How much grind is WoW?

[Furioso]

Well I don't mind playing a long long time. I just don't like leveling in the same spot for hours on end. Is it basically training in a spot by killing stuff? Or is it more Level-as-you-explore the regions type of game play.

Don't listen to the people who say it's grind, quests give you a fair amount of exp and unlike games like maplestory there will never be a point where you have to level by killing the same monster over and over for a year, but then again don't listen to any of us, try the free trial and see how you like it opposed to how we like it

 

[Hiphophippo]

Honestly, until you're max level there really isn't any grind to speak of. Boy does that change at level 80 though.

this. Questing is fun and is not a grind, there are a few level brackets in the game that dont have enough quest zones and are difficult to pull through, but it's really not bad. What IS bad is the rep grind you have to do if you want to get anywhere in PVE endgame when you hit 80, or the money/recipes/rep grind you need to do if you want to high end crafting, or the PVP grind which is just a hilarious amount of time.

That said, if you haven't tried it and want to try an MMO, definitely try WoW. It's fun and worth your money.

And it only took me three level caps worth of raiding content to realize I only enjoyed questing and leveling. There are some interesting quest lines out there for sure.

But goddamn did I not want to blow through MC/Kara/Naxx for the millionth time.

WoW really is a quality game though and if mmo's interest anyone they'd be doing themselves a disservice not trying this one. Blizzard really only makes quality. Count me out on endgame though.

 

[Bofore13]

It's 100% grind, and the quests? pretty much guided grinding.

 

[roflchopter]

*cough* DesTro. anywaysss. its pretty easy to level to 80 with a lock...that being said...if your new to the game, gametime to 80 will be around 12 days. (highly recommend questhelpa)

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Shadow of the Colossus.

Kill a boss, ride your horse, kill a boss, ride your horse.

Same deal, different boss.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

MMORPG = Grind. There is no way around it.

However, Warcraft is perhaps the most entertaining grindfest out there. Leveling is pretty dull till you hit 58 though and if you are a little more patient the whole 1-58 part is getting a total reworking when Cataclysm is released. So yeah, get a free trial and give it a whirl.

 

[Spiner909]

In my trial I hardly encountered any grind, except for the kill x till it drops y quests.

 

[Charli]

I've played Free MMO's and then I played WoW.

In my opinion. Grind? What effing grind? It's all hours and hours of story infused Quests.
I loved it. If you're someone who can easily 'get into it' you won't find any game more fun.

It's especially great if you have a pal, me and my friend spend a whole week from 1-30 just insulting NPC's and parodying the storyline. Awesome fun.
Then we got serious and power played all the way til 80, but it was still a barrel of laughs. I liked the story for the humans, I'm playing through night elf - druid now, but human still remains my favorite.

One day I'll experiment with the horde I'm sure...

I am one of those freaks who likes endgame though, I tend to make every raid interesting for myself by being the competant joker. So I'm allowed to be funny as long as I'm producing results.

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

Pfft, I do that now.

I'm curious, I'm thinking about picking up Wow as a desto lock but i'm not too interested if the grind is really as bad as everyone says.

Question.
... how does Crepesack know what destro lock is?

 

[kingcom]

Very little grind, and the grindy parts can simply be skipped and the xp can be made up for by doing other things if you get bored.

 

[Bofore13]

It's 100% grind, and the quests? pretty much guided grinding.

The same way every FPS game in existence is grind. Only the avatars change, the rest is absolutely the same. Pick up crappy gun, shoot person. Get better gun, shoot more people. Repeat. Get a new game with slightly different graphics, do the same. Hell, the guns might even look slightly different! Or be called differently! And they totally wouldn't fit the same template consisting of pistols, shot guns, assault rifles, sniper guns and "exotic" weapons. Oh, and grenades.

Everything is grind. Your average RPG game is 100% grind but with absolute 0% of social interaction and cooperation with anything aside from dumb AI bots, sometimes known as "your group".

So wait all weapons that have ever been created are actually the exact same thing? I must look into this.
But further into the conversation First Person Shooters require much deeper levels of strategic thinking as it is up to you to not get hit not some algorithm that determines the success rate of every one of your actions, also the mechanics of every fps is different such as accuracy loss due to movement, firing, damage, weather, and so on, unlike Halo with its' sustained accuracy and whatnot, there are a vast number of things to consider if you are a good gamer such as, what is in my hands? what is in front of me? who is on my side? not just right click wait, cast spell, wait heal, so on and so forth. But I must ask what is an "exotic" weapon? and why stop at those five types of weaponry, there are so many more to kill with. And as for that last comment of yours, well I have this to say, I want to skin then kill just about everybody that I have ever played a game with online, if they are as they make themselves out to be online, ignorant, racist, douches, then I will be doing everybody a favor by getting rid of them.

Now kids back to the original topic! It will interest you for while, but unless you have a massive group of friends, that you know personally it will get very old very quickly, and you will look back at the time playing WOW as a massive waste of time and money.

WOW is much more story-oriented than most any other MMO on the market right now, oddly enough. At least if you take the time to actually *gasp* read the quest text. Grinding is still there, but it's minimized through the questing and what few situations in which it does pop up it's head and usually mercifully brief.

And if you've never played WOW how do you know what a Destro Lock is?

Google? Wikipedia? Yahoo Answers? Bing? Ask? choose your poison

 

[The Madman]

WOW is much more story-oriented than most any other MMO on the market right now, oddly enough. At least if you take the time to actually *gasp* read the quest text. Grinding is still there, but it's minimized through the questing and what few situations in which it does pop up it's head and usually mercifully brief.

And if you've never played WOW how do you know what a Destro Lock is?

 

[Charli]

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

Pfft, I do that now.

You are my weekly entertainment.

Also captain obvious's and co?
He has a friend who plays WoW, she/he has clearly told him about all the classes. If anything he's done his homework. I knew I wanted to be a Paladin before I started playing... and I've yet to regret it. I really suck at the other classes.

 

[Dys]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

 

[Dys]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

My understanding of grind is that it is leveling or farming outside of the story in order to forward your character enough to move on in the game, repetition is different from grind.

 

[mew4ever23]

Grind: It's not as bad as other MMORPGS, but leveling without quests can be dull indeed.

Watch the "Make love, Not Warcraft" episode of South Park, and you will quickly see that you generally don't grind levels in WoW by killing. It's better when you're questing.

But stay out of Un'goro! Mind you, it might get better once Cataclysm hits, but still.