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[pixelcurious]

After having not played World of Warcraft for several months, I was recently offered seven free days of gametime (an incentive to get players to return before the expansion that's coming out very soon). Instead of picking up my old characters where I left them, I rolled a couple of new ones. I made a blood elf mage, Tiphareth, and got her up to

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[pixelcurious]

The monks do look cool, from the video I've seen. I also got excited last night when I looked up the new pets and pet classes. Hunters will be able to tame fen striders - those freaky long-legged things in Zangermarsh. They are my favorite Outlands creature and I was always sad I couldn't tame one.

[pixelcurious]

Are the pics showing for you? Photobucket is barfing on my end.

[furryjackal]

I wish I could convince the crowd of cast-outs to look into WoW as an alternative to CoH when it closes but there's so much prejudism towards it from all of them

[pixelcurious]

Stags are the new travel form, replacing the leopard form, and now the icon for it (which is shaped like a cloven hoof) finally makes sense! Night elf stags are paler and their antlers aren't as craggy looking. I think they have little jewels hanging from their antlers too.

Stag form looks really great, and I read somewhere that there's a way to have other players mount up, though I don't know how...

Bear form is definitely still there! And it has it's own spec now too, Guardian. Druids have FOUR specs instead of the usual three. Kitty spec is still called Feral, and then there's Resto and Balance. Guardian is a awesome name for bear spec, imo.

As far as Guild Wars goes, I wonder how long they'll even keep it around now that they have GW2. :/

[furryjackal]

Druids sound like they've gotten even more complex! I'm intrigued, now. *eyes her 7 day thing, again* C_C

[pixelcurious]

Worgen can be druids, but not Draenei. The idea is that the Night Elves taught them druid knowledge. Worgen don't seem like a very good fit for druids, to me, being all vicious and shit... but I guess it makes as much sense as troll druids! Which I just cannot do, though not for lore reasons. While I like the crazy troll druid bears and cats, with their bright colors and mohawk manes and all, their bat flight form just looks retarded.

I don't think druids are more complex now, if anything they're simplified. Dividing out bears helps both kitty and bear specs make more sense. Also, talents have been greatly simplified. Oh, and you no longer have to go to the trainer for your new spells, you just get them when you level. And AOE looting! AOE looting is the best thing ever.

NCSoft is suffering? I'm not up on the state of them as a company, I didn't realize that. I thought they were doing really well with Aion and GW2.

[cosmetical]

Gah. I've been wanted to resign up with WoW and they also sent me the 7 free day trial and this post is really pushing me over the edge. I am intrigued by the druid stag? I haven't played since Lich King and I had a fairly high level Night Elf Druid and this is relevant to my interests. They replaced the Leopard? And other players can ride?

I think I would do just the same as you if I decided to sign on again, and just start a new character so I could feel things out from the beginning again.

[pixelcurious]

Yep, the stag replaced the leopard. I looked it up, and the riding thing is a minor glyph, Glyph of the Stag. Coming out with Pandaria.

I found this video: http://youtu.be/oxo9nqvawPw?t=55s
It doesn't show the riding but you can see the Night Elf stag there.

Was there a time limit on your offer? Mine expired Sept 19, which is tomorrow. You might want to check!

[cosmetical]

Ah, yes! Thank you for pointing that out to me. Mine is also the 19th. I guess I am signing up now.

[pixelcurious]

*is secretly gleeful!*