New to the game but finding WoW very addictive

BadCharlie

As in title states im new to this game and have been playing it for about 6weeks now on and off. I have a Hunter lvl38 and a warrior lvl23. Have about 300gold all ready and am enjoying the pvp battles.

Its gone so bad that i want to take some days off from work and play the game. The minute i get home from work on i go into WoW. And im thinking im not the only person who has felt the same about this game.

So anyone else in the same situation as me ?

Jim

BadCharlie wrote:

As in title states im new to this game and have been playing it for about 6weeks now on and off. I have a Hunter lvl38 and a warrior lvl23. Have about 300gold all ready and am enjoying the pvp battles.

Its gone so bad that i want to take some days off from work and play the game. The minute i get home from work on i go into WoW. And im thinking im not the only person who has felt the same about this game.

So anyone else in the same situation as me ?

8 million people apperently.

Mr. CooL ICE

Lots of other people. Basically, as with any addictive computer game, you want to spend all your spare time playing it. You will need to learn for yourself how to play it in moderation. Most experienced players play as much as you do, or went through phases of playing it with every spare minute they get. Just make sure it doesn't interfere too greatly with your life, e.g. don't take sick days, pay the same amount of attention to friends and family, etc.

P.S. How the hell did you make that much money at such low levels?

BadCharlie

Well i do my sport still and i keep going out each week. So all in all i dont think it has affected my social life or visiting friends. Its just i love to have some time on my own and no one to bother me so i can do what i want.

How i got 300gold is easy. My friend who has been playing this game for some time said i should learn how to "Skin" & "mine" and very much most of my money has come from that. I love it when i find a field of dead animals just waiting for me to skin

-TK^Creator

uber skin and mine ninja :P well yeah one freind jsut start new cahr and makes money so easily jsut cos ppl will buy ore and skin for any price for their low lvl alts cos lvl 70s main have a bjillion gold

Branoic

Jeez, and here I am with my account which I opened in March 2005 when the game was released, and I've got one character, a level 36 paladin, with 25 gold!

TBH though I play the game in spurts and then get extremely bored of the grinding and the samey quests, and then go for months without playing.

I've cancelled my account twice too, but both times have come back a couple of months later. The last time, I even uninstalled the game, but then last month I got the Burning Crusade to see what it was like and had to re-install the original. Man re-downloading all those patches sucked. It took two days to install the game properly!

TheViking

I was much the same as you man in the first place hell i wouldnt even take smoke breaks ..

i cancelled my sub months and months back ..but tbh i am going to start playing again this weekend and i cant wait i gave up smoking 3 days ago ..

i miss the horde

BadCharlie

Well im still playing but this week i lost internet connection for 3 days but have it sorted now. Hunter is now lvl 48 and warrior is lvl24. Taking alot of time to lvl these guys up.

cance

BadCharlie wrote:

Hunter is now lvl 48 and warrior is lvl24. Taking alot of time to lvl these guys up.

take your time and enjoy it, its fierce boring at 70.

BadCharlie

cance wrote:

take your time and enjoy it, its fierce boring at 70.

Oh that dont sound to good, i guess there is not much else you can do when you are at 70 but just try and improve your gear.

TheViking

i am taking my time theres no rush

OctavarIan

BadCharlie wrote:

Oh that dont sound to good, i guess there is not much else you can do when you are at 70 but just try and improve your gear.

Pretty much. If you enjoy raiding and grinding rep though it'll be fun enough.

tman

That's insane, I skin every single creature I come across and still couldn't afford to buy my mount until I was in the late 40s:o
very tempted to get back into it now after a couple of months away...

BadCharlie

Well i can say i have over 500gold now and im lvl 49. Im always in the market buying better bow's, armor, rings ect...
I might stay as 49 for a few days and just go into the battlegrounds and have some fun.

-TK^Creator

hehe yeah love bg when you hit lvl *9 but hunter would be fun cos you jsut got mail now yea? hehe hate you damn gold grinding no one buys my leather in ah

Sony

Hi All, I go through patches of being engrossed in games and then patches where I dont use my pc at all-have the girlfriend, job,football etc to take up my time but at the moment im really looking to get into a game that will take up my time like FF7 did many years ago and more recently Call of Duty...

I loved the look of WOW and bought it around a year ago-gave it a couple of tries and unfortunatly just didnt get into it-can anyone convince me why I should give it another go? I absolutely loooove the look of it but found the first few tasks very boring and a didnt really know what i was doing to be honest?!!!

Cheers

Sony

and why is it everytime i try to start up WOW i have to download the patch-ive done this twice and still cant get the game started???!!!

Reku

There have probably been many patches since you last played the game and it's doing them one at a time.

BadCharlie

BadCharlie wrote:

Oh that dont sound to good, i guess there is not much else you can do when you are at 70 but just try and improve your gear.

I'm 40 and in a guild of mainly 70s, and they all play tons - there seems to be plenty to do.

As for the amount of gold, here I was proud of my 200g at 35 =/

WellyJ

bluewolf wrote:

I'm 40 and in a guild of mainly 70s, and they all play tons - there seems to be plenty to do.

As for the amount of gold, here I was proud of my 200g at 35 =/

200g is loads at 35,

Most players have to beg for their mount money at 40.

Inquitus

I was in a run of the mill lvl 70 raiding Guild with only average progress through SSC and TK, when I quit a few months ago.

Between Kara runs, Gruul, Mag, SSC Clearing, SSC Progress runs and Loot Reaver.......you find yourself raiding nigh on 5 nights a week, add into that the need to grind for pots etc (I quit just before they nuked the alchemy prof) and you have a 40 hour wow week to contend with.

Thats 5 more hours than I work, and I have 2 kids, great game, but to raid the endgame properly it requires too much of a time commitment, it wasn't fair on my family, so I quit, but probably should have done so sooner.

That doesnt include the Heroic runs after raids, the playing til 3am and getting not enough fecking sleep etc etc

Inqui

WellyJ

WellyJ wrote:

200g is loads at 35,

Most players have to beg for their mount money at 40.

I had a long stream of luck a while back - I kept finding blue items and they sold well. And skinning makes me a fair amount.
Now I'm 41 with my horsy, and I've 130g. And I haven't been trying too hard to make money lately, either.

BadCharlie

Update!

Well im still playing, and now my hunter is 67. I slowed down the lvling for a while and just enjoyed the game. I have 10k PVP kills and 2600gold. The guild im in at the moment are good. And each night there is 4 of us that join up and do some dungions.

Kara i would like to get to do some time. But people that go there seem to me to be very hardcore gamers. For example my guild last night went there and during this, one guild member said bye bye i must go now. shortly after that he was kicked or left the guild! LoL

So if you plan on doing the end game stuff! Dont piss off your guild members and leave during a dungion.

BadCharlie

BadCharlie wrote:

So if you plan on doing the end game stuff! Dont piss off your guild members and leave during a dungion.

That's standard for any dungeon though. Very rude to just walk off in the middle

Mr. CooL ICE

Unless somebody has a good reason for just randomly leaving a raid, they deserve to be kicked TBH. Leading a raid is not an easy task, and when youre in the middle of a run and somebody casually decides to leave, the rest of the raid must sit put and wait until a replacement arrives; if theres no replacxement available, then the raid will have to disband. Its irresponsible on the player involved and disheartening for the entire raid, especially the raid leader. Raid/guild leader did the right thing.

BadCharlie

I must say that i have not gone on much raids. Im not sure if you would call a 5man team a Raid ?.

Well i have done some of these and during them players have just left, and your right its a right pi** off when it happens.But then i just put them in my little black book, to note i wont be going on any raid with them in the future if i can help it.

P.S lvl 68 now.

cance

BadCharlie wrote:

I must say that i have not gone on much raids. Im not sure if you would call a 5man team a Raid ?.

Well i have done some of these and during them players have just left, and your right its a right pi** off when it happens.But then i just put them in my little black book, to note i wont be going on any raid with them in the future if i can help it.

P.S lvl 68 now.

5 mans are instances, but the ethos is the same.

I have had a few weeks where i needed to be offline at 9:30 to do something in RL, i would always insist on not raiding unless the boss was dead by 9 (giving elbow room for a few wipes) or they were stuck.

Even still i always felt mad guilty when i had to log.

and yes, the black book is a neccessity. i put them all on my ignore list, then i immediately have an ingame list i can check before going anywhere.

When you do start properly raiding with a guild, instances and PuG's (pick up groups) are far far less frequent.

ven0m

I only started it at the weekend just gone out after loads of the guys have been talking about it for ages, so I finally checked it out & I'm finding it as much fun as they've said it is ...... tis friggin addictive & found myself last night moving up 7 levels in 3 hours - ddin't even know I was playing for three hours. Very easy to get lost in playing it & losing track of the time.

BadCharlie

After a while it will take 3 days to go up one lvl.

I should be LvL 70 tonight or tomorrow night. Will need 1k for my flying and my hunter training which i have.

Anti

I only started playing a few days ago, and i cant stop. I will play from 5:30pm till 1/2am then go to work and do the same. Im already at lvl 16. 4000xp till 17. I have 8g atm, but thats because i went in the instance beyond sentinel hill with a lvl 70 friend, and he let me take all the loot. Which is dead handy. Oh, im a human warrior btw, its a great char in group quests, as i can be used as the tank, and still deliver over 100damage per hit. I really need to work on my two professions though.

BadCharlie

One thing that is fooked up on our server is that only 11% play as Horde. So when im out doing quests i dont come across Horde that often.

Anti im the same i play till late, and im feeling so tired now at the moment. The game takes hours and after you have palyed it for 4hours you still have done very little. Have all ready played the game now for 21days with my hunter.

Anti

I dunno, maybe at your level, but being a low level player is fun, there is always quests to do. But the dungeons are wrecking my head, to many noobs who just rush in. do they not understand that you have to draw them out, aand let the tank take the damage before you rush in???

BadCharlie

Well make a list of crap players that u have played with before, and make sure u never get to play with them again.

Im starting to do that my self cause you meet them. Guys that during a dungon tell u they have to go. Then the next time u play them they do the same thing.

At the moment im playing with 3other players from my guild who are sound. And each night we just have to find one more player and off we go. Try and get to know some people around the same lvl as you. And hope they are sound and good players.

Also i have found tanks think cause there tanks they can plow into anything and live. Or pull 7 or more guys and we all get wiped.

P.S im finaly lvl 70 since last night.

Anti

Congrats

Ivan

BadCharlie wrote:

Well make a list of crap players that u have played with before, and make sure u never get to play with them again.

Im starting to do that my self cause you meet them. Guys that during a dungon tell u they have to go. Then the next time u play them they do the same thing.

At the moment im playing with 3other players from my guild who are sound. And each night we just have to find one more player and off we go. Try and get to know some people around the same lvl as you. And hope they are sound and good players.

Also i have found tanks think cause there tanks they can plow into anything and live. Or pull 7 or more guys and we all get wiped.

P.S im finaly lvl 70 since last night.

Btw, ~21 days to 70, is really good for a first character. Congratulations

BadCharlie

Ivan wrote:

Btw, ~21 days to 70, is really good for a first character. Congratulations

And 11k PVP kills

anonymous_joe

11k? Jesus. I only have about 40...

rainbow kirby

And I only have about 16k... then again, holy spec isn't exactly condusive to mass killing

cance

BadCharlie wrote:

And 11k PVP kills

HOLY SHíT

i'd say i have less on my warlock... and i've close to 70 days played

anonymous_joe

I know... :S

That's almost as bad as that infamous Undead lock, the rank 14 one with some sort of psychotic number. I feel bad with around 40k or so, but like, as you said, 70 days played or so, a lot of that during the old pvp system.

anonymous_joe

rainbow kirby wrote:

And I only have about 16k... then again, holy spec isn't exactly condusive to mass killing

Wow, you ranked up fast, considering... ^^

sunzz

pfft, everyone knows CAREBEARING it up is where its at...:o

warriorpoetic

Sony wrote:

and why is it everytime i try to start up WOW i have to download the patch-ive done this twice and still cant get the game started???!!!

I had the same problem when I started because the launcher had something wrong with with it so I had to go into the wow dir in program files and run the program directly and bypass the launcher.

I've reinstalled since and there's no problem... at least on my pc?

Also if you're talking about the problem which doesn't concern the launcher download the patch directly from MMO-Champion and install it manually. I had encountered this very problem and solution with the latest patch.

WellyJ wrote:

200g is loads at 35,

Most players have to beg for their mount money at 40.

First toon had 950g from AH farming by level 39 and savagery on epic Nightblade sword. This was great because at that level I first started to go into the BG but it was a pain in the arse being mistaken for a twink on my own realm all the time especially since that was the only enchant I had the only other epic I have was a mace for tanking. Worse than that though was for people to accuse me of buying gold and telling me I've been reported etc - envious ass nubcakes tbh

rainbow kirby

anonymous_joe wrote:

Wow, you ranked up fast, considering... ^^

Sucktacular alliance-side interest in PvP on Kilrogg + most ranking up done pre-1.12 + the worst of the BG-grinding being after rank 10 = getting rank 9 relatively easily back in the day

Glad they got rid of that old honor system though in a way, though the quality of BG play really went down after 2.0. Then again, I'm a healbot, so if other people play like crap I really can't do much (apart from itemrack into my tank gear and flagrun!).

Wook

Hunter 70 Horde
Mage 70 Alliance
Warrior 70 Alliance
29 Twink hunter Horde
23 Shaman Alliance twink in the making

but i try to slow down my gaming in favour of social life, tough cookie

BadCharlie

Wook wrote:

Hunter 70 Horde
Mage 70 Alliance
Warrior 70 Alliance
29 Twink hunter Horde
23 Shaman Alliance twink in the making

but i try to slow down my gaming in favour of social life, tough cookie

You must be playing this game for a very long time ?
I would like to have a 70 warrior my self as i always think they must find the game easy. I find there just to overpowering.

Also i dont like the idea of leveling up another guy to 70. Would find it a drag.

cance

BadCharlie wrote:

Also i dont like the idea of leveling up another guy to 70. Would find it a drag.

i just HATE questing. one 70 warlock is more than enough for my entertainment. the idea's of going to ganklethorn vale, duskwood and all those other dire places just pisses me off no end.

Wook

BadCharlie wrote:

I would like to have a 70 warrior my self as i always think they must find the game easy. I find there just to overpowering.

don't try to level a tank though, and to be good at tanking requires some skill.
Much easier with my mage and hunter, pew pew and relaaaaax

Faylum

BadCharlie wrote: »

Its gone so bad that i want to take some days off from work and play the game. The minute i get home from work on i go into WoW. And im thinking im not the only person who has felt the same about this game.

So anyone else in the same situation as me ?

Yup, just wait till you get a 2week holiday from work, you'll spend the first week at your computer screen and the second in hospital with a bad case of square eyes.

When i lost my job (*cough*) i spent every second i could playing WoW, my life outside of the game had been forgotten and when i finally got some sleep i was plagued by images of warlocks chasing me in battlegrounds. Im sure im not the only one to over kill this game and had some wow related dreams, i think almost every player has gone thru a transition of non-stop gaming before learning how to control their time gaming.

Last i heard the Over-gaming in WoW Deathcount was at 19 ppl. Mostly all Koreans.

BadCharlie

I guess i spend all my spare time at it. Tonight i will go home log on for about 20mins then get ready for my soccer. But im sure when i get home at around 9 i will be on wow until 12.

I don't think i have giving up anything since i started to play wow. Its just that it has taking all my spare time.

sunzz

Believe me you get addicted, but **** it, whats worse sitting watching tv or sitting on the pc interacting and socialising with people..It's only when you start to put it before gf/sleep/work/food and heading out with mates that you should just take a step back!

I play wow from like 7pm-10pm sun-thurs just for raiding, those 3 hours are fine for me but i was at one stage gaming 12 hours a day, taking sickies from work etc etc

Thankfully i've it under control now..

But those people who play it straight for like 80 hours and die are INSANE