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Alex C:
It's all relative; wow is not a hard game, particularly by the standards of earlier MMOs. Still, I created a new druid to double check things since I figured that times have changed since I started out my first druid, particularly since they eliminated downranking and changed spell costs from set amounts to base mana costs across the board. Turned out I was right. You see, back in the day when I started my druid, rank 1 Wrath did about half the damage of a Fireball for two thirds of the mana cost, which is kind of a problem since druids start out with the smallest mana pool of any caster and you were likely to run dry rather quickly if you chain nuked things. In short, druids were pure casters and they were kind of bad at it. Now rank 1 Wrath does more damage than I remember and it apparently costs six fucking mana now.
Six!
Holy crap. I swear to god if any new druid says that the first 10 levels are annoying I will stab them in the eye with my pen.
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The above statement should not be taken as a shot at newbies. I love newbies and think the petulant whining by veteran players who are bitchy just because they once had to wait 'till 40 to buy their mounts is just so much noise. Overall, I think the change is really clever, particularly since it looks like druid spells are actually rather expensive after enough levels, but by then people have the talents to make up for that. Crap like this is why I think Blizzard is smarter than many whiners give them credit for.
0bsessions:
To be entirely fair, as a newbie, I will echo the sentiment that anyone who thinks the first ten levels of Druid are hard should probably be stabbed in the eyes. It's probably only gotten even easier since the Echoes of Doom patch, which was a month or two after I joined.
I started up back in early to mid August and it was still fucking cake to blow through the first thirty or so levels. Now that the level cap is up even further, it's probably been even further streamlined.
Alex C:
Yeah, hard isn't really the right word for solo WoW play. The game is not Final Fantasy online; you don't ever need buffs and a little luck to solo a same level bunny rabbit (although, I would recommend finding a group in any case). Like I said, I applaud the changes that were apparently made; the game wasn't hard as a druid before, but it was a bit annoying thanks to the craptacular mana pool druids (particularly taurens) started with. Having to drink or melee every couple of mobs as an essentially pure caster gets kind of annoying and really shouldn't be all that necessary at low level play.
clockworkjames:
ctrl+alt+o=ó :-D
And I am levelling with my belf/undead buddies so... I might get some sweet bloos but I will need to hearth to TB to get my new forms and stuff :/
Is not all bad, I got friends accounts linked so we can summon each other, YEAH!
As for wrath rank 1 it started as 6, then 9, now 12.
I don't geddit.
0bsessions:
Man, you are going to be so fucking devastated when your link ends. I remember the first time I PMed my brother telling him to summon me and remembered he can't anymore. You kind of start to take it for granted after three whole months.
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