Almost Vampirically Touched.
Posted by Abi on October 11, 2008
Rather than make a few smaller posts covering the Blizzcon information, I’m going to wait until afterwards to do one larger post covering Mage and Priest changes.
Outside of the class updates, Dual Speccing was confirmed for a future content patch as was the possiblity of an Outfitter-type UI. Also confirmed for a future patch was a build in threat meter like Omen and the possability of guild achievements. Who doesn’t love time sinks?
What I’d like to see in future patches -
- Having holiday weeks for battlegrounds instead of just the weekends. A lot of people already play during the weekend and this would draw players in to time sinks during the week. WSG and AB are already a slow honor and rep gain and some of us PVP on more than one toon.
- A remade fishing mechanic. Lets face it.. Fishing in WoW is boring (much like fishing IRL, IMO) and is a hassle to level up. It’s more time consuming than the other secondary professions and I don’t understand the concept of skilling up slower as you get better at it. I wouldn’t mind the current mechanic if it skilled up faster but if I’m going to waste hours upon hours fishing, at least make it fun.
- Adding antidotes to First Aid to remove curses, diseases & bleed effects (removing anything similar from Alchemy). I remember leveling my first Troll Warrior and dreading the fight against poison mobs so I’d carry stacks of anti-venom. If you normally solo without a class that cannot remove said debuffs, we should be given a way to remove them on a similar cooldown to Bandages.
- Heroic versions of old world dungeons. I’m pretty sure the reason this hasn’t happened is itemization. The insane amount of gear they’d have to come up with and ways to make them unique would be entirely too much work but i’d be happy if it were just for tokens to turn in for gear or rep or maybe dropping larger amounts of gold as another option instead of doing dailies.
Overall, I can honestly say that I’m excited about the expansion even though (on paper) a few classes I play seem to be getting nerfed. I’m really stoked about 10 man raids since I prefer raiding with a smaller tight knit group of in-game friends over a larger group of people that only want to show up for loot.
On a smaller scale, I’m also looking forward to changing dances and hairstyles on my existing toons. Sure it’s pretty minimal in the overall scheme of things but these are characters we’ve all been playing for awhile and I also play on an RP server. Having a character get older and graying their hair just seems really cool.. and so does having a male Undead being able to dance like a male Gnome.
Enough about WOTLK and Blizzcon..
Abigore is up to 47 and should easily hit 50 or 51 tonight. Our group is doing the Jintha’alor quests before hitting up Mara (both sides) for quests and gear so we might hit 52 with any luck. I’d like to be in Outlands before the patch on Tuesday but that all depends on the other groups play time.
My wife and I have 11 days to go until we can transfer our toons back off from Twisting Nether. I can’t honestly stress enough how awful that server is. They have some progressed guilds but it’s an RP-PVP server ran by PVP players who grief RP’ers all day. Why even waste your time rolling on an RP PVP server JUST to PVP. There are dedicated servers for that. Why roll on a server and grief the people who still PVP but also RP? It doesn’t make any sense.
I picked up Fishing and Cooking on Abi and got both to around 120-ish last night. I took my wife’s advice and leveled them together (something I had never done in the past) which is 100 times easier. Stupid me couldn’t grasp the concept of catching fish and then cooking then to skill up BOTH in the last 2.5 years of playing WoW. GG Nubsprinkle.
In guild drama news, I was called out on the Forsaken guild forums for playing Horde alts on a different server isntead of logging in to help gear someones alts so I told them to either pay for my subscription and tell me what to do with my free time or to piss off. I’ve given up on them at this point. No one wanted to do anything when I was on so some friends moved to Sisters of Elune. I’m having fun with them instead of wasting money on consumables and wasting time in Kara and ZA to gear their alts. It’s my money. It’s my time. Replace me.
Stay tuned for a full Mage/Priest Blizzcon update post on Monday!
