Geiela

Very true, a good point. But the worst thing to happen for social was that the instances became to easy you didn't need to ask around to find good players that you know and trust. I bet during TBC, for example, I knew just about every tank and healer in all the top raiding guilds.

This is as far as I read because it's a rant alert.

I played from the beginning on Vanilla through to the first raid of Cata. Then I went and played on Phoenix and did it all again. So happy to hear about Elysium. What I enjoy about a PVE server is always the option to PVP, but you can play just to relax as well. I played, and would play again, to enjoy raiding and the team work that comes with it. I hate the questing and the crafting and just about everything that happens before level 60 and if I could skip straight to 60 I would. I admit I find the thought of having to level all over again a little daunting, but it's worth it to raid. There is nothing in any game I have ever played like a well run raiding guild. Some of the guilds I was in were like family and it's the social side of WoW I miss the most. I don't really give a damn about what retail is doing these days. It stopped being the WoW I love a long time ago - I would even argue that as the original developers left, it isn't even WoW as intended any more. The atmosphere on retail now is horrible. Full of whining kids, keyboard warriors, loot whores. People do whole instances without even talking to each other. But, if that's what they want to do, I don't care. Good luck to them, even! What I've noticed a lot on ALL forums is that there is always an element who will want to determine how other players spend their gaming time. Who want to define what is fun and decry anything else is wrong. I find that sad. In short, I couldn't give a F why retail players are pissed off with these servers. It seems to me that a large number of them are determined to be pissed off about something, why should we care? It might be considered that in becoming embittered about how retail players are discussing us, we are just as bad? It is in fact turning this forum into the same pit of negativity and I don't see the point. Looking forward to the 12th and kicking horde butt in WSG again lol

TBC was pretty damn perfect, I agree. And then the pvp gear and the nerfs came ...