The lack of posting recently is all because of World of Warcraft. Personal stuff has come up again and instead of me quitting WoW because of it, I actually restarted it as a means to save money. As much as I love my PS3, the games are expensive and renting two games equals more than a monthly fee in WoW.
However, and I was warned, thing have changed quite a bit since I left the game almost a year and a half ago. The first thing that was noticeable right off the bat is that complaining to Blizzard clearly works. Many of the things they said they wouldn’t do, they ended up doing. Some through a simple patch and some through an additional fee. Thankfully, I can now pay money to transfer my character to Alliance if I want to. Of course, I could just reroll a character … but what fun is that?
The major flaw that I notice is much on the user-side. I remember back with Vanilla WoW (as we call it), people would raid for – I dunno – fun. I have noticed since hitting 80 and getting myself geared that there are much more requirements to what you need to get into a raid or a raiding guild. And honestly, it’s very depressing.
The two things I should expect to do is to get myself to a decent gear so that I can start raiding and – obviously – be at the maximum level. But no more! Now, you have even more requirements that you have.
Gear Score. This really kinda’ bothers me. So now, not only do I have to be geared right … I have to have good enough gear that I break a certain number, which is generally 5,000. My character is at about 5300, and that’s with Icecrown Citadel (ICC) gear as well as the Tier 9 gear. What this means is that unless you aren’t already running ICC and don’t have your Tier 9 gear, you won’t be considered for a raid.
DPS. Apparently, DPS also needs to be at 5,000 or higher. This can prove to be a burden for some melee DPS just because in a fight of about five, your target can easily move out of range and you may not know it. Casters are okay because, for the most part, they stand there and use the same spells … and melee DPS basically does that too, but they need to pay attention to make sure their target is in range. The funniest is when casters who AoE complain about DPS. The catch with that is that casters who AoE are doing DPS on numerous characters and not just one character – like melee does. What this does is give them an unfair idea that their DPS is higher than what it actually is.
Achievement. This is – by far – the worst of them all. Achievements were brought into the game and are much like Trophies for the PS3. So when people want to see proof of achievements … what they’re saying is that you have to have done this before or else you won’t be considered.
Those are three points that weren’t around in Vanilla WoW. Back then, they actually looked via class alone … but now it’s class, Gear Score, DPS and even achievements. And I say … if that’s the case, then I’m sorry Blizzard, but I’m not investing money to jump through hoops to get into a simple raid. I’ve even thought that they should completely mask the DPS so nobody knows exactly how much people are doing and have Blizzard implement a system that will tell raid members if someone in the raid is undergeared/not ready. Because if Blizzard thinks you’re ready for a specific raid, then you should be. (Because with the new Dungeon Finder … if you’re not ready for a dungeon/raid, you can’t queue through their system)
Wake up people. Remember, this is a game … we’re supposed to have fun. Don’t have a damn application process just to do raids. It’s just ridiculous. If they’re geared for it and level 80 … then they’re good.
And on a related note, I absolutely love this video.

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