I just can't get into WoW

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ray4389

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Like...it's boring. I'm only a level 6 but I can't even find people to play with me and it's so boring to me. I like to get into the action now...
 
If you're at 6 and bored, there is NO MMO that can ever hope to please you.

If you want people to play with, find a newly opened server. Don't start on a server that has been open for over a year, where almost everyone already has a lvl 60.
At low levels, you really just have to get lucky and stumble onto other people in the same area to group with.
 
I was like that. It took my four tries to get into WoW. I think 95% of it is finding the Right chareter that pleases you. I went through a bunch of different races untill i found the one i liked the most.
 
also depends on the server and faction you have chosen..when i used to play i originally was on a low pop pve server and it was boring indeed, everywhere was a goddamn ghosttown and found myself soloing a lot.. it blew..then i moved to a high pop server, switched to alliance and there were so many people, you hardly ever had to worry about finding people to quest with you.. ultimately i quit cause i got real tired of all the tedious quests like escorting a mechanical chicken across the desert or collecting feathers...
 
I too did the 10-day trial after everyone kept telling me how great it is, I just couldn't get into it. I played on different servers and had 4 characters at lvl's 7,9, and one at 10. My main reason was I just kept getting lost, I had no idea were the hell to go! I felt like a retard of something just roaming into these areas with creatures that would kill me with 2 hits. I also felt alot of the quest were just the same thing at higher levels. Hell, I even tried to take up Herbalism and Alchemy.

Being a fan of the Warcraft games I just didn't see the"fun" of WOW or what would keep me going back at $15 a month.
 
I played for awhile and had the same problem as you, no one to play with. I'll never play this game again its gay. I was up to level 17 and it was just too boring. Now I play fable and Black. Im anxiously awaiting diablo 3.
 
Its better to give up now than to be let down once you reach 60. You'll just keep pooring more and more of time into rather than real life. Get Oblivion in a week...
 
Stick with it. At level 6, assuming you're an Alliance Human, you only just ventured into Goldshire. There's just SO much to this game. It really gets better later. Also, it does depend on the character you play. My first character was a Paladin. I got him to level 42, then got bored with him. So, I started a NE Hunter, and got to 60. I absolutely LOVE the hunter! Now I am level 60, I am waiting for the next patch which will give me gold instead of XP for completing quests. This, for me, is an incentive to keep playing.
 
I am the same way. Most MMO's just don't do it for me. You quest, level up, get new gear, repeat.

Boring. :eek:
 
I have played a lot of MMORPGs, out of the ones I actually reached endgame, WoW was the quickest I put away however.

Still the grind was fairly short, and the pvp was pretty enjoyable. The Arthas PvP server however was pretty favorable to the Alliance side at least during the few months after launch.
 
No kidding you're bored. You're level 6. You can't do anything at level 6. You will easily get mobbed by many creatures, and you will not be able to explore or move onto anywhere. Once you hit 20 that is when you can actually do stuff, and this is where it starts to get good. At level 30ish you can really explore places and have fun. You're quitting too early. Just quest as much as you can.
 
I've found that WoW is one of those games that is very enjoyable if you're playing with a group. When I started playing, there were 4 or 5 people in my Battlefield clan who had just started also. I say find a guild or a group of people to quest together with. Make some friends. I find that this game is particularly enjoyable when played in a group, but boring when you play it alone.

For all the people that say it's boring, for curiosity's sake, what do you play that you DO enjoy? Please don't tell me it's an FPS.:rolleyes:
 
Dan_D said:
I am the same way. Most MMO's just don't do it for me. You quest, level up, get new gear, repeat.

Boring. :eek:
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Technically then, every game is like that. Take an FPS for example.. You spawn, kill, power up, die, repeat.

Take an RTS: You build a base, farm resources, kill enemy, repeat.

You can do this with most genres, but when you sit down to play an MMO like WoW, you realize a good chunk of what makes it fun is the community in general.
 
My biggest problem with MMOs is that I never am capable of finding a clan to join to actually experience the best part of MMOs - human companions.
 
Mojo3k70 said:
Technically then, every game is like that. Take an FPS for example.. You spawn, kill, power up, die, repeat.

Take an RTS: You build a base, farm resources, kill enemy, repeat.

You can do this with most genres, but when you sit down to play an MMO like WoW, you realize a good chunk of what makes it fun is the community in general.
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There is at least action and some skill involved in the games I enjoy. It doesn't take anything but time to succeed at an MMO.
 
Dan_D said:
There is at least action and some skill involved in the games I enjoy. It doesn't take anything but time to succeed at an MMO.
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QFT, in the end I was disappointed with WoW because when I got to 60 I was sick and tired of the quest to get better and better gear...and the huge amount of time it took...
 
thats not necessairily true...

i work full time and only login to wow when im home to raid.

i currently lead the guild i am in and i would classify us among the top 5% serverwide interms of content completed.

that takes me all of about... 3-4 hours a day and i have a great time doing it. when i get a day off from work with some time to kill i am excited to be able to farm an instance with 4 friends or particularly BG PvP since we are regarded as one of the best 10 man teams running out there right now.

its not everyones cup of tea, if you dont enjoy it, dont play it. however i dont think that reaching level 6 gives you a full idea of the game.

personally i would say that atleast 50% of the games good content is after reaching level 60, but as you said, most of that comes from being with people you enjoy.
 
ray4389 said:
Like...it's boring. I'm only a level 6 but I can't even find people to play with me and it's so boring to me. I like to get into the action now...
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Unless you're ok with solo play, these games are best played with friends.
 
FoxhoundOp said:
For all the people that say it's boring, for curiosity's sake, what do you play that you DO enjoy? Please don't tell me it's an FPS.:rolleyes:
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That's pretty arrogant to think that FPS's aren't fun and only MMO's can be.. of course an MMO is going to have much more complexity and require a larger time investment but there is nothing wrong with FPS's, and in fact I prefer being able to play a few rounds in an FPS for an hour and be able to quit and go do something else. When I played wow there was NO quitting after an hour, you just couldn't if you were in the middle of a quest or an instance, your group would be pissed at you and you'd be dead if you just stopped playing. That puts way too much control of the game over you, and who the hell needs that? lol
 
FoxhoundOp said:
For all the people that say it's boring, for curiosity's sake, what do you play that you DO enjoy? Please don't tell me it's an FPS.:rolleyes:
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City of Heroes/City of Villains, Galactic Civilizations II, Civilization IV, Rise of Nations, and others. I'm not into the whole loot thing or the fantasy theme in a MMORPG to begin with, though.
 
FoxhoundOp said:
For all the people that say it's boring, for curiosity's sake, what do you play that you DO enjoy? Please don't tell me it's an FPS.:rolleyes:
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Lumines.
 
If you don't have a group of RL friends to play with or a decent guild, MMOs simply aren't worth the time. I can log onto any Quake 4 server of my choosing and finish a deathmatch in about five minutes. You have to stick with your character, playing in very short amounts like that won't get much done, and you need people to play with. I really don't think you're even using the LFG channel. Even on established servers, there are always people in the starting zones during peak hours. It's highly unlikely that at least a few people aren't on the same quests that you are.
 
I came to the conclusion a while back that I can't get into MMOs unless my friends are playing. I play WoW with a few buddies and we have a great time. Got 60 on a horde char, ran most of the endgame and quit. In the last few weeks we've started up again on the ally side. I basically treat it like IRC w/ something to do while idling :p We head out, not always partied and just chat in game or on TS and play around for a few hours. It's good times but won't last. The only problem I have with WoW is that it steals my precious gaming time from other games I want to play/beat.
 
schapman said:
I came to the conclusion a while back that I can't get into MMOs unless my friends are playing. I play WoW with a few buddies and we have a great time. Got 60 on a horde char, ran most of the endgame and quit. In the last few weeks we've started up again on the ally side. I basically treat it like IRC w/ something to do while idling :p We head out, not always partied and just chat in game or on TS and play around for a few hours. It's good times but won't last. The only problem I have with WoW is that it steals my precious gaming time from other games I want to play/beat.
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QFT...Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance sat in my bedroom still in shrinkwrap from Christmas till last week because of WoW PVP ;)
 
I quit. After over a year of hard work and hundreds of hours of time invested, I quit.

I was in one of the top raiding guilds on my server, lots of friends and great people to play with. We had Onyxia, Molten Core and Blackwing Lair on easymode farm status. Epics galore. We were wtfpwning Ahn'Qiraj. And I was hating every second of it.

Once you hit 60 and start doing the high-end raid dungeons...it becomes like a fuckin' JOB. Most guilds that get to these dungeons implement a mandatory system of attendance -- some are more lax, only requiring a couple of days a week; others, 5 or more days a week. But even in a guild with friends and that wants to have fun, if you don't show up enough or don't provide a good enough excuse as to why you can't attend, and you're out. And even when you can breeze through Blackwing Lair, it still takes 3-5 solid hours. No more rolling on items, you have to use DKP points which are accumulated by participating in the raids. If you skip a few raids to rest or do real-life stuff, you're behind in points, and when that item you've wanted so badly finally drops, someone else has the points to outbid you and get it.

My character was a paladin...not sure if you're aware, but in places like MC and BWL, all that class does is throw out secondary heals and cleanse. That's it. Mind-numbing, press-the-same-two-hotkeys shit. But it's to earn and build up DKP, right? It's to get epics, right? It's to best the boss, right?

I knew the nature of MMOs, I'm not complaining about that. But all the things that are fun from levels 1-59 go out the window when the serious raiding starts...there is nothing else to do at 60, unless you PvP, and that's an entirely worse kind of grind. No more of those funny wipes in instances like Maraudon. Raiding is a job. You fuck up and cause wipes too often, and it's your ass. You're taking on new bosses, and you spend three straight nights (or longer) wiping for hours getting the strategy down pat, spending hundreds in gold for repairs, which then makes you grind for money during the off-raid night or go to some website and spend real money for a few hundred gold.

Some people don't mind the raiding grind, and I wish I was one of them. But when you're fighting Nefarian for the nth time and you intentionally fake a disconnect just so you don't have to play anymore that night...well, it's over. I suspect it'd be the same for any MMO, so I guess I should just avoid them and stick to anticipating the next Final Fantasy game or something.
 
Json23 said:
My biggest problem with MMOs is that I never am capable of finding a clan to join to actually experience the best part of MMOs - human companions.
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Make friends... This maybe where people have the hardest time in these types of games. Once you game for a while and get a good reputation you get a lot of invites to groups and guilds.

Sunin - Deathsdoor / Nobull on Bronzebeard (Horde) and Magnamious on Emerald Dream (Alliance)
 
Sunin said:
Make friends... This maybe where people have the hardest time in these types of games. Once you game for a while and get a good reputation you get a lot of invites to groups and guilds.

Sunin - Deathsdoor / Nobull on Bronzebeard (Horde) and Magnamious on Emerald Dream (Alliance)
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playing a main healing class (druid/priest) = random invites for groups while logged on
 
Too damn repetitive for me. Go get this, go get that, take this over there, bring me that. Different levels same stuff.
 
WoW isn't for everyone. The game is mostly about end game.

Also, if you start end game raiding, and all you do is raid. It gets boring very fast. Most people think of it this way. Raid to get gear. Use the gear in the battlegrounds against the opposing faction. End game raiding also gets boring for just about every class. In the end game each class is split into 3 functions: Taking Damage, Dealing Damage, Healing Damage.

So you could conclude that
Raid= in order to own in pvp

Also on the topic of skill. Yes mmo's on a whole require alot less skill than a say an fps, hell some would argue it take less skill than an RTS. But, I would still say the game requires a certain amount of skill.
 
LOL, this thread is teh funnay. Face it, not every game is for everybody. Play the games you like, don't play the games that you don't like...SIMPLE.

Granted, there are games that 99% percent of the people on these forums will say sucked, but for the rest there is no reason to try to convince or force somebody to like a game.
 
Dan_D said:
I am the same way. Most MMO's just don't do it for me. You quest, level up, get new gear, repeat.

Boring. :eek:
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You just described a general RPG, not a general MMO. A MMO can be any genre as long as it is MMO...
 
if you aren't liking the game in the beginning you won't like the game as it progresses, the one thing that kept me playing WoW was their general random dungeon's that seemed to go on for ever, just out of no where you'd enter a house, that had some stairs down to a cave in a normal low lvl zone, and it would progressively get harder, reminded me alot of EQ1, after that was done how ever its just one instance after another or the extremely tedious PVP grinds...
 
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