The review touches upon the issue of the ridiculous number of daily quests required. I've been playing MoP myself and I can confirm that Blizzard have got something very, very badly wrong here. The daily quests are too numerous, too essential and far too boring. With a small number of exceptions, they all tend to be variations on the old "kill six snow moose" themes. Except this time it's panda-mooses. And you usually have to kill more than six of them.
It's worse still if you play as a tank or healer. DPS p
Doing them all everyday will make you get burned out of them, much like if you had the option to grind heroics to get Rep. Stop forcing yourself to eat the whole thing at once or you will get a belly ache.
Do dailies in a group. Three of us only do them together. Its done in less than an hour for Lotus, Shado, August.
The gear progression is what makes old content obselete. Plus who wants to do the same thing beyond 4-6 months.
If Dailies are optional, please explain what someone that doesn't do them is supposed to do with the VP they collect from heroics, raids, and LFR.
Seriously? Valor Points buy epic raiding gear. That is why the dailies are optional - you can still get your valor points just fine through heroic dungeon runs, LFR or tagging along raids. You can get Valor Points much faster by doing the dailies along with the above-mentioned activities.
The problem is that you cant even spend your vp without being revered (and each slot is attached to a different rep, so you have to do them all) which takes at least a few weeks to do
The problem is that you cant even spend your vp without being revered (and each slot is attached to a different rep, so you have to do them all) which takes at least a few weeks to do
Once you have a character at 80 or so, just buy lots of extra tabards for the rep you're grinding and send them to the characters low on that rep.
WoW is like nuclear war - the only way to win is to not play.
I have been really enjoying a real world social life now, plus found time to pick up a few real world skills like playing a few tunes on the piano. I rid myself of the compulsion to keep trying to maintain 3 level 85 toons and grinding for gear, some time around the first Darkmoon fair for the cataclysm expansion. It was grinding for all the damned herbs for darkmoon cards that finally broke the WoW experience for me. Wish I'd quit way earlier -
Playing WoW seriously is like nuclear war - the only way to win is to not play.
FTFY, and that applies to many other things
Moderation is key.
I quit WoW after 5 or so years. I did a whole bunch of different things, but I didn't do it all. I was hardcore at times. I was casual at times. Whatever happened, happened. Do I regret my time there, and my time was wasted? Nope.
I had my fun. Now I'm doing other fun things (like trolling slashdot;p). I don't have much of an urge to go back to WoW today, but I wouldn't rule out going back in the future.
Sorry, missed the point of your question. Let me clarify; eventually Valor Point vendors will sell epic raiding gear that don't require Reputation levels once the next tier is reached. It's been that way with every expansion pack, all the way since Burning Crusade.
And you need faction reputation (which requires dalies) to buy that epic gear.
For example, my mage's valor point belt and pants require revered rep with the Klaxxi.
They've taken and fused together faction quartermaster gear and valor point gear. In Cata, you could collect rep and get epics (granted, first-wave epics, which were completely outclassed by gear from the halls of time heroic dungeons) from faction quartermasters or collect valor and buy from the valor vendor. Now you need to collect rep and va
Right, I think it's wrong to say dailies are optional.
But, it should be noted that maxing out on every single conceivable daily every day is definitely optional. You definitely can reach the valor cap quite easily without doing dailies at all, and with the valor cap still being 1000 pts/week, It takes 2-3 weeks to usually to get enough valor for 1 item.
If you did your leveling in the Dread Wastes, you should be close to revered with the Klaxxi already (I think it took maybe 3-4 days of dailies to hit rever
I think that for people to keep playing a game that came out in 04 it needs to be better than "Not as bad as people make it out to be", it really needs to be fun.
I and many of my friends have cancelled our subs since MoP and we have all been playing since Vanilla.
Sure, I think the criticism is valid. It's a flawed system in my opinion. It needs addressing.
But spewing hyperbole about how you have to do 50 dailies every single day for a month when it's obviously not true doesn't really accomplish anything either.
If Dailies are optional, please explain what someone that doesn't do them is supposed to do with the VP they collect from heroics, raids, and LFR.
If someone is actively doing raids, the likelihood of needing VP to spend on gear at all right now is pretty low. Even the time required to rep up to the level that unlocks the gear is roughly 2 weeks.
We're in week 6 or 7 of raiding. A second raid opened up recently. Another is opening up today.
I did about 3 weeks of dailies total, and then was able to stop. All of this talk of endless dailies is just nonsense.
But if you're not doing 'real raids', just LFR, then VP is the about only way to jump the ilvl hurdle and get in. Especially for classes with no affordable crafted gear available (resto druids, unless you lose a +5% int bonus by wearing cloth)
Worse still... your chance of getting LFR loot is tied to grinding dailies, even after hitting exalted, due to the retarded charms system (you can grind dailies for an item that gives you a bonus roll on loot... epic fail!)
So far, It's the worst WoW expansion for
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Mists of Dailyquestia (Score:5, Interesting)
The review touches upon the issue of the ridiculous number of daily quests required. I've been playing MoP myself and I can confirm that Blizzard have got something very, very badly wrong here. The daily quests are too numerous, too essential and far too boring. With a small number of exceptions, they all tend to be variations on the old "kill six snow moose" themes. Except this time it's panda-mooses. And you usually have to kill more than six of them.
It's worse still if you play as a tank or healer. DPS p
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Dailies are not required, they are optional.
Doing them all everyday will make you get burned out of them, much like if you had the option to grind heroics to get Rep. Stop forcing yourself to eat the whole thing at once or you will get a belly ache.
Do dailies in a group. Three of us only do them together. Its done in less than an hour for Lotus, Shado, August.
The gear progression is what makes old content obselete. Plus who wants to do the same thing beyond 4-6 months.
They tried Horizontal progression w
Re:Mists of Dailyquestia (Score:1)
Dailies are not required, they are optional.
Wrong. You've been indoctrinated.
If Dailies are optional, please explain what someone that doesn't do them is supposed to do with the VP they collect from heroics, raids, and LFR.
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Dailies are not required, they are optional.
Wrong. You've been indoctrinated.
If Dailies are optional, please explain what someone that doesn't do them is supposed to do with the VP they collect from heroics, raids, and LFR.
Seriously? Valor Points buy epic raiding gear. That is why the dailies are optional - you can still get your valor points just fine through heroic dungeon runs, LFR or tagging along raids. You can get Valor Points much faster by doing the dailies along with the above-mentioned activities.
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The problem is that you cant even spend your vp without being revered (and each slot is attached to a different rep, so you have to do them all) which takes at least a few weeks to do
Re:Mists of Dailyquestia (revered) (Score:1)
The problem is that you cant even spend your vp without being revered (and each slot is attached to a different rep, so you have to do them all) which takes at least a few weeks to do
Once you have a character at 80 or so, just buy lots of extra tabards for the rep you're grinding and send them to the characters low on that rep.
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Which would be nice except there ARE no reputation tabards for the MoP factions.
Did you even play MoP?
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Unlike you, I have a life
Wow, way to make yourself sound like a troll, there.
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WoW is like nuclear war - the only way to win is to not play.
I have been really enjoying a real world social life now, plus found time to pick up a few real world skills like playing a few tunes on the piano. I rid myself of the compulsion to keep trying to maintain 3 level 85 toons and grinding for gear, some time around the first Darkmoon fair for the cataclysm expansion. It was grinding for all the damned herbs for darkmoon cards that finally broke the WoW experience for me. Wish I'd quit way earlier -
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Playing WoW seriously is like nuclear war - the only way to win is to not play.
FTFY, and that applies to many other things
Moderation is key.
I quit WoW after 5 or so years. I did a whole bunch of different things, but I didn't do it all. I was hardcore at times. I was casual at times. Whatever happened, happened. Do I regret my time there, and my time was wasted? Nope.
I had my fun. Now I'm doing other fun things (like trolling slashdot ;p). I don't have much of an urge to go back to WoW today, but I wouldn't rule out going back in the future.
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Sorry, missed the point of your question. Let me clarify; eventually Valor Point vendors will sell epic raiding gear that don't require Reputation levels once the next tier is reached. It's been that way with every expansion pack, all the way since Burning Crusade.
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Valor Points buy epic raiding gear.
And you need faction reputation (which requires dalies) to buy that epic gear.
For example, my mage's valor point belt and pants require revered rep with the Klaxxi.
They've taken and fused together faction quartermaster gear and valor point gear. In Cata, you could collect rep and get epics (granted, first-wave epics, which were completely outclassed by gear from the halls of time heroic dungeons) from faction quartermasters or collect valor and buy from the valor vendor. Now you need to collect rep and va
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Right, I think it's wrong to say dailies are optional.
But, it should be noted that maxing out on every single conceivable daily every day is definitely optional. You definitely can reach the valor cap quite easily without doing dailies at all, and with the valor cap still being 1000 pts/week, It takes 2-3 weeks to usually to get enough valor for 1 item.
If you did your leveling in the Dread Wastes, you should be close to revered with the Klaxxi already (I think it took maybe 3-4 days of dailies to hit rever
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Sure, I think the criticism is valid. It's a flawed system in my opinion. It needs addressing.
But spewing hyperbole about how you have to do 50 dailies every single day for a month when it's obviously not true doesn't really accomplish anything either.
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Dailies are not required, they are optional.
Wrong. You've been indoctrinated.
If Dailies are optional, please explain what someone that doesn't do them is supposed to do with the VP they collect from heroics, raids, and LFR.
If someone is actively doing raids, the likelihood of needing VP to spend on gear at all right now is pretty low. Even the time required to rep up to the level that unlocks the gear is roughly 2 weeks.
We're in week 6 or 7 of raiding. A second raid opened up recently. Another is opening up today.
I did about 3 weeks of dailies total, and then was able to stop. All of this talk of endless dailies is just nonsense.
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Worse still... your chance of getting LFR loot is tied to grinding dailies, even after hitting exalted, due to the retarded charms system (you can grind dailies for an item that gives you a bonus roll on loot... epic fail!)
So far, It's the worst WoW expansion for