Forum Overview :: World of Warcraft
 
Re: in this section I will list the various suggestions I made that bilge implim by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/24/2010, 10:34pm PDT
Sword of Justice wrote:

in general I suggested a lot of various ways that they could reduce the grind and speed up the process of getting to max level. specifically I mentioned that getting a mount should be easier, an idea they used by lowering the level requirement for all mounts as well as they cost in money. they also introduced a ton of ways to simply give more experience to lower level players, like the various "legacy" items that grant experience bonuses, as well as straight up making old quests give more xp.


The most important one was where you and me in the PTR, where you get a special test interface to write a report on basically everything in the game, and went through some old ass instance (stratholm I think), and started reporting the monsters, treasure, the instance itself, the quests, and eventually I started reporting all of my gear and spells. I reported my shamink totems saying there were too many and only a couple of them had any real use, I reported water shield as costing too much mana and said that it should just give you mana passively, I reported my attack spells as costing way too much mana and how the entire shaman class was constantly having horrible problems running out of mana every fight all the time making us worthless and that the blizz devs didn't play shamans and wouldn't know. I reported my shitty gear as being some of the same garbage I'd been wearing for the past 10 levels with no good replacements. I think I mentioned how other classes had gear that was more powerful and had better stats from the same quests where shamans got nothing. I reported many many of the shaman's talents as being worthless. I reported several quests as being unfun and bland with shitty rewards.

I know I went on from there too, mostly covering a bunch of the stuff from the reviews, plus all sorts of tiny details that I wouldn't even mention in the reviews (and leaving out the tauren supremacy and how giant cumshots should be canon, and how night elves should be erased from the game and from history and mankind's consciousness). One thing Jso and I doubled up on was the idea that it took way too damn long to get around anywhere all the time, and that the game ate up too much time doing literally nothing but going from one place to another, complaints we had going way back to the very first game and the first review we wrote.

AnyWAY!!!!!!! When watlick came out, suddenly there was a gigantic overhaul of the entire shaman class, the mana efficiency is better, sustained damage in fighting is better and easier, some of the totems were indeed erased and unified, a few being changed and/or fixed entirely, better gear is given, and at the max level it's now extremely easy to get epics just from plain instances, the higher level bosses now drop epics, or you can get badges from bosses which you can spend on any epic you choose, including tier sets which you could only get from horrible shitty ass fuck raids previously. They've made almost all the instances shorter and easier now, there's one that's literally just an arena with 3 bosses, and they drop epics and badges. You can tell in several places where they've worked on the quests to have more variety, and spiced them up with more actiony type scenarios or at least novelty scenes where you drive a tank and fire cannons at enemies, there are a couple quests where the area actually changes as you do them (apparently it puts you in a small individual version of the world, you can't see other players that have finished that quest until you finish it yourself).

So the overall point of the review is/will be that the devs listened to us and fixed the game, which they probably only did because Warhammer was looking to be strong competition. Word on the street is they're ready to break it again with the next expansion, but we'll have to see when that comes out. :(
PREVIOUS NEXT REPLY QUOTE
 
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (tawkin part first) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/17/2010, 11:56am PDT NEW
    Awesome. 8*) NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 05/17/2010, 1:20pm PDT NEW
    the entire review should just involve me on the PTR before wotlick came out by Sword of Justice 05/18/2010, 5:54am PDT NEW
        Do I know this cow by Moog 05/18/2010, 8:29am PDT NEW
            Re: Do I know this cow by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/18/2010, 12:37pm PDT NEW
                I would love a pizza right now. NT by Moog 05/18/2010, 8:56pm PDT NEW
                Why do you deny that I exist brother by Jrdano Cable 05/18/2010, 8:58pm PDT NEW
                    Do the bit. ^_^ NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/18/2010, 9:22pm PDT NEW
                    he's at least as interesting as towlie NT by Sword of Justice 05/18/2010, 9:37pm PDT NEW
                    :( by bombMexico 05/19/2010, 2:01am PDT NEW
                        Your only accomplishment was failing to stop us. 8) NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/19/2010, 10:15am PDT NEW
                        I don't sign my fucking posts by Fortinbras 06/22/2010, 2:57pm PDT NEW
    What are your favorite addons? by Worm 05/18/2010, 11:15pm PDT NEW
        The ones that make blizzard rip off our ideas to improve the game. by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/18/2010, 11:34pm PDT NEW
            I guess that's your favorite instance and boss? by Worm 05/19/2010, 6:39am PDT NEW
                and teammates naturally NT by Sword of Justice 05/19/2010, 6:57am PDT NEW
                    yeah my hunter never wants to run aspect of the wild on that NT by Worm 05/19/2010, 6:13pm PDT NEW
    Jso just got a leaked screener of the upcoming WOW movie. by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/19/2010, 11:18pm PDT NEW
        Did Tigule perhaps meet him at the Mall food court? NT by Worm 05/20/2010, 5:15am PDT NEW
    in this section I will list the various suggestions I made that bilge implimente by Sword of Justice 05/24/2010, 4:02pm PDT NEW
        I am offering caltrops the chance to be mentioned in our new watlick review! by Sword of Justice 05/24/2010, 4:25pm PDT NEW
            Tauren jizz-flood racial ability? NT by laudablepuss 05/24/2010, 4:58pm PDT NEW
                ok for that you are now restricted from contributing anything to the review NT by Sword of Justice 05/24/2010, 8:53pm PDT NEW
                    Jso: The Icycalm of this article. NT by motherfuckerfoodeater 05/24/2010, 9:02pm PDT NEW
                        That would make mfe the sean penn of clapstro. 8) NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/24/2010, 10:04pm PDT NEW
                            he lost his paddle and is now just holding the shotgun in his rowboat NT by Sword of Justice 05/25/2010, 9:38am PDT NEW
                                While simultaneously elbowing a door (not easy to do while holding a shotgun to NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/27/2010, 12:34am PDT NEW
        They're called heirloom items you fucking newb by Worm 05/24/2010, 8:59pm PDT NEW
        Re: in this section I will list the various suggestions I made that bilge implim by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/24/2010, 10:34pm PDT NEW
            they bought you with shaman MP5 buffs by ` 05/24/2010, 10:46pm PDT NEW
                That and the thunder explosion talent spell silver fuckin dog bone fuckin by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/24/2010, 10:49pm PDT NEW
                    It's really the biggest "we're sorry" ability in the entire game. by Worm 05/25/2010, 6:17am PDT NEW
                        Only bipolar people play PVP. NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/25/2010, 6:59am PDT NEW
                            pvp is especially pointless now that it's all about being pvp geared NT by Sword of Justice 05/25/2010, 9:41am PDT NEW
                                I agree that resilience blows. by Worm 05/25/2010, 7:05pm PDT NEW
        they turned all the "healing" gear into damage and healing and then just spell p NT by Sword of Justice 05/28/2010, 8:03pm PDT NEW
            This was one of the most important things actually. by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/29/2010, 8:42am PDT NEW
                this also applies to my priest, especially when they changed the talents by Sword of Justice 05/29/2010, 3:51pm PDT NEW
        Something so awesome, I just have to tell you guys by laudablepuss 05/30/2010, 10:47pm PDT NEW
    Re: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (tawkin part first) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 05/27/2010, 1:45am PDT NEW
    this review is done really NT by Sword of Justice 06/20/2010, 8:05am PDT NEW
    Re: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (tawkin part first) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 06/21/2010, 10:58am PDT NEW
    World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (first draft) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 06/22/2010, 1:33pm PDT NEW
        Re: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (first draft) by Sword of Justice 06/22/2010, 5:56pm PDT NEW
        Re: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (first draft) by Sword of Justice 06/22/2010, 6:15pm PDT NEW
            World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (final draft there it's done) by Jhoh Cause..... 2 06/22/2010, 6:40pm PDT NEW
                How come this ain't up in reviews yet? NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 06/23/2010, 11:48am PDT NEW
                un readable NT by gruman 06/23/2010, 12:15pm PDT NEW
                    Someone's embarrassed of their jealousy. 83 NT by Jhoh Cause..... 2 06/23/2010, 1:42pm PDT NEW
                    and the un, un-nazified the world forever by Sword of Justice 06/23/2010, 1:42pm PDT NEW
 
powered by pointy