The Daily Quest: Love and hate
by Anne Stickney 
Jan 19th 2011 at 7:00PM
WoW Insider's on a Daily Quest to bring you interesting, informative and entertaining WoW-related links from around the blogosphere.
Reactions to Cataclysm have been mixed, to say the least. People absolutely love some parts of the game, and others parts are continual bones of contention in the eyes of WoW players. One good thing has definitely come out of all of it, however: a whole mess of fascinating blog posts. Let's see what people have to say, shall we?
- Asilventures hates the words hardcore and casual.
- Healer Trek loves healing and has five good reasons why you should play a healer in Cataclysm.
- ECTmmo isn't quite sure how to feel about endgame motivation.
- Daughter of Ravenholdt Manor is pretty frustrated with a diplomatic guild achievement.
Is there a story out there we ought to link or a blog we should be following? Just leave us a comment, and you may see it here tomorrow! Be sure to check out our WoW Resources Guide for more WoW-related sites. Filed under: The Daily Quest
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
omedon666 Jan 19th 2011 7:29PM
In a bizarre movement of the planets, Tales from
The Void got a second post up this week, asking devoted role-players with obstructive RP habits the pointed question: do you want to roleplay or not?
http://omedon666.livejournal.com/79005.html
Corath Jan 19th 2011 10:23PM
Love and hate, eh? I love the new questing stuff in old world and Cataclysm. I hate the fact that we have to suffer through Outland and Northrend while leveling.
New blog post at Corath's Blog! This one is my summary of Twilight Highlands, and almost done my "Roundup" series of all the new zones.
http://corath.wordpress.com/2011/01/19/twilight-highlands-roundup/
More at http://corath.wordpress.com
Enjoy!
Darkdust Jan 19th 2011 11:04PM
I like healing quite a bit, but I've focused primarily on priest healing (both discipline and holy). I'm uncertain whether I'd like druid or paladin healing; can anyone point me to a good comparison of how each healing class / spec "feels"? I can read up on the technical differences, of course, but that's significantly different.
Austin Jan 20th 2011 12:48AM
Just cuz nobody got it, I think the love and hate thing was a play off of Spike Lee's film, Do the Right Thing.
:P
healertrek Jan 20th 2011 8:26AM
Darkdust, I believe that if you like priest healing a lot, you will likely also like druid healing. They have a similar number of different tools and playstyles. Paladin (and even Shaman healing) is more of a toss up.
I will probably write about this topic later this week in more detail.
Also, thanks Anne for the link love. I hope I'm not the only person loving Cataclysm healing.
Cyrus Jan 20th 2011 10:33AM
"Asilventures hates the words hardcore and casual."
I agree. I see three problems with the terms. First of all, there's a huge gray area. Someone who plays five hours a day or more is almost definitely (say, a 95 percent chance) hardcore, someone who plays five hours a week or less is almost definitely casual, but what about someone in between? Someone who plays 10, 20, 25 hours a week? Who knows? It depends.
Second, there's a difference between being hardcore (or casual) in playing WoW in terms of time logged and hardcore (or casual) in one specific part of it. A hardcore raider might never PvP and vice versa, an altoholic might never do anything that earns or requires epic items, an achievement junkie might do each thing once just to get the achievement and never go back to it again, etc. And yet people with each playstyle might play enough to be called "hardcore" at WoW in general. The converse is true; someone who only plays a casual amount as measured by total time online might do nothing but one thing, raiding or PvP or whatever, and be so serious about it that they can compete on an equal footing with people who put in more hours.
Third, there's a problem with using either term so soon after the expansion. We're only in the seventh raid lockout since the expansion; even if someone raided in every lockout and got an epic every week, they still wouldn't be epicced out. I still haven't maxed out my production profession on my main due to the massive cost and/or farming involved, and I think I'm a little behind the average but not too far. So at the moment the gap between hardcore and casual is probably relatively small, but even harder to close than it was two months ago.