Rerolled to a different Faction to level a new toon but decided I wouldn't do dungeons or take any flight paths. Holy cow, what an experience so far!
So I've played this game for about 9 years primarily as a horde player. When I make an alt, I usually do my best to rush them to max as fast as I can.
This time around, I came back after raiding Mythic Highmaul back in January after taking a minor break after our raid team slowly faded and decided to just go solo for a bit. I made an Alliance Hunter and decided to just explore. Not going for instances and riding and exploring a land I've never really noticed, I've gained a huge appreciation for what this game is. Riding from westfall to stormwind, I literally spent an hour just looking through Stormwind, stopping at a few corners just loving the architecture. Riding from Stormwind to STV just makes the world feel huge. Listening to the WoW background music as I've emersed myself in reading quest lines. I've never been a lore junkie but these small side stories really took me in. I even stopped and opened a new tab to read about the background on a couple of NPCs.
I was one of those who first complained about the lack of content but never really appreciating what this game really has to offer. I guess this game is what you make it and taking a different approach really has rejuvinated a love for the game. I'm only level 37 but I'm super excited to see what is ahead of me.
Posted May 18, 2015, 3:56 PM UTC
When WoD started I created a fresh Night Elf rogue to be my new main. I did the same thing, except I also ditched heirlooms. It was an infinitely more enjoyable experience.
Fun is still there, but sometime you have to create it yourself. It's like when you go and play Dark Souls or something after beating it several times and purposefully make a build dedicated to a notoriously weak weapon.
That's why my stance is "The game is what you make of it." We're given a world, and it's up to us to find ways to have fun in said world.
if a major part of the game is happening in your head (rules, rp, limitations) then you are doing it right.
I very much agree with this. It's kinda funny when people rage about Blizzard stripping away the RPG in WoW, but it's in all honesty the player in the end doing it... They look at the toning down of stat types such as Resistances, and ignore the fact that RPG is a lot about imagination.
Yea, I think you're right. In the end, we as players are doing it to ourselves. I mean, I'm in the same boat as 99% of people. I make an alt - heriloom it out - rush to 100. Now I have 4 lvl 100's just sitting there doing nothing.
Recently, I have become better friends with some people at work and they play Alliance. Being a 99% Horde player since Beta, I was like what the heck I'll start a toon over there. Of course, I got all the herilooms on this little Gnome Rogue, but actually leveling and not instance queueing is ... almost better?
The game has all these resources to help us level up ASAP, but it's on US if we want to use them or not. If we don't, we can still see how the game was 'originally' (I say it in quotes because so much has changed) designed.
Anyways, I'm also on Dentarg - WTF SERVER IS THAT? I've always been a Mal'Ganis/Kel'Thuzad - high pop server kind of guy. This fresh-ish start is almost refreshing, to be honest.
Thats actually the main reason I re-rolled to a RP server. I dont do any RP myself (I only sometimes RP walk around lol), but seeing other players RP just makes the world (well, primarily Stormwind, but sometimes you see random RP out in the world) feel that much more alive. Theres also a slightly better sense of "server" community, for better and for worse.
Really, the only disadvantage is that I cant do open world PVP. Im pretty casual, but I mainly do casual PVP like open world and random BGs. Though not getting constantly ganked by a lvl 100 when playing an alt is a nice change, lol.
yes even though the game itself has been stripped of many small things (yes i've complained about it as well) for the most part the imagination can make up for that.
Exactly. If I only did current content I'd quit so fast. So now I'm working on getting every rep to exalted ON a fresh 100 (still 97) It's going to be hard, but I think it will be a great experience. I'm not looking forward to Ravenholdt, but I gotta do it for the rogues.
I keep wanting to do that, but then I look at the Skyguard from TBC and start whimpering like a pansy.
And just think: the Skyguard isn't hard compared to the horror of some vanilla reps.
i think the same thing
but every once in a while, i'll wonder- if it really is just all in our imagination and the game is what you make of it, why warcraft? why not a less expensive title?
r/corpserunthoughts
I think r/philosophy is leaking
I REFUSE TO STOP IT!
I encourage you to keep it going, I like this kinda thing
I rolled a new alt on an RP server, ditched heirlooms, and am reading all of the quest stuff and flavor. It is extremely rewarding. I even wrote a little story about my toon, and put it in an addon so that other people with the addon can read it.
Now I just need some people to talk to on this new server. I'm used to getting mass spammed g-invites, but nobody's talking to me. If somebody wants to recruit a slightly xenophobic night elf rogue on wyrmwrest accord, I'm your girl. And I don't know if it's a big raiding server, but I have a 6/10 mythic blood elf holy priest that I'm strongly thinking about faction changing.
I've actually been thinking about rolling another toon on a RP server as well. I hear all the time about how the RP servers are "dead" but the idea of still running across a few serious people still has it's allure.
Well, it might have been because I rolled right after the ban wave, but the starting zone was totally jam packed.
If you look on some of the wow server sites, Moon Guard is the second most active server in game with WA not far behind. RP realms still offer a strong community
If you're looking for an RP experience for your rogue, I've been working on building a new guild and am planning in reaching out for charter members soon that I think will be a fun experience for all. I'm not much of a raider though, but there's nothing wrong with having your RP alt in an RP guild and your main in an RP-PvX guild. :D
I've been thinking about making an alt on wyrmrest as well! 8/10 mythic mage here :D
I goof off on Wyrmrest off and on. Its my alliance RP server. Im a game-a-holic though so I am not on often. But if you ever want to meet Tobik Overfuzz (my gnome...) just shoot me a message.
This is very true. I also sometimes lock my character's exp gain (npc in SW will do it for 10G. So I can stay at a certain level, and do more of the appropriate content without out leveling it (dungeons and zones).
I REALLY want to do this with a Horde toon as I've never levelled one. But my problem is I will always choose a class I haven't already levelled and I end up wanting to play it at end game and end up rushing through the levelling process.
Almost 60... almost 70... almost 80... almost 85... almost 90... almost 100...
This is what people miss from vanilla I think. Back then, they were still willing to do all this. To explore and discover. Nowadays, if it doesn't offer them at least a gear upgrade, it's not interesting. And then they come and complain how everything was better back in the day.
I actually leveled my first character and forever main this way. I thought dungeons were pro-level content :P
I wish they would make Heirlooms into a sort of enchantment. I agree that leveling up is way more fun without heirlooms, but I don't like the feeling of not having optimal leveling armor.
well OP is talking about enjoying the game and taking it slow. so obviously leveling isnt his main concern, its soaking in the game.
also with current state of game NAKED is optimal enough for leveling. its eazy as shit.
I know, but I just don't really like the feel of soaking up the game while there are others around me in full heirloom armor getting leveling up 10 times an hour.
sounds like a shitty jealousy problem. If the way YOU Have fun in a game is impeded by the progress that OTHERS are making you got problems meng. just learn to have fucking fun.
Are we the same person?