Anyone who just grinds for XP or treasure in WoW is missing a huge amount of story and game. There's so much more than killing mass amounts of bears or boars.
Grinding is boring as hell. Do the quests, you level just as fast that way anyway.
Also, pve/raiding gets pretty boring too. I spend most of my time in PVP battlegrounds; fighitng other players is much more challenging than beating on mobs.
And if u can outfit a twink you can really have some fun. My 29 twink lock is legendary on our battlegroup. Our twink guild on Draka is actually drawing in players from other servers who want to get in on the pwnage.
I also have a 52 lock I'm bringing up to 70 to be my 70s PVPer. He's an aff lock with pretty much all + shadow dmg gear; it is so much fun levelling him, because with the voidwalker out to draw aggro he can fight 4-5 yellows or 2-3 oranges at once.
Heh, Dave, I feel the same way about PvP as you do toward raiding. I'm a 4-night per week raider. Getting 25 people to work together to do all the things you need to defeat a boss is my challenge. I love working out healing and overall strategies (raiding character is a healing priest) and watching people work in concert, even if it looks like 20 people running around with their heads cut off, like against Void Reaver.
PvP just doesn't interest me. Last time I went into AV on my mage, I had zero HK's with over 100k damage in a winning cause.
Worked like a charm for me. Oragnaizes the quest to minimize running (really, really important until mounts, no?)
I started using this when BC came out since I had quit long before, at 52 or so. I got to 63 using the last 2, and it was as much fun as I ever had in WoW.
My main is a Dwarf Priest. Try PvP with a Holy Priest some time. Talk about frustrating.
Kevin, I heartily recommend Jame's Horde Leveling Guide (which starts at Level 21). I rolled my first Horde toon earlier this year, and Jame's guide kept me from wasting time hunting around for where to go/what to do/which quests to pick up/which quests to avoid.
And I just respecced my Priest to Shadow. I may venture back into PvP to see what's shakin'.
Ardviir on Earthen Ring (all my toons start with Ard*).
Personally, my wife and I use Brian Kopp's non-free guide. I've used Jame's Alliance guide, and it had a bit too much slack grinding time, or 'you have to do these instance quests' stuff.
Boyd, Dwarf healing spec priest here, also, and it just adds to not liking PvP. Not that I care for it on my other characters, tho. You may find that shadow spec is not much better in PvP, since most other people seem to have figured out the tricks to shadow priests.
BTW, worst PvP experience: Facing 15 hunters in a premade AB...
I played WoW for a few months a couple years ago. I loved it, but I could not afford to pay for two games. My drug of choice is Anarchy Online. The base game is FREE to play, but once you get hooked and buy an expansion, the monthly fee's kick in. The best deal is to buy a year subscription for $96 bucks. A year of WoW costs $156. Going monthly on both is $14.99 per.
Oh well, if anyone's on Bloodhoof, look me up (Maurya, Deorwyn). Just running around whacking sh*t is dull sometimes, but sometimes you just feel like doing something mindless at the end of a long work night. Besides, if you spec in leatherworking, you need the skins.
I enjoyed WOW, but after the guild I was in fell apart, it lost most of its appeal and I bailed. Working in a guild to get attunements and finish dungeon and raid quests was a blast while it lasted, but particularly towards the end of the higher level outland raids, I was just getting tired of it all.
I sort of wish there were at least one other MMORPG out there that compared, because I'm mostly ready to move onto something else. Nor can I really stomach the idea of paying a huge monthly fee again. I've heard decent things about Tabula Rasa, but also that it needs work, and the idea of getting back into a like 15$ a month subscription just seems sort of exhausting unless the game is going to match up in terms of depth and fun.
I was looking at that a bit. I think the real fear is of buying into a game that doesn't have huge staying power to get invested in playing: to make it fun, you need TONS of people involved at every level. WoW is pretty much one of the only games in town for that sort of thing, at least as far as I see it.
Dan: Jame's Horde guide is tons better than his Alliance one.
11.12.2007 12:21pm
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Also, pve/raiding gets pretty boring too. I spend most of my time in PVP battlegrounds; fighitng other players is much more challenging than beating on mobs.
And if u can outfit a twink you can really have some fun. My 29 twink lock is legendary on our battlegroup. Our twink guild on Draka is actually drawing in players from other servers who want to get in on the pwnage.
I also have a 52 lock I'm bringing up to 70 to be my 70s PVPer. He's an aff lock with pretty much all + shadow dmg gear; it is so much fun levelling him, because with the voidwalker out to draw aggro he can fight 4-5 yellows or 2-3 oranges at once.
PvP just doesn't interest me. Last time I went into AV on my mage, I had zero HK's with over 100k damage in a winning cause.
Worked like a charm for me. Oragnaizes the quest to minimize running (really, really important until mounts, no?)
I started using this when BC came out since I had quit long before, at 52 or so. I got to 63 using the last 2, and it was as much fun as I ever had in WoW.
Hmm, maybe I should look for later ones...
Kevin, I heartily recommend Jame's Horde Leveling Guide (which starts at Level 21). I rolled my first Horde toon earlier this year, and Jame's guide kept me from wasting time hunting around for where to go/what to do/which quests to pick up/which quests to avoid.
And I just respecced my Priest to Shadow. I may venture back into PvP to see what's shakin'.
Ardviir on Earthen Ring (all my toons start with Ard*).
BTW, Kristian links to the summary page for Jame's guide where mine goes straight to Chapter 1.
Boyd, Dwarf healing spec priest here, also, and it just adds to not liking PvP. Not that I care for it on my other characters, tho. You may find that shadow spec is not much better in PvP, since most other people seem to have figured out the tricks to shadow priests.
BTW, worst PvP experience: Facing 15 hunters in a premade AB...
I sort of wish there were at least one other MMORPG out there that compared, because I'm mostly ready to move onto something else. Nor can I really stomach the idea of paying a huge monthly fee again. I've heard decent things about Tabula Rasa, but also that it needs work, and the idea of getting back into a like 15$ a month subscription just seems sort of exhausting unless the game is going to match up in terms of depth and fun.
Check out Guild Wars. It's solid and it's free.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.