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World of Warcraft PTR 9.1.5 Update Tweaks PvP and Relaxes Difficulty for Solo Play | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited September 2021 in News & Features Discussion

imageWorld of Warcraft PTR 9.1.5 Update Tweaks PvP and Relaxes Difficulty for Solo Play | MMORPG.com

The World of Warcraft PTR update for 9.1.5 continues seeing a bunch of updates to continue fine-tuning the new upcoming release.

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  • urriel1970urriel1970 Member UncommonPosts: 126
    to little to late...damage done
    ashiru_1978zeroscloud
  • LePetitSoldatLePetitSoldat Member UncommonPosts: 152
    it's too little and too late... the damage is already done.
    ashiru_1978zeroscloud
  • ashiru_1978ashiru_1978 Member RarePosts: 818
    edited September 2021
    Nobody with at least 2 remotely functioning brain cells cares about that dead trash game anymore.

    Most people that still play it play on Vanilla, TBC or WoTLK private servers based on their preference, on official servers play only the brain dead and the addicts who can't kick the habit as well as the brain dead addicts.

    Most official players moved to other games like GW2, ESO, FF14, LOTRO, etc.
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  • linuxliferlinuxlifer Member UncommonPosts: 3

    ashiru_1978 said:

    Nobody with at least 2 remotely functioning brain cells cares about that dead trash game anymore.



    Most people that still play it play on Vanilla, TBC or WoTLK private servers based on their preference, on official servers play only the brain dead and the addicts who can't kick the habit as well as the brain dead addicts.



    Most official players moved to other games like GW2, ESO, FF14, LOTRO, etc.




    I myself moved to GW2 which I have been enjoying much more then I enjoyed wow for a long time. I do however pop into wow every once in a while and last time I was on, I hadn't seen so many people in ages. Perhaps maybe the layering was altered so you'd see more people but it looked really busy. The premade dungeon group finder was also a lot more busy then I had seen in quite a while.
    ashiru_1978
  • ashiru_1978ashiru_1978 Member RarePosts: 818

    linuxlifer said:



    ashiru_1978 said:


    Nobody with at least 2 remotely functioning brain cells cares about that dead trash game anymore.





    Most people that still play it play on Vanilla, TBC or WoTLK private servers based on their preference, on official servers play only the brain dead and the addicts who can't kick the habit as well as the brain dead addicts.





    Most official players moved to other games like GW2, ESO, FF14, LOTRO, etc.








    I myself moved to GW2 which I have been enjoying much more then I enjoyed wow for a long time. I do however pop into wow every once in a while and last time I was on, I hadn't seen so many people in ages. Perhaps maybe the layering was altered so you'd see more people but it looked really busy. The premade dungeon group finder was also a lot more busy then I had seen in quite a while.



    I left WoW in the beginning of 2021 and moved to the next closest thing - LOTRO. I see that the game is made easier, but I don't mind it, because I wasn't there initially when it launched, so I can't make a comparison like Vanilla vs CATA+. In fact it was CATA when I stopped playing the newest versions of WoW and moved to private servers, first to WoTLK ones, later on to Vanilla ones. When I stopped playing WoW it wasn't because I hated the game, I love it, but I have exhausted the content so much so that I can't stand spending a minute in it without thinking I'm going to lose my marbles. Now I've been enjoying LOTRO since February 2021, already having a playtime of 1 month, 1 day and 36 hours, which I calculated - roughly amounts to 930 hours spent into the game between February 2021 and September 2021.
  • linuxliferlinuxlifer Member UncommonPosts: 3

    ashiru_1978 said:



    linuxlifer said:





    ashiru_1978 said:



    Nobody with at least 2 remotely functioning brain cells cares about that dead trash game anymore.







    Most people that still play it play on Vanilla, TBC or WoTLK private servers based on their preference, on official servers play only the brain dead and the addicts who can't kick the habit as well as the brain dead addicts.







    Most official players moved to other games like GW2, ESO, FF14, LOTRO, etc.












    I myself moved to GW2 which I have been enjoying much more then I enjoyed wow for a long time. I do however pop into wow every once in a while and last time I was on, I hadn't seen so many people in ages. Perhaps maybe the layering was altered so you'd see more people but it looked really busy. The premade dungeon group finder was also a lot more busy then I had seen in quite a while.






    I left WoW in the beginning of 2021 and moved to the next closest thing - LOTRO. I see that the game is made easier, but I don't mind it, because I wasn't there initially when it launched, so I can't make a comparison like Vanilla vs CATA+. In fact it was CATA when I stopped playing the newest versions of WoW and moved to private servers, first to WoTLK ones, later on to Vanilla ones. When I stopped playing WoW it wasn't because I hated the game, I love it, but I have exhausted the content so much so that I can't stand spending a minute in it without thinking I'm going to lose my marbles. Now I've been enjoying LOTRO since February 2021, already having a playtime of 1 month, 1 day and 36 hours, which I calculated - roughly amounts to 930 hours spent into the game between February 2021 and September 2021.



    Well it makes sense why you stopped if you went to private servers where the content will remain stagnant forever.

    What are your reasons for not wanting to play retail? (And yes I know there are a lot haha)
  • ashiru_1978ashiru_1978 Member RarePosts: 818
    edited September 2021
    linuxlifer said:

    ashiru_1978 said:



    linuxlifer said:





    ashiru_1978 said:



    Nobody with at least 2 remotely functioning brain cells cares about that dead trash game anymore.







    Most people that still play it play on Vanilla, TBC or WoTLK private servers based on their preference, on official servers play only the brain dead and the addicts who can't kick the habit as well as the brain dead addicts.







    Most official players moved to other games like GW2, ESO, FF14, LOTRO, etc.












    I myself moved to GW2 which I have been enjoying much more then I enjoyed wow for a long time. I do however pop into wow every once in a while and last time I was on, I hadn't seen so many people in ages. Perhaps maybe the layering was altered so you'd see more people but it looked really busy. The premade dungeon group finder was also a lot more busy then I had seen in quite a while.






    I left WoW in the beginning of 2021 and moved to the next closest thing - LOTRO. I see that the game is made easier, but I don't mind it, because I wasn't there initially when it launched, so I can't make a comparison like Vanilla vs CATA+. In fact it was CATA when I stopped playing the newest versions of WoW and moved to private servers, first to WoTLK ones, later on to Vanilla ones. When I stopped playing WoW it wasn't because I hated the game, I love it, but I have exhausted the content so much so that I can't stand spending a minute in it without thinking I'm going to lose my marbles. Now I've been enjoying LOTRO since February 2021, already having a playtime of 1 month, 1 day and 36 hours, which I calculated - roughly amounts to 930 hours spent into the game between February 2021 and September 2021.



    Well it makes sense why you stopped if you went to private servers where the content will remain stagnant forever.

    What are your reasons for not wanting to play retail? (And yes I know there are a lot haha)
    I said it - since CATA I did not recognize the game anymore. The changes that came with it, both to mechanics and visual art style did not resonate with me. I do not want new content to be honest, I was perfectly happy playing Vanilla from 2013 to 2021 and it never felt boring during that time. I don't want to play another version of WoW, I only want to play Vanilla. There is a private server called Turtle WoW, which is a PvE Vanilla Plus server, meaning that it has brand new content and they keep adding more: - High Elf race for the Alliance with their own zones and quest, they become refugees in Stormwind, because Arthas destroyed their land (all content they add is lore-friendly) - Goblins for the Horde - some classes have been added to some races, they are now looking into how can they add Hunter to the Humans, because there is some kind of limit how many classes can be displayed - they have new quests - new items - due to initially small population (250 players at peak times) the Horde and Alliance can group together and do stuff (recently they peaked at 600 players - the server is expanding rapidly) - the Survival profession that Blizzard scrapped and never included in the game where you make torches, tents and boats - there is a "Darker Nights" mod which makes having a torch useful at night - the Tauren don't have mounts, but instead have the also scrapped Plainstriding ability that allows them to run fast like a mount - every character gets a turtle mount whose speed scales with your level and you initially start with a mount that's useless because it has the same speed as someone just running, but at levels 30 and up you can start seeing the difference - Paladins get the ability Crusader Strike, Mages get Khadgar's Unlocking, Rogues get something too, I can't remember what - they are creating new zones - and much more... On paper I should be excited and would want to play there, but that was the last place I played WoW before I realized I just can't do it anymore, despite how much I love the game. And to answer once again simply why I don't want to play Retail is because the game is like a completely different game to me and I can't identify with it. I don't care about the story, I don't care about the new zones and content, I don't like the new graphics, I don't see the appeal. And besides, if you have been paying attention to WoW in the past 5-6 years, you would have noticed that the game only gets grind mechanics and content - a sort of artificial time sinks to keep players occupied with mundane things. Leveling is a piece of cake and it's not the adventure that was once in Vanilla when people didn't know how stuff worked, wore gray gear and pulled 3 mobs and died instantly. Now WoW is foolproof or idiotproof - there is no way you can fail. The only challenge (like in ESO which is another game I can't play anymore) is in the end game content. But I enjoy the leveling, questing, seeing my character get stronger, learning the story, seeing the new zones - this is the most enjoyable thing for me, I don't care for end game content, that is where for me the game actually ends and I have to stop playing. For me the perfect MMORPG would be a Fantasy WoW clone with tab targeting combat, with old graphics like Vanilla WoW or Lineage 2 or Silkroad Online, that is entirely quest-oriented and the leveling is only through questing and the game has like 1000 levels and for all of them there is unique zones, unique quests and at around level 100 the leveling starts to slow down to a crawl and you end up leveling a character for like 2-3 years before you reach the end and by that time the developers have added another 400-500 levels so you have to keep leveling another 2-3 years with new unique zones, new unique quests and so forth... That would be the perfect MMORPG for me - where the leveling never ends.
  • UrdenUrden Member UncommonPosts: 51
    I quit playing this year. Nothing to do with what's happening to their team.

    However it is safe to say WoW isn't going anywhere. I'm sure you could dig up posts from 5, 6, 7 years ago saying it was finished. And posts that said "No, really, this time it's finished."
  • KajidourdenKajidourden Member EpicPosts: 3,030

    Urden said:

    I quit playing this year. Nothing to do with what's happening to their team.



    However it is safe to say WoW isn't going anywhere. I'm sure you could dig up posts from 5, 6, 7 years ago saying it was finished. And posts that said "No, really, this time it's finished."



    This. WoW will only die when blizzard pulls the plug themselves. It's a cultural phenomenon and it's not going away.
  • ashiru_1978ashiru_1978 Member RarePosts: 818

    Kajidourden said:



    Urden said:


    I quit playing this year. Nothing to do with what's happening to their team.





    However it is safe to say WoW isn't going anywhere. I'm sure you could dig up posts from 5, 6, 7 years ago saying it was finished. And posts that said "No, really, this time it's finished."






    This. WoW will only die when ACTIVISION pulls the plug themselves. It's a cultural phenomenon and it's not going away.



    You made a typo, I fixed it for you.
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