http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/ Joystiq Comments for Burning Crusade gives WoW players Alliance shamans, Horde paladins http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 4:30PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 4:31PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
On top of all of this, it removes any sort of unique interest in one faction or the other. With the expansion, there will really be no reason to choose horde or alliance anymore. Just close your eyes and pick one.]]>Jul 21st 2006 4:32PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 4:34PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
While the addition of Paladins to horde PvE raids will help slightly, the Shaman addition to alliance PvP is huge. The horde know that Shaman are an advantage that they are losing. Thus, the Whaaambulance will be making quite a few rounds today.]]>Jul 21st 2006 4:40PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 4:47PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/]]>Jul 21st 2006 4:52PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 5:05PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 5:14PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 5:30PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 5:32PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
WoW's huge player base (6 million) is not only its boon but apparently its bane as well. The only way they feel they can appease everyone is by making everyone equal. How boring.]]>Jul 21st 2006 5:36PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 5:59PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
It's the raids that run the one grand Warcraft universe now. It's not Alliance vs. Horde anymore, it's Red Team vs. Blue Team

Personally I was getting very, very tired of raiding and the item-centric world over a gameplay-based world, and was hoping Burning Crusade would remedy that, but obviously the move to balance through sharing Classes was meant really for balancing raids- which I don't enjoy a future of partaking in anymore; you might as well ask someone to fold laundry 100x for an item

The loss of Warcraft itself, what drew me to this MMORPG beyond the others back in the day, combined with the incessant decisions on "Time Spent" over "Fun Had", is the last straw for myself and my friends. The only real difficult part is seeing that there's nothing else really out there at the moment (we're looking at Warhammer in the distance). Maybe it's time to explore the next-gen thing...]]>Jul 21st 2006 6:51PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
Generally the development team does not directly communicate with the WoW community. They use the CMs as (scapegoats?) buffers (and who can blame them, as much of the customer base seemingly has no qualms with shooting the proverbial messenger?). The noted exception to this is lead designer Jeff Kaplan, who posts with some frequency in the WoW Raid & Dungeon forum under the name Tigole.

As to the content: Easing the development cycle of the game is a positive thing in the long run, for Blizzard and for their customers. This change will help remove weight from (but certainly not render weightless) the near-constant barrage of factional favoritism accusations in both PvE and PvP settings. In short, it's one less problem for the dev team to think about.

Do the players suffer in the short term? Maybe. It's difficult to remain objective on this point, as there is a part of me that believes that to log in to WoW is to invite a sort of insidious, seductive, wasting disease into your brain; a delicious crippling of one's perception that will blur the line between pleasure center and pain receptor.

So the players will suffer with or without this change. Whether or not their raid schedule allows them time to notice is the question.]]>Jul 21st 2006 7:09PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 21st 2006 7:28PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
I don't know... I just know I saw this coming a long time ago.]]>Jul 21st 2006 8:56PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
This might have an indirect effect on PvP. With access to Paladins, Horde players might spend more time raiding rather than fighting in Battlegrounds.]]>Jul 21st 2006 9:09PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 22nd 2006 1:49AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
If you can't see it, it's right above the belt and finishes right below the belt.

Just think, a Draenei running around in SW sporting a nice Horde symbol on their stomach.

Hahaha.]]>Jul 22nd 2006 2:10AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/
That'll make me smile as I spam /chicken as that level ?? takes me down :-)]]>Jul 22nd 2006 6:15PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/21/burning-crusade-gives-wow-players-alliance-shamans-horde-paladi/Jul 24th 2006 3:15AM