I have social anxiety, so I dont have friends irl. Online woulde be a option for me or no by the toxicity of people.
I dont know if worth go to discord meet with random people.
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I’d recommend the game possibly and definitely not the forums… /shrug
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Take Mazzive’s advice
Genuinely, all of this - the game is good and you can make friends by joining and engaging yourself in a guild; these forums aren’t a good place to ask questions like these though since these forums aren’t… well, if you want to avoid toxicity, avoid these forums - at least General Discussion
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It’s easy to make friends in game if you perform your role well. If you prove you’re a reliable player, you may get some whispers and you can build friendships from there.
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You don’t find friends, friends find you in wow, join a guild, do some raids, keys or pvp and before you know it you’ll be hanging out with people in-game that you can call friends.
I met a lot of my friends here and in private servers during WoD/Legion and to this day we still play, not only wow but other games as well.
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Good advice.
Bad advice.
Just engag in a guild, doesn’t need to be an elitest guild. Even a social guild and just contribute to the guild chat. Friendships will often be built over a longer period of time naturally.
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Yes actually. I’ve made multiple friends in wow, some have lasted for many years. Just go on guild discord and talk to people, run content with them, etc. It’s easier to talk when you all have a common goal like an M+ key, raid, or whatever.
Play WotlK classic if you want to make genuine friendships, retail is more for the elitists and left-leaning crowd and people who like farming. Dont take my word for it, scroll both forums amd if the first 50 threads in each sub forum don’t back it up then roll the dice and play.
Edit : also, your reputation in classic means everything whereas in retail you can be the most obnoxious player in the world and use dungeon finder to your hearts extent. In classic, being a bad person puts you in a bad guild or a nice realm blacklist.
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generally speaking no the community has grown to be very hanus and hostile
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Dont forget extremely divided and impossible to please.
I am sorry you are going through that. I personally have anxiety but not because of fear of human interaction, but due to past experiences. In my opinion, this game has helped control my anxiety because I can interact when I am ready. If you don’t plan on raiding normal or heroic raid instances, then discord is not needed. This game is full of life, whether it be Classic or Retail.
It’s not a good place to make genuine long term friends no
But a great place to just dip in & chat up strangers
Edit : I’ve played this game for over a decade on and off & retained 0 friends over the years (though the same is true IRL)
Although I’ve had temporary friendships & great chats with strangers
Seems to me whether its online or in person friends always go their separate ways eventually
I opened premade DF raid panel today…the first listing was “You Fail Once = Kick”
Disagree hard and im a little annoyed at the folks suggesting guilds.
Guilds are a possibility in the same way the lottery is. Theoretically it could happen and if you give folks a second theyll batter down your door with stories of how it very definitely totes happened to them, for real you guys.
Since 2005 in SWG, ive seen guild’s come and go. And the majority of them were a core group that would sure talk to each other… generally in a chat you cant see… and maybe every so often engage on more public one.
There are more dead guilds in WoW then there are atoms in the universe.
As far as open world interaction, give me a break. Maybe one in ten people will acknowledge attempts to communicate.
I dont like it. It gives me no jollies to pee on this parade, but if OP really does suffer from social issues, do him a favor and dont blow smoke up his skirt about finding people.
The odds are not in his favor.
I know how that goes. Gets lonely fast.
You might be better off joining some discords for people with anxiety problems. Then seeing if anyone there is interested in playing WoW with you.
I did the same with an autism discord, and it worked very well.
If that doesn’t work out for you (mind you there are a ton of these discords for anxiety to try out), at least you might find an anxiety discord for support either way.
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To be honest, WoW is probably not the game to try and meet friends in. Any current content has been made for a fast paced, high skill style of play where people just don’t have the patience for anyone not performing well.
Some people would say “just run lower keys, or raid on normal”, but the fact is even most of those groups will still be toxic if you aren’t performing up to standards. It’s the design philosophy of the game being made to where only a fraction of the community will even have a slim chance at completing the content
It depends. There’s a wide spectrum of people online so it’s hard to say.
Sometimes you meet someone who becomes very important to you and you become great friends…
…and sometimes you meet someone from the Kay Kay Kay who would very much like to invite you to their militia group.
Online is always a gamble.
But IMO it’s worth it because if someone’s an A-hole you can just set them to ignore, block them from your channel, and essentially they just go back to being an NPC… but those few and far between important relationships can be a big deal, especially if you find someone you click with and end up with a new Online Best Friend.
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The game was at one time a great place to make friends and still can be, though less often, but the forums are where you go to make enemies.
Edit:
Some people on the forums do bond over a common enjoyment of harassing, trolling, or abusing people. So friendships can be made on the forums as well.
In general, no. I would recommend FFXIV or GW2 to make friends, hell, maybe even League since this community is worse than a Moba’s lol.
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