Newbie gripes by a P&P player

Shamus started playing World of Warcraft about a month ago, and has been having the same growing pains many of us rookies did in our younger levels. But since Shamus is something of a name in the pen-and-paper gaming Internet circuit, it's interesting to see what he has to say in his review of WoW.

"9. Heavy Drinking Mages

Mages have to replenish their magic power by sitting down and drinking water. It takes a while. It’s a constant drag on performance, and means that everything just takes longer when you’re playing a magic user. Worse, you can’t put that time to use. You can’t work on leatherworking, or tailoring, or alchemy, or any of the other secondary activities in the game while you wait. You just sit there.

I don’t see a reason for this, other than as a simple timesink. Mages can conjure water using magic. Then they sit down and drink said water. What exactly are we accomplishing here, except to squander the player’s time?

Any game mechanic that requires you to constantly stop playing the game to do nothing for a worthless thirty seconds at a time is bad game design."

http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1740

And to the person at Blizzard who decided you must be level 5 to drink a glass of milk: You are a madman and you must be stopped.

My first character is level 21 now, which means she’s still a good thirty levels from being qualified to eat a pie.

Really. What the hell?

Resurrection Sickness Sucks
Ha ha. You were killed by teleporting monsters, or lag, or by one of those roaming elites we like to put in the game just to piss people off. Sucker. Go stand in the corner for ten minutes.





I loled

Lots of stupid QQ in here

The only thing i agree with is mostly the bag space... Whenever u start a new toon, the first thing u have to do is to send him 4 16 slots bag or u will have to run back to town a lot lol.

10. Wandering Elites are Asinine

..... Suddenly being attacked by something you can’t fight and can’t outrun is more or less the same thing as being killed by a random bolt of lightning. Life is random and unfair, but when I’m playing a game for entertainment I’d like for penalties to be related to mistakes, not bad luck. This does not enrich the game experience. It’s just a pointless death to punish the player for… what? Playing the game in the first place?


Well I have to disagree on this one, it's not so common and it adds a sense of danger to the zones. Also, it makes for some memorable encounters. Which Hordie doesn't remember the 4 mounted Alliance elites roaming Southern Barrens with a curse and a smile?

Speaking of wandering elites, the Son of Arugal was by far the worst, always sneaking up behind you in the middle of Silverpine Forest where you can't see them coming until it's too late.

Gallowyn wrote:

Speaking of wandering elites, the Son of Arugal was by far the worst, always sneaking up behind you in the middle of Silverpine Forest where you can't see them coming until it's too late.

my top 3 are those centaurs outside wailing caverns you simply can't get there without being ambushed by them, but i managed to make peace with myself when i went back 10 levels later killing everyone of those damn horsies in 2 hrs unbridled rage.

2nd would be those damn elites in EPL, but i exorcised those demons comfort with the knowledge that i can wipe them out single handedly anytime, in fact when i signed up for the PTR, the first thing i did was not to see Black temple or zul'aman, but to seek out these annoying OP scouts and put them in their spots.

last would be king mosh in the crater, he mastered the art of ganking up on me whenever i'm there farming but cos of it's title - king. I coaxed, cajoled my then guildies to put up and expedition force to kill it, we went there all gung ho but king mosh just ignored us and squashed us like flies. took us a few tries to get him and for a rare spawn with such royal name it drops grey thrash, we thought we were unlucky and kill it again and again and apparently it only drop greys...

i suspect i will be visiting vashj again when i'm level 80..

My worst experience for elite mob is the devilsaur in ungoro. Man, that thing scare the crap out of me, was doing quest killing mob when i realize my health drop really fast. Turn around and was like "OO SHIT"

Rooth wrote:

Lots of stupid QQ in here

The only thing i agree with is mostly the bag space... Whenever u start a new toon, the first thing u have to do is to send him 4 16 slots bag or u will have to run back to town a lot lol.

The QQ thing is not all that bad (someone even got a job at Blizzard becos of a 16-page QQ), imho what's worse are fanbois who think that Blizz can do no wrong, and blindly accept any shit thrown at them.

Sheep customers --> complacent developers --> lousy games.

Devilsaur is my fav !

remembered the 1st time i got ganked

2nd time i was prepared with my bubble

a few second after running from him with bubble now finished. guess who stomps on me

DEVILSAUR !!

but yea to the point, i dunt feel punished

i kinda acknowledge blizz for that

its like the same feeling you get when you go watch a horror movie everytime you enter a new zone

...holy shit...look at those high lvl mobs...i better walk slowly...STOMP !

omg wtf devilsaur !

oh and Fel Reaver

after the 1st welcome stomp

we get this excitement whenever we hear him coming

pure gold imo

but i agree...faster drinks would help

/kiss