Comments on: [BETA] Spoiler-free first impressions

By: Aldevar

Aldevar — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:03:11 +0000

I completely, 100% understand where you guys are coming from. You ejoyed this playstyle, it’s what attracted you to the class and you want to keep it. But, honestly, isn’t it a “bit” unfair that you can, essentially, fit 2 roles in one specc? Why should one class have that privilege and the others shouldn’t?

By: Tedronai

Tedronai — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:10:44 +0000

Hey BBB,

I found out what you mean about the starting area being swamped today. The first five quests are really horrible, but it opens up after that and the rest of the experience was pretty smooth. I’m not sure I’d discourage people from jumping right into it once it goes live though – there will be a lot of people there, yes – but will it really be anywhere near as bad as the beta? Right now Blizzard still has the chance to fix the bottlenecks on the five first quests. And with some 700 000 people on so few servers – it couldn’t possibly be that bad once it hits live servers, could it?d

By: Impressions of the beta.

Impressions of the beta. — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:22:45 +0000

[...] off, I want to mention that my favorite blogger “The Big Bear Butt” has a post on his blog where he discourages people from starting a pandaren first off in the game, since the [...]

By: Xew

Xew — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:08:54 +0000

Got my invite last night, and started playing as soon as I got out of the Red on the downloader. I’m saving ALL of Pandaria for when it comes out, but I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try out the monk. Been looking forward to seeing how well it heals (I have 85s for each healing class – though my druid is my main (and probably only 90 – so tired of leveling…)

So, I started a tauren monk (all my healers are tauren – thanks Blizz for letting me be a pally and priest!) Gotta say, it was a bit lack-luster until I got to Bloodhoof village and figured out how to buy a staff (really, the drop down box to select specific items is nice – but defaulting to Class rather than All confused me for a bit “Why the heck are all these vendors not selling wares!?!?”) staff + monk = nice graphics!

Only got to 7 before I turned into a pumpkin – but I’m definitely going to powerlevel my little monk… really happy so far. After playing a ton of SWTOR though, I think I would have preferred not having auto-attacks… and area looting FTMFW!

By: bigbearbutt

bigbearbutt — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:35:29 +0000

No, sadly I’m feeling about the same way. I just won’t talk about it on a blog post until I personally test things myself and do what I can to try and figure out a fun way to make it work.

I do love the idea of an energy style tanking system. I do.

By: Fangtastic

Fangtastic — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:07:56 +0000

I agree with you Tesh. I don’t have beta access yet but reading about other people’s experiences is just plain depressing. From the current magnificent state of the bearcat to not even having rake, rip, shred or savage roar when shifting into cat form? That just sounds so… blahhhh compared to what we have now.

Not a big fan of the stack rage to 60 and hit SD model either. Would be much cooler if we got combo points (but on us instead of the target) or energy. Energy would be super cool – we could pull with energy at 100 on the pull and use energy consuming abilities and then balance our rage/energy use. That would have some real depth. Right now bears are looking really boring.

Same for prot warriors (my other tank) – I guess we still have devastate as a filler where bears have nothing. But waiting for 60 rage to hit shield block doesn’t sound like compelling gameplay to me.

Sorry about hijacking your post with a comment wall Bear.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:13:49 +0000

*nods* that button probably won’t be put in for awhile though. Even though there are tons of people in the Beta and more to be added there isn’t much to do right now and the Beta will be Beta for awhile yet so you’ve got time.

If anything, this might get people back into regular WoW to combat the lull.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:12:16 +0000

I’d agree with you guys just due to the pure number of people but most people only play the beta for a few days and then leave. Also, there will be many servers when this does go live so while crowded it won’t be like it is right now.

Like anything new, it’ll be popular and shiny but eventually it will settle down. Bug-wise, the new Panda area is actually relatively stable but then again that area has been ‘done’ since before BlizzCon *laughs* (more or less).

The biggest bugs I find right now are that the new phase quests don’t seem to do well if more than one person is doing them at a time so they get quite buggy. It’s definitely the period of patience and persistence right now but that’s in the Jade Forest and not the new starting area.

By: BigFire

BigFire — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:10:05 +0000

One suggestion for those of you trying out the starting area on Beta: keybind interact function to a key. There’s a lot of people unclear on the concept and crowd out the quest giver. What you can do in this situation is to target the quest giver using /tar and then hit the keybind key. You’ll be surprised at how many people are stucked at the very first quest giver.

By: Tesh

Tesh — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:05:22 +0000

Not looking forward to the Guardian spec. I rather like the flexibility of Feral spec where I can be a primary Cat but Bear in a pinch just fine. Pushing for stricter roles and specialization isn’t what I ever wanted to see from the game.

…I’m not surprised that’s the design direction, but I don’t have to like it.