When did WoW decide to become FFXI?
Sep. 23rd, 2010 01:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thistlechaserI don't follow WoW news as closely as I might, so if this is old news, I apologize.
I thought they were dropping the guild stuff? Guild achievements, guild XP, guild leveling, all that stuff. I'm really sorry to see that, with all my alts in my own personal guild, I'm going to be missing out on a heck of a lot of stuff. Not only that, anyone in a small guild will be missing out. It's going to boil down to: the bigger the guild you're in, the better stuff you'll get.
Dark Phoenix Hatchling? Raise 55 reputations to Exalted. Good luck doing that solo!
Armadillo Pup pet? Kill 50,000 critters.
New guild bank tabs -- guild-based achievements. Mounts, recipes, so much new stuff... all based on your guild.
What the heck happened to WoW being a solo-friendly game? No, you don't NEED a pet or a recipe or whatever, but it should be accessible to us less-social folks, too.
I wonder if guilds will start to sell the pets? Let you join up long enough for them to be mailed to you... Or if it'll even work that way. If it's only mailed to people who are a member at the time the 50,000th critter is killed, wouldn't that stop people from joining that guild in the future?
(One day I shall stop talking about FFXI. I feel like one of those people who got out of a bad relationship and now Cannot Stop Talking About That Person. And no worries, this doesn't apply to anyone who reads my LJ!
...today seems to be my day for LJ disclaimers.)
Edit: How sad is this! There's talk about the next pre-Cata event (it's on the PTR now), I'm sitting here all worried WHAT IF IT HAPPENS DURING MY WEEK'S VACATION?! ARG! *snickers* I'm so silly.
I thought they were dropping the guild stuff? Guild achievements, guild XP, guild leveling, all that stuff. I'm really sorry to see that, with all my alts in my own personal guild, I'm going to be missing out on a heck of a lot of stuff. Not only that, anyone in a small guild will be missing out. It's going to boil down to: the bigger the guild you're in, the better stuff you'll get.
Dark Phoenix Hatchling? Raise 55 reputations to Exalted. Good luck doing that solo!
Armadillo Pup pet? Kill 50,000 critters.
New guild bank tabs -- guild-based achievements. Mounts, recipes, so much new stuff... all based on your guild.
What the heck happened to WoW being a solo-friendly game? No, you don't NEED a pet or a recipe or whatever, but it should be accessible to us less-social folks, too.
I wonder if guilds will start to sell the pets? Let you join up long enough for them to be mailed to you... Or if it'll even work that way. If it's only mailed to people who are a member at the time the 50,000th critter is killed, wouldn't that stop people from joining that guild in the future?
(One day I shall stop talking about FFXI. I feel like one of those people who got out of a bad relationship and now Cannot Stop Talking About That Person. And no worries, this doesn't apply to anyone who reads my LJ!
...today seems to be my day for LJ disclaimers.)
Edit: How sad is this! There's talk about the next pre-Cata event (it's on the PTR now), I'm sitting here all worried WHAT IF IT HAPPENS DURING MY WEEK'S VACATION?! ARG! *snickers* I'm so silly.
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Date: 2010-09-23 08:55 pm (UTC)I accept your challenge.
I don't know, I think the guild achievements thing is nice, the vast majority of the things you get are more raid oriented bonuses. Admittedly some of them would be nice for people in general but they are definitely more focused on the raiding people with the big guilds. Ya, it kinda screws up the idea of soloing it but I still question if they ever meant for people to have their own personal guild banks. Since, you know, the reason they don't put in my beloved ingame housing is because they want people to be social and not hide in their house all day.
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Date: 2010-09-23 09:02 pm (UTC)The 10,000 fish one, that I can handle! I wonder if it'll count fish you've caught previous to Cata? If so, I bet I'm more than 10K already!
but I still question if they ever meant for people to have their own personal guild banks.
Good point, but lord I have no idea how I'd function without one. I have all the tabs now, and I still run out of room!
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Date: 2010-09-24 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-24 09:30 pm (UTC)