I haven't updated in a while, mainly cause of being busy at work but also from having a short break from WoW and raiding. At this very moment I'm on the last leg of this weeks marathon to reach level 80 on my paladin. My noob is level 52 now, and have been playing the auction house while having troubles finding good places to level. 50-60 is a drudge and I was blessed to do it with Recruit-a-Friend this time around.
I also haven't updated cause the noob expressed some interest in writing a piece of his own and I was kinda holding out on that. I also have made contact with another noob friend who is doing WoW tourism and asked if she would be interested. Apart from not quite knowing what to write about she sounded interested, so you might want to keep an eye out.
Showing posts with label noob. Show all posts
Showing posts with label noob. Show all posts
Friday, August 7, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Ding! 20!
Sometime today, my noob dinged 20. He promptly asked for new quest areas since he was tired of the Barrens. Why, oh why, if you are undead, do you go to The Barrens to quest? Guess he is a proper noob after all. If you read this, go to Hillsbrad foothills. You can get far into the 20's fast there and the higher level quests are kinda easy too.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Project Noob - the Shocker!
So, last night I contacted my noob on IRC to see when he'd be able to play next time. I greeted him "hai" and he said almost instantly "Good that you're on! Do you know any good places to farm linen cloth?". A bit stumpted, I said "well, all humanoids drop cloth, and there's not a lot in Tirisfal Glades" and he went "I know they do! I asked if you know any good places!" and I had to reply "well, there's quite a few humanoids in Silverpine once you get to that level range..." and he replied "Yeah I'm having some troubles with the mages there". He was leveling tailoring and enchanting (I'm not sure, but I think he'd read that on Noob says WOW. Either that, or he'd figured it out on his own. Either way, good call!).
Turns out he is level 17 (or was, when I left him last night) and had run out of quests to do on his own. We discussed macromaking and how to handle multiple mobs (with targeting, focus and stuff), and it looks like the little bastard is turning into quite a competent warlock. I knew I should have tricked him into some other class...
We still discussed some nuances of the game but he seemed to have gotten a pretty good grasp of what he can grasp at that level, and I also let him ride my mammoth to some quest mobs and fragged them for him. He was fascinated by the locales and seemed excited about going to Hillsbrad foothills at level 20 - he'd been playing those missions in Warcraft 2 just earlier. I'll try and set up an interview with him - if you have any questions you want me to ask, try and post them in the comments section.
On a unrelated noob post, the mage 4T8 bonus is ridicolously fun. Even two in a row is great, three makes me giddy and at six I had to change my pants.
Turns out he is level 17 (or was, when I left him last night) and had run out of quests to do on his own. We discussed macromaking and how to handle multiple mobs (with targeting, focus and stuff), and it looks like the little bastard is turning into quite a competent warlock. I knew I should have tricked him into some other class...
We still discussed some nuances of the game but he seemed to have gotten a pretty good grasp of what he can grasp at that level, and I also let him ride my mammoth to some quest mobs and fragged them for him. He was fascinated by the locales and seemed excited about going to Hillsbrad foothills at level 20 - he'd been playing those missions in Warcraft 2 just earlier. I'll try and set up an interview with him - if you have any questions you want me to ask, try and post them in the comments section.
On a unrelated noob post, the mage 4T8 bonus is ridicolously fun. Even two in a row is great, three makes me giddy and at six I had to change my pants.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Project Noob - The patching
The poor bastard had to patch for about one and a half hour. His first race choices were blood elf, night elf or forsaken. But, he kinda liked Sylvanas in The Frozen throne, and he seemed to like the DPS/DoT/Debuff approach to the playstyle of a warlock, and said "forsaken warlock perhaps?". I made some jokes about mages and warlocks being sworn enemies and stuff but that I'd told my brother to roll warlock over mage if he wanted a caster because I think the playstyle suits more people and it's a flexible, fairly easy class.
He said "rogue might be fun?" shortly after and I said I liked the playstyle so-so and explained the difference between mana and energy, and combo points/finishers, and compared them to assassins from Diablo 2.
Then he went on to say "what class does Forsaken fit as?" and I explained that their racials had pretty little impact on what class he chose (if you are a troll, by contrast, your racials benefit the classes that benefit from haste or ranged damage) but that they made good casters cause of the male undead offensive casting animation (which I really like).
After some naming (no dashes, no spaces etc) issues he eventually settled on a greek name for his female undead warlock. I met up with him almost as he emerged from the Deathknell crypt (I ran my druid from Crossroads when he started making his character) and we set up some chat for him (a party tab) and made sure he got some basics down - right clicking initiates melee combat which is kinda inefficient if you are a caster, but pressing 2 tosses a shadow bolt that deals a lot more damage. Using WASD for movement lets you access your number buttons a lot easier than using the arrow keys (seems to be a prelevalent noob mistake) and when he was level 2 we managed to get him an imp. I taught him some basics about threat after he heard my quite audible Omen threat warning over Skype, and demonstrated the diffence in damage threat and taunts by use of Growl. He tried making sense of the skill/talent system by referring to Diablo 2 and I think he's got a grasp of how trainers got into the mix. Kinda tricky to explain "specs" with the talent trees not visible but I compared him to a necromancer in Diablo 2 and I think he got it. His mic was also kinda useless so I couldn't hear what he said half the time, but he does own a proper headset so that'll hopefully change.
He got ready for a party, thanked me for the crash course and we agreed on playing sumoar sum other day. A good start, if I may say so myself.
He said "rogue might be fun?" shortly after and I said I liked the playstyle so-so and explained the difference between mana and energy, and combo points/finishers, and compared them to assassins from Diablo 2.
Then he went on to say "what class does Forsaken fit as?" and I explained that their racials had pretty little impact on what class he chose (if you are a troll, by contrast, your racials benefit the classes that benefit from haste or ranged damage) but that they made good casters cause of the male undead offensive casting animation (which I really like).
After some naming (no dashes, no spaces etc) issues he eventually settled on a greek name for his female undead warlock. I met up with him almost as he emerged from the Deathknell crypt (I ran my druid from Crossroads when he started making his character) and we set up some chat for him (a party tab) and made sure he got some basics down - right clicking initiates melee combat which is kinda inefficient if you are a caster, but pressing 2 tosses a shadow bolt that deals a lot more damage. Using WASD for movement lets you access your number buttons a lot easier than using the arrow keys (seems to be a prelevalent noob mistake) and when he was level 2 we managed to get him an imp. I taught him some basics about threat after he heard my quite audible Omen threat warning over Skype, and demonstrated the diffence in damage threat and taunts by use of Growl. He tried making sense of the skill/talent system by referring to Diablo 2 and I think he's got a grasp of how trainers got into the mix. Kinda tricky to explain "specs" with the talent trees not visible but I compared him to a necromancer in Diablo 2 and I think he got it. His mic was also kinda useless so I couldn't hear what he said half the time, but he does own a proper headset so that'll hopefully change.
He got ready for a party, thanked me for the crash course and we agreed on playing sumoar sum other day. A good start, if I may say so myself.
Project Noob - The beginning
Subject aquired - a male somewhere between 20 and 30 who wishes to be anonymous. Subject is an avid gamer of all sorts and well versed in the Warcraft universe (although claims to get the stories from the different games mixed up), but has never played a MMORPG before, due to "Not trusting myself to handle it". After reassuring him that WoW actually is kinda boring and can feel like work after a while, and the lore:y parts that would fascinate him doesn't stretch that far into the game (the TBC and WotLK parts are far in his future, and those are the "loose ends" from WC3 that he'd be interested in looking into), he started downloading the client.
Updates will follow, along with some in-depth looks at his first thoughts.
Updates will follow, along with some in-depth looks at his first thoughts.
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