Doing the most evil thing a man can do, trying out WoW

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Yes, i have done a great sin. I hate WoW with a passion, but to ensure its not built on ignorance, i have decided to try the game out for myself. So i downloaded the 10 day trail.

Now where do i begin? Im a female paladin, and all im doing is running around killing wolfs and weird stuff which takes hours. When i level up i cant choose any attributes or skills or anything (like diablo2 ) and the quests are generic and usually the same (talk to this guy, go there, kill these ppl, come back,recieve reward). I have yet to choose ANY skill about my character. The only option i have been given is to change my pants :hmph:

So before i quit (after about 3 hours of playing) tell me why i should continue, and is there anything great i am missing out on if i quit? Considering so many people playing it, theres got to be SOMETHING good about it? My main problem is that theres no goal, nothing telling me where to go, no way to "finish" the game. Where should i go? What should i do? Just kill wolfs for hours and recieve gold coins?


I will be punished for playing this disease :sleep:
 
Had a similar experience. Can't really recommend continuing, and I even gave it a few more days to hook me.
 
You say all that now, but what you don't realise is the bitching is part of the process. They already have you in their web.

Welcome to the grind.
 
At level 10 you get to spend skill points. Other than that most of the quests are boring and have nothing to do with the main story.
 
Should have gone Horde.

Failure one. Quit now.
 
Horde ftw.

Though, I've quit. :p
It was kinda fun leveling up and stuff, but at the end of the game (lvl 70) I realised the grind just got bigger. I would have to get a full set of epic armor before anyone would consider taking me with them in their party, and once I got that I'd have to get the next set and the next set and the next set and so on etc etc.

Basically, the game is one big grind :p
 
FYI, paladins are arguably one of the hardest classes to level. Try out a hunter or a rogue, killing things goes a lot faster.
 
I gave it two days with a human male warrior, then another two with a undead mage.. It's such a repetitive game. People on it are mostly nice, though, not like Diablo 2 filled with dickheads.
 
I'm also thinking about to take the leap. I mean I have the WoW CD's and all, I got it as a gift, but never actually installed it yet. I'm just not sure if I should do it, I've been eager to try though.
 
I am an recovering WoW addict. I had a lvl 70 Paladin, lvl 70 Warlock, and a lvl 55 Priest.

WoW is far more subtle than Diablo 2. WoW is more of a finesse game than Diablo 2, the finer points don't come out unless you spend the time looking for them. An example would be the quest dialogue which often links numerous quests into over-arching storylines which can take 30+ levels to resolve. Until WoW, I had yet to play a RPG where the storyline was so subtly written into the game.

If you don't like Morrowind or Oblivion, you probably won't like WoW.
 
I love Morrowind, probably my favorite game of all time, I used to mod for it and help write storylines for mods.

WoW sucks hard ass. And Oblivion crapped all over The Elder Scrolls series.
 
Glad i stopped playing, beacuse i decided to just mf a few minutes in Diablo2 and WHOOPS, Mara amulet accidently drops :D worth 7 hrs :D also Titans Revenge droped in the same freaking game :D Just 5 minutes of diablo2 gave me more pleasure than WoW can ever give.

Sometime tomorrow i will give WoW another go, maybe create a new char or something to test out different areas.
 
I was playing dungeon siege 2 a while ago, and in many ways it was better than diablo 2. And yet, I still love diablo 2 in a way that dungeon siege 2 will never be able to compete. I'm not sure what it is, but I think it mainly has to do with the items.
 
Yea i actually tried Dungeon Siege too, dont remember if it was the first or second one. I got kinda into it and came pretty far, but for some reason i stopped playing. Good game
 
WoW is old news now. The first expansion raped the game over a year and a half ago.

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At the current state, to have fun in WoW, you have to have previous experience in the game itself, and what its like.

For example, you should never roll on a underpopulated server, because you will never find other people to grp with.

Also, you need to realize the lower level fun has diminished significantly since its first launch due to the fact that everyone is gearing up their lvl 70 instead of lvling new characters. Thus you will have a difficult time grouping with anyone even if you are on a high populated server.

All in all, its not fun until at least 60+, thats where everyone is at.
 
So I have to log in hundreds of hours, and shell out hundreds of dollars and THEN I'll have fun with the game? That's not even close to my definition of a game.
 
Play with friends.

EDIT: Preferably, LAN with friends. Soft drink binges and lazing back on your chair whilst bitching and making immature insults is the way to play WoW.
 
Its only appealing when Im playing with a mate of mine, cool sense of co-op and dealing with dangers as a team, on my own, its pants.
 
world pvp with friends is fun, everything else is just a time waster (intentional, considering its business model).
 
I played for 3 months with friends, and it sucked. By the second month I was hardly playing, and I only payed for another month because my brothers still wanted to play.
 
It's just like any other game out there - you either like it or you don't.

I've tried it (twice) and it never held me or pulled me in at all. I've played it on my lonesome and with friends but to no avail.

It's popular, but it's not exactly as addictive as everyone made out. (For me anyway).
 
nurizeko said:
world pvp with friends is fun, everything else is just a time waster (intentional, considering its business model).
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World PvP with a good guild is freakin great. Too bad it's all but died out since Burning Crusade. Or Battlegrounds. Or honor. Or basically any system Blizzard introduced after launch to "improve" PvP.
 
Every once in a while I'm lucky enough to see a raid on Crossroads. :(
 
I liked Battlegrounds a lot in WoW, but not enough to justify the subscription fee.
 
Ravioli said:
Glad i stopped playing, beacuse i decided to just mf a few minutes in Diablo2 and WHOOPS, Mara amulet accidently drops :D worth 7 hrs :D also Titans Revenge droped in the same freaking game :D Just 5 minutes of diablo2 gave me more pleasure than WoW can ever give.

Sometime tomorrow i will give WoW another go, maybe create a new char or something to test out different areas.
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As mentioned beforehand you picked the worst first class. Paladins are very slow to level and dont become anything like their warcraft 3 counterparts until you hit 62+ and start to gain the burning crusade abilities. The best first character classes in my opinion are either a rogue or mage and maybe a hunter also if you want a pet class. You also wont get a decent feel for for how your class plays or the game itself until around level 25 at least so take one of the previous mentioned characters to that level before you decide on the game. I myself have just picked up wow again after a small break so if you want a levelling partner to make things go quicker then im happy to help but only if you go horde... Alliance ftl!
 
I started playing a while ago. It's a love it or loathe it kinda game. The fun comes when you can start killing the shit out of everything.
 
A lot of you guys just don't get it. A game should be fun out of the box, you shouldn't have to get to point B or level X before it's fun. If it's not fun from the start, it's not worth anyone's time.
 
Oh, well thank God I found the game fun out of the box.

I think most of us know what we enjoy in our games. :rolleyes:

To be honest, starting out a new character is one of my favorite parts of the game. It's the middle section I currently find to be a bit of a drag. But I didn't think the same my first time through it all. It's only a problem with my alts. My brother picked it up recently and he's burning through his levels, and this is after the first time he tried it out and didn't care for it. Nobody had to coax him into the experience or advise him to be patient. So maybe we can assume that WoW players don't have some crippling defect in the "fun" compartment of their brain, hmm?

If you don't have friends to play it with, a leveling guild can be fun. I didn't need one, but that's the route he went.
 
Dog-- said:
A lot of you guys just don't get it. A game should be fun out of the box, you shouldn't have to get to point B or level X before it's fun. If it's not fun from the start, it's not worth anyone's time.
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Ok let me put it this way.... paladins are the most ****ing boring class to play and the early alliance levels lack the charm of the horde ones. Try a horde mage or rogue with me :>
 
Dog-- said:
A lot of you guys just don't get it. A game should be fun out of the box, you shouldn't have to get to point B or level X before it's fun. If it's not fun from the start, it's not worth anyone's time.
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Yet it's the most popular MMORPG (and I believe PC game) ever and practically a religion for some people.

Discuss.
 
Horde has lost all bragging rights about coolness when they got that unisex race called Blood Elves :>

Anyway, I can't believe there's actually people longing to go back to the days of TM / SS "PvP". Jesus, that was so shit. A mindless zerg where ranged classes dominated. Current day PvP may not have the romantic charm of "heroic outdoor battles" (read: zerg fests) but it's a lot more skillbased. Perhaps Lake Wintergrasp is gonna be fun, but I hold my breath because AV was just as shit as TM zergs were. AV is funny these days though, it's a PvP battleground the size of a small zone that's over in less than 15 minutes where there's no actual PvP, it's such a joke. Alliance and Horde just ride past each other :LOL:
Good honor though.

WoW was magical for me in the beginning, back in 2004/2005 when I played both beta's. It has lost that since, but that's not so weird when you know EVERYTHING about the game and it becomes a game of numbers (14 AP is 1 DPS, dodge rating is better than parry rating for mitigation because dodge costs less per percentage but parry gives slight threat because it increases the time of your next swing by 40%, 1 SD is about 0.6 TPS for a Prot paladin, etc etc) and about character progression. But it's still fun to me, although I can't focus on one char for too long.

It's also almost a soothing game to play. Just flying over Hellfire Peninsula, mining some ore veins, some music playing in the background, very relaxing. Almost therapeutic.

Raiding is also fun as hell, although I don't do it any more.

It's also a game that has improved by every patch and update, the current incarnation is SO much better than WoW 1.0 it's not even funny. Say what you will about TBC (and I thought it was great) but it fixed a LOT of WoW's problems. WotLK is looking amazing in the improvements that it's going to bring, like the consolidation of spelldamage and healing into one stat: spell power.
 
Don't be diss thy bloodelves or I'll have to get my level 14 blood elf mage to frostnova your behind!
:p

But yeah I agree, On my own I get bored easily and just change the realmlist to let me play on 'Fun-servers' which set starting levels to 70, and give you a room full of vendors and trainers. Takes the work out of WoW, but when I"m playing with a friend its fun. :D

But people on WoW are so anti-social :O
especially on the European English Servers, I ask for a group invite, which these people have said in there LFC that they need help, and in the end they tell me to frig off.

No respect, blame the kids, there playing this in the holidays. Play in the day, where true men who don't work, play on WoW. :D
 
I'm not saying the game isn't fun for some people, but if you have to tell someone who found the game boring from the start 'it'll be fun in a few months/more money' then they shouldn't be playing it. Waste of money/time for them. If you find it fun from the start, ok, then the game is worth your time, if you don't find enjoyment from the game out of the box, get a different game.
 
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