Accounts shelved. Keep me updated!

[d0z3rr]

All 10 accounts of mine have been cancelled. Have no desire to level to 85.

Thinking about Eve...but I've been playing Pharaoh a lot lately.

[Reprisal]

That's funny, so many people quitting because cata is to challenging. It's completely opposite for me, the only reason i'm still playing is because it's challenging. I took a break from wotlk after like two months because it was way to easy, and didn't even come back until two months before cata came out. Arenas can be rough against the right group, but there are just as many teams I destroy with 4 shaman. I just don't understand complaining because you can't easily get to a 2k rating multiboxing. Cap out every week, get your gear and destroy people in rated bgs. And don't worry, they're hardcore nerfing pretty much every heroic, even the really easy ones, because of people wining and quitting. But you're right, quitting wow is way easier than improving your skills as a boxer and downing some content. But that's just my opinion, and you're right, it is just a video game and at the end of the day if you don't enjoy it why waste money on it.

[Teslah]

That's funny, so many people quitting because cata is to challenging. It's completely opposite for me, the only reason i'm still playing is because it's challenging. I took a break from wotlk after like two months because it was way to easy, and didn't even come back until two months before cata came out. Arenas can be rough against the right group, but there are just as many teams I destroy with 4 shaman. I just don't understand complaining because you can't easily get to a 2k rating multiboxing. Cap out every week, get your gear and destroy people in rated bgs. And don't worry, they're hardcore nerfing pretty much every heroic, even the really easy ones, because of people wining and quitting. But you're right, quitting wow is way easier than improving your skills as a boxer and downing some content. But that's just my opinion, and you're right, it is just a video game and at the end of the day if you don't enjoy it why waste money on it.

Not sure people are quitting because it is hard. Long and a little annoying at times might be a better explanation. For me, it just doesn't have the same feeling as previous expansions.

I love the challenge, but the rewards are not there. I think they went too far in the other direction from Wrath. Upping the time it takes to learn strategies and finish dungeons was fine with me. It made it a lot of fun at first. The problem is once you spend a couple of weeks in heroics you are pretty much done with them and only the raids are left.

I'm getting close to taking an extended break. Of course I tend to do that once the majority of the content is cleared.

Anyway, good luck to everyone.

[Tyval]

But you're right, quitting wow is way easier than improving your skills as a boxer and downing some content.

Seriously?

That is all you got from the thread?

Do to time constraints I just got to where I can attempt heroics(queue), I spent yesterday learning/completing the first 2 named in SFK, and the first named in VP. Actually most of the time was just on the first named in SFK. I was having interrupt issues and getting bad timing on the mend, with my interrupt not ready. Or trying to time the tick of regen too close and stopping it too early, Not timing the last phase right and not getting healed up enough. I also threw in a fair amount of stupid. I did the stupid thing way too much, intermixed with decent attempts. I lost count of how many wipes I had Gear had to full repair twice or was it 3 times...

But by God i was going to beat that thing!

It did force me to improve and change things around, I had one attempt where he cast mend right after his strangulation/channel phase. So I stopped and made sure my interrupts were staggered (and used my priest to dispel the one debuff), I finally got around to getting my setup correct on my priest with the PW:Barrier so I could help with the aoe dmg on last phase. Saw my dps was low so tweaked my macros, was having mana issues so made sure to have those readily available and setup right.

But then I thought to myself, "Holy Crap, these are the fights that everyone says are easy-peasy. Things will only get harder from here".... If I'm struggling on these and other are all like "dude they are simple, stop sucking"

Maybe I don't have the time, skill or desire to box this expansion.

If I am honest I have to admit Wrath didn't really help me become a skilled MB (I started MBing in wrath) , I got use to brute forcing my way through heroics and then over gearing them. So I'm trying to learn, get better, adapt. but ultimately if I'm not having fun, I'm not going to play. The most complicated thing I had to do was maybe an interupt, jumping or moving out of dmg. So I am trying to get better, learn, adapt....

But your right, the only reason folks are thinking of quitting is because they suck and aren't willing to stop sucking

It isn't the tedious and forced linear quest lines, talents that seem more constrained than ever before, more of the same old same old game play. (PvP issues I can't speak about as I havent' done any yet) and yes content that for some might be more work and time commitment than they want or can make.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

That's funny, so many people quitting because cata is to challenging.

[*SNIP*]

But you're right, quitting wow is way easier than improving your skills as a boxer and downing some content. But that's just my opinion, and you're right, it is just a video game and at the end of the day if you don't enjoy it why waste money on it.

Right, because it just couldn't possibly be about anything _other_ than current heroic difficulty, AMIRITE?

Bravo, sir! My search for a picture to post here to describe the utter fail of your post, while fruitless for obvious reasons, led me on a merry and hilarious trip across the intertubes. Bravo!

[Lpwned]

Right, because it just couldn't possibly be about anything _other_ than current heroic difficulty, AMIRITE?

Bravo, sir! My search for a picture to post here to describe the utter fail of your post, while fruitless for obvious reasons, led me on a merry and hilarious trip across the intertubes. Bravo!

Ha ha!! That is a WAY more colorful way of saying what I was thinking.

[raylion]

I've cancelled all 5 of my accounts too...have multiboxed since TBC when I first saw some of Xzins videos but WoW today is a shadow of what it was. Hate the direction questing has gone in and the dungeons aren't very enjoyable either.

I've jumped ship to Eve Online and now have 5 accounts (so glad ISBoxer supports it). Somewhat daunted by the scale of Eve and really have no idea what I'm doing but it feels very open about how you choose to progress which I like immensely.

Such a shame about WoW...looking back over the expansions I think TBC was probably the best (even though it had faults) with WotLK a close second. Maybe if the next expansion blends the best of TBC and WotLK then I'll be back to WoW but until then I'm off flying in my new spaceships! :-)

[RCmag13]

A very sad post. I plan on 10 boxing all the old content all the way up to Wotlk and I believe that will be quite enjoyable, but I do have to agree with most of you here.

I leveled up an 85 Warlock when the cata expansion was released and while the first run of quests were fun, I couldn't imagine doing all of them over and over again to get my other toons leveled up. I ran my lock through some of the normal random dungeons and the expansion seemed promising. When i got to 85 and started running heroics it was just ritarded, the amount of time i had to put in to get a very small upgrade wasn't worth it. I tried to do my daily random for a couple of weeks and just got tired of the 45 minute queue times for dps and when i finally did get a dungeon most of the pugs would wipe 5-6x on every encounter or just give up which was a total waist of my time. I'm not saying that the heroics are too difficult but I am saying that most of the heroics don't give adequate rewards for as difficult as they are. Even in coordinated guild groups we still have trouble getting through some of the encounters and most of the guildies out-gear the instance quite a bit (wearing faction and crafted epics). If the heroic instances are going to be this difficult then they need to make the drops worthwhile, upgrading my gear from 333-346 doesn't suffice. I don't think I will be playing my 85 warlock anymore, it's more of a chore to log on and do my random. I will continue to 10 box my toons up until Ice Crown Citadel and then we'll see what happens next.

I don't see how multiboxing the cata heroics would even be enjoyable, I didn't have fun playing one character through it much less 5.

[Tonuss]

I think I played for two or three years before I canceled the first time. I've probably canceled three times since then, usually for a few months when I realize that I haven't logged in for a few weeks. In that time I play other games and do other stuff, then wind up resubscribing. Games like this draw you in and you wind up playing on a regular schedule (even as a casual player), and that is bound to lead to burnout.

There are so many games out there that it would be crazy to force yourself to play WOW if it's not fun. I have a backlog of console games that I'll get to at some point, when WOW becomes boring again.

[Sbrowne55]

@the leet posters who love the challenge. There is no challenge boxing shammies every boxer knows that... Try another set, and hit up arena or some pve, you'll see why we quit or are pissed off. That's just my opinion lol.

Also the nerf bat has hit many teams. Which account for my hiatus. Those druid nerfs are seriusly overkill.

Before you flame me. I do agree playing a team that works is best and shammies are just that.but saying others have no skill is wrong. Other teams have been made/nerfed at boxing making them harder in cata