WoW to WAR and back again

[Gadaí]

Myself and a number of my guildies all bought War, about 50% have dropped it and the rest of us have subscribed. As another poster said it's a completely different game in a lot of respects with a different appeal to players. Personally I'd prefer not to PvP in BG's/Arenas in WoW - I'm not terribly good at it for one thing and, perhaps as a consequence, I don't find it very interesting or engaging. War on the other hand, I can't get enough of PvP and all I can do is think that collision is the difference. PvP when a line of 'tanks' can actually block melee from getting to your ranged if they find a choke point is completely new to me and I love it - it allows for defensive formations, sneaky tricks and lots more. Even playing a healer (something like 8 chars in the 11-25 range atm) you have a definite sense of your worth as a good healer on one side can completely change the balance of a battle (and people will whisper you thanks for your efforts!).

As other people are saying, I'll stick with WoW for my PvE but War is, for me, my PvP home.

[Tdog]

I tried out WAR when it first came out and tbh it's pretty fun. Coming from a WOTLK BETA tester this is basically how I feel about the two...

WAR is more fun than BC.

WOTLK is more fun than WAR.

I expect WAR to make it though. I doubt it will fold like alot of other recently over hyped MMO'S. Will it be a WoW killer? No.

[thinus]

I canceled my 5x WoW accounts and won't be re-activating for a long time if ever. 5-boxing made WoW fun again for a while but eventually you are back to the never ending gold/gear grind. Same with patches, leveling is fun and then the grind starts again.

Only playing a single WAR account for now and having lots of fun. World PvP is huge. There are basically only 2 oceanic servers now and both with large populations and lots of people are max level or closing on it so WAR is truly turning into proper war in the high level zones. There are still a lot of issues that need to be sorted out, some cheesy tactics, performance issues, itemization, etc but the roughness has its own appeal.

[thinus]

I tried out WAR when it first came out and tbh it's pretty fun. Coming from a WOTLK BETA tester this is basically how I feel about the two...

WAR is more fun than BC.

WOTLK is more fun than WAR.

What do you base this on? And if you only tried it out when it first came out I doubt you played up to 40 and even if you did there wouldn't have been enough T4 characters to truly hatch world pvp which is where WAR really shines. WAR changes when you hit T4 at the moment.

I expect WAR to make it though. I doubt it will fold like alot of other recently over hyped MMO'S. Will it be a WoW killer? No.

We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times.

[Tdog]

What do you base this on?

I base that on my personal preferences as my statement was my own personal opinion.

We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times.

Go check out the Paladin forums. I guarantee that more than 90% of those paladins threatening to quit will still be playing their paladin in wrath. People whine all the time when they don't get their way. The fact that a very large portion of WAR subscribers are former (or even current) WoW subscribers should be reason enough to not be suprised that ppl are going to bitch all the time, especially on the forums.

[thinus]

What do you base this on?

I base that on my personal preferences as my statement was my own personal opinion.

What I meant was what are your reasons? Why is WotLK more fun to you than WAR?

We will see how much of an impact WotLK has on active WAR subscribers as loads of them are ex-WoW players. Combine that with the first significant "balancing" patch for WAR that has all the vocal forum whiners up in arms and threatening cancellation makes for interesting times.

Go check out the Paladin forums. I guarantee that more than 90% of those paladins threatening to quit will still be playing their paladin in wrath. People whine all the time when they don't get their way. The fact that a very large portion of WAR subscribers are former (or even current) WoW subscribers should be reason enough to not be suprised that ppl are going to bitch all the time, especially on the forums.

Yeah, not surprised about it but we do have a slightly different situation here. People bitching about WAR can go back to WoW, where do people bitching about WoW go? I also think some people are just playing WAR while waiting for WotLK.