WoW is still going, it must be the longest running MMO by now?
You would be surprised, there is a few even older ones around that are still up and running, they are small but still around
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Speaking of which, need to see an exact list of what is unattainable on release of expansion.
EQ is not only still around, they're still releasing expansions. I got a fair bit of spam for the last one even though it's been more than a few years since I played the game.
Big patch drop is today... (almost time for a new thread...). Is the pre-expansion event just a quest line? That is all I can find when googling, maybe it is not known yet?
The pre-expansion Legion events were awesome, I might sign back up if it's something similar.
I'm mostly looking forward to war mode. Some of the most fun I had in WoW Vanilla was invading Alliance territories and home cities as well as warding their invasions of ours. Who didn't like the action at Tarren Mill?
I havent looked into war mode too much, but unless they add back world defense channels for warmode shards, large groups meeting will be more happenstance than design. RP servers are probably the best place to still do such things as they dont dump people from as many different locations on them.
WoW is still going, it must be the longest running MMO by now?
I know that part, but the world defense channel was removed when they added in all the auto cross server grouping to make things look more busy. So if people are raiding stormwind for instance, unless your in stormwind with the local defense channel notifying you, you still wont know that there is a large horde raid you could fight. That is unless they are adding some sort of world defense channels back in, but they took them out specifically for the sharding so its unlikely. You cant even rely on word being spread by a servers guilds and the like because even if you happen to have a guild member in a local zone under attack there is no guarantee that anyone else in the guild is even on the same shard.Flagging war mode puts you into a shard with all of the other players that flagged for war mode. It's not server specific so it's going to be a bunch of PvP'rs duking it out in the world. PvP talents are active. PvP scaling is active, but PvE is still gear based.. XP is increased. Conquest is earned in PvP. It's going to be great if you like world PvP.
I know that part, but the world defense channel was removed when they added in all the auto cross server grouping to make things look more busy. So if people are raiding stormwind for instance, unless your in stormwind with the local defense channel notifying you, you still wont know that there is a large horde raid you could fight. That is unless they are adding some sort of world defense channels back in, but they took them out specifically for the sharding so its unlikely. You cant even rely on word being spread by a servers guilds and the like because even if you happen to have a guild member in a local zone under attack there is no guarantee that anyone else in the guild is even on the same shard.
All the cross server stuff is the reason they gave as to why they shut down the world defense channels, I used to rather enjoy going back to defend home towns but thats been non existent for me this expansion except for once when I was at an AH and an attack started during the couple of min I was there. I do hope they do something about it, now with warmode though I would guess it will go the opposite way for me since I wont play with warmode on and if I go to AH im not going to turn in on specifically while Im there either.They added communities that are cross server so I imagine there will be a solution.