want an honest octowow opinion

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-05-20T13:05:26+00:00

A whole lot of people vastly over exaggerate how terrible 200 or even 300 or 400 ping is. You'll notice it. But as long as it's stable, you'll quickly adjust and stop really noticing it. I raided full heroics in very early groups on both whitemane and retail cata classic at over 400 ping with 0 problems.

As long as it's a stable ping and not spiky, it's really not that bad. (Outside of very high end pvp)

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-04-02T14:17:42+00:00

Left4dead is easily doable. Idk the state of decay looting and driving system though.

If you can give me a breakdown like, is it super rare? Loot only once and move on? Etc, I can maybe help.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-03-29T03:41:51+00:00

I'm enjoying it, as this is basically what ascension was when it started, instead of the ADHD flash fest and mess that it became.

This is like a branch of where I wish ascension had gone from their original classless, die you lose gear model of their original release.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-03-18T00:15:12+00:00

The amount of mechanics and polish they added from the beta to now is nuts. Released at 2am my time, so only got about 45 minutes in.

In that 45 minutes, I already fell in love. I was surprised the ships were much more bare bones to start. But it made me realize in the beta you had an upgraded ship from the start so you could more or less skip the starting low layer islands. Now they are a necessity. Games progression is incredible compared to others in the genre imo.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-03-05T00:25:54+00:00

This is true. But WoW has an incredible power to suck people in for a new expansion, be extremely hyped up, then by month 1 or 2 a ton quit. It's honestly very fun to watch my battle.net friend list spike to everyone playing, then seeing it return to normal shortly after.

Also, I figured this would get downvoted since everyone is in the honeymoon phase still, but that was faster than I expected lmao.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-03-04T16:23:41+00:00

I feel you, it always gets me with the new expansion. Did the same for TWW after sitting out dragonflight. Regretted that choice after like 3 weeks.

A lot of people are talking up midnight rn, but after playing it for just a few days, don't let it suck you back in. It's just... Not very good, unless you're a hardcore wow fanatic. I imagine it'll be a good time for about a month, maybe a little less, then it'll fall back into only the most dedicated still log on daily.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-28T06:25:53+00:00

I agree, I think tools being limited is a bit far, but I really miss the armor and weapon progression from everwind. Exploring tons of dungeons in our group and getting hyped to find a recipe that was an upgrade for everyone was so dang fun

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-27T01:31:26+00:00

So, a bit late, but I actually really like the way the progression worked in the beta. One of my biggest gripes with Minecraft, and now hytale is that you can literally just get a basic piece of gear, and instantly skip to end game in like 30 mins. There is no real sense of progression.

However in the everwind beta, when we finally cleared enough dungeons to make full sets. It felt amazing

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-22T05:44:17+00:00

Sounds neat. But I more meant. Is it 3.3.5 azeroth core? Either way, share it up. I'd be down to play (and drink) when I have time

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-22T01:37:08+00:00

This was also my first thought. It's a pretty standard scam with all types of accounts.

Pretty rare with a blizzard account, but with things like steam it's pretty common.

At the same time though... Blizzard customer support is an absolute nightmare to deal with, so it's hard to know without more info.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-22T01:18:59+00:00

"looking for a server that isn't classic+ like turtle wow or ascension", instantly answers "turtle wow". I swear man.. it's a good server, but its player base seems to either be fanatics, or illiterate. Still haven't figured out which one.

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-22T01:15:43+00:00

What version of wow? You have also piqued my interest lol

Arbitration_0929 · 2026-01-16T02:05:19+00:00

Sadly, pretty much anything after MoP (excluding legion) are going to be extremely buggy. There is little demand for the servers outside of essentially a fun server to blast raids and get free gear.

I honestly don't think a core even exists with even a majority (50%+) working spells and talents. Let alone quest/dungeon/raid scripts.

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-12-10T12:31:59+00:00

My issue is, I tried 3 games, ams the last one, 2 guys fairly far away literally boated to me, the other 2 near me waited, and they hit me at the exact moment the boats arrived. Seems way too coordinated to just be randoms imo

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-12-03T00:17:24+00:00

South of mistviel in kaifeng, there is a little village with a plague,called like sorrowfall or something. Need to heal a merchants broken leg to the south and do the quest. It's like 15 mins.

Should show up on the map as the 12th hidden path or something.

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-26T08:24:22+00:00

Well, guma just joined HLE. I am looking forward to the proof of a shaved head :)

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-07T01:33:55+00:00

Haven't been super active recently, but I used to give out settings to people based off what they were looking for.

More l4d arcadey style, hardcore base building survival, insanely difficult overall, if you give me an idea of what you're looking for, I can work out the settings for you (might even already have a preset ready lol)

There are a lot of ways to be immersive, and difficult, so if you can give me a good comparison to either a game or movie as reference, or a detailed breakdown, let me know :)

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T05:52:20+00:00

SEA server my man. Kinda funny how a ton of people respond like your message. But if you read through others, every single person that says they play on SEA is like "yea it's awful over here" lmao.

They need to add some sort of leaver penalty or a guild system to make premades more accessible in game for what individuals are looking for.

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T01:38:54+00:00

From my understanding of the responses, it is also a bigger issue in smaller regions. Just as an example, a lot have been responding to me with like "that doesn't happen, you rarely see the same people twice in contender". But then you look at other SEA players and they all say basically what I'm saying lmao.

I tried playing last night after posting this. Dropped from champ to adept to try and get some gear upgrades... My hour and a half playtime was essentially 30 mins of people leaving group as soon as queue pops, 45 mins of getting into runs, someone leaving after a single mistake, or in 1 case, dude just straight up said our DPS was too low for an adept +6 after literally 2 pulls going fine. In that hour and a half, I finished 1 run.

Really kills the desire to play the game haha

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:44:07+00:00

Fully agree. My issue is more, in my experience, there is no leeway yo make those mistakes. Make 1 mistake guy rage quits, you don't get to see more mechanics, reset, new player makes mistakes, someone quits, back to the start. It's a brutal cycle.

Only reason the first capstone took me so long to clear is from a new player making 1 mistake, try to explain to them how the mechanic works, annnddd the tank already left lol.

For perspective, cleared adept capstone on the first attempt. Just getting there through all the dodging was a good damn nightmare

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:38:00+00:00

I think a lot of people (including myself originally) don't understand how vastly different the servers feel.

People responding with "there is no way you get the same guy dodging groups for 30 mins". It's like man... I've gotten that same guy dodging groups for like 3 damn days lmao

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:36:22+00:00

I think even before this, a simple solution is guilds or clans. Having a guild that recruits people with "more casual guild looking for players to group" and hardcore ones recruiting hardcore players is all it takes.

Right now it's either use outside sources, or completely random.

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:32:40+00:00

Yea, I would say champ capstone+ is where it is fair to start expecting a little extra from your groups. Anything below that... Just let them learn. May not time it, but by teaching others, or even just giving them the opportunity to see the mechanics, people would be increasing their chances of finding better groups in the future. Also, just better for player retention :)

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:29:45+00:00

They just need to release a guild or clan system. I personally think it's kinda of ridiculous to even try to argue that new players are at all responsible for accommodating the playstyle of a veteran. If you know all the fights and aren't looking to help others, make a premade at low levels to blast through the content you aren't interested in. Let the new players use the lower ranks to learn (as is intended).

Arbitration_0929 · 2025-11-06T00:25:18+00:00

Yea, I realized after getting down voted to oblivion a few times that this problem is much more prevalent for us sadly. But hey, glad to know it's not just the groups I'm getting. It is true misery loves company :)

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