Accounts shelved. Keep me updated!

[Khatovar]

I'm still deciding if I should cancel my accounts or not. I've been in this limbo since week 2 of Cata. That's the point where I said to myself "wow, after a bazillion more runs of this instance, I'll have enough gear to run this same exact instance on heroic another bazillion times for the same exact gear +5 stats." I haven't done much of anything on my main team in weeks.

As much as Blizzard touted all these changes to the world and the game, it sure feels a lot more like every other grind game out there. Leveling was too easy and too linear, dungeons aren't as much interesting and innovative as they are tedious and time-consuming. Any of the other expansions, it took at least 8 months before I got THIS bored. Even rolling a new team hasn't helped. I haven't logged in to do anything other than repost auctions and do my JC daily in about 2 weeks, and I can't really even be arsed to do that most nights. Might just be time to stroll back over to DDO or LotRO for a while.

[Svpernova09]

I'm still deciding if I should cancel my accounts or not. I've been in this limbo since week 2 of Cata. That's the point where I said to myself "wow, after a bazillion more runs of this instance, I'll have enough gear to run this same exact instance on heroic another bazillion times for the same exact gear +5 stats." I haven't done much of anything on my main team in weeks.

As much as Blizzard touted all these changes to the world and the game, it sure feels a lot more like every other grind game out there. Leveling was too easy and too linear, dungeons aren't as much interesting and innovative as they are tedious and time-consuming. Any of the other expansions, it took at least 8 months before I got THIS bored. Even rolling a new team hasn't helped. I haven't logged in to do anything other than repost auctions and do my JC daily in about 2 weeks, and I can't really even be arsed to do that most nights. Might just be time to stroll back over to DDO or LotRO for a while.

While I haven't actively multiboxed in months, I agree 100% with this. I leveled my priest first because that was the toon I had been playing for 7+ months. That turned out to be a huge waste of time since I hated disc @ 85. Then I leveled my Druid, joined a PvE guild, and have been playing catch up to get raid ready. I'm not meaning to QQ at all, but heroics seem really dumb right now. I realize and appreciate their current difficulty level, but punishing the entire group on one of 15-30 trash pulls in an instance because RDF gave the group a shitty comp (no / little CC ability) is very frustrating. I understand making shit hard, and I understand using trash as a pacing / rep grind mechanic.

What happened to their mentality during wrath of having dungeons run fast? They purposely (for better or worse) made dungeons where you could grind them out in about an hour or less. Some even faster. And we're talking in i200 gear. Fuck all the wrathtards that came in and got their free T9 and cried cause they were bored as they steamrolled heroics like a cat on a keyboard.

I don't mind hard shit, I don't mind repair bills or wiping, but FFS don't punish me because I want to the play the game. I feel that waiting in a 30-45 minute que if I want to play as DPS is unacceptable, but I still do it. I feel that getting booted from a group just because the tank is butthurt I asked him to mark targets so I would stop pulling aggro is unacceptable, but I still reque. I feel that they added length to dungeons to make up for less number of dungeons, yet I'm still grinding away at them. A lot of the game is not fun anymore. Can we go back to T5 era? Maybe T8 era?

[Gomotron]

While I think that MB'ers are a niche group in the WoW population as a whole, I do feel that as Blizzard has "dumbed down" WoW it has really lowered the bar for players and at the same time elevated expectations on what the "average player" could accomplish.

If the frustration of the average player is even remotely similar to what we are experiencing, I expect that Blizzard will not go another 6 weeks without nerfing the hell out of heroics, increasing the rewards of heroics, or (more likely) both. No matter what Ghostcrawler thinks, enough account cancellations will speak more loudly than anything else.

[pinotnoir]

Roll Deathnights! Shamans days are over in my opinion.

[Lpwned]

Roll Deathnights! Shamans days are over in my opinion.

I would... and started to.

Unfortunately the thought of quad-questing through Wrath again makes me want to punch babies.

[Teslah]

I would... and started to.

Unfortunately the thought of quad-questing through Wrath again makes me want to punch babies.

Well, I joined the club. Cancelled all 10 accounts just now. I feel like I did most of the new content and what is there just isn't as much fun as the previous expansions. It's a great game, and I am sure I'll be back later on.

Anyway, good luck all. Have fun!

[Overpowerdin]

So far I have gone from 5 accounts -> 2 and those are done when the game time is up. I absolutely love warcraft, have all the CEs, listen to the game music when I am not playing, read the books, etc. Cata was awesome the first time I played through. The phasing from the single player perspective is awesome, truly felt like I was making a difference in the game world while questing. Problem with that is once you are done, you can't go back and help other guildies/alts because of all the phasing.

So I figured I would go ahead and just try to gear up my tank. So I went and looked at my rep to see what I have to go get some starter gear, or who I should work on first so I can get my ilvl up enough to run heroics in PUGs until the guildies lvled. Oh wait I gotta run heroics with tabards to get my rep up to get the starter gear to be able to run heroics??
Ok, so that means I have to resort to making some gear. So look up the recipes. Ok so now I just need to lvl my blacksmith to get to the twilight highlands to be able to get the recipes, check the mats on the recipes and, i need the orbs from heroics to make the gear????????????????????

After going through all that, well I would say something is wrong. I am not really up for spending weeks to go through all this stuff just to get back to where I can do the stuff I like. And leveling more toons while I wait hoping blizzard fixes the gear paradox, well I agree with everyone above. I just can make myself do all that over again.

I think the thing that is disappointing me the most, is I want to like the game.

[Apps]

I have been playing WoW since November 2004. I have quit a few times here and there. I was on a quit spell when the introduction of Cata was made. After some review, and playing a friends Beta, I couldnt be happier.

I am one of the few players, I think, who hated WotLK. HATED it. Over the years, I have watched content get easier and easier, and then to WotLK... where it was so much instant gratification of "gimme epix"

The game was developed, started, and grew in popularity because of how content was in vanilla. It was a real accomplishment to see a guy in full T1 or T2 or, if you were lucky to find one, in full T3, standing around in a major city. Very impressive. It took dedication, and strive, play skill, improvisation when things go wrong, (and do it smart), in order to get a particular boss down.

The game evolved into, [Run in, AOE tank, AOE heal, AOE dps], YAY epics! and the boss fights werent that hard. [Stand here, dps or dont dps, move some, perhaps, then loot.] I was very disappointed.

For me, (and I do recognize this is only one opinion on the subject), Cata is a step towards catering to the group of individuals that made WoW popular and successful in the first place. A Tribute sort of. There is still the "badge" gear, else the most of the gear is earned... truly earned.

Example: I had gone into a group dual boxing with other member of my guild. I told the mage, to sheep moon, and the lock to banish the diamond. BOTH of them... the mage says, "ok, hang on, I dont have that on my bar." The lock says "wait! what do you mean banish, I dont have a banish." (These players are new players since Wrath.)

LFG in vanilla was, "LF Fire Mage for MC!"
LFG in BC was, "LF Mage for BT"
LFG in Wrath was "LF DPS for Naxx"
Then its a "click me for a group, we dont care what your spec or class is, its all gooood."
LFG in Cata is now "LF Fire Mage for BoT"

Anyone else see the "dumbing down" there?

No. I rather enjoy the new content.

[Krago]

Same here but some time ago.

I cancelled all 5 accounts last spring because I become bored and wasn't having fun anymore.

Then Cataclysm came out and I started getting the itch to play again, so I updated my client got the 10 day trial of Cata and went to play and my PC hard locked, needed a power cycle to fix it up. Played with many different things, tried the suggestions on the forum and finally gave up.

Updated the client on my laptop used the 10 trial and while interesting it just doesn't seem to grab my attention anymore. Then I came here looking for hope and read all the posts that seem to be echoing what I already thought.

'Tis a shame because like the previous poster, I really want to like it again.

So, I have pre-ordered the CE of Rift and may order a 2nd one to try out some dual boxing during next weeks beta.

I have also been playing around with EVE Online again (after a 2 year hiatus), DDO, and RoM.

If I get the 2nd Rift CE and I can get Dual Boxing to work I'll post an update next week.

[zenga]

It are not only boxers who leave WoW atm. Many blogs report the same. Guilds on my realm get little to no recruits. So there seems to be 'something' at least.

I've never enjoyed WoW more than I do at the moment. But I only box when I'm not playing my main toon(s) solo. It's more of a distraction than a goal in itself.

The heroic dungeon difficulty is non existent in my book (solo). The tactics are not really hard and in 333 gear they are very doable. That is for the bosses. What makes it boring is the endless amount of trash you have to kill before reaching a boss. I'd rather have 1-2 optional bosses than all the trash. CC'ing takes no skill. It's basically selecting an assigned mob push a button and then nuke a single target. Repeat x times and done. Tanking a trash pack and making sure you are not targetting the wrong mob so tank can hold aggro seems to be more challenging to me.

The gear progression is what I really like in cata and it makes total sense to me. Normals, then heroics + boe epics and faction rewards. That goes for your main toon. What they should do is make faction rewards account wide. Else it becomes an eternal grind that make people quit. If I could just play my pally, warrior or dk without having to do a shitload of dungeons on them, after doing that on my shaman; I'd be keen to play them in pve.

And if you want to run some bg's each day it only gets worse. As an elemental shaman, warriors and feral druids are way overpowered, there is almost no way to avoid a certain dead. Frost mages run around spamming ice lands & RoF; etc etc. The balance seems to be totally gone. Not to mention that you need to do a long grind before you get any decent pvp gear; whereas some players got full pvp gear from TB honor joke. I can see that this turns off people.

I'm totally fine with WoW being more difficult than Wrath; but more difficult doesn't mean more painful, i.e. making long rep grinds for each alt, adding shitloads of trash. I can see that this is a huge problem for people with limited time to play the game. Skill and difficulty should be about executing harder tactics / beat reset timers/tight aggro meters: not about cc'ing trash mobs.

On a last note: I started to play wow in nov 2009. And ever since I was reading stuff about 'in cataclysm this, in cata that'. Like it was going to be a total new game. Of course that never happens. People joinging the hyped bandwagon and got wrong expectations. Kinda like this married couple who do not longer get along and decide to make a baby to solve their problems. If you have played this game for so long, then a new expansion won't change the fact that you have been through this several times before, and that it actually ain't a big difference, besides some cosmetics.