Never played it. Don't plan to.  But hey, it is 75% off...

https://us.battle.net/shop/en/product/world-of-warcraft

Kung Fu Panda was the shark jump of WoW. Getting involved now would be like getting involved in DDO after MOTU.

If you treat it as a game to play for 30 days and be done, it might not be bad. But who has that kind of strength of will?

only 7.6 million suscribers left. Yep... must be dead.

Ok... I played WoW around 2 years I guess and stopped playing 3 months after the second expansion came out.
I had a very nice raiding group and really liked the raid progress and how relaxed everyone was, but as we progressed further in the raid dungeons the relaxed raiding and having fun went missing for me. (ok the raids never were relaxing as a healer, but even if mistake were made no one freaked out, we just tried again. Unless some really stupid mistakes happend)
Too much preparations for the next raid and too much yelling if someone made even a slight mistake, which most of the time wiped the group. That's what happend in the hardest two raids before the second expansion hit WoW... the encounters mostly allowed not the slightest mistake or the whole group would wipe and you needed to restart.

If you like raiding in DDO, don't think you would like raiding in WoW too. Not sure about the new raids, but compared to the first few raids in WoW raiding in DDO is a joke.
But I start to blame the players of DDO for the situation. With all the self sufficient toons such high level group play which was needed back in the early months/years of WoW isn't possible.

I only started playing WoW because of the druid class, I really didn't like the character design. If a friend wouldn't have 'forced' me to play on his private server I would have never started playing WoW. ^^
And WoW had the best druid class implementation I every played. It might not be true to the dnd druid class rule books and such stuff, but it's the most fun class I ever played.

Even if you play it casual you can have a very nice time in WoW, biggest problem is that the low level instances are rarely run anymore because most players are stuck in endgame. (But not sure if this changed with the last 3-5 expansions)

But if you like the comic style landscape graphic you get many nice areas to explore.

And the different PvP arenas, battlefields and what not hey are offering atm can be much fun too.

The biggest concern for me is, that lately I spoke to several people who played WoW around the time I played it and they tried it again in the last year. They said many things changed and that WoW would have become more and more casual and too easy...

Even if you play it casual... it costs what now? around 10-15$ each month I bet... of you play more than 2 hours each weak it was worth your money if you like leveling and exploring new areas. Especially if you know that skilling fishing, cooking, alchemy and such stuff is going to be fun for you too. ^^

Flav wrote on Dec 16^th, 2013 at 1:59pm:


Although the above is true, it was less true in the past than now.

There is a huge difference between raiding in DDO today and raiding in DDO 5-6 years ago.  Many raids took months for the first completion when they came out.  Elite runs were actually challenging.

Today not so much.  Sure, Epic Elite is more difficult, but there's no reason to run them, so nobody does.