I recently got a close friend into the game and wish I wouldn’t have…
We started new boosted characters on a new server for a fresh start a couple months ago. Problem is even after me trying to coach and show them resources ( like icy veins) to get better they are still really bad at the game and I miss doing things solo and with my old raid guild.
It’s bad, we have been kicked out of 5 mans multiple times because of their performance and even things like world quests take twice as long playing with them as it would just to knock them at solo.
I should be great full to have a real life friend to play with but sometimes it sees more of a hindrance than a help.
Anyone have a similar story or I’m I alone in this?
That’s your issue right there. Never start a new player as a boost. Let them learn the game from level one on up. I’ve had way more success that way.
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I can see that. But they not new to mmos in general so I thought it would be a better experience
I don’t have any friends so I can’t relate.
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I’m thinking if getting my girlfriend into the game. But I have my doubts in the current state of wow if it’s worth it. She has a crappy laptop right now and I’m debating if I should buy her a newer one or see how things go with that.
Why though?
you can hang out with your friend, chat wtih them in-game or discord or w/e voice channel you use. heck you can call them up and put them on speakerphone.
you don’t HAVE to do in-game activities with them.
My very good friend got me into the game years ago, and we played together for maybe a day or so, then yea… 13 years later, we’re both still playing, we’re so close we’re practically siblings, but we aren’t playing together. we have vastly different approaches to the game, we’d be miserable if we tried to spend time together in game. I don’t enjoy pvp and she gets lost in linear dungeons.
but …that’s ok. not wanting to play wow with her doesn’t in any way impact our friendship.
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years and years ago, i got a friend and his wife to play. the wife was a monster, she wanted me to run her thru everything all the time. every time i logged in id get messages telling me to run her thru something, or give her gold cuz a vendor has a white item that would be an upgrade… and when i tried to tell her better ways of things, i was just being bossy and i said i would help her but i didnt run her thru something the day before…
even worse after we had a falling out, she was still on the server and got quite the reputation as just a horrible person. id be in groups and idle chat would start and someone would bring up her name and half the raid would be talking about how much they hated her… i wouldnt let them know i was the one who unleashed her on the population.
the good thing tho, is she got her brother and his wife and their friends to play, they were all good people, and after my falling out with her, her brother and friends had one and we ended up making our own guild.
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Well, you made a mistake, but fortunately I’m here to suggest a solution. You and your friend should reroll 2 completely new characters from level one. Suggest an easy pet class for them to master like BM hunter or something. Remember, if you’re doing something for a friend, it’s the friendship that counts. Do it for them, not for you.
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I had the opposite scenario, a friend of mine started me on MMO’s many years ago, originally playing Warhammer Online of all things. It’s actually how I ended up being a healer. We’re actually on opposite sides of the world these days but the MMO thing is still on-going.
What you need to find is something your friend actually likes before you boost or any of that jazz. What’s important is a mutual interest. For my friend and I it was Warhammer at the time, which could’ve been any WH game it wouldn’t have matter, but it was an MMO which we knew nothing about.
What a long road thats been, anywho… My point is, it’s more about what you have in common with that person than the game itself. If you can link that, then anything that occurs after that is just icing on the cake.
Flashbacks of 18 hours of solid pvp…ahh those were the days 
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My actual sibling (sister) got me into this game. We play together once a week with a group of other real life friends but otherwise mostly just do our own things. We definitely have different approaches.
However, if any of us (including the friends) really needs help with something, we have no problem helping each other out. The main thing is, we respect each other’s time, and no one is demanding anyone drop everything for them. We’ve all known each other decades longer than this game’s been around, so that might help us maintain perspective.
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If you are going to be playing classic that might be a good place to start her out at. If things go well there and smooth out on retail then make you decision from there.
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A good friend will understand. Just explain that you have a commitment (raid and raid prep) and that you will play with them at other times.
I also agree that boosting probably wasn’t the best idea. Maybe reroll with them and agree to play the lowbies at certain times/days.
You can still do your thing and still play with your friend, until they get a better feel for the game.
I also hope they don’t come to the forums…
It is worth considering that if one introduces a friend to the game, one is also introducing that friend to the communities of the game and maybe that isn’t a nice thing to do to a friend depending on the communities with which they interact.
Some of those communities think a great deal of themselves and are very, very unfriendly.
Out of curiosity, what difficulty of 5-man?
Funny thing is rainheals we played warhammer online together as well plus a few others in the past…guess I’m just use to playing my own way and need to adjust and be more patient
Okay now i’m dying to know…what server and what was your toon name? lol
Why would you want to know this. Schadenfreude? Seems sort of IDK… like mean.
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That’ was years ago I can’t remember unfortunately. But I miss that game. Also they are big into game work shop things
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Maybe you misunderstand the reasoning for me asking…has nothing to do with the current conversation and believe the OP understood where I was coming from regardless. So why does it matter?
But it was out of curiousity more than anything else. For what it’s worth…