My love for WoW has been rekindled

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I started an undead shadow priest on Garona a couple of weeks ago. I was doing a rescue quest in Hillsbrad tonight. I was level 23. As I am clearing out the 5 mobs surrounding the NPC I see a level 30 Night Elf Warrior approaching me. I think to myself what is he up to? It's a PVE server, he can't gank me. As soon as I kill the last mob, the Elf begins attacking the NPC that I need to free for my quest. The NPC is level 25 and will be dead soon and I won't be able to complete my quest. So what do I do? I cast Shadow Word Pain and Touch of Weakness on the Elf. I then cast Renew and Flash Heal on the NPC. The Elf continues to attack the NPC for a moment, oblivious to the fact that the NPC is now at full health. He realizes I have healed the NPC and begins to charge me. I Psychic Scream him and get off a critical Mind Blast and a wand shot to kill him. I beat someone 7 levels higher than me and turned a potential griefing incident into a laughing-induced stomach ache. What made it that much better is that when I was reading the WoW forums, I saw him post on how Shadow Priests need to be nerfed :)
 
I think my love for WoW has just started, I downloaded the 10 day trial account and played two characters up to the trial cap of 20 and I still have time left.
My lvl 20 human paladin should be atleast mid 30s if I started playing with retail, and my rogue just turned 20 today during a deadmines instance. I still have about 5 quests to turn in, 3 from the deadmines so that should be a good xp boost when I get retail.

Very fun game, when I was crying about the level cap I was working on my mining/blacksmithing and skinning/leather worker.
I got those skills up nice and have started making my own stuff.

Great game, I can't wait until I get retail. :)
 
Negative on WoW getting worse as you progress. There is a lot to do and each patch brings more to the table. 1.9 will be huge. 20 man and 40 main raid additions with 1.9 for starters.
 
Most of the userbase is lvl 60, which makes sense. More and more content is introduced for the high level guys and I find myself just grinding in hopes that I will someday be level 60 and can start actually playing the game... :(
 
Grinding to 60 can suck, but you have to learn your way around the world. You have to REALY learn how to play you character. There's no other way then grind. Otherwise 60 would be boring..
 
the game gets really bland at the high end, i was enjoying lvling up and seeing the random dungeons and copy/paste dungeons actually going further then the ones i was used too, they had little random suprises and quests waiting around a corner, it was pretty exciting, how ever now at lvl 60 when you get your epic mount, and are pretty much just relying on raids it becomes a waiting game, and theres not much to do in the mean time

it still is a fun game, people do AB over and over again like a quake1 death match game, that got boring to me pretty fast, so now i grind faction away in silithis (yay for finally making honored .. 12k to go for revered woot)
 
Yawn, all WoW is once you cap your toon is long, boring epic raids with no point to them other than getting gear so you can (mostly) own monsters even more. I know a lot of people who left for a few months from a guild I play with on the game Dark Age of Camelot, and they HATED it once they were 60. The PvE was just a quest grind to 60, then pointless raids forever-more. The raids themselves were boring from what I heard, as well.
 
The only thing I don't like about WoW is how slow it moves. It takes way too long to get from point a to point b. I prefer something where you actually spend more time fighting then you do traveling. Thats why I play City of Villains. I recently tried to start playing WoW again but I just can't seem to do it. I really like the game but I just get turned off by the traveling. Am I retarded?

oh yea incase your wondering. lvl 40 shaman on Eldre'Thalas - Nysma.
 
nah WoW is alot of fun. there's many different things you can do at the high end that make it exciting. last night i've been havin to grind in AV, but if you actually care a bit it'll be fun.
 
Once I got my pally to 30, I sort of got tired. After thinking about it, I'm going to re-install WoW and start up a rogue.
 
TranquilRed said:
Once I got my pally to 30, I sort of got tired. After thinking about it, I'm going to re-install WoW and start up a rogue.
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Yeah i got a pally to 20 once, then i went back to horde after i realized how much pallys suck. Now I have a 60 mage and a 43 hunter and countless 10-20s of various classes.
 
I found the lower-level quests to be quite interesting, but then again I tend to solo a lot in mmorpg's, simply because of a lack of good players to play with. By good I don't mean the ones that just run through an instance they've done 100 times before, but those people who teach others as they go, exhibit true teamwork, and are just fun to be around. I quit WoW about 6 months ago, and have since started single-player RPG's again. After playing something like Fable, it would be hard to go back to MMORPG's and get less quality for more $$....
 
TranquilRed said:
Once I got my pally to 30, I sort of got tired. After thinking about it, I'm going to re-install WoW and start up a rogue.
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Yeah you will like a Rogue, I have a 59 Rogue (Grivad) and a 26 lock (Grihm) on Suramar.

You can solo so much more of the game with a Rogue than other classes. One morning i'm on and none of my freinds are so I decide to solo an "orange" quest. (over my skill level) So im escorting this robotic chicken thing through the Hinterlands and I Decide to go Stealth so the mobs dont attack me. Im trolling along behind this chicken when this tauren warrior runs by and sees this chicken walking along. (cant see me due to stealth) Well I guess he was curious because he is following this chicken with me in tow. Anytime a mob pops up to attack the chicken the horde warrior kills them. We do this a couple more times before we reach the destination. the quest finishes, I unstealth and thank you warrior for his time before riding off into the sunset:)
 
I have to disagree with people in this thread who think the game is boring at the endgame. I think it may be boring if you are not in a guild that is capable of 40 man raids, or doing some of the highend content. This is not the fault of the game however.

I am currently doing MC / Onxyia raids, and I still find the game plenty fun. If I get bored of the end game, then I can go help guildies do fun things like kill all the alliance in STV during the fishing contest, grab the alliance boat to the wetlands and surprise a bunch of alliance noobs. There are battlegrounds, tradeskills, etc. There really is a lot of life in the game, you just need to actively seek it out, instead of sitting in Org complaining about the lack of solo content at endgame.
 
Slow is not the word for WoW.... Travel can cause you to fall asleep unless you have some other means than walking. Some say it gives a sense of a large universe. I think it is a way to make sure people waste considerable amounts of their prepaid playtime.


I also do not like that guilds can have the same name on different servers and not even be the same group of people. Perhaps I'm looking at this from the stand point of other games but I though a clan/guild name was suppose to be of importance. Or have I miss understood how the guild name systems work for WoW. Same for the regular name system.



Have'n to get everyone on one particular server from the start is the fault of the game.


I recently started WoW and find it to be a decent game. Unfortunately other people I know are on a different servers. So we all have to start over or we can not play together. The first 10 levels is painfully dull for me. Had I not known that the game becomes decent at level 10 I would have quit. I honestly do not want to do it again.

I do not mind keeping PvP, normal, roleplay being seperate. (I would like to move my PvP to a PvE because I'm tired of being rape'd by groups of players 30 levels higher than me.) But I do not know how letting people play together harms the game. I guess it is in their interest to keep everyone grinding just so they can play along side friends.

Server moves should be allowed, even if takes a day to complete the move. I'd rather not play a character for a single day than have to completely start over.
 
Deity said:
We do this a couple more times before we reach the destination. the quest finishes, I unstealth and thank you warrior for his time before riding off into the sunset:)
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That is funny, but very similar to the way I play the game. If I found a robotic chicken walking around I would have followed it too...

I guess if I concentrated at grinding I would lvl faster but I dont think it would be nearly as much fun.
 
Is there race class that is good from 1-60 or do some start early and fizzle out late game, while some start late and finish strong?

sparks
 
I've been playing since beta pretty much every day and still enjoy it immensely. Enjoying the game at level 60 though revolves around being in a good guild that is capable of tackling the raid instances and world encounters. Only thing I don't enjoy is MC, I can't stand that place.
 
Genocidal[v2] said:
I've been playing since beta pretty much every day and still enjoy it immensely. Enjoying the game at level 60 though revolves around being in a good guild that is capable of tackling the raid instances and world encounters. Only thing I don't enjoy is MC, I can't stand that place.
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Genocidal, I would like to ask you some questions, pertaining to your guild in WoW.

I believe somewhere that you said you are doing BWL. In your experience, did you ever run into problems with people running MC, in that you would have more then enough for a 40 man raid, and some people would get left out. How did you guild handle growing pains like deciding who gets to go on MC runs?

I ask because the guild I am in, is experiencing growing pains as well, any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.
 
I can't speak for gen, but the way my guild handles is it is you have to sign up for MC before the scheduled raid at the guild website. Everyone that signs up gets a chance to roll to run MC, since much more than 40 will show. If you don't win a roll for that MC run, you are guaranteed a spot on the next MC run. For times when you can't make it on next run or what not, that is usually arranged through the officers and is usually rolled over to the next run you can commit to.
 
Sui said:
I recently started WoW and find it to be a decent game. Unfortunately other people I know are on a different servers. So we all have to start over or we can not play together. The first 10 levels is painfully dull for me. Had I not known that the game becomes decent at level 10 I would have quit. I honestly do not want to do it again.
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After you'd done it once or twice & have a handle on gameplay, 1-10 go by in 2-3hr. I've wasted more time than that trying to get a group together to run instances.
 
There are plans to allow server changing in the future for a small fee. They haven't stated what the small fee will be, but most people assume it's there to prevent server switching from becoming rampant.
 
odoe said:
I can't speak for gen, but the way my guild handles is it is you have to sign up for MC before the scheduled raid at the guild website. Everyone that signs up gets a chance to roll to run MC, since much more than 40 will show. If you don't win a roll for that MC run, you are guaranteed a spot on the next MC run. For times when you can't make it on next run or what not, that is usually arranged through the officers and is usually rolled over to the next run you can commit to.
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Thats actually a cool idea. So I assume only those classes, with more then enough people to fill the roster for the raid roll.
 
Draax, we really don't have that problem with MC. On the nights that we do MC we usually just have enough to do it and if we do have more then 40 on it isn't too much of a big deal if people have to sit out because most of us have everything we need from there. With BWL though everyone wants to go since it is still fairly new. Our guild leader usually takes a look at our raid composition and decides what classes we need and then will ask for volunteers to sit out for that particular raid. Whoever sits out on one raid will be given preference on the next one. I don't have an exact number at the moment but we have around 45 people or so in the guild.
 
I find that the farther you get into wow, the more time you spend sitting in orgrimmar(or ironforge) doing nothing :p. 75% of the time I'm sitting in orgrimmar, 20% I'm in battlegrounds, 5% I'm in molten core/onyxia's lair.


As for getting to 60, it took me 23 days of playtime(a little slow I think) and 83 days total.

In short: WoW is the biggest time sink that I've ever encountered.
 
If you start to get bored you can also try playing another class. My main is a rogue and i've just started playing a warrior recently, it's a nice change of pace.
 
Draax said:
I am currently doing MC / Onxyia raids, and I still find the game plenty fun.
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When did you start doing them? Believe me, MC and Onyxia sn't going to stop WoW from becoming boring for you. At first, MC and Onyxia are fun, a challenge. Then you get the tactics right, everyone gets better gear, and even that turns out to be a chore, you're doing the same bosses every week, again and again, just to get better gear. Then you start doing BWL, trying/killing the same bosses, again to get better gear. It's repetitive, but there isn't much else you can do. PVP? Sure, if you enjoy it, it's like grinding but you're killing people instead of mobs. I really dislike the PVP instances in WoW, the whole system really, it stops being fun after a while.

There are some people in my old guild that are still online all day every day, doing the same instances/raids and PVP over and over again, but I couldn't stomach it. It becomes work after a while, not fun.
 
i remember i was in desolace and was walking around minding my own business untill a 5 lvl higher than me paladin attacked me.

I shaman'd him to death even after he tried to run away with his shield on. He then tried to come back for more thinking he lost by a fluke and i killed him again.

this was on a super high # of alliance server and low Horde so i was pretty happy killing a pally
 
im glad you like it ... the first 3-4 months of this game is great... i couldnt get enough!

i did play for 6 month , and when you get higher level... you cant just log in for an hour and expect to do 1 or 2 quest... quest are getting very very hard and you need to group to do them ... and you also need to travel a LOT...

im a gamer who likes to play short period of time... not 6-7-8hours straight...so it killed my love for WoW...

but when i think back about that game... endless worlds... great scenery... magics...

man id love to play it again...

maybe when burning legion will come out
 
koneko said:
When did you start doing them? Believe me, MC and Onyxia sn't going to stop WoW from becoming boring for you. At first, MC and Onyxia are fun, a challenge. Then you get the tactics right, everyone gets better gear, and even that turns out to be a chore, you're doing the same bosses every week, again and again, just to get better gear. Then you start doing BWL, trying/killing the same bosses, again to get better gear. It's repetitive, but there isn't much else you can do. PVP? Sure, if you enjoy it, it's like grinding but you're killing people instead of mobs. I really dislike the PVP instances in WoW, the whole system really, it stops being fun after a while.

There are some people in my old guild that are still online all day every day, doing the same instances/raids and PVP over and over again, but I couldn't stomach it. It becomes work after a while, not fun.
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I think it all depends on who you raid with. Our guild did just a trash mob run last night, and it was fun as hell, and we didn't even try to down a boss.
 
To be fair though Draax, we haven't (you and I) been doing MC for more than a few weeks so it is still new and exciting. I could see where tedium would set in, but that is what rolling other characters and trying out RP servers and ganking/PvP runs are for.

I moved pretty quick with my main character and got him to 60 in about 17 days (play time). i've been 60 for about another 9 days at this point, I have a level 28 alliance druid on a RP server and one of each flavor (class) on my main PvP server (all in the 20s). If I get bored running high level instances I run my lower alts. If I get tired of Horde instances I have the alliance.

A good guild is very useful and I have enjoyed my time so far.

 
Having a good guild with friends certainly doesn't hurt. If it weren't for the guild i'm in I probably would have quit a few months ago.
 
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