Now I am not so gifted in the ways of the alliance but you all sit here and say the horde have it easier? How about you come and watch what i see every day? I started out with BC and I TOOK my time and enjoyed every quest every land. I didn't ask for shortcuts or things easier. Yes i saw allot of people speed past me to lvl, but that there right not yours to sit and judge. If they want to be bored let them they loose out.

I see more Alliance abusing the game and saying they can do so freely and not worry over it. Well surprise I do and "I" report each one I see as well as those horde players who do the same. All in all it ruins the game for both sides when it is abused.

As for the amount of quest cut down to get the achievement That doesn't matter to me i will still do every quest in both lands so i can experience the original game and Bc as well as WothLK when it comes out

Ambassador Marisa

Hmmmm - an interesting beginning statement. Yes, questing is pretty much required to gain level; however, from what I've seen, most players aren't really interested in experiencing the gameplay for the "fun" of accomplishing the quests. They don't really stop to read, get into the history of the game, enjoy a zone for the things it has to offer. WOW was my first and is still my only mmorpg. I'll be the first to admit I didn't know mmorpgs existed and only discovered WOW because of the South Park episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft." After the show, my husband asked me, "Do you suppose that's a real game?" I told him that pretty much anything South Park lampoons is real, and I hit the internet in search of WOW.

I've only been playing since October of 2006 and with little exception, solo-raised an NE druid from 1 to 70. Because of this, the only instances I really did were ZF for my carrot and ST for the troll feather quest. I had little or no help in understanding the mechanics of the game and, therefore, learned all I know by trial and error - and I had fun doing it. I read the few in-game books I came across and finally found a web site where the character backgrounds and history were laid out. This knowledge made the game even more fun and interesting.

What's disappointed me the most is how "nerfed" the game became after the BC release. Most of the elite npcs throughout the game were regular, quest objectives were much easier to obtain, elixirs and potions were classified to limit their use, mounts were made easier to get, and the overall playing experience was diminished. What resulted were people rushing through the game to get to 70. In merely a few short weeks, there were 70s running all over the place. And what has been the result? VERY bored 70s hanging out with little or nothing to do but to sit and wait til LK is released. Yes, there are some who constantly bg, and I did find the resetting of the honor points with LK appropriate because this Blizzard-created unfair advantage shouldn't be used to let these bored people obtain LK gear to the disadvantage of others. There are also a lot of 70s who run the end game instances over and over to farm mats and stuff and those who repeatedly run the dailies to build a gold reserve for the expansion. Otherwise, they hang out in Shatt or go camp opposition towns for hours, killing the npcs (and on pvp servers, the lowbies who are trying to quest), bored out of their skulls because they literally RAN their toons up to 70 so fast with no enjoyment of the game and all it has to offer.

Maybe the nerfing was Blizzards way of getting a lot of people to play - more subscriptions, more money - and they didn't want people to get "discouraged" because of the difficulty of the tasks. I don't know. All I know is, that while I love WOW, raising a new toon is nothing compared to what it used to be. That there was even a discussion about "the difficulty of clearing the large amount of old world quests required for the Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms achievements" just goes to prove my point that people don't want to PLAY the game - they want stuff handed to them so they can speed through the next stages to end up sitting on their thumbs waiting for the next expansion.

As for me, I'm raising five alts on my main server, taking my time, and enjoying the experience. I do wish there was a server that was pre-nerf, where some of my friends and I could enjoy raising toons with those old challenges. The moral of this story is "Less is NOT always better."

it always plays to pay Horde!