Intro
Perhaps not the greatest title to define what this blog
entry will encompass, but it has some underlying meaning. It is no surprise that I play WOW for one
reason and one reason only, to raid. All
else in game is truly just a big pile of fluff to me. Mounts, pets, pokemon, PVP, questing, gold
farming, professions, etc. all of it has no meaning to me and gives me little
to no happiness to participate in them. I will do some of the aforementioned
list in the name of raiding. E.g. PVP
for legendary quest line, rep grinding Black Prince rep, or rep grind for an
item to make me a better raider. Some of
my guild mates claim I think and say everything not raiding in WOW is just “stupid”. Perhaps to some degree they are right and I
am just in some sort of denial.
Raiding
So, what the hell is about raiding that makes it so
appealing even after 9 years of playing this addictive game that might as well
be my crack cocaine? For one, I love how
it has evolved. From 40 mans in vanilla
to the succinct 10 man in MoP and soon to be back up to 20 mans in WOD. I love it all, I loved 40 mans at the time,
loved 25 mans at the time, loved and love 10 mans now, and will love 20 mans
when we get there. Add to that this new
Flex model and I am hooked. I do need to
make one caveat, I do hate LFR and I know that is categorized as raiding, but it’s
a huge pile of poo. Toxic and mundane
and a means to get some gear or some items you may need for a quest line. I want LFRs to diaf. Number 2, I love the social aspect to
raiding. The vent conversation, the
hijinx, and the general social interactions within a raid just make it that
much more appealing. This is probably
why LFR falls grossly short of something enjoyable to me. The trolling and awful gameplay make it
nauseating to participate in and then no true social interaction minus venomous
raid chatter. I can only hope in WOD I
no longer ever have to run stupid LFR. Number
3, the strategic nature of raiding and the dependence on 9 or more other player
to properly execute to get a kill. That
aspect of the game is thrilling and gets my blood pumping. There is a great inner feeling I get when we
down a heroic boss. It just feels good
to conquer a heroic boss with a bunch of other people using good teamwork and
strategy. Number 4, it is just plain
fun. If it wasn’t fun I wouldn’t play
this game, though if I could roll it into a joint and smoke it I probably would
just do it or maybe freebase it. What the
hell am I talking about….
5 Mans
I should say I do like 5 mans as a means for gearing up with
pre-raid gear. They sucked in MoP as
they got too easy too fast, but were awesome in early Cata when the 5 mans
heroics felt like 5 man raiding to some extent especially in greens and
blues. I hope Blizz gets back to more challenging
5 man content and gets rid of the stupid scenarios or at the very least, add
them into the LFD system.
World BG PVP
Not sure what else to call it, but I liked the Wintergrasp PVP
model and the one after it to some extent.
Not sure why I did, but sometimes it was fun to queue up and win then go
run those raid bosses for some loot. To
me, way better than the world boss model like we have now.
Conclusion
I wonder if some of our younger guildies or younger people even
know the movie title I titled this blog post after. I guess I am getting older and what I think
is mainstream/classic is not even in the realm of knowledge of people perhaps
10 years younger. Or maybe they are just
stupid. ;) Jk….
No comments:
Post a Comment