How To Improve WoW

[dannipulsa]

I'm a bit annoyed by people getting mounts at level 20 now. I remember when I started, I was so excited after slaving for days with grinding to be able to buy my awesome Raptor at level 45, now it hardly gives any bragging rights. I WANT MY BRAGGING RIGHTS!

I've quit WoW, though. I might play again when Cataclysm comes, I need something new and fresh, and nothing screams new and fresh like a Worgen.

Also, I hope they improve the level gap between 40 and 50. My God, was that part stale. No good quests except the ones that demanded big groups. They don't do well in appealing to slow players either. I wasn't playing on a hardcore basis, I was playing a few hours a day, and I sucked pretty much at the game, so I moved pretty slowly in levels, while all my friends were leaping the levels, leaving me in the dust.

clearly you didnt do ZF that often,
BEST.INSTANCE.EVER
i did it 4-5 times a day when i was at 40ish, and Tanaris Un'Goro > Silithus(?) > 60
was and IS the best lvling part from 1-80 IMO

going on topic: im all for casualism, i do random hc and lvl alts so i like how WoW is right now

 

[Barry93]

No, but they do have achievements for getting a haircut, getting a non-combat pet, throwing a snowball at Magni Bronzebeard, hugging a dead horde/alliance player, dressing up as a clown and getting drunk then start to dance in Dalaran, and shooting rogues with a turkey gun. As you can see, they're the most difficult achivements in WoW.

Do they have achievements for turning the game on? Or reaching level 2? Or completing your first quest? How about an achievement for clicking the attack button?

Not quite, there's one for reaching level 10, and completing 50 quests. There'a also one for getting your first mount, looting 100 gold from dead enemies, becoming a journeyman in a profession, putting drunk goggles on and killing level 5 pink elephants and capturing little rabbits. Oh, and how could I forget throwing beer mugs at dark iron dwarves.

What about the achievement for going AFK? How about an achievement for moving the character? Or opening the map? Are these out there?

Not to that extent, but we got one for running arounf Ironforge or Orgrimmar advertising Brewfest, eating every kind of food at the Thanksgiving table, helping Santa Claus find Metzen the Reindeer who has been kidnapped by the dark iron dwarves because really who else would kidnap a reindeer. I think there's one for having a picnic with another player during Love is in the air week in February, Trick or treating at every single God damn town in Azeroth and Outland, and eating so much candy you throw up. Oh yeah, and then there's one for killing the Lich King and all his undead minions but no one bothers with those easy achievements.

 

[effilctar]

WoW porn theatres in every major city: Stormwind, Orgrimmar, Ironforge, Thunderbluff. Hot Tauren-on-gnome action.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I'm a bit annoyed by people getting mounts at level 20 now. I remember when I started, I was so excited after slaving for days with grinding to be able to buy my awesome Raptor at level 45, now it hardly gives any bragging rights. I WANT MY BRAGGING RIGHTS!

I've quit WoW, though. I might play again when Cataclysm comes, I need something new and fresh, and nothing screams new and fresh like a Worgen.

Also, I hope they improve the level gap between 40 and 50. My God, was that part stale. No good quests except the ones that demanded big groups. They don't do well in appealing to slow players either. I wasn't playing on a hardcore basis, I was playing a few hours a day, and I sucked pretty much at the game, so I moved pretty slowly in levels, while all my friends were leaping the levels, leaving me in the dust.

clearly you didnt do ZF that often,
BEST.INSTANCE.EVER
i did it 4-5 times a day when i was at 40ish, and Tanaris Un'Goro > Silithus(?) > 60
was and IS the best lvling part from 1-80 IMO

going on topic: im all for casualism, i do random hc and lvl alts so i like how WoW is right now

Zul'Farrak? Yeah, I did it a couple of times, was loads of fun, but after the quests were done, there was no purpose there except loot.

On an other note, one thing I found funny in WoW was the Corrupted Blood incident [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident]. So damn funny, yet so reminiscent of real life.

 

[Ace of Spades]

No! I demand that you cease and desist before you burn down the entirety of these forums!

 

[Iznat]

They could sort out the fucking patches.

tl;dr new laptop needed WoW reinstalled.

It's taken me the best part of 2 weeks, between incorrect or wrongly labelled patches, to shitty download speeds, to incorrect information to get where I am now. And the patch I needed, and FINALLY got finished was the US version, not the GB version it was labelled as. It's making it ridiculously difficult to even get started. I've not even LOGGED IN yet.

Virtual Sex between players would greatly improve WoW.

And this. I agree with this. It would be hilarious.

 

[zenoaugustus]

...Also, I hate the concept of Dual Specs. Why not just give all three then? What's the point? We are supposed to have specialized in one field (or become a hybrid of some form)...

They did this so that players could be more flexible. What, the raid has full healers? That's fine, I'll switch to Shadow spec and DPS instead of not being able to go at all.

I fail to see what I wrong here.

I understand the flexibility part and it makes everyone's lives easier and all. I just don't like it because we are supposed to be SPECIALIZED. It just ruins the concept of specialization for me.

I'm going to go ahead and guess that you played DPS classes when you were in WoW.

Specialization is unimportant when it comes into direct conflict with fun.
Leveling as a healer is NOT FUN. It's like trying to hump your way through a brick wall. It's slow, painful and not at all rewarding.
Instances you come across are so much easier when you've got a specialized tank and healer.
Dual Specs allow for that, while not ruining the fun for those people.
Why should healers and tanks be punished?

Also, you can't make suggestions on how to improve a game you have no current first hand experience with. Well, you can, but it's stupid to do so. You can NEVER trust complaints from current players. Especially ones that utter the phrases "It's too easy" or "Pre-BC was better".
Those are people who are not of sound mind. They have been corrupted by nostalgia and cannot see the game for what it is, nor can they recall any of the things they hated about it in the past. All they see is those few things they enjoyed, completely ignoring the several dozen they hated.

I was a Druid (I leveled Feral) so yeah, I was able to level as a DPS. I also tanked dungeons. But that is because I had one of the few specs that allows one to switch back and forth between tanking and DPS.

And I agree with you that the game should be fun, at all points. I never said that Dual Specs didn't have their up side, i just don't like the downside that it ruins the concept of specialization. Regardless of what I say, it won't be changed. So, if I do go back, I think I'll be able to deal.

 

[Accountfailed]

They could sort out the fucking patches.

tl;dr new laptop needed WoW reinstalled.

It's taken me the best part of 2 weeks, between incorrect or wrongly labelled patches, to shitty download speeds, to incorrect information to get where I am now. And the patch I needed, and FINALLY got finished was the US version, not the GB version it was labelled as. It's making it ridiculously difficult to even get started. I've not even LOGGED IN yet.

Wow patches are very fail.

IMO I think the best way to improve wow would be to increase the endgame gear variety. It's beginning to bug me, the best tanking weapon in the game shares it's weapon model and texture with three other axes, from previous raids! >.> That's just damn lazy.

 

[Iznat]

They could sort out the fucking patches.

tl;dr new laptop needed WoW reinstalled.

It's taken me the best part of 2 weeks, between incorrect or wrongly labelled patches, to shitty download speeds, to incorrect information to get where I am now. And the patch I needed, and FINALLY got finished was the US version, not the GB version it was labelled as. It's making it ridiculously difficult to even get started. I've not even LOGGED IN yet.

[Snip, unrelated]

You can just download the game from your account page in WoW. This way you wont have to worry about patching. I recently had to reinstall the game and I didn't have any problems at all.

Oh, I did, and it took HOURS.
And when it hit 70%, it told me it needed WoW version 1.0.0.0, and I had (have -_-) 3.0.1.. And then it stopped downloading and aborted, and won't get past the 70% mark. I can get it off of a friend, it just means I have to leave my laptop with him overnight.
It should not be this difficult to get everything ready.

 

[JWW]

Have ever mouse click equal a weapon strike, have players aim arrows and spells.

Merge the small quests into a few, epic quest lines that end in the player taking down a boss in an instance.

 

[ISearchForTraps]

Player kills outside of Battlegrounds should reduce you to 1 HP and be prone for a few seconds, like in Duels. That way you can't be unfairly ganked by players 10/40 levels higher than you in contested areas, at least you have a chance to heal and be unattackable by PCs while at 1HP and prone, and it doesn't force you to go corpse-running, which is the worst part of it as any player will tell you.

NPCs should still be able to kill you, even in 1-HP prone mode if an enemy PC brings you down to that state, but it's still less frustrating than being killed while walking about. Alternatively, have PCs unable to attack PCs of the other faction if they're fighting NPCs.

It should still count as an honourable kill, since it enforces you to recover, but it wouldn't be as frustrating as being killed mid-quest and failing because some ass decided it'd be fun to grieve you.

EDIT: Also, make the Epic flying training alot cheaper.

20 training - a few gold
40 training - a few dozen gold
60/flying training - a hundred gold
70/cold weather flying training - 1000 gold
75/epic flying training - 5000 gold

Seems a bit unbalanced, no?

 

[Contun]

I hate that a Warcraft 4 is virtually impossible while WoW trundles on. Maybe something to do with that.

Exactly!

Just get rid of WoW all together and make Warcraft 4! Come Blizzard! I used to love you!

Warcraft 4? Sure, great idea!

Get rid of World of Warcraft? Blizzard would be out of their minds if they did that...you...you realize how much money they're getting?!

 

[DragonChi]

How many ways to improve World of Warcraft..let me count the ways..

1,1000....2,1000,.... 3,1000.....

 

[BenzSmoke]

I don't play WoW, but from what I know of it, I'd venture saying that a simply graphical overhawl could do wonders for what is already quite a popular game.

As far as gameplay mechanics go, I'm afraid I don't know enough to throw my hat in the ring.

Exactly what I was about to write.

 

[Quiet Stranger]

"The only way to win is not to play"

 

[GothmogII]

Have ever mouse click equal a weapon strike, have players aim arrows and spells

See also: Repetitive Stain Injury [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetitive_strain_injury] (Not that spamming buttons already doesn't cause it's fair share of -that- x) )

As for having to aim the spells and weapons, I'm reminded of Dark Messiah of Might and Magic's crummy multiplayer, it has -exactly- those things you describe. And while this kind of gameplay may work in more traditional FPS'es I haven't seen it well done in a fantasy setting since The Wheel of Time game. Besides, MMO's generally tend to be RTS'es writ large (plus the enhanced controls of a third person game), if you want an MMO/FPS experience there's always Planetside.

 

[zenoaugustus]

I don't play WoW, but from what I know of it, I'd venture saying that a simply graphical overhawl could do wonders for what is already quite a popular game.

As far as gameplay mechanics go, I'm afraid I don't know enough to throw my hat in the ring.

I really don't feel like graphics matter that much. The game looks fine. If graphics matter that much too you, go watch Avatar.

 

[The DSM]

Make it more access able to everyone, speed up leveling times, that kind of thing.

Also, having raid bosses that raid shot IS NOT FUN, most can wipe everyone with one mistake, it takes the tactical precision of an army general to kill most bosses in Ice Crown Citadel.