Suprize Gift. - New 2 WoW

[Meiou]

Hello everyone.

Hope you're all well!

I was going to start WoW sometime ago sadly I never really got chance to do it and ended up selling my game boxes to my local GAME.

Anyway woke up this morning to a nice suprize, My partner had gone out and bought me the WoW Battle Chest Set.

Anyway before I start WoW there's afew things I have been wondering about it.

Firstly whats the community like on the game?
I have played MMO's before but non like WoW so really any info on the game would be great.

Also what would be a good server to be on? I don't really want a PvP server oh I'm in UK too if that makes any difference.

Wanna be able to find a nice lil clan to chat n hang out with.

Thanks!

[Daedelus84]

Aha!~! Well before you get settled make the necessary RL arrangements i.e. final goodbyes to family and friends, you won't be seeing them for a while. You may also want to invest in a bubble mouse pad for wrist support and a good chair that won't ruin your back. Hmm what else.. oh yeah community.. well this forum is unique in that the majority of us are quite amiable towards each other. I would certainly recommend using this site for most of your wow community info needs. The official forums are generally filled with shrieking howler monkeys, but can be useful at times.

With regards to a good server for the UK.. I'm not sure as I play from Australia. Someone else here might know.

Now the actual in-game community is quite varied. You will get your fair share of spoiled 10 year olds right up to your mature 40 years + adults. Judging from your post it is reasonable to assume you are a female, so you will have less trouble in game making friends.

If someone is annoying you in the game type /ignore (player name) and you will never have to worry about them again.

Good luck and have fun! You have a bit under two months to get a character to 70 if you want to see Northrend when the expansion is released. I recommend you get Questhelper (http://wowui.worldofwar.net/?p=browse&s=questhelper&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Search)to assist with the level grind.

[Twoflower]

welcome to the game that ruined many lives :P

for starters, i would suggest you to go to the newcomer section of this forum and read up a bit. You will find excellent information about which class to choose, which race goes with it, what professions would help and how to choose the right server.

After that, enjoy the game :)

I am sure that you will come up with many more questions. Feel free to ask them here, we are generaly a lovely bunch of bored nerds who love to take hours to post while at work :P

as for the community : there are so many people playing WoW, you will certainly meet many different people. If you like someone, put them on your friends list ( default button "o" ). If you dont like someone, just move on. Dont pay too much attention to the general chat channels.

"Clan" : They are called guilds in WoW :) and it can be quite hard to find a guild that realy fits. Dont join the first one you encounter just so you have one. Take your time, talk to the people in the guild before you join, it will save you alot of trouble.

Now go play allready :P

[swaldman]

Judging from your post it is reasonable to assume you are a female, so you will have less trouble in game making friends.

1. I don't see anything in the post indicating that the poster is female. Am I being blind, or are you plucking assumptions out of thin air?
2. That's not relevant anyway. Some people report getting easier friends and/or annoying stalkers with a female *character* - although in my case they mostly dropped off after the first few levels.

On an unrelated note, I recommend that you do NOT get Questhelper; it's great for people on their 2nd, 3rd or 4th character trying to do things as efficiently as possible, but on a 1st toon you'll surely want to actually see the game as you go... :-)

[Twoflower]

On an unrelated note, I recommend that you do NOT get Questhelper; it's great for people on their 2nd, 3rd or 4th character trying to do things as efficiently as possible, but on a 1st toon you'll surely want to actually see the game as you go... :-)

second that. the mod would destroy alot of the feeling of the game. go exploring, go get lost, go discover strange things completely off the way to where you allready forgot you wanted to go :)

[semiiramiis]

1. I don't see anything in the post indicating that the poster is female. Am I being blind, or are you plucking assumptions out of thin air?
2. That's not relevant anyway. Some people report getting easier friends and/or annoying stalkers with a female *character* - although in my case they mostly dropped off after the first few levels.



<shrug> Likewise, I do not see anything in the post which says female. And agreed, I don't see where it makes any difference. I am an openly female gamer, with female toons, and I wouldn't say it makes a hill of beans difference to anyone. I get more !!!! time when people figure out I'm a mom and my two teenaged sons play as well, but my gender has made very little difference to my gaming. The most I get when people hear me for the first time in vent is... "Well. So. Damaris really is a girl. Okay. So here's the strat on this boss...."

[odinsnephew]

Damaris really is a lady

Fixed it for you ;)

Anyway the OP is a female judging by posts from last year which I replied to. But nothing in this post that insinuates that to be so. But thats irrelevant tbh.

Meiou, try the newest server called Blades Edge. Lots of re roll/new players there and lots of instance (dungeon) runs. Have fun :)

[TPMdm]

second that. the mod would destroy alot of the feeling of the game. go exploring, go get lost, go discover strange things completely off the way to where you allready forgot you wanted to go :)

I'm going to go ahead and "3rd" that. If/When I ever roll an alliance character I'm going to disable questhelper on that char. I want the full experience. I'm going to set quest helper's filters to not work in northrend (I think you can filter by zone) when it finally gets updated to include WotLK content.

[Meiou]

hehe.
Thank you all for the replies.
Yes I am female but unsure what ya mean by ya could tell I was hehe.

I will be installin WoW tonight my partner is on Sims at the moment.
Looking forward to playin think I shall be a Warlock Blood Elf

[MrBCorp]

1. I don't see anything in the post indicating that the poster is female. Am I being blind, or are you plucking assumptions out of thin air?

It was an assumption, but I had the same thought. I suppose this part gave it away:

Firstly whats the community like on the game?


hehe.
Thank you all for the replies.
Yes I am female but unsure what ya mean by ya could tell I was hehe.

I will be installin WoW tonight my partner is on Sims at the moment.
Looking forward to playin think I shall be a Warlock Blood Elf

Good luck. It certainly is an incredible game.


my partner is on Sims at the moment.

I suppose that means you wear the pants in that relationship. :wink: j/k :laugh::tongue:

[Daedelus84]

There was no one hint that gave it away that Meiou is a girl. It was a combination of factors that made me say it would be safe to reasonably assume it.

Firstly, she said, "Hello everyone. Hope you're all well!" Generally speaking girls tend to be more polite and social when it comes to online chat. They tend to make more effort than guys.

The next clue that hints there is a high probability Meiou was a girl was the fact she said:

"Anyway woke up this morning to a nice suprize, My partner had gone out and bought me the WoW Battle Chest Set."

Yes it is very possible for a wife/girlfriend to go buy their boyfriend the battle chest set, however most guys already play WoW and are keen on getting their girlfriends/partners into (or in this case back into) WoW.

Also her focus on the communal aspects of the game were also a bit of a giveaway. Girls are generally more social than men, and I have read various articles over the years that link an increase in female gamers in association with games that have a strong social element to them hence why many, many girls like playing The Sims and are more likely to be playing MMOs than say Counter Strike (though there are girls that play CS, but I would suggest the population of girl gamers in a FPS would be lower than that of an MMO). I also know many girls like playing The Sims as I used to work at EB Games and most people who purchased The Sims were females. Interestingly Meiou's partner does play The Sims, and MrBCorp made the joke that she must wear the pants thus inferring The Sims is a game that more females tend to enjoy than men. *edit* On a side note, it is interesting that Meiou does not say boyfriend or husband but partner, and that her partner plays The Sims, and now I have cottoned on to MrBCorps joke about the pants... I think I'll leave that one there aye? ;)

The fact she said, "Wanna be able to find a nice lil clan to chat n hang out with," also was a big hint. Again girls are more social than men thus their priorities are different. While it is still possible for a guy to put that as a priority for their game when asking about it on the forums, this sort of question is more likely to come from a female.

And finally her avatar name of Meiou alluded to the fact that she may like cats. Alot of girls love cats.

So while it wasn't one obvious giveaway it was a collection of subtle hints that made me think it was reasonably safe to assume Meiou is a girl.

Yes, I have too much time on my hands and on second thoughts I agree with the others, questhelper does certainly make it less interesting. Sometimes it is nice to just try and figure it out on your own.