Out of Pod Experience

I don't believe you

Play wow? and risk being assassinated by night elves and found dead hanging in the closet?? no thx. play at your own risk.

you want risk, balz?

make an alliance toon on a pvp realm that is 90% or so horde. lol. that plus that whole crossrealm zones thing they have going now will make anyone throw their keyboard across the room trying to level.

i played it for a few years. started back when burning crusade was in its twilight and everyone was expecting wrath in a few months. still have friends that play. they occasionally try beg and cajole me to come back. I was a pretty good resto druid and hunter.

it wasn't my first mmo. i'd actually started with the original guild wars some time before. I had an after school job and I saved up to get my first computer. it was awesome lol

much like eve in this regard, you do what you want when it comes to professions. if you want money, choose gathering professions and sell what you harvest. or if you like crafting choose those. or, if you want to be useful to yourself as you level, choose professions that would aid you. you said you are a paladin. mining and from what you mine...blacksmithing...would let you make your own equipment as you level up.

personally, I always went with gathering professions while leveling. for the money. then when I got to max level I changed them to useful things for my characters like enchanting and jewelcrafting. of course, over my tenure in that game I had pretty much maxed a toon for every profession. my characters ending up sort of feeding off each other skills.

Haha, what garbage is this? Tell me please you have been playing WoW for 0 days, 0 hours and 0 minutes.

Obvious biased EVE fan post.

I'm still blocking spoof account support emails by the night elf mohawk assassins guild from my old account, why would I want to draw more attention from such ruthless assassins? I already keep my closet locked and a shotgun at the ready by my bedroom door just in case. Is 5 $ really worth your life?!? The risk is too great...

I used to like WoW but then WotLK came out, and it was all downhill fromt here.

Actually WoW has been making a steep descent from its proud beginnings as an elitist grind MMORPG to a free-for-all, everything-is-easy cartoon happyland. They've dumbed it down so far now that I'm at a loss for ideas to imagine how they could go further. But they never cease to amaze me.

Vanilla WoW was a tough grind because nothing ever dropped and your characters spent 80% of the fight waiting on mana and doing autoattacks.

Burning Crusade was accessible to everyone but still had difficult content, and enough cooldown spells and mana regen to keep you doing stuff at all times if you knew how to play your class.

WotLK gave even more spells and cooldowns so you could very nearly mash your face on your keyboard and play well. There was still difficult content but they also made easy versions of raids so that really bad players could believe they were at the top of their game.

Cataclysm redid the graphics (which was great BTW) and removed all of the character customization by making each talent tree 10% larger than the total number of talent points you got, so that it was impossible to make a bad build. There are rumors that the content was made more difficult but the truth is that all of the attributes were replaced with stamina (hit points) which made gaming less of a tactical funfest and more into a lets-see-who-dies-the-slowest as mana gradually drained and you weren't really sure if yours would run out before the boss died. This fake difficulty made raids frustrating, but not actually difficult.

Mists of Pandaria actually removed the talent tree and replaced it with a button you click once to choose your specialization. I'm not kidding! This is actually true! They also added a class that does everything that every other class did and better. The Monk is basically a Paladin/Death Knight hybrid on steroids, and is the epitome of their new unspoken motto which is that there is a right class, a right spell, and everything should be simple so that people with severe brain damage should be able to play just as well as elite metagamers.

I'm still hoping for a Blizzard-run Vanilla/BC/Wrath server but I'm not holding my breath.

P.S.: I'm not ashamed to say I loved what WoW used to be.

World of Warcraft is rather addiction.

However, I don't like it.

Once you are max level you have to do all your dailies and weeklies or otherwise you feel like you are wasting your sub money.

Personally I don't like being forced to play every day so I don't like it.

The 'fashion show' game model is pretty old and busted now. Striving to get new clothes and accessories as the only way of advancement. But for a brief time WoW was awesome. Anyone who doesn't admit that is lying. It singlehandedly blew the MMO scene wide open. Now it's dying a slow death. With population dwindling more each month. I don't think it will ever recover totally, even if it goes free to play. But it lasted much longer than i would have expected.