Emblem of Conquest (Ulduar 25 badge)

[mmcookies]

Looks like Blizzard is definitely adding new badges for each new tier

And since I'm unwilling and unable to raid, this means I'm definitely out

5-boxing has been fun
Good luck to you all

[Multibocks]

You know there will be a new Vault of Archavon boss right? That means you can get raid gear through a PUG, I find it to not be so bad. It's a quick raid and I have rarely been in a /fail.

However I understand, and Im sure it's not the only factor in quitting.

[mmcookies]

no pugs, never again

[HPB]

If you don't want to do 25man Ulduar, then just don't do 25man Ulduar. If you're not in there, you don't need the next tier of loot, so you don't get it.

Not having the new uber gear doesn't stop you from playing and doesn't interfere with a "casual" playstyle. In fact many, many WoW players are never on the cutting edge - never on the final raids for endgame. They're always a tier or two behind on the raiding scheme (myself included). There's nothing wrong with that.

No one is saying, "You must do 25 man Ulduar and you must have the new badges to keep playing."

[Zaelar]

No one is saying, "You must do 25 man Ulduar and you must have the new badges to keep playing."

mmcookies is.

I wonder how he's getting valor badges right now considering the only way to get them is in 25 mans.

[Redbeard]

Im not even to end game yet with my team (my druid has done a bit of 10 man naxx but thats it) and im a little disappointed that theyre not adding a new 5 man dungeon with the new raid.

Sure you dont have to raid and get new gear etc, but that is the only progression available in the game after you get to level cap. If they dont give us another way to do that then I can understand his/her being done for now.

[mmcookies]

I don't need the top tier of loot, and I don't like to raid.

What I do need is progression, which is what I'm paying Blizzard for.

As of this moment, I have pretty much the best gear I can get out of doing heroics, and by the looks of 3.1 PTR, Blizzard won't be adding any more 5-man content until at least 3.2.
(last time they didn't add any until 2.4)

And I'm just not willing to wait that long.

[Malekyth]

As someone whose highest group is 73, who has one single fast flyer out of probably twenty 70+ characters, who has not successfully multiboxed a heroic, Kara, ZA, or any of the old-world raids, who has a pitiful fraction of the achievements -- and who plays almost every night for at least a few hours, not even counting the weekend binges -- I'm floored by the idea of someone who'd consider quitting the game in a huff because they've run out of things to do. How many hours are in the day on your planet?

[puppychow]

Every person is going to be a different, a number of multiboxers cleared every heroic 1-2 months ago and as said there really isn't much to do beyond that except farm, and that gets boring after a while. I sat in awe of Niley & ss2 while they had every heroic cleared over 2 months ago while I was still struggling with caverns of time, now my guys are all geared in full t7/t7.5 and have 200+ badges each and 10k+ gold and I haven't run a heroic in over 2 weeks. Of course, I'm having fun just leveling a deathknight now, its a lot more fun doing 70-80 with only one guy doing quests than it is trying to do 5 collection quests at once. And I like to raid on my main, so I have something interesting to look forward to in 3.1, but for the non-raiders I think 3.1 is going to be very boring after 3-4 weeks, which is sad I have no desire to level my 2nd (3d, etc) teams to 80, its a lot of work to go from 70-80 and end of the day the differences between tank classes, melee classes, caster classes, and healers is not that huge.

Even if they had put in a new 5 man though it wouldn't have lasted that long, maybe an extra 2-3 weeks to farm it out totally. I'd guess in patch 3.1.5 or whatever, a few months down the road, they let you turn in heroism emblems for conquest badges, so at least 5-manners will have some form of gear upgrade path.

[Redbeard]

He wants to progress his 5 man team. Obviously there are other things to do in the game. He could try to amass 100k gold on each character. He could fill all 50 character slots on a server with level 80 characters and gear them in heroic gear. He could try for every achievement. We all define our own goals within the framework of the game.

Yours is a valid goal (apparently leveling your groups and having fun). His is also a valid goal (being able to progress his characters outside of a raid). Best of luck to both of you =)

As someone whose highest group is 73, who has one single fast flyer out of probably twenty 70+ characters, who has not successfully multiboxed a heroic, Kara, ZA, or any of the old-world raids, who has a pitiful fraction of the achievements -- and who plays almost every night for at least a few hours, not even counting the weekend binges -- I'm floored by the idea of someone who'd consider quitting the game in a huff because they've run out of things to do. How many hours are in the day on your planet?