My druid is 60. I don’t need naxx gear to do karazhan. Resto druid prebis is mostly crafted. I’ve been preparing for tbc since phase 4. I have an army of tailors to crank out primal mooncloth as fast as I can.
I dunno… like original server caps?? There’s a reason bloodsail doesn’t have the problems these other servers do.
It’s interesting that people get so up in arms about the 30 instance limit, but nobody ever questions the WEEK long lockout on raids. I guess because it’s been there from the beginning. It’s put there to force people to pace themselves and not blow through the content too quickly and run out of things to do, or to maybe, just maybe, encourage people to explore other parts of the game, or as you said, prevent hyper-compulsive people from killing themselves, which would be bad for PR.
Can you imagine if there was no raid lockout? People definitely WOULD kill themselves raiding if there was no lockout. They’d be like those lab mice that starve to death choosing coc@ine over food.
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I agree. To me it’s like a bunch of people sitting down to a tabletop game of Dungeons & Dragons and then telling the DM they don’t want to take the time to go through the game, they just want him to set up the final scenario and let them use any means imaginable to make their characters “uber” along the way. I think the DM would be justified in kicking those “players” to the curb. Then again, these days a lot of people are probably scratching their heads asking “what’s a tabletop game and what does it have to do with cheesing my way through a mmorpg?” Maybe if they stop to think about it for a minute, it might come to them.
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honestly had a few people to try to rush my game before with min maxed characters.
little did they know i too min maxed the encounters…
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So wrong. Layering is terrible for the game.
LOL. Now that would have been fun to see their reactions. 
It seems like hindsight is 20/20 for them. Though I am sure they got excited, “We have this new hardware we can use for Classic! Look how fast it is and how many people it can hold without queues!”
“Oh shi-”
They put retail population on vanilla maps. OOPS.
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ive played dnd since my junior year of highschool, so the start of 3.0 dnd.
but ive since played every edition of the game and sometimes with super sweaty neckbeards and thus have learned to min max to the extreme.
typically i’ll make two sets of the encounter depending on who i am playing with, the min max and hey lets just have fun encounter.
these two guys in college had some massive hate filled bone to pick with me for some reason, i may or may not have deserved it dont know, and would try to destroy my games from the start.
soooo when they showed up to the table i was like aight here is the min max encounter no asking just going in blasting.
they where not happy with having rods of quickening used against them…
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The best part is when “players” like that get in a huff and defend it as a “playstyle”.
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Their misreading the sentiment leading up to their decision to have only a handful of servers. Yikes.
They fell for one of the two classic blunders! The first being never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly lesser known: never listening to a greater than decade sentiment of customers HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *servers die*
I mean, they literally had names reserved weeks before release and then never thought to make a single adjustment. The issue magnified exponentially by the decision to allow existing subs to have access for no additional cost.
While I certainly plan on skipping as many quests as possible via dungeon grinding, assuming that servers stay as they are, mass populations and all, I’m not really worried about the 30 instance cap. I can still just go mindlessly grind stuff out in the world, particularly in questing areas that are deep into the quest chains that are often skipped or people just don’t stay in the zone long enough to get to.
I’m not necessarily planning on logging 12 hours of straight dungeon grinding anyway. I can’t just put everything on hold when TBC launches and if I’m a day or 2 behind other people, oh well. It isn’t anything like the surge to 60, which took substantially longer and we all started from scratch.
or the… “We listen to our community!” then a few weeks later “We were blown away by how popular Classic is!”.
People in full AQ and Naxx gear will completely destroy dungeons. It’ll take 10 minutes or leas for one run of Hellfire Ramparts. At that point, 10 minutes is 5 runs per hour with a 10 minute break to jerk off or whatever cuz of lockout. You could easily do 6 hours worth of hellfire ramparts and be at instance cap day 1. People play the game for a living, its silly to assume and act like people aren’t going to spend 10+ hours the first day grinding dungeons making probably double what you and I make a month combined. And thats just on the first day.
Love gaming. Hate gamers.
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Agreed, its a not a race jesus. Getting 70 a week before everyone else will get you no where but burn out. Your not no life enough to compete with the top 0.10% of players so stop trying to imitate them it doesn’t make you “good” at wow or anything like that lol. The experience IS THE GAME. Not just the destination.