122503-just-played-wod-and-i-think-i-have-to-come-back-to-wildstar

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Long story short I played Wildstar in beta and watched in horror as my fears were realized. I've kept my subscription up (mostly with CREDD) while playing other games. I played WoW back in burning crusade and jumped ship mid-Cataclysm (such an appropriate name). WoD looked like it might be a step in the right direction, though anything would be after WoW jumped the panda. I got to lvl 95 and I had to log out after i was rewarded with epic bracers for 4 mouse clicks. I used 2/3 charges of a skill from my garrison (think housing mixed with a facebook game) and killed a rare mob. It dropped a pair of epic bracers (100% drop chance). I sat there with my mouth open and got up to go tell my friend who was in the other room. Upon coming back I saw that the enemy had done barely any damage to me after it had respawned, so I killed it again. BOE blue boots. The game plays its self. Quite literally if you consider garrisons. You get followers that you send to do missions, some taking hours or even days. Did I mention facebook games?
 
To add insult to injury, Blizzard decided to deprive everyone of flying mounts for longer, even though they were supposed to be added in patch 6.1. Had I known they were going to change their minds there is no way I would have wasted my money.
 
I'm sure Wildstar still isn't "optimized", and pvp is likely still dead, but oh god after the abortion that is WoD I think I have a renewed perspective on what bad really is. I'm really hoping that I can come back to Wildstar and start mending my broken heart. Playing WoD has been an emotional rollercoaster.
 	
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			I have done pretty much the same journey, welcome back =)	
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I started playing wow in my early teens from the 4th week in vanilla till last may, a total of 9 ½ yr. I'd lost faith in the game a long time before that! But just walking away from 100's of mounts and 500k gold still took some doing.
Many times I joked in trade chat that we would soon be getting a free epic in the mail box each time we logged in.....wow is not there yet but it's getting very close! At first getting all the epics for virtually doing nothing gives you a feel good factor, then it just becomes meaningless so they need to chuck better rewards at you. Once blizzard choose this path the game in my opinion just lost it's way.
 
Welcome to a game with a future.....not a past   	
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Welcome back. I sort of did the same. Went back to WoW and realized just how good Wildstar really is. Sure it's not perfect but miles head of WoW in terms of controls, LAS/amp/ability point systems and combat.
 
Give Carbine a few weeks. With the removal of rating on 1800 gear, the pvp scene should make a great comeback and with the planned pvp changes in Drop 5, PvP is going to be very very good	
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Welcome back. I sort of did the same. Went back to WoW and realized just how good Wildstar really is. Sure it's not perfect but miles head of WoW in terms of controls, LAS/amp/ability point systems and combat.
 
Give Carbine a few weeks. With the removal of rating on 1800 gear, the pvp scene should make a great comeback and with the planned pvp changes in Drop 5, PvP is going to be very very good
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Whoa whoa whoa...what's this now? If this is the case, then even I'll want to PvP.
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			I know what you mean, WS has spoiled us all. A while ago I decided to play some TSW (for the first time in a long while) and the stand-still-and-shoot-while-tab-targeting combat felt just so boring and meh, also I tried to double-jump all the time (which obviously doesn't work). That made me realize how much I like WS action-filled combat.	
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I returned to WoW in december because a friend gifted me a month, I had bought the WoD expansion back in February but quit shortly after =/.
Loved the streamlined and quite story driven questing, the grass now moves if you walk through and there's a LOT more of it and the random item upgrades were a fun addition too, but I could just not agree with whatever they did to the classes, everything feels clunky.
 
 
Planned on just bringing my Resto shaman to 100 but ended up leveling 3 characters in total in that month, I just couldn't get to terms with the ability pruning they had done.
WoWs combat system is already quite boring to start out with and now some classes have had literally half their spells flat out removed or shifted to specific specializations.
My Tank paladin lost wings, my MM hunter felt incredibly clunky without arcane shot and well, my all time favorite shaman, I don't know what to say.
 
They've left me with barely any tool to survive in pvp, tremor totem cant be used in fears anymore (really?!), Magma totem isn't available to restoration, healing tide totem has lost any meaning in pvp (its basically a healing stream without target restrictions)
and there's now 2 active healing spells in total, both heal for the same amount but one is faster and costs slightly more mana... it feels like they just sucked every bit of fun out of the game.
Melee classes just trample all over casters in every situation, ability pruning didn't seem to have affected them nearly as much.
I admit, I haven't played much end-game but casters and healers in particular seemed to have quite literally no way to defend themselves anymore.
 
Loved the streamlined and quite story driven questing and the random item upgrades were a fun addition too, but I could just not agree with whatever they did to the classes, everything feels clunky.
There's just way too many situations where you just watch your characters die, with no buttons to press.
 
 
//Also, Wildstar combat >>>>>> WoW combat	
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I had that reaction well before WoD, but I know exactly where you're coming from.
 
I was splitting time between FFXIV:ARR and WoW, and I had played WoW since launch, probably about ten or so years.  I wasn't even looking into Wildstar; I believed the negative anti-hype around the game that called it "WoW in space" and just called it a day.  I was completely and totally uninterested in the game.  Somehow, NCSoft, who I don't even remember contacting, found my email address and sent me an open beta invitation.  I had just finished FFXIV:ARR coils at the time, I was waiting for WoD but knowing it would be a while, and I just decided, "why not?"
 
Oh, how the stars align.
 
I was instantly addicted to the game.  It wasn't even a long-term, growing-to-like-it thing, I instantly loved the things I was doing even in the Arkship and, as everyone knows, the Arkship is one of the less interesting chapters of Wildstar.  This game feels almost tailor made for someone like me.  I was a long term MMORPG junkie turned off by the genre's overall swing towards lower difficulties.  I played a ton of platformers and action combat games in my youth, but had largely abandoned them for lacking the real social aspect of an MMORPG.  I used to build levels in Radiant and the Duke Nukem editor, even built my RP costumes in WoW but was ultimately disappointed in the implemented transmogrify system.  This game, literally, has everything I wanted, even things I didn't know I wanted.
 
Open beta ended, and I immediately pre-ordered the deluxe edition.  But there was some time left that I was going to have to wait for headstart, so I went back to WoW to wait.  I cancelled my sub after three days.  It wasn't even worth playing anymore.  I had the same reaction with FFXIV:ARR.  They're not bad games, I loved those games, I don't blame anyone for playing those games.  However, after having played Wildstar, I couldn't take it.  I couldn't take the slowness, the mind-numbing dreariness of it.  Everything felt so stuff and robotic, like I was mindlessly playing Farmville instead of an exciting RPG.
 
So now I can't really go back.  My brain is just hard-wired for Wildstar's intensity, everything else feels like I'm waiting for the game to catch up to me.	
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