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#1 Dec 11 2006 at 9:02 AM Rating: Decent
i'm getting up there in levels now, and so my next question as a former FF11 player, are we supposed to start looking for parties in the big cities i.e. Stormwind, Darnassus, Ironforge ect.

Sorry if its a stupid question, i've been reading people talking about parties and i'm a level 17 druid atm so i didn't know if people solo'd all the way to 60 on a regular basis or what.
#2 Dec 11 2006 at 9:06 AM Rating: Good
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nope, you can solo away in fact most times its better (efficient). You really only NEED to group for instances and some elite quests.

You should use the LFG tool or find out if your server has a global LFG channel, and use that.
#3 Dec 11 2006 at 9:36 AM Rating: Decent
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Its WOW's blessing/curse, not much player interaction. You're pretty much soloing till you feel like doing some of the instances, then you just use the instance flags to find like minded members of a pickup group.

The only people I know that were ever in 'parties' ala FFXI style were RL friends playing together.
#4 Dec 11 2006 at 9:39 AM Rating: Decent
k thx thats exactly what i needed to know ^^ now, the tool you guys were talking about, is that built in or to i need to download it as an Add-on?
#5 Dec 11 2006 at 9:54 AM Rating: Decent
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Its built in. Its on your toolbar, but I don't remember the specific name for it. Its got LFG (looking for Group) and a LFM (looking for more) sections. Just put in the instances you're looking for using the pulldown tabs.

To be honest, I missed the parties from FFXI. I always found all the stuff that went wrong highly entertaining. Since all my RL friends stopped playing WOW, when I do play I just do instances for the pick up parties. You still get good experience for doing them.
#6 Dec 11 2006 at 9:55 AM Rating: Good
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The LFG tool is built-in now, as of the last patch. It's the little green eye icon at the bottom, next to the main menu, where the map button used to be (I'm missing the map button something fierce, BTW >_< I always click first, and then think to push Alt+M after)

I personally enjoyed duoing to 60 with my husband on our night elf characters. The xp is a little less from killing monsters, but the quest xp comes faster, at earlier levels so it's higher, and with fewer deaths and headaches. It's not bad to party out in the open but when you get more than 2 or 3 people it's just overkill, and the slower people will have nothing to do because the mob will be dead by the time they get close enough.
#7 Dec 11 2006 at 10:15 AM Rating: Decent
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She brings up a good point. WOW normal creeps don't have enough hp to really support parties in the usual sense. If you do party, the focus usually switches to 'elites', which have a lot more HP, and give bigger xp rewards.

When I started playing I partied with two RL friends. One party was me (mage) friend 1 (priest) and the other party was me (druid) friend 2 (rogue). In both parties the mage and/or rogue would kill a normal creep before the second player could do much more than blink. But two people were a little too weak to handle elites very efficiently. When all three of us were together, we could in theory handle elites fairly well (mage, paladin, priest). Unfortunately the friend playing the priest had extremely slow reactions for some reason, so it usually ended badly. The paladin kept expecting the priest to heal him, instead of taking care of himself. But the priest had no real training in healing, since when he partied with my mage there was no point. Nothing ever lived long enough to do any real damage to me. My mage was just obscenely powerful.



#8 Dec 11 2006 at 10:41 AM Rating: Decent
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That's one thing I hate about WoW. No one groups outside of instances and if you do you're pretty much just making the game very easy. Enemies above you take forever to kill with all the glancing and Enemies = or below go down far too fast.

Personally, I group with friends. Soloing gets boring to me. Adding a second player to the equation can make things a whole lot more interesting.
My favorite Duo so far is Shaman and Druid. Totems and Leather gave me enough survivability to heal my Druid friend when we'd pull too many mobs while Windfury and my Corpsemaker gave me enough damage to tear them down at a very nice pace.
I can't wait for my Shamadin duo, that's gonna rock. :)
#9 Dec 11 2006 at 12:53 PM Rating: Good
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To be honest, I missed the parties from FFXI. I always found all the stuff that went wrong highly entertaining. Since all my RL friends stopped playing WOW, when I do play I just do instances for the pick up parties. You still get good experience for doing them.


I enjoyed the quircks as well, however after it happens for 4 hours straight in every party you ended up in ... then it got old ... and frustrating ... and you had no one to take it out on, except your poor moogle.
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