2009-05-12, 05:05 AM
IllegallySane Wrote:WoW is indeed the best P2P game you can get your hands on. The only gripe I would have is the PvP. It's way too difficult to balance properly. You'll always have your FoTM specs or classes that will dominate the current Arena season. Personally, I didn't find the learning curve hard at all. On the other hand, it could be because I played a druid (hardest class to learn/play), and only gradually learned all the acronyms since I was playing it at a much more lax pace when I started out (like 9 months to get to 60 back in Vanilla WoW). Indeed the game becomes serious business at endgame. WoW eventually becomes part of the person's lifestyle because it becomes such serious business. The only reason I'm still not playing it now is because I still have stuff to do in Maple, which is to get at least a 15x-16x Pirate.
*I've said it to Rusty but not to others here:
-It's very possible to regularly spend hours on WoW. I've found myself easily spending up to 12 hours or more when I got serious. Also, there's always the 3-4 hours playing just for raiding (10-man/25-man dungeons for epics); it's very easy to lose track of time. At the minimum expect 1-2 hours doing daily quests for gold and/or rep for factions or doing Heroics for badges and/or rep for factions. Fact of the matter is, it's nigh impossible to get bored. Some call it World of Warcrack for a reason.
It's a difficult learning curve for me because I'm the kind of person who takes all games seriously. I want to know it all and know it all ASAP. I was trying to take in too much too quickly and it ended up overwhelming me with too much stuff. I didn't want to mess up my char early on.