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World of Warcraft: Level 85 Dungeon Preview
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
The World of Warcraft team has posted the first in a pair of articles shining the spotlight on some level 85 dungeons coming in the next content update.
The dungeons will be the beginning of the end of the epic story started in the Cataclysm expansion. Cataclysm's conclusion will, as happened with Wrath of the Lich King in 2009, coincide with the announcement of the newest expansion at next month's Blizzcon.
The 4.3 update will include three level 85, five player dungeons that finds players "embarking on quests to aid the Aspects and other familiar faces in a fight against Deathwing, the Twilight's Hammer, ancient armies of the Burning Legion and Highborne... and even time itself."
The new blog post contains some lore behind the dungeons and other snippets of information that are worth reading. Swing by the World of Warcraft community site to read it.
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I really wish they had a way to keep the game fresh, I've tried to go back a few times over the last year and it just doesn't have the appeal to me that it once did.
So many late nights spent with good friends that first year of release, it really was an amazing game and the quality was so far and above anything else in the genre. Playing it was money well spent.
Try as a might, I just cant seem to get that experience out of it these days. After the last attempt I finally came to the conclusion that the game simply doesn't entertain me anymore, and hasn't for quite some time.
I had access to all the content the game had/has to offer, that was not an issue at all, the issue for me is that I no longer find that content to be engaging and the goals never change. Eventually my gear is made obsolete and I end up having to re-gear again, that gets very old after repeating it over and over and over and over during the course of the last six years.
Kost
Great comment and it's the same for me, as you have stated the gear grind did it for me.
If you don't like a game don't play it, and quit running to MMORPG.com to trash it.
Hope that with tor and gw2 releasing and the lost of 900k subs, they offer something new for end game. And brings back path of the Titan
RIP Orc Choppa
Indeed I find the same, its just not what it once was. With cat coming to its resolution I just hope the next expansion is more like BC/Wrath than cat as personally I think cataclysm has been a pretty poor expansion.
I agree too! I had such a blast from few months after launch until just after TBC expac launched.
Then something just struck me and the joy just vanished.
I too tried several times to come back... but never found that joy anymore I had before TBC.
I never got tierd of the gear grind myself i got tierd of the inmature community *I.e. trade chat rants, and Anal jokes, along with the casual friendly raids with anyone being able t put a pug together while some pugs are better then others. I got tierd from the easyness of the mechanics without a single raid having to put that much though power into it. while hard mode may make things harder, it's not like the old AQ40 or BWL.
And you posted the EXACT *FACT* why WoW is in it's declining years. People only play it because of the:
"I must get the better stuff to look Uber and show off like the guy before me and so the guy after me will do."
So on and So on...
GW2 needs to get here fast. Innovation is emerging soon.
"My Fantasy is having two men at once...
One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
How original.... new 5 mans dungeons.
Cataclysm killed all my all wish for end game. As expansion I loved it, great job, despite way to much linear. I can't wait for next expansion for sure but for now for the first time in years I do not miss at all Wow, because of terrible mistakes they did wih Cata's endgame. But is also true I have now more options to play, mainly here for me Rift despite I'm momentarely enjoying a lot (again) CO. Have high hopes for SWOTOR, when time will try maybe War again. For sure was disappointment Aoc when returned after long time.
This next patch is shaping up to be a huge disappointment for me. I mainly pvp in WoW, and we're not getting anything new in terms of battlegrounds. Not even a new arena or anything. A few new dungeons and a new raid... well, that's lovely... for a PvE'r... but I'm not into PvE. It's time consuming and quite frankly a pain in the ass to get into. Not to mention I traditionally like tanking, and there's a bit of a learning curve for tanking.. your happy dungeon finder groups always expect you to know everything, to mark CCs, to know all the fights... no thanks. It can be fun, but my experiences trying to learn the ropes in PvE with the whole dungeon finder thing has only lead to people raging on me for queuing as a tank and not knowing the dungeon like the back of my hand... of course, it's alot better to play with friends or guildies, but I'm in a pvp server, in a pvp focused guild, so its hard to find people willing to bleed with me while I learn. Even then, dungeons can be fun, but doing them over and over and over... not so much.
Raiding, however, that's just something that I consider a huge pain in the ass. I like doing it, but I can only ever do raids that aren't up-to-date, like older raid instances pre-cata. I've tried Cata raids, but again, I'm not part of a raiding guild so I'd have to pug it, and... well, raids aren't very pug friendly. 8/10 times that I've raided I've done it as part of a pug and it always ends horribly... the raid whipes, someone pulls something they shouldn't have, bla bla... what ends up happening is that people get butt-hurt over dying and start pointing fingers and insulting eachother. In my experience raiding has not been fun at all, because it only leads to arguements and being saved to an instance prematurely because the raid disbanded after a failed pull. It totally sucks, because I love warcraft lore, and I'd love to be going toe to toe with the biggest baddies in the game, but it feels like someone who plays on a casual basis like me will never really be able to experience that untill the next expansion renders the content useless, making it a breeze for me to go through the raid with some buddies and take down the baddies.
Though, I must say, it does look like it can be fun if your willing to put the time and energy into it, but I just can't. It's not for me. I can't schedual my life around the raiding schedual of a guild, and I really don't feel like I should have to. I understand the need for challenges in the game but in my experience raiding just sort of alienates casual players, and forces anyone who really wants a piece of the action to find a nich in a cluster of players willing to accept them. Of course, people often have a standard for gear and experience with raids. Again, it feels so difficult to break into.
Oh well. Guess I'll just stick to pvp untill it bores me to tears. And since 4.3 isn't offering anything new in that area, that'll probably be sooner then later.
If a had to give a figure on a scale from 10 to 1 from start to end it would be like this:
WoW Vanila - 9.5
WoW TBC - 8.0
Lick King - 7.5
Cataclysm - 2.0
After 6 years of wow Cata made me quit.
No Amount of contend can save Cata, they ruined almost any class and any talent three and dumbed down the game so even monkeys that got dropped on the head at birth can play it now.
Still have many many fond memory's i will proberly never forget and the music used in wow has alot of atmosphere.
Oh good old times comming back in a memory....
Then you think of Cataclysm and Ghost Crawler and the bubble bursts.
Oh and i never forgive Blizzard for taking away my Swirly ball, the riots by that decision still bears scars
To the whole 12 posters in here, what a huge amount that is btw, for people with so little interest in a game why bother posting about it? As for the GW2 poster in here, keep hoping for that second coming of MMO salvation. Just stand in line over there behind the Rift, Aeon, AoC, Warhammer, DCUO, etc etc etc fans that were all preaching the samething you are now when their games came out. Pretty sure WoW/Blizz will find someway to survive without you guys as hard as it may seem they will just have to go on without you there.
I feel the same way, but I'll give the scale a name as well: The Nostalgia-o-meter
Eleanor Rigby.
I think the miracle is more people havn't left this game in the past year . I still know people that are playing it but most of them arn't happy and complain regulary about Blizzard . Usually they play because its the only game that will run on thier machine . That is something Blizzard has got just right the specs needed to play mean that pretty much anyone can play it even if their pc is 5 years old and given its graphics style is cartoony it doesn't date as badly as other games . I think the 900 k subs lost this year is in no small part down to the release of Rift . Although I would admit that in itself is a flawed game but it is the first polished and semi decent mmo in a long time . If a bigger beast like StarWars TOR proves to be as good as it sounds it could be (and aside some lame attempts at trolling it most reaction thus far seams pretty possative) we could see a siesmic shift in the numbers of people leaving WoW in 2012 .
Fingers Crossed .After all we have been here so many times over the last half a decade only to be disapointed . I think when it does finally happen and it will eventually ( only an idiot thinks WoW will remain number one forever ) I think most of us will breath a collective sigh of relief because the mmo genre will be once more free to become what it should be and will never be untill Warcrafts back is brocken and Blizzard loses its dominance of the mmo industry . (I imagine most WoW fans will point the unknown quantity that is Titan as its eventually successor how blinkered can you be ).
I agree with Kost. Just tried to resub and try a different class/race combo and I just have NO desire to play because the game has no new features such as an alternate advancement system, housing, guild housing, epic questlines, class quest lines, collections, etc. that could have been introduced in the last 2 years while they wasted time just making more of the same of what they already have.
Now we have an article on what Blizzard is making and wow, it's more of the same, again. /sigh Enough with the gear treadmill Blizzard. Make it a "world" again and give us more fun things to persue. You know what, nevermind. I can play LOTRO until SWTOR and GW2 comes out and never look back at WoW and be quite happy. Oh, and you can kiss any chance of me trying Titan out when it hits, if ever. You're development strategies and ripping me off for 4 years since the last "good" expansion, BC, has made me look at other developers and wonder why I ever gave you one dime. Just look at Trion as one example.
Well WoW after Vanilla & BC went into casualize, streamline and make everything fast ,easy and convenient route.
While it produced astounding results for some time it started to get old , and Blizzard caught themselves into a "make easy & now" direction , then cannot stop , in fear of losing players if they did. But at same time following this route will and is causing them to bleed players. No way out of this imho.
Gameplay was best made and balanced in terms of my satisfaction in Vanilla Wow , before all those convenience tools , heavy emphasize on guilds , streamlining , gear scores , zillions of add-ons ,etc came and gradually started to ruin my fun
It is a diffrent game now , and I don't feel like coming back anymore.
Some really good mature posts here. I actually left after Ulduar became nothing. Raided 5 nights a week to find out that the new patch made all my gear worth nothing. Now I know what people are going to say, "well you need to move and get new gear", well thats not the point. People could just run instances and buy gear that was better then my once raid gear was. That to me makes no sense. I work hard with my guild to get geared in a raid to then have all my gear be replaced by gear that is bought via marks from an instance. Anyways I was bitter and really I didnt like wrath all that much and ended up leveling alts anyways. IMO Vanilla and BC was the best and still made for "computer" people. I say computer people because before WOW only computer people played MMO's and it made a huge difference in the community.