ginshirou

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The name/guild name pinned to a shirt thing was pretty widespread at PAX. There's more than one PA guild on Dark Iron; the Annarchy guildies had name badges that they slid into their PAX pass holders. One of the Omeganauts, I believe, carried around a cardboard WTB sign.

And the Mythic guy told me that yeah, Warhammer would let someone focus entirely on PvP. You can also focus entirely on PvE, there's just a lot of organized opportunities to jump in and participate in world PvP as you travel around grinding mobs.

I'm not sure what you didn't like about it, but for an alpha much of it looked at least as polished than WoW did back in beta, and the newer engine graphically looked better. They just didn't have much on display because, well, it's an alpha. The UI is a rip off WoW, but it's not like WoW's was groundbreaking.

Chubby,

Since you won't respond to anything but spew, here's some: Get your crying out of your system and prepare your guild for 25-man raids, because Blizz isn't changing it.

Or, quit now and save some cash.

DJ's got it. Optional, stock-gear battlegrounds, or at least WSG.

Twinks can play twinks, non-twinks can play in a controlled environment. It'd fragment the player base, but with cross-realm BGs, there should still be plenty of people in both.

I've been saying this since October, it's never even been considered.

What are the test realms for again? Raiding? PvPing?

I can't think of it... it's on the tip of my fingers. Griefing?

Yeah, too bad it took CAD four comics to make a joke about as good as HoP's one.

"but I don't know of any druids that prefer tanking"

Funny, I don't know any druids who don't.

The summarized summary:

We added Blood Elves cuz they hawt OMG secks plz.

The lore justifies evil pallies and demon pally shammies, which is why we had to almost completely rewrite the lore to a point where the fans, who knew the lore better, complained about the inconsistencies.

WoW's design philosophy is absolutely the opposite of creating time sinks.

An arena PvP system will solve a lot of problems with PvP by making it exceptionally easy to rig easy-win matches that are worth raid-level gear. Oh wait I wasn't asked about how easy the 2-on-2 bracket is going to be to rig, sorry, ignore that.

If you enjoy PvE soloing, it's because you're vain, and you'll love the level cap increase because you get to do more of the same quests designed by the same people who brought you "collect 7 each of 3 different kinds of items" and "fly back and forth between Stormwind and every other city in the game", while dealing with all-new PvP zones scattered across the Outlands.

All you Rank 14 PvPers: Thank you for your time investment. You can sleep now, so long as you show up for at least 10 arena matches every 3 months. And it's okay, because those are a lot easier to rig!

40-man raids are logistical nightmares for players, and we just now found that out after we finished adding three of them in less than a year and had already announced the expansion pack. WHOOPS!

You can set your instance to "leet raid gear" and "gold farmer" difficulties.

More races may be on the way, but new classes are probably more likely, but we don't really know, I don't know, what? Something.

People quit WoW because PvP was broken and because 40-man raids were too big. So we fixed the game by adding an easy-to-break PvP system and 25-man raids.

WoW is a fun game that isn't boring. It doesn't feel like work or a social experiment. It's not a casual MMO, but we designed it to be a casual MMO, because casual players like hardcore content, which is what makes the casual.

I agree. High-level hunters need to feel even more redundant than they already do.