How much grind is WoW?

[Cowabungaa]

That's an extremely broad view of "grinding"

Because it's an extremely broad word. All it basically means is doing the same thing over and over again to reach some kind goal. In Mario it's getting a high-score, in MW2 it's to level up or simply to win.

It gets problematic when it's not enjoyable anymore, like in WoW when you kill the same creature on the same spot over and over again. You can do that, yes, but you don't have to. You can grind Borean leather yourself, slaying those moose things over and over again, or you can do a few quests and buy the leather. It's up to you.

 

[Ryuk2]

It's all about grind and nothing more.
You kill one thing, then you kill thousands of the same kind, only with slightly different stats and levels.
You pick up one box, then you have to pick up 10 more boxes. Then you get quests where you do the same thing, but only now the boxes look like eggs, and now you have to pick 15 of them.
Then you get to PvP and you kill somebody, then you kill more of somebody's.
Grind, grind and nothing more.
I left the game because i noticed that developers just reskin old monsters, change their level and voila, expansion pack is ready.

 

[geon106]

You don't realise how much of a grind WoW is until you hit 80 then quest on a low level character.

Outland and Northrend aren't too bad but Vanilla WoW is mostly grind quests. Catacylsm should change that.

I'm starting a new character called The Project. I'm going to see how long it'll take to get from level 20 to 80 just by doing dungeons and raids - no questing at all after that point

 

[Communist partisan]

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.

I didin't grind in wow still don't want to do it but cos' of that I don't have much money but it still works.

 

[geon106]

It's all about grind and nothing more.
You kill one thing, then you kill thousands of the same kind, only with slightly different stats and levels.
You pick up one box, then you have to pick up 10 more boxes. Then you get quests where you do the same thing, but only now the boxes look like eggs, and now you have to pick 15 of them.
Then you get to PvP and you kill somebody, then you kill more of somebody's.
Grind, grind and nothing more.
I left the game because i noticed that developers just reskin old monsters, change their level and voila, expansion pack is ready.

Isn't that like most games? in Oblivion its similar, pick up quest, kill someone or retreive something, rinse and repeat.

It's like car racing games, every race you just around and round and round, in a different looking car with different stats.

C&C games are just the usual placing of buildings and killing enemy after enemy


Most games are grinding. And WoW's not too bad in Outland and Northrend, there the quests are more varied. Like the one in Northrend where you ride a dragon and rescue prisoners

- Plus you've got the arenas and battlegrounds which are fun. And dungeons and raids are great. Plus the social aspect of going online and talking to your guildies

 

[El Poncho]

At some levels it may feel like a grind like level 25-29 is a good example, a lot of people quit at that time when they are about to go into one of the best areas which is stranglethorn vale
It's gankalishus.

 

[Chrissyluky]

its not that bad just look for a mod called quest helper and you wont have to try as hard to get around your quests.

 

[geon106]

its not that bad just look for a mod called quest helper and you wont have to try as hard to get around your quests.

Or carbonite

Never tried quest helper but i have heard good things

 

[slowpoke999]

Ehh, WoW's ok, and it does have some grind. The reason some people thinks it has no grind, is because you level up so quickly in some areas, you skip other areas in the zone or in fact other zones. The first few zones have you feel like your zipping through it, but whatever the max level is during WoW's life the last 10 levels are a *****.

It's the same with all MMO's, moderatly fast in the beginning, and it slows to a crawl as you approach max level, seriously, the last percent of the second last level seems so slow you'd think time is about to stop.

My first MMO was Runescape, and to level in that game you literally have to be a maths expert or get a scientific calculator and spend 2 days PLANNING how you we're going to grind, each skill. Runescape scares almost everyone with a spec of life away because when you spend 6 hours burying bones to increase a skill from 56 to 57, when you're planning to get it to 80, you're like, FTS.

I got bored of Runescape when I played WoW and got bored of WoW when i played TF2. WoW endgame got so boring to me, every boss fight is just some boring maths formula where every class is cookie cutter to maximize damage.Skill is a moot factor, It's all gear dependant. Tf2 still hasn't got boring for me, and I think if there were to be only one Genre of gaming in the future, it would be FPS or degenaratives of FPS.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

If you pick Paladin and go Retribution, you can /faceroll your keyboard for instant wins though.

-___-

*smack*
Not the case anymore. Believe me.

Really? I played WoW today. Death Knights and Paladins are a *****. Well I guess it depends on gear...with proper gear, anything can shave off 33% of my health in 2 seconds...especially if my own gear is not so good lol.

what class are you, DKs have been overnerfed, Scourge strike hits for carp, blood and frost are meh for pvp right now and paladins just cleanse spam diseases, the bulk of the best DK pvp spec (unholy's) attacks

I'm facerolling most classes in bg as a Blood specc DK, at least at my level, but I agree with the cleanse spam and whatnot.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=20136596736&sid=1

read this, all of it. If you want any advice I haven't played DK much (55-62 twice, about to do it a third time on another server) but I have read up and can give some links to end game stuff if you want

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

its not that bad just look for a mod called quest helper and you wont have to try as hard to get around your quests.

Or carbonite

Never tried quest helper but i have heard good things

Questhelper is the simpler one to use, but carbonite has more features. Try both

 

[CovertCell]

My experience:

As you get further you will have to do more quests to level up but some quests are really easy and give good XP so it doesnt take too long. I play "casually" and even I can level at an ok speed. In terms of just killing things for XP, the only time I really had to was at the very end of the core game and the first level(60-61) of TBC. However going through that bit as a DK was different as they can take more damage compared to my main rogue. In the Litch King I haven't had to grind at all.

 

[Chipperz]

its not that bad just look for a mod called quest helper and you wont have to try as hard to get around your quests.

The game itself has it (not QuestHelper itself, but the same thing) inbuilt now, and it's beautiful.

I've never had to grind in World of Warcraft. In fact, on my Paladin I barely have to look at the screen which is nice because I'm used to my Warlock, which appears to be the class that Blizzard hates the most.

 

[smallharmlesskitten]

its not that bad just look for a mod called quest helper and you wont have to try as hard to get around your quests.

The game itself has it (not QuestHelper itself, but the same thing) inbuilt now, and it's beautiful.

I've never had to grind in World of Warcraft. In fact, on my Paladin I barely have to look at the screen which is nice because I'm used to my Warlock, which appears to be the class that Blizzard hates the most.

ITT - Proof that paladins are faceroll

in reply to your statement about warlocks, No Destro just got taken down from its 12k crits of opness. Shamans... they are the ones that suck and the reason my shaman friend has this macro

#showtooltip Bloodlust
/cast Bloodlust
/y IMMA JUSTIFYIN MAH RAID SPOT

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

bioshock, megaman, mario, SSBB, i could go on

Please do. All of those games involve grinding.

 

[SultanP]

A few months to get to 80 is ridiculous. I think my first level 80 had a total playing time of about 8 days when I got there, but I had fun getting there.

 

[ZeroDotZero]

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. I want to play because after my friend got her hunter to lvl 80 she wants me to play. So can anyone give me a time frame for play time, just until I can go on like raids.

Warlock: Affliction until level 50, Demon until Level 70, Destro until level 80.

The levels will fly by.