So I Finally Tried WoW...

[ThaBenMan]

I used to play it, but once end game starts all you do is run dungeons all day or PvP. Which to me is really boring. While WoW does have a vast and interesting story, they don't make enough use of it in the game so the actual amount of freedom you have as a player to skip all the history and lore, and fly to the next dungeon after dungeon really kills that. They are improving but once it's all said and done, WoW really lacks any depth in it's end game. At least that was my experience, and I had 3 80's. :/

Yeah - I've sat here many a night, hearing them behind me, playing the same 3 or 4 raids over and over and over again. I'll try it out once I get up to 80, but I don't see myself doing it a lot. Like I said earlier - I'm definitely going to make another character or 2 and play through more slowly. When my sister and I were playing together with just our level 1's, it was really fun. The exploration and feeling of accomplishment I'll get leveling without XP farming will be great, I'm sure.

 

[MissGinaKid]

I just started playing agian recently and I'm starting to get the hang of things agian. I had to quit beacuse the computer I used to play it on had the worst lag I have ever seen in any video game. I got a brand spanken new computer for my birthday and it now runs on no lag and I'm remembering why I used to be adicted to it. Plus WoW will always have a special place in my heart beacuse i met my first boyfriend on WoW. We quested toghter. Did instances, and sometimes we just chilled in thunder bluff for a little while. Good times.

 

[teqrevisited]

I used to play it but I lost interest when they introduced a circular room as the main feature of a patch. Bored me to death.

The high point was doing the achievement 'One light in the darkness' and getting the ironbound drake before everyone and his dog had one because they didn't remove it. Regardless, the last minutes of that fight was so tense, I almost had a heart attack when one of the tanks disconnected, meaning our undergeared offtank had to handle double the amount of adds while he reconnected.

Good times.

Thinking of trying it again when the Cataclysm hits but I'd like to see them put more effort into their patches.

 

[icyneesan]

I played the trial, got bored after i hit lv 14. Personally I would have rather had them make Warcraft 4 >__>

 

[Quazimofo]

if the goblins made something like that it would be a pod you get into then press a button to trigger an explosion behind you to shoot you into another city. like a cannon but differently shaped probably

Edit. still kind of a noob meant to quote maddawg

 

[Quazimofo]

I played the trial, got bored after i hit lv 14. Personally I would have rather had them make Warcraft 4 >__>

i do hope they make a warcraft 4 once everyone flocks to SWTOR. since people who quit that probably wont want to play wow again and try something else because when it comes down to it, wow has always been the same thing. more and more and better and slightly better but still the same. and people will see this hopefully and wow will be reduced to a slighly larger than everquest population.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I made my Orc Warrior today, and got him up to level 8. Again, super fun, especially compared to the power leveling with the shaman. That's growing to be kind of wearisome - I'm hoping it'll pay off when I can finally start to go on raids with my sister and brother-in-law's mains. I'm a little worried that it's going to be overwhelming - I've basically gone from level 10 to 35 (going on 60) without really playing and learning all of my new abilities. I guess we'll see when the time comes :/

 

[Vrach]

Played it a lot before, right now just waiting for Cataclysm (and frankly The Old Republic), just raiding with the guild as I don't wanna bail on them (and it's still a bit of fun with a couple of good online friends).

WotLK kinda sucks, but if you just started I doubt you'll notice it, you'll have plenty of fun just hanging out with your sis and leveling, even if you reach 80 and get a bit bored (which again, is unlikely since you're new and Cata's not that far off), you'll still have plenty of classes to level out and mess around with. I'd suggest trying out both Alliance and Horde btw, the leveling is quite different and makes for a more enjoyable experience the second/third/Nth time around.

I prefer Alliance for the races (though not by far), but like the Tauren/female Blood Elves, so both sides are cool really.

 

[scorptatious]

I used to play WOW for a while. It was a really fun game... for a while. I was a Tauren warrior at LV. 45 when I stopped playing though. It was too annoying having to constantly repair my armor, so I end up never having enough for a mount. Also the game eventually felt more and more like a job, trying to keep up with my friends in levels, and trying to organize groups for dungeons.

Eventually, I just went to the Tauren city, (forgot what it was called) donated all my gold to the guild I was in, left it, took off all of my armor, stood in front of a cliff and yelled: "GOODBYE, WORLD OF WARCRAFT!" and jumped to my doom.

I never played it since...

 

[Charli]

Hmmm Still play, Aquanei of Emerald Dream EU... I'm into the end game raiding but it's a bit slow right now. I have a character on both sides. But I play my paladin exclusively on the horde side when raiding.

It's nice having a group of reliable friends. Makes the game just so much more fun. I can imagine hating it if I had to play alone.

I choose to ignore the fact that I had to be blood elf to be a paladin. Lets just call it Weighing the pros and the cons and say I made sacrifices.

 

[Peteron]

I played WoW for a bit...I got in the 30s or 40s (Dwarf Hunter) and got bored. Its addicting for a while, and a good game, but honestly I have better things to do than rot in an online game such as that.

 

[xvbones]

I have played as an undead Warlock for the past six years.

I really can't quit, as I've finally managed to finagle a job with Blizzard, meaning part of my job description entails "continuing to play World of Warcraft."

I've reached some level of nerdvana in my life.

 

[Brad Shepard]

My sister and her husband are huge World of Warcraft fans, it's practically all they do in their free time. After bugging me for so long to start playing with them, I finally made a character today and worked on some levels.

It's quite a lot of fun, I can definitely see how people really get into it and get addicted. Especially when you have friends to play with. I tried Champions Online a couple months ago, but just played by myself. Not so great. You really need others to play with for an MMO. Luckily, my sister had a level 1 character she could play on with me. Now we're both level 7 after one session (I'm a troll shaman, she's a hunter). Good times.

So, who else plays WoW? Are you or were you addicted? Do you have friends you play with or do you go solo? And, uh... I guess, Alliance or Horde (no flamewars plz)?

i would say neither, because its crack, but if you have to, horde is the way to go, sense you still early enough in the game to restart and not lose any time. shaman is kinda hard if you ask me, but its still fun.

 

[ItsAPaul]

Can't play WoW anymore since most players are too terrible to get through the simplest of raids, and raids were really boring after Ulduar to begin with.

 

[Thwarted]

I play it with my wife, we have a great time. I tank for PCG, the official guild linked to the magazine PC Gamer uk.

http://eu.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Steamwheedle+Cartel&cn=Soughtafter

 

[ThaBenMan]

Eventually, I just went to the Tauren city, (forgot what it was called) donated all my gold to the guild I was in, left it, took off all of my armor, stood in front of a cliff and yelled: "GOODBYE, WORLD OF WARCRAFT!" and jumped to my doom.

I never played it since...

That... is awesome.

I really can't quit, as I've finally managed to finagle a job with Blizzard, meaning part of my job description entails "continuing to play World of Warcraft."

I've reached some level of nerdvana in my life.

And this, as well. Gratz!

Btw, in case any of you are on the same one, I play on the Venture Co. server. My shaman is named Korbaku, and my warrior is Krobesh. My brother-in-law is actually the leader of the Bloodletter Clan, if you've ever heard of them.

 

[Arkham]

In December an old friend of mine I had recently reconnected with told me that she plays WoW in her free time. She asked me to give the trial a shot, so I did. I admit to having a prejudice against the game before trying it. I think someone drilled the idea into my head that Blizzard had gone downhill since the 90's. I spent some time with the Warcraft RTS games and far more time with StarCraft, so I let myself try it.

Now I play WoW on and off. I only recently reached level 61. I enjoy it but I can't say I'm addicted. It's a slower paced fun compared to the games I normally play, especially Blizzard's RTS titles.

 

[Sacman]

lol I can't stand playing with other people I like to feel like the badass that works alone...

 

[aLivingPheonix]

I was addicted for a short time, a few years ago, but since then I've become a casual WoW player.

I'm a 72 Human Pally (I made him before BC. Can you believe how slow I level?) on a... PvP server.

I have a few friends I met via WoW, that I play with on occasion, but mostly I go solo.

Mainly because everyone on my server is a colossal idiot, or colossal asshole.