Comments on: Nihilum/SK Gaming Beat World of Warcraft Expansion, Go On To Establish Peace In Middle East, Save Madonna’s Marriage

By: Xanthippe

Xanthippe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:56:54 +0000

And this is the reason why, after 4 years, I’m still playing WoW – because they cater to me. Blizzard keeps me interested in a variety of ways, from gimmicks like “critter bites” to Mekgineer’s Choppers to the Disneyesque animation.

Perhaps Nilihum/SK would be happier elsewhere. I doubt many will miss them if they stop playing WoW.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:24:58 +0000

Still waiting for the day all raiding goes the way of the dodo.

That will be the day I give up playing MMO’s really, I am far from a hardcore player but the only real reason I log on is to speak to friends and to raid, maybe that’s a fault of the game itself I don’t know but if they took raiding out of warcraft there would be very little that is appealing to me about the game.

By: Freakazoid

Freakazoid — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:33:48 +0000

It’s that brand of stuff you kill bugs with.

By: Fear

Fear — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:01:23 +0000

What is a RAID anyway? I thought that was a Redundant Array or Inexpensive Drives or something.

By: dartwick

dartwick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:49:52 +0000

Hmmm maybe WOW is worth going back to after all.

Ill probably stick with EVE but at least WOW sounds like an option now.

By: Viz

Viz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:39:41 +0000

Not Quite: I know that the “elite” guilds do a lot of spreadsheet-y type things when first encountering various bosses and evaluating strategies; given that all full raid bosses after about Blackwing Lair have been basically impossible for contemporarily geared players without some kind of timer mod, I assume that every cutting edge guild has someone who can at least create scripts for such a thing. In general, I doubt that anyone at the very forefront of “raiding progress” would deny themselves an advantage–you don’t get there without being a total powergamer.

By: Bonedead

Bonedead — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:37:47 +0000

SK Gaming should go back to CS imo. SCHROET KOMMANDO.SWA
Those were the gold ole days.

I blame WoW for everything, ever.

By: Viz

Viz — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:35:26 +0000

Setting the jackassery of the “hardcore” aside, I do think that Blizz (and the makers of MMOs in general) could do a much better job of stepping people into high-level preparedness. One thing they could do is make outdoor content more difficult but less tedious (by changing quests that require you to win 10 trivial fights to quests that require you to win 5 moderately difficult fights). The other, I propose a set of solo “test” quests that are designed to promote the use of a class mechanic. With the right parameters I think that the overall time spent grinding levels could be reduced, with new players coming out of the process with a more complete skill set, and possibly the side benefit of allowing players who want to park a character at some lower level cap to do so without hassle.

By: Not quite

Not quite — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:25:49 +0000

Just as an addendum – I’d be curious to know if the best-of-the-best guilds use public addons, or write their own. I know a few healers in our guild use grid, but don’t use clique, because they see that as “cheating” – much as some people saw decursive as “cheating”. Do these guilds use every advantage possible, such as grid+clique?

By: Centuri

Centuri — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:22:27 +0000

They already have the content set to a “hard mode” via the in-game achievement system. Achievements are in there to give these hardcore of the hardcore something special to work on.

One of them for Naxx is to clear 25 man Naxx completely without a single player death in your raid inside of the instance.

The “Bear Mount” of Naxx25 is locked away in achievements.

Lastly don’t forget that many/most of these players were raiding Naxx in Beta and learned all of the fights there.