World of Warcraft

[Trollstormur]

I have a free alternative right now, so I'm lucky in that regard. when I quit, I hit the end-game crossroads. either a. quit or start making more alts or b. get a 60 hour a week job as a raider for some purples

first i chose b but then a. the fancy ass purples i do got are nifty as hell though.

[Leinad]

I keep reading and talking about WoW online. I don't really wanna restart, but i keep finding myself in WoW communities for a while just talking about the game.

That is exactly the same thing with me, brother. If I had a job I would be playing again, but I cannot afford it ATM.

[imagist42]

I would be playing it if I had no other ambitions in life, but after getting to 70 I just could not put in enough time to find the game at all rewarding. That said I will probably play again sometime after WotLK comes out, just to level to 80, but unless they seriously revamp the endgame I won't last much past that point.

[Jeans]

I would be playing it if I had no other ambitions in life

I think I should be slightly insulted by this. Should I?

[est]

I got back into this a little while ago and got a Warrior to 50ish pretty quickly.  Then my main machine died on me and I was playing it on my laptop for a bit, which was ok I guess but felt less fun.  Then I dunno, I reinstalled stuff on my main machine but started playing other games and haven't really played it all that much for a couple months.  I should play again, because I was having a lot of fun with it, but the task to re-installing and patching all over again up doesn't sound like fun right now.

[Jeans]

Patching dun take too long, there's only one or two, and only one of them is major. The rest come with the TBC discs.

My warrior is level 62 right now, up to 60 was a fucking nightmare and I can't believe I actually bothered 50-60 but things are looking up. Victory Rush is fucking sweet!

[Yakob]

I think i have some form of WoW ADD. I have a 62 rogue, two hunters in the high 40's, a preist in the low 40's and I'd say about 10 characters in the 20-40 range. I just get bored.

[Jeans]

I have (had):
70 rogue
70 priest (holy, levelled as)
40 priest (shadow)
62 warrior
61 mage (frost)
30 mage (fire)
20 mage (arcane - an experiment more than anything)
33 warrior
32 hunter
30 druid

I've deleted most of the ones mid-30's, so my current lineup is this:
70 rogue
70 priest
62 warrior
61 mage
30 druid

[Ozymandias]

Reinstalling WoW basically takes 4 hours.

It is hell.

I do it every three months.

[Jeans]

The rest of us have largely moved past 56k and floppy disks, however.

edit: Going into WSG these days earns you an olympic tabard, completing the battleground you have a chance of receiving a gold medal.

I guess one could pull some social commentary about the irony of olympic symbols being used as flags of sportsmanship in a game where the point is to kill each other.

[est]

The install itself doesn't take too long, but the patches take roughly forever to download here in the Australias.  I will probably install then copy the old WoW directory over the top of the new one, then patch up whatever has changed since I last played a couple months ago.

[Boro_Bandito]

I started playing again. goddamnit


I've been playing this game on and off ever since it came out, and I've still never maxed out a character, my current one is highest yet, at 55. I've had something like 30 alts over the course of several years playing this damn game.

[imagist42]

I would be playing it if I had no other ambitions in life

I think I should be slightly insulted by this. Should I?

No no, it is perfectly possible to enjoy the game and be a reasonably social, well-groomed person. Not for me, though. Once I get through gaining levels I just don't find the endgame rewarding enough unless I'm doing nightly raids with a well-tuned guild, which I simply cannot afford to do and eat my cake too. This is a personal insult, not a general one.

[SirHardHead]

Allot of my friends and it seems the general censuses is that most people who have quit wow after getting a few 70's are going to play again "just to get to 80". It will be interesting to see how many people will get hooked again and how blizzard will take advantage of these guys who come back. However I must admit you can't have a Real Life and a WoW Life. It just doesn’t work.

[0bsessions]

Adunno, my girlfriend seems to be doing a rather decent job of balancing WoW, working, friends, a boyfriend and raising a toddler.

The thing a lot of people don't seem to be able to realize is that an MMO tends to be a lot more fulfilling if you don't spend eight hours a night on it. When you spend shit all amounts of time on it, you tend to plow through everything there is to do after a couple months.

I created an account last night. I've been contemplating trying WoW for a while now and since my girlfriend's already on there, I figured I'd take advantage of that recruitment drive they're doing and utilize that triple experience thing while I try it out.

[imagist42]

Allot of my friends and it seems the general censuses is that most people who have quit wow after getting a few 70's are going to play again "just to get to 80". It will be interesting to see how many people will get hooked again and how blizzard will take advantage of these guys who come back. However I must admit you can't have a Real Life and a WoW Life. It just doesn’t work.

As I (think I) said, unless they drastically change the way their endgame works, they won't be able to keep me hooked more than 3-4 months (as long as I stuck around after TBC). All in all I haven't actually been playing WoW for more than a year, even though I was around at the beginning.

And your last statement is pretty retarded. I know plenty of people that balance going out and being social and having responsibility and such with playing WoW. My last roommate, half the people I work with, my cousin and his girlfriend (who are never even home at the same time to play with each other because he works nights now)... in fact out of everyone I know who plays WoW, I can only think of two who dedicate pretty much all their free time to it. I never said it's not possible to enjoy WoW at the same time as other things, I'm just saying that I, personally, can't do it.

[Leinad]

Yeah, I really cannot enjoy myself at max level unless I am raiding, and raiding(when you are an officer in your guild) means babysitting everyone in the guild, helping them do instance runs to get gear, helping them farm mats, helping them with dailies (For future reference, DO NOT COMPLAIN TO A PROT WARRIOR THAT IT TAKES FOREVER TO DO YOUR DAILIES. He knows, oh yes, he knows) and still farming mats for the guildbank, your self, and making enough money to do repairs and still donate to the guild bank. It was fun as hell, don't get me wrong, but I didn't do anything else with my life.

[Jeans]

The thing a lot of people don't seem to be able to realize is that an MMO tends to be a lot more fulfilling if you don't spend eight hours a night on it. When you spend shit all amounts of time on it, you tend to plow through everything there is to do after a couple months.

That's kind of the thing with WoW though - if you don't spend hours and hours into it you'll never see the "final" content (in the sense that the latest 25-man wipefest with [Giant Slayerspike of the Phallus] counts as "final"). PvP is the exception I guess, but if you play WoW for the PvP you're better off playing Guild Wars.

[20 jazz funk greats]

I think i have some form of WoW ADD. I have a 62 rogue, two hunters in the high 40's, a preist in the low 40's and I'd say about 10 characters in the 20-40 range. I just get bored.

i think i have it too. i don't even have a single character at 40 and yet for some reason i feel it is necessary to make new ones.
i eventually started deleting some alts i made and never touched because it was just getting out of hand.

these are my remaining characters:

35 druid
18 hunter
12 pally
8 warrior
6 shaman

the sad thing is, i've only gotten into the game recently.
clearly it is eating my soul.  time to get back to leveling, guys.  (kidding....sort of)

[Leinad]

It's okay, Jazz, go get your soul eaten.

[axerton]

for a long time I was wondering if I should get into WoW, I've played it a bit on my cousin's account a long time ago and the fun I had playing it was always counterbalanced by the fact that it had a magical ability to simply devour time, but I was slowly wavering closer and closer to "Fuck it, how bad can it be?". Now however I think I'll wait for Kotor Online and give that a try instead.

[Leinad]

don't give anything a try, they are all evil. And mean.

[est]

They are not evil.  I played WoW for about an hour or so at a time sometimes.  I know that I have a tendency to meander but I want to get to 70 or at least 60 asap so I set myself a bunch of stuff to do and stick to the plan, only deviating slightly if I see something fun to do.  This way I get a bunch of stuff done in the couple of hours play, feel accomplished & level up fairly quickly.  I got from 1 to low 50s in about a month playing this way.  I know you can level faster if you're hardcore about things, but when I compare it to my previous efforts it is astonishingly fast and very rewarding.

[Nelgraf]

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone here knows if Jeph still plays WoW, I remember reading a post a while ago saying he needed a healer in some server but that was quite some time ago. I didn't want to be rude and email him so am just asking here. thanks !

Hello everyone by the way.

-Nelgraf

[Jeans]

He doesn't play any more

Jeph why aren't you playing anymore

[Imnawtinsane]

I'm Alliance on Arthas
70 Shadow Priest venge wep, s4, guardian gear
70 rogue
70 hunter
63 Druid (lazy lol)
I play red name=dead most often lol

[20 jazz funk greats]

it's nice to see that most of you are more addicted to wow than i am 

also since my last post i have gotten my druid to 37 (thanks guild!) and my hunter to 19 (i can picture my hunter becoming my main soon cause i find them more fun)
and i've started making new characters again, what the hell.   my boyfriend was partially to blame cause he was all BLAH STOP PLAYING YOUR HORDE HUNTER BLAH JUST MAKE AN ALLIANCE HUNTER IF YOU LOVE THE CLASS SO MUCH.

[axerton]

Night elf hunters are, from what I remember, what I believe is technically called, The Shit.

[imagist42]

That's why you roll dwarf.

I still love my inactive Tauren Hunter, though. Screw class-relevant racial abilities, he was large and in charge.

[Alex C]

Between the health bonus and war stomp tauren is never really a bad choice.

[est]

I play a Dorf warrior.  Between that and Dorf Fortress Han seems to think I have a thing

[Jeans]

Dorf warriors are the best. 63 as of speaking.

I just recreated my very first character, a female night elf hunter called Gwenith. I'm playing with the original soundtrack and sound effects (which I haven't done in ages in favour of my other music), and I take time to explore and stuff. It's great!

[est]

That is my plan once I get to about 60.  I am low 50s at the moment, and if I get back to playing I should hit 60 by the end of August.  Once I hit 60 I'm gonna take a break from the levelling & explore the "old world" properly before heading to Outworld.

[Jeans]

There is a lot of incredibly good stuff there - particularily in Tanaris and Shimmering Flats, the quests are mostly very well-written and often challenging and fun.

[Ozymandias]

I wish there were a server where all QC peeps played.

Stupid servers. All my friends are always on twenty different servers.

[imagist42]

If Blizz wasn't a money whoring hobag they would offer free (infrequent) server transfers, I mean it's not gonna hurt them because either everything would balance out in the end or they'd just have to split some more popular servers, which they already have a history of doing anyway.

[est]

If Blizzard wasn't a money-whoring hobag they would let people play on whatever server they wanted like Dungeon Runners.

[imagist42]

That would kind of ruin guild competition and server specific events, which I find kind of fun. Dungeon Runners is a much more solo-oriented game than WoW.

[20 jazz funk greats]

I wish there were a server where all QC peeps played.

that would be kinda neat!

[Alex C]

Agreed on the QC server thing. I'd be willing to move if other people were. My current guild is wearing thin on me.

[Jeans]

Fuck you, transatlantic servers.

edit: I would totally be up for this on European servers though if enough people are interested!

[20 jazz funk greats]

Agreed on the QC server thing. I'd be willing to move if other people were. My current guild is wearing thin on me.

i actually like the guild i'm in quite a bit, and wouldn't wanna leave.
it'd just be nice to have people to quest with when my other friends aren't on.

i'd also be willing to move if you guys are serious about this idea.

[Jeans]

I propose a guild name: "We Fellate Jeff Jacks"

[Leinad]

you don't have to move, just do what my old guild did when a bunch of us realized we liked PvP more than anything. We all just got on vent (if you don't own your own vent use your guild's vent when no one else is on so they don't realize you gave out the info. if your guild does not have vent, find a new guild) picked a server, and made toons on the same side and started a guild. Was pretty fun.

[Statik]

Yeah, I really cannot enjoy myself at max level unless I am raiding, and raiding(when you are an officer in your guild) means babysitting everyone in the guild, helping them do instance runs to get gear, helping them farm mats, helping them with dailies (For future reference, DO NOT COMPLAIN TO A PROT WARRIOR THAT IT TAKES FOREVER TO DO YOUR DAILIES. He knows, oh yes, he knows) and still farming mats for the guildbank, your self, and making enough money to do repairs and still donate to the guild bank. It was fun as hell, don't get me wrong, but I didn't do anything else with my life.

That.... that right there, thats why I fucking quit.  Because I knew I had that to look forward to.  Sorry to anyone who does find that enjoyable, but I do not.

More on topic:  End game pvp in WoW was boring.  I can only kill so many gnomes before it gets stupid.

Also:  If someone is being a dick (like corpse camping for a long long time) you CAN report them.  I should know, about a week before I quit the game, I was doing some questing on my level 20s warrior near southshore, got repeatedly ganked.  So, being a dick, I log onto my 70 warlock, and I go into Southshore, kill the guards, and climb on the roof of the inn.  I then proceed to fuck with every god damn person who comes into town. 
(Its pretty amusing seeing a level 25 or so get Seed of Corruption, then run into the Inn, blow up, and kill like five people).  Anyway, after an hour or so of that, I got a message from an admin, then a 24 hour ban.
Seems they dont like it when you "exploit" in order to "gank lowbies" and be "unkillable" blah blah blah...


EDIT:
I feel I should also mention that a lot of the low level pvp starts because someone attempts to pvp with a similarly leveled person in a low level zone, and no matter who started it, the loser tends to go crying to their guild of level 70s to come back them up.  This did happen to me shortly before I quit, I was leveling my warrior... somewhere, and some dude comes up behind me while I am killing something, I finish the beast off, then turn around and proceed to beat the other PC into tar.  I think nothing of it beyond "LOL I win" or w/e, then ten minutes later I have a level 70 corpse camping me.  Relog onto my 'lock, and corpse camp the 70 and the XX (whatever level the lower person was).  Then they call in more guildies/friends, so I call in more guildies/friends, and it ends up being a giant fucking brawl, which is pretty cool.

Another fun pvp experience - a group of level 55-70s tried to raid thunder bluff later at night.  And unfortunately, while you cannot fear someone off of a cliff, you apparently can/could mind control them off of the cliff.  A shadow priest friend just did that for a bit usually after I ran into the middle of them and feared them all.  I don't really think they came planned for the fact that you kinda have to ride an elevator up to the city, and while you are running around stupid on your little elevator, all the mages and locks have to do is rain fire and ice down on you.  Rather amusing.  Also the fact that they brough 55s to a city raid.

[20 jazz funk greats]

you don't have to move, just do what my old guild did when a bunch of us realized we liked PvP more than anything. We all just got on vent (if you don't own your own vent use your guild's vent when no one else is on so they don't realize you gave out the info. if your guild does not have vent, find a new guild) picked a server, and made toons on the same side and started a guild. Was pretty fun.

hmmmm. i am not sure whether we have vent, i'll have to look into it.
also it might be hard to find a time when absolutely no one is on.

now for a bit of rant of my own.

you know what i hate? lazy people in instances.  if you're a fucking healer, stop cybering with your hawt night elf girlfriend and heal.  yes i can technically do it,  but my druid is feral, not resto, so why the fuck do i end up doing it most of the time? it is my least favorite thing. it stresses me out cause people will flip out at you if you are not able to heal cause you got stunned or something and their weak ass dies.

also, anyone who ditches without a valid reason? fuck you too.
and anyone who only runs until they get what they need and doesn't care whether the group can finish without them. stop being so damn selfish.

 

[Jeans]

This is why you play with your guild! You find a place where people are nice and enjoyable, and preferrably have a modicum of skill and dedication as well. I've stopped PUGing entirely because the frustration far outweighs any gains I get item-wise.

[20 jazz funk greats]

oh, i try to whenever possible.
but when there are no people around my level on, or i can't get a 70 to run me, or i'm playing my horde characters i have to resort to lfg. which can be pretty sucky sometimes.

[Jeans]

Do you play on EU or US servers?

[20 jazz funk greats]

US