tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post5022214280881968006..comments2023-05-07T03:48:00.290-04:00Comments on Ardent Defender: What I Really Miss About The Game.Ardent Defenderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13162904795741307697noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-79636151874750177712009-08-22T08:27:17.266-04:002009-08-22T08:27:17.266-04:00I'll never miss Steamvault. I'll just reme...I'll never miss Steamvault. I'll just remember being practically guaranteed a wipefest on the first boss if we didn't have a Warlock on board. <br /><br />WotLK possibly went too far in democratizing PVE content. Anyone could do it. Then again, I think they were compensating for the insane curve in TBC.<br /><br />The signs I've seen in the patches though (first emphasising hard modes, then moving them into their own instance resets) indicates to me that Blizz accepts this. By the time the next expansion comes, I think they'll have the balance better between normal mode (see the content) and hard/heroic mode (beat the content).Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16069725904484579028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-65829651450248489882009-08-18T20:03:37.381-04:002009-08-18T20:03:37.381-04:00i liked the post, we pretty much think like each o...i liked the post, we pretty much think like each others, i recently posted something like what you did a week ago on my blog.Almasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07974946852041126502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-61752707731581554572009-08-17T23:15:38.707-04:002009-08-17T23:15:38.707-04:00I agree... I don't understand why they went ou...I agree... I don't understand why they went out of their way to give most classes some form of CC only to pretty much completely remove the use of it from the game. Ok, granted... we still use a little bit of it in Ulduar but why not in heroics? <br /><br />To be honest though not all tanks are created facerollable. I've never really had to work to keep threat on my paladin be it single target or AOE. My warrior though... he is a bit tougher. I find myself having to time out abilities to have the greatest effect and you really have to work hard to get the greatest amount of threat instead of just following a set 969 rotation.<br /><br />Still the fact that any of the tanks can take on a 5 pull and not die... it just doesn't have the same feel. Heck I single tanked 3 groups of trash in military wing without dying or losing aggro on my paladin... that just doesn't seem right.What's My Main Again?https://www.blogger.com/profile/17109375845828958571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-28271658429700760532009-08-17T15:55:49.267-04:002009-08-17T15:55:49.267-04:00I hate heroics for how easy they are.
I was excit...I hate heroics for how easy they are.<br /><br />I was excited for WoW 3.0 because shaman finally got some CC with Hex, only to find I *never* cast it.Nomasunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16007879001774538626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-16547802059242211642009-08-17T13:51:10.643-04:002009-08-17T13:51:10.643-04:00Oh yeah, what a reminder. God heroics were really ...Oh yeah, what a reminder. God heroics were really tough weren't they. Those mobs in Hellfire hit like trucks!Gravityhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09058246857638123702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-34901760090207030442009-08-15T19:27:31.610-04:002009-08-15T19:27:31.610-04:00I don't agree.. I've been playing WoW sinc...I don't agree.. I've been playing WoW since Feb 2005 and back when the game was as you mentioned, it was such a pain to even get a tank. Sure it was great when you were a tank or had a buddy that was a tank then you could run the instances over and over and get all the gucci gear, but for everyone else, it wasn't that way. You were at the mercy of tanks and to a lesser extent healers.<br /><br />I'm happy the days of LF TANK for an hour are over. Although I think it still takes still to be a good tank and that not just everyone can do it. It takes a certain personality to tank good or even great. It's more of a leadership position in a 5 man as you select the pulls and set the pace for the run. Now a days you just have more options then ever before.<br /><br />But I sure do not miss the days of having a healer (i was a healer) and 3 DPS and looking for a tank. Or in generally looking for the 'perfect' combination of classes to run an instance.fuzecodehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00259688883298344415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-48599718120165026932009-08-15T17:28:14.523-04:002009-08-15T17:28:14.523-04:00You may think that anyone can tank given decent ge...You may think that anyone can tank given decent gear, but I joined a PuG for ToC-10, and we wiped repeatedly on the first boss because the other tank could not manage a tank change from the first boss. (who does a stacking "Impale" debuff ala Kologarn/Gluth)<br /><br />On the first go, he never taunted the boss even when I called for a taunt. I ended up popping my bubble to clear the debuff then getting the debuffed stacked to 4-5 before I died.<br /><br />On the second attempt, he started taunting from the get-go, and taunted on every cooldown until the boss became immune to taunts.<br /><br />The third attempt he waited for the call to taunt, but again, he didn't stop taunting after the switch and I could never take the boss back while the debuff stacked to about 4 or so before he died. (He also was using +def and +agi elixirs while defense capped, rather than the 1300 hp flask. Overall, he had about 6k less health than I.)<br /><br />I was really astounded, but we were never able to get through the first boss without him dying and then me having to bubble/cancel to remove the debuff stacks. Since the next fight is "not one, but TWO jormungars", we weren't able to get through the "faceroll" boss.Argenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908845315588176801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7079318024484275606.post-11957344275169026382009-08-15T10:35:26.624-04:002009-08-15T10:35:26.624-04:00I know what you mean, but perhaps there's a po...I know what you mean, but perhaps there's a portion of that which is rose-tinted hindsight.<br /><br />I remember tanking baron runs pre-BC; although I look back fondly, at the time they seemed absolutely hellish (especially as a warrior tank, because nothing else was really viable at the time). <br /><br />There are a lot of things from the old game that I'd quite like to see updated for the modern game (like the hunter epic bow quest, quel'serrar and so on), and Onyxia being back in the game should be interesting for us old timers. But all in all, I don't think we'll see a return to the old days, and there's no doubt the game is much more social now! But I do sometimes miss the days when epics felt epic, a solid set of blues was something to be proud of, and heroics felt.. well, heroic, as opposed to the way the instance was designed to be played.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01091626826584444500noreply@blogger.com