Comments on: When is enough, enough?

By: WoW Macros

WoW Macros — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:24:01 +0000

I to feel this way. For now I just PvP and save arena points and honor. My full s3 set should get me pretty far when it comes to everything else. Hopefully the Arena system and points will carry over to WotLK. If not i’ll just buy whatever the gear is at the time with it and go from there.

By: Knurd

Knurd — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:12:38 +0000

LOLIRL @

” is being able to go all out for 30 seconds, then nick off to make a coffee while my aggro drops back below the tank, a limitation rather than an advantage?”

You are going to run into this no matter what you do … I am of equal gear level as our tanks on my hunter but still play this game quite often:

Fight Starts
Auto Shot for 5 seconds or so.
Start my high DPS shot rotation
Tank Gains 14k threat
Feign Death
Pop Trinkets/BW/Go to town
Feign Death Resisted
Afk and watch ER
Come back and start again.

Just enjoy the game no matter what it brings in any way you deem needed … you are always going to out DPS the tanks threat no matter what gear they are in. )

By: Zupa

Zupa — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:16:44 +0000

It’s good to have a look at why you are doing the things you do once in a while.

If its not fun don’t bother has been my policy since its a game, right? Can someone please tell me a fun way to make enough money to sustain raiding?

consider yourself quoted also over at automagica!

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:07:15 +0000

I must say writing this post was quite cathartic. Had fun on Friday for the sake of having fun. Logged off without worrying about uploading character stats for future review.. couldn’t tell you how many badges I have saved up…

Feels good…

By: Namthe

Namthe — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:23:34 +0000

” new set of “T6″ equivalent gear tomorrow”

Uh, isn’t that what the Shattered Sun badge gear is?

In any case, I’ve seen it time and time again that the people who play for the gear are the ones that don’t last in guilds that have the capability of getting that gear.

So long as what I’m wearing keeps up with the content, I don’t really care what it looks like.

In reality two months won’t be much of a handicap. In fact in some ways it will be a benefit – the economy will have re-stabilised and you won’t be paying 20G for a stack of frostweave cloth (for example). Most guilds I know had barely started raiding kara after that time – ample time to level up and join your mates. Honor might well be worth stockpiling though.

My own approach to the expansion will be the same as the previous one – to ignore it until the day it’s released.

By: typhoonandrew

typhoonandrew — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 02:55:42 +0000

For me its about when the time spent does not return enough of a reward. My Warlock is well geared, and needs the odd tweak here and there, but is basically set for the expansion.

My Paladin needs some upgrades, and I’ll continue to work on those. But that leave me with time online to so something else; so I rolled a Druid.

I don’t think its about getting the next T? drop; its about the best way to gain an advantage till you’re happy.

But I suppose you also have to consider the opportunistic nature of gear; meaning that you might still have a lot of upgrades to get, but you’ll never practically be able to do those runs. So don’t sweat it. Make new goals and play on.

By: Larísa

Larísa — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:59:22 +0000

Lovely post!
It’s time to relax and enjoy – as it ALWAYS is! Goddamn it! Why on earht should you skip fun raiding encounters just because the gear may get outdated… ? I don’t get it! This is entertainment and joy and fun, not a job. If you chose to grind instead of doing what’s fun you condemn yourself to boredom for an unknown amount of time. Don’t do that.

I know painfully well what you mean by too good gear. For me the solution was speccing arcane instead of fire. Much less of a problem those days.

Finally: that trip sounds just awesome! Enjoy it and just don’t think about if you’ll get behind others. MInd you, I myself started to play in february last year. From scratch, with no knowledge of the game at all, didn’t know a person in the game. I began from the beginnign. I was MORE than 60 levels behind everyone else, trust me. Today I’m raiding T5 instances. OK it’s not the cutting edge, but I don’t complain. What I’m trying to say is that you’ll catch up. Don’t worry.