WOW is about £8.99 a month.
One of our guildies is in exactly the same position as you Chef.
He spends 4-5 days a week away from home, on contract in Norfolk (He lives oop north somewhere).
So when he gets back to the hotel, and there's nothing else to do, he fires up the lappie and joins us online (we use voice chat as well).
He likes the fact that even though he's away, there is a virtual community with real people to chat to when he gets back to the hotel.
He's saved a packet not getting steamed every night in the room on his own (and done his health a world of good).
In WOW, you've got Alliance and Horde.
The Alliance (the good guys) are mostly populated by annoying twatty 13 year olds.
The Horde (the bad guys) are mostly populated by more mature players, 18+.
The ratio of Alliance to Horde is 3:1
This means that Alliance Players can have to wait longer than Horde players to get in to certain areas where both sides fight each other, because there is a ready supply of Alliance, but not as many Horde.
For the Horde it means they always get a battle with the Alliance pretty quickly.
There are several types of server, which affect your in-game experience.
There are PVP servers, which mean you are under constant attack most of the time. Not good for a new player to the game, as you will get hassled when you least want it.
There are PVE servers, where the focus is on questing and exploring, and you cannot get attacked most of the time unless you wish to.
There are RP servers, which are for hardcore roleplayers who talk "in character" most of the time.
Then there are RP-PVP, RP - PVE, PVE-PVP servers, etc..
We play on a standard PVE server.
Then there are guilds. Thousands of them. All in place for their guildies around
some common concept. Eg, Social Guild where members help each other, UK only guild, Guild of One Legged Female Lesbians, Guild of Gays, Guild of under 16's, Guild of X , Y , Z where XYZ can be any concept you like.
Picking the right guild is trial and error, or you can start your own.
We run our own guild, which has been going for over a year now on our Server. We're a Horde Social Guild but we also do high-game content that you need 25+ online to achieve at the same time (Raiding Guild).
Out of the 3500 Horde players on our server, 400 are in the top 10 guilds who are organised enough to achieve the higher level content. We're part of that and proud of it, it takes a lot of hard work to herd cats :-)
As for character, I'd recommend a Horde Character on a PVE realm to get you started.
It's great fun and for £8.99 a month (or less if you take the 3 monthly sub), it's a cheap form of entertainment with our buddies that we speak to every night (and met up with in Amsterdam earlier in the year for a European Guild Meet and a few drinks
)
Check it out !
One of our guildies is in exactly the same position as you Chef.
He spends 4-5 days a week away from home, on contract in Norfolk (He lives oop north somewhere).
So when he gets back to the hotel, and there's nothing else to do, he fires up the lappie and joins us online (we use voice chat as well).
He likes the fact that even though he's away, there is a virtual community with real people to chat to when he gets back to the hotel.
He's saved a packet not getting steamed every night in the room on his own (and done his health a world of good).
In WOW, you've got Alliance and Horde.
The Alliance (the good guys) are mostly populated by annoying twatty 13 year olds.
The Horde (the bad guys) are mostly populated by more mature players, 18+.
The ratio of Alliance to Horde is 3:1
This means that Alliance Players can have to wait longer than Horde players to get in to certain areas where both sides fight each other, because there is a ready supply of Alliance, but not as many Horde.
For the Horde it means they always get a battle with the Alliance pretty quickly.
There are several types of server, which affect your in-game experience.
There are PVP servers, which mean you are under constant attack most of the time. Not good for a new player to the game, as you will get hassled when you least want it.
There are PVE servers, where the focus is on questing and exploring, and you cannot get attacked most of the time unless you wish to.
There are RP servers, which are for hardcore roleplayers who talk "in character" most of the time.
Then there are RP-PVP, RP - PVE, PVE-PVP servers, etc..
We play on a standard PVE server.
Then there are guilds. Thousands of them. All in place for their guildies around
some common concept. Eg, Social Guild where members help each other, UK only guild, Guild of One Legged Female Lesbians, Guild of Gays, Guild of under 16's, Guild of X , Y , Z where XYZ can be any concept you like.
Picking the right guild is trial and error, or you can start your own.
We run our own guild, which has been going for over a year now on our Server. We're a Horde Social Guild but we also do high-game content that you need 25+ online to achieve at the same time (Raiding Guild).
Out of the 3500 Horde players on our server, 400 are in the top 10 guilds who are organised enough to achieve the higher level content. We're part of that and proud of it, it takes a lot of hard work to herd cats :-)
As for character, I'd recommend a Horde Character on a PVE realm to get you started.
It's great fun and for £8.99 a month (or less if you take the 3 monthly sub), it's a cheap form of entertainment with our buddies that we speak to every night (and met up with in Amsterdam earlier in the year for a European Guild Meet and a few drinks
)Check it out !
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