He tricked me. Idk who Thearchitect is.
Who that is?
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Try getting him to play Tetris if he can’t figure out how to play modern WoW.
I believe to a certain degree, the overwhelming about of information is intentional. Or at least it was in classic-TBC. It’s supposed to emulate the feeling of a scrubby little nobody adventuring stepping out into the wider world for the first time. Uncovering new things, learning what other professions can do, figuring out the breadth and depth of item upgrades and consumables available, etc etc. Heck on my first character I leveled from 0 to 80, and sat at max level for probably 2 weeks or more before I realized that you could use crafted ammo to do more damage on my hunter, or that in order to get the best food buffs I would need to fish. You learn and discover these things bit by bit, as you level up and interact with players. Which I believe at least used to be partially intentional. They only put like 50% of the information you need within tutorial elements and info tabs, because you are expected to interact with other players to learn about their classes and professions and stuff they have seen/learned.
There is something very unique and immersive about having my guild master who also happens to be a hunter main, take 45 minutes of his time to pull me aside 1 on 1 and ask about my char setup, explain how hit chance works and how important it is, let me know that leveling fishing and cooking is a priority, let me know what the best ammo is and who the engineer in the guild is, etc etc. It’s just a very authentic experience and feels like and actual hunter is mentoring another actual hunter. A higher and more enjoyable form of passing on knowledge than spamming your screen with tool tips and having to do some sort of tutorial every 5-10 levels.
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Maple Story might be more suited for you and your brother…
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There is so so few ways to go wrong as a newbie, you literally just accept any quest you’re offered, open up your map, go the the highlighted area. Repeat process till you are sent, via a quest, to a new zone.
It’s too complex for many players, obviously. This thread is how we ended up with BfA.
It’s not that difficult to understand it’s basically an open world and you can do what you want, if you have a goal to start to raid, do world quests, craft gear and do dungeons to gear up. learn your class and youtube some videos on what content you either plan on doing or need to find something out about.
There’s thousands of videos out there on how to’s for everything you could possibly want in wow, also wowhead to tell you almost everything else on how to craft items or where things are located to where things drop etc.
That’s the point of those things is instead of wasting someone else’s that may or may not know you have the information a few clicks away. As far as people being helpful in game, find a guild/group but I doubt most will want to answer your 2000 questions a day because you’re too lazy to google/wowhead or youtube it.
The campaign/main quest lines look different than world quests as they’re a solid bright yellow icon.
I can’t even begin to explain the levels of WTF from this post. How is the game confusing? You start at level 1 and it tells you exactly where to go and what to do with a GPS pointer showing you the way. If you can not follow this or you find it confusing, I suggest sticking to maybe those books you buy at walmart where you just press a button with a picture of an animal that makes noises.
I joined at the beginning of Wrath and leveled up my chars the old fashioned way without heirlooms and everything else they have now. You pretty much had to complete entire continents. It was never really confusing. Grab quests and do what they tell you to do. Oh there’s another quest giver over here? Grab quests and do what they tell you to do. If anything, the quests can be a little unclear but thats what the interweb is for! There is really nothing in this game that isn’t explained in comments on wowhead.
I started last year like September and boosted to play with friends…it was very confusing from a stand point of “whats important, whats not” and just getting anywhere I needed to go was mind boggling because the world is huge and pretzeled for a newb…even with my friends help I was like huh?
Take A flight path to B city then find the portal room and take the portal that says X then run through the big stargate looking portal, run down the ramp then fly to an island with more portals…
I was a lost puppy for a few months…but it got easier as everything does with practice ie. repetition.
As long as there is an underlying like for the world and gameplay all the confusing things clear up.
Comments on wowhead are the useful aspects of the site.
To people who haven’t read through the entire thread, I suggest looking up the OPs post history and that of his alt, Thearchitect.
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" I hate to say while WoW pvp is toxic fast pace. ESO and GW2 for a mmorpg is a lot smoother."
“Let’s not bring action mmorpgs pvp into this.”
…?
I started WoW 3 years ago. Having come from F2P browser games, it took me a bit to realize all the things I could now do with my POV, eg, tilt the horizon, change the size of my character (not options with browser games, at least the ones I played). Once I got the hang of this freedom, though, questing was simple. Learning one or two abilities at a time was fairly easy. Maybe because I started playing solo I had an advantage, ie, there was no one else’s agenda I had to keep up with.
Point: as a beginner, I did not find WoW chaotic.
All my friends over the years has tried wow. They all mostly told me to get stuffed when I asked them to try it again LOL. I can’t blame them either looking at the current state.
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Wow is extremely toxic environment for people and the reason is because Blizzard allows it. They reuse to let people moderate their own posts. They won’t even talk about it
Back from vacation, I see!
Allowing posters to moderate the threads they create would put a serious crimp in the free and open discussion of things. It’s Blizzard’s house, and they get to set the rules, and they get to enforce them. We are merely guests. If you want to control discussions, you need to start your own website.
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Not sure what that has to do with the main topic. Lets focus please.
Don’t mind OP, the second you say anything that disagrees with him you’ll see his true colours. Doubt archie would have learnt anything from his forum vacation.
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I know. Im actually parroting him from another thread ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")