Impact, weight, consequences to your decisions. It was this exact attitude that resulted in the Shadowlands covenants fiasco that, like, I would say probably 80% of the playerbase hated - Not being able to change your covenant.
I didn’t really care but it was a big controversy at the time.
I’d say wow has really strayed from that. Is wow still an RPG? I dunno.
Speaking of new classes, I was pleasantly surprised at how fun and powerful ww monk is. When the scaling was busted a f at the launch of remix, I was still pulling 2-3 mobs at a time in the 60s, which was quite the feat.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred characters.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand alts to gear.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred characters.
How do we measure, measure getting gear?
In log ins, in addons
In midnights raids, in mythic plus
In levels, in achievements
In pwnage, in wipes
With five hundred twenty-five thousand, six hundred characters
How do you measure a game with no life?
My Bear has close to 25 million health and I’m still playing. It’s relaxing. I am still hunting the weapons transmog options and carrying groups and friends and goofing off on Alts.
It’s a grind if you make it one. I was offered an option to be overpowered on an MoP fast track leveling and story with new mounts and mog options for 3 months followed by a transfer to retail. Outside of the brutal fresh 70 scaling issues, that is what I got. Nothing I do there has long term consequences for character progression and it is simple mindless fun.
My current real life has a number of new stresses and responsibilities and this is an excellent break from that.
They said 3 months before transfer to retail at the start and any gear from the pre patch can be shared when they get there. I’m ok with this.
If I wanted more characters, I would have wanted them to play now. Not maybe perhaps sometime in a future expansion where we can’t know all the details at the present.
All of the characters in MoP Remix are going to be shifted to retail servers in a month, and retail leveling is already pointless by MoP Remix’s very existence (as most people will go the path of least resistance when it comes to leveling).
What difference does it make if they can do it next week or a month from now?
Absolutely. But if I needed a new character for something, I would want them now, not next expansion when whatever I was planning on doing with them might no longer exist.
I get that people consider the characters they roll to be disposable. And Blizzard wants players to fill their time in content droughts leveling characters they may never play. I don’t think that way.