My wife and I play WoW. We each have a level 69 character, and largely we play together.
My character I started two years ago or so, not long after the game came out, anyway. And I have realized something about myself in that time:
"I really suck at World of Warcraft. Alot."
I think she has a half-dozen characters or so, while I really only have the one. The game is HARD for me to play. The grinding and the PVP just suck the soul directly from my body. Can't stand it.
But I love a good instance run. Love love love. I love going on quests and following the story chains, I like boss fights and the intricate maneuvering of an instance ... when to pull, how, tanking and DPS and the rest. That's all very interesting an entertaining to me.
Which says, to me, I like WoW when it is most like D&D. When I'm uncovering an ongoing story, doing quests, adventuring with other people, and thinking tactically.
If I'm just killing seven thousand demons to gather components to make fifty-three pairs of pants I'm not going to use to get my tailoring up to make one something that I want that I will use for three weeks before discarding? I want to scream.
And, generally, I don't go in for chest-beating and twitch gaming that comes with PVP. Again, I'm terrible at it.
So my hope is the table will be stable and usable and cool and will allow me to host games with people I know who have moved, or people I have met online that I like.
Tonight, after the baby goes to bed, we're going to run Shadow Labrynth and probably hit 70. And, as I've told everybody in my guild: "Then I've beaten the game."
--fje