Comments on: Make it all BoA

By: Warcraft Nerdery Binds to your Account! | Breki Tomasson

Warcraft Nerdery Binds to your Account! | Breki Tomasson — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:01:51 +0000

[...] days ago, Gnomeageddon suggested to make a bunch of stuff BoA, specifically things like Tier Armor tokens, Arena season gear, _all_ mounts and vanity pets, etc. [...]

By: Kiryn

Kiryn — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:51:48 +0000

Not everyone plays the game that way, Nathanyel.

I like having a bunch of different characters. It’s not because my main “isn’t fun”, it’s because the others are fun in different ways. Some days I feel like being a druid. Some days I feel like being a paladin.

Why should I have to be penalized for playing multiple characters? If a rare flying mount drops on my druid, sucks to be me because I’m never going to use it, though my priest would have KILLED to get it. If I want to gear up my death knight, but my friends need a healer, should I tell them no because my healing characters already have more emblems than they know what to do with?

New classes are not the only “valid reason” for rolling other characters.

By: Nathanyel

Nathanyel — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:40:21 +0000

And this is exactly what’s wrong. Instead of saying “meh, I don’t like this class anymore, I want to reroll”, you should try to explain what you don’t like about the class and ask e.g. on the official forums to improve that, so that your class becomes as fun as the others again.
This actually works, as seen with the improvement of hybrid classes’ non-healing trees after Classic, the soloing capabilites of healers, up to beginnings of making dps roles more challenging and thus rewarding than pressing two buttons repeatedly.

This is a RPG game after all, not a FPS where you can choose another character template at the beginning of the next round. Focus on the individual character’s importance and development, not expendable, interchangable and predefined models.
You should have a certain bond at least to your main character, alts of course can be just for toying around.
If you abandon your character at the first sign of him being “not fun”, maybe you shouldn’t play a RPG.
Of course there are indeed valid reasons for rerolling, e.g. new classes, races and combinations of the two, but those are the exception among the many rerolls, most can be summed up with “eh, this sucks, give me something else”.

By: voyle

voyle — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:23:16 +0000

I agree completely –make it all BoA so I can play a different class if I want to and not have to gather up all of my favorite pets/mounts/tabards etc. all over again. Also that way I can share my extra useless Emblems of Triumph/whatever with my alts

By: A BOA World « Azure Shadows

A BOA World « Azure Shadows — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:48:13 +0000

[...] actually sparked my interest (amazing, I know). The topic of discussion was prompted by a post that Gnomeageddon wrote yesterday – what if everything in the game was [...]

By: Nathanyel

Nathanyel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:42:46 +0000

What? Making _current_ emblems/tokens BoA would lead to even more grinding, instead of one strong char to equip others, some people sure would create many other characters to “farm” those items to buff their main character, considering how many emblems you need for T10.

By: Tree Bark Jacket » Blog Archive » Should it all be BOA?

Tree Bark Jacket » Blog Archive » Should it all be BOA? — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:23:56 +0000

[...] and post about some other things, but I was going through my RSS and got distracted. Gnomeaggedon started this ball rolling, and Wow.com picked it up. The question posed is, “Should we just make everything [...]

By: Dahkeus

Dahkeus — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:04:02 +0000

Ya, I’d at least like to see the rare mounts and such you get from feats of strength as BoA. I got an Amani War Bear on my mage, but switched mains to a shaman in Wrath, which would fit a war bear much better. =(

By: JokeyRhyme

JokeyRhyme — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:26:28 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with making more stuff Bind-on-Account. I don’t know if absolutely everything should be, but definitely the following:
- any items represented in the Currency tab
- mounts
- vanity pets

And yes, I hope your move went well.

By: gnomeaggedon

gnomeaggedon — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:43:28 +0000

The house is pretty close to the Melbourne Airport. I’m picking up the truck about 8.30 Saturday morning… What time should I expect you?

Weather is good here at the moment (about 102f today), beaches are close and there’s a cards night planned for Saturday night… You can grab the duty free JD on the way in and I’m sure my makes will be happy to fleece you (no 5 cent coins allowed!)