Wednesday 10 January, 2007

Addendum: WoW Game Log

1/9/2006

So, WoW has managed to do it again. Or, rather, try and not succeed. For those of you just tuning in, the expansion set (Burning Crusade) comes out next monday night. And thus, to commemorate the event, Blizzard has started an in game event.

Now, this is the third in game event, and thus far it has been by far the best. Which is sad, because this event is absolutely terrible. The first event was marked by server-killing lag, making the event unfinishable because it rolled back by 5 or 10 minutes every five minutes. The second was much more similar to the current event, and featured hordes of undead invading the realm. Well, more like standing around in a circle outside of towns and not doing anything. At all.

In this event blizzard shows that it has at last managed the incredibly complex idea of 'Having Monsters that know how to walk in a line.' This, in and of itself, would be a fine premise for an event. Except that there are only about six of these monsters spawning at any given point, and they generally die within afew seconds of being spawned.

Now, the event is supposed to last a week. From the /yells and conversation text of the NPC's, it sounds as though the event could pick up steam. Hopefully it will, at any rate, as thus far there is but a single quest which yields a novelty tabard as a result. And no, none of the invaders drop so much as a copper piece.

The event has managed to accomplish one thing, at least. It has successfully fomented world pvp. The area in and around The Dark Portal (Which has, for some odd reason, turned green. This is unexplained.) is littered with corpses from rampant PVP. Alas, this means that if the event ever does pick up steam, we'll all be to busy killing each-other to do anything about it.

Oh well. Ryle hira. More shall come depending on the event's outcome and development.

So far the best feature of the event is the ability to pull Kruul to Ironforge or Stormwind and watch the sweet, glorious chaos unfold.

Knowing Blizzard, one wonders if their next event will "Have Monsters that know how to form a conga line".

How do you feel about the balance of combat and social dynamic's in the game? You mentioned you play a mage. A few of my housemates have made the generalization that WoW Mages don't work well in parties, would you agree? Would you disagree?

I've also heard a number of people say that the game doesn't really start until level 60. Would you agree with this statement? Do you think that's a good thing? Would you make changes to player advancement in that area?