So I Finally Tried WoW...
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I've been playing WoW pretty much since it was released, but it's been an on/off relationship. I can play for a few months, maybe more if there's new content or I'm levelling a new character, and then I'll take a break for a few months or half a year. I have a level 80 priest, rogue, warrior and mage, in addition to a level 60-ish warlock, the mage being my definite favourite.
I'm obsessive about all my gaming, but I don't find WoW to be more so than other games I like. There's just more stuff to do, and a social aspect, so it naturally takes up more of my time. I don't have a guild anymore, which is sad, and no friends playing on my server, so all this new GearScore and Achievement-requirements for raids annoys me, as I am first and foremost a PvE player.
Anyway, if you can enjoy it without going overboard, it's a great game, and I wish you the best of luck.
I play on Dentarg, EU, and I play Horde.
I'm obsessive about all my gaming, but I don't find WoW to be more so than other games I like. There's just more stuff to do, and a social aspect, so it naturally takes up more of my time. I don't have a guild anymore, which is sad, and no friends playing on my server, so all this new GearScore and Achievement-requirements for raids annoys me, as I am first and foremost a PvE player.
Anyway, if you can enjoy it without going overboard, it's a great game, and I wish you the best of luck.
I play on Dentarg, EU, and I play Horde.
South Barrens, I believe. Walk towards Camp Taurajo, and you'll find some tents along the road next to a bridge. There are some carnivorous ostrich-like creatures there, but you can dodge them. Mankrik's wife is in one of the tents. Unless this was a Barrens general chat joke that I didn't get.Cheveyo said:Where's makrik's wife? Anyone know? [http://www.wowhead.com/maps?data=17:493504246248246262246275246287246302246314220234233234242234262234251234272234290236291248291260291277291289291310291322299277310277319277332254332240332267332277332318334300369236370275371310410312398312387306379306369295370258378238388236380266393266401266398234411234430236430279431316431297431254441233459234466246461258455269445281455295466306475316505229503304503287503273505256516234511310520314549312515267527267534267528233540233549233430267505240579330579347579366572390562403549419519407588328612374612353607388602405595425589436575454582446531413538421569491514487527493549491511473512458516425558491601326585481567467615335608322577475531314538314452229512438536493577491]Robert0288 said:If your horde go to the barrens and make a chuck norris joke... I dare you.
Sadly, I am in almost the exact same situation as the OP. Two friends. Married to each other. Addicted to WoW. Both trying endlessly to get me to play.
However, the key difference is, when I tried WoW, I hated it. I have never understood how grind-fests are considered fun, let alone addictive. For someone who has a job, you know, where one "grinds" in real life, grinding in a game seems to be the dumbest thing ever conceived.
As for the whole "social" aspect that I'm sure most people in here will undoubtedly try to explain to me, I get that from other games that are more fun and don't require me to grind. Left 4 Dead for example. I've made literally dozens of good friends through that game. Both on PC and Xbox360. Though we don't all play it as often anymore with each other, we still chat often. Keep up with each other via phone or social networks. (as much as I hate them. social networks that is.)
The same can be said for many of the games I play online. See, it's not the game that creates an environment conducive for social interaction, it's the players. The reason most people think WoW is so sociable and other games aren't is because they're not really trying to make friends in those other games.
However, the key difference is, when I tried WoW, I hated it. I have never understood how grind-fests are considered fun, let alone addictive. For someone who has a job, you know, where one "grinds" in real life, grinding in a game seems to be the dumbest thing ever conceived.
As for the whole "social" aspect that I'm sure most people in here will undoubtedly try to explain to me, I get that from other games that are more fun and don't require me to grind. Left 4 Dead for example. I've made literally dozens of good friends through that game. Both on PC and Xbox360. Though we don't all play it as often anymore with each other, we still chat often. Keep up with each other via phone or social networks. (as much as I hate them. social networks that is.)
The same can be said for many of the games I play online. See, it's not the game that creates an environment conducive for social interaction, it's the players. The reason most people think WoW is so sociable and other games aren't is because they're not really trying to make friends in those other games.
Always found WoW to be an utterly terrible and boring game. Leveling in classic is dreadful and I hate to think what it was like before expansions started to come out. The endgame is dreadful; find 9 other people to do one thing once a week, then if you're really ambitious, find 24 other people and do the exact same thing with minor alterations to each encounter. Again, once a week. And of course those people must be the correct combinations of DPS/Tanks/Healers as well.
For a game that apparently boasts so much content it always amazed me how I never had anything enjoyable to do. I've said it before and I'll say it again; WoW clones fail because WoW itself is a bad game.
For a game that apparently boasts so much content it always amazed me how I never had anything enjoyable to do. I've said it before and I'll say it again; WoW clones fail because WoW itself is a bad game.
Alliance toons on a normal server. I actually got a level 33 character and three months of game time for free, since my friend who has too much money and not enough brains bought the game, tried it, quit, and gave it to me.
I play wow currently, with two primary 80s horde and one alliance that I've shifted into using as my main.
my pally is holy/prot on cairne horde, my priest is on the venture co horde, and my hunter is on venture co alliance.
I had a fit that borderlined on addiction and when I get into the game, which nowadays depends on my mood, I play for 8+hours on end.
I just never get far into raids. dunno why. I enjoy them, but I don't really much care. sometimes I can pay more attention to the lore. luckily, I'm in an RPPVP guild on the VeCo that raids on the side, and is extremely pleasant to be around.
my pally is holy/prot on cairne horde, my priest is on the venture co horde, and my hunter is on venture co alliance.
I had a fit that borderlined on addiction and when I get into the game, which nowadays depends on my mood, I play for 8+hours on end.
I just never get far into raids. dunno why. I enjoy them, but I don't really much care. sometimes I can pay more attention to the lore. luckily, I'm in an RPPVP guild on the VeCo that raids on the side, and is extremely pleasant to be around.
I was a lone wolf when I started playing WoW. So I was terrible at it, I didnt even know what to do... Attacking Wolves in that 'gold****' something or other place. I was good at Guild Wars though.
I finally started to get a little bored with my Warrior. He's level 35 now, questing in Desolace - kind of seems like a particularly grindy, boring area.
So, I tried out a new character - an Undead Warlock. Super fun - I love blasting mobs to death with ranged spells before they even get near me, and the bound demon familiar is awesome as well. Clavicus Vyle (cookie for the reference ;P) just reached 14 today. My brother-in-law got a kick out of seeing me use Drain Life on a poor rabbit that had the audacity to cross my path - muahahaha. "That's how you play a Warlock!" he said approvingly.
The Undead are really interesting, as well - the rest of the Horde aren't really "evil", but the Forsaken definitely are. They'll turn on the Orcs and everyone else once their allegiance is no longer convenient. I love the Undead towns like Brill - horrific mockeries of proper human settlements, with inns full of coffins and stables of skeleton horses, that would be terrifying to a normal person that stumbled upon them. Kind of fucked up, but cool, too.
And oh man, I just recently started getting into the professions, which presents it's own kind of addiction. Clavicus has trained as a tailor and enchanter - I must've spent three hours today just making pants and tunics and disenchanting for mats and learning as many new patterns as possible. The profession system is pretty impressive in it's depth, really. I finally forced myself to put down my needle and thread to go do some more quests. Fun times.
So, I tried out a new character - an Undead Warlock. Super fun - I love blasting mobs to death with ranged spells before they even get near me, and the bound demon familiar is awesome as well. Clavicus Vyle (cookie for the reference ;P) just reached 14 today. My brother-in-law got a kick out of seeing me use Drain Life on a poor rabbit that had the audacity to cross my path - muahahaha. "That's how you play a Warlock!" he said approvingly.
The Undead are really interesting, as well - the rest of the Horde aren't really "evil", but the Forsaken definitely are. They'll turn on the Orcs and everyone else once their allegiance is no longer convenient. I love the Undead towns like Brill - horrific mockeries of proper human settlements, with inns full of coffins and stables of skeleton horses, that would be terrifying to a normal person that stumbled upon them. Kind of fucked up, but cool, too.
And oh man, I just recently started getting into the professions, which presents it's own kind of addiction. Clavicus has trained as a tailor and enchanter - I must've spent three hours today just making pants and tunics and disenchanting for mats and learning as many new patterns as possible. The profession system is pretty impressive in it's depth, really. I finally forced myself to put down my needle and thread to go do some more quests. Fun times.
Eh... I played it for twenty minutes, was stuck, couldn't figure out where to go next (tutorial broke), got called a fag, left.
I've always been Horde when I played, so nice choice. I've had a spotty relationship with the game, at times playing like an addict, at other times not playing at all. Like right now, I haven't touched it in months and it's been maybe a year since I played it with any real intensity. I first bought it about a year after it released and got really hooked. I was still in high school and shared the family computer, so I used to get up super early before school, just to have time to play it uninterrupted. Back then, the warm glow of the Barrens on my face was just heavenly.
So like I said, my interest kinda wanes for a while, then picks back up. Like you said, it's definitely better with friends, but most of mine have moved on (if they ever played it to begin with). I'd consider checking out the new expansion, but I think I'd rather wait and try out something new, like The Old Republic when it comes out. Enjoy it though! Had a lot of fun times with WoW.
So like I said, my interest kinda wanes for a while, then picks back up. Like you said, it's definitely better with friends, but most of mine have moved on (if they ever played it to begin with). I'd consider checking out the new expansion, but I think I'd rather wait and try out something new, like The Old Republic when it comes out. Enjoy it though! Had a lot of fun times with WoW.
Played as a Troll Mage on the Smolderthorn server. Which is, incidentally, the best race/class combo in the game. Tusks + mohawk + dancing + fireballs = win.
Quit ~2yrs ago because the obsession was interfering w/ my personal and professional life. I may come back for Cataclysm though. We'll see.
Quit ~2yrs ago because the obsession was interfering w/ my personal and professional life. I may come back for Cataclysm though. We'll see.
I find that it's fun in your free time, but once you get higher you need friends, or at least someone to talk about it with. My gf got addicted when our friends got her addicted, I've been breaking out a bit and playing more console games (my haven, my sanctuary), but I still like WoW, it's fun if you want some social interaction and your internet doesn't want to hook to your consoles and you're too poor to play on Xbox live anyway (I swear, I don't know how MS has so many fanboys when they release shoddy products and charge you to get online and for a long time to get an adaptor to get online that you pay fot )
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