It couldn’t be more obvious if Planeon was wearing an “I’m Thearchitect’s other toon” tabard.
He made that exact same thread last week… posting on Thearchitect.
I’ve asked you to stop and you go on my other threads and continue to harass me there
I sometimes feel overwhelmed as well!
What I do is set some specific goals for myself and work towards it. It allows you to focus on one thing at a time and start progressing as a player. From there you get more familiar with the game and it all works out. Well at least most times.
Wow is better than a lot of games at teaching lessons to kids! I would figure ways to relate things in this game to potential teaching points. It might not seem like it does anything on the outside, but submissively it does.
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Thank you, sorry if I’m not as chipper as I started out. With no way to regulate my own post all negativity breaks out and I just lose my passion for playing WoW or communicating with people on it.
I tried to teach my grandchild how to play WoW and it was not a good experience for either one of us. Same age as the OP’s sibling. I just don’t think that seven year olds are quite ready for the game - reading comprehension is a “must” and the poor kids just get frustrated reading the quests. Ah well, I’ll give it another year or two before we try it again if I’m still able to play myself - getting up there in age.
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My son was 9 when I got him started in WoW. By the time he was 10 he was raiding with us on his DK in our guild and downing the Lich King during Wrath.
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Why can’t they? I mean, you have to be connected to the internet to play WoW and the game is always in “windowed” mode, there is no “full screen” mode anymore.
Do they make “non-smart” cell phones anymore?
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This is patently false… it’s probably the easiest, most casual mmorpg on the market.
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The problem is the game builds on previous experience.
You start at level 1 and everything is very simple. Quests, drops, etc. It very slowly ramps up.
That is the problem I have w/ the boosts. My kids for example were fine playing their little ones because everything is relatively easy. A weekend or two ago they decided to use the boost that came w/ their expansion. So now they have a level 110 panda warrior and they are lost.
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There are several layers to this that I’m sure others have touched on, but this is how I see it from my point of view, and you can separate it into two buckets.
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You want to get into the game, dive in headfirst and be really good at it, or at least try to be. In this case, he needs to lean on someone who already plays it. Just the abbreviations and terms people use in WoW can be super confusing if you don’t know what they mean.
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You want to check out the game, experience leveling in its base form, get familiar on your own and progress slowly, probably being confused, googling everything, and find your own way otherwise.
If number 1 is the goal, then he needs to rely on you, OP, to help fill in the blanks, and there are a lot of blanks. If number 2 is the goal, what he’s doing seems fine. Walking around and picking stuff up and not knowing what it is was part of the coolness of playing the game from the start, whenever the “start” was for someone.
Leveling now is a lot more guided than it was and is a lot less confusing, especially with map markers and highlighted quest areas. The side quests are optional, and if you don’t know which is which, just complete all of them. Except the chicken escort quests. Especially with scaling, it’ll still contribute to your experience.
As far as completing the War Campaign, without playing the game and being able to navigate the world, as a new player, just watch all of the cut scenes and cinematics. You need to put in the effort and work to get to that content. WoW is an additive game…until they do the level squish. It can be very unfriendly and daunting to a new player.
New players have to go with the flow. Most MMO’s have overwhelming amounts of info at the beginning, but just playing it through will teach everything smoothly.
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I think the chaos is part of why the game is really fun at first. So much to figure out and learn. I enjoyed being a noob and just learning and exploring.
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Then do us all a favor an stop posting an playing wow
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I am starting to think the more I read your replies and try to understand your issue that your problem is that you don’t actually understand how to find information.
WoWHead is one of the most helpful websites related to WoW. But you can’t just look at the item, you have to look at the “comments”. Players leave comments explaining (often in great, step by step, detail) how to do things, where to go, coordinates…I mean, there is no larger knowledge pool for WoW than that single website. You can, quite literally, find any information there…often much more than you needed.
They also have a vast array of guides with additional step by step instruction and links and…
I mean, if you can’t find what you need on WoWHead you’re just not paying attention.
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Didn’t people just run around in circles not knowing the exact area of the map to go to complete quests ?? Classic would be Much worse than modern wow for a new player
But here’s the thing, modern WoW isn’t about leveling. In Classic, leveling is the game for a casual player. You don’t get a boost just for signing up, and it takes months to get to 60, by which time you’ll really know you stuff.
So no, the game isn’t going to completely hold your hand, because that would be trivial and unfun. What it does do is take you on a much slower ride and doesn’t necessarily press you in any one direction. It’s the right balance between ease of getting into and difficulty. Obviously a lot of us started as kids back in Vanilla and are in our twenties now, so it’s proven to work.
Can i be your friend lol
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OK we are friends now ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
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Damn it your comments are annoying but I just keep reading to see how more annoyed I can get of you, it’s a love /hate thing
No one has ever quit because of someone else’s attitude, they quit because they decided to quit.
To put that physical action of quitting on to another human being is just dumb.