Comments on: So, Pandas, huh?

By: Love

Love — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:14:25 +0000

I’m active. I’ve been playing for a long time and never took time off. But. I can come up with a lot of things I don’t like about the next xPac. Or more to say, my reaction is ‘meh’. Yes, I am not excited at all. I don’t care about pandas, I’ve been playing the same race with all my chars (got 5 85s and rest in the Wrath bracket). I am dedicated to my main, and while I will try out monk, it shall not be the main interest point for very long. Scenarios, challanges, pet combat are not of interest – the only thing I care about is raids. And I get no promise of epic feel. So unless Sylvanas goes AWOL and we have to kill her or something, I don’t see me getting excited any time soon. We’ll see.

Point: don’t make assumptions. Some people like, some people don’t.

By: Gladiola

Gladiola — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:30:11 +0000

Overall I am super excited about the expansion, even though I’ve never really liked pandarens per say. Pet combat sounds amazingly fun, and I totally see how it was a better use of time and resources than the quest examples you mentioned. I do enjoy the fresh new leveling content the Shattering brought and I think people tend to forget how much work was put into the revamped zones and questlines, not to mention it was a welcome answer to pleas of long time players to update classic content. I constantly hear from people I play with regularly how much they hate questing in general and rarely if ever hear it mentioned as a way to spend downtime ingame like pokepets surely will be. Not to mention the financial and competitive avenues it will open up for players of all spectrums. I think it was just as brilliant as the Annual Pass, for multiple reasons!

By: Eliandor

Eliandor — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:04:14 +0000

The demon pets naming thing was answered better elsewhere from what you’re quoting. You do pull a demon at random… the first time. Back when you had to do a quest to get the demons it was more obvious… you summoned one and had to fight it, subdue it to your will. Since demons are sentient, unlike hunters’ animals, they have names, and while it isn’t really mentioned in game, the name could be part of your dominance over the demon. The demons can also speak and converse, unlike animals, which just learn a series of human noises that they respond to, so the names are theirs, and not something you can change.

By: Ready for the Mists of Pandaria?

Ready for the Mists of Pandaria? — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:46:12 +0000

[...] Big Bear Butt fills us in on his thoughts regarding the new expansion and the annual subscription. [...]

By: The final (for now) Big MoP Roundup — MMO Melting Pot

The final (for now) Big MoP Roundup — MMO Melting Pot — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:20:15 +0000

[...] than most people are expectingBig Bear Butt has a number of thoughts, but most interestingly, is really excited by the pet combat systemJosh Myers at WoW Insider has some well-thought-out speculation on how Monks will play (note – [...]

By: BenBos

BenBos — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:18:47 +0000

Why don’t you shut down experience ? It is possible since almost 3 years, or didn’t you know that ?

I do it all of the time/ I shut down experience gains and do most of a level zone I like, then run the dungeons in that bracket and only then put up experience again in … BG’s.

Alsways a nice feeling that you are “the boss” in those BG’s with gear that actually is on par (if not better) than heirlooms).

It is all up to the individual player to decide if he want to shut down experienc or not.

By: BenBos

BenBos — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 08:09:01 +0000

It is so obvious that only the non active WOW players can come up with things they don’t like in the new expansion.

Like that Ben guy above: “still not playing”.
Good, move on then.

The rest of the active players I talked to have found many points of intrests in what Blizzard introduced. And there were many things. In fact almost too many.

AND a new continent AND a new design in talents AND PVE scenarios AND new world PvP AND a new main pet game inside AND challenging modes in dungeons AND a new Race AND a new Class AND new world bosses AND the usual new dungeons, raids, BG’s, even a new arena…

Simple fact: if you ignore ALL of this, you better leave the MMORPG field altogether. A new Light sabre will not do it anymore.

10 years ago I played with my son Pokemon to death both on the gameboy and in the card game. We had so much fun and it will always be burned into our memories. So when I told my son they would a capture/raise/battle the Pets system in WOW, he was MORE than excited. … He is now 19.

You see as a 40 year old I did play the thing and… believe me it is addictive… Very addictive.

I aml 100% sure (if Blizzard plays it like they usually do), they have a winner within a winner’s game. Gear chase meets Pet Catch in match ups.

I like the turn based character. It is a complete different mechanic within WOW and it will attract its own player base, just like Arena and BG play.

Secondly I am excited about the scenarios: it will re introduce the MUCH needed casual grouping up we found in Wotlk, without resorting to too difficutl dungeon mechanics.

10/10 for this expansion and it will strike with ease into the 30% of subscribers of SW TOR that didn’t leave after 5 months of running around in closed encounters of fake space ships and fake bordered worlds.

By: Jem

Jem — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:18:37 +0000

There’s another thing with WoW/Diablo III cross over – apparently you can upgrade your diablo 3 to a collectors edition and get 4 months of free WoW time. So ifyou get the free one, you can take the cash you would have spent on it anyway, get the CE version and get free WoW time. I haven’t looked into it myself but my guildies have mentioned it.

The ‘annual pass’ concept was well designed to appeal to a wide player base I think, and also leads to speculation about what next year’s pass will include. ‘Annual’ implies it will be a regular thing, so that would be interesting to see if it comes up again next bliz con.

By: Navimie

Navimie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:24:24 +0000

I like this post, BBB. I know there are lots of people out there saying WTF, but I know I am excited about being a Pokemon Master. I also thought it was a joke when i first heard about MoP. The pokewow thing is something I didn’t expect but I think it makes it more enticing for those 10 minute wow players who wanna squeeze in a little something. After all, Pokemon was totally addictive and a sensation at one stage – why not add more addictive stuff to WoW eh?

And I’m laughing now thinking about what it would have been like to have Pandaren druids. In fact I think I’ll go write about it.

Thanks for the read, had to link it, I liked it that much :)

By: The Dewd

The Dewd — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 +0000

Honestly, I wasn’t sure if I’d buy D3 or not. I didn’t want to have to spend the money, especially since I’d probably play WoW more than I would D3 – so this is win-win for me. I get D3 and can play it solo or with my WoW guildmates when I’m not busy in WoW or just aren’t sure what I want to do next. The mount is nice – but mostly because my Draenei Paladin still wants her Charger back – stupid elekk.

I’m also “too old” for Pokemon – but I’m excited to see how it, and most of the other MoP stuff plays out as more information is released. For me, BC was a “oh, we’re going somewhere new” and Wrath was exciting but I don’t really care for my DK that much – I just have one to have one. Cata was full of promise but it was mostly for more serious raiders than I am – or people who didn’t already have a ton of 80s to level to 85. This is the first expansion I really really can’t wait to see. I almost don’t want to be in the beta so it’ll all be fresh and new – I just want the XPac to release already!