Legendary: Free Sparkle Pony

while the spectral mounts given for SoR don’t look that great, the Spectral Tiger still looks amazing mostly because of the ghostly tiger wearing very solid armor. Now if they could just do a Spectral Proto-Drake for RaF that looked as appealing as the spectral tiger they would find TONS of RaF invites going out.

I know Gary was going to include micro transaction somewhere in there, so I mentioned it for you!

On a serious note, If they do sell it though, it should be experience boost (like League of Legends) instead of level boost.

Gary you’r awesome!!!!!!!!!!

after apple juice everyone is full of love

Forcing players to pick a spec at level 10 is like forcing kids to pick a job when they’re in 4th grade.

“Hi there, level 10 player! You’ve been playing this game for 5 long hours, you haven’t picked any talents yet, how would you like to lock yourself into one of the talent trees and not have a chance to try 2/3rds of the talents available to your class?”

It was a completely nonsensical decision, and led to a lot of people not having a clue about other specs until they reached endgame content. The time to let people experiment with hybrid specs is precisely while they’re levelling. In fact, hybrid specs are generally better for levelling.

Picking a spec at 10 works fine if you’re levelling your 4th or 5th alt and you already know what each role plays like. But how are new players supposed to find out if they like to tank when they have to pick a talent tree before going into any instances? The result is that 90% of players pick a DPS tree (because it has more obvious advantages for questing – which is all they know at that point), and are then locked into it for the rest of their levelling experience.

It’s easy to complain about “clueless tanks / healers who levelled as DPS”, but it was Blizzard that forced them to make the option before they had any clue about the difference, and denied them access to other talents. I for one am glad that I levelled 7 of my 9 level-85 characters at a time when I could experiment with talents from multiple trees. Being forced to pick a spec at level 10 added nothing to the last two (on the contrary).

Ghostcrawler made a good point about keeping an expansion’s zones thematically unified. While I did not like the dreary, cold environment of Northrend, Wrath of the Lich King’s theme still worked. The biggest problem with the Cataclysm zones was how you had to travel to each. Also, if you lumped them all together as neighbors, the transition between each would stick out too much. Keeping zones together and thematically similar is the way to go in my book. And in the case of Pandaria, I’d enjoy that continent’s theme much more than Northrend at the very least.

Onto the topic of heroics and challenge modes, I’m concerned that Blizzard can make each of them feel relevant enough for players to continually run them. If heroics are kept easier and give out the pre-raid gear alone then there is less motivation for those who enjoy a challenge to go into challenge modes. That’s not to say the motivation is killed outright but gear is still a strong motivator to do content. I’m of the mindset that you give multiple options to the players and make them similarly, if not equally, attractive.

Dear Mike S,

Here is your Legendary:
Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros
http://www.wowhead.com/item=17182

Welcome.

Why let people pass up on all the redone content when that was the best part of this expansion.  PLUS the other expansions were better than this expansion. 

/confused… nevermind.  It’s all about the Benjamins.  

Great Show Guys!

BTW Gary loves chatroom!

So, can I assume if Blizzard announces something, anything at all, that it will be viewed as some grand plot to destroy WoW from its original glory?

I mean, come on, I fully understand the “people hate change” mentality, especially if said individual(s) speak loud enough to “sound” like the majority. Constantly criticizing everything is not going to make it better, at the very least provide some constructive feedback so that Blizzard can take your comment(s) seriously  and possibly implement changes into the game.

It’s now getting just childish that this is what occurs every time Blizzard comes out with news about WoW.

Why is anyone surprised Blizz is giving away Cata for free? It costs them NOTHING beyond bandwidth. The copies in stores?  those are not gettign sold anyway. Far better to use it to entice playerrs to return. All the things they’re giving away? None of it actually costs blizzard anything, so yeah, why wouldn’t they  give it away to get players back?