So you are interested in playing. Perhaps you have even started it up and logged in. You may find yourself suffering one of two things; Overwhelmed at the sheer blinding amount of content, stuff and things to be doing or needing doing. Or Underwhelmed having expected all of that all at once and logged in to find a blank toon and a sleepy starter area. Neither is incorrect and after having recently has a friend join this game for the first time I realised how blinding the experience might be as this game is so old now it has a –decade- of content heaped on there to wade through. So in an attempt to shine a light and offer some guidance to those folk, purely from a game-play stance here is my version of a Quickstart Guide

 

Beyond Basics is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of roleplay beyond the basics of character creation within an MMO setting. For our purposes, this setting is World of Warcraft but it can be useful in others too. This series will look at things like plots, storylines, and conversations. As well as the world and community around you as a player in an MMO. Explaining how you can best make use of that; and how it might differ from roleplay on tabletop games for example. You can find the rest of the series here: Beyond Basics Series Index [Read more…]