New player. What is fun in this game to do?

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Hi!

I’m new player in WoW. My GF really wanted me to play it because she is a big fan of it. She bought me subscription and I’ve played a bit. From the beggining I didn’t like it, but she keept sayin it’s all about endgame.
We didn’t played together yet, because she didn’t have time now, so I was just getting similar with the game by my own for now.
So I’ve lvled up to lvl 50, they bought Shadowlands hit lvl 60 and now I don’t know what to do. I’ve heard many great things how WoW is amazing game, but I haven’t found anything that I like about this game.
I’ve played many games in many genres including MMO. In Lineage 2 i’ve spent most of the time regarding MMO, then a bit of Rift, Terra and something else I think.
So now I’ll explain few things I don’t like.
Regarding overall game world I have feeling like it’s fetch quest simulator; go to this location kill 10 monsters, then go to this other location and do the same.
Dungeons makes no sense for me. You queue for it, you got some random grup, you run it, you got loot(or dont), rinse and repeat, I feel like nothing changes, there are no variables to fights, there is no obstacles in reaching dungeon, you just queue for it. In Lineage 2 there were world raid bosses, no instances. You go on the map location with your party and boss was standing there waiting. There might be some othere guild wanting to kill it so you would have to kill then or allay with them to kill the boss or the boss could already be dead and you would have to wait for it to respawn or go kill something else. And most importantly it FELT LIKE PART OF THE WORLD, completly oposite to what dungeond does.
I haven’t experienced Raid in wow, but If it’s also instance-like I don’t know if I want to try.
It overall feels realy unrewarding to do this content. I know you need to grind it a lot to get good stuff, but it’s just so not fun for me. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE grind and I could farm for days. I often play path of exile(I know it’s not best comparsion…) and I feel with every single monster killed I got a bit of progress overall, even if its just 0,00000001% of experience. Give me nice map and I will have fun grinding for days. In WoW I don’t get similar feeling at all. I feel with every dungeon done I’ve just wasted time and got nothing.
And this complaint goes smoothly to the thing I don’t like about wow the most; “souldbinding” items. Even if I got someting in the dungeon I can’t do anyting with it. I can’t sell it, I can’t give it to anyone. It’s stuck with me. If its worse than what I have I can ony sell it to vendor for 20 gold, wich also means nothing because you basiclly can’t buy new gear from auction house. This doesn’t give me any real value to gold. In PoE(ok, I know it’s not best comparsion because it’s hack’n’slash, but let me get to the point) there are some items that are great for leveling and for exaple new league starts, we play with guild mates for week then some onecome a bit late, he needs gear, someone gives him some good stuff for leveling or he just takes it from guild stash and he is set. You can trade everything and everything has some value. If I want to get gear and it’s for exaple from boss I could do this boss and try to get lucky. If my build is not strong enough I could just farm some easier content for a few day, maybe week and BUY IT FROM OTHER PLAYER. To get boss gear I don’t have to do this exact boss, I could do ten different things that I enjoy and that way I could afford to buy it from someone. It doesn’t restrict my way to the end goal as WoW does.
I also don’t feel that my character is getting anystronger in anyting. Before I had worse gear and less skills, now I have better gear and more skills, but it didn’t affect time to kill monsters, just have to use more skills to get the same results as before. In PoE you start by killing one monser, then you kill few, then you kill pack of monster and then at some point you just sprinting oneshoting whole screen. You truly feel progression and how your character get stronger wich I don’t get in WoW.
I won’t mention pvp because I don’t have too much experience in it. For me I just got ganked and that’s it.
Now I’m just pretending I do battlegrounds because it’s easy to afk there and I don’t have to play this game.

I want to enjoy this game because I love my GF and know she would be sad if I didn’t like her favourite game, but I don’t know what to do to make this game fun for me. I’ve played in total for like a 2 weeks or so. I usualy have like 3-4 hours a day because of work. I want to play together with my girl and have fun, but this game gives me cancer. I’m sorry to all WoW fans I don’t mean to offend anyone, but this is worst game I’ve ever played. Did anyone had similar situation? How to make this game fun?

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Lineage, Rift, and Tera are this guy’s cream of the crop games.
That’s all you need to know about this post, infer from it what you will.

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you ever disrespect Lineage 2 again, and i’ll break you.

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There are end game things, and collecting stuff. If you dislike PVPing, Raiding, running dungeons with your GF or whatever then don’t play it. It’s clear with statements like;

you dislike it.

Even though you love your GF and want to share in this game that she likes. You won’t like everything she does and vice versa. Sometimes it’s OK that she has her own thing and telling her that you simply don’t enjoy it, should let her understand.

Warcraft isn’t for everyone.

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The others have made pretty valid points. If you don’t like WoW, don’t play it. You can still love your woman without having to play everything she plays. WoW is like a durian; it looks weird and is an acquired taste, and some just don’t enjoy it on the inside or outside.

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Rift raiding was great back in the first expansion.

not WoW-level great but the outdoor raids were amazing.

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WoW isn’t for everyone, and all the catch-up mechanics to get you to speed are just that, mechanics.

The heart of WoW comes from the attention to detail, the Easter eggs to modern culture, and its ability to have pathos and slapstick side by side.

If you haven’t been reading the quest text, I suggest you do so. I also think the Night Fae Covenant initiation is the best thing in the game, and make sure to read all the alternate dialog going on in the text box.

You may also enjoy the game more when you start playing alongside your GF. Enthusiasm can be contagious, after all.

I don’t know how much old-world content you did, as a new player, but go back to Azeroth, in the Badlands zone, and somewhere in the center is a quest called “The Day Deathwing Came”. If you run through that scenario (your level doesn’t matter), and you decide WoW really isn’t your game, then perhaps it isn’t.

And that’s ok.

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Save yourself the headache and just tell her you hate it. You will be dodging a bullet both ways. It’s not going to change much for ya if you stick around. Just the same stuff with different coats of paint.

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TL; DR. [Too long, didn’t read.]

OP, have you try pet battles? It’s funnnn.

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Run dungeons, bgs, or arenas with your GF. The games you mentioned aren’t that different than WoW. You hate running dungeons? Literally rhats all there was to TERA.

I do feel that loot drops in dungeon are in a bad spot right now so it can make running them feel pretty unrewarding at times.

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I agree with what you said. On my first character my gf gave me addon to skip quest talking and questing become a chore really quickly. Then I started playing new character; acutally reading why I’m doing what I’m doing and what is context of all of it. And it was pretty good for sometime, but she keeps rushing me and just started to skip everyting.
Also agree with that Night Fae initiation. It was funny and I think best quest I did so far.

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Troll the forums

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Maybe get a new GF or don’t play this game together? She clearly is on the “gogogo” mentality and you seem to like to smell the roses along the way; which seems incompatible for two WoW gameplay partners.

As others have said, if you don’t like it, just tell your GF it’s not your thing and each of you play your own games. If she is understanding then great, if she keeps saying “why don’t you want to play with me” when she “didn’t [play with you] yet, because she didn’t have time” well then maybe you really do need a new GF (at the very least play a different game that you like and let her play what she likes and let it not be a breaking point).

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MY EYESSSSSS :eye: :boom:

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I wouldn’t touch WoW for a good month or two.

The classes are horribly out of whack, the looting at endgame sucks and the timegates are almost endless.

Also the tuning is out of whack in previous expansions thanks to the squash so you can’t even play those without being devoured.