, I work rotating long shifts and a lot of times I have to go in for extra shifts due to constantly being short handed. Now with this being said, sometimes I may have 5 hours to dedicate to playing but that doesn't mean I want to sit in the majority of dungeons upward to 2-3 hours. (Another reason I liked boxing, it allowed me to sit in a dungeon as long as I wanted not in the que for the dungeon as long as I wanted.)

Average it would take about 90ish hours to get all the justice point gear.To me this is very very tedious, I dislike grinding dungeons repetatively for "maybe" a drop. But worse is grinding for astronomically priced "minor" upgrades. Not to mention heroic gear is 346 and regular is 333 ....that's fine I guess? Justice gear is 346 and they took away the purple at the last boss for heroics?

Perhaps I am getting burnt out of the game but despite it's flaws I did like the majority of WotLK, especially the shorter dungeons.

I feel they took all the major aspects of the game in BC that "hardcore" players liked, spliced them around shook them up stuck em in their mouth chewed on em awhile and spit it out and said "TA! DA! Here's Cataclysm end game!" Currently the tedious wipe fest of heroics is sickening, PuGs are awful. Guild runs are slightly better but I already have a job that I can be unhappy at if I choose, why would I want to carry that over into my free time?

Honestly excited about Star Wars MMO that should be out later this year (not a fanboi just looks good) and even may try DCUO it also looks decent. To me Cataclysm feels like the beginning of the end of my WoW experience but who knows things change.

yupe closed my 5 accounts today.. just not fun anymore

If you read the forums there have been a lot of posts like this, and based on my feelings towards WoW I think it's been caused by the following:

General burnout- WoW is still pretty much the same old timesink it was before Cata dropped.

Linear quest progression in ALL zones- WoW questing now involves going from hub to hub collecting a kill quest or 2 and a collection quest or 2 again and again and again. I like a lot of the final quests in a zone though, however as they are easy to solo at level they really don't feel epic enough.

The grind- I have to grind faction rep for enchants and gear again :(

Professions: I have to grind professions again, and also I feel that there were many elements in professions that were not implemented well such as Chaos orbs being BoP, over the top mat requirements for items such as flasks and truegold, no cool fun stuff from fishing daily (I guess all the fun stuff went into Archaeology)

Archaeology: Seriously, why do people do this? A guildie spent 5 days of his annual leave grinding sites in Kalmidor to get some crappy healing trinket- why?

Heroics are hard- badge gear is harder to get and is not purple, dps have to pay attention and tanking/healing with moron pugs is frustrating. Also the time they take as mentioned above, I'm always happy if I get Tol'var or ToTw for my daily random.

Lack of interaction with the other faction- I miss being in a city that contained both factions

I'm pretty much at the stage now that all I want to do on my main is raid, and all I want to do on my alt is tank/mine as I level from 63.

Currently I'm single boxing Cataclysm stuff. Not at all happy witht he difficulty level of the instances. I won't even bother to PuG them, guild run or not at all. I don't think I'll be able to multibox them at all; I'm just not that skilled at it. I still run around with a team on WoTLK accounts, but that'll end soon enough on a PVP server I think. Right now, mainly spending my time PvPing with Alliance (20-30 minute queue times as Horde are retarded.) but I hate Alliance.

Someone mention Rift, looked like a decent game. Videos looked interesting.

Wow! I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting this response. It seems that I am not an outlier.

Cat was a waste of money. Apart from it bring VERY clear that WoW has been put into a "bleed these suckers for every penny we can get" mode, It tried to bring PvP to what it was back in BC. This is all good (I loved BC) but ultimately doesn't work with the disgusting level of class homogenization.

There is no way to fix the game at this point other than to start taking abilities away from people. Let's take a look at how much homogenization we have... this is just what I can think up off the top of my head. A lot of it relates all the way back to BC, so if you don't know what I'm talking about, likely its a BC ability / talent.

Ability copied and changed -> Class
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Blink -> Warlocks, warriors
Sprint/dash -> lol everyone
Evasion -> Hunters
Bloodlust -> Mages, hunters
Charge -> druids
Polymorph -> Shamans
Blizzard -> everyone
Stuns -> everyone
Entangling Roots -> Shamans
Frost Trap -> Mages, Deathknights
Concussive shot (BC version) -> Mages
Disarm -> Spriest, rogues... LOL Love the Spriest one.
Blessing of Freedom -> DKs, hunters
Improved Counter spell -> DK strangulate
HoTs -> Shaman
Soul Link -> Hunters
Dispel ->Everyone
Insane (I can't be killed) buttons:
Dispersion, Disengage, Ice Block, Survival Instincts, Shield Wall, Bubble, evasion (Lol at evasion changes), Knockbacks, AoE stuns, fears, sheeps', silences.
I could go on and on...
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I hated Wrath for the very reason my signature states. It wasn't a thinking game, it was who ever could mash more buttons, had more Rets / DKs, and could burst a target down first.

It seems that Cat is the same thing... But it's now who ever can mash more CC macros.