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Topic: Change Happens

Vault_News Title: 0110011010 Be Nice to Me I'm a Bot Posts: 43,785 Registered: Oct 18, '05 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 42,467 User ID: 1,086,234	Subject: Change Happens
	Some people have stuck with their class ever since they started playing. Some people switch it up and try a new class every expansion. Some people change characters like a druid changes forms. With each expansion, classes have seen some pretty serious overhauls. Are you the kind of person that sticks it through and makes adjustments? Have you changed classes quite a bit depending on what interests you? Are you still playing the same class you played in Wrath of the Lich King? Why or why not? The Topic of the Week is a contest run by WoW Vault! The best reply will receive VIP Insider for 2 weeks! Potential winning posts are judged according to length, interpretation of the subject and writing style. Disclaimer: Winners with too many ToS violations on their account may not be eligible to receive the reward. Posted from WoW Vault -----signature----- (none)
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Ashmaele Title: Pastor of Muppets Posts: 19,662 Registered: Jan 15, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 15,903 User ID: 612,352	Subject: Change Happens
	Vault_News posted: The Topic of the Week is a contest run by WoW Vault! The best reply will receive VIP Insider for 2 weeks! Does this also include one issue of Wired magazine torn in half? -----signature----- I had a dream. It was an incredible dream. When I awoke, I had a huge mess to clean up.
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Urk_VN Title: Orderly Randomizer Posts: 8,320 Registered: Oct 30, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 7,922 User ID: 733,088	Subject: Change Happens
	I'm what you'd called an "alt-o-holic", in that I play multiple characters. It's a double edged blade decision, but overall I enjoy it. The reason I like playing different characters is because I like to learn how they function. For example, a tank may be playing badly, perhaps because its their first time playing that class, or they may not know how a tank plays in a group setting. I can then help them out so that they can learn to play their class better. Or sometimes it's just fun to blow enemies away from a distance with a mage, if you get sick of killing them at close range. Crafting is also nice. If i need something, often I can have an alt get an item for me so I don't have to pay the high prices players often want in the auction house. Of course, it has its drawbacks. Most people have a dedicated character, one they play a lot and often get good gear on. Since I don't devote too much attention to any one character, that means that I often don't have great gear for any of them. Buying the flying skills is also incredibly expensive for multiple toons, and leveling them all through the same areas gets really tedious after a while too. Consequently this means that I don't really do much end-game stuff with them due to game's design of requiring gear more than skill. And since I don't PvP because of that design decision (again, he who has better gear will often win, even if you have better skills than they do), it limits what I can do once I reach max level. Overall I enjoy playing different toons. The good overall outweighs the bad, but it'd be nice if there were other things to do besides running the same dungeons ad naseum for the slim chance that gear you can use drops, and that you win it. -----signature----- (none)
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Sprawl-zero1eye- Title: IGN Vault Staff Reziztance iz Futile Posts: 53,263 Registered: Jun 28, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 52,657 User ID: 692,733	Subject: Change Happens
	Ashmaele posted: Vault_News posted: The Topic of the Week is a contest run by WoW Vault! The best reply will receive VIP Insider for 2 weeks! Does this also include one issue of Wired magazine torn in half? lol? -----signature----- Mirkwood MUD, OneEye IvoryFang, Lord of the VampireZ (Retired) AC Frostfell, Clan Z - Lvl 239 Grief Dagger (Retired) WoW Lightbringer Alliance, Z Guild - Lvl 85 Combat Rogue (Retired) Making iOS Apps these days at http://zsprawl.com/iOS
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heiromancerdrackus Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass. Posts: 17,283 Registered: Dec 24, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 17,007 User ID: 573,741	Subject: Change Happens
	I played a Shaman from launch until Lich King, when I switched to a frost DK. They completely gutted Frost's flow so I went back to my Shammy for Cata. -----signature----- (none)
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Groooovechampion Posts: 4,616 Registered: Jun 30, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,485 User ID: 818,115	Subject: Change Happens
	I actually have two mains. Split personalities for the win. Can`t drop my green pigtailed gnomette rogue that I've been playing since release. Despite her being metaphorically "kicked in the nuts" for a 1000 years of painful changes, I can`t turn my back on her ^-^. Green-Eyed Lady? looks up to me. well, she`s a gnome. Duh. My other evil half (which is also me, not a wife - yet), also been playing a protection paladin too. It was very broken but fun because you had to figure your way out and it did work hehehe. It wasn`t mainstream like today to be going prot. Nonetheless, I stick to them cuz the two stick to me. -----signature----- DaoC, WoW (retired, inactive); WAR (semi active), EVE (active) "Ye'know, com'on! Giimmeee di Ke$$$HHHHHH!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADJl-CVDo0
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Arunne Title: The Anonymous Posts: 2,548 Registered: Nov 3, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 2,526 User ID: 852,899	Subject: Change Happens
	When I saw this post that Change Happens, I thought to myself. Oh god, is this another blue post by blizzard trying to convince us that the game has to change and what they did was for our own good. Anyway for me, I find a class, I fall in love with it and play the crap out of it. Xpac comes out and totally changes something and I have a hard time getting over that. So I find another class to fall in love with till they gut that class. -----signature----- "Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be" "I may not agree with what you say, but I respect your right to be punished for it."
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Voqar Posts: 8,454 Registered: Mar 12, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 8,255 User ID: 73,152	Subject: Change Happens
	I had 10 icc25/heroic capable toons (one of each class) by the end of WOTLK and already have 7 of them at 85 with several maxed out for heroic/rep/crafted/therazane. I would have more toons if the fascists at blizzard would give out more slots to altoholics. I enjoy variety and enjoy just about every spec. Boomkin is really the only thing I have zero interest in and I'd probably like it enough if I tried it. The only reason I don't dabble in some specs is having no interest in maintaining a 3rd gear set on some toons when I already juggle 10 dual-speccers. I'd say the only changes I really didn't embrace at first were a few recent cata changes. I didn't like being forced to tank in blood with my DK after tanking in frost forever - but I've adapted and mastered it. I also despised the change to focus for hunters but have grown to accept it (and never worrying about mana isn't so bad). I'm still up in the air on cata changes, which simplified and already simple system. I see the reasons for a lot of it and there's still room for being a good player even with the simplifications. The problem remains that no matter how much you simplify classes, talents, buffs, etc, there are still plenty of players who are too stupid to grasp the basic elements of MMO gameplay - there is no cure for some forms of stupid. -----signature----- Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that - George Carlin
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Darcry Posts: 253 Registered: Feb 2, '07 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 251 User ID: 1,203,368	Subject: Change Happens
	Yes and no. For all intents and purposes, I'm an alt-o-holic. I've been concentrating on my DK to get him geared up. I shelved him when I got him to 80 until cata came out. It was pointless to gear him up, just to do it all over again upon cata release. Now, he's in his full blue pvp set and has the conquest 2h sword. I play him to do dailies for argent heirlooms and was getting Tol Barad marks, though now that I've gotten what I wanted I probably won't do much in there anymore now. I've been still doing RBGs to bank some honor for when the next sets of armor come out. I also have a 74 warrior, a 61 paladin, and the rest of my char slots are filled with 26 and below chars. I get very, very bored at max level. I also dispise raiding. I have so many character b/c of those reason and I get bored playing a certain class day after day. I need the variety to keep me interested. I did the same thing in DAoC. I had one server with max level chars to the "big boy" rvr. I then had another server full of perma-Molvik chars and a third with perma-Thid chars. I'm also an avid crafter. I like to be self supportive so that I don't have to rely on anyone. So, in WoW, all of my chars combined cover all of the crafting professions. My DK is a resourcer with mining and skinning. This allows me to supply those that require those components and farm for the AH (I've made a killing since cata release on skinning alone mainly.) I don't think I'll ever play an mmo where I don't have multiple classes if available. I need the variety, self supportive crafting and it helps me know how each class ticks so I know how to best counter them in pvp. -----signature----- (none)
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IndridCole Posts: 853 Registered: Jan 7, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 853 User ID: 1,343,922	Subject: Change Happens
	I used to not do alts. I had my druid and stuck with him. Then I did a server switch, made some alts, deleted them. Then another server switch, made some alts, switched factions, deleted alts again. So now I've got one 85 and one at 63(?)64(?) and the rest between 12-55. But I do, now, play all classes. I'm going in order of succession. So after I get my DK to 85 then I'll work on my (55)Mage...and so on throught the line. The last one will prob be my Warrior, level 11ish. -----signature----- I found something else by accident. It has become my new passion.
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darren_cameron Posts: 352 Registered: Oct 4, '07 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 352 User ID: 1,255,147	Subject: Change Happens
	I have a character from each class (all alliance), that way I get variety and when class x gets screwed over with a nerf bat or some boggling random change-for-change sake, I have alternatives. Like now, I used to love my hunter, but since 4.0 I pretty don't enjoy playing him anymore, especially in PvP. Which is another reason I have high hopes for Rift after having played the beta -- loving their massive number of soul/tree combos, I can play many different ways how/when I want. More and more Blizz is starting to dictate how we play, shallower trees, Cataclysm on rails, etc. -----signature----- (none)
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Groooovechampion Posts: 4,616 Registered: Jun 30, '03 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,485 User ID: 818,115	Subject: Change Happens
	username posted: More and more Blizz is starting to dictate how we play, shallower trees, Cataclysm on rails, etc. that, and while Blizzard "assures" us that they leave us the freedom. But quietly, they whisper a big "not". (or SIKE! or whatever you call it) -----signature----- DaoC, WoW (retired, inactive); WAR (semi active), EVE (active) "Ye'know, com'on! Giimmeee di Ke$$$HHHHHH!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADJl-CVDo0
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Demorak Posts: 6,097 Registered: Jan 16, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 5,924 User ID: 1,344,935	Subject: Change Happens
	Arunne posted: When I saw this post that Change Happens, I thought to myself. Oh god, is this another blue post by blizzard trying to convince us that the game has to change and what they did was for our own good. Anyway for me, I find a class, I fall in love with it and play the crap out of it. Xpac comes out and totally changes something and I have a hard time getting over that. So I find another class to fall in love with till they gut that class. This. Played a Holy Paladin through all of Vanilla. Switched to Protection Warrior throughout BC. Played an Unholy DK for the beginning of Wrath until I quit for about a year, came back and played an Ele Shaman. I'm now playing a Hunter in Cata, mainly for PvP (Bad choice ) -----signature----- "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
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Trigeminal Title: Drill, Fill, Bill Posts: 11,233 Registered: Mar 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 11,153 User ID: 658,468	Subject: Change Happens
	I play all classes in every expansion. I'll only have one/two real mains for the expansion though. Vanilla = Priest and Rogue TBC = Hunter and Warlock WoTLK = Druid Cata = Warrior (until I got sick of patchnotes and unsubscribed) -----signature----- PvPing since 1975
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Rill_of_WE Title: WoW Vault Site Manager Posts: 6,074 Registered: Aug 6, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,001 User ID: 703,880	Subject: Change Happens
	I've dabbled in all the classes but pretty much only stuck with two: Priest and Paladin. My favorite tree is Ret but I've only been able to play that and raid a few times in WoW. WotLK was great. I know Paladins were a bit OP but at least I could raid easily and didn't have to fight hard for a spot like I did in BC. People just laughed in Vanilla. I play my paladin about as much as I play my priest in Cata. Neither is winning much favor over the other although Priest is definitely more fun. I just don't want to give up on my paladin. My favorite tree was Shadow for my priest but during BC, when I couldn't raid with the pally, I found that holy was actually quite enjoyable. It was a whole different challenge learning to heal and heal well. I got pretty good at anticipating damage. That trait saved me the few times I played holy in WotLK. I was terrible at it but managed to still do decently because I knew the fights and knew what kind of damage was coming. Holy has be way fun in Cataclysm. Hard but do-able. Chakras ROCK! -----signature----- ~Rill Food and fun! http://afkdinner.blogspot.com/ http://www.rillsmenu.com/
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Trigeminal Title: Drill, Fill, Bill Posts: 11,233 Registered: Mar 17, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 11,153 User ID: 658,468	Subject: Change Happens
	Rill_of_WE posted: I like black bean soup It does look good. -----signature----- PvPing since 1975
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Rill_of_WE Title: WoW Vault Site Manager Posts: 6,074 Registered: Aug 6, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 6,001 User ID: 703,880	Subject: Change Happens
	Trigeminal posted: Rill_of_WE posted: I like black bean soup It does look good. Hey now, I put it in my sig instead of spamming it on every thread like some peeps do. Edit: Oh and thanks! I promise it's even tastier than it looks! And makes the house smell good too. -----signature----- ~Rill Food and fun! http://afkdinner.blogspot.com/ http://www.rillsmenu.com/
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Spookysheep Title: Lieker of Cheese Posts: 21,595 Registered: Jan 9, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 21,166 User ID: 601,475	Subject: Change Happens
	Played all kinds before TBC. Once the death knight came to be, there was no reason to play anything else. Got alts up to 80, and they all suck compared to DK. -----signature----- I liek cheese Pirates > Ninjas .....................................
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IndridCole Posts: 853 Registered: Jan 7, '09 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 853 User ID: 1,343,922	Subject: Change Happens
	Spookysheep posted: Played all kinds before TBC. Once the death knight came to be, there was no reason to play anything else. Got alts up to 80, and they all suck compared to DK. At first I couldn't get the hang of the DK thing so I never liked it. Now I see it for what it is: An Unstoppable Engine of Destruction. I've got three diff on three servers. -----signature----- I found something else by accident. It has become my new passion.
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LadyGodiva. Posts: 3,301 Registered: Nov 8, '08 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 3,300 User ID: 1,336,124	Subject: Change Happens
	I have stuck with my character since I started playing. I have a couple alts, but I like my druid main. I can deal with most changes, but if my character gets significantly nerfed I spend more time with alts or change my spec. -----signature----- (none)
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Mustrum Posts: 1,613 Registered: Jul 31, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,597 User ID: 702,179	Subject: Change Happens
	I'm a massive alt-a-holic myself. I just like a bit of variety and get bored very quickly when playing just one toon. I mostly play the DK and one Priest to keep me occupied, but sometimes I just have to get on my 'lock alt, or the Mage alt or the Hunter... Oh, and Rill... that blog of yours is great. Lots of ideas there for some quick snacks, thanks for that -----signature----- WoW: DK, Priest and a ton of other alts Waiting for Rift.
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Gidgiddoni Title: LGM Wordsmith Posts: 4,456 Registered: Oct 11, '01 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 4,402 User ID: 454,433	Subject: Change Happens
	A long time ago, in my first MMORPG experience, I concentrated all my efforts on my main ... a smite cleric. So, DAOC taught me to diversify! My first main in WoW was a dorf hunter, because the first cinematic made them cool. My second main was also a hunter, followed by a shaman ... then ... well, the only classes I have never managed to get to max level in any expansion are rogue and warrior, and I may yet get a warrior there. I enjoy playing so many, because as another poster already stated, I like getting to see what the various classes can do. The downside, at least for me, is that I play a bunch of classes fairly well, but none expertly. Getting alts and their crafting to max level is easy. Outfitting them with gear decent enough to PvP without insta-death - that does get a little tiring. -----signature----- It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment. - Herman Melville
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Mustrum Posts: 1,613 Registered: Jul 31, '02 Extended Info (if available) Real Post Cnt: 1,597 User ID: 702,179	Subject: Change Happens
	The outfitting part is really true. I can stick to a toon during a leveling phase perfectly well. It's just when I hit the level cap that I find it to be a lot more boring. That's when you usually start to do your dailies and then log onto an alt. And at some point I don't even bother doing dailies anymore and just level alts. But yeah, maybe that's just me shrug -----signature----- WoW: DK, Priest and a ton of other alts Waiting for Rift.
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