For those of you that quit playing like me and are waiting for classic, do you miss WoW? What do you do with the time you usually spent on WoW?
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Of course, and I sink most of my time into Overwatch nowadays. But I still have those moments where I really really just want to sink time into an MMO, but none of the current ones interest me at all.
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I usually spend time on HotS because itās the closest that it gets to WoW as far as characters go. I considered buying overwatch but just did not feel like it.
Mostly just been playing other mmoās. Final Fantasy, Guild Wars 2 and thereās also a pretty decent Dungeons and Dragons mmo out there too. But none of them have really pulled me into the world like WoW did. Hoping to get back into the fun with classic next year. Already reached out to a few old guildmates that I actually met while playing years on years ago.
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Itās fun if you like FPS type games with a bit more flavor, but at the same time Iāve never played a more frustrating game. If you have friends go for it, if not Iād stay away.
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Yes, I miss WoW, the versions that made you think about your character and how you ābuiltā him/her, because that stuff mattered.
Since Classic has been announced I spend a lot of time thinking about it and wishing I could still play the demo or at least some aspect of it. I canāt wait for it to be released.
In the mean time, I either play COD WW2 in limited fashion, or sometimes my brother and I will group up in a Platoon and play World of Tanks together, which is a pretty darn good game. I mostly play artillery so I tend to get hate mail from people when I blow them up from across the map. Which only motivates me more.
Friday nights I go to the local RC Car race track and race 13.5 Stadium Truck and 2wd Short Course. Last week I took 1st in Short Course, but I got my butt kicked in 13.5 Stadium truck.
Other than that, I spend a lot of time wishing Classic was here already.
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OFC I miss it.
As for what I do with my time that replaced WoW? School, football, golf, gym, various other little hobbies and passions that I hope everyone here would have.
Play a bit of Rocket League, maybe some Madden vs the right person (game is still trash)ā¦ about it.
I miss playing the older version of WoW that I loved. I played BfA a bit which was fun enough, but not really enough substance to keep me playing. With my subscription having run out a little bit ago I canāt say that Iāve missed modern WoW.
At this point the only Blizzard game I still play is Overwatch from time to time. Iāve been looking for another game to play since I feel like Overwatch has been getting less fun with the addition of certain characters and the way theyāre balancing it.
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Not entirely. Iād already quit once early in MoP and walked away so completely that I didnāt even know about WoD. When I quit early Legion, I did keep playing Starter Account level 20s for a while, but there just isnāt enough left to do and the last time I logged in was only long enough to get the 14th anniversary Achievement and logged right back out. Thereās not even anything likely to be available to a 20 for Winterās Veil that Iād want to log in for.
On one level 20, I did every single quest a level 20 could do, I ran around the word even into EPL as a level 20 with only a few deaths. The same 6 dungeons (only two are default ārandomā, while there are 6 to queue for) over and over. This was before scaling was implemented, and I donāt get the impression it made a lot more available to a 20.
I spend most of that time watching anime with my brother or playing a variety of other games. I do play a few AI rounds of HotS doing the quests, priding myself on owning all but two heroes and having most level 5-11 without ever once spending a penny. I also am playing Alpha 17 experimental version of 7 Days to Die, though Iām sort of on the tail end of that and hoping people get mods up soon as it runs out of reasons to play. Iām looking to decide a movie streaming service to subscribe to as Iām not going to the theater any more, but do want to have upcoming movies Iāll want to see.
Oh, and looking back at 2018, I read a lot less than past years - and Iāve been in a writerās block slump for a while, so 2019 will probably put some time toward those things. Maybe I should even make that a goal, start planning up some backstory for a couple WOW: Classic characters, even work on some fiction.
Of course. The relatively soon release date turned me off of doing much more on private servers, so for now just playing Overwatch and working on 40k modelling to pass the free time.
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I played WoW from release up until near the end of WoTLK. It is probably the game Iāve had the most fun in apart from maybe diablo 2.
These days I feel like all the popular games are too competitive - Iām not bad at SC2, overwatch, LoL, etc but half the time the game is more frustrating than fun.
Iām looking forward to returning to my old questing routes, ganking players along the way. As others have mentioned, things felt like more of an accomplishment in classic and the leveling experience was actually fun - you didnāt need to race to max cap to participate in the game.
For the past few years Iāve been slowly gaming a little less. Iāve been focusing career, school, 2nd language, learning a DAW, and MTG EDH. I will definitely be making 10-15 hours a week available for classic though.
I definitely miss WoW, though I didnāt really miss it until playing the demo during blizzcon.
As for filling my time, been replaying some other games I loved, got the spyro reignited trilogy and been enjoying the hell out of that. Iāve also upped my tabletop gaming, currently doing a dark heresy campaign one night/wekk and a starfinder campaign one or two nights/week. Soon Iāll have a new smash brothers game as well, definitely going to put a lot of time into that.
I mostly play artillery so I tend to get hate mail from people when I blow them up from across the map. Which only motivates me more.
I might get back into WoT after xmas, once I drop back down to one job. I love blowing people up with arty, though Iām sure my ability to predict movement has gotten pretty rusty. Might just pull out the KV-2 instead, possibly my favorite tank in the game.
Iāve hopped from game to game, MMO to MMO, trying to recapture the community feel of WoW. The closest I came to finding it was SWTOR (raid content was too easy and sparse, and game took the dumbing down approach that WoW did. Itās a glorified single player game now) or wildstar (lack of content and crazily steep learning curve doomed it.)
I remember playing SWtoR when it came out and half my guild was hardcore raiders from my WoW guild at the time.
Half way through explaining a boss fight our raid leader said āF*** it, just chargeā and we downed the boss anyway without anybody knowing what they were doing except 1 guy.
The hardest boss was the Towers of Hanoi one because I was the only one in the raid who understood how the puzzle works.
You should! Itās like riding a bike, after a few games that rust will fall right off. Those KV-2s are beast to go up against for sure. My go-to Arty is the M44, but I also really like the German Grille, although it has a much shorter range than the M44 but itās very accurate.
good class design and game play and not having everything handed to you.
All Iām playing right now is rocket league. I was into fortnite on my ipad for a while but Iām done with that.
Iām trying to convince myself to resub to WoW, but Iām having a hard time getting past what I consider bad class design. Becauseā¦there is no class design anymore. Thereās spec design. I miss playing a mage and casting fireball alongside blizzard alongside arcane missiles. I miss having the freedom to craft a character I enjoy. I miss the old talent trees that allowed this kind of gameplay.
Now itās justā¦youāre not allowed to make any decisions about your character. Nothing impactful anyway. The devs do all the work for you. They set you on a very linear path, both from a gameplay and class design aspect. The freedom is just gone. Apparently the devs donāt want to give players the ability and freedom of choice to make the āwrong decisionā. The result, to me at least, is a very boring and stagnant gameplay experience. I canāt craft the experience to my personal liking because the tools to do so have been removed.
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Just a mix of everything. After coming back to retail WoW from almost a 3 year break, Iām already burnt out and bored with it, Iāve always loved leveling in WoW and Classic will bring that back for me. But until then, Iāve been playing Breath of the Wild, like super in depth playing, trying to find every secret and nook and cranny.
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Like a crackfiend missing their pipe
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