That’s usually the healers excuse

Also… OMG why am I not subscribed to you? Eek!

I do believe you have identified the source of all the WoW whining.

I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a return of some of the burned-out bloggers, those that return from Rift realising that Rift caught their attention because of their love of WoW, rather due to their hatred of it.

When that time comes, they may return revitalized, loving WoW for what it is (rather than what it “should be” or was), for at least a little while.

40 mans were epic and they continue to be an epic pain in the butt if one is ever trying to get a city raid together… I know, not quite the same thing, but what better Internet Dragons to slay that those in other players minds?

that minority seems to be somewhat abundant in the blogosphere though; which I guess makes sense too: many wow bloggers are just that much into wow, raiding seriously (with ‘guide pressure’) or simply theorizing and (over-)analyzing constantly.
And a big part of vanilla nostalgia is flawed indeed, BUT: 40mans were epic. and for me at least that will always be a huge and indisputable loss.

I agree, what is done can’t be undone and for many the idea of ignorance being bliss is a horror story waiting to happen.

Of course many people go through RL ignorant as shit, but become detail pigs when it comes to a game.

I’m certainly not calling for the razing of every informative site and blog, rather suggesting if you are one of those that can’t log onto the game without at least memorizing the strat AND the love of the game is dwindling, maybe there is another approach.

I would be lying if I said that I didn’t read guides, that I didn’t use RAWR, that I didn’t accept external assistance in improving my performance. However where it isn’t life and death (and no game should be about life & death, just about fun… it’s a game ffs), then maybe less knowledge is more power.

For instance… I have been phaffing about since the changes to spec etc came in pre-Cata until this last Saturday night. I then consulted RAWR and optimized my characters. I probably didn’t need to, but it had reached the point where my tinkering wasn’t giving me what I wanted (I WILL NOT LET LOCKS BEAT ME ON THE METERS), so I sought advice.

My performance wasn’t so bad that I had to optimize, but it hasn’t hurt, particularly as the science is so scientific (and packaged for someone as theorycrafting phopic as I am) that it means nothing and is not distracting from my game… my fun.

Back to the one Gnome changing the world… at the end of the day, there is only one world for which I am responsible and as I have previously stated, that world revolves around me.

I wont steal the fun from someone that gets as much or more enjoyment from the meta-WoW stuff as they do from the game, but if the fun of the game is dwindling, then maybe they need to forget how to L2P and instead L2Discover.

I would be doing my guildies a disservice as well to suggest we all go in ignorant. There will always be some that have read the strat and watched the video, whether through love of the game (thus needing to get to the end of the story, so they can guide the rest through), or through a desire to get it right sooner rather than later.

The thing is, the requirement to know the strat isn’t a prerequisite for joining the raid on any particular night.

There is something different about:

“There is a big purple thing that will come crashing from the sky and wipe us.. so avoid it”

and

“Be on the X for 5 seconds, collapse to the Y, then all move to M”

The 1st allows for our own experience to unfold, in part assisted by a “bad” translation of a strat, the 2nd is more like programming the bot.