#1 - Jan. 28, 2011, 5:10 p.m.
I have played WoW since Beta, and for the most part I have always enjoyed it. I have played nearly every class, both factions, and all 3 expansions. When I first heard about Cataclysm, I was pumped like everyone else. Wrath had been an absolute blast, but I was ready for something new. But now that Cata is here, I find myself very disappointed, and bored. Cataclysm's one fatal flaw seems pretty obvious to me:
Blizzard took it way too seriously. The thing that many(if not most) people loved about Wrath was that it was simply FUN. It didn't stress you out, it wasn't difficult for the sake of being difficult. It was just FUN. Then you had a few people who have no lives and measure their self-worth by how well they do at WoW complaining on the forums very loudly that it was too easy, and required no "skill". Most people didn't feel like this, they enjoyed it. People loved running Wrath heroics because it was fun. It was low stress. Was it easy? Yes. But there is no such thing as a hard dungeon.
A Cataclysm Heroic isn't hard. The losers who cry about wrath babies and try to say that it is are just trying to make themselves feel like they are accomplishing something in their lives. They are not. It's still just a video game, and Cata dungeons are just as much a joke as Wrath ones were, the only difference being that now they are attempting to make it require skill which in their mind means making it require a constant level of attention and concentration that most humans find draining and not even remotely fun.
Take any activity that you enjoy: Fishing for example. RL fishing not in game. Now imagine that you have to watch your lure intently from the second you drop it in the water till the second you go home. And then once in a while your lure will drift into one of 9 different sectors of water, and you must change your grip on your pole to a certain way to continue fishing every time it does. Sounds draining, painful and boring doesn't it? This is what WoW has become. Gone are the days of a nice, relaxing, enjoyable dungeon experience. Now they are just work. Boring, repetitive work.
And before you say "Its working as intended" or "learn to play" I am a healer and a tank, and i have zero problem doing either in any heroic. I can tank or heal any heroic out there, but I find it terribly boring and tedious to do so. That is Cata's fatal flaw. They removed all the fun in an attempt to make it "Challenging". Grats Blizz. Its certainly more challenging than fun now!
