{"id":2159,"date":"2012-10-04T22:22:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2012-10-04T22:22:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:22:50","slug":"looking-for-another-game-more-wow-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/10\/looking-for-another-game-more-wow-thoughts.html","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Another Game: More WoW Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So I’ve been playing more WoW (solo) whilst pining away for my wife who’s on a business trip. \u00a0After Les duoed with me to 10 with a Pandaren, I did some solo play with different races (Gnomes, Dwarves, Draeni, Worgen, and Night Elves) in an array of classes (hunters, warriors, druids, rogues, paladins).<\/p>\n

Each of the races I tried has its own starting zone, and its own story (apparently influenced greatly by which expansion set they came out with, or when they were last revamped by another expansion). \u00a0The result are some very highly flavored starting zones that not only give you plenty of practice with the mechanics, but give you a strong story and sensibility for the race in question. \u00a0The starter area missions don’t drift radically from the standard “go hunt\/kill X things” \/ “go gather X items” \/ “go take a message to X over in the next town” types of things, but they do mix them up pretty well, tend to \u00a0group the missions nicely (there are very few “jog 30 miles over there, find something, and bring it back to me” \/ “that was great, now go bring back three more” sorts of missions), and wrap them up in as much story text as you could want.<\/p>\n

I haven’t gotten into any crafting\/auctioning yet (is that actually available for F2P players?), but I’ve done the (borrowed pretty straightforwardly by LotRO) resource harvesting. \u00a0Not so much my cuppa, but the money’s good.<\/p>\n

The screen layout of trays gets pretty darned busy, especially since the tray icons are so small (and there are smaller ones beyond that).<\/p>\n

Though non-instanced for the most part, I’ve not had significant problems with interminable waiting for things to respawn, so far at least (LotRO had more problems with that, as I recall).<\/p>\n

I’ve resigned myself to having to loot, but at least there’s now an autoloot option in WoW. Though, unlike many other interface options, you have to turn it on for each alt.<\/p>\n

Though I’ve not played with any of them, Les mentioned any number of helpful UI mods to help tailor the interface to the game. \u00a0Definitely some room for research there, if this is the (a) way we go.<\/p>\n

I like the WoW graphics, for the most part. I can understand folks wanting highly realistic stuff, but the more animated feel of WoW is fine by me. \u00a0I’m less sanguine with the “everyone dresses almost exactly alike for the first Nteen levels because they take the same missions and get the same costume rewards” feel to the costuming (even at 15th level, Les and I looked like a brother-sister combo whose grandparents had bought them matching outfits for Christmas …). By the same token, it’s a shame when you find something you like, then have to change it because it’s obsoleted by newer, better loot you picked up.<\/p>\n

Based on Les’ and my run through the training levels (through 15) on Panderia, I’d say the game certainly is duoable.\u00a0Looking forward to see what Margie thinks of all this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’ve been playing more WoW (solo) whilst pining away for my wife who’s on a business trip. \u00a0After Les duoed with me to 10 with a Pandaren, I did some solo play with different races (Gnomes, Dwarves, Draeni, Worgen, and Night Elves) in an array of classes (hunters, warriors, druids, rogues, paladins). Each of … Continue reading “Looking for Another Game: More WoW Thoughts”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gameplay","category-mmo","category-world-of-warcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}