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.
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @01:09PM (#41969347)
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.
WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL:
Firings will continue until morale improves.
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
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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.
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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.
Re:Mists of Dailyquestia (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
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.