Everyone should play WoW the way they enjoy it the most. This principle applies not only to the content, but also to the players. Because WoW is only really fun when you’re in the right group. In his column, Philipp explains why even times without new content can be fun with the right players.
Although WoW is a so-called MMORPG, i.e. a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, many people tend to play alone. Thanks to dungeon and raid finders and a lot of solo content, this is easily possible nowadays. But should that really be the goal? Because in our opinion, WoW is only really fun when you’ve found the right teammates.
WoW: Playing together is better
Of course, you can play WoW for weeks and experience everything in Azeroth without exchanging a single word with anyone. But under the virtual sun, the same applies as in real life – shared happiness is double happiness. Epic boss kills or close arena battle victories feel twice as good when you have someone to share the happiness with. However, if you don’t have friends in real life who want to join you in the battle for Azeroth, you might have trouble finding suitable teammates. That’s because, just like in the rest of the world, things are becoming more and more impersonal in Azeroth.
WoW: Finding the right teammates
In order to find suitable teammates who might even become friends at some point, you have to be clear about who you are actually looking for. Here we come back to the starting point – “Everyone should play WoW the way they enjoy it most.” If you get your kicks from challenging content like high-level dungeons or mythic raids, then you have little to do with the after-work guild that does world quests together twice a week and occasionally sets foot in normal raid mode. The same is true the other way around, of course. If you know exactly what kind of community you’re looking for, then all you have to do is find it. There are all kinds of treasuries for that. Depending on what you are looking for, there are different sources besides the official forum. Success-oriented players usually use sites like wowprogress or raider.io in their search, and social networks are also becoming more and more popular. In various WoW groups on Facebook and the like, players and guilds are always on the lookout for suitable comrades-in-arms.
WoW: Staying honest
Once you’ve found a community that might be a good fit for you, it’s important to be honest. You’re not negotiating a better salary or the price of that new car – you’re looking for a new WoW home. If you try to smear the other person in the face to appear in a better light, you end up shooting yourself in the foot. After all, you should feel comfortable and not constantly pretend just to be accepted somehow. Don’t be put off if you don’t find the right community right away. For every player pot there is a guild shell among the millions of WoW players.
WoW: Players become friends
Once you have found the right group for you, simple fellow players will quickly become friends who will grow close to your heart. The range is very wide. In more than 13 years of WoW, I’ve personally experienced just about everything. While some have been happily playing together for over a decade and chatting for hours on TS, others have become such good friends that they see each other regularly outside of Azeroth. Shared holidays, delicious food and lots of colorful drinks included. I’ve seen teammates fall in love and even get married. Of course, there’s always some drama when teammates are no longer just nameless henchmen, but friends.
WoW: Why am I telling you this?
you’re probably asking yourself now. I’m often asked why I still play WoW tens of times a week after so many years, when there are much better games out there now. Granted, objectively speaking, there are indeed games that look better than WoW, are more fun, and have much more to offer. But those games don’t come with friends like I’ve found in WoW over the last decade. Because the right teammates make up for many a botch a game commits. 13 months of Hellfire Citadel? With the right community, it’s still as fun on the last day as it was on the first ID. Doing world quests for four hours straight? No problem if you can do it with your friends. I doubt very much that there will ever be another game that connects players across as many borders and creates friendships as WoW has managed to do. Because without this game, I wouldn’t have had the best colleagues in the world and the greatest boss ever, nor would I have ever met some of the people I consider my best friends today. With that in mind, I wish every single WoW player out there that they find the right community for them, if they haven’t already.
What is WoW Classic?
World of Warcraft Classic is a true recreation of the original WoW as you know it from 2006. All parts of the game – from combat mechanics and talent trees to character models and zones – have been recreated, contributing to the authentic experience.
Getting Started
All players with an active World of Warcraft subscription or game time on their accounts have access toWoW Classic at no additional cost.
- Open the Blizzard Battle.net Desktop App and select World of Warcraft from the menu.
- Select World of Warcraft Classic from the Version menu. If you have more than one World of Warcraft account, you’ll see a second Account drop-down list. In this column, select the active account you want to play with.
- Click the Install button. The progress bar will tell you when your game is ready to play.
- Click the Play button when the installation is complete.
You will need to select the realm you want to play on from several different realm types. Make sure you choose the same realm as your friends – in World of Warcraft Classic, you can only group with characters that are on the same realm as you!
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