Red Thunder Clan

I bought and played GW2 ages ago.  Got bored very quickly with much of it and wasn't terribly impressed with the rest.  Gave it up completely after a month.  Sorry.

And then there's Guild Wars II: yes, you have to buy the game, but there's no monthly fee, and you're NOT gimped for not subscribing. Subscriptions aren't even an option. You only get five character slots for free, but that's more than most non-altaholics will need (yes, I've purchased a couple extra character slots).

WoW's a lot of fun, and I miss it sometimes, but I don't miss the monthly fee. I'll probably jump on a lifetime sub if they ever offer it, but until then my sporadically-playing self is happy without the recurring charge.

You can group with friends on other servers for PvE and some PvP, but I'm on Devona's Rest if you want to get together on the World-vs-World battleground.

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Good news for craftaholics: crafting materials have their own slots in the "collections" part of the shared bank, you can deposit collection items (including crafting mats) from anywhere in the world, and crafting stations automatically use the materials from your collections. Finally got more than a stack of 250 copper ore, and the excess is taking up space in your pack? Have an alt smelt your ore into bars and re-deposit them into the "copper bar" slot of your collection. You can also access the auction house from anywhere, so you could just sell your excess (although you still need to go to town to pick up cash from sales or get an item you bought).

Also, everything about the game encourages you to help other people and adventure together. Crafting nodes are per-player, so it doesn't matter if someone harvests it while you're fighting off a mob that jumped you: it's still there for you. Worried about some pinhead killing the named mob that spawned for your quest (they call them events)? Not only do you get credit if he kills it, but he automatically gets the event (quest) when he gets near it, and you both get the reward.

As cool as the game is, though, I still don't get on much, and about none at all during the week. I'd be overjoyed to help out and show people around on a weekend, though. :D

EVERYONE should take breaks.  It helps prevent burnout.

The past three months I've only logged on about two weeks' worth.  I wanted to play some of the backlog of games I've had on my Steam account for the past year.  Now I'm starting to get that WoW itch again so I'll probably be on more often soon leveling up one of my other characters. :)

Yea. WoW is still my definite choice for an MMO.

The free ones just are missing soo much.

The paid for ones make you wonder why they aren't free.


I may take a brief break between now and Warlords, however.

I still think the earliest would be September, but I think even when WoW loses a lot of subs between now and then there'll be enough stuff forthcoming to get people to re-up.  I'm really liking a lot of what I'm seeing from the Alpha.

I'll still be sticking with it.  Not that I ever see any of you guys anymore, but I still enjoy the game and I don't see that changing anytime soon.  I've tried just about every other MMO that's come out the past 8-10 years--Beta testing quite a slew of them--and I've never found one I liked more than WoW.

So...you're stuck with me.  I'll probably end up being the one turning out the lights when everyone else has left the party.

I know when I heard the original announcement of "end of the year" for the expansion I was shocked.

I did realize it was a fluid date, more specifically meaning, BEFORE the end of the year... meaning sooner if possible.


I truly hope so, because WoW is withering on the vine....

Just days after announcing the Warlords of Draenor alpha it seems they really WERE further along in the process of getting the expansion done because tons of information about the beta client is being datamined these past few days (including a launch screen actually stating "Beta (x64)".  mmo-champion.com has all of the data, as per usual, and I recommend everyone taking a look, specifically at all of the class changes. 

EVERYONE is pretty much going to have to relearn their class this next expansion since they're cutting out a lot of abilities (and, presumably, baking their benefits into passives or combining them with other abilities) to get rid of the "ability bloat".  They're also cutting out a lot of CC from everyone across the board, so I assume their dungeon designs will be adapted more to the past "AoE the hell out of everything" approach and not so much the "you CC X, I'll CC square, you CC triangle" strategies employed in some of the more nail-biting heroics.

I will admit I was pretty daunted by the sheer amount of things that were on the chopping block (which, for me, included several hunter abilities I've used daily since starting my hunter), but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and see how it plays before I pass judgement on it.  I see their reasoning for trimming some of the fat...I'm just not yet fully convinced all of it was fat.

So yeah, been a while since I've been in the general public area.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY KALIFORNIA!

Just saw the post.

Happy Belated Birthday Kelly!!