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JediSoth
Voice Over Artist & Author
While I suffer from alt-itis, I do play.
Mok'Nathal
Sarvesh, Alpha Pug, level 47 tauren Hunter
Pizelle, level 15 goblin Warrior - yes, I named her after Italian cookies
Callamuria, level 15 draenei Mage
Alistrianna, level 15 blood elf Warlock
My alts on this server are mostly the result of trying out different race/class combos. Sarvesh is, obviously, my main. Pizelle will probably be my second main on this server, when I'm not playing on Argent Dawn.
Argent Dawn
Lykiaos, level 21 worgen Warrior - currently guildless, but will petition Fear the Guild as soon as they're all back from Fear the Con
Mok'Nathal
Sarvesh, Alpha Pug, level 47 tauren Hunter
Pizelle, level 15 goblin Warrior - yes, I named her after Italian cookies
Callamuria, level 15 draenei Mage
Alistrianna, level 15 blood elf Warlock
My alts on this server are mostly the result of trying out different race/class combos. Sarvesh is, obviously, my main. Pizelle will probably be my second main on this server, when I'm not playing on Argent Dawn.
Argent Dawn
Lykiaos, level 21 worgen Warrior - currently guildless, but will petition Fear the Guild as soon as they're all back from Fear the Con
JediSoth
Voice Over Artist & Author
I don't play. I'm too afraid of becoming addicted to it.
Out of curiosity, how many hours do you guys put in a week? My brother-in-law plays, and puts in seriously like 25+ hours a week. My sister always complains.
On average, I would say maybe 15-20. It depends on how my wife is feeling. She's a chronic pain patient, so if she has a bad day on a weekend, I get to play a lot. If I can get her out of bed, I don't play so much. I usually get in about 30-45 minutes before I go to work IF she doesn't get up to have breakfast with me, 0-15 minutes otherwise, and another hour or so in the evenings. I try to limit my playtime, especially during the week, and rarely play past 8PM on week nights. Most of my weekend time is in the mornings, when everyone else is sleeping.
Stumblewyk
Adventurer
When my wife and I both played, we were on the Blackhand server, Horde-side.
I rocked an 80 Orc Warlock, and she kicked booty on her 80 Troll Mage. We also had a number of alts in the level 20-60 range. All-told, we probably wasted 20+ hours per week together on the game, especially since we had a pretty dedicated mini-guild that just got together to run Heroics on a regular basis.
Such a time sink. Since we decided to hang it up about 10 months ago, we really haven't missed it. I thought we'd suffer more "withdrawal" symptoms, but we haven't, and it's opened up far more time for D&D gaming which I call a net plus.
I rocked an 80 Orc Warlock, and she kicked booty on her 80 Troll Mage. We also had a number of alts in the level 20-60 range. All-told, we probably wasted 20+ hours per week together on the game, especially since we had a pretty dedicated mini-guild that just got together to run Heroics on a regular basis.
Such a time sink. Since we decided to hang it up about 10 months ago, we really haven't missed it. I thought we'd suffer more "withdrawal" symptoms, but we haven't, and it's opened up far more time for D&D gaming which I call a net plus.
Rhun
First Post
Thanks for the info, guys.
I actually played Starwars Galaxies when it first came out several years back. And with that one I found that if I wasn't putting in tons of time, then I couldn't keep up with any of the people that were putting in tons of time. I would quickly become Bantha fodder.
How does WoW handle that? You know, low level PCs interacting with the high level ones?
I actually played Starwars Galaxies when it first came out several years back. And with that one I found that if I wasn't putting in tons of time, then I couldn't keep up with any of the people that were putting in tons of time. I would quickly become Bantha fodder.
How does WoW handle that? You know, low level PCs interacting with the high level ones?
Stumblewyk
Adventurer
If you're on a PvE server, then they can't do anything to you, unless you flag yourself for PvP.
If you're on a PvP server, you're fair game when enter contested territories/enemy territories. If they're more than 5 levels above you, they gain literally nothing from killing you, but that really won't stop them from doing it on principal.
To be honest though, I leveled from 1-70 on a PvP server with my wife, and despite moments of frustration when we were being camped by someone multiple levels above us, it wasn't a terrible experience. In fact, we found that after transferring to a PvE server, we occasionally missed the joys of world PvP.
Additionally, there is plenty of content for the non-hardcore player. I would hardly say that my wife and I were hardcore - we just had time to waste on the game together, and as such we got to 80 pretty easily over the course of 2 expansions. Even so, we played a lot of alts, and between our less-than-maxed out level-capped characters and our alts, we never lacked for content to do things.
For the non-hardcore level-capped toon there's always daily quests, daily dungeons, and heroic instances. For the lower-level character it was pretty easy to find groups thanks to the new dungeon finder tool.
Bear in mind, however, that this is all based on pre-Cataclysm content. I can't say what, if anything, has changed since the newest expansion since we quit a few months before Cataclysm's release.
If you're on a PvP server, you're fair game when enter contested territories/enemy territories. If they're more than 5 levels above you, they gain literally nothing from killing you, but that really won't stop them from doing it on principal.
To be honest though, I leveled from 1-70 on a PvP server with my wife, and despite moments of frustration when we were being camped by someone multiple levels above us, it wasn't a terrible experience. In fact, we found that after transferring to a PvE server, we occasionally missed the joys of world PvP.
Additionally, there is plenty of content for the non-hardcore player. I would hardly say that my wife and I were hardcore - we just had time to waste on the game together, and as such we got to 80 pretty easily over the course of 2 expansions. Even so, we played a lot of alts, and between our less-than-maxed out level-capped characters and our alts, we never lacked for content to do things.
For the non-hardcore level-capped toon there's always daily quests, daily dungeons, and heroic instances. For the lower-level character it was pretty easy to find groups thanks to the new dungeon finder tool.
Bear in mind, however, that this is all based on pre-Cataclysm content. I can't say what, if anything, has changed since the newest expansion since we quit a few months before Cataclysm's release.
Impeesa
Explorer
I don't play. I'm too afraid of becoming addicted to it.
Out of curiosity, how many hours do you guys put in a week? My brother-in-law plays, and puts in seriously like 25+ hours a week. My sister always complains.
Depends entirely what you want out of it. I'm in a pretty decent raiding guild, but not bleeding edge like the true hardcores (for reference for those who play, we're at 5/13 hard modes in 25-man right now, killed heroic 25-man Lich King pre-Cataclysm but it took us months of trying). We got this far on about 9-10 hours of raiding a week (3 nights). The real world-class raiders may do 3-4 times that when there's new content to tackle, but a side effect of their skill and practice is that they may only log in once a week to clear it all once they've mastered it. Personally, I also do a couple nights a week of raiding on an alt, and spend a fair bit of time managing auctions, but that's all optional compared to my preference for progression raiding. The main point is, learning curve aside, it doesn't take much time at all to be as involved as you want to be in any given aspect of the game. Of course, there's also still something to do no matter how much extra free time you might happen to have. That scalability is probably one of the main reasons the game's been so successful.
Krug
Newshound
I played Cataclysm for two months, got my dwarf hunter to 85 and quit. Now I'm preoccupied with Dragon Age 2. My schedule doesn't really allow raiding, and fighting the same foe again and again gets a bit boring. That said, I still think it's a very good game, but people will inevitably outgrow it.
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