03-28-2005, 03:06 PM
Well, I started out, and had to try every race and/or class up to about 12. Then I deleted them, all but two or three, leveled my first char up to 30, and a druid to 20.
At this point, I'd been on WoW a month. Some may think I'm crazy, and I may have been, but I'll say up front that what I did next was worth it. I took my 3 chars I had left, sold them to nakedness, and mailed the money, about 30g, to a new alt. Once the money was received, I deleted them all, except the new alt. I started one more, a rebuild of my original warrior, and sent her half of the gold.
She's now 32 again, and far more powerful than the original one ever was, just from what I learned over that time, and maybe the 7 blue items she's using. I'm down to 3 Alliance chars and 3 Horde chars, and my 32 warrior is still first up in my thoughts at the moment, as she's leading me into lots of new territory now. I know the <30 areas *very well* now, so it's time to move on.
I do have my 3 Horde alts (22 warrior, 10 shaman, 10 warlock) waiting for when I get bored with Alliance, and my 2 Alliance alts (15 rogue, 12 hunter) waiting for the day it's time to park Keshi for a time, which I would guess is about 40. I think I've hit the 30 quest wall and blasted through it, with the help of my 36 hunter friend, who I've duoed with since we were both lvl 9 with our first chars! There's very little the two of us can't handle, unless there's just too many mobs.
I find myself being a tour guide for newer players a fair amount, and answering questions on General a lot, even when just walking through Elwynn, or Westfall, or something. I also have several groups of friends who ask for me to tank for them for instances, so I do instances 4 nights out of 7, usually, some my level, some a little low, just for the fun of it. (Yes, I've been known to help zerg VC at 30, because tanking Smite by myself and making him so mad that the rest of the group could put a nuke in his underwear and he'd ignore them, is so fun.)
The issue with traveling doesn't bother me. Keshi is a have-mace-will-travel girl, and is always looking for a new horizon.
I guess I keep finding more and more fun things about the game, and so I'm still happy with it. I figure once I get my mount with this char, around 40-45 somewhere, I'll probably park her for a bit and level one of the alts.
One other note, not on this subject: I LOVE what they did for the warrior in the patch.
At this point, I'd been on WoW a month. Some may think I'm crazy, and I may have been, but I'll say up front that what I did next was worth it. I took my 3 chars I had left, sold them to nakedness, and mailed the money, about 30g, to a new alt. Once the money was received, I deleted them all, except the new alt. I started one more, a rebuild of my original warrior, and sent her half of the gold.
She's now 32 again, and far more powerful than the original one ever was, just from what I learned over that time, and maybe the 7 blue items she's using. I'm down to 3 Alliance chars and 3 Horde chars, and my 32 warrior is still first up in my thoughts at the moment, as she's leading me into lots of new territory now. I know the <30 areas *very well* now, so it's time to move on.
I do have my 3 Horde alts (22 warrior, 10 shaman, 10 warlock) waiting for when I get bored with Alliance, and my 2 Alliance alts (15 rogue, 12 hunter) waiting for the day it's time to park Keshi for a time, which I would guess is about 40. I think I've hit the 30 quest wall and blasted through it, with the help of my 36 hunter friend, who I've duoed with since we were both lvl 9 with our first chars! There's very little the two of us can't handle, unless there's just too many mobs.
I find myself being a tour guide for newer players a fair amount, and answering questions on General a lot, even when just walking through Elwynn, or Westfall, or something. I also have several groups of friends who ask for me to tank for them for instances, so I do instances 4 nights out of 7, usually, some my level, some a little low, just for the fun of it. (Yes, I've been known to help zerg VC at 30, because tanking Smite by myself and making him so mad that the rest of the group could put a nuke in his underwear and he'd ignore them, is so fun.)
The issue with traveling doesn't bother me. Keshi is a have-mace-will-travel girl, and is always looking for a new horizon.
I guess I keep finding more and more fun things about the game, and so I'm still happy with it. I figure once I get my mount with this char, around 40-45 somewhere, I'll probably park her for a bit and level one of the alts.
One other note, not on this subject: I LOVE what they did for the warrior in the patch.
--Mav