The Hype
The first moment I stepped into Draenor, whoa everything is new! New zone, new mob, new cinematics, new music. I stayed up late till 6am in the morning, lvled to 93 irrc. Everything is so enjoyable, I read every quest text and explore every area in Shadowmoon Valley.

The Rush
A few days later, lots of people already got their toon to 100s. I start to rush the leveling so I can keep up with the trend, I don't wanna miss anything that people do like selling profession items for profit. I start to skip those quest text, hit accept and rush to quest area.

The 100
As a casual player or say I don't want to commit too much to the game, the todo I set myself for WOD are:
1. Molten Core LFR for mount and mog.
2. Southshore vs Tarren Mill.
3. LFR WOD raid.
4. Stomp random BG with premade feature.
5. Ashran.

I did all 5, rate from best to worst (1, 4, 2) I cant decide on 3 and 5, they sucks.
The most enjoyable was Molten Core LFR, IMHO the best LFR I ever did since cata though lots of feedback says Molten Core LFR are terrible, people stuck in the raid hours of wipe because of those boosted 90s.
I had awesome experience with MC LFR, we wipe for like 3-4 times until we kicked that huntard because he is the main cause of every wipe, pull without permission, doesn't follow mechanic, don't even listen to command.
MC LFR is not tough but it is well balanced in terms of mechanics and difficulties, definitely more enjoyable than other LFR I did for past exp, it is just not a moving dummy where you faceroll your keyboard without giving attention.

LFR WOD raid, this is moving dummy and the trash mob means nothing. The boss means nothing.
Some people might say if you look for some challenge you should avoid LFR and go for normal/heroic/mythic raid but personally for me, those need commitment on the raid group which I'm not into.
Personally I prefer some spontaneous challenge but not needing me to do pre-raid preparation such as watching video guide just to defeat a timed mechanic boss. Rather, 1 or 2 wipe should teach a lesson.

Ashran is aweful, terrible, rubbish, bullshit, Bliz screw it. My worst experience, I queue-ed 4 hours for a 3v3 battle, dafuq is that. Everyone forced to do Ashran to cap the CP. I left immedietly after I capped that 200 CP in Ashran. Bliz need to fix this.

The post 100
Hmm...I got bored after capping my CP every week and finally got my conquest weapon. There is nothing else interesting except gear and gear and gear and gear. More like a farming/grinding game than exploration game.
Today I come across with WOD background music at youtube and realise that, I've actually rushing too much for gears and stuffs and ignored the art(music, environment) Bliz put effort on but keep watching my DPS, my rotation and stuff and asked myself am I becoming a robot that executes the game for optimum performance or a player that enjoying game at a very simple manner.

Well overall these are my experience with WOD, how about yours?

Rate my mog (1-10)


This post has been edited by helven: Jan 8 2015, 07:16 PM

First of all, I think this is a nice writeup. Well done. I think it captures a lot of what most people think about WOD. In terms of which experience you felt was more enjoyable different people will have different views. I thought the MC raid was so so at best. I did it for the mount I hardly use. As a pvper myself you want to use a mount which doesn't scream focus me down first ! Southshore vs Tarren Mill was overhyped I felt. The scoring system was really unexpected. In hindsight, I think it was done to make the battle finish much faster. Those 30 mins of mindless pvping was ok in my honest opinion. It was too long even for pvp, thus the implementation of the strange scoring system. The concept of the garrison was fresh at first. It was fun for a while. Sending your followers out to do your work for you was refreshing. Getting minerals and herbs from your own little town was great. Then boom! that town quickly became a small city, and finally the size of Stormwind. You felt like it was your own haven. Until. You had to face it every single day. By yourself. The concept of having your own plot of land in azeroth fails. It forces you to do dailies by yourself in your own land. You felt alone. Slowly, that alone factor is further compounded when you open up your mining shaft to level 3...... OMFG.... 1 week of digging for ores in there just sucked the life out of me. I didn't even have the courage to open up the fishing plot nor the pet plot..... UNTIL the Ashran Q happened. Whilst leisurely waiting for that Q to pop.... it is rumoured that some of our guildies got their fishing from 1-700. Now they are catching up on some old movies they missed this year whilst waiting for that Q to pop. Such is the hardships of being Alliance on Cael. The good people in Nusantara will tell you that their Q's are insta pop. I did in fact consider sending a toon over to horde to enjoy the insta Q status. Alas, my playtime is also quite limited, which was the only thing that held me back.
Post launch 2 months, most of my days are spent waiting in Q for ashran and doing premade bgs whilst q'ing. I don't even want to go to my garrison anymore. It's not something I enjoy. The only joy from wow now is playing with a bunch of long time friends I have been lucky to meet whilst in the guild, some of them from as far back as 7 years ago. I look forward to recruiting more ppl from my homeland as a means to get the game more interesting. I don't mind if I have to train them up from scratch to do PVP or if they are better than me. I think there will be much more banter that way, and hopefully make the game much more enjoyable than it is now. I mean, it's still a good game but wow was always about who you play with, and not how good you were at it. Cheers!

Also after much consideration, this set is still my Fave as a Pally.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/cael.../Shinsen/simple

This post has been edited by Shinsen: Jan 7 2015, 08:15 PM

i dont feel like making a wall of text so ill keep it short.

raids are cool in wod. i like garrison stuff tho they killed jc hard. so hard.

im happy with the concept of we can roll many times in the same week. gives a bigger chance on loots u want to focus on.

im happy with removal of scenario and the need to do it everyday for the rep.

pvp is currently biased towards some classes but its kinda expected since we are still early into the expansion. happy with reduction of CCs though i miss disarm very much.

Ashran? id rather be 200cp short every week than to queue that piece of garbage.

now i feel lazy to log in..

i'm still searching for WoD non-premium box...

hate online copy because it costs only a wee bit less than the physical one...

only logged in once a day for the garrison mission. cleared heroic highmaul once and thats it. lost interest already. might stop playing altogether after sub ends. probably will resub once the last raid is up (like SOO in MOP, sunwell plateau in BC).

Let me know when u r coming back..

So WoD become MoP ? my toon still in MOP..never have any intention to explore WoD.....or should I ?

The hype is nice, lvling process is nice. After that if you're not pursuing rating nor raid gear then idk what to do lol.
I hope bliz can do something with transmog like instead of LFR for item lvl, some kind of LFD or LFR or any queue for transmoger. Prolly there is nothing to benchmark transmog so there is no one to compete like pvp and pve.

just a query: how much naggers are there who yelled, 'OMG!!! 5 men instance is killing us!!!'

as i recalled, it was all-phun in early CATA/ MOP when people wiped when people ninja pull/ tank can't hold aggro/ ignored mob priority (some cases applied)/ ignored mechanic, before blizzy succumb to the power of nagging and whining...

no more nagging now..even lfr is like tank n spank

so that means 5 men is just standing and press heal1, heal2 and heal3 in every fight?

that's booooooooooring

nope.. u no longer can stand n press heals.
more movement and mechanics,,
u cant solo LFD unless u get at least Proven healer/dps/tanker silver

LFR is indeed boring as u wont learn mechanics.
but try doing normal onwards it will be fun i guess

LFR
Molten Core LFR is the first relevant MC experience i got as i never played in vanilla. The raid seems alright. LFR for raid tried a few, pretty much dummy fight, and did not pursue anymore. However, it is still worth doing, cause they drop the stones that give +50 buff as well as purple gears which anyone can de for gold.

Dungeon
I feel the 5 man dungeon was pretty well made with challenging boss fight on some encounters.

Raid
The 1st raid highmaul serves its purpose well, being not very hard to clear and at the same time has a good final boss fight mechanic. Progressing on imperator was the highlight for me so far, keep on learning how to improve myself better and how the raid should adjust to adapt to the boss mechanic better. Happy I was able to clear heroic imperator on christmas day. The change to mythic to a fix 20m is a good choice as it normalised all raid groups (from 10m vs 25m) and has just the right amount of CD and class composition needed. However in practise to get the right 20m is really tough. Still, something that has to be worked on for those serious into this part of the game.

Garrison
Was overwhelming at first, but now a chore. Wish they will have something extra, surprise element. Right now this is the only thing I'm logging on daily on wow to do, not that i want to do it, but there just is nothing much else to do. Have recruited 41 followers thus far, with 40 of them epic, 22 of them above 650 ilvl.

PVP
Only did 2's just to earn conquest point. Never played BG. No idea what is going on in 2's, basically being carried weekly to cap. Ashran is so confusing, the queue is long, i know. Once in it, it's like massive battle, will be easy if it is one sided fight. Push all the way till u reach enemy base and kill their boss. But when both side equally strong, the fight can take forever.

Auction House
Another thing I am putting my time in, gold seems so easy to earn now even 8 weeks into it. No wonder the value of gold drop so much.

are joo still holding the great guild masta post? how's da guild progressing?

Idk but I do feel like I have to post this, still waiting Bliz to buff WW to be a able to compete with other class so I can get back to my monk
Monk vs Pally, by a player that main monk, facerolling pally and get kills non stop, so little effort needed to play pally.


Bliz really kind of screwed pvp balancing in this expac so much, the OPness is too significant to be noticed, I used to be not so sensitive to stats and stuff, I know mage is kind of OP in Cata, Warrior is kind of OP in MoP, in WOD, all the balancing seems to messed up so much compared to previous exp. Certain class is really button smashing and Arms Execute is way too strong, much like a no cd Touch of Death. Warlock is free kill. Pally takes no skill to play.
Experts don't flame me because I'm no expert, all based on my experience.

It is fun to be FOTM but the fun doesn't last long, it is more fun to have a fair fight.

This post has been edited by helven: Jan 23 2015, 11:30 AM

a newb like me can 1v2 with a monk in mop. rets n pallies were underdog in the last 5 patches. i say fotm should rotate and that is whats happening.

however i lurk around with a rogue now since monk sucks.

*arena finishes load - "ok get monk first"*

Never play Holy Pally before. Since WoD start, my guild need holy pally. Do soo many research on how to play Holy pally, how to improve and how to fully optimize your heal as holy pally.

Bah, I notice holy pally no so aoe-healing-friendly. Holy radiance consume too much mana if plan to use it. Like 10k mana while we only have 160k mana. Before this I prefer keep beacon light and faith on tanks but now I love tossing beacon of faith in order to save mana. Crits is essential to holy pally. Dont care about haste at all cause at 200ms latency make no different. Extra tick for eternal flame also seem like pointless. Mastery also not much helping.

Highmaul raid look quite painful to me. Mobile mechanic encounter really pain in the ass for most of the encounter. Holy Pally only have 2 instant cast (holy shock 6 sec cd) and either holy prism (20sec cd) or light hammer (1min cd). Pfft.

Toss beacon of faith around raid members, keep eternal flame ups on both tank. That what been around my head since 1 month ago.

Lvling quite fun. Collect followers, collect treasure which can be very handful. Garrison mission ( i use addon Master Plan ), collect free ore and herb so that I give to my alt. Easy lvling new proffesion from lvl 1~600 in short time.

When do heroics dungeon when mostly everyone just reach 100 on december really fun. Wipe soo many because not everyone have geared. Try do couple challenge mode at 624 ilvl as prot tank. It took around 2 hour to complete. As long i have the rewards. then it good. Dont care about timer anymore. Too crazy.

Proffesion quite nice. Make 1 neck and 1 ring from Jewelcrafting then upgrade it to 655. Use amplifier to reroll stat until i get desire stat that i want. Using follower that have proffesion traits really boost your gear progression in early stage.

Quest quite awesome. Storyline better compare to MoP (For me). Got some funny quest especially Bony Xuks quest. When I doing those quest chain, I automatically change Xuks to Fu-c.k. Zero Xuks given. Xuks it!. Xuks me, right? 10/10 will do it again on alternate.

Thats all my nonsense rambling. Heh!

Leveling
Just like any WoW expansion, it started out awesome. Quest lines are engaging and fun. But quests can't last forever.

Garrison
Very fun when you're progressing. It gives a different feel to player housing although there's pretty much 0 customization. And when you've got everything, things get boring, which is normal I guess. And I still have no idea why the Mage Tower is so useless.

Trying to bring up my followers' ilvl but it's very hard without Dwarven Bunker and you gotta rely on RNG followers quests that has follower upgrades as quest rewards.

Dungeons
Easy. Even for the heroics. Don't even need a guild run. Super cake compared to, say, Wildstar.

Raid
Guild's not big enough so I mostly do LFR and premade ones.

Ashran
It's quite okay in my opinion. Feels just like any other BG but bigger and doesn't actually end. Nothing special to be honest, I'm mostly disappointed only because I have had high expectations for this.

Arena
Nothing much I guess, just very melee heavy this season.

RBG
Can't get into a group because they all have "MUST HAVE 2100+ MMR!"

Overall it's alright but I'm getting bored already. 6.1 better be good or I really don't see myself playing any more. PvP wise GW2 is a lot more fun.

Got proving grounds gold as a frost mage in 640ilvl

There are plenty of yolo rbg 3 wins in the Premade feature. Win/lose is really base on luck, sometimes it turns out great, great leader, great peeps, cool peeps; some times ppl just that bad like never follow command, no communication, no focus healer or there is no leader to give command.