Yes. You need the cloak.
Also first thing firsts, i never stated you didn’t need the cloack. I stated you don’t need rank 15 cloack. Because rank 8 cloack literally finished mythic raiding.
So your argument is non existant.
Congrats
You are unable to read. It seems you should worry less about video games.
Yet people did beat heroic raids with rank 5 cloak.
And completed mythic with rank 8.
And most of the hall of fame compelted it with below rank 12.
Didn’t VOA give you 2/5 of your set pieces? Including from previous tiers?
I remember WoLTK being far more forgiving than BFA. At least in as far as the amount of grinding required to catch up.
Certainly not 3 weeks to grind out currency for some cape before you can even begin to call yourself competitive. That doesn’t include the grinding time necessary for corruptions either.
The entire MMO genre was still young back then. It was exciting to a lot of people. I’m willing to bet that at least half of WoW’s current playerbase have been playing since Vanilla/TBC.
I came to Wow during that surge because the rest of the MMO market was going f2P, shutting down or going into zombie mode. Wrath did not do anything “right” to attract me other than be alive and healthy.
it didn’t do anything. wrath stagnated the numbers vanilla>burning crusade had. and it was the brand, timing, and accessibility from games like everquest.
WotLK was a okay expansion. It didn’t do anything exceptionally well compared to others.
It was popular because it was the epic climax of the Warcraft 3 story that millions of people had followed for years. WoW in general benefited from being released when most Americans were getting high speed internet and online gaming was flourishing. An MMORPG was a completely new concept to most.
Umm… story telling? The story telling in WoLTK was far better.
Also it didn’t rely on longevity by doubling down on MAU-based retention mechanics like grinding out vision currency, cloak currency, corruption currency, etc.
I can grant you that, but the story telling was far better. LK was the big-bad start to finish and made plenty of cameo appearances in between to make himself seem intimidating.
Even setting aside we knew the back-story … it was far easier to follow WoLTK start to end than any current xpac (even w/o books).
Tbh. I actually think MoP was WoW’s best take on story-telling. It was epic, there was tons of nuance added to Pandaria that made it really feel like a place with a deep history. And the faction war actually made sense for once. Oh and Garrosh was an actual morally grey character unlike you know, Sylvanas.
Wrath had some good story elements but overall one of the major criticisms was that the Lich King did not feel menacing but like a saturday morning cartoon villain. Which I have to agree with. Too many instance of running into him and him basically gloating “I’ll get you next time, Gadget”
Studies show that while being unemployed can increase online gaming, economic distress does not. Those who must carefully allocate resources will generally suspend such accounts. Here is a link to a study published at Auburn University discussing the impact of the Great Recession on the “…consumption of entertainment activities…”
“Income has significantly positive coefficients for all three types of entertainment activities across all years.However, the role of income on entertainment activities is not independent from business cycle, since we found empirical evidence that recessions tend to weaken the income effect. Recessionary effects were observed from decreases in the income coefficient during recession years for all three categories of expenditures from the Tobit model and for two out of the three from the probit model estimations. It should be noted that a decrease in the income coefficient during recessions implies a slow adjustment of consumption expenditures on entertainment when the income growth slows down.This may help explain seemingly puzzling observations that entertainment spending often does not decrease much during economic recessions. See Paulin (2012) for similar observation for travel expenditure.”
Him being named warchief was also somewhat iffy (though that’s on cata).
When? Every instance prior to ICC he is just sending his minions after you.
The only time does show up is in the wrath gate cinematic and he gets forced away by poison. Then in the actual dungeon when he does show up towards the end we need to high tail it out of there (along with Sylvannis).
Even in the raid we barely win based on the event. He was a few seconds away from turning us all into DKs.
TBC and WotLK both had time gated content for Sunwell and Icecrown Citadel. Both raids were gated with each wing releasing every couple weeks.
WotLK is when they started selling mounts and pets on the store. You should have seen all the crying over the sparkle pony.
It also had a huge problem with hackers stealing accounts. So much so that they introduced the authenticator a few months prior to WotLK.
I would also argue that part of this had to do with there not being much, if any, competition at the time. Even games like League of Legends didn’t launch until 2009.
Yeah, during WoD when they tried going back to the “roots” of the game. Turns out people like having stuff to do, even if it is a hamster wheel.
People tossing in Arthas and nostalgia as reasons for 12 million subs. Generally excuses because they don’t want to draw the conclusion that WoW was just a better game back then.
Keep in mind, reaching 12 million wasn’t entirely Wrath’s doing. Wrath peaked WoW, but credit where it’s due to TBC, which was the expansion that built WoW into an empire of an MMO. Wrath was strong enough of a follow up expansion to sustain the sub count that TBC had built, and even push the sub count a little further.
These were expansions when the game took players through a journey. WoW is no longer a journey. It’s a bunch of shortcuts to the destination. It’s the kind of game meant to attract moms with a job and 4 kids who don’t have the means or motive to dedicate any time at all. So WoW right now is best played just to see the stuff with very little ambition to it.
