I'm currently Lv76 having played my way up there casualy. The Random dungeon finder is great to show you all the instances, especially with quest sharing meaning you can get most of the quests done like that. Unfortunately I won't get to see any of the classic or BC raid content as nobody cares about them anymore, which is a shame, but that's the way life is. I should be able to find random raids for the WotLC content, so I can experience all that, and figure out what the actual endgame is like, ready for Cata. And I'm having pretty good fun. Maybe I'm just odd.
Thinking of playing WoW... advice please
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I would go for the free trial first. Play all the classes and races untill about level 10 or so the pick the one you enjoy playing most then go from there. I didnt really like wow untill i came across the warlock class which i really enjoyed playing and leveling.
Druid and paladin are good choices as they can, heal, tank and do damage, so your seeing all 3 sides of the game from one class.
It also helps if you have people to play with, like any game its better playing with people you know rather then randoms.
As for people saying dont do it and its addciting. Its no different then any other game the only differance is the world is so big and there so much to do and see it takes a longer time to get bored of if you get into it.
Druid and paladin are good choices as they can, heal, tank and do damage, so your seeing all 3 sides of the game from one class.
It also helps if you have people to play with, like any game its better playing with people you know rather then randoms.
As for people saying dont do it and its addciting. Its no different then any other game the only differance is the world is so big and there so much to do and see it takes a longer time to get bored of if you get into it.
First take a look at the realms on: http://www.wowprogress.com/realms/rank/eu
Pay attention to the progress of the guilds on the server, the server population and perhaps most importantly.... the faction ratio! Especially for pvp servers.
Second check your preferred realms on their realm forums, perhaps make a post asking about the dominant language on the realm. You don't want to end up on a nicely populated realm that speaks all Russian
This will give you a good start. The guild progress part is mainly if you want to raid a lot at level 80
Pay attention to the progress of the guilds on the server, the server population and perhaps most importantly.... the faction ratio! Especially for pvp servers.
Second check your preferred realms on their realm forums, perhaps make a post asking about the dominant language on the realm. You don't want to end up on a nicely populated realm that speaks all Russian
This will give you a good start. The guild progress part is mainly if you want to raid a lot at level 80
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I think this kind of game effects people in different ways. For me I became addicted to it and playing casually wasn't really an option, for others i'm sure they can happily play it casually. In the end though I just got bored of the game for the following reasons:
1) Class imbalances - too many classes, almost constant patches which swing the balance of power back and forth for no good reason.
2) Became a job - was in a top EU raiding guild and instead of enjoying the raids they just felt like a chore at the end of the day. After a while I only logged in to raid dungeons, and after some more time I simply didn't log in anymore.
3) PVP was not fun. Somewhat because of the class imbalances (this game probably would have been a lot better with less classes to balance). The old battlegrounds got very stale, and the Arena was a bit of a joke.
4) Became World of Casualcraft. Where people could log in and practically have epic items dropped at their feet.
5) Dungeons lost any sense of tactics, instead of utilising crowd control or certain methods to kill enemies, you could simply AOE tank the lot and kill everything.
However. I did enjoy some aspects of the game, especially pre-WOTLK when I remember doing 40 man raids into Molten Core/Blackwing Lair and the raids actually being fun.
Blizzard also know how to make good games and WoW is a very well polished game. The quests are good whilst levelling, the areas are well designed etc. I also heard about some of the new features they added like cross-realm dungeon queueing etc which is a feature I would have liked to have used if it was around when I was.
I also found the levelling process quite good fun when I got into it, on my DK I recall moments of it quite fondly. Grinding through levels and quests might sound boring but in some ways it was the best fun I had whilst playing.
Lastly special mention goes to the auction house, which is basically like a mini game in itself. At one point I had like 20000 gold on my DK due to buying gems on the AH, cutting them with Jewelcrafting, and selling on for profit.
I tried Aion, was not a scratch on WoW tbh and just made me appreciate how much more polished WoW was in comparison.
1) Class imbalances - too many classes, almost constant patches which swing the balance of power back and forth for no good reason.
2) Became a job - was in a top EU raiding guild and instead of enjoying the raids they just felt like a chore at the end of the day. After a while I only logged in to raid dungeons, and after some more time I simply didn't log in anymore.
3) PVP was not fun. Somewhat because of the class imbalances (this game probably would have been a lot better with less classes to balance). The old battlegrounds got very stale, and the Arena was a bit of a joke.
4) Became World of Casualcraft. Where people could log in and practically have epic items dropped at their feet.
5) Dungeons lost any sense of tactics, instead of utilising crowd control or certain methods to kill enemies, you could simply AOE tank the lot and kill everything.
However. I did enjoy some aspects of the game, especially pre-WOTLK when I remember doing 40 man raids into Molten Core/Blackwing Lair and the raids actually being fun.
Blizzard also know how to make good games and WoW is a very well polished game. The quests are good whilst levelling, the areas are well designed etc. I also heard about some of the new features they added like cross-realm dungeon queueing etc which is a feature I would have liked to have used if it was around when I was.
I also found the levelling process quite good fun when I got into it, on my DK I recall moments of it quite fondly. Grinding through levels and quests might sound boring but in some ways it was the best fun I had whilst playing.
Lastly special mention goes to the auction house, which is basically like a mini game in itself. At one point I had like 20000 gold on my DK due to buying gems on the AH, cutting them with Jewelcrafting, and selling on for profit.
I tried Aion, was not a scratch on WoW tbh and just made me appreciate how much more polished WoW was in comparison.
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In the last 12 months ive probably went through the full cycle of beinga WOW player so i think i can offer a good view of the game from that perspective.
Firstly let me say that i was someone who for no reason despised and hated everything to do with world of warcraft, i was an FPS player playin stuff like COD4 and L4D on a daily basis.
My GF played wow back in TBC as a priest on Jadenar and stopped playing around the start of WOTLK when we met.
After a while she started talking about playing wow again and rejoining her old guild who had now moved from alliance to horde and from jadenar to neptulon.
She migrated her char, asked me to trial for 10 days which i begrudginly did, my first char was a hunter which seemed goof for me cuz i could fight from a distance, not worry about buffs etc and just get used to the game.
After my trial we did the recruit a friend which got 3x xp upto lvl 50 i think.
Anyway my hunter dinged 80 without doing a single dungeon, just questing as i was such a noob at the start. I then geared up in heroics and eventually joined my gf's guild where i got to see my ICC raids as well as some ulduar, ToTC and TOTGC and then doing some of the classic stuff.
I enjoyed the game all the way from levelling to now when im raiding on my hunter.
Now that i experienced that side ive only recently started playing on alts.
That levelling experience has been mixed, because im used to end game content i now see the levelling as a grind to get to 80, rather than enjoying each new unlocked ability and questing in new hubs.
So far ive levelled my hunter, a mage and paladin to level 80. Currently have a level 70 DK and a level 50 resto shaman.
Again i dont see why people whine about wow, are there tards spamming trade chat with ridiculous requirements for things like onyxia? ofc there are.
Just ignore that, even disable trade chat which is what i did.
Get yourself into a guild, theres plenty of levelling guilds, or better get some mates to play and get the recruit a friend bonuses it will make it so much more.
Btw altho my hunter was my original char which i loved, now has downed lk on 25 and 10 and workin our way through HM. Knowing what i know now id have made the mage my main. That class is just so much fun to play
More recently im really enjoying the DK but thats more because he feels so OP at this level compared to other classes ive tried.
Firstly let me say that i was someone who for no reason despised and hated everything to do with world of warcraft, i was an FPS player playin stuff like COD4 and L4D on a daily basis.
My GF played wow back in TBC as a priest on Jadenar and stopped playing around the start of WOTLK when we met.
After a while she started talking about playing wow again and rejoining her old guild who had now moved from alliance to horde and from jadenar to neptulon.
She migrated her char, asked me to trial for 10 days which i begrudginly did, my first char was a hunter which seemed goof for me cuz i could fight from a distance, not worry about buffs etc and just get used to the game.
After my trial we did the recruit a friend which got 3x xp upto lvl 50 i think.
Anyway my hunter dinged 80 without doing a single dungeon, just questing as i was such a noob at the start. I then geared up in heroics and eventually joined my gf's guild where i got to see my ICC raids as well as some ulduar, ToTC and TOTGC and then doing some of the classic stuff.
I enjoyed the game all the way from levelling to now when im raiding on my hunter.
Now that i experienced that side ive only recently started playing on alts.
That levelling experience has been mixed, because im used to end game content i now see the levelling as a grind to get to 80, rather than enjoying each new unlocked ability and questing in new hubs.
So far ive levelled my hunter, a mage and paladin to level 80. Currently have a level 70 DK and a level 50 resto shaman.
Again i dont see why people whine about wow, are there tards spamming trade chat with ridiculous requirements for things like onyxia? ofc there are.
Just ignore that, even disable trade chat which is what i did.
Get yourself into a guild, theres plenty of levelling guilds, or better get some mates to play and get the recruit a friend bonuses it will make it so much more.
Btw altho my hunter was my original char which i loved, now has downed lk on 25 and 10 and workin our way through HM. Knowing what i know now id have made the mage my main. That class is just so much fun to play
More recently im really enjoying the DK but thats more because he feels so OP at this level compared to other classes ive tried.
In the last 12 months ive probably went through the full cycle of beinga WOW player so i think i can offer a good view of the game from that perspective.
Firstly let me say that i was someone who for no reason despised and hated everything to do with world of warcraft, i was an FPS player playin stuff like COD4 and L4D on a daily basis.
My GF played wow back in TBC as a priest on Jadenar and stopped playing around the start of WOTLK when we met.
After a while she started talking about playing wow again and rejoining her old guild who had now moved from alliance to horde and from jadenar to neptulon.
She migrated her char, asked me to trial for 10 days which i begrudginly did, my first char was a hunter which seemed goof for me cuz i could fight from a distance, not worry about buffs etc and just get used to the game.
After my trial we did the recruit a friend which got 3x xp upto lvl 50 i think.
Anyway my hunter dinged 80 without doing a single dungeon, just questing as i was such a noob at the start. I then geared up in heroics and eventually joined my gf's guild where i got to see my ICC raids as well as some ulduar, ToTC and TOTGC and then doing some of the classic stuff.
I enjoyed the game all the way from levelling to now when im raiding on my hunter.
Now that i experienced that side ive only recently started playing on alts.
That levelling experience has been mixed, because im used to end game content i now see the levelling as a grind to get to 80, rather than enjoying each new unlocked ability and questing in new hubs.
So far ive levelled my hunter, a mage and paladin to level 80. Currently have a level 70 DK and a level 50 resto shaman.
Again i dont see why people whine about wow, are there tards spamming trade chat with ridiculous requirements for things like onyxia? ofc there are.
Just ignore that, even disable trade chat which is what i did.
Get yourself into a guild, theres plenty of levelling guilds, or better get some mates to play and get the recruit a friend bonuses it will make it so much more.
Btw altho my hunter was my original char which i loved, now has downed lk on 25 and 10 and workin our way through HM. Knowing what i know now id have made the mage my main. That class is just so much fun to play
More recently im really enjoying the DK but thats more because he feels so OP at this level compared to other classes ive tried.
If you played only the past 12 months you didn't really managed to see the whole cycle of WoW nor have you seen an aerial view of the game. I'm not one of those that moan about WoW as it's untouchable as a MMO and there is nothing else like it out there, but it's not what it once was. The previous games (Vanilla, TBC) you had to work for your pay. There was a sense of real achievement when killing someone like Vashj, Kael or Archimonde. There wasn't 10man or easy modes on those bosses, they where hard from the get go. Super hard.
I played up to Crusader's Coliseum in Lich King where our guild got a server first on Anub HM and world top 100. It was basically the Easy Mode with higher RNG numbers and more health. Why would anyone wanna wipe on a boss you've already killed, with just invisible numbers making the encounter harder?
Don't get me wrong, I don't think it should go back to like it was in Vanilla where some raids was close to impossible, but TBC was perfect. Perfect perfect in raid difficulty and Heroic Dungeons difficulty.
I haven't played since February but I hear people saying that WoW is being taken over by rude, idiotic ***** with chips on their shoulders? A few years ago those idiots would be standing in Ironforge, clad out with greens, two blues from the AH begging to be taken to their first heroic. Right now everyone is dressed in welfare purples and is allowed into raids. Say what you will, some people just don't belong there.
WoW may be more accessible now, but it came at a cost for the old 'skool' players. I've played with some amazingly skilled players that now all moved on for the exact reasons I gave above. I suppose anyone that first entered the game in Lich King didn't know it from old.
Thanks for all the info on the game. I think I will roll a mage or possibly warlock as thats the class I generally go for due to high DPS and the ranged attack
Well I have installed the game but the patching is taking forever, I think its done then press play and it decides it needs another patch... is this normal?
The way I see it is I'm going to sub for a month, see if I like it, have enough time to play it etc and go from there.
Well I have installed the game but the patching is taking forever, I think its done then press play and it decides it needs another patch... is this normal?
The way I see it is I'm going to sub for a month, see if I like it, have enough time to play it etc and go from there.
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Yup, that's normal 
. In light of my angered post yesterday - Where I was just pretty annoyed at my own time wasting, DO play, and enjoy it, DON'T go overboard and spend.. well, long hours of the day. AND if you have someone on there that you know and want to play with, get them to Recruit-A-Friend you, which gives you 3x the Exp when questing together, which is SO good.
Only other tip, from my class perspective, if you pick Druid, Don't spec Feral (Bear form) for endgame. Moonkin (Balance Talents) for Damage, or Tree Form (Restoration) For healing. These will fair much better, and get you into more raid groups than being the bear, as Druid tanking isn't favoured at the moment.
. In light of my angered post yesterday - Where I was just pretty annoyed at my own time wasting, DO play, and enjoy it, DON'T go overboard and spend.. well, long hours of the day. AND if you have someone on there that you know and want to play with, get them to Recruit-A-Friend you, which gives you 3x the Exp when questing together, which is SO good.Only other tip, from my class perspective, if you pick Druid, Don't spec Feral (Bear form) for endgame. Moonkin (Balance Talents) for Damage, or Tree Form (Restoration) For healing. These will fair much better, and get you into more raid groups than being the bear, as Druid tanking isn't favoured at the moment.
I would suggest warlock ahead of mage, with warlock you have your own pet tank and you can easily kill 3-4 mobs. Plus you can regain manna through life tapping and you can regain your health through draining life so theres very little downtime between fights.
Plus warlocks tend to get the best looking armor out of any of the classes in my veiw at least
Theres a pick of my lock in level 70 pvp armor.
Plus warlocks tend to get the best looking armor out of any of the classes in my veiw at least
Theres a pick of my lock in level 70 pvp armor.
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I would suggest warlock ahead of mage, with warlock you have your own pet tank and you can easily kill 3-4 mobs. Plus you can regain manna through life tapping and you can regain your health through draining life so theres very little downtime between fights.
Plus warlocks tend to get the best looking armor out of any of the classes in my veiw at least
Theres a pick of my lock in level 70 pvp armor.
Bit outdated to a degree, Warlocks did have some of the best looking kit back in original and TBC but that's hardly relevant for todays gameplay at level 80. I'd say when I was playing my warlock that mages looked a lot more fun, especially frost mage.
However, even my point of view will now be out of date because I haven't played in over a year. I have no idea which class is better right now.
Found the warlock pets more annoying than anything else generally, in PVP they just kill you pet then you die soon after as the pets didn't scale at all basically.
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So if all of those games are so much better than WoW then please explain why they have a fraction of the subscriber base? It gets pretty annoying when people rave on about other MMO's being better when the majority of those 'better' MMO's are complete failures.
"Better" is very much a personal taste thing really. For instance, I think that UO in its prime was so much better than WoW that WoW wouldnt even deserve to be in the same genre as UO, however UO had a fraction of the userbase of WoW. I personally think that LOTRO is better than WoW because the so-called "community" in WoW makes me want to put my fist through the monitor (amongst other reasons). So its really all very personal , one thing I am certain of though is that having the most users doesnt automatically mean that something is better. (Mcdonalds certainly isnt the best burger I've had, X-Factor and Big Brother arent better programs than Time Team, Babylon 5 or Firefly imo and I personally think that Shrek isnt a better film than Moon, yet all of those had more "users" than my choices).
I think really, an MMO, like basically everything in life, can only be "better" for a specific individual, rather than blanket "better"
That's what put me off playing a Warlock type character in the past. I like how fast you can kill things with mages and in the past providing I pull from a distance and am careful etc the lower HP isn't really an issue!
Is there a server that most you guys play on, as I have finally sorted the issue of my battle.net account not linking with Wow.
Argh, what is it with some people here? Just because you can't handle the addictiveness! The OP wants to play WoW and is asking for some links and advice. Who are you to tell him not to?
I can't really suggest any servers as I just joined one that my brother went on, which he joined because he had a friend there.
Here are a few of the sites I used. I got completely hooked on mods and the layout of my UI and quest helpers etc
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I'm not sure if these sites are still any good as I stopped playing a few years ago due to having rubbish internet.
Addons: http://www.wowinterface.com/find.php
I think it was this one I used for quest guides: http://wow.allakhazam.com/ - there are in game addons you can get to guide you through quests if you want. They're very popular so shouldn't be too difficult to find on some top addon lists
Addons: http://www.curse.com/
Enjoy yourself. Don't let it effect your life like some do (i.e. the people that are shouting DON'T in this thread). Make some friends, and don't take it too seriously.
Oh, and never ever open a chest in an instance by accident before /roll(ing). You'll get an earful (and a load of decent items)
I can't really suggest any servers as I just joined one that my brother went on, which he joined because he had a friend there.
Here are a few of the sites I used. I got completely hooked on mods and the layout of my UI and quest helpers etc
.I'm not sure if these sites are still any good as I stopped playing a few years ago due to having rubbish internet.
Addons: http://www.wowinterface.com/find.php
I think it was this one I used for quest guides: http://wow.allakhazam.com/ - there are in game addons you can get to guide you through quests if you want. They're very popular so shouldn't be too difficult to find on some top addon lists
Addons: http://www.curse.com/
Enjoy yourself. Don't let it effect your life like some do (i.e. the people that are shouting DON'T in this thread
). Make some friends, and don't take it too seriously.Oh, and never ever open a chest in an instance by accident before /roll(ing). You'll get an earful (and a load of decent items)
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