In Need Of A New Game,will Wow Do?
<div class="IPBDescription">im picky.</div> hey, ok so... i know there is enough warcrack threads around but oh well...
ok, im not loaded atm, got alot of debt etc, however, at the end of the day, gaming relaxes me. i play more games then i go out. thats just who i am. so at the moment i have Battle for middle earth, and a few smaller others like hl2 bf1942 mods etc...
what i want to know, is WoW worth it? i know i could spend the cash on better things.. but dont worry about that.
what i want from a game.
a game where i can use a bow and arrow.
a game where i could have a pet wolf.
a game where myself and my gf could just like travel in a pack together, and not be totally screwed if we came across some massic guild of people.
i want a game where level grinding isnt there. where the missions are diverse...
infact, could you do me a favour, post your best WoW experiences so far..
guild wars is pretty good, has pets, arrows, no elves tho <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> and the quests are stupidly long. and just seems like level grinding with poor masking of a storyline.
ok, im not loaded atm, got alot of debt etc, however, at the end of the day, gaming relaxes me. i play more games then i go out. thats just who i am. so at the moment i have Battle for middle earth, and a few smaller others like hl2 bf1942 mods etc...
what i want to know, is WoW worth it? i know i could spend the cash on better things.. but dont worry about that.
what i want from a game.
a game where i can use a bow and arrow.
a game where i could have a pet wolf.
a game where myself and my gf could just like travel in a pack together, and not be totally screwed if we came across some massic guild of people.
i want a game where level grinding isnt there. where the missions are diverse...
infact, could you do me a favour, post your best WoW experiences so far..
guild wars is pretty good, has pets, arrows, no elves tho <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> and the quests are stupidly long. and just seems like level grinding with poor masking of a storyline.
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also the fact that WoW is 'the' big craze atm... kinda helps.. cos i dont think it will die down anytime soon...
Wow is the direct opposite of that. Anyway, WoW is ok for a single player game, it falls abit short for MMORPG, except when you wait with 40 others to camp a boss monster. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
...no not hammer time!
Anyway, those guys like to hide in their little town and stick near the guards, every time they came out and the guards didn't come with them, they were utterly destroyed.
Of course one time when the guards lead the fight, I had to feign death until some Shaman put done a totem nearby and it started shooting me. Then everyone joined in of course... <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
You can buy or get a flute, and with that you can summon a dragon/wolf.
If you take a dragon and lvl it up, the dragon can grow up and you can rid on it.
WoW is really quest based, sure a lot of that is killing various things and harvesting items from them. But a lot of the time they manage to keep the goal in mind at least, and they locations are varied enough that you don't feel like your stuck doing the same thing forever.
As far as grouping with just your gf, I'm not sure if you are referring to pvp or not. If you mean just grouping and leveling, you can do that easily with just 2. You will need a group to do any instance dungeons, but those are pretty fun and grouping adds to it. The quest system is really good, but most of them are just grinding with a story. The rest system really helps make it less tedious though, but I don't think you can get away from grinding in this genre. So, keep that in mind.
As far as pvp goes, I don't have much experience there, but I'm guessing random raids on low level towns/outposts will go down once the honor system and battlegrounds are put in the game, as people will want to earn things for pvping.
I enjoy wow a lot and only see it getting better with battlegrounds and the other stuff they have planned for the game.
Hope this helps some in your decision.
I suppose I should mention that WoW was <i>exactly</i> this to me. I was looking forward to it more than any other game that's come out lately. When I played the open beta, I realized I didn't like it much at all.
Not sayin it's a bad game, it just didn't live up to what I had expected.
Definitely give it a shot. Even though it's an MMO, it's easy to solo or group depending on how you play (I've only recently started forming larger groups on occasion, otherwise Ken and I occasionally tear through quests together, but I mostly solo). Quests give great rewards, from items to monetary payouts. There's a pretty interesting story, too, if you care to pay attention to it all.
Actually, everything about the game is rewarding. Exploring new areas? gain experience. Killing monsters? Gain experience. Logged out? gain experience bonuses which give you double xp from monster kills until you hit the set amount shown on your bar. Died? If you get back to your corpse, you take no penalty, and even if you take the resurrection sickness, the only punishment is a durability hit and a few minutes res sickness (which can easily be passed by developing your side skills, selling what you nabbed on your venture, or at the oh-so-fun Auction House).
Long story short, fabulous game, well worth getting. Even if you play it solid for that first month and decide not to subscribe afterwards, you'll probably get more time out of it than most other games, so the cost should balance. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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Troll warrior? (somethin with an axe <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
B Human hunter
Wow is the direct opposite of that. Anyway, WoW is ok for a single player game, it falls abit short for MMORPG, except when you wait with 40 others to camp a boss monster. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
If you don't want that problem, go to a low pop server, or medium pop. I personally reccomend my server, Crushridge.
My best WoW experience was when I was level 32. In Hillsbrad(a big green mountainist forest area), I was going along when suddenly 18 horde attacked- levels 20-53. Well, being I was the first hit, I started calling out to others in the zone. Pretty soon, it was about 4 Alliance(levels 32[me]-41), against the rest. We were able to hold our own(sadly, Horde on my server aren't very skilled), but they gathered more people. About the time they got 40, I called in my guild, and several others called in theirs- we ended up having a battle between about 140 people by the end of it, right outside of Tarren Mill. I only died twice- once in that starting hit, and once more when a warlock(level 60) set all of his DoTs on me possible. It was an amazing fight, from that one alone I got 43 kills. It lasted a solid 7 hours into the night, though I left after 4(it was bedtime ;_;).
Oh, and Scarlet Monastery pwnage. Thats always fun XD
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Troll warrior? (somethin with an axe )
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All hunters can use axes, but Humans cannot be hunters, sadly.
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Troll warrior? (somethin with an axe <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
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You could be a dwarf hunter, you'd get your pet wolf and your axe, but no bow (until you reach night elf territory).
You could be a troll hunter, then you'd get your axe, bow AND pet wolf.
Something I didn't realise: Warriors CAN use guns and bows, just not until later levels.
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Troll warrior? (somethin with an axe <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> )
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You could be a dwarf hunter, you'd get your pet wolf and your axe, but no bow (until you reach night elf territory).
You could be a troll hunter, then you'd get your axe, bow AND pet wolf.
Something I didn't realise: Warriors CAN use guns and bows, just not until later levels. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Its not a matter of level its a matter of going to the weapon trainer and shelling down for training.
But yes, WoW is an amazing game. Never before have I seen the logic in paying for a game monthly, I thought that Guild Wars would be my savour with its expansion pack setup, and I thought it to be decent fun in the open events. But that all changed when I met WoW, I fell in love and never looked back. It has everything your looking for; emphasis on questing, tamable pets, conductive to group or solo play. WoW really just raises the bar on MMOs.
Holy CRAP that was cool :o
however, was this pvp?
and what role/race was that short guy. lol
Walking. Always with the walking. If you're a Horde member, expect to be walking pretty much constantly, fighting or doing something useful only about 1/2 the time. The rest will be walking from the one or two graveyards in the Barrens to your corpse on the extreme edges, where all the quests are. It's at least a 5-7 minute walk every time you die, everytime you want to turn in a quest, or every time you need to get back to town to sell something.
Gimped classes. I played a Tauren Druid, and not only did it take me 3 days to hit level 10, after 2 weeks of playing I was only a level 22. Druids don't specialize enough to be good at any one thing, they're healers, fighters, and offensive casters all at once, but they can't do anything as well as Priests, Warriors/Rouges, or Mages. For example, You get a Bearform, which amps your armor like crazy, but a warrior of the same level has that armor inattely, and he can dish out the pain like normal. At level 20 you get Catform, which is basically a rouge, but you don't apply weapon bonuses to you attack, meaning that any rouge that's spent 1g for a nice pair of daggers in the auction house is going to outdamage you 4-5 times over.
This wouldn't be so bad if every class had drawbacks, but every class has something they're just so good at that they don't have that problem. I played in a guild with a guy named Liberty, who went from level 22 Rouge to a level 30 in a single night, because he just ran around killing everything, did 20 or so quests, traded them all in at the end of the night. He then started a rouge named Relentless when I was level 18, and by the time I made 22 he was a level 27.
Oh, and the ganking. Expect to be raided at least once per gaming session. And guess what, if having the opposing force kill all the NPCs in your home town doesn't bother you, effectively making you unable to do anything there, if you try and heal someone who is fighting them, you're flagged for PvP too. So, you either sit idly by unable to turn in your quest from the other side of the flipping map, or you get ganked repeatedly.
IMO, spend your money on something else, but if you're the type for RPGs, I'll sell you my copy for 30 bucks, which saves you 5 or so in the long run, since you'll need 15 for the first month's subscription.
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You go Cairne Bloodhoof! (Moocow leader that was kicking all those Alliance's arses)
Walking. Always with the walking. If you're a Horde member, expect to be walking pretty much constantly, fighting or doing something useful only about 1/2 the time. The rest will be walking from the one or two graveyards in the Barrens to your corpse on the extreme edges, where all the quests are. It's at least a 5-7 minute walk every time you die, everytime you want to turn in a quest, or every time you need to get back to town to sell something.
Gimped classes. I played a Tauren Druid, and not only did it take me 3 days to hit level 10, after 2 weeks of playing I was only a level 22. Druids don't specialize enough to be good at any one thing, they're healers, fighters, and offensive casters all at once, but they can't do anything as well as Priests, Warriors/Rouges, or Mages. For example, You get a Bearform, which amps your armor like crazy, but a warrior of the same level has that armor inattely, and he can dish out the pain like normal. At level 20 you get Catform, which is basically a rouge, but you don't apply weapon bonuses to you attack, meaning that any rouge that's spent 1g for a nice pair of daggers in the auction house is going to outdamage you 4-5 times over.
This wouldn't be so bad if every class had drawbacks, but every class has something they're just so good at that they don't have that problem. I played in a guild with a guy named Liberty, who went from level 22 Rouge to a level 30 in a single night, because he just ran around killing everything, did 20 or so quests, traded them all in at the end of the night. He then started a rouge named Relentless when I was level 18, and by the time I made 22 he was a level 27.
Oh, and the ganking. Expect to be raided at least once per gaming session. And guess what, if having the opposing force kill all the NPCs in your home town doesn't bother you, effectively making you unable to do anything there, if you try and heal someone who is fighting them, you're flagged for PvP too. So, you either sit idly by unable to turn in your quest from the other side of the flipping map, or you get ganked repeatedly.
IMO, spend your money on something else, but if you're the type for RPGs, I'll sell you my copy for 30 bucks, which saves you 5 or so in the long run, since you'll need 15 for the first month's subscription. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
i have been told about the walking, i was hoping a mount would solve this?
i have done a 180 now, and would never pick alliance, according to a mate of mine, it appears the sides are outnumbered in favour of alliance nearly 2- 1
any horde race will do me tbh, except trolls. i heard the jamaican soundbyte they have.. it sucked
Also, if you play a hunter, be warned that the first ten levels suck terribly because you have no pet. Once you hit level 10 then the game actually begins.
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They're quite possibly one of the hardest classes to play right :3
Makes it all worth it when you hide someone with one in a duel though, especially when you both know you only had crud equipment while they were using some of the best stuff you can buy from the AH for your level XD
Priests are slower to level and also take some skill to play but by golly if they're not the nastiest thing to fight in pvp if shadow-specced and played correctly :o
I enjoyed rogue for a while up to level 35... only finally managed 39 before i lost the will to continue the class though. While I could kill fast and efficiently I was bogged down with long timers on half my key abilities (5 minutes... 5 frigging minutes!!!) and often felt like a walking reageant shop having to use up half my inventory for a decent stock of powders and poisons :/
The novelty of sneaking about wears off eventually when you start realising you don't contribute much to groups or whatnout outside of being a really good assassin or DPS bonus :(
Most Rogue non-combat skills are fluff. Oh and for actual fighting? Rogues are vastly overrated. They're good but anyone who knows how to play their class right and has a rough idea of how rogues work will give you a very very nasty kicking :p
I actually liked hunter more before i got my pet, but most people who played hunter didn't seem to know how to really make the most of them sub-10. I mean I saw hunters running into melee straight away and all sorts of stuff. They usually started playing a bit better after I partied with them and showed them some of my lil tips and tricks though :D
I played a Warlock in the stresstest, and am currently playing a rogue as an alt to my priest. I was thinking of going Shaman, that'd be pretty cool, they get the ghost wolf form sp travel is a little better, and totems, totems are just pwn.
I may try one for a couple days and see how it plays out.