2/22/2012 -> Can we get an update on where the Combat Log is?

Perfect example of a gamer that buys every commercial title in search of something epic.

To say that the future of mmorpg gaming is going to be the same garbage that's being peddled now is just crazy. People have played the same game with a different name, different graphics - for 7 years. None of them has ever put a dent in WoW.

EQ - experienced the same thing from 1998-2004. It was the giant elephant in the gaming room. Many games tried to copy a similar model, but were always the red headed step child.

Trust me - when the "Great New Game" hits - it will look like nothing you have seen before.

That includes style of combat, ease of use, encounter difficulty, creature comfort feartures like your macro's logs and parsers.

Then when you look back - you will remember your first game, like I do. You will argue with the kids whose first experience gaming was the new type of model. And you will educate them. As I have educated you.

Perfect example of a gamer that buys every commercial title in search of something epic.

To say that the future of mmorpg gaming is going to be the same garbage that's being peddled now is just crazy. People have played the same game with a different name, different graphics - for 7 years. None of them has ever put a dent in WoW.

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I played EQ, mate. Read what I wrote before you go on some mindless banter. I played until PoP as a raiding Cleric. What I am after is not what everybody is after. I'm looking for the next competitive raiding-based MMO and I had hoped that maybe TOR would be it considering Warcraft has consistently stabbed it's raiding community in the back since the merger with Activision.

Stabbed how? I kinda understand that, making normal and HC modes of same bosses was a big mistake for rading community but HC modes still provided max challenge on many bosses, was it worth it anymore like it was in Sunwell or old naxx? Not for me. Just curious on whats your take on that backstabbing comment?

It first started happening with "Echoes of Doom" flat 30% health nerfs to all raid bosses in BC. From there they decided to dump Naxx on us again and that wouldn't have bothered me save for the fact that we had 2 "Onyxia-esque" single-boss dungeons beyond that in the first tier. I rather enjoyed 3 drake Sarth, and Malygos. They started handing epics like candy in heroics and from the TONS of badges people were getting from them. By the time we got to TOGC they were handing out tier gear that allowed people to skip the first 2 tiers of the expansion by just running 5-man dungeons. They also decided that Ulduar's difficulty was a mistake and they nerfed it into the ground. The only 2 fights worth a damn after the nerfs were zero light Yog and Algalon(25).

During Wrath Blizzard decided to take a page from EQ and many of us raiders had hoped was lost to the annals of history. This was the time limit/attempt limit bosses. Introducing an "artificial difficulty" that was based not on mechanics of the fight but by the limited amount you could see the actual boss. I think it culminated with the scaling buff in Icecrown and once again allowing people freshly capped to waltz around the top tier content where they didn't belong because of welfare gear. Not to mention attempting to even out 10/25 man content by handing out the same gear and attempting to balance the modes evenly WHICH STILL DOESN'T WORK.

Not to mention the shifting of raiding philosophies of class roles and niches. Bring the player not the class drove me insane, but that's my personal issue.

Perfect example of a gamer that buys every commercial title in search of something epic.

To say that the future of mmorpg gaming is going to be the same garbage that's being peddled now is just crazy. People have played the same game with a different name, different graphics - for 7 years. None of them has ever put a dent in WoW.

EQ - experienced the same thing from 1998-2004. It was the giant elephant in the gaming room. Many games tried to copy a similar model, but were always the red headed step child.

Trust me - when the "Great New Game" hits - it will look like nothing you have seen before.

That includes style of combat, ease of use, encounter difficulty, creature comfort feartures like your macro's logs and parsers.

Then when you look back - you will remember your first game, like I do. You will argue with the kids whose first experience gaming was the new type of model. And you will educate them. As I have educated you.

I guess...in the end...it always boils down to this simple thing....

"I want to have something, that you can not have. By having that item/gear/title I am, a better gamer than you."

...for some this is true, but not for all. However it will always be a part, of human nature.

Nah, I was fine with Ulduar. I simply wanted people to have to work for a goal and not be handed loot for practically logging on. If you want the gear COMPLETE THE CONTENT.

That's a complete exaggeration. I've never played an MMO, where I get a full set of purple, for just logging in. Not once has that ever happened.

Name one game, where that is true.