Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Aylis]

WoW was a "classical" MMO past it's first year. WoW post-Wrath is a much different game.

Deffo agreed, it became something else after WotLK and more so after Cataclysm.

[Yumi_umi]

I'm taking a break during my sub lol... Silly me
I took a break for half a week and came back and everyone was doing like the same thing.
Ppl hunting, failing ramuh ex, same things on MB, roulettes, novus stuff. I thought that i'd be like omg must catch up on gear treadmill but surprisingly i'm considering on cancelling my sub till 2.4 or when something new happens cuz the state of PF and doing ramuh ex is out of the question as the majority of the community only care for hunts which ends in stalement and boredom.

[Tayolynn]

ARR is good but after 2.2, i think they went in the wrong way

I agree with this. 2.2 strangely seemed more memorable than 2.3, especially story wise. For 2.3, the implementation of Ramuh was kinda... shoved in there. Even the other aspects that built the 2.3 storyline felt like they were stuff shoved in here and there, or a filler episode in a series. If there was anything memorable in 2.3, it was more of the off-story things that made it, like The Hunt, ST and Frontlines. Even the lead to Coerthas was super shortlived, but then again, this was my take on the 2.3 patch, which I'm sure others appreciate it more than I do.

[Tupsi]

ARR is good but after 2.2, i think they went in the wrong way

It's finally moving in a better direction, we'll see where it ends up after the first expansion, which is when MMOs drastically change. Before 2.2 it pretty much was the standard generic MMORPG that's been coming out the past 5 or so years, nothing special or unique..2.2 and later they at least tried to give it some kind of direction.

[Krr]

Deffo agreed, it became something else after WotLK and more so after Cataclysm.

I enjoyed WotLK the most if only because it had what felt like significantly less "trap options" for most class specs than what I experienced in TBC.

YMMV with what dungeon finder et al did for the game. Being a rogue trying to gear up in TBC, even if you knew how to play, was a bloody nightmare thanks to class stigma and some of the wackier gear design decisions, so I'd never go back to that.

[Gormogon]

The only thing that worries me about this game is self imposed restrictions that only serve to restrain progression, fun, and diversity for the sake of restriction.

Such as skill enhancing. Sure don't implement it in gear because of ilvl. Yet with materia's being a thing why not move it there? Why not pursue these kind of alternatives?
Why is there only dungeons for DoM and DoW? Why are there no dungeons for DoH and DoL?

I can go on but the point is most restrictions feel as they are self-imposed.

[Dyvid]

I do feel like the hamster wheel is starting to rust. MMO's have grind and we get that. The problem, at least to me, is the focus on vertical progress instead of horizontal. The problem with ilvl increase is older content becomes weak and stale. In 3.0 I hope to see a bigger focus on character building that is akin to Final Fantasy titles like Sphere Grids, actually Materia, Espers, and License Board.

[Gormogon]

I do feel like the hamster wheel is starting to rust. MMO's have grind and we get that. The problem, at least to me, is the focus on vertical progress instead of horizontal. The problem with ilvl increase is older content becomes weak and stale. In 3.0 I hope to see a bigger focus on character building that is akin to Final Fantasy titles like Sphere Grids, actually Materia, Espers, and License Board.

Guardian Force for non summoners.

[Derceto]

I have never watched a video before a fight and i will never do so.
Gaming has always been about exploring and learning to me, not look up guides how to complete stuff.

Nicely put. Right there with you on this topic.

[Sessurea]

you could run coil2 for ur gear instead of complaining here u can get it outside of coil? Threads these days...