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Re: Wow 6.0

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From: Catriona R
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 12:24
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>On 3/07/2014 9:46 AM, Catriona R wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 23:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Lewis
>> <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>
>>> I don't even get the garrison thing. It doesn�t seem to be *AT ALL* like
>>> what they showed at Blizzcon.
>>
>> Completely unfinished... I hope. So far it's a bit boring, but then
>> there's very little you can actually do with it yet. If you have
>> alchemy you have a chance at a drop that lets you progress further.. I
>> don't, so hoping next build adds stuff. It doesn't so far seem very
>> customisable though, which I'd been hoping for, more just something to
>> fill up - but, I'll give it time, it's very clearly not finished yet,
>> anyway.
>>
>>> I do like summoning super powerful archers every 5 minutes to kick the
>>> everliving crap out of whatever I'm fighting.
>>
>> I always forget I have those! Tried them on a rare once, didn't stop
>> me from dying painfully lol. And then I see a forum thread full of
>> people saying everything's "undertuned" and far too easy. Well, I
>> don't think I suck that badly, so either they're all talking from 580+
>> ilvl rather than 500 premades, or Disc needs a buff (which I think it
>> probably does, I don't expect to kill as fast as dps specs, but it
>> feels SLOW at present, plus rather squishy in multi-mob situations)
>
>Could just be elitism, and nothing to say they really found it easy.
>Keyboard athletes in Lvl 97-100 gear finds lvl 90-93 easy, surprise.
>If they wanted to test appropriate gear a few empty slots or equiping 
>lvl rewards would tell.

Hehe, true, although some claim they were using premades and still
found it easy, sigh. Yes, I'm not a dps spec, but I enjoyed being able
to solo comfortably in MoP... maybe it's just my spec!

>For the garrisons, they can be fun, or at least another thing to do
>I am hoping it doesn't have unmoderated raiding, like being pvp flagged 
>all the time.
>Assuming probably wrongly it is like other garrison games , guild on 
>guild garrison fights can be fun , provided it is tower and resource 
>game not a bunch of pvp freaks exploiting their way through your gates - 
>otherwise it may as well just be battlegrounds. A 3 days siege 
>desperately trying to make more lumber to repair the walls and 
>catapaults, watching food and ammo deplete past replenishment rate can 
>get quite distracting, finding your garrison endlessly pillaged by 24/7 
>players not so much.

Heh, sounds cool, but not much like how we're told it'll work. I think
NPCs can come and attack your garrison for a while, other players
can't even see it though :-)

>Hey, we have whackamole ,pokemon,donkeykong , I can hope for a decent 
>tower defence.

Would be cool, but I think it'snot going to end much like that :-)
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