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[lillith]

Hey guys!!!

I ran into Buch the other day in the LFG thing. It was great to run with him as our tank. It made me miss all of you, so I thought I'd say hello!

I hope everyone is having a blast in Neverending, or wherever you may be found now days! Hope to see you soon in LFG

Love Lillah, Lokein, and the 4 (soon to be 5) Monsters...

[Elisabeth]

Hey April!!

Doing pretty good.  TR and I are hanging in there.  I do miss all of you guys though.  However, less wow has given me time to do other things that I've really wanted to do.  I'm writing again, for the first time in probably a decade.  Woot!

Hope everyone else is doing well too.

Love you guys!!

Lis

[Topround]

Yeah, I try my best to keep in touch with everyone. I go back to Drenden now and then to say hi. The forums are always open to anyone to pop on and say hello so if you former PX members see this ... say hi..dont be shy!!!!

[bcoolshank]

Hi!  haven't seen ya'll in a bit, hope everything is going well.  I've joined a "raiding" guild now-Requiem.

[meenin]

/Wave coolshank!

[clauss]

Hey,

I haven't played wow for months now.  No energy to find another group as awesome and fun as you guys. 

All is well with me and mine.

Im gonna be a grandpa for real next year, and both kids are still married.  So am I by the way.

Good luck to all

[rxkelz]

Hello all as well.  Not playing much anymore either.  Wow is repetitive too much now.

[Jay]

What is this WoW you speak of?  Is it some sort of a hallucinogenic experience?

Seriously though.  I left WoW back in August (uninstalled it from my PC and gave the discs to Goodwill) and I still view these forums looking for interesting discussions to partake in.  We need a new game or something.  I heard Star Wars won't be out for another year (at least) so that won't do.  Plus I really don't know if another MMO is a going to work for me.  After all it may just be WoW in a Star Wars skin.

Sometimes I miss the game.  Then I remember the hours and hours of grinding for mats or the endless daily quests and am glad I don't play any more.

On a personal note.  My office building got broken into friday night.  I found out last night when they did the phone tree to cancel work for today.  Apparently there was a large amount of vandalism and water damage.  Tomorrow we go in and meet for an hour to discuss things...no one is supposed to go to their desks before the meeting.  So I have no idea what the plan is for tomorrow.  If there is that much damage and they decided to trash the cubicle city a lot, we may be screwed until replacement PCs come in.  I didn't have a lot of personal stuff there but I know the people with offices did.  Some brought in their own guitars, pictures from their kids, other decorative stuff.  Oh well, 6 more months until that lease is up then we move out of craphole Madison.

The random thought process is now at an end.

Hope all is well and look forward to finding a game we can all play again soon.

[Amakua]

What is this WoW you speak of?  Is it some sort of a hallucinogenic experience?

Seriously though.  I left WoW back in August (uninstalled it from my PC and gave the discs to Goodwill) and I still view these forums looking for interesting discussions to partake in.  We need a new game or something.  I heard Star Wars won't be out for another year (at least) so that won't do.  Plus I really don't know if another MMO is a going to work for me.  After all it may just be WoW in a Star Wars skin.

Sometimes I miss the game.  Then I remember the hours and hours of grinding for mats or the endless daily quests and am glad I don't play any more.

On a personal note.  My office building got broken into friday night.  I found out last night when they did the phone tree to cancel work for today.  Apparently there was a large amount of vandalism and water damage.  Tomorrow we go in and meet for an hour to discuss things...no one is supposed to go to their desks before the meeting.  So I have no idea what the plan is for tomorrow.  If there is that much damage and they decided to trash the cubicle city a lot, we may be screwed until replacement PCs come in.  I didn't have a lot of personal stuff there but I know the people with offices did.  Some brought in their own guitars, pictures from their kids, other decorative stuff.  Oh well, 6 more months until that lease is up then we move out of craphole Madison.

The random thought process is now at an end.

Hope all is well and look forward to finding a game we can all play again soon.

The game itself has gotten easy.  You can easily get geared up to do the latest content in about a week just by running heroics.

ICC 10 & 25 man is a cake walk as well... it's not like back in the 40-man raid days.  I mainly logon to raid, which is twice a week or 2 or 3 hours to clear.

Sorry to hear about your work place, hopefully the office will be back up and running in no time.

[Jay]

The game itself has gotten easy.  You can easily get geared up to do the latest content in about a week just by running heroics.

That's the thing, I wasn't much of a raider when I played.  I enjoyed the professions but disliked the farming required to do them.  At least with that I could watch a movie or listen to music while I did it though.

WoW is a great game and I'm glad others are enjoying it.  I think it just ran it's course with me so now I wait patiently for the next thing.

[Xaren]

The game itself has gotten easy.  You can easily get geared up to do the latest content in about a week just by running heroics.

ICC 10 & 25 man is a cake walk as well... it's not like back in the 40-man raid days.  I mainly logon to raid, which is twice a week or 2 or 3 hours to clear.

Sorry to hear about your work place, hopefully the office will be back up and running in no time.

The ease is a delicate balance by blizzard.  while I can see that old school raiders may find the content easy, it also makes it more accessible for the rest of us.  Our little guild on Nesingwary has folks who didn't start playing the game until Wrath, and are just getting their first toons to 80.  The new heroic badge gear means that I don't have to run Naxx for weeks on end to get them caught up, they can get gear and immediately join the rest of the guild on whatever content we are currently working on.  It also means I don't have to kill progression to gear up an alt. 

it also means that I might actually get to see the end of icecrown before the next expansion comes out, which is a big plus for me.

of course, know that the last wing of ICC is open, you can go kill arthas and go back and try it on heroic, with the hard modes, so the challenge should still be there.  For me, the challenge is teaching 4 new raiders who are running their first 10 man to not stand in the fire...

[Elisabeth]

Fire, poison clouds...they are all pretty and we should all stand in them!

The trick is to know WHICH fires to stand in to get the buff.   

[Institoris]

I think Blizzard did the right thing. Raiding is puggable. New level 80s aren't months behind everybody else gear-wise. When a new patch comes out with a new raid everybody has something new to do. You can keep alts up-to-date, it doesn't feel like a _third_ job. This is good for everybody.

WoW isn't getting easier, it's just keeping everybody in the same tier of content, which is something completely different.

[Amakua]

I think Blizzard did the right thing. Raiding is puggable. New level 80s aren't months behind everybody else gear-wise. When a new patch comes out with a new raid everybody has something new to do. You can keep alts up-to-date, it doesn't feel like a _third_ job. This is good for everybody.

WoW isn't getting easier, it's just keeping everybody in the same tier of content, which is something completely different.

You're right, it can take a new 80 a week maybe 2 to get enough badges to gear up for new content.

IMO, I do think WoW did get easier.  Now, all you have to do is run heroics and you're instantly geared and you're able to do up to date content. 
In the past, mainly the vanilla content... you had to put in hours if not months into the first raid content to be able to progess to the next.

[Jay]

/rant

I think WoW did become a second job.  Here's why.

In order to get geared up, you had to run some instances over and over and over to get enough badges to get something.  In order to run instances, if you weren't working, sleeping or eating you were playing WoW.  After that there were raids to go on.  Now Projectx was great in that 1) you weren't required to do any raids and 2) there wasn't a raid every night.  You could do something else.

However if you were a raider, you had to run more heroic instances for more badges to get that extra thing to squeeze a few more DPS out.  Or you had to spend hours and hours farming something to make a new piece of gear that would help you out on this one particular encounter because instead of +googlymoogly you needed +pancakes.

Now yes you can pug a lot of stuff which is great if you're into that.  Personally joining some pug raid just to listen to a few people bitch and moan about this or that ruined the whole experience for me.  So I wouldn't pug.  I couldn't commit to any raid times.  So.....what was left?  Do a bunch of dailies and play the game within the game that is the AH or just work on profs.  That got boring not to mention time consuming.

I guess I'm just a different type of player.  I liked just logging in and screwing around for a bit, maybe running a BG.  I remember back in the vanilla days being excited about getting that one hard to find pattern, or killing a certain type of mob hoping the formula for some flask would drop that would greatly help the guild in whatever raid they were doing.  What Blizzard turned WoW into was an orgy of content that no reasonable human being could ever hope to see all of.  If you didn't have the latest tier 4325023 gear, then other people would dump on you for that.  (No not in Projectx, but I got a lot of stupid tells like "gear up your mage noob")  There's dailies and rep grinds and goofy events that you gotta do now because it's only this one time and you might never see it again.  You gotta have the badges to get this but first you need rep over here and then you gotta cap this and color that and do a headstand while talking backwards during a full moon in Calcutta.

Basically, I like my games to be an escape, not something I need spreadsheets and forums and a freakin' math degree to figure out how to get the most out of my character.