How much grind is WoW?

[roflchopter]

*cough* DesTro. anywaysss. its pretty easy to level to 80 with a lock...that being said...if your new to the game, gametime to 80 will be around 12 days. (highly recommend questhelpa)

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Shadow of the Colossus.

Kill a boss, ride your horse, kill a boss, ride your horse.

Same deal, different boss.

 

[Wuvlycuddles]

MMORPG = Grind. There is no way around it.

However, Warcraft is perhaps the most entertaining grindfest out there. Leveling is pretty dull till you hit 58 though and if you are a little more patient the whole 1-58 part is getting a total reworking when Cataclysm is released. So yeah, get a free trial and give it a whirl.

 

[Spiner909]

In my trial I hardly encountered any grind, except for the kill x till it drops y quests.

 

[Charli]

I've played Free MMO's and then I played WoW.

In my opinion. Grind? What effing grind? It's all hours and hours of story infused Quests.
I loved it. If you're someone who can easily 'get into it' you won't find any game more fun.

It's especially great if you have a pal, me and my friend spend a whole week from 1-30 just insulting NPC's and parodying the storyline. Awesome fun.
Then we got serious and power played all the way til 80, but it was still a barrel of laughs. I liked the story for the humans, I'm playing through night elf - druid now, but human still remains my favorite.

One day I'll experiment with the horde I'm sure...

I am one of those freaks who likes endgame though, I tend to make every raid interesting for myself by being the competant joker. So I'm allowed to be funny as long as I'm producing results.

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

 

[Loop Stricken]

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

Pfft, I do that now.

I'm curious, I'm thinking about picking up Wow as a desto lock but i'm not too interested if the grind is really as bad as everyone says.

Question.
... how does Crepesack know what destro lock is?

 

[kingcom]

Very little grind, and the grindy parts can simply be skipped and the xp can be made up for by doing other things if you get bored.

 

[Bofore13]

It's 100% grind, and the quests? pretty much guided grinding.

The same way every FPS game in existence is grind. Only the avatars change, the rest is absolutely the same. Pick up crappy gun, shoot person. Get better gun, shoot more people. Repeat. Get a new game with slightly different graphics, do the same. Hell, the guns might even look slightly different! Or be called differently! And they totally wouldn't fit the same template consisting of pistols, shot guns, assault rifles, sniper guns and "exotic" weapons. Oh, and grenades.

Everything is grind. Your average RPG game is 100% grind but with absolute 0% of social interaction and cooperation with anything aside from dumb AI bots, sometimes known as "your group".

So wait all weapons that have ever been created are actually the exact same thing? I must look into this.
But further into the conversation First Person Shooters require much deeper levels of strategic thinking as it is up to you to not get hit not some algorithm that determines the success rate of every one of your actions, also the mechanics of every fps is different such as accuracy loss due to movement, firing, damage, weather, and so on, unlike Halo with its' sustained accuracy and whatnot, there are a vast number of things to consider if you are a good gamer such as, what is in my hands? what is in front of me? who is on my side? not just right click wait, cast spell, wait heal, so on and so forth. But I must ask what is an "exotic" weapon? and why stop at those five types of weaponry, there are so many more to kill with. And as for that last comment of yours, well I have this to say, I want to skin then kill just about everybody that I have ever played a game with online, if they are as they make themselves out to be online, ignorant, racist, douches, then I will be doing everybody a favor by getting rid of them.

Now kids back to the original topic! It will interest you for while, but unless you have a massive group of friends, that you know personally it will get very old very quickly, and you will look back at the time playing WOW as a massive waste of time and money.

WOW is much more story-oriented than most any other MMO on the market right now, oddly enough. At least if you take the time to actually *gasp* read the quest text. Grinding is still there, but it's minimized through the questing and what few situations in which it does pop up it's head and usually mercifully brief.

And if you've never played WOW how do you know what a Destro Lock is?

Google? Wikipedia? Yahoo Answers? Bing? Ask? choose your poison

 

[The Madman]

WOW is much more story-oriented than most any other MMO on the market right now, oddly enough. At least if you take the time to actually *gasp* read the quest text. Grinding is still there, but it's minimized through the questing and what few situations in which it does pop up it's head and usually mercifully brief.

And if you've never played WOW how do you know what a Destro Lock is?

 

[Charli]

I do enjoy seeing how many newblet-melee's will battle charge the dark touched warriors in Naxxramas on their first raid. Me and the head Death Knight make a game of it by betting how many.

Pfft, I do that now.

You are my weekly entertainment.

Also captain obvious's and co?
He has a friend who plays WoW, she/he has clearly told him about all the classes. If anything he's done his homework. I knew I wanted to be a Paladin before I started playing... and I've yet to regret it. I really suck at the other classes.

 

[Dys]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

 

[Dys]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

My understanding of grind is that it is leveling or farming outside of the story in order to forward your character enough to move on in the game, repetition is different from grind.

 

[mew4ever23]

Grind: It's not as bad as other MMORPGS, but leveling without quests can be dull indeed.

Watch the "Make love, Not Warcraft" episode of South Park, and you will quickly see that you generally don't grind levels in WoW by killing. It's better when you're questing.

But stay out of Un'goro! Mind you, it might get better once Cataclysm hits, but still.

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

My understanding of grind is that it is leveling or farming outside of the story in order to forward your character enough to move on in the game, repetition is different from grind.

My understanding is that grind is the repetition of the same activity over and over to achieve a higher goal.

I.E. Any game ever made.

Same thing as RPG. Every game is an RPG. You role play a character in every game.

 

[Dys]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

My understanding of grind is that it is leveling or farming outside of the story in order to forward your character enough to move on in the game, repetition is different from grind.

My understanding is that grind is the repetition of the same activity over and over to achieve a higher goal.

I.E. Any game ever made.

Same thing as RPG. Every game is an RPG. You role play a character in every game.

Not so much in real time strategies, but that's getting off topic. The way grind is used is in a way so as to imply repetition outside of the story/missions that is neccissary to progress through the game (like farming). I don't think it actually has a technical definition, but I'm fairly certain that's the most commonly excepted one.

 

[Captain Blackout]

More grind than anyone should ever subject themselves too. WoW will slowly devour your humanity with it's grind.

 

[YoUnG205]

Well tbh I have only played the game for a short trial period and it was just the same as every other mmorpg, so yes there is alot of grind in it.

 

[ZomgSharkz]

Like most other people have already said, there is grind, but it isn't grind-tastic. Quests will basically get you from 1-80, and if you actually read WHY you are killing 10 cultists it becomes much more fun than simply thinking, "Oh great another kill x, return to y."

I have often heard people say they think WoW is just, "Get gear to get better gear to get better gear", and during endgame content this is often the case. However what some people fail to realize is going through that quest for more gear is really freaking fun. When I'm running ToC or ICC I'm certainly thinking about getting new gear, but I'm more focused on just having fun coming together with some friends and accomplishing something; Trying to finally down the giant 4 headed magical axe wielding monstrosity made of the bones of people who have failed before.

So in a nutshell, yes, get WoW. At least try a free trial and see what you think. As a final note, for the love of Jesus DO NOT play Horde on the Khaz'Modan realm....it is completely alliance dominated.

 

[Gxas]

What game is there that doesn't have grind?

Any platformer, puzzle, first person shooter, most racing titles as well as some RPGs (especially action-RPGs like fable).

Every genre you mentioned has you repeating the same exact thing over and over again.

Grind.

My understanding of grind is that it is leveling or farming outside of the story in order to forward your character enough to move on in the game, repetition is different from grind.

My understanding is that grind is the repetition of the same activity over and over to achieve a higher goal.

I.E. Any game ever made.

Same thing as RPG. Every game is an RPG. You role play a character in every game.

Not so much in real time strategies, but that's getting off topic. The way grind is used is in a way so as to imply repetition outside of the story/missions that is neccissary to progress through the game (like farming). I don't think it actually has a technical definition, but I'm fairly certain that's the most commonly excepted one.

Agree on a tom-ay-to/tom-ah-to then?