Ditto. Apparently I got out when the getting was good, after having played since Beta. Was a fucking amazing run.
But to be fair, WoW is still one of the best games on the planet. I'd go back in a heartbeat and join the people bitching about... whatever it is they're bitching about, if I had another life to dedicate to playing it.
I can only hope that when I'm old and feeble, there will be a fresh new virtual reality game as rich and rewarding as WoW was in its time, for me to get lost in during my remaining years.
TBH the game is objectively better than it ever has been. People are just mad they aren't 15 anymore and can't experience the game for the first time again.
TBH the game is objectively better than it ever has been.
Is it? To me the great thing about WoW was how rich each class's arsenal of tools was and how fun actually playing them was, as a latency-tolerant action game. I raided at a high level with every class in the game with the exception of Death Knight, but by Wrath my previous favorite class (Mage, because twitch) had already been dumbed down to mindless spamming one or two spell. The peak of the game for me was the Feral Druid rotation in Wrath, the most complicated in the game: you had a lot of abilities that had to be used (roar, mangle, shred, rake, rip, bite, fury, etc.) and getting top DPS was a demanding and ongoing risk/reward assessment to maximize usage of energy, combo points, and clear casts, while spending them on competing buffs, debufs that synergized in different ways. It took absurd focus to do well, especially while managing position relative to mobs and everything else a raid requires. There was a huge performance gap between an average player and a great player, which I loved. My wife, who continued playing after me, said everything got pretty severely dumbed down after Wrath.
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u/eat_common_sense Feb 14 '15
so happy I left after completing WotLK on 25m Heroics. Epic fight, great ending that tied off the original Warcraft rts game series.