Welcome to WoW

[tinuviel]

I have met a lovely girl in my new course who has expressed interest in giving online games a try and every time I have talked about WoW she has said: "I'd love to try that!". Win! So, I was planning to give her the battle box for Christmas, together with an invite code for RAF and a little note with my server and character name :-3

Comments

[journey_goat]

I remember when I first started playing WoW back in the vanilla beta age, how I was figuring things out on my own and always felt so lost. The best thing you do for her to start is to just show her how the controls work and the menu options. Teach her how to attack effectively and use items to her best advantage. Give her lots of links to useful sites that will help further her understanding and for goodness sake make a list of all the WoW abbreviations and tell her what they mean. It would be super helpful to have a tag for that here too.

[edana_ni_emer]

I second the abbreviations. I *still* don't know what half those fucking things mean. X-D

[lorax]

Thirding that about the abbreviations and short hand. I'm only just now FINALLY realizing what ICC means, and the jargon was incredibly jarring at first, and still can be at times.

[arylkin]

That's really cool. I doubt she'll have many problems since she's playing with you and you can give her tips as you go along.

My husband and I were the newbliest of noobs when we started playing WoW. I remember we were in Gnomeragon and went through the instance portal and were like, "ACK! Why are we dying?!!?!" lol. We had a real hard time with abbreviations people use in WoW until I found some website that listed most of the WoW abbreviations. It's funny to think back at how fail we were when we first started playing.

[smcthegreat]

I got my wife into playing WoW a few years ago and she had zero knowledge of computer games and limited video game experience. I gave her the basics of movement, turned on the tooltip option that gave you more info, gave her some bags, gold and turned her loose with the knowledge that if she needed me, I would be there to help. But I stressed that half the fun of WoW is learning, making mistakes, absorbing the lore and world around you

[unlovablehands]

Advice to her

[rowanf]

I have been trying to get a friend into WoW and the "give time to read the quest text" is really good advice.

I have been playing so long it is hard to understand how hard, for instance, the IF map is to read. "How to I tell which are doorways?" There isn't really a way, you just have to know now that I look at it with fresh eyes!

Suggest that she play a class you can give reasonable advice about. My friend started out as a rogue, a class I hadn't played. Not, I think, a good class for learning on! I started a rogue so I could figure it out and I'm having fun because I understand about melee/ranged and stealthing in... but I steered my friend to a hunter so that with standing back and pew pewing they can get more situational awareness. They can play the rogue again if they want to later.

Be patient, even learning to "walk" is a new thing to a new gamer. My friend gets so frustrated about running into things. Teach them about autorun and follow.

Have fun!

[cygninae]

This. Very much so. Be patient. Don't whizz her through things that you want to show off, give her time to enjoy them herself too - don't coddle her. I found one of the most frustrating things was to be run through an instance, without letting me learn things.

[silly_walnut]

^ this

google helped me so much when i first started, so would having someone physically there showing me what button turned off growl

[arlequinn]

You can't climb over every mountain no matter how hard you try. I really don't know WHY I kept trying, but I did. And I fell and died a lot.

This is actually really sad.

Has anyone seen that episode of The Guild where that one woman's husband starts playing and kept swimming around trying to build muscle? I feel like maybe I was him. LOL

[bellonia]

hah. can't say I died but I def would go "y am I not goign over the mountain? :("

[butterbuns]

>.> I still try to do that sometimes.

But in all fairness I've only just hit Outland, so I don't know which ones are climable. Xd