I googled that and what I saw was.......
WoW becoming Dance Dance Revolution... *tear*
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The last episode of GoT was crazy :O
Not just vanilla though, Anything without a P2Win format as such, heck even in WOD where you get gear fairly easily you still work hard and appreciate the items you do get and strive to get next.
Radvo you say anything about GOT and I will cut you, I have to wait till the morning to watch it.
Even Mythic raiding is kind of a walk in the park on retail now, after the first few world best guilds kill it content just gets chained nerf. That's mostly the reason why I stopped playing, killed Heroic Archimonde in the 2nd week of progression and just had no motivation to raid anymore.
Sure as hell not. Vanilla is strictly sorted into questing = greens, dungeons = blues and epiczzzz is raids, pity epics don't exist. Ever since wotlk that system got ****ed with and pushed deeper into the dumpster every expansion. Sure they even started with the pity epics from emblems in tbc, but atleast heroics felt like something there and I couldn't finish them in 2 minutes while jerking myself off to it. And the format has nothing to do with it, considering I earned every piece of gear I had on my char, the feeling you get in vanilla simply doesn't compare, it's a different level of reward.
Also fake raid tier increases, because blizz has become too lazy to design raid tiers properly, is very fun and entertaining.
Magister's Terrace was the first for "catch up gear dungeon" too.
I remember getting my first piece of epic gear in Vanilla WoW. I was in 5th grade, on my level 58 hunter. I sold almost all of my items and gear to get these gloves and I ****ing went crazy. I was complete **** at the game, I worked hard to get all of my blues/green gear and I ****ing sold it all for these ****ty epic gloves that I bought for like 40g. And what's worse is that the seller wanted 60g for the gloves but he trade it for 40g and told me to pay the rest when I can.
A week after I bought the gloves, my mom canceled my sub due to my **** grades.
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But seriously. Leveling takes a long *** time, getting gear takes a long *** time. And when you get epic gear, you feel great. You don't look like everyone else because not that many people have your gear. And if you had Thunderfury, you were most likely the only one in the realm that had it and you were a god.
Personally I've never liked neither leveling, nor gearing. I love questing when I see it matters (which is why I like Mists and Warlords) and doing raids. For the most part I play WoW to raid/bgs, not gearing.
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You weren't paying enough attention if you think it was mediocre and follow the series.
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GOT is completely overrated. Good show? Yes. Too much appreciation? Hands down, yes.
I respect the followers of the show and all the worshipers of the GOT Saga. But for me it just became boring after Season 3. Turned my attention thowards Black Sails and I've never cared less about GOT.