# Thinking of getting World of Warcraft... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414 "2007-05-02T03:22:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sofaspud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@Sofaspud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofaspud)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414/21 "2007-05-03T21:27:19Z")
[QUOTE=Licentious Ectomorph] May I sugges City of Heroes? [/quote] Heh. As someone who just gave up WoW and turned to City of Heroes instead, I was just thinking to myself, “Why has nobody suggested CoH yet?” 🙂 So, uh, seconded! > [@](#): > > If teaming is what you’re looking for, the Virtue server has the biggest population of intelligent, friendly, mature players, including a super-group called CECIL (Cecil’s Extraordinary Counter-Ignorance League), composed almost entirely (if not exclusively, I’m not sure) of Dopers. Well hot damn! That’s _my_ server! I’ll have to look one of y’all up in game, sounds like. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414/22 "2007-05-04T10:19:09Z")
I’m primarially a solo player for WoW. I’m not sure what I’ll do when my main character hits 70 - maybe work on my professions, then grind for gold to help my alt characters. Or maybe I’ll learn to love raids. I’ve played for 6 hours at a stretch, and for 1/2 an hour. I don’t find it “taking over” my life, and I have no problem packing it up for a day or week if I need to or if something else interesting is going on. I can play solo or in a group as the mood strikes me. Sometimes I just explore instead of fighting. I’ve learned to be a little more picky about what quests I take on, because you don’t have to do everything and in fact there are so many you can’t do everything. I got talked into a PvP server as a beginner (because I didn’t know better) and agree it’s probably not a wonderful choice for starting out for most people. Particuarly from level 30-40 it can be hellish. On the other hand, some people really get into the PvP aspect. I think one of WoW’s assets is that it is flexible - you can PvP or not, you can get onto a role-playing server or not, you can concentrate on solo play or group play… They have “world events”, some monthly “holidays” and some special events. It’s not perfect - you can get slow response when a lot of people are on a server, there are occassional glitches, and so forth, but you can say the same thing about this message board, can’t you? I try not to take that sort of thing too seriously, I mean, it’s a _game_. There are juvenile idiots, but there is also an “ignore” feature as well. ---
**Author:** ![Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@Licentious\_Ectomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Licentious_Ectomorph)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414/23 "2007-05-04T12:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sofaspud] Well hot damn! That’s _my_ server! I’ll have to look one of y’all up in game, sounds like. 🙂 [/QUOTE] My current main character is Astromaster, and my global handle is @Nordic. Friend me and say hi (though I probably won’t be on much until after Monday). I don’t think I have inviting privileges yet, but chances are there will be someone from the super group online who does. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac4](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brainiac4/32/3534_2.png) [@Brainiac4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac4)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414/24 "2007-05-04T15:16:43Z")
Thirding the recommendation for City of Heroes (or Villains, if you want to be a bad boy/girl). I’ve been playing CoH since release 3 years ago, and WoW for just a couple of months. I have not experienced the higher-level WoW content (highest character is 31), so I can’t speak to that, but I find myself frustrated with the slow speed of the game. I’m used to CoH, where I can super-speed or fly (or teleport or superjump) from one end of the city to the other in a matter of minutes. The UI in general, while highly customizable, still feels like I am driving a truck instead of the sportscar that is CoH. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thinking-of-getting-world-of-warcraft/402414.md?page=1)