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There are a lot of things that I’m looking forward to in WotLK. This is not one of them.

When the next patch [3.0] releases, you will no longer be able to gain weapon or defense skill while fighting the Servant of Allistarj, Servant of Grol, Servant of Razelikh, and Servant of Sevine.

Really, Blizzard? That was necessary? I’ve mentioned my dislike of the weapon skill mechanic before, and nothing has happened to change my opinion in the meantime. Seriously, what is the point of weapon skill? It has no real purpose in the game, and, as far as I can tell, it exists only to provide a headache for melee classes.

And that’s another thing that grinds my gears. If weapon skill is important, why is there no analogous skill for casters? If a mage has been Frost for 60 levels, and now wants to re-spec to Fire, shouldn’t he have to cast Fireball several hundred times before he really has the spell down?

It seems to me that weapon skill is kinda like the Electoral College. We only use the Electoral College for one election, once every four years for the President. No other election on any level (local, state or federal) in the United States uses this process. If having the Electoral College actually made sense, then we would have that process (or “mechanic”, if you will) in every election, right? If it’s a good idea, then let’s use it all the time! If it’s a bad idea, then… how bout we don’t use it at all?

(I knew that Poli-Sci degree would come in handy eventually! Yes!)

But, I digress. Here’s my point.

Blizzard, you have a stupid, useless, mind-numbingly boring mechanic in your game that serves no other purpose than to to impede players trying to enjoy more of said game. And now you take out the one method we had to make that stupid, useless, and mind-numbingly boring process as quick as possible.

You’re making your game less fun to play. Stop doing that.

Tags: Gameplay, MMO Gaming, WotLK