{"id":3931,"date":"2015-01-23T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T19:26:49","slug":"mop-vs-wod-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/01\/23\/mop-vs-wod-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"MoP -VS- WoD, what happened?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been curious what the hell I&#8217;ve been doing to pass the time while waiting for the various patches in the past, and also my attitude with MoP versus WoD. So I took a look at my blog posts from 2012, and this is what I found that is different from WoD;<\/p>\n<p>-Flying at max level<br \/>\n-Dailies (Tillers\/Cloud Serpent)<br \/>\n-Brand new continent. A continent I&#8217;ve never been to. And it felt like a breather from dealing with Deathwing.<br \/>\n-My concern wasn&#8217;t on the expansion, but on having shit gear at max level. The dailies gave me a reason to gear.<br \/>\n-A new class; the Monk which was really, really fun to play.<br \/>\n-Only real time I bashed Blizzard was the removal of Justice gear, but only to learn later that Valor was the way to go for me.<br \/>\n-I never played the beta.<br \/>\n-I played other games, as they had a purpose (plus there were so many good titles).<br \/>\n-Only five levels, which allowed me to do any dungeon I wanted\/needed at max level.<br \/>\n-Skinning\/Mining had a purpose; profit.<br \/>\n-I&#8217;ve been used to &#8216;report to&#8217; quests. I didn&#8217;t feel like someone I&#8217;m not.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2014-2015&#8230; it&#8217;s a whole different story;<br \/>\n-No flying&#8230; ever.<br \/>\n-No dailies. Everything&#8217;s based around the Garrison.<br \/>\n-A rehashed continent from TBC, just 35 years ago.<br \/>\n-No explanation from Blizzard about the bullshit alternate reality thing.<br \/>\n-I was in the beta.<br \/>\n-Valor gear removed, and no real replacement. Apexis gear isn&#8217;t a true replacement.<br \/>\n-No new classes or races. Just the same old shit from TBC only 35 years ago.<br \/>\n-No point to gear up as dailies don&#8217;t exist.<br \/>\n-An annoying follower system that I&#8217;m nearly begging my followers to do their own missions and leave me alone.<br \/>\n-Skinning\/Mining have no purpose anymore, thanks to profession buildings in the Garrison.<br \/>\n-No really good video game titles to fall back to while waiting for patches.<br \/>\n-Being a Commander. Never asked for the title.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, there just feels like there was just, so less content to do now(for soloers). Everything&#8217;s situated around the Garrison.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m also trying to think of what my reaction would had been, if I had never played the beta. But I just don&#8217;t know what it would be. I just cannot get over the anger I had with Blizzard ignoring our feedback, and this is the result.<\/p>\n<p>I feel they pushed this whole &#8220;Hurr.. Iron Horde is a threat!&#8221; too early in the expansion. They are <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">not<\/span> a threat. Not in my eyes. They aren&#8217;t a threat in endgame content. You literally have to <strong>make<\/strong> them a threat by doing those god awful boring Apexis dailies, until they finally fucking take notice.<br \/>\nGarrison Invasions should <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">NOT<\/span> have to depend on doing those damn dailies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been curious what the hell I&#8217;ve been doing to pass the time while waiting for the various patches in the past, and also my attitude with MoP versus WoD. So I took a look at my blog posts from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/01\/23\/mop-vs-wod-what-happened\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}