Huh? Blizzard? Who're they....

While it would seem that almost every other blog in the MMO blogosphere is talking about the news of Blizzards latest expansion, I for one, am not all that bothered by it. The updates to the ‘old world’ (Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms) sound interesting, and I may have to download a trial of the game after it’s released just to see what changes they’ve made.

BUT…. I know for a fact that I won’t be subscribing again. The rest of the features in the expansion follow the tried and tested blizzard game play extension method- add more grind (and more shinys to make it seem worth it). And even though they seem to be actually trying to do something with the PvP, They’ve never been able to get it right before and I doubt they will now. I suppose they may surprise me but I won’t hold my breath.

Right now in WAR I’m having a lot of fun in the lower tiers, My Chosen, Athekkhar, is Lv 23 and I ventured into the RvR lake in Tablacland for the first time last night to defend a keep. The initial 8 of us in the group managed to hold off the 12 or so Order players until our WB had filled up. So had Orders’, who came back for a big push and got through the outer doors, only to be beaten back by the brave defenders before they managed to enter the keep proper.

What followed was a rampage through Tablacland, the frenzied host of Destruction managing to hold a roughly equal Order force at bay while capturing all the Objectives and locking the zone! I have a suspicion that this was almost certainly due to several fantastic healers keeping us all alive, but it was a great introduction to T3 RvR none the less!

And speaking of healers my little Shaman Gazgreb is still in Tier 2. Progress has been pretty slow with him due to me playing almost exclusive PvP when I log him in, healers don’t seem to get all that much experience when purely healing; surely someone else must have noticed this? Or maybe I’m just not all that good at playing a healer :)

Still formulating my thoughts on patch 1.3.1 but I’ll probably be posting them in a couple of days, my general impression so far is fairly meh, but ive net had chance to examine the changes in any detail yet so it would be unfair to comment!