Why is it so hard to make friends in wow?

That’s not a weird B, it’s a German sharp S. It’s used instead of double s after long vowels.

Slackwidow is cooler anyway tho.

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Well that i did not know, and it looks like a B to me so i used it. So now that makes me want to change my name lol

I’m in crazy world following this

Nah I wouldn’t bother. Most people don’t know on NA. I just do cause I’m German and at least with your name it’s kinda funny when people understand it as an S :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

There are a lot of non fake and toxic people, you just have to keep making friends. Also depends on your definition of fake and toxic too and the content you do ingame and what you’re wanting out of those people :woman_shrugging:

uwu.owo is not a furry. It’s a stick figure type drawing picture of a cat, originally used to describe differing levels of cuteness. The people who started it come from a culture who believe cats have a high status with special abilities such as, the ability to see things others can’t.

As for the rest, I won’t be baited into stating the obvious.

chat here so much more lively than in-game

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Tarliyn#1994. Hit me up if you wanna do a run.

See now were friends :stuck_out_tongue:

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Tarliyn is awesome.

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imo i think it’s because people have big ego’s in the sense that say unless your doing X content and they can’t benefit from having you as a “friend” they dont want to talk to you.

no different how we treat each other irl and thats the sad part. you go to work they tell you that your important and they care about you; next day you die they replace you without and F’s given.

NOT everyone is like that or thinks like that but a good majority do. you got people like me who just got off from work tired af and just want to unwind not talk to anyone. i’ve been in a lot of guilds though and that is what i feel. a lot of the time not many of them will even talk to me despite i ask them something like if they want to run a low M+ key they don’t even reply but when their friend in a clique asks if they want to run high keys they are quick to reply.

in the end i rather have chill friends then fake ones.

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I just find if your nice to people they are nice to me and want to hang out. I dunno maybe I am doing it wrong

Consider everyone as your friend.

Now, with that aside, what is it you want to do with your friends?

Making friends is never easy especially in a game like wow where there is alot of different things to do. So say you are really into mythic plus that means u are looking for ppl that like mythic plus now u gotta find ppl that are running the same level keys with same mindset and you get along with who also play around the same time as you makes it alot harder to find a friend

This game in particular seems to attract a lot of selfish “me, me, me” type players and the chats are filled with pathological edgelords stirring the pot. One of the problems with having a guild fall apart and spending too much time in PUGs, I guess. But to that point, if you want to make friends, your best bet is to join a good guild. Youll never see the best of this game from PuGs.

Not counting people I met through random walkup RP, there were 2 big ways I met people who would become friends over the years in WoW:

  • Playing the game (prior to Cata). The world used to be a lot more dangerous compared to what it is now. You grouped for questing because it was legitimately helpful to have someone with you. Today, it’s more of a hinderance, since its so fast and easy to begin with that you just end up having to match pace with someone who could be slower than you. To piggyback on this concept, before LFD you had to interact with people on your server to form groups to do… any instance. Even if you hated that, it promoted more of a community feeling and pushed you into groups with essentially a static group of people. You get to know people that way. You don’t with LFD with strangers every time.
  • Organized Content (post Cata, but also anytime). Since the world no longer pushed you to play with others after the Cataclysm, pursuing content that still required it became one of the only “natural” ways to meet new people and potentially friends. Even if you only join a group for the consistency / loot / whatever, you’re still pushing content with them every week, so you get to know them. This could be any form of non-LFR raiding. This could be Rated PvP. This could be RP. Anything that puts you together with the same people repeatedly. Basically, it’s how you get your foot in the door when cliques are already formed. If you’re just a nobody in gchat/discord, there’s no entrance.

Really both of these are just “play the game”, but it’s become much more of a “higher content” thing rather than a “the whole game” thing.

My current circle of friends (and to be clear, it has barely anything to do with WoW at this point, most of us don’t play for more than a couple months per patch these days) is almost entirely made up of people I met through my raiding here.

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Classic requires cooperation to do a lot. Most of retail is faceroll and solo-able. Even the stuff that should be cooperative (raids, mythics, etc) is turned competitive with timers, dps meters, etc.

First you find out their favorite food, then you get their measurements and make a person sized cage just for them, finally when they crawl in the cage to get the food you snap the cage trap shut…and boom! You got yourself a new friend for life! (And it works for animals too!)

I still feel like LFG and LFR need to default to in-realm first, then look to your battlegroup, then look beyond that. Or have a toggle so you can meet in realm people instead of randos.

Yeah, if all you do end game is world quests and pet battle.

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