I hardly play my Feral druid since wrath, she’s all decked out in her Kara tanking epics and when I go to pug (which is something I usually do) a DK joins the party and I’m in nelf form just standing around and the healer asks, who’s the tank and all of a sudden the DK says ‘I am!’ And for the rerst of the pug I watch the healer have diffuculty healing the DK and die while doing a normal pull. I mean wtf DK’s should not be able to tank as well as someone who has worked harder than they have.

I didn’t really notice the death of CC either because as you said I thought we were just beating the crap out of the instance. But I ‘m sitting here on my hunters not waiting for marks and shooting a frost arrow in the path of a mob before they reach the group and what happens after they freeze? It’s immediately broken. And by what? OH I know! Either Consecrate or Death and Decay. Blizz has totally dumped Beartanks and Prot Warriors into a garbage can when it comes to tanking because its an AoE fest. So CC hasn’t really died, the ignorance of the tanks MURDERED it. I mean seriously, call me whatever you like but Aoe just isn’t classy. I only use Volley on non-elites anyway.

Threat. As one of the higher dpsing of the groups I run with I somehow manage to pull whatever I’m hitting away from the DK/pally I either think the tank ain’t doing his job or the aoe just isnt enough. So what do I do? I feign and as expected the threat goes to the healer and I have to distract him back to me and turn growl on my pet so I don’t die. So now I find myself using misdirect on every stinking pull just so I don’t have to go through that crap. Once again, messy, not classy.

And to answer the plight of my friend…How many raids did we have with BC? Kara, BT, SSC, Hyjal, Eye, Sunwell, Naxx. Wrath gives us Oh look a repeat! Naxx, Vault, OS….Malygos? I mean seriously theres a huge chunk of what were missing, actual raid content. We got maybe three NEW encounters oooooh….So end’s my rant I guess, Girl gamer out.

I’ve never yet used it in an instance -_-

I miss the days of marking mobs. I refuse to lvl my tank anymore since people just laught at you for marking.

Yeah, after coming back for the Wrath trial, I noticed that myself. I figured we (not me, though) were overgeared and that I was running with too many ‘locks. At least nobody yelled when I pulled roots in instances, but you’ve nailed that one. Or not nailed it, in that everyone’s running around CCless. Or some other overly stretch metaphor. Sorry.

Jal’s last blog post..Hello, theorycrafting your balance

Sigh.

Here’s hoping for more CC in Ulduar…

Averna’s last blog post..3.1 Lifebloom wrap-up.

AoE CC in fun by any stretch… we all love to see the screen go up in damage, but occasionally please… I would prefer strategy to napalm.

As for trade skills… I just wrote about my frustrations with tradeskills as a casual.. not so much the lack of purple, but the “hardcore” nature of acquiring the patterns.

You know what I miss? SSC, pre nerf, when it was a real challenge for the group I was running it with. We still only ever managed to take Leo down maybe 4 times, and we NEVER got Lady V down. I’m sure if we could have kept going we would have!

Well, here’s to hoping a lot of the “ease” of Wrath was just for the early stuff.

I’m quite happy that even those who can’t afford to go into Raids can actually stuff themselves thanks to no “super mega rare loot drop that you can only get if you are playing 8h a day every day, or raiding 5 evenings a week”.

Yet I have to admit that once you PUG-clear all heroics, you have NO possible evolution. You want to arena (the most casual-friendly stuff-rewarding activity ?) = now you should pug-raid archa, or other 25, else you are doomed to reach 1650+ team rating dressed in blue pvp or purple pve gear.

Death of CC is pretty pretty annoying. Even in bg/arena it’s nearly dead from the smallest I see.

There is no sign of Magister Terrasse-like instances in 3.1 either . 10-man Uldar raid will only grant Naxx-25 badges.

Are Part Time Players restricted to go collecting pets and replaying low level instances for achievements ? Luckily you can PUG a Raid, yet it still mean you must be online in the evening for a few hours in a row.

On a positive note, I like what they made to weapon enchantments : easy to get, easy to pay for a moderate enchant (e.g. +50 spellpower), but hard to get, expensive to buy for a top end enchant (e.g. +63 sp). Difference is so small it won’t matter to a non-top-hardcore raider, and yet best enchants are still way harder to reach.

Gronyon’s last blog post..Naxxramas : Introduction

Been reading your blog for a few months now and firstly I’d have to say I’m impressed, I’m a bit of a part time player as well and find your insite to be refreshing. I originally found your blog when I coxed back into playing after an 8 month absence and decided to respec my feral druid to resto. Ive since respect to balance since resto is SO hard to lvl with but am really enjoying it again.

Anyway enough about that, I agree with all the topics above and I was even looking at recipies today for leatherworking, firstly most of the top recipies are now bought from vendors rather then grinded for and the items that are actually used are far less and easier to obtain!!!!

I only really noticed about CC the other night as it seams all classes (tank, DPS and Heals) have their “Oh Shit” buttons that they can press in a tight spot and usually come out of a bad situation alive!!

However, I have to admit that only being able to give WoW a few hours a week I’m finding this much more enjoyable as I can achieve something in this time rather then think its to damn hard with what I can put into it… Hence why I stopped all that time ago.

peace out dude.

The content is laughable, classes have been homogenized so much. Promises of those rare patterns and more challenging content are out there in the 3.1 patch notes. I hope that’s true, facerolling all content regardless of class is less than fun.

Elements of the game that made you unique are gone, from class differences, to working your way up in a good guild, to recipes you can create with your professions.

I thought it was bad enough when TBC came out and everything you had grinded and worked for could now be bought off a vendor. Wrath hasn’t changed the course here.