WoW questions.

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I’m sort of interested in WoW, but I wanted to know somethings before I might take the plunge.

  1. What is the battle system like? Is it active PSO, Everquet, and City of Heroes, or is it automatic like FF11?
  2. How important is partying? Is it like FF11 where you can’t do much without partying or can you do a fair amount on your own?
  3. Can you play for a little bit or do you need to play for hours to have any fun in the game?
  4. What happens when you die? Do you lose experience and levels like in FF11? Do you lose all your money? Is there some other sytem?
  5. How robust is the character creator? Also, does the look of your character change throughout the game (like FF11 and the armor)?
  6. How many characters can you create on an account? Do you have to pay for each one like FF11 or can your create multiple ones like CoH and PSO?

I might have more later, but those are some key I ones that I would like answered. Any help would be appreciated.

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  1. Think FFXI, but you use a LOT of skills. EVERY class is extremely skill-oriented. A warrior doesn’t sit there and use provoke every 30 seconds. Even warriors and rogues have their own versions of mana bars.

  2. You can very easily solo until the max level. HOWEVER, to do nearly all high-end content you have to have a party. (Best to have a good guild)

  3. You can play bits and pieces, of course it’s going to be a lot slower than playing a long time, but you sure as hell can get on for 20-30 minutes a day and skill accomplish something.

  4. When you die, you lose 10% of durability on all equipped items, which costs a bit. Nothing really noticable until you’ve got all rare/epic gear though.

  5. Err, I thought the character creator was good. Definitely better than RO or FFXI. I don’t know about CoH, I heard that had a really good creator thing. And nearly every piece of armor will show up on your character: Head, shoulders, chest, back, shirt, guild tabard, bracers, gloves, belt, pants, feet, both hands whether it be a weapon or a shield or an offhand orb or something, and your ranged. The items that don’t show up are your neck, rings, and trinkets.

  6. You can have 8 characters on every servers in the game if you want. Pretty sure there are like over 50 servers… I dont think you’ll make that many characters.

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Actually it’s 10 per server. And character generation is decent better than FF but nothing near like CoH.

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The CoH character creator was greatly overhyped. Yes, millions of different combinations. Though that just means different colours and different textures for the most part.

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Not really, there are a lot of different outfits you can have. Even if it was overhypped, it is still way beyond what other games have.

Good to hear so far about WoW. Anything more anyone wants to add?

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Hell yeah, it’s way beyond what most games have. It’s nowhere near as great as they made it sound, though. I was sorely dissapointed with the real lack of options, as opposed to blue stripes or yellow triangles?