aparisi2274 said:
Hey all I am a WoW Noob. I actually dont even own the game yet, but I have heard some good things from a friend of mine who just started playing, and I wanted to ask some of you more seasoned players some questions.
1. When you sign up and create a character, can you pick your own server, or is it like FFXI, where you get thrown on a random Server?
2. When you begin playing, if you want to join a party, is it as simple as just asking someone to join up with them, and then you can go do missions? Or is it like FFXI, where everyone in the party needs to have the same mission objective in their log, before they can go do the mission? Or is it like City of Heroes, where just one person needs to have the mission in his log and then he can create a team and go do that?
3. In City of Heroes, there was something called a "Task Force Mission" basically it was a long quest comprised of several missions that usually ended with the team fighting an arch-villan. Is there something like that in WoW?
Cant really think of any other questions right now, but I just am concerned this game might play like FFXI which I found to be very tedious, whereas City of Heroes/Villans was a blast to play.
Thanks again for any info you can give.
ok a bit late on the reply, but I came from CoH to WoW qitha quick revisit to SWG on the way and even went back to CoV for a break from WoW which I played for 3 days and went back to WoW.
1. you pick your own server...if you pick Azgalor, the little server that could....be ignored by blizzard and add to the queue I will find you and eat you.
2. hmmm...LFG isn't as good as in CoH. There's Iron Forge or Ogrimmar thats pretty much the center of the world for either alliance (IF) or horde (OG). There you spam the LFG channel which is /5. Blizzard is SUPPOSEDLY working on anew super LFG tool since the meeting stones worked SO WELL <---sarcasim. As of the last patch they linked the capital's LFG channels so you can be in Stromwind and find group memebers in Iron forge. This is a nerf, you used to be able to join a LFG channel form anywhere but they took that out when they linked the captials. GG! Missions are, well differnt, there's more lore behind the quests then "ZOMG a Circle of Thorns leader stole a painting, kill 20 of his hench me..just because". If it's a quest in a chain you need to be up to that point in the chain as the other players, if the quest giver gives you an item that you need on the quest...you need to start that quest yourself. Otherwise you can share quests with other players and work on those together.
Basically if say your on step 2 for The missing diplomat and your friend is on step 3 and you finish his part your sol and gotta do your step then his again.
Unlike CoH you can have upto 20 at a time and you can abandon ones you want to do. The latter is why I left CoH/CoV the second time...well one of the 2 major reasons I left. I picked my hero up form where I left off, unfortunatly since I left they added the missions you HAD to group with somoen to open a create, and well one of the missions I accepted before I left was changed to one of those missions. Couldn't abandon it and the other quest was way to hard to solo.
Yet I fear I have gone too far off your question....but like Lui Kang said you can group for anyone for any reason.
3. The closest thing to a task force mission are the instances in WoW. The CLOEST you'll find to how the Task Forces worked wher eyou could come back at a later time and finish is the end game instances....and well take my advice JOIN A RADING GUILD!!!
which brings me to my post.....
You ever do something in the game and kick yourself afterwards? When the second guild I was in broke up the second in command offered to get me into a big raider guild on my server. I was interested till I saw it was like a job interview to get in and once in it was like the military. Now we were both hunters and while in IF I noticed I had gotten more BS parts then he did and was doing good as far as progressing with a casual guild. Well that was anywhere form 4- 6 months ago. Last night I bump into him and kick myself for not join that guild. I see he's got the Hunter Epic staff/bow, 5/8 dragonstalker armor....and this guy wasn't really one alot when we were in the same guild.
poop.
Tonight: Bat Bitch Round 3.....we'll get her.....sometime....before the expansion maybe. I would like to be doing MC with an alliance with another guild at least I can see the Gaintstalker parts drop instead of usless coins for crappy sets.
