So I Finally Tried WoW...

[Racthoh]

Always found WoW to be an utterly terrible and boring game. Leveling in classic is dreadful and I hate to think what it was like before expansions started to come out. The endgame is dreadful; find 9 other people to do one thing once a week, then if you're really ambitious, find 24 other people and do the exact same thing with minor alterations to each encounter. Again, once a week. And of course those people must be the correct combinations of DPS/Tanks/Healers as well.

For a game that apparently boasts so much content it always amazed me how I never had anything enjoyable to do. I've said it before and I'll say it again; WoW clones fail because WoW itself is a bad game.

 

[Ensiferum]

I wasted almost 4 years of my life to that game. Biggest mistake I ever made; I almost dropped out of college because of it. Now I'm happy to say that I've been clean for a year and will never touch it again.

Be careful. It'll suck you in.

 

[LandoCristo]

Alliance toons on a normal server. I actually got a level 33 character and three months of game time for free, since my friend who has too much money and not enough brains bought the game, tried it, quit, and gave it to me.

 

[nehezir]

I play wow currently, with two primary 80s horde and one alliance that I've shifted into using as my main.

my pally is holy/prot on cairne horde, my priest is on the venture co horde, and my hunter is on venture co alliance.

I had a fit that borderlined on addiction and when I get into the game, which nowadays depends on my mood, I play for 8+hours on end.

I just never get far into raids. dunno why. I enjoy them, but I don't really much care. sometimes I can pay more attention to the lore. luckily, I'm in an RPPVP guild on the VeCo that raids on the side, and is extremely pleasant to be around.

 

[Aphex Demon]

I was a lone wolf when I started playing WoW. So I was terrible at it, I didnt even know what to do... Attacking Wolves in that 'gold****' something or other place. I was good at Guild Wars though.

 

[ThaBenMan]

I finally started to get a little bored with my Warrior. He's level 35 now, questing in Desolace - kind of seems like a particularly grindy, boring area.

So, I tried out a new character - an Undead Warlock. Super fun - I love blasting mobs to death with ranged spells before they even get near me, and the bound demon familiar is awesome as well. Clavicus Vyle (cookie for the reference ;P) just reached 14 today. My brother-in-law got a kick out of seeing me use Drain Life on a poor rabbit that had the audacity to cross my path - muahahaha. "That's how you play a Warlock!" he said approvingly.

The Undead are really interesting, as well - the rest of the Horde aren't really "evil", but the Forsaken definitely are. They'll turn on the Orcs and everyone else once their allegiance is no longer convenient. I love the Undead towns like Brill - horrific mockeries of proper human settlements, with inns full of coffins and stables of skeleton horses, that would be terrifying to a normal person that stumbled upon them. Kind of fucked up, but cool, too.

And oh man, I just recently started getting into the professions, which presents it's own kind of addiction. Clavicus has trained as a tailor and enchanter - I must've spent three hours today just making pants and tunics and disenchanting for mats and learning as many new patterns as possible. The profession system is pretty impressive in it's depth, really. I finally forced myself to put down my needle and thread to go do some more quests. Fun times.

 

[Apocalypse Tank]

once you go troll, you never reroll

 

[lacktheknack]

Eh... I played it for twenty minutes, was stuck, couldn't figure out where to go next (tutorial broke), got called a fag, left.

 

[YoBadMama]

My cousin plays it, but I don't see much fun in it. After I watched him play it, Yahtzee's voice rang in my head from the Monster Hunter's review.

 

[VanQ]

I've recently started playing (about 3 months now) and I have a level 74 Blood Elf Warlock and a level 19 Mage - both on Khaz'goroth (PvE). I'm loving it so far, doesn't take up too much of my life, in fact I haven't found it any more addictive to any other game.

Hey I play on Khaz'goroth too, alliance side though. If you see my 80 lock Vanquished be sure to give me a /wave or /love so I know not to kill ya

 

[rsvp42]

I've always been Horde when I played, so nice choice. I've had a spotty relationship with the game, at times playing like an addict, at other times not playing at all. Like right now, I haven't touched it in months and it's been maybe a year since I played it with any real intensity. I first bought it about a year after it released and got really hooked. I was still in high school and shared the family computer, so I used to get up super early before school, just to have time to play it uninterrupted. Back then, the warm glow of the Barrens on my face was just heavenly.

So like I said, my interest kinda wanes for a while, then picks back up. Like you said, it's definitely better with friends, but most of mine have moved on (if they ever played it to begin with). I'd consider checking out the new expansion, but I think I'd rather wait and try out something new, like The Old Republic when it comes out. Enjoy it though! Had a lot of fun times with WoW.

 

[Neuromaster]

Played as a Troll Mage on the Smolderthorn server. Which is, incidentally, the best race/class combo in the game. Tusks + mohawk + dancing + fireballs = win.

Quit ~2yrs ago because the obsession was interfering w/ my personal and professional life. I may come back for Cataclysm though. We'll see.

 

[CheckD3]

I find that it's fun in your free time, but once you get higher you need friends, or at least someone to talk about it with. My gf got addicted when our friends got her addicted, I've been breaking out a bit and playing more console games (my haven, my sanctuary), but I still like WoW, it's fun if you want some social interaction and your internet doesn't want to hook to your consoles and you're too poor to play on Xbox live anyway (I swear, I don't know how MS has so many fanboys when they release shoddy products and charge you to get online and for a long time to get an adaptor to get online that you pay fot )

 

[Infinatex]

I've recently started playing (about 3 months now) and I have a level 74 Blood Elf Warlock and a level 19 Mage - both on Khaz'goroth (PvE). I'm loving it so far, doesn't take up too much of my life, in fact I haven't found it any more addictive to any other game.

Hey I play on Khaz'goroth too, alliance side though. If you see my 80 lock Vanquished be sure to give me a /wave or /love so I know not to kill ya

Hey I'll remember to do that if I see you around mines now 77 Keep an eye out for Infinatex!

 

[linwolf]

Played for a month, the game is fun but not worth the price.

 

[No_Remainders]

I got a trial of it... Then proceeded to say "Meh" after having so many "Kill X amount of monster Y" quests.

 

[standokan]

I want to but can't afford it so guildwars 1 it is!

 

[hawkeye52]

tried it on several occasions and got bored after hitting level 10-15 on every go. its to repetative for my liking

 

[Flamezdudes]

I played for about 1-2 Years and it was quite a lot of fun, especially working together, roleplaying and generally playing with others. That was my favourite part, working together.

However, I realized I had to quit as I was quite addicted and I was getting quite bored of it anyway. Actually, I think it was because my computer broke and had to be wiped and couldn't be assed to install everything again.

 

[Brutal Peanut]

I've been playing World of Warcraft, since a few months after it started. I am constantly on the defense, because of people who like to throw back in my face that I have one pay-to-play game. By yourself, it can be nice to level a character - but the game gets into full swing with others. It's a socializing game, and I've known some of the people online for years, and made actual real life friends with them outside of the game. I made such good friends with my Guild Master from pre-Burning Crusade we became fast in-RL friends and he was at my wedding and even came beforehand to help set it up. He is like a regular fixture around the house staying for days on end and playing multi-player games with my husband and I.

I've played a Mage since I started, but with the release of this new patch (I am not saying I hate it, take a breather) , I am just saying I have to re-learn some things, and the patch is new and easily changeable with other patches; and will also probably change again with the coming of Cataclysm. So I've taken a break until Cataclysm's release. It'll be like breaking into a new game, in a familiar series. ^_^

My name is Sprinkets on Dragonblight. I didn't start there, I transferred from the P.V.P server, Chromaggus, because of friends and love-interest-now-husband.

I am glad you are having so much fun. ^_^ Watch out for the 40-55 lull. For some reason, it gets really , really, really boring there. But after that, it gets good again.