WoW I r a N00b

[mellicious]

Somebody who shall be nameless bought me World of Warcraft for my birthday. Since it hasn't arrived yet (or actually I think it may well be sitting in the office at my apartments), I have had to content myself with reading: there's a newbie area on the WoWWiki, for instance. WoW Rookie (which is part of a site called WoWInsider) is also interesting. Not that I didn't know this, but it keeps striking me anew every time I find more WoW sites: this game is SO much bigger than GW. Meaning, more players, more sites, more add-ons, just more of everything. It's kind of overwhelming.

(I suspect that I will be spending my evening installing patches. I hear tell there's quite a lot of them.)

Comments

[anjea.livejournal.com]

Have fun! MMORPGs are addictive!

[iko.livejournal.com]

I know that it totally is overwhelming BUT the first time you walk in the door, there is a really good in-game tutorial (at least I thought it was very good) that introduces things one at a time.

Definitely, don't hesitate to ask questions! Hee hee.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Somebody offered me a whole set of low-level chain mail and I was like, "Can I even wear chain mail? How do I know?" I was lost. (And then it took me a while to figure out how to equip it.) But I am figuring it out. I got through the noob area ok, anyway.

(I made a human paladin, to start with. Col said paladins were considered "easy mode" and I figured that's just what I need at this point.)

[columbina.livejournal.com]

I said SOME people consider pallys easy mode. Personally I think hunter is the easiest character for going it alone, all told. Paladin is simple to start with - whomp, heal, repeat - but gets harder to sustain (as opposed to rogue, which starts out tricky and gets uber as you learn more sneaky tricks).

Anyway, if we team up a lot you won't have to worry as much about which classes are hardest/easiest to play solo, right?

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

OK, fine, you did say some. (Picky.) The point is, at that point I wanted easy.

(I still want to be a gnome. Maybe I will try a rogue, for that.)

Also, I kinda don't get why night-elves are supposed to be sexy.

[mellificent.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, the patches were not as bad as I feared. I read the front of the manual which said to install WoW and then immediately install Burning Crusade, and then patch, and for some reason that cut down on the patching - quite a lot, compared to what Col was saying about his experience. I guess maybe some of the patching that you would otherwise have to do is included in the Burning Crusade install?

[columbina.livejournal.com]

That'd be my guess, just because it would have been based on a later version of the WoW code.