Hey guys! I am a new player to WoW and am having somewhat of a hard time making in game friends. So, I thought I would take to the forums and ask the populous, how did all of you make your in game friends? Was it guild, raids, random, etc?
Wait for classic to be released and join us there! It will really easy to make friends!
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Thank you so much! Just curious though, how did you meet your in game friends? And how is classic going to make it easier to make friends?
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Just be up for whatever, talk to people, be sociable/decent in groups, remember there is a person behind the avatar.
I started in vanilla because my RL friends in high school were playing it. We had our own guild and everything. After a while they stopped playing but I didn’t. I joined a raiding guild and made a name for myself as a good raid healer. I have friends from BC that still play.
I feel its a lot easier to make friends in Vanilla because you NEED other players to get things done. When you meet other players who are good at their particular roles you want to maintain a friendship with them so you can run with them again in the future. You need friends to get things done in Vanilla. Its not like BfA where you join a group and never see those players again when you are done. If you are a good player and are willing to learn and help those who are on your server you won’t have a hard time making friends.
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It’s weird, but the old world is just more conducive to talking. I don’t just mean the ubiquity of grouping up, either. I mean you just talk to people. It just happens. Maybe it’s the slow walking speeds and slow kill times.
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I started playing in Vanilla with some IRL friends and family. We formed a raiding guild that ran pretty strong through the end of WOTLK. Made many friends grouping for quests, dungeons, and recruiting for the guild. If you are looking to make friends in WOW then you really need to play classic. Invite people to help with quests, talk in chat, join a guild, find groups to do dungeons, and most of all BE NICE. OH, and if you are super new LET PEOPLE KNOW! People are more willing to help you learn how to play if you are up front from the beginning instead of not saying anything and looking like someone who just sucks. Also, learn from your mistakes!
On behalf of the folks waiting for Classic WoW to be released, WELCOME and ENJOY YOUR STAY! Hope to see you in game ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
You actually see other players in vanilla. They aren’t all flying overhead. That and we actually need to group up to do certain things. We won’t group up and then never see those players we ran with again after we leave. We will actually have to be good players.
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My time in the World of Warcraft has been spent with mostly people I’ve met online; only one of my RL friends has spent any significant time in game.
In the early days of the game (Vanilla/TBC), I made the most additions to my friend list while grouping with random people for dungeons. You’re going to need to coordinate and communicate to succeed. If you find that you gel with people in the group, put them on the list! If you prove yourself to be competent and friendly, you’ll find yourself being asked to join up for future runs as well.
Also, don’t be afraid to throw in with a guild randomly. I’ve ended up with some pretty great people through out of nowhere invites. If you find that the guild ultimately isn’t your cup of tea, just say thanks for the invite and try your luck elsewhere.
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Retail WoW is mostly a single player game with raids. If you’re not raiding you’re doing stuff by yourself. Anyone you meet will likely never be seen again.
Classic WoW requires you to find people doing the same quest or same area and team up. And you’ll keep running into them over and over again. That’s how friendships start.
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I met all my in-game friends very early levels. Healing someone who is in trouble or just asking for help is a good way for making friends. Just don’t afraid to talk or ask help people. Your personality makes the difference over your playing skills when it comes to make friends.
World pvp, dungeons, group quests are also best way to make friends, just be nice to others and play decent, you will be invited back. I ended up in a very friendly guild with incredibly helpful people.
We haven’t raided till our GM’s husband take the leadership and turn this very nice guild in to a raiding guild which was the start of the end.
I have had really bad experiences about raiding unlike many suggesting here. Raiding sometimes makes more harm than good, turning people into gear obsessed selfish individuals. Never ever forget there is a person with feelings, from age 8 to 80 behind this characters and this is just a game, friends are harder to make, gear is just a pixel.
CRZ and LFD just destroys what you’re looking for. The chances of you seeing somebody you’ve actually met before are so small.
Whereas in classic you most likely will see the same people +/- 10 levels of yourself doing the same content as you the whole time you’re leveling. Dungeons, zones, group quests…these all give you opportunities to make a name for yourself as somebody worth being friends with.
I met most of the people I played wow with from when I started in BC through WotLK. I don’t think I met anyone after that. At that point I also cut way back on the game and pretty much just played to level cap at each expansion. So for me, a combination of less play time, cross realm dungeons, and group finding tools leads to making it harder to meet people in the current game. You used to run dungeons and bump into the same people or just running into the same people in the world but in retail you’ll never see them again.
I think you’re looking for general discussion? Are you talking about making friends in classic or modern? I can tell you about making friends in modern WoW from a veteran perspective compared to the past, but I don’t wanna **** all over your enjoyment of modern in doing so.
The core group of friends I had known since the table-top D&D days in high school (an embarrassingly long time ago since we were all in our mid thirties when WOW was released)
The others were just chance encounters that lead to impromptu guild formations, branching off to other games like Eve Online, and building lasting friendships that persist to this day.