I've finally convinced my best friend to give WOW a try. Not sure I was more convincing as much as she figured "WTF, maybe this will shut her up." At any rate, she'll be downloading the trail sometime this week and we'll begin a journey on a RP-PVP server. Yeah, I've got balls. LOL Not only does she not like the idea of games where you have to kill things to advance, I'm going to drag her into RP when she hates fantasy AND PVP.
If nothing else, this is going to make for some funny shit. She is brass, vocal and take's no crap. Seeing her die at the hands of some boar or wolf is going to crack me up because I know she'll get vendictive and want some payback. It will be interesting to see if her moral delimma and aversion to violence actually holds out.
If she falls in love with this or another MMORPG then we run the risk of ruining our lives. We're both competitive and compulsive, so having us play these types of games together could be bad news. Here's hoping we have the problem to worry about. I really miss playing games with her since we left The Sims Online. It would be wonderful to see her in a virtual world now that I've moved so far away.
Regardless of how it all works out. You can plan on hearing about her adventures. And yes, I said hearing. I'm going to start a weekly podcast. :-P
Huh? A weekly podcast....you kinda just slid that one in, didn't ya :)
Awesome news! I'll be first in line to download it.
Posted by: darrenl | January 31, 2007 at 07:56 AM
*grins* Sounds like you're about to have a whole lot of fun *smirks*
Posted by: Stargrace | January 31, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Kudos on sucking a RL friend into the virtual emotional roller coaster that is WOW. Every one of my RL friends who has tried out the trial version of WOW ended up a subscriber within 4 days. lol
The RP-PVP server should make for some great laughs as oxford the lvl 70 assassin ganks your friend at level 36. /evil grin
Posted by: Wolfgangdoom | January 31, 2007 at 10:51 AM
Wow...that's totally evil....
Brilliant!
I've pushed a few friends down the rabbit hole myself.
Posted by: Asher | January 31, 2007 at 03:11 PM
She started the download last night and almost had a cow when it estimated the completion time at 30 hours. She emailed this morning to say that it completed about 30 minutes after she woke up but that didn't include any of the "patching" I was talking about and she wondered how would she know if it was patched.
If she's able to complete the patching tonight we should be making our first foray together into WOW this evening.
Posted by: Saylah | January 31, 2007 at 03:20 PM
On a PvP server? That's like learning to swim in a shark tank.
Posted by: Kinless | February 01, 2007 at 03:06 AM
Honestly, the best way to learn how to play WoW (in my experience) has been to start off on a pvp server. You get used to the ganking fast, learn how to survive, and learn your class or suffer. I've been playing off and on since release (and a 47 hunter / priest / druid are my highest) and I couldn't ever see myself going to a pve server after the mad joys of taking down someone a few levels higher then me who just simply doesn't know their class.
Posted by: Stargrace | February 01, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Hello and thanks for a great blog! I have read many posts now and i like the "tone" of what you write.
Talking about learning to play WoW is an interesting topic. I have invited myself a few friends (and rejected a couple since I feared for their social life *grins*) and none have actually stayed. I think that there is a problem that the ammount of new players slowly dicrease and the majority of the low lvls are alt chars. This makes it even harder for a totally new player to actually find their way into the community.
/target blog owner
/bow
Posted by: Lertes | February 01, 2007 at 12:03 PM
I did PVP because all of my characters are on PVP servers so if she decides she likes it, we need to be where I can still have access to my other toons, especially my BC Shaman which I have no intention of abandoning.
I started on PVP servers so that's all I know and the low level zones aren't nearly as contested as they were before the BGs. Even if she finds that she likes the game, I'm not sure WOW is the best fit. EQ2 has other aspects that are more immersive that I think would appeal to her, such as player housing and a more detailed crafting system. I started with WOW only because it's the easiest to learn.
Posted by: Saylah | February 01, 2007 at 02:56 PM
@ Lertes...Thank you for the compliment and for visting.
Posted by: Saylah | February 01, 2007 at 05:26 PM
I hear you. I got to 60 and did more questing on a PvP server than I did when I started out first time ever on an RP server.
My wife is pausing on her EQ2 game. She's got a Fae, leveled up an illusionist to the teens, and now it's slowed down and she can't figure out why. Encumbered but the bags are empty? She's got me in WoW so she's sticking with me.
I hope your friend enjoys it. Ours does. We keep trying to recruit two more friends in our office, but they know the dangers! :)
Posted by: Kinless | February 01, 2007 at 06:27 PM
Oooh, something else to listen to in the car! Looking forward to the podcast!
Posted by: wilhelm2451 | February 02, 2007 at 01:39 PM