Regarding Warcraft I thought there was a super cool thing but it turned out disappointing.

On the launcher there was a “create your party wallpaper” type thing where you could pick your background, select your characters, and have them stand in heroic poses.

Problem is a) it’s limited to three, b) my rogue needs a cool transmog and c) my druid doesn’t shapeshift into kitty form and he’s a kitty so that doesn’t work.

My paladin in golden armor, because I quested alongside Turylon, popping wings and fighting demons and had to go full on iconic paladin – she would look badass if there was a pose selector. I mean no sword? Seriously not cool.

I just got my notification that the sub has been paid for the next month and it hit me that I’d been playing again for a month. When I started I wasn’t sure if I was just visiting, or if I would continue to play. Out of interest I went and found my last blog post on the game “Why I unsubbed to Warcraft” posted April 2015 to see what I’d put and that sparked some thoughts, and I figured I’d write a blog post.

I was just going to post it on my private blog, but I figured I’d posted here, when I surrendered to nostalgia and resubbed, so I might as well cross-post and ramble a bit about how it’s gone. After all I’m still playing after a month so something must have gone right.

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I just resubbed to Warcraft for a month because I’m weak. I know, I know, I kinda hate myself already. It’s just it’s been over two years since I last played and I got nostalgic.

Oh and in case anyone was wondering – this was the bribe I mentioned. I finished my RCIJ and rewarded myself. Tomorrow I’ll do the same with a mixture of fics and chores. Work first, play for an hour in the evening. Seems like a good bribe for as long as I’m enjoying it.

Anyway …

1) Where did all my buttons go? Seriously so many abilities have vanished. All my buffs, all my heals, so many of my cooldowns. I literally have 5 ability buttons – 5! I mean I have more with cooldowns but seriously this is insane. There’s no holy power! I’m stunned. I’m missing the sprint talent something fierce and it turns out muscle memory doesn’t disappear even with a two year gap. I’m trying to hit buttons that no longer exist. My hands remember the rotation. I have no idea yet what the gutting of my self-heals will have done to my soloing ability. There may be a rant incoming.

2) I started on my druid as I was nostalgic for playing cat form, and I have totally forgotten how to play which makes sense. Anyway so I died and then – corpse run. I was moaning bitterly the entire time because I’ve been playing Swtor and I can instant-res in that. Honestly having to find my corpse feels so antiquated. Oh and the fall damage in Warcraft is so much worse. I went to bound down this mountain and nearly died.

3) Seriously Swtor wins all the awards for convenience. I miss automatically knowing flight points, I miss the one click vendor all trash items, I miss Quick Travel because no cooldown and it goes everywhere. I miss the out of combat free regen ability because it makes recovery faster. It also feels like I’m moving faster on my speeder in Swtor, it feels like it takes forever to get anywhere in Warcraft. I could go on.

4) *incoherent screaming* THEY HAVE ADDED A WARDROBE SYSTEM!!! That wasn’t there when I last played and I am in love. I’m a collector at heart, and a completionist and oh dear. Same goes for all the new achievements. I have things to chase! Although it’s slightly annoying that I have to visit the transmog person to hide my head slot.

They may be more points later. I haven’t got Legion, I’m not even tempted by it as there’s more than enough game to play without it. Plus what turned me off the game last time was gearing up – it was too dependent on RNG and it was basically raid or nothing. So if I’m not max level, I just avoid the gearing treadmill completely, I can putter around playing solo and won’t get annoyed.

Plus it means I can play it like Swtor, dive in for a month every now and then, very casual, no commitments, no concerns. I can play when I feel like it and not when I don’t. Sounds reasonable to me.

rumbelleluv:

still-searching47:

rumbelleluv:

It is always pretty disorienting when you don’t play for awhile and then come back, that’s for sure.  And they have pruned a lot of abilities.  It was supposed to make it simpler and I suppose it has some benefits but I liked having more buttons to click.  And yes transmog is wonderful 😀  I think that was one of the best things they’ve added.  It is pretty fun 😀

Gearing up is kind of a turn off for me too.  I do it on my main but I’m not a raider so it’ll never be as high as it could be.  I really like to level alts so that sometimes takes away the focus on my main ( draenei shaman).

I have a druid as an alt but it’s not max level and I haven’t played it in a long time.  I do remember them always being fun though 🙂

Heya *waves* I didn’t know you played. That’s really cool! Thanks for responding to my random post! 🙂

Yeah I like having buttons to click. I have a razor naga mouse with 12 buttons on the side which I bind my cooldowns to, leaving the main bar for abilities. I have videos of boss kills so I’ll never forget how it used to be. Still I don’t raid anymore so it’s just soloing. I’ll have to test when I next zone in whether my soloing is affected with the lack of self heals. I haven’t really played since I last raided at the end of Mists and I know it was probably overpowered, but it was fun. My protection paladin was unstoppable /sigh.

Heh my bank is full of transmog pieces. It’ll be nice to clear it out and have some space! In the past I had transmog addons, and I farmed for pieces and made up my own sets etc. I’ve always been a collector. Back when I was playing before I had a farming schedule to clear certain raids on as many alts as could manage it each week before reset, so I could maximize my chances at the rare mounts and pets.

I do actually have an alt of every class (aside from demon hunter as I don’t have Legion) but only my paladin is level 100. My druid is level 95. Everything else except my shaman and my mage is level 90. My mage is level 86 I think and shaman maybe 82. I started leveling them so I could max all the professions, and then I got into playing alts during Cata because Cata made it easy and fun. I could login to an alt, run a dungeon, get some valor/justice points and know I made some progress. Then every few sessions I could get a piece of gear and then get more powerful. I liked that but they did away with that a long time ago.

Can you tell I used to be a completionist? Wanting to do all the things. I don’t feel that urge anymore. I mean I still like to have goals on login but I don’t feel the need to max my chances anymore. Just do what I feel like, and if I get the achievement or the drop then yay, if not then just enjoy the act of playing. I mean like with Swtor. I login and usually do a planet per session of the class quests of whatever I’m playing (currently Sith Inquisitor). If I get bored I login out in an inn and come back to it another day. No mess, no fuss, no worries.

Sorry I didn’t mean to go on.

😀 You’re fine! 🙂

That’s pretty awesome you have a gaming mouse.  My dad has something similar and I’ve been thinking about getting one.  I’m bad with keyboard binds for whatever reason.

The cool thing about clearing raids for mounts is it is so easy to do the old ones now since we’re so above the level range.  I was going after Ashes of A’lar in Tempest Keep every week on all my higher level characters for quite awhile before it finally dropped for me.  I know there are probably cool things to drop from Legion raids right now too, but since I can’t solo it, and I don’t always have the time to go into LFR and all that, might have to wait awhile on those ;).

I have a ton of alts too.  I would say the only classes I don’t have are rogue and monk.  If you ever decide to get Legion, I definitely recommend Demon Hunter.  I love doing melee and they are one of the funnest melee classes I’ve used so far.

I used to be the exact same way, wanting to do everything.  The reason I have so many alts is because I know I’ll get too consumed on everything I technically need to do on my main in a day to keep up with everyone else.  So I usually set a couple of goals for that character first and then I move onto my others so it feels more like I’m doing  what I want to be doing :).  Enjoying the game you play is important so I’ve tried to be more relaxed about it lol.

I’ve also never played SWTOR, but I’ve heard a lot of people say great things about it!!

If you like story/roleplay then definitely check out Swtor! I play it solo just for the story, it’s so immersive I wind up creating headcanons about my characters. All the quests are voice acted so it does slow everything down in that respect and the graphics/animations for the attacks are really cool. The games not perfect but it’s definitely enjoyable. Plus you can play for free. For convenience sake I like to sub but it’s not necessary. I would definitely recommend Swtor 🙂

Haha yup I used to farm Tempest Keep every week. You have the mount? Whoop, whoop, that’s awesome. Massive congrats! That’s a very pretty mount. It hasn’t dropped for me yet. Maybe one day! 🙂 It was funny when I logged out two years ago (I thought perhaps for the last time) I sunsetted my main but I left the alts wherever they were. So I still had 3 parked outside Oynxia’s Lair from farming attempts.

Heh regarding Legion that’s another bonus to Swtor – all the expansions are included in the subscription. I’m not sure whether I’m back just for a visit, or if I might stay a while so to speak, and getting Legion is a commitment I’m not willing to make anytime soon. Besides there’s more than enough content to play for months without it should I stick around. Maybe I’ll wait until the next expansion and get my account auto-upgraded for free when Legion gets rolled into the battlechest. That’s a thought heh.

fire-mage-catril:

I was a draenei holy paladin, then I switched to Mistweaver monk. yeah, I’m the same, I have an alt of everything…I think I have like…3 paladins at level 90+ plus most everything else at at least 90 as well. 

I quit for a long time after my guild fell apart (over a year) it just wasn’t the same after that, I was there for years, we were all freinds, it was so sad. 

I’m really enjoying Legion so far, though I thought Warlords was shit (another reason I quit) but I’m still salty that they’re murdering all the important lore characters, including one of my all time faves! *sob*

edit: my current main is a blood elf demon hunter on Draenor EU (I called her Dearies, creative I know, but all variations of Rumple/Rumbelle were taken lmao)

Paladins rule! Best class in the game naturally. (just teasing, the best class is what you love the most).

I never really got on with monks that well. I liked the dps spec, oh man what was that called? But I was the worlds worst healer, I think that there wasn’t enough direct heals for me, I just couldn’t nail the style. Then for brewmaster, I don’t think there was enough self-healing for me, which coming off a Prot Pally makes sense (we self-healed like a boss. It was my mission in raids to not need any healing aside from AOE).

I quit for the first time during Mists final long patch, took about 9 months out, but I came back for Warlords, but I quit again before the first patch as I just wasn’t enjoying it. They had gutted everything I’d enjoyed the most about the game though I’m glad to hear you are enjoying Legion 🙂 I’m not one of those bitter ex-players. The game might not be what I love any longer, but I still have good memories, and I like to hear that other people are having fun.

Heh man, like I said all the nostalgia 🙂 I was such an achievement junkie, and a collector and a completionist. Basically, I wanted to do ‘all the things’ which is so very like me. I used to farm mounts/pets/legendaries every reset. I was actually raid leader for a while, never really heroic (or mythic as it is now) but we used to clear normal and get a couple of heroic bosses down.

I’m going to stop rambling now. I’m glad you are enjoying Legion! Also, I love that char name 🙂