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10/16/09
#test
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10/15/09
So in theory, if I include a #test tag in addition to the #speakup tag, this should show up in a #test thread as well.
10/15/09
For exapmple, click your #test tag, or this one, and look on the top right next to the articles.
#speakup
10/15/09
#speakup
03/18/09
Plus if I am not mistaken, you can decide the placement of enemies (this I am not completely sure about). If that is true, you can easily set up levels with enemies so spaced apart that you don't have to worry about drawing adds into the battle. Again making it easy. Or bunch tons together so a group of aoe types can clean up easily.
Just like LBP, the sets that allow people to get stuff easier get rated higher. Same would be the case here filling up top ranked levels with easy xp levels.
Personally, if I could design easier levels so I can quickly powerlevel through the lower levels I would do it in a heartbeat. Would love to hit 14 fast to get the travel power asap.
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If my account didn't get hacked and Blizzard refused to give me back all my gold I'd still be playing...
But then I'd be missing on everything other than Wow...
02/25/09
Come back to us. :D
02/25/09
Seriously. These posts are a waste of time and space.
02/25/09
In all seriousness ,this was news to me, and possibly to other people who have quit, or might be interested in playing the game.
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Wac that raft baby!
Wooo!
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I'm fairly sure they mean you can now take your land mount, walk into water, and not be dismounted.
I used to smack my little brother when he mention "Water Mounts :D!" like it was such a cool thing. It's not. All you little kids out there bugging bigger brothers about "Water Mounts" ..go die.
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I wish there was more love for "solving" the fights in WoW, rather than simply wowheading the strategy and getting the execution right...
02/25/09
That being said, there is nothing stopping guilds from abstaining from reading strats posted by guilds on the PTR and just doing it live. But the basic premise of gamers is that we like to win. We like to get to the cheese in the middle of the maze. The developer's job is to let us get that cheese while giving us a proportional challenge to overcome first. Besides, some raids, even if you know exactly what you are supposed to do, are still really hard to execute. Have you done 10 man 3 drake Sartharion yet? Knowing what to do and actually doing it are two different things.
02/25/09
That's really my point. WoW, as played by most players, is a game about doing it right, not figuring out how to do it. In general, a small handful of people figure out how to do it, and everybody else reads up on it or uses an add-on.
Me, I like to solve puzzles. I play a single player console game, figure out how to beat the boss, and get that happy feeling of achievement that comes with solving the puzzle. I look at the boss encounters in WoW and see that there are many marvelous puzzles out there, and can only imagine how enjoyable it would be to be able to solve them.
I'm not saying that following the instructions correctly isn't an achievement, but that feeling, that memory, that you get when you figure something out for yourself...that's something that stays with you forever.
That being said, I'm not advocating removing raids from the test servers, simply lamenting the fact that even if you wait until the actual patch is released, there won't be a chance to figure things out because the information will already be out there; and as you stated, that is the choice the populous has made, my lament targeting the mindset of gamers rather than the game itself.
02/25/09
Posts like this are the equivalent of: "Cocaine, now three times as enjoyable and longer lasting".
Have you no sense of responsibility to us reformed addicts?