World of Warcraft (1 Viewer)

[shining path]

My wife has mixed feeling about WoW. She does love that I don't smoke anymore and don't get board and wonder to the local bar to kill time like I used to, but it bothers her that I can sit in front of a computer for 4hours gaming (sometimes longer on the weekend if she's out shopping etc.).I wasn't doing anything constructive in those hours anyway. I watch a lot less TV, drink less, quit smoking and bar hoping/clubbing. I'm home with my wife and newborn most of the time and she's cool with it.I make a point never to be too busy gaming for her. If I wasn't WoWing in that time, I'd be surfing the net, watching TV etc. so it's an even trade IMO.I usually play on the living room computer so while my wife watches her shows on the couch (ones that I would never be able to sit though) we'll talk about our day the same as if both of us were watching TV.Not perfect but it's got to be better than a couple that watches TV in separate rooms most of the time.

This is the issue my wife has at times. But it is a perception thing. The time I put into this game takes away from time watching tv, playing online poker, or other time wasters. It doesn't effect work or our time together but she still doesn't like it.The biggest issue I think is that the tv is in the living room and the computer is in the office so we don't talk as much as we would watching tv, but we talk enough as it is.

This was an issue for me too. It also galled my wife that I spent time "talking to strangers online instead of talking with her." She didn't like it when I'd point out, as I'm seated on the couch next to her watching TV, that she hadn't spoken to me in 20 minutes as she did her crossword.

I stared playing upstairs in my "home offce" (more like an extra room room with a computer) and that quickly became a problem. Once I started playing in the same room, it was much better. I grind/work my prof/level an alt. while talking to her and then I raid later at night with headphones while she's watching her favorite prime-time shows.

yeah our guild is about to start raiding and i have no idea how i am going to explain talking on headphones to dudes i don't know playing a computer game.i'll be whispering a lot.

"Honey, I'll be on a conference call with some clients the next couple hours"

That is a great theory until she hears me yell "Someone tell the idiot hunter to let the tank pull for us so we don't wipe!"

After hearing that she'd probably be relieved to find out you're only playing WoW.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Addicted.

 

[Drunken Cowboy]

Play EVE it is more fun.

 

[Jericho]

The board game of the same name by Fantasy Flight Games is quite fun and less addictive.

 

[texasyankee]

Hunters are better pullers if they know how to play their class

Yup, longer range and they can misdirect to generate huge aggro on the tank.

This guy knows things

 

[redman]

Hunters are better pullers if they know how to play their class

Yup, longer range and they can misdirect to generate huge aggro on the tank.

This guy knows things

Their stupid pets are always causing problems though.

 

[John Mamula]

Hunters are better pullers if they know how to play their class

Yup, longer range and they can misdirect to generate huge aggro on the tank.

This guy knows things

Their stupid pets are always causing problems though.

the issue is that a well played hunter is a great value to groups, but 90% of hunters you run into in PUGs for instances can barely figure out to turn aggro off and/or don't know how to play their class. so while the potential is there, typically hunters are more trouble than their worth.you CC a mob and their pet inevitably aggs it.the nickname huntards is earned, especially NE hunters from what i have heard, but i refuse to play alliance so i wouldn't know.

 

[The Bad CEO]

Hunters are better pullers if they know how to play their class

Yup, longer range and they can misdirect to generate huge aggro on the tank.

This guy knows things

Their stupid pets are always causing problems though.

the issue is that a well played hunter is a great value to groups, but 90% of hunters you run into in PUGs for instances can barely figure out to turn aggro off and/or don't know how to play their class. so while the potential is there, typically hunters are more trouble than their worth.you CC a mob and their pet inevitably aggs it.the nickname huntards is earned, especially NE hunters from what i have heard, but i refuse to play alliance so i wouldn't know.

One of my toons is a hunter. Marksman spec, 'growl' off all the time, use Icetraps to CC and always keep the pet on passive. Agree that most hunters are idiots though.

 

[John Mamula]

Hunters are better pullers if they know how to play their class

Yup, longer range and they can misdirect to generate huge aggro on the tank.

This guy knows things

Their stupid pets are always causing problems though.

the issue is that a well played hunter is a great value to groups, but 90% of hunters you run into in PUGs for instances can barely figure out to turn aggro off and/or don't know how to play their class. so while the potential is there, typically hunters are more trouble than their worth.you CC a mob and their pet inevitably aggs it.the nickname huntards is earned, especially NE hunters from what i have heard, but i refuse to play alliance so i wouldn't know.

One of my toons is a hunter. Marksman spec, 'growl' off all the time, use Icetraps to CC and always keep the pet on passive. Agree that most hunters are idiots though.

i am half a bar away from dinging 70 for the first time on my rogue (leveled a shammy to 59 and then stopped and got a lock to the mid 30s). i may level a hunter next but am more and more tempted to do a druid.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

What does CC mean?

 

[John Mamula]

What does CC mean?

crowd control...i.e. incapacitate a mob via sap (rogue), polymorph (mage), seduce (lock), etc.

 

[Rayderr]

I got started over the Xmas break with the 10 day free trial (3 of which were spent downloading the freaking program) enjoyed the 7 days of actual play that I decided to sign up for a while. Have a couple characters but have settled on my Dwarf hunter.

It is addictive as hell, but at times frustrating as hell (keep getting killed by one guy in the deadmines)

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Seems like Warhammer Online would be a natural progression for ex WoW players.

 

[matuski]

Is this game accessible to a late-comer?

Played EQ in a high-end raiding guild, and wouldn't play WoW other than to reach end-game level as well. With EQ I know it was always hard for people coming into the game years later to catch up. Is this the case in WoW?

And is it not an option to TYPE your chat - or do you have to talk with mics/headphones?

 

[One]

This game is freakin' awesome.

Don't play it unless you want to get sucked in and risk losing your wife and other significant relationships.

(I have a lvl 70 Gnome Mage, Epic Flying Mount, Heavily equipped. Server: Uther)

I started playing WOW the day it came out and things never really got that bad until I app'd & made it into a 65 man raiding guild. Next thing i know I'm at my computer every night at 7pm waiting at instances for raids to start and I wouldn't have a chance to log off until around midnight. I was even elected to 'Mage Class Leader' and then later as an 'Guild Officer'.

Pretty ####in' gay, I know...

Some women in our guild sounded smoking hot over ventrillo so my wife wasn't too keen on the idea of me raiding and grinding all night with 'the phone sex chicks.'

I'm still an 'inactive member' in the guild and I don't play too often anymore. But in all ...it was probably the most fun I've ever had with a video game.

(My name is One, and IRL I'm really not that big of a )

 

[Softballguy]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

 

[John Mamula]

Is this game accessible to a late-comer?Played EQ in a high-end raiding guild, and wouldn't play WoW other than to reach end-game level as well. With EQ I know it was always hard for people coming into the game years later to catch up. Is this the case in WoW?And is it not an option to TYPE your chat - or do you have to talk with mics/headphones?

oh yeah. people continually level alts and new people start playing all the time.i don't think it is difficult at all, and with each new arena season you can pvp your way to the top gear if that is your thing.i almost always type chat...the only time i think you need to talk is at end game for raids.the game is very much gear dependent but it isn't hard to get good gear and be competitive with the majority of players. you may not be the uber elite guy if you play casually but who cares.

 

[One]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

LMAO ROFL !!! LOL

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

Is that the "LIGHTNING BOLT!" video? Always loved that one.

 

[The Noid]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

As as I am, even I'm glad none of those people will likely ever end up reproducing.

 

[matuski]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

 

[CicncyKid]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

I saw this on Beauty and the Geek... I just can't see it being that fun. Isn't it basically playing dress up like you would when you were a kid and shooting fake guns and robbing people?

 

[Rhino]

Too bad BGP hasn't come in here yet to tell all you guys how much you suck at the game and you're playing it wrong. He is a guild leader, afterall, you know.

I've been playing WoW since Day 1. Great game - a lotta fun. I go through streaks where I'm really into it and then other periods where I don't play much. The key is self control and not letting the important things, like family and friends, suffer because of the game. I find it's MUCH easier to control that playing WoW than it ever was when I played Everquest.

I play both Horde and Alliance on Hyjal. If you decide to play and are on that server PM me and we can trade character names.

 

[Softballguy]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

If you Larp with the right people, it's a blast. The key is to make sure everyone stays in character the entire time. We even go out to lunch in character beforehand just to set the tone. We get a lot of odd looks from people, but we pay them no mind.

 

[One]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

This has to be schtick.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

I'm hoping, but this is serious business to some people.

 

[Gator Shawn]

I play Alliance on Draenor. I do play quite a bit but mostly at night after the kids go to bed. I do most of the dinners here and I put both kids to bed myself. I work at home, so I occasionally login during the day to do grinding of exp or to work on crafting when I'm on long conference calls or waiting for the output of a script. I definitely feel like it cuts into my work life because I could be doing other work related things. However, I'm very efficient at work so I still end up getting more done than most everyone else and I've been promoted at work twice since I started playing MMOs.

Prior to WoW I played LOTRO exclusively where I still am an officer in a raiding guild. I raid in LOTRO but play WoW pretty much on all non-raid event opportunities.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

The special effects at the end were kinda cool, but at the end of the day, these guys are even dorkier than ren fair people.

 

[Softballguy]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

People make fun of us, but at least we're not sitting on a computer all day. I probably lose 5lbs every time we battle since my armor weighs over 40 pounds. It really is a fun way to exercise.

 

[harryhood]

Guy I work with LARPs and takes weeks off to do so. He is a great guy at work, but his interests are TOTALLY OPPOSITE as mine, so I really dont know anything about the whole hobby other than it is basically a human WoW. I thought he was giving me Shtick till I saw Beauty and the Geek as well.

That being said, if I ever did something like this, I would have to consume a mass amount of mushrooms.

 

[Rayderr]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

I have a couple friends that are into Madrigal (sp?) basically they go up to the Boston area and will actually camp out over a 3 day weekend, larping the whole time.

 

[Ralley Monkeys]

It's a fun game. I'm usually on for 2-3hrs at the end of the day. I substitute it for watching tv, so no big loss. WoW is actually a pretty laid back online game in comparison to others, though it can be very addicting if you let it.

 

[Gator Shawn]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

Be that as it may, but if no one I knew found out I was doing it, I gotta tell you, it looks like fun. Sometimes you have to release your inner nerd.

 

[Ranethe]

My wife has mixed feeling about WoW. She does love that I don't smoke anymore and don't get board and wonder to the local bar to kill time like I used to, but it bothers her that I can sit in front of a computer for 4hours gaming (sometimes longer on the weekend if she's out shopping etc.).I wasn't doing anything constructive in those hours anyway. I watch a lot less TV, drink less, quit smoking and bar hoping/clubbing. I'm home with my wife and newborn most of the time and she's cool with it.I make a point never to be too busy gaming for her. If I wasn't WoWing in that time, I'd be surfing the net, watching TV etc. so it's an even trade IMO.I usually play on the living room computer so while my wife watches her shows on the couch (ones that I would never be able to sit though) we'll talk about our day the same as if both of us were watching TV.Not perfect but it's got to be better than a couple that watches TV in separate rooms most of the time.

This is the issue my wife has at times. But it is a perception thing. The time I put into this game takes away from time watching tv, playing online poker, or other time wasters. It doesn't effect work or our time together but she still doesn't like it.The biggest issue I think is that the tv is in the living room and the computer is in the office so we don't talk as much as we would watching tv, but we talk enough as it is.

This was an issue for me too. It also galled my wife that I spent time "talking to strangers online instead of talking with her." She didn't like it when I'd point out, as I'm seated on the couch next to her watching TV, that she hadn't spoken to me in 20 minutes as she did her crossword.

I stared playing upstairs in my "home offce" (more like an extra room room with a computer) and that quickly became a problem. Once I started playing in the same room, it was much better. I grind/work my prof/level an alt. while talking to her and then I raid later at night with headphones while she's watching her favorite prime-time shows.

It's funny reading all these replies. Almost the same with me. Played EQ for years, knew of a few marriages that broke up over it. Have played WOW for several years now, also know of marriages that have ended because of it.I can see how it could happen. If you're at all competitive you will become driven to "succeed" in the game. And the only path to success is putting in ungodly amounts of time (though I suppose you could PvP with less time requirements, don't know, haven't done PvP).It has been an issue to a slight degree with me I suppose. Like others have mentioned, I play at night a lot while wife watches TV shows she likes, or reads. We talk while I play but she does get annoyed when I don't respond to her or don't hear something she has said because I'm engrossed in something happening in the game at the moment (or have headphones on for a raid). It's probably cut into my reading time some. I can't imagine if I had started playing when I was younger and playing sports. I likely socialize with friends less; it's just more fun and interesting to play as opposed to hitting a bar or whatever.It definitely is addictive. I've posted in WOW threads from months ago where I said I would probably stop playing soon because while often fun, it can also be repetitive and boring at times, almost like work. Yet here I am months later still playing.I highly doubt I will continue playing when Wrath of the Lich King comes out though. Not up for another several month long level grind and having everything accomplished to this point become obsolete. At least, that's what I say now....sigh.My 7 year old son plays a little. I've tried to get wife to play with me but she just has no interest in it. There are a lot of couples that play together though.

 

[Ranethe]

I play Alliance on Draenor. I do play quite a bit but mostly at night after the kids go to bed. I do most of the dinners here and I put both kids to bed myself. I work at home, so I occasionally login during the day to do grinding of exp or to work on crafting when I'm on long conference calls or waiting for the output of a script. I definitely feel like it cuts into my work life because I could be doing other work related things. However, I'm very efficient at work so I still end up getting more done than most everyone else and I've been promoted at work twice since I started playing MMOs.Prior to WoW I played LOTRO exclusively where I still am an officer in a raiding guild. I raid in LOTRO but play WoW pretty much on all non-raid event opportunities.

I'm on Draenor too.

 

[Gator Shawn]

My wife has mixed feeling about WoW. She does love that I don't smoke anymore and don't get board and wonder to the local bar to kill time like I used to, but it bothers her that I can sit in front of a computer for 4hours gaming (sometimes longer on the weekend if she's out shopping etc.).I wasn't doing anything constructive in those hours anyway. I watch a lot less TV, drink less, quit smoking and bar hoping/clubbing. I'm home with my wife and newborn most of the time and she's cool with it.I make a point never to be too busy gaming for her. If I wasn't WoWing in that time, I'd be surfing the net, watching TV etc. so it's an even trade IMO.I usually play on the living room computer so while my wife watches her shows on the couch (ones that I would never be able to sit though) we'll talk about our day the same as if both of us were watching TV.Not perfect but it's got to be better than a couple that watches TV in separate rooms most of the time.

This is the issue my wife has at times. But it is a perception thing. The time I put into this game takes away from time watching tv, playing online poker, or other time wasters. It doesn't effect work or our time together but she still doesn't like it.The biggest issue I think is that the tv is in the living room and the computer is in the office so we don't talk as much as we would watching tv, but we talk enough as it is.

This was an issue for me too. It also galled my wife that I spent time "talking to strangers online instead of talking with her." She didn't like it when I'd point out, as I'm seated on the couch next to her watching TV, that she hadn't spoken to me in 20 minutes as she did her crossword.

I stared playing upstairs in my "home offce" (more like an extra room room with a computer) and that quickly became a problem. Once I started playing in the same room, it was much better. I grind/work my prof/level an alt. while talking to her and then I raid later at night with headphones while she's watching her favorite prime-time shows.

It's funny reading all these replies. Almost the same with me. Played EQ for years, knew of a few marriages that broke up over it. Have played WOW for several years now, also know of marriages that have ended because of it.I can see how it could happen. If you're at all competitive you will become driven to "succeed" in the game. And the only path to success is putting in ungodly amounts of time (though I suppose you could PvP with less time requirements, don't know, haven't done PvP).It has been an issue to a slight degree with me I suppose. Like others have mentioned, I play at night a lot while wife watches TV shows she likes, or reads. We talk while I play but she does get annoyed when I don't respond to her or don't hear something she has said because I'm engrossed in something happening in the game at the moment (or have headphones on for a raid). It's probably cut into my reading time some. I can't imagine if I had started playing when I was younger and playing sports. I likely socialize with friends less; it's just more fun and interesting to play as opposed to hitting a bar or whatever.It definitely is addictive. I've posted in WOW threads from months ago where I said I would probably stop playing soon because while often fun, it can also be repetitive and boring at times, almost like work. Yet here I am months later still playing.I highly doubt I will continue playing when Wrath of the Lich King comes out though. Not up for another several month long level grind and having everything accomplished to this point become obsolete. At least, that's what I say now....sigh.My 7 year old son plays a little. I've tried to get wife to play with me but she just has no interest in it. There are a lot of couples that play together though.

I play with my 7-year old on LOTRO some. We have a pair of identical hunters named Boomshock and Alocka.

 

[Ranethe]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

Tons of ren fair people in this game. Found that out a while ago. They all seem to know each other, I think they travel around to various fairs and meet each other or something.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

Thy guy on stilts beating everyone down with that giant axe was kinda funny.

 

[Gator Shawn]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

You don't think it would be fun to hang out with your friends and beat each other down with foam baseball bats on occasion?Some how that whole question set off a small reading on my GayDar.

 

[Ignoramus]

Play EVE it is more fun.

 

[Rhino]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

One year at GenCon ( that's like the mother of all geek conventions for those that aren't aware...) my friends and I bought some of those foam swords and axes. We took them home and sat out on the back porch drinking beer while we took turns fighting and beating the snot out of each other. We didn't go overboard with all the costumes, armor and stuff... but it still got a few strange stares from my neighbors.If you haven't tried it you really should - it's a ton of fun!

 

[Mad Cow]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

You still have all your toons on the server I had Joebryant on, Rhino?

 

[Buckna]

World of Warcraft thread

I actually had my curiousity peaked back when the South Park episode originally aired. I played the Warcraft RTS games, but had always considered WoW "too dorky." After the thread above started, I got interested and tried it out.

I got to admit the game is fun and extremely addictive. In fact, I had to quit because it was too addictive for me. Coming home from work, logging in at 5:30 and not quitting until late at night took it's toll after a while. There's just too much else going on in my life to invest that kind of time. Reminded me a lot of when I used to play Civilization in high school until the wee hours of the night. Sure was fun grinding with guild members with my Dwarf Hunter and Snow Leopard pet though.

 

[Heavy B]

Lemme guess. Your buddy offered to hook you up with your first month for free. Remind you of anyone? If you wanted to start smoking crack, I'm sure there are bunch of seedy characters that would be willing to give you your first taste for free. More than one of my friends has offered to hook me up with the first month for free. Said I would love it. I'm sure they are right. That's why I didn't take them up on it. Another friend offered me coke once. Said the same thing. I'm sure I would love it. That's EXACTLY why I would never try coke. Or WoW...Run away. Run far away.

This guy knows stuff. My name is Heavy B. And I am a game-aholic. 5 years of Asheron's Call, some Asheron's Call 2 and Star Wars Galaxies and currently almost 4 years into City of Heroes. I cannot tell you how many hours I wasted on those games but I can tell you that there was a ticker on Asheron's Call characters that would tell you how much in-game time you spent on a character. I had logged over a month on one character alone. And I had 6 characters on one account and an active character or two on a second Mule / Craft account. That's not the time since the character was created but an actual amount of time spend at the keyboard. Both accounts over the course of 5 years - no telling but the total time invested was thouands and thousands of hours. And that was just the one game.It detracted from my work and personal life in the beginning and it was actually a sort of addiction with me. Not that it had me jonesing, etc but it grew to fill up every last second of my spare time. Then I allowed playing the game to take up time that was not so spare. All to run around an imaginary planet doing imaginary things! (But pretty darned cool imaginary things)These games are fascinating and fun but they have a down side. They hook you in that you develop these characters over time. As they gain experience they gain new abilities which leads to more fun things you can do which in turn leads to greater challenges that require even greater abilities to overcome. The levels are progressively farther apart so the experience required for example in City of Heroes to go from 48th lvl to 50th lvl is about equal to what it took to get you into the mid 30s (doing this from memory if there are any other CoH guys in here please correct me if I'm off).If you are a less addictive personality than me or if you truly have a lot of spare time then these games are fun and IMO worth the experience. But if you have problems with discipline or self-control or have a family or a tight schedule you will have to ensure that you regulate yourself. I thoroughly enjoy playing City of Heroes now but thankfully I've got it in proper order and play only when I can. In a way this makes it more fun because in the past I'd spend more time chatting and engaging in the social aspects of the game rather than playing. While the social aspects are fun it really made me look in the mirror and ask myself just what the h-e-double toothpick I was doing sitting in the Shoushi Guild Hall in my Yalaini Battle Armor holding a clan meeting when I had a wonderful (and thankfully very patient) wife at home? And why was I decorating my e-house and guild mansion when my lawn needed work? Then again - I was in my 20s then. But as I approach 40 I still love games and gaming but don't want to be "that guy" in the South Park WoW spoof.Obviously this is all as relates to me and I can be very compulsive type A when I get going. YMMV. All in all I'd recomment MMORPGs as a great experience but one to be experienced in moderation.

 

[Heavy B]

This game is freakin' awesome.

Don't play it unless you want to get sucked in and risk losing your wife and other significant relationships.

(I have a lvl 70 Gnome Mage, Epic Flying Mount, Heavily equipped. Server: Uther)

I started playing WOW the day it came out and things never really got that bad until I app'd & made it into a 65 man raiding guild. Next thing i know I'm at my computer every night at 7pm waiting at instances for raids to start and I wouldn't have a chance to log off until around midnight. I was even elected to 'Mage Class Leader' and then later as an 'Guild Officer'.

Pretty ####in' gay, I know...

Some women in our guild sounded smoking hot over ventrillo so my wife wasn't too keen on the idea of me raiding and grinding all night with 'the phone sex chicks.'

I'm still an 'inactive member' in the guild and I don't play too often anymore. But in all ...it was probably the most fun I've ever had with a video game.

(My name is One, and IRL I'm really not that big of a )

Sure you're not. Mr Mage Class leader Guild Officer man. Sure you're not.

 

[Mad Cow]

FWIW - Guild Wars 2 comes out this year and will be a full-blown MMO, vs the instanced thing GW is now.

 

[Heavy B]

World of Warcraft thread

I actually had my curiousity peaked back when the South Park episode originally aired. I played the Warcraft RTS games, but had always considered WoW "too dorky." After the thread above started, I got interested and tried it out.

I got to admit the game is fun and extremely addictive. In fact, I had to quit because it was too addictive for me. Coming home from work, logging in at 5:30 and not quitting until late at night took it's toll after a while. There's just too much else going on in my life to invest that kind of time. Reminded me a lot of when I used to play Civilization in high school until the wee hours of the night. Sure was fun grinding with guild members with my Dwarf Hunter and Snow Leopard pet though.

I still have my copy of Civ III and loaded it a few days ago to play for a few hours. Then that hypnotic music-box melody started hypnotizing me into a lull...now my mighty Roman Empire is in the Modern age. I have most of my original continent conqured through cultural advances and I have an outpost on the Eastern continent that I wrested from Catherine of Russia by main force. I have three Aircraft Carriers all supported by a battleship, a submarine, and three destroyers. All have three jet fighters and one bomber. Aegis cruisers are on the way.

I got a bit uppity and declared war on Persia and they had a Mutual Protection Pact with Babylon. In a matter of just a few turns I overwhelmed both of their capitols with tanks and mech infantry, fortified them with the mech infantry and took the tanks w/ bombardment support from bombers in nearby cities, cruise missiles, and naval bombardment support took an additional city from each empire before I forced them to the negoation table and demanded and got multiple workers from each civilization in exchange for a peace treaty.

Look out, Cleopatra. Once I upgrade all of my Infantry to Mech Infantry and my Tanks to Modern Armor I'm coming for you next. Screw the Alpha Centauri victory condition. I shall not rest until the entire map shows the red color of Roman dominance and runs wet with the blood of her enemies!

 

[Heavy B]

Do any of you have experience in LARPing? (Live Action Role Playing)

My friends and I used to play WoW all the time, and we still play a lot, but we're having a blast LARPing.

Here is an example of a Larp battle -

Did that too. The rule was that you could make any weapon that was historically correct and from which you were willing to take a full on hit to the back.

We built weapons from PVC pipe w/ duct-taped insulation. There is nothing and I mean nothing in this world more fun than beating your friends with faux medeival weapons. Well. Maybe one or two things. But it's still a top ten.

 

[Buckna]

World of Warcraft thread

I actually had my curiousity peaked back when the South Park episode originally aired. I played the Warcraft RTS games, but had always considered WoW "too dorky." After the thread above started, I got interested and tried it out.

I got to admit the game is fun and extremely addictive. In fact, I had to quit because it was too addictive for me. Coming home from work, logging in at 5:30 and not quitting until late at night took it's toll after a while. There's just too much else going on in my life to invest that kind of time. Reminded me a lot of when I used to play Civilization in high school until the wee hours of the night. Sure was fun grinding with guild members with my Dwarf Hunter and Snow Leopard pet though.

I still have my copy of Civ III and loaded it a few days ago to play for a few hours. Then that hypnotic music-box melody started hypnotizing me into a lull...now my mighty Roman Empire is in the Modern age. I have most of my original continent conqured through cultural advances and I have an outpost on the Eastern continent that I wrested from Catherine of Russia by main force. I have three Aircraft Carriers all supported by a battleship, a submarine, and three destroyers. All have three jet fighters and one bomber. Aegis cruisers are on the way.

I got a bit uppity and declared war on Persia and they had a Mutual Protection Pact with Babylon. In a matter of just a few turns I overwhelmed both of their capitols with tanks and mech infantry, fortified them with the mech infantry and took the tanks w/ bombardment support from bombers in nearby cities, cruise missiles, and naval bombardment support took an additional city from each empire before I forced them to the negoation table and demanded and got multiple workers from each civilization in exchange for a peace treaty.

Look out, Cleopatra. Once I upgrade all of my Infantry to Mech Infantry and my Tanks to Modern Armor I'm coming for you next. Screw the Alpha Centauri victory condition. I shall not rest until the entire map shows the red color of Roman dominance and runs wet with the blood of her enemies!

Just one more turn, then I'll go to bed. Just one more turn. JUST ONE MORE TURN!!!

P.s. The Planet Buster in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri was the coolest thing ever.

 

[One]

This game is freakin' awesome.

Don't play it unless you want to get sucked in and risk losing your wife and other significant relationships.

(I have a lvl 70 Gnome Mage, Epic Flying Mount, Heavily equipped. Server: Uther)

I started playing WOW the day it came out and things never really got that bad until I app'd & made it into a 65 man raiding guild. Next thing i know I'm at my computer every night at 7pm waiting at instances for raids to start and I wouldn't have a chance to log off until around midnight. I was even elected to 'Mage Class Leader' and then later as an 'Guild Officer'.

Pretty ####in' gay, I know...

Some women in our guild sounded smoking hot over ventrillo so my wife wasn't too keen on the idea of me raiding and grinding all night with 'the phone sex chicks.'

I'm still an 'inactive member' in the guild and I don't play too often anymore. But in all ...it was probably the most fun I've ever had with a video game.

(My name is One, and IRL I'm really not that big of a )

Sure you're not. Mr Mage Class leader Guild Officer man. Sure you're not.