So I Finally Tried WoW...

[Azure Sky]

Ah, good times.

I play both Horde and Alliance on the PvP realm Thaurissan. =3

While I always preferred solo-play, or teaming up with a friend, instances are by far my favored way to play the game.
Even if you do come across plenty of morons...

One piece of shaman advice though.
Totems are win, use them. =3

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

This, but I have a feeling you get that on every server. =(

 

[adrian_exec]

So, who else plays WoW? Are you or were you addicted? Do you have friends you play with or do you go solo?

Oh God, I can't imagine people who play WoW by themselves. I just couldn't do it without my IRL friends with which I always play. Especially when you have to level up, it's so much easier and more fun to do it with friends.

You can have an extremely good time when you play and chat over vent or skype with your friends, I know I have a ton of fun memories.


So yeah good luck to you man, as long as you have your sister and her husband to play with, I think you won't get bored of WoW, at least not any time soon.

 

[Serenegoose]

Well 2 things are stopping me from playing it: the huge amounts of grind and the fact that it's notoriously addictive. I've a pretty addictive personality, so I think it'd ruin my social life if I ended up enjoying it. Lose-lose situation.

I think that this can be a bit of a myth - I played Warcraft extensively (my acct is still active but I'm uninterested in it at the moment) and I routinely get bored of it. I enjoy the game, but there was nothing especially addictive about it. I got more hooked on pokemon when I was younger. I actually played Warcraft because it was one of the few games I have that runs in a window nicely, allowing me to continue to MSN between encounters, surf sites, etc. It was a nice 'idling' experience. I can see how people who plunge into the guild heavy endgame side get hooked, but what I've seen says that it's less an addiction and more a perceived obligation. Friends in the guild, turning up to talk to them, raid with them, etc.

 

[Daveman]

I did a free trial. I played about three days every evening and then I got bored, I think I was like level 11.

 

[Boneasse]

Played it on and off since Vanilla-release. Never been much addicted though I've got 2 level 80's and 2 level 70's. Since I've played it since release, 5 years ago, that's not a whole lot.

Got a mate, though, who has 9 level 80 characters (one of each class except shaman), 4 of which have good gear and one of which has got full wrathful. Luckily, he's stopped now. As a friend of his I'd say it took a great deal out of his personal life, so watch out.

 

[danintexas]

Been playing since the game was released. I have 2 80s on alliance size - Azuremyst server. Druid is my main (bear tank/kitty pvp specs) - Warlock is my other - Hate warlock end game BTW.

Other than those two I have 5 others in the 70s and a couple in the 60s. At this point I am only playing the Druid and can't see ever playing anyone else.

My wife has been playing as long as I have but with out quitting here and there. She has 4 80s - she dual boxes BTW - and a crap load of other toons at all levels enough to fill two accounts.

I used to play a shit ton of hours but now with me and the wife trying for kids - working full time and attending school on the side - a crap load of console games - WoW has taken a back seat. We both really only play every once in awhile though she PVPs alot with her frost mage

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I rolled a Warrior for a while, but it's hard to level up as a tanking class - so I switched to DK and ground that to 80. (To take an additional piss on me, I hit 70 a week before WotLK was released.)

Then they nerfed DKs to the point where we were practically armored with paper machet and wielding sockem boppers, and I tried to wait it out until they nerfed pallies. They did, but instead they gave a huge power-up to Shamans. Eventually DKs got their time in the sun again... for like a week. Then they OPed pallies again. This went on for months until I just said "fuck it" and never renewed my account.

Your skill doesn't decide WoW-matches. Whatever-the-hell class Blizzard's crackhead balancing team decided to overpower on a given week is what decided the victor.

Call me power-hungry, but I find that sort of whimsical administration distasteful after so much grinding.

I also made a topic on the typical clientelle at
( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.230206-Poll-MMORPG-Community-The-Myth#8010387 ) if anyone's not afraid of text-walls.

The reason they nerfed Death Knights, and this is no fucking joke, is because they were too popular. THink of it this way: you JUST come out with a brand new RPG, so when people come to play it, EVERYONE is in the starting zone. You can't PvP because the Allies and the Horde are at the opposite ends of the world, and you have to reach a high enough level for battle grounds. So what did they do? They boosted experiance gained for a while and then set it back down once people had gotten used to the mechanics.

The death knight was so popular everyone had one. The was no more "Hunter V.S Shaman" and "Pally V.S Warrior" or anything, everyone was hitting the death knight. Now DK V.S DK is interesting, but it's just who POTENTIALLY uses the abilities better, so they said "Fuck this, we're gonna make them use their other accounts every now and then, since the DK is slightly over powered and so popular" NERF'D

It's like Pallies. They nerf pallies since theyare so over powered and simple to use, and then they are too weak and get buffed again, and on and on and on. The same thing will happen for cataclysm. The worgen and Goblins will be too popular, everyone will want to have a shiney new race, so Blizzard will eventually need to calm everyone down and de-buff the goblins a bit

 

[Triskadancer]

I've been playing since Vanilla, and the game has only gotten better and better. When I'm leveling I play a mix of solo and with others- often my girlfriend and I will make characters and play them together, or I'll use the dungeon finder tool to group up while I play. (I still retch when I remember the days before the awesome LFD tool.)

One of my favorite things to do is raid, though. ICC is kind of boring (especially compared to Karazhan and Ulduar) but I have fun playing with my friends and my guild. I play both Horde and Alliance on Moon Guard US- and I RP almost every time I log in, in major cities and out in the world. You guys must not be looking very hard for RP. ;3

 

[^=ash=^]

I'm playing on Defias Brotherhood realm. I have a druid (Level 80) which was a Tauren, but faction changed to a Night Elf also a Tauren hunter (Level 80) and a variety of other alts ranging throughout the levels. It's a very fun game, and is well worth the money when you get to play with people you know or have met through the game.

Oh I've just rememberd that I should be able to affor the last parts for the Mekgineer's Chopper tonight, which is a big wooyay for me.

 

[SteveeVader]

As a former on and off wow player, I have 5 high end gear 80s. I will warn you in it can be a very addictive game, I was on and off in my summer vocations since vanilla. But now I hang up my helmet and say goodbye, the game has peaked the more I see of cataclysm I hate, As an mmo it just seems counterproductive to redo the entire world. It will not bring new players simple as. And yes playing it alone was boring I did have a raiding guild and we talk on vent but to be honest any friend you meet on a game especially an MMORPG is certainly not a friend as you are forgotten or they are so quickly. Frankly as well it seems a thing but all blizzard players is talk about wow and its just wow this and wow that, we have a numbers/elitist player and all the time he'll shoot numbers and percentages and it seriously tested me and frankly bored me, I play games for escapism and not heavily induced math or did you know arthas has a pony called invincible and he loved that horse very much and he resurrected it. Seriously I don't care.

The game was fun whilst it lasted but I just think my real life commitments are too great but also the feeling as it is a job is too high. For example I'm a literature and film student and getting some stuff in Wow takes longer than doing a second year module paper. So I just think its counter intuitive

 

[Dogstile]

I tried two different private WoW servers and got sick of the game when I realized everyone wants to play Horde; more specifically, everyone wants to play a Blood Elf Paladin. Woe betide anyone who picked any other class/race/faction. And no, I was not about to spend money on the Blizzard servers.

I went back to EVE, where the playing field is slightly (and I do stress that word) more level. At the very least, there are ways to avoid being ass-raped every 3 seconds.

When Stormwind is literally carpeted with skeletons, something is fundamentally wrong.

...Don't play on a PVP server?

Hell, that alone has let me watch countless massive battles without being at risk myself.

 

[Reshkar]

Played Horde on Mazrigos with my friends, but after a while it got boring.
Some of my characters:
80 Troll Hunter
80 Tauren Shaman
50 Undead Mage
Stopped played due to many titles for my xbox. But I might try Cataclysm and definitly Diablo 3.

 

[Lt. Vinciti]

Muradin-US Human Paladin 80

Currently I play my ~78 Warrior to pass my time while I bug the hell out of my Guild/Raid Leader to take us to Uld for mounts/titles/Algalon (we killed LK10 in June)

I mainly play when...well I have a dear friend close...beyond that I have no interest and pass my time playing PS3 + RoM

 

[jowo96]

I played the free trial and my experience of it was that it was fun at first but it ends up feeling more like a chore after a while.

 

[Jake the Snake]

I really liked the game the 2 years I played it actively. The problem was, the quests got repetitive and end game content was a huge time suck for...virtual armor? No thanks, I'd rather be doing something that felt like I was being productive like reading books, or writing...maybe having sex with beautiful ladies...but I digress. Once you break free of WoW (willingly) you're free. There've been two times I've tried picking it up again (last year in december and I have a beta key for Cataclysm) both times I was reminded why I don't play anymore. It's just boring, and plain and simple isn't fun for me anymore.

 

[Hiphophippo]

I rolled a Warrior for a while, but it's hard to level up as a tanking class - so I switched to DK and ground that to 80. (To take an additional piss on me, I hit 70 a week before WotLK was released.)

Then they nerfed DKs to the point where we were practically armored with paper machet and wielding sockem boppers, and I tried to wait it out until they nerfed pallies. They did, but instead they gave a huge power-up to Shamans. Eventually DKs got their time in the sun again... for like a week. Then they OPed pallies again. This went on for months until I just said "fuck it" and never renewed my account.

Your skill doesn't decide WoW-matches. Whatever-the-hell class Blizzard's crackhead balancing team decided to overpower on a given week is what decided the victor.

Call me power-hungry, but I find that sort of whimsical administration distasteful after so much grinding.

I also made a topic on the typical clientelle at
( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.230206-Poll-MMORPG-Community-The-Myth#8010387 ) if anyone's not afraid of text-walls.

The reason they nerfed Death Knights, and this is no fucking joke, is because they were too popular. THink of it this way: you JUST come out with a brand new RPG, so when people come to play it, EVERYONE is in the starting zone. You can't PvP because the Allies and the Horde are at the opposite ends of the world, and you have to reach a high enough level for battle grounds. So what did they do? They boosted experiance gained for a while and then set it back down once people had gotten used to the mechanics.

The death knight was so popular everyone had one. The was no more "Hunter V.S Shaman" and "Pally V.S Warrior" or anything, everyone was hitting the death knight. Now DK V.S DK is interesting, but it's just who POTENTIALLY uses the abilities better, so they said "Fuck this, we're gonna make them use their other accounts every now and then, since the DK is slightly over powered and so popular" NERF'D

It's like Pallies. They nerf pallies since theyare so over powered and simple to use, and then they are too weak and get buffed again, and on and on and on. The same thing will happen for cataclysm. The worgen and Goblins will be too popular, everyone will want to have a shiney new race, so Blizzard will eventually need to calm everyone down and de-buff the goblins a bit

This is not exactly correct. As someone who leveled a Death Knight before any altercations had been made to the class I can assure that playing one felt like playing a mage aoe grinding in a zone 10 levels below him. I was slicing through mobs higher level than me like butter. Beating the zone's ass like it owed me money. I was basically invincible.

That's why it got nerfed. But it's also why everyone had one and they were so popular. They go hand in hand.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

I still haven't tried WoW. Haven't played one second of it. Hell, I've never watched someone else play it. I've been curious about it, but only in the last couple years, and after my experience with FFXI, I feel like starting WoW right now would be pointless as there's probably very few other people starting fresh.

Re: FFXI: I played it at two different times. First time was when it first came out for PS2. Everyone was low-leveled, so there were always people around to chat with and to party with and so on.

Second time was when it came out for the X360. This time, there was NOBODY in any of the starting towns, since almost everyone playing it was much higher-leveled, and it just felt like a ghost-town. No fun at all.

Even if I can be convinced that WoW isn't like this, and that there are TONS of low-level folks everywhere, I just don't think I have the time to devote to something like this. And even if I did have the time, FFIV is coming out and I'm still interested in that, so I wouldn't be playing WoW long.

 

[Celtic_Kerr]

I rolled a Warrior for a while, but it's hard to level up as a tanking class - so I switched to DK and ground that to 80. (To take an additional piss on me, I hit 70 a week before WotLK was released.)

Then they nerfed DKs to the point where we were practically armored with paper machet and wielding sockem boppers, and I tried to wait it out until they nerfed pallies. They did, but instead they gave a huge power-up to Shamans. Eventually DKs got their time in the sun again... for like a week. Then they OPed pallies again. This went on for months until I just said "fuck it" and never renewed my account.

Your skill doesn't decide WoW-matches. Whatever-the-hell class Blizzard's crackhead balancing team decided to overpower on a given week is what decided the victor.

Call me power-hungry, but I find that sort of whimsical administration distasteful after so much grinding.

I also made a topic on the typical clientelle at
( http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.230206-Poll-MMORPG-Community-The-Myth#8010387 ) if anyone's not afraid of text-walls.

The reason they nerfed Death Knights, and this is no fucking joke, is because they were too popular. THink of it this way: you JUST come out with a brand new RPG, so when people come to play it, EVERYONE is in the starting zone. You can't PvP because the Allies and the Horde are at the opposite ends of the world, and you have to reach a high enough level for battle grounds. So what did they do? They boosted experiance gained for a while and then set it back down once people had gotten used to the mechanics.

The death knight was so popular everyone had one. The was no more "Hunter V.S Shaman" and "Pally V.S Warrior" or anything, everyone was hitting the death knight. Now DK V.S DK is interesting, but it's just who POTENTIALLY uses the abilities better, so they said "Fuck this, we're gonna make them use their other accounts every now and then, since the DK is slightly over powered and so popular" NERF'D

It's like Pallies. They nerf pallies since theyare so over powered and simple to use, and then they are too weak and get buffed again, and on and on and on. The same thing will happen for cataclysm. The worgen and Goblins will be too popular, everyone will want to have a shiney new race, so Blizzard will eventually need to calm everyone down and de-buff the goblins a bit

This is not exactly correct. As someone who leveled a Death Knight before any altercations had been made to the class I can assure that playing one felt like playing a mage aoe grinding in a zone 10 levels below him. I was slicing through mobs higher level than me like butter. Beating the zone's ass like it owed me money. I was basically invincible.

That's why it got nerfed. But it's also why everyone had one and they were so popular. They go hand in hand.

That as well, they couldn't make a new Class called the "Death Knight" and make it on par with everything else, so they offered the incentive of power, then gave it way too much. Same issue as the pally

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I played Horde on a PVP server (which I recommend normal server). I got to about level 30 before I got board and quit. At the time I guess you could say I was addicted but I never spent more than 2 hours a day in playing usually. I usually played solo because most of my friends who played were already 70 (Pre-Lich) at the time. I liked playing by myself anyways some people took it too seriously.

Same here. Thought it was great at first, I was an Alliance Warlock. Then I hit lvl 30, I had around 350 gold, but even that couldn't hold me. I just got bored of it, and used 15 bucks a month for other stuff.

 

[Guffe]

I tried the game because I am a huge warcraft III fan and wanted to see what blizzard did to this amazing phenomenon and I didn't like it that much. I played 5 months (two game cards + the free month). Played with friends and both Horde and Alliance had Horde Rogue, Warrior, Priest and Hunter all a bit over 30 and Alliance Mage, Warlock and Paladin also around 30. I played on RP servers and Role Played a lot so I have good memories of the game but I would've liked a warcraft IV same type strategy/story telling as before.