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Can newbies get into World of Warcraft at this stage?
StanleyM
Member Posts: 14
Hi,
Wondering if newbies can get into World of Warcraft at this stage? Is it worth it or a decade too late? I'm only thinking of the PvE aspect. Would it be overwhelming in any way?
Thanks,
Stanley
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I don't think it's going to be overwhelming at all.
I made a character at launch (oh so many years ago) but never really got it higher than the 30's.
I just downloaded the game again and it seems pretty straightforward.
I "suspect" that the early content (for your earlier levels) might be presented somewhat differently from content for the later levels as the conversations I've seen seem to talk about how later quests are so much fun. Early quests seem to be click on ! kill a few things and go back to ?.
I'm not sure how much different they are.
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To be honest with you, wow is a dying game.
It is losing subscribers, it uses past generation graphics, past generation gameplay and wont last many more years.
Instead of getting onto wow, I think youa re better off waiting a month or 2 till Everquest Next is released and getting on board premium mmo rpg of the next generation.
It uses next gen mmo graphics, next gen mmo gameplay, next gen mmo ai rather than a dying game like wow trying to hold onto the last little bit of life it can milk out of it.
Not only that but since you can buy a boost to level 90 now, you wont learn how to play wow by levelling if you buy the boost and if you don't, you will be surrounded by people who have and be left behind.
Skip WoW, wait a few monthes for everyquest next.
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just thought Id put in that Everquest Next is set for a 2015 launch and is in beta so all the people who say that it wont be out for ages, Im sure you can wait 3 or 6 monthes for its launch rather than playing wow for 6 monthes and getting no where.
Its a dying game man, its been dying for years, the only reason some people came back was for this last expansion which lets you buy a boost to lvl 90 lol.
As soon as it loses its novelty value, it will lose even more subscribers permanently.
Its old, it uses old graphics, old gameplay, old questing style, old unintelligent ai, old indestructible environments.
Its dying, he is better off waiting a few monthes for everquest next to play a premium next gen mmo than wow.
wait two weeks till the servers are settled
Buy hte game and the WoD expansion pack
activate your free level 90
quickly learn your skills in the tutorial
and join where everyone is, the level 90 to 100 content
You will really enjoy that...
I think this is the right time to start, or rejoin WoW ...
Now all Blizzard needs to do is find out how to make those first 90 levels attractive and accessible again..
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Yeh spend your money on the game WoW, the expansion pack for wow and the subscription then get the boost to level 90 so you have 10 levels of mind numbingly slow levelling to play 10 levels worth of content in last gen graphics, last gen gameplay, last gen questing. last gen simplistic ai, last gen class building or wait a few monthes and play a premium next gen mmo with more than 10 levels of content in Everquest Next.
You choose.
Now im not a fan of WoW by any means and it's numbers show more of a population decline to normal mmo population. This is what other mmo's call population stabilization.
The funny thing is your recommending a game which isn't launched, no where close to launch, and is already dead.
OP go for it, I hope you find something worth staying for. That's what all of us here are looking for is an MMO to call home. Some find it, most of us here don't, or do but the publisher ruins it.... looking at you TRION...
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WoW is hardly a dying game.
Just because it hasn't kept an astronomical amount of players over the course of 10 years and instead has to "get by" on a lower but still astronomical amount of players doesn't mean that its' dying.
Even the original everquest still has players and still pumps out expansions.
And wait for Everquest next? when there isn't even talk about when a beta will be playable? Why should he wait for a game that's years away? A month or two? Link please.
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Wrong.
Its dying, it loses more and more players every year and every aspect of it is dated and last gen. He is better off even waiting till the end of 2015 if he has to to play a next gen game over wow.
Also Eq next is going to be 2015 release anyway.
Why would he bother levelling normally though, there is boost to level 90 now so if he levels slowly, he will be alone and left behind.
On the other hand if he uses the level 90 boost, he will only have 10 levels worth of content for all the money hes spent.
its lose lose.
Discussions like this make me laugh.
Is the game for everyone? No.
Can you get WoW burnout? Yes.
Is it dying? I dunno. The last numbers bottomed out around 6-7m players. But last I heard, they had a 1m pre-expansion jump.
Lets put that 7m into perspective for a "dying" game. 7m is the equivalent of SWTOR (1m), Eve (400k), ESO (700k), Wildstar (500k), Guild Wars 2 (~1m), FFXIV (last estimate I could find it 900k).
Oh wait... all those giant MMO's didn't add up. Weird... I thought it'd be closer /sarcasm
Saying WoW is dying is technically true in the same way that a 40-year old healthy man is dying. Just as all humans are dying every day as they get older, so too is WoW. That's about as far as it goes though.
That said, I find it hard to imagine this post is serious in the first place. Everquest Next in a few months? Really? Source, please.
LOL.
Stop, dude. Just stop.
A "dying" WoW will still be more popular than a newly released EQN.
John Smedly, president of Sony Online Entertainment, answered that Everquest Next will receive a 2015 release date on a reddit question and answer session.
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A dying wow will die and EQ next will carry on.
I'll wait here.
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That's a load of crap. I hadn't really played in quite some time and never really fully got into it since vanilla and I just started again last month with a brand new character and I'm having a great time. I'm not using my free level 90 so I can take the time to learn my class properly and you only got the free level 90 if you pre-ordered the expansion and if you were to buy a boost, it's like $60-65 bucks!
Play the game from level 1 and learn your class, there are plenty of other players leveling as well. Longest I had to wait for a dungeon group was 10 minutes and there's new tools that you could use to find questing groups as well as dungeons. I wouldn't bother getting the expansion pack until you decide that you're going to stick with the game, instead, buy the digital base game that comes with all the expansions up to and including Pandaria.
Other MMO's have subscribers in the 100's of thousands and WoW has several million!? Hardly dying in my opinion. At least it will keep you occupied until EQN comes out... which will be a couple of years, not months.
Wow's pve raid and gear system is based on a model that states: no matter how long you've been playing, as long as you wear X gear, you will always be at the top of the food chain. So, Bob the Dwarf might have started in 2004 - but Timmy the Troll, if carried by his guild through top content, can easily out dps Bob with a basic, Googled, set rotation.
Most titles are built like this, saving a tiny few you wouldn't be aware of (Dark Age of Camelot, for example).
So, the answer is, you could wait until your guild has the top gear dungeons on farm status, and roll a few weeks with then and be equally geared as Bob the Dwarf, who has been plugging away his nights since 2004.
Zachary Steiber article on everquest next release date on the Epoch times lists the president of SOE stating a likely 2015 release date for EQ next.
Also you can apply for the beat now on their website.
Not only that but assuming its a late 2015 release date, you can fill your time with next gen titles like dragon age 3 or the witcher 3 instead of wasting time with a dying, past gen game like wow.
I didn't expect this many replies (and a minor debate) so fast.
After reading all the replies I want to say big thanks to each and one of you for sharing your wisdom positive or negative about the game.
Just a side note to some of the replies. It seems the level 90 boost is still available with the expansion. However, I would probably play from level 1 questing and hopefully finding people to do dungeons with.
Thanks again!
he also said H1Z1 would have an early access in 4-6 weeks .... 7 months later there is still no sign of early access anywhere.
bottom line ... don't trust what comes out Smed's mouth.
to the original poster I just started WOW myself and never played WoW before (was actually a WoW hater for a while) and I don't feel overwhelmed at all. it actually starts off a bit boring and slow but once you can start to use the dungeon finder you will fly through levels. I am having a lot of fun with the game.
WoW dying , Are u serious ?