World of Warcraft

[KChan]

Because I can't be the only Brandon fan out there who plays WoW. So that begs the question: who here does, and what do you play? I'm on Aggramar, and I play a Night Elf Druid (Balance spec). I also have more alts than I can count of various races and classes, but the Druid is my main.

Also, what are your opinions of what we've been shown of Cataclysm so far? Pretty crazy stuff if you ask me. Though I'm going to miss running around old Azeroth...

[HardcorePooka]

Doomhammer. Orc Warlock.

And... the Cataclysm beta is pretty fun so far. Still way too glitchy to get a good read on how it is going to be but it is very interesting. It's fun seeing the changes to all the old world areas and the goblin and worgen starting zones are pretty sweet.

[Canoor]

Doomhammer. Alliance Resto/Feral Druid. Been playing for years. On my road trip from Alberta to Provo for the WoK signing, I even stopped by in Boise and met up with some guildies!

[HardcorePooka]

Doomhammer. Alliance Resto/Feral Druid. Been playing for years. On my road trip from Alberta to Provo for the WoK signing, I even stopped by in Boise and met up with some guildies!

Okay... I'll find you online. *fear*dot*fear*chaos bolt* 

[leinton]

Night Elf Druid on Tichondrius, balance spec. I'm looking forward to Cataclysm, but I'm worried I won't play it due to my Star Wars side screaming at me to play The Old Republic. All depends on money, I guess.

[KChan]

Indeed it does. Also, go Balance Druids!

My husband preordered Collector's Editions of Cataclysm for us, but I won't be able to play it right away because he selected in-store pickup.... at the store near the base where he's stationed. Meaning he'll have to mail me my copy. Oops. XD

[Canoor]

I, alas, have 2 kids that are now entering school age and I tend to have to work in the evenings, so my WoW time is dramatically less than it once was. Never enough hours in a day to everything I want! lol

[Munin]

Muspel. Prot warrior on Korgath. I raid more casually, these days (meaning 10-man heroic, instead of 25-man progression).

[KChan]

I haven't gotten to raid at all. I'm sick of instancing, though, so I'm taking a break to do some questing instead. Nothing like random dungeon after random dungeon to get you tired of playing...

[Munin]

Yeah, I do the same thing periodically.

Of course, I quickly cleared out all the quests in Northrend, so I moved on to soloing all the old world dungeons and BC heroics.

Then I finished those.

Not sure what to do next...

[KChan]

Achievements? It's a goal of mine to get Explore Azeroth before Cat hits. I guess rolling an alt right now would be kind of pointless, with the huge changes and new races about to come....

[Munin]

Yeah, I'm doing some achievements, but I've cleared out most of the ones that aren't irritating (or require a willing raid group, which isn't always easy).

[mycoltbug]

Kids, wife, work, and school made me quit playing WoW. Not that I regret quiting at all. I was losing way to much time with all the things that were important to me to that game.  It was fun though. I still remember barely missing the realm first kill of Algalon with mu guild. We missed it by an hour. That sucked! I played all 3 specs of my druid. 

[JCHancey]

UD prot war, quit because the game got too easy, and because the anticipation of TOR > WoW.

[leinton]

Anyone else on the PTR? Quite a few of the new mechanics have been put up. Balance druids take note, this includes the new eclipse mechanic. Which is deliciously awesome, I might add.

[SaxRussel]

Yay more WoW players. I play two characters mostly, a warlock on Lightbringer, Aspherion, that I do PvE with, and I have a DK that I PvP with, also on the same server, named Kelsier  ;D It's cool when people in BGs or elsewhere randomly recognize the name and we'll have a brief chat about how awesome the books are =P

[Nerual]

Emerald Dream> Alliance> Resto Druid> Fafen

Basically I'm a totally awesome healer.  Y'all should be jealous.

[mycoltbug]

Haha I used to play on emerald dream

[KChan]

I keep meaning to roll on Emerald Dream so I can bug you, Nerual. Because RealID doesn't distract us enough when we're both online. XD

And Leinton, what are your thoughts on the Eclipse system (beside the fact that you like it)? I have to admit, I've been worried about how it's going to affect my spell rotation.

[leinton]

It's really good. First of all, the eclipse buffs lasts for 45 seconds, so we finally can keep up while moving. Second of all, it's just a damage buff now, so we don't have a super ultra low crit cap. The rotation is a little more complex, though. It looks like you now always keep moonfire up, keep insect swarm up on solar eclipse, use starsurge on CD, and switch between wrath and starfire pretty often. When you're casting, you use up the buffs pretty quickly, so it's not spammy. I don't know how our dps is right now though, I don't have any addons on the PTR.

My only complaint is that your spells that benefit from eclipse light up when you have that eclipse. It's kind of annoying.

[KChan]

Ah. See, that kind of throws a kink into my rotation, with Glyph of Moonfire and Glyph of Starfire. I was getting a pretty wicked damage output just by putting up Insect Swarm and Moonfire, then spamming Starfire. If Moonfire wears off before I can pop off a Wrath and THEN another Starfire, it kind of negates the point of having those glyphs.

Time to restrategize, I suppose.

[Munin]

Keep in mind that glyphs are getting changed in Cataclysm, too, so those may not do the same thing once it comes out.

[KChan]

This is true. I still don't like having Blizzard mandate my spell rotation for me, though, so hopefully Druid glyphs will still allow for some gameplay customization.

[leinton]

One big change for glyphs is that they won't be changing rotations anymore. For any class. DPS glyphs will be just DPS increases. (Finally)

[Munin]

This is true. I still don't like having Blizzard mandate my spell rotation for me, though, so hopefully Druid glyphs will still allow for some gameplay customization.

Game design mandates everyone's rotations, though.

Also, Leinton, there are going to be three kinds of glyphs. Major glyphs will just boost damage, prime glyphs will be more unique effects (like some of the major glyphs on live), and minor glyphs will remain minor effects.