Showing posts with label Shadowfang Keep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shadowfang Keep. Show all posts

Thursday, December 16, 2010

The Pain Of Being A Tauren

So first let me say that I love being a Tauren and really there is no other race that I would have chosen. I love the lore behind them, where they have come from, and who can forget Cairne the tauren of taurens who inspired me to roll one. With that though there are things to expect when you play a tauren.
  • You can't mount up and run into buildings
  • When bridges have overhangs you won't fit under them without dismounting
  • Whenever you are on a mount you will some how be in someone's way
  • You are not very stealthy
  • Your boots are more like anklets
  • Cramped spaces make it hard to do anything

So of all those things let us go back to the last one. Blizzard for Cataclysm has made Shadowfang Keep a heroic instance. This is great. We can go back and visit an old instance and an instance that was hardly ever visited by those of Kalimdor descent. So what is the problem with this? Well Shadowfang keep is a very cramped place. Being a Tauren in this instance is extremely difficult. Blizzard has this thing with self adjusting the camera angle to benefit you. In spaces such as this, as a tauren, this is a nightmare. I am zoomed in to have a rafter in my face where I cannot see anything that is going on. I can be perfect one instant and take a step one way or another and I can no longer see anything except a wall. I am finding myself on the bosses unable to actually see any of the bad stuff I shouldn't be standing in, and it is very frustrating.

Does Blizzard know about this problem? Over the years they have had to know that this has been an issue and it is above and beyond the little things above that I have come to love about being a Tauren. I shouldn't have to use and item that shape shifts me in order to actually preform and not look like an idiot in an instance. I really have no suggestion on how to fix this except maybe making the ceilings slightly higher, but that is it. This truly is something that is a detriment to actually being able to play the game effectively.