Posted by iTZKooPA on Monday, November 16th, 2009 - 22 Comments
Tags: avg ilvl, bored with patch 3.2, call of the crusade, ilvl progression, patch 3.2, raid progression
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When I rejoined the masses during The Burning Crusade I knew that I wouldn’t be raiding like I did in vanilla. I knew that I’d already be behind on gear when I joined, with the difference growing as time went on. I also knew that Wrath of the Lich King was coming soon, and would reset the Azerothian digital divide back to zero. Sadly, it was just that, a reset of the cycle. But the cycle would be different this time. Blizzard had changed its tune, refining its raid philosophy to allow easy entry into the early raids, with difficulty ramping up over time (whether that actually happens is another discussion entirely).
Upon hitting level 80, in a somewhat timely manner, I geared up and prepared for my second go at Naxxramas. During these early raiding days I was highly competitive, grabbing top DPS on numerous occasions. The accolade was nothing special, players were still gearing and learning their new specs, but I enjoyed my time in the spotlight. As time passed the DPS merged into a group, with members floating up and down the scale depending on fight, mindset and who had the best party buffs. With my gear becoming outdated - hello ancient trinkets - I began to fight for my life, scrapping for every bit of DPS I could muster.
In comes Ulduar, and the cycle reboot moves to full effect. I can no longer compensate for my gear’s age. Skill, willpower and all the random buffs in the world fail to keep me highly competitive. I’ve been relegated to a replacement, alt night or fill-in-the-hole role, but I’m okay with that, I understand. I contribute where I can, and hope that everyone is fully geared out when I enter a raid. Perhaps, just maybe I’ll get something to increase my DPS.
A funny thing happened a few months ago. The cycle was seemingly broken, not reset, just broken. Call of the Crusade came out, and people loved it. For a few weeks. But now, now I’ve realized that my gear has made a comeback. Thanks to VoA, Onyxia The Head Regrower and my random Ulduar runs my average ilvl’s moved up, and I’ve begun to to climb the DPS charts. I’m no longer scrapping by, but actually beating players whose DPS I once though unobtainable.
How could this be? Is it boredom? Are these players so tired of Call of the Crusade and its lock out that they’ve ignored the gear, or simply cut back on raiding? Have that many of them returned to alts, allowing me to soak up gear at an equal speed? Maybe they geared up that quickly? These aren’t rhetorical questions, I honestly don’t know, and only assume it is some combination. SoProjectLoreians (just made that up) are you bored with Patch 3.2?
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By Khaynne on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
im sure no one has become bored with 3.2 just that once you ahv everything whats the point in continuing on that toon time for alts and vanitypet/mount hunting and hopefully i blocked the idiots screaming first on every post
By Trial on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
maybe your just getting better lol
By Lar on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
yes, i wanna do ICC, farming 10 and 25 man ToC and prgressing in H 25 ToC is very boring
By essam on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
hah, no you havent khaynne!
THIRD!
By Frysbe on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Nah. It’s just ridiculously easy to gear up. My character is geared for ulduar 10, and all I’ve done is heroics. I just went into naxx 10 with my guild for the first time last night, so my personal raid progression is non-existant.
By Sean on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Insanely boring.
For me it’s got to the point where we’re just trying to wipe less on hard mode content to get achievements and slightly better loot.
And the more we clear the hard mode content, the less wipes we get the week after.
I’m taking a break from the game to play Borderlands, MW2 and L4D2 (when I get it in 6hours time off Steam) because even arena is boring. It’s just a case of how long can we go before we have to face a wizard cleave team.
By Azurienatei on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Not bored. And I think people just managed to either get the badges or money or special items to get the gear they needed, thus have gone on to do the same to their alts, or are leveling alts while the old world maps are unchanged.
By mirlotus on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
3.2 => worst wow patch
By Octaviax on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
3.2 is fine.
All patches seem to be the worst ones ever, or they get boring really fast.
I liked the Argent Tournament concept.
By cocopuff on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
i been gearing my mage out since the end of summer but i only got serious acouple of weeks ago when seeminly by luck i got into a 10 man toc unforinatly that didnt go to far fresh of a fail 10 man i thought i would try my luck with 25 man TOC suprisingly we got to twins and i got a trophy so i was in a scrap for triumphs to get my first serious piece of gear the next week i got into another 25 man i won a kick ass degger the following week i got my t9 helm finnaly and i got t9 pants (of koralon) and a ring from 25 man toc tommorow i plan to try my luck again. my point is i only recently started with TOC but the argent tourny dailys are getting quiet dull i still hope for atleast one more week before the next patch hits i still need the robe and boots neck piece, the other ring, and back piece out of 25 man toc and the off-hand, wrist peace,waist peace out of 10 man
By Daemonbane on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
GAWD! FRICKIN RELEASE 3.3 ALREADY!!!!!!
By Alayea on Monday, November 16th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
3.2 has been rather “meh” for me. I’ve already obtained a decent amount of loot from ToC 10/25, so now I’m sort of stuck in limbo since I just can’t seem to ever win a trophy (after my first one a long ways back). I really wish Blizzard had reconsidered using such a system to obtain tier stuff, as I would rather try my luck at getting a token piece and having to compete against - at most - several other players than compete against twenty-four. Also, I do VoA whenever I’m not saved but… non-pvp shaman is about as likely to drop as warrior (pvp or otherwise) - never. Patch 3.3 can’t come soon enough.
By Terra on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:31 am
3.1 was a great raid. It was large, epic, with quality voice acting and all the other good things. It had an engrossing storyline that had leadup from four zones, and the villain felt like a threat. The hard modes were inventive and changed the dynamic of the fight entirely.
3.2 is a two room boss rush. It is small, boring, and with… tolerable voice acting. Its storyline is “we have loot, come get”. Its leadup destroyed the entirety of the Icecrown storyline, apparenly discarding the fortress we helped build to instead erect a RENAISSANCE FAIRE on the Lich King’s doorstep. The villain, the Lich King, admittedly feels like a threat with his badass new voice modulation. However, the rest of the raid is boring as hell. How did we go from fighting the titan’s constructs to fighting A YETI? And to top it all off, the hard modes are GEAR CHECKS and nothing more.
By Nextgener on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Well theres already alot on this topic, but here’s where I think it simply stands.
It’s the same Content. 4 Times.
When it came to Hardmodes in wrath, the way to activate them was simple. Do X to obtain hard mode and beat the boss.
CotC Basically recycles 5 (2 kinda already used) Bosses and makes them slightly tougher in GC mode.
Sure it’s 20 bosses, but it just goes to show Loot isn’t everything. It’s the Flare of a Lore enriched, Massively epic, player active Raid that brings people in.
The Thrill of the boss fights, the constant changes in the environment, and the truly epic feel of the area.
It’s That, that “Brings the Player, Not the Class”
This whole CotC was nice, but it was only a filler instance like VOA. It should have been released Alongside an instance with the same gear level (slightly more in hard modes) not made into an official stand alone battle.
By Uhnk on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 5:55 am
It’s not the patch so much as the overall grind, and the seeming apathy of my guildies toward progression beyond anything they can easily defeat (I swear they still do Naxx, OS and VOA over and over and over even though no one can call the gear drops in any of those an upgrade). But yes, boredom at the repetition of everything (especially dailies) has decreased my overall play time. At the risk of getting flamed for saying it, I’ve found myself playing the free version of DDO a lot lately just for something different to do and a buddy of mine and I are currently working on setting up OpenRPG so we can play some old school D&D through the internet (gotta dig my dice out of storage *grin*).
By TreizeEU on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 6:24 am
I have cleared both ToC 10 and 25 on normal, but ToGC just makes me want to quit WoW. Or apply to a guild who can take it. Although i rather not leave the guild i am in right now.
By Lil Ole Me on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:11 am
I was just commenting on the endless gear chase with my guildies the other day. It just seems back in the Original game, there was still a certain gear chase, but the “regular” folk could get uber leet blues from regular dungeons. Now, thanks to the badges and stuff that drops in dungeons, everyone is decked in purples. I miss the time when the colour of the name of your armor meant something.
And what happened to chilling on the gear upgrades? I mean Original WoW did not steam through new patches like the WotLK does. And all the patches do, is enable us to get more and more leet gear, quicker and quicker. I heard that 3.3 will give us Badges of Triumphs from the bosses in the Heroic Dungeons.
And ToC bored me after the first week.
By Meloran on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 10:03 am
I’ve disliked ToC from the start for one simple reason: Faction Champions. Why they thought putting an arena PvP-style fight in a PvE raid was a good idea is a mystery to me.
The next biggest problem is one already mentioned above: It’s too damn short. Five boss encounters with no trash mobs is nothing after Ulduar and Naxx2.0. My guild can easily burn through the entire raid in an hour, then it’s back to Ulduar to work on achievements and alt gearing.
Lore-wise I understand the point of the tournament, but making it so short is really disappointing, and not enough content to support an entire patch on its own.
By Josh on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 10:50 am
For me 3.2 was nice at first, but soon got repetitive farming seals and doin the same dailies to become champions of all the major cities. Of course that was when I was on high speed and could actually joust. Since then I’ve been forced onto satalite and for some reason jousting doesn’t work the same as it did. Any of you on satalite? Do you have any suggesstions? But all in all yes I am bored from 3.2, and now all I want is my tauren paladin.
By littleraven on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
in not really bored with 3.2 but i cant really say that its still keeping me entertained. the concept was cool but like blizzard siad it was an experiment to try the whole coliseum idea….i think we can all see now that it wasnt the best of ideas and they can learn from that…hopefully that means that they will never try anything as small scale as this again (for a main centerpiece raid anyway).
By Fobok on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
I don’t do any raiding. I just don’t have the time. Right now I’ve been working on levelling a Holy Paladin to 80, but I’ve been feeling totally dragged. Trying to find a levelling group to get those last four levels is a real pain, and I’m not enjoying doing all those quests over again. So, decided to wait until 3.3 and start taking advantage of the new dungeon system. I could be 80 by then probably, but I’d be bored out of my skull, when I can play Dragon Age until then and have fun.
By BlahbahBlah on Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I started playing a little while after wrath came out. So several months later when I’d finally tried every class up to a reasonable level and settled in and got my first 80, Ulduar had already been out for a while and everyone was eons ahead of me.
So I just focused on heroics and got the best gear that I could muster and started collecting boas to level alts to pass time. I’m working on my 3rd 80 and am sort of just waiting for Cataclysm to come out and start everyone off on even footing again.