Comments on: Actual Proper Wrath Of The Lich King Post http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/08/06/actual-proper-wrath-of-the-lich-king-post/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:52:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Feet http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/08/06/actual-proper-wrath-of-the-lich-king-post/#comment-149 Feet Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:51:11 +0000 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=67#comment-149 "The game was incredibly entertaining when I was confused and shambolic, making stuff up as I went along, nervously eyeballing the art of a new location or enemy, rather than the level number on it, exactly what spell it was casting and what its likelihood of dropping a green item was, according to my raft of UI plugins. The mystery, the sense of exploration and discovery, was gone. I’m now so utterly familiar with the mechanics behind the game that no expansion can possibly recapture the sense of wonder of WoW’s first 30-odd levels. I can’t believe I’m alone in this." You arn't at all. “The game was incredibly entertaining when I was confused and shambolic, making stuff up as I went along, nervously eyeballing the art of a new location or enemy, rather than the level number on it, exactly what spell it was casting and what its likelihood of dropping a green item was, according to my raft of UI plugins. The mystery, the sense of exploration and discovery, was gone. I’m now so utterly familiar with the mechanics behind the game that no expansion can possibly recapture the sense of wonder of WoW’s first 30-odd levels. I can’t believe I’m alone in this.”

You arn’t at all.

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]]> By: Kieron Gillen http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/08/06/actual-proper-wrath-of-the-lich-king-post/#comment-44 Kieron Gillen Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:03:56 +0000 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=67#comment-44 I'm sad now. I want a moonsword! KG I’m sad now. I want a moonsword!

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]]> By: Quintin http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2007/08/06/actual-proper-wrath-of-the-lich-king-post/#comment-43 Quintin Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:25:24 +0000 http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=67#comment-43 Me and my friend made a pretty heroic last ditch attempt at turning WoW into something interesting as we got bored around level 30. We made stealthy expeditions into the starting Alliance territories and tried acting as amiable diplomats to low level players, we bought parachutes and hurled ourselves off the highest peaks in the game but the most simultaneously elating and depressing thing we did was make our Moonswords. My friend (an engineer) gave me (a blacksmith) a rare blueprint for an enormous sword we could both just about use. By combining our stashes, our tradeskills and our free time we /just/ managed to scrape together the components I needed to make a pair of these Moonswords. And they were beautiful. Their blades had shining textures you didn't see anywhere else in the game, leading to other players sending us messages reading 'awesome swords' and 'where did u get them'. The swords were also completely fucking useless, and statistically they were superceded by any half decent drop any player might stumble across. We logged our characters out for the last time at the top of a waterfall, holding those swords and staring off into the night. Me and my friend made a pretty heroic last ditch attempt at turning WoW into something interesting as we got bored around level 30. We made stealthy expeditions into the starting Alliance territories and tried acting as amiable diplomats to low level players, we bought parachutes and hurled ourselves off the highest peaks in the game but the most simultaneously elating and depressing thing we did was make our Moonswords.

My friend (an engineer) gave me (a blacksmith) a rare blueprint for an enormous sword we could both just about use. By combining our stashes, our tradeskills and our free time we /just/ managed to scrape together the components I needed to make a pair of these Moonswords. And they were beautiful. Their blades had shining textures you didn’t see anywhere else in the game, leading to other players sending us messages reading ‘awesome swords’ and ‘where did u get them’.

The swords were also completely fucking useless, and statistically they were superceded by any half decent drop any player might stumble across.

We logged our characters out for the last time at the top of a waterfall, holding those swords and staring off into the night.

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