give me a fun mmo plz

[Naethyn]

My buddy spent 24 hours camping stormfeather and finally gave up making a petition to a GM asking it if was broke. The GM said no. So he took a days rest then camped it for ANOTHER 36 hours. No stormfeather. He then made another petition and the GM confirmed it broken.

My biggest timesink ever wasn't in EQ. It was in wow. Back in the day you could get the pet Snarler from feralas. 100 all resist wolf. Owned for a hunter. I sat with my goblin dive helmet under the falls north of camp Mojakini* or whatever... watching track for snarler for 4 straight days. I played alliance so feralas wasn't exactly safe at 42 lol.

I did finally get him though!!!

Then they nerfed him 2 months later.

yay.

But for those 2 months boy did I have fun watching the mages endlessly try and poly my pet. That was worth it alone! haha

[Tikker]

You haven't spent much time at L70, have you.

I quit prior to BWL, so obviously not

If they've finally fixed it, grats bliz

I quit because I was tired of people reading other guilds strats for bosses, and calling it research


irked me to no end to have the ability to just play thru and learn it yourself, and find out that most people would rather just hit the I WIN button and collect lewts

[Lyion]

You haven't spent much time at L70, have you.

I quit prior to BWL, so obviously not

If they've finally fixed it, grats bliz

I quit because I was tired of people reading other guilds strats for bosses, and calling it research

irked me to no end to have the ability to just play thru and learn it yourself, and find out that most people would rather just hit the I WIN button and collect lewts

It's even easier than that. Prior to a recent patch, you could essentially automate everything for most bosses via ADDONS and it was simplified down to the point of idiocy.

It's still simple, but at least Blizzard changed the scripting so it couldn't be 100% automated.

There are addons for almost every boss, and even clearing through BT, it is still simplified so that a guild of monkeys could do it.

WOW is built for the stupid. Anyone can see the mongoloid retards who populate many high end guilds, and see it's so. It's why they have so many players, it's built to be simple.

I'm not even addressing the welfare epics for arena strategy.

[Arlos]

Any automating scripting was changed YEARS ago, not recently. Hell, pretty much all automating ability was removed before the game even went live. Back in beta it was possible via mods to auto-recast buffs, etc. (which was a real boon to paladins who had to buff entire raids with a 5 minute buff). They even further cut it back about a year ago now, but the automation capable at that point was nothing compared to what was available in beta.

Yes, there are plenty of guilds out there who can't do anything without reading a detailed set of directions. There are, however, plenty of guilds out there who are doing it first, without any guides. It's really not THAT much different than EQ, follow-on guilds in EQ generally had some strat details from "someone they knew in the lead raid guild" or some such. I was quite happy to be in a cutting edge guild then, and I'm just as happy to be in a cutting edge guild now. If you're finding guilds full of mongoloids, you're not looking at the right guilds.

-Arlos

[Lyion]

No, it was changed in 2.0 roughly a year ago. Hardly that long. You could do complex scripting and loops prior to that change.

It's still ridiculously stupid to raid and no class takes any skill, especially with raid addons, but at least you can't macro most of the encounter, as before.

[Tikker]

Any automating scripting was changed YEARS ago, not recently. Hell, pretty much all automating ability was removed before the game even went live. Back in beta it was possible via mods to auto-recast buffs, etc. (which was a real boon to paladins who had to buff entire raids with a 5 minute buff). They even further cut it back about a year ago now, but the automation capable at that point was nothing compared to what was available in beta.

what are you talking about?

ctmod would pretty much auto run MC for you

[Kramer]

i have to agree that in mmo's you have two very distinct camps now, those who know how to group, and those who are Leroy Jenkins....

i hit high level in Guild Wars and it is shocking how your group is one extreme or the other....

i remember my friends schooling in group basics and it effects how i play every mmo now... it's pretty rare now.

i am enjoying guild wars overall though, you can log on for an hour and get something done, sweet graphics, etc... free online play but for all of the discs it's like 100 retail, or much cheaper used i am sure.