Proud

[myusernameistaken]

Sorry - this probably won't be all that interesting but still, it made me proud.

I finally got my new PC set up over the weekend and gave my g/f my old one. She'd expressed an interest in playing WoW that had waned a bit but we got set up and last night she hooked up with me and a friend and we did some questing. These characters were all around level 10 horde on a PvE server... orc warrior (me), orc shaman (my friend), undead warlock (the missus).

Anyway, despite the geekery of me being upstairs and her downstairs and talking over Teamspeak I think she really enjoyed it, a lot more than soloing. We were out in the barrens killing every animal that moved :smiley:

What I did notice was the amount of people that would come up to us who were obviously questing and try and duel with all of us without saying a word. I always just decline, I don't really see the point. This one particular guy was a warlock, 4 levels higher than us... he was the first to challenge us. My g/f decided she wanted a go, despite the fact that she's never played a computer game before this (I have to tell her still that she doesn't need to hammer the attack button, it's a toggle) and proceeds to very quickly pound this guy into the ground! :grin: As in she had well over half her health left when the other guy went down. I felt ridiculously proud.

After this the guy kept following us around spamming /duel until finally I did, he feared and dotted me and I went down (11 lvl war against 14 lvl lock and my charge macro screwed up... didn't feel hugely upset at losing) after which he laughed and left.

What did strike me though is that my other characters are Alliance, I've not experienced anywhere near as much indiscriminate duelling. We had at least 3 people come and try with us when we were obviously doing other things. It does seem to be quite a different environment across the divide.

Anyway, hopefully our little threesome (maybe not the best choice of word :shocked: ) will carry on playing every Sunday night. It was nice and pretty easy with our team despite my girlfriend managing to run off in random directions into groups of raptors whilst shouting "stop it!" down the microphone - spices things up a bit :azn:

[Gormash]

Sounds like you had a good time. ^_^

I just want to calm your fears about the duels...
Sure, there are lots of them outside the major towns and in Crossroads, but out in the fields I've almost never been spammed with duels. There WILL be one or two morons without social antennas trying, mind you, but that's the exeption rather than the rule.

Keep it up, have fun, and if you DO get annoyed by any duel-creeps you can always use a duel-rejector addon. ;)

[Stigg]

you should put your computers in the same room!

Yea, duelers like that will eventually go away after you get out of the 10-20 zones...don't decline them, just keep it up there....less annoying sounds when they just spam you with it again.

[SwervinCL]

I get something like that on my alliance char. But its not duels, its party invites. Just from random people that i run by. They won't ask or anything, they just invite me. I decline and keep on running... Most of the time I am right in the middle of things. I dont mind grouping up, but I hate grouping up with some new player that is not going to do anything but get on my nerves.

I had one guy this weekend, on my 22 mage in razor hill that kept spamming the duel thing. He was like a level 14 or something like that. About the 5th time he did it, I said "fine". I beat him in about 4 shots. Then moved on with my life.

[Rilder]

One time this guy tried to duel me while I was fishing, and kinda spammed it, then I said I didn't feel like fighting, we ended up hanging out and going to Bootey bay and causing a bunch of trouble :D.