There are a variety of social threads here already, and I recall seeing a few people mentioning Warcraft, so I thought I should make a thread for it already. I was tempted to go for a Blizzard social thread, but there's already a Hearthstone one so perhaps it's better to keep them separated.
If you've played any of the Warcraft RTS games and/or World of Warcraft, this is the place for you. Discuss the Warcraft games, the current WoW expansion or previous ones, where you think the series will head next, or even your history of Warcraft.
Here's my experience with Warcraft. I ended up typing a lot more than I expected, so I've put it in a spoiler to not stretch the page out. Hopefully you guys will still read it!
I actually really love the lore of the Warcraft universe as a whole. Every time I talk about the lore, read about it, hear about it, or anything, it makes me want to play WoW again but then I run into the problem of wondering what to do in the game. My server is pretty dead and it's hard to find a good guild, and most of my friends don't play anymore, so I usually just try to convince myself that I should attempt to enjoy the lore without paying and not playing.
If you've played any of the Warcraft RTS games and/or World of Warcraft, this is the place for you. Discuss the Warcraft games, the current WoW expansion or previous ones, where you think the series will head next, or even your history of Warcraft.
Here's my experience with Warcraft. I ended up typing a lot more than I expected, so I've put it in a spoiler to not stretch the page out. Hopefully you guys will still read it!
As of typing this thread, I've only played the first Warcraft game and WoW. I was pretty young when I played Warcraft so I was awful at it, but still had fun with it anyway. I played WoW during The Burning Crusade but my computer could barely run the game at all so I didn't level very far. Wrath of the Lich King came along but I still had my PC so I didn't buy it. Instead, I used the 7 free days of expansion time offered to me every now and then to just check the game out. It wasn't until a few weeks after Cataclysm launched that I got a new PC and began playing almost daily and I loved it. I was able to play the game with decent settings and keep a pretty consistent framerate going. I loved the Heroics when I got to max level, and it was fun seeing a lot of the TBC and Wrath content I had missed. Shame I couldn't really see the old Vanilla content because Cataclysm changed it. I made a few friends and found out that Blizzard had actually increased the difficulty and people were complaining about HCs. I honestly didn't find it a problem. I enjoyed the strategies needed to down certain mobs and bosses and I had a great time. Unfortunately for me, the guild I joined was already starting to fall apart so I never got a chance to raid before the nerfs came by, and after that it was difficult finding a good raiding guild on my server. The ZA/ZG revamps came out and I enjoyed them, but it didn't fix the guild situation. Firelands came out but still no real raiding, and pretty much stayed that way through the expansion so I got more into collecting mounts and whatnot for the rest of Cataclysm.
Mists of Pandaria released and I played for a couple of weeks, but got bored. Came back for a month after the first patch, got bored again and didn't come back until Siege of Orgrimmar released, but even then it was several months afterwards. I caught up on some quests I missed, I grinded dailies to get reps to Exalted. I decided to just go for LFR on some of the raids, and I hated Heart of Fear with a passion. Terrace of Endless Springs was pretty cool to me though. I only beat the first wing of Throne of Thunder, at which points my friends told me to go to Siege of Orgrimmar, but I never finished every wing of that either. Those two raids felt a little dull to me. I'm disappointed I didn't finish them, but most people in the LFR groups were toxic or totally clueless on what to do and it wasn't very fun when it took a very long time to clear the bosses just because of those reasons. I played almost daily again when Warlords of Draenor was released and it was great fun getting to 100. I loved the questing experience and the dungeons were great. I actually didn't bother with many dungeons in MoP at all. Unfortunately for me, a lot of my friends had quit playing WoW by the time MoP came out. A few of them did buy WoD and tried playing for a while, but it wasn't the same. Not only that, but my realm felt even more dead than ever and finding a guild that was even active enough to be social was pretty difficult. I lost most of my thirst for raiding in MoP anyway, so without really knowing what to do on WoW, I cancelled my subscription in January of this year and haven't played since.
Just as a few more details, I play a Blood Elf Rogue on Kilrogg (EU). I know a lot of people look down on Blood Elves but honestly I love their lore and that's why I keep playing them. I originally chose the Blood Elf way back in TBC just because my friends played Horde and I just happened to choose them. Nowadays I just don't want to pay money to change my race, and with transmog in the game, the Blood Elf males have good body proportions to make most transmog sets look great. :P
Mists of Pandaria released and I played for a couple of weeks, but got bored. Came back for a month after the first patch, got bored again and didn't come back until Siege of Orgrimmar released, but even then it was several months afterwards. I caught up on some quests I missed, I grinded dailies to get reps to Exalted. I decided to just go for LFR on some of the raids, and I hated Heart of Fear with a passion. Terrace of Endless Springs was pretty cool to me though. I only beat the first wing of Throne of Thunder, at which points my friends told me to go to Siege of Orgrimmar, but I never finished every wing of that either. Those two raids felt a little dull to me. I'm disappointed I didn't finish them, but most people in the LFR groups were toxic or totally clueless on what to do and it wasn't very fun when it took a very long time to clear the bosses just because of those reasons. I played almost daily again when Warlords of Draenor was released and it was great fun getting to 100. I loved the questing experience and the dungeons were great. I actually didn't bother with many dungeons in MoP at all. Unfortunately for me, a lot of my friends had quit playing WoW by the time MoP came out. A few of them did buy WoD and tried playing for a while, but it wasn't the same. Not only that, but my realm felt even more dead than ever and finding a guild that was even active enough to be social was pretty difficult. I lost most of my thirst for raiding in MoP anyway, so without really knowing what to do on WoW, I cancelled my subscription in January of this year and haven't played since.
Just as a few more details, I play a Blood Elf Rogue on Kilrogg (EU). I know a lot of people look down on Blood Elves but honestly I love their lore and that's why I keep playing them. I originally chose the Blood Elf way back in TBC just because my friends played Horde and I just happened to choose them. Nowadays I just don't want to pay money to change my race, and with transmog in the game, the Blood Elf males have good body proportions to make most transmog sets look great. :P
I actually really love the lore of the Warcraft universe as a whole. Every time I talk about the lore, read about it, hear about it, or anything, it makes me want to play WoW again but then I run into the problem of wondering what to do in the game. My server is pretty dead and it's hard to find a good guild, and most of my friends don't play anymore, so I usually just try to convince myself that I should attempt to enjoy the lore without paying and not playing.