4.2 tomorrow? I think so!Follow

These are the changes I’m looking forward too.

•If a player wins a Need roll under the Need Before Greed system on a Bind on Equip item, the item will become Soulbound to that player. The item will remain unbound if won via a Greed roll.

•Applicable tier 11 items now cost Justice Points.

•The order in which characters are listed at the Character Selection screen can now be rearranged and saved.

•A host of dungeon information is now built into the user interface via the all-new Dungeon Journal. This feature can be accessed via a new button in the Navigation tray from anywhere in the world. Boss background story, encounter details, abilities, and loot can be viewed with the Dungeon Journal for all bosses which have been integrated into the new system (this includes bosses for all Cataclysm dungeons and raids). Additional dungeons are planned to be incorporated in future updates.

•Many crowd control abilities no longer cause creatures to attack players when they are cast. The creature will not attack the player when the crowd control wears off, and nearby creatures will not become hostile to the player either.

im looking foward to seeing how many "firelands is boring we need new content" posts i see in a month

7 bosses and being the only content out isnt really gonna keep peoples attention very long.but meh,at least there getting rid of stance dancing for warriors so now i can just sit in battle stance and roll people in bgs

Is this really so different from any time in WoW's history?

Options:
lolRP
BGs/Arenas
Normal/HM dungeons
Play the AH
Craft / Farm
Run old content

What time frame in WoW history had more to do outside of raiding than now does?

Also, to be fair, nerfing T11 TO THE GROUND, BABY will open up a tier of raiding content to the more casual crowd who couldn't handle the current mechanics but enjoyed raiding in WotLK.

Eh? Can't you still just trade bop's within the dungeon group? They should still have that whole 2 hours to trade thing.

I'm not too sure I'll feel too much difference from this patch. Some new sparkles will be nice though.



I just imagining the lulz the first time it happens to someone who didn't read the patch notes. That alone could make it worth while. Though all these changes to the game to regulate people's behavior are getting old.

Edited, Jun 27th 2011 10:36am by someproteinguy

Hope not, I was tanking and my shield drop finally. The Warrior AND is friend the Shaman roll need on it. The trick is Mr. Shaman roll for is friend and trade to him. No thank you!

The problem is that the stuff to do outside of raiding is REALLY shallow right now. I just took my DK from 82 to 85 in under a week and got the Cata loremaster achievement. To finish WotLK quests took WAAAAAY longer. There were also more factions to work on outside of dungeons, many of whom had vanity items to earn. Many crafts (if not all) are now tied to dailies, so you are forced into a really slow rate of progression in them. Take JCing for instance--it takes 3 dailies just to get one new recipe (and up to four or five of them).

So, if those kinds of things occupied a lot of your time before, they don't know.

And the ease at which you can gain honor means people only doing casual pvp still run out of rewards pretty quickly.

Lets not forget to mention the heroics were far more accessible from the start and took a LOT less time. I remember shortly after Cataclysm hit heroics took 2-3 hours for the EASY ones. That's a whole lot of time for a minimal chance of upgrades. Lich King heroics from the start may have taken a little bit of time while people learned them, but nothing like the Cata ones. In BC and WOTLK you had a chance for an epic at the end. Cata upped the time and difficulty but reduced the overall reward.

I'm fine with the changes to the vendors. I didn't like the oodles and oodles of epics being given out for minimal work, but a couple at the end of a heroic was fine.

Most of my guild is casual and most of us are burnt out with the shallow garbage there is to do. The troll heroics were interesting for a couple of weeks, but now they are just a boring time sink.

I have 5 months left on my subscription but I'm not playing. I log in from time to time because im the GL, but I can't stomach to do anything. Getting to 85 now is a joke.

I think I'm to the point where I'm going to try out another game while Blizzard decides to actually give me something to do besides raid...which isn't happening with a casual guild like it could in Lich King.

I swore they promised varying difficulty of raids for Cata? Like 1 easy one for casuals, a 2nd one for more skilled groups, and a 3rd one for more hardcore groups?

Even a short easy raid (something bigger than TB) would be nice right now.

Pressed for time; I'll probably post something a little longer later on.


Blizzard messed up not making an easy raid at the beginning of the expansion, definitely. There are a lot of people who would have liked to raid who just couldn't handle the mechanics, and that was a shame. For what it was worth, I do think that T11 was a fun raid. It could be unforgiving though, especially if you were trying to carry multiple subpar players.

However, 4.2 should deliver what you want: T11 is now available for casual raiding.

Between the higher ilvl gear being fairly easily available and the nerfs to difficulty, the bar for T11 is substantially lower. Trade PUGs should be able to be fairly successful -- at least as much so as they were in WotLK. Also, progression raiders will tend to not be locked to T11, so people who are raiding Firelands may be willing to come along for fun or to help out a friend.