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I have met quite a few people on my server who keep tabs on my shaman and whisper me every time I log on. One of them has been whispering me non stop to loan him one of my shaman. He said he's been trying to level ever since I started and he has only reached level 20. I thought I have been leveling slow, but this guy has gained 1 level since I was level 18 now I'm 64. I'm just amazed some people find it so hard to level, but I guess he is a preteen or something.
We have a new couple in our guild. They have a son. He's five (5) years old. He has a 52 level Rogue. No exaggeration. He's five.
Edit: Just to clarify. He used to be a "clicker", but now he can actually use hotkeys. He can sap and has actually become an important part of their leveling group.
There can be alot of reasons people level slowly. I have alts that I just occasionally play on when I am really REALLY bored.
But what I find more interesting is the 'people who keep tabs' comment. There are people who are doing the same with me. Every so often I recieve some random tell continuing some conversation I had many days before that I barely recall. Or they start out, "hey, remember me?" And I'm too polite to say, "uh, no." And people say some of the most random things to me. The other day I received a tell, "hey, remember me? We were questing in TM at the same time. I just ding'd 70! (I'm level 44 now) I guess it's slower going with multiboxing?"
WoW is designed with the social gamer in mind, eventually EVERYONE who even tries a little will reach level 70/80/(levelcap). The only ones who wont spend their time sitting around in areas no where near appropriate dueling lowbies or begging for money instead of going out and trying.
You can literally level on stuff you can kill naked as any class, it's not gonna be fun, but any idiot should be able to eventually do it.
Hell, it reminds me of my little brother in Asheron's Call, that kid would rack up max vitae and then I'd spend 15 minutes helping him out and clear it all off... if the bastard wasn't below me in my xp chain he never would have reached a decent level :).
Same thing with my daughter (8). While she hasn't created her own character yet, she takes control of my priest alt when i'm doing instances. She gets a kick out of watching "daddy's" health and when it gets to a certain point she pushes a button. I have yet to die and she has yet to run out of mana! She just started but already she is learning different spells and what to do. It's amazing how kids these day pick up what seemed greek to me when I first started (with EQ1)Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Heenan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=73702#post73 702
man something feels off about letting a five year old kid play WoW...i thought my parents were a bit off for teaching me to read and write when i was four.... i wound up becoming a writer....teaching a kid to Rogue at 5? watch your pockets lol...well maybe i'm just jealous because he probably has a better arena rating than my main ;(
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[quote='Heenan',index.php?page=Thread&postID=73702# post73702]We have a new couple in our guild. They have a son. He's five (5) years old. He has a 52 level Rogue. No exaggeration. He's five.
Edit: Just to clarify. He used to be a "clicker", but now he can actually use hotkeys. He can sap and has actually become an important part of their leveling group.[/quote]
Same thing with my daughter (8). While she hasn't created her own character yet, she takes control of my priest alt when i'm doing instances. She gets a kick out of watching "daddy's" health and when it gets to a certain point she pushes a button. I have yet to die and she has yet to run out of mana! She just started but already she is learning different spells and what to do. It's amazing how kids these day pick up what seemed greek to me when I first started (with EQ1)[/quote]My 8 year old daughter makes a fine healer when coupled with this [url='http://www.dual-boxing.com/forums/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=5163']little toy[/url] I made. Sometimes she will get a little overzealous but I can always cancel heals or override what she is doing with my keyboard.
My 8yo got his rogue to 70 about a month ago and is working on his own tankadin after seeing me play mine. :) My daughter is more social and likes to fool around a lot so she's only at 67 even though she's older. They've both learned a lot from wow and my son is an AH demon, not caring whether a price is right, he made his own coin early on, much faster than I ever did at those early levels on my first toon. Watching them play has taught me a few things as well.
I've also got players who keep tabs on me as well and whisper me when I log on my shaman. Once in a while I'll get a whisper from someone I don't remember but usually after chatting for a while I remember most. The way I look at it is most people would probably multibox if they had the resources (maxed out computer(s), sub fees, etc.) and I probably chat more than I should lol, I might be 69 or 70 by now but I've made some nice new friends since multiboxing so it's all good. I've met some real haters as well but I think they would be haters anyway and I've met a few that were sure I was cheating but are now some of them that track me and chat often. I encourage them to level because that's where the fun & gold really begin.
On the whisper part i know what you mean. Right now i am power lvling with my teams. So when people see me they know i have a lvl 70 because all the alts are following the 70. They ask me what i am doing and i tell them that i am multi boxing and power lvling my alts. Next thing you know it they add my 70 to there friend list (which i don't mind) and every time i log in i get whispers from them. "Can your lvl 70 rush me though this instance", i just say "I don't have any room in my group"... usually i get the "OK, let me know when you can", but one time someone whispered me "RUN ME THOUGH NOW"... so that was an instant /ignore. But one kid just kept asking me every hour that i was logged on then next thing you know he is asking for 50g. I told him i had no money then /ignore him too.
I don't have any kids yet, but when i do have some i am still debating whether or not to have the kids play. Some people out there can just be asses and there are somethings that i don't want like a 5 year old to know. But then again there is a better chance that they learn it in school then in wow. Like one time in bg someone whisper me "Get a fuc*king clue you fuc*king moron. Why didn't you fuc*king heal me". My toon was a sham, but it was enchanment so my healing was like +10 or something I wispered back and told him that. All he said "It doesn't fuc*king matter you are still a fuc*king moron". I know that i understand that he didn't get his hour of breast feeding so that is why he was mad, but even with the language filter on fuc*king still comes up. So people like that just tick me off.
You know this post makes me wonder where I would be as an adult if I could have played WOW while in elementary school. Something tells me I would have dropped out of school before middle school and run away to china to farm gold for a living...
I used to play on a PvP server and I would get bogged down between 30-35 all the time. I finally made it though but it seemed like at one time I have 4 level 30 toons.
I am just really slow :(
Actually, the _big_ majority of wow players have never been lvl60/70. I can't remember the exact percentages but something like only 7% of the players are max lvl.
My 2 year-old son has a level 3 Cow-shammy. It's all from killing no, quests.
He mostly just likes to make him jump and run though. :P
He holds his finger up at me and says "We only hit monsters, not people"... :thumbup:
Ahaha... man... Asheron's Call memories. Excellent! I played on Leafcull.
As far as the social aspects of it, I used to play on the Venture Co. server as Palehoof. (I didn't realize there was a forum MVP named Palehoof until after I'd ralled him, cause Pale was my first wow character).
I created Palehoof on day 1 of the server and only reach 60 like a week after TBC came out. Hit 70 about 2 months later. The running gag was that if I finally reached max level, the server would crash. Sure enough, I dinged 70 while we were in Old Hillsbrad (and I rarely instanced) and the following came up about 2 minutes later:
<SERVER> Restart in 10 minutes.
Then about 15 seconds later....
<SERVER> Restart in 1 minute.
You have been disconnected from the server.
It was absolutely hilarious. I still have the screenshots.
Anyway, point being, I spent SO much time socializing on the forums and, invariably, in game, that I rarely leveled. Also, I went exclusively from 30 to 40-ish on BG token turn in xp. (Considering I was a hunter and needed ammo, I didn't get my 40 mount for quite some time. oops). I eventually quit wow for about 9 months.
With that having been said, I leveled a 70 lock on Ravenhold, unguilded, in about a month. And I had about 4500g when I dinged 70.
It all depends on what you're getting out of the game, I guess. I enjoyed playing both ways. I'm really enjoying the anonymity on Ravenholdt, because I couldn't go 2 minutes without a whisper on VeCo. I even had a "The official Palehoof Fanclub thread" on our server forums that reached maximum posting amount (500 replies) twice. It was all a little ridiculous.
You know... but awesome.
About two years after launch, I had a bit of a following from the nubs at work. They were so impressed that I had 2 level 60s, while they had barely been able to get to the mid 40s (after over a year of playing) If I only told them how many 70s I have now, they'd crap themselves.
This game has all types of different players....