My wife is newbie - Blue Tracker

#0 - April 23, 2010, 8:14 p.m.

Hi all.
My wife want to start playing wow.
Cheers! but she is not the most skilled women in videogames, she never played anything complex as wow so.
I want to roll her a friendly / easy DPS toon, something she can do "decent" or just not pathetic DPS
I know warlocks hasnt the easiest rotation.
I have a priest and shadow is a shadow word: pain :-P
My paly is holy so I donÂ´t know nothing about DPS.
A friend says moonkin are not so hard.
What do you think she should play?
THX!

Nethaera

#50 - April 23, 2010, 9:04 p.m.

I'd like to suggest letting her pick the one that interests her most rather than attempting to assign her the "easy" one. She'll do much better if she feels she connects with her choice and if that one doesn't work, let her try another one. She may surprise you in the end.

Other than that, I'd say take it one step at a time. Don't tell her about raiding or grouping when she's just trying to learn how to do a gathering quest or a kill quest. She'll get to that when it's time.

Good luck to you!

Bashiok

#68 - April 23, 2010, 9:25 p.m.

I've found that generally the biggest challenge when teaching anyone that isn't used to playing modern 3D games is generally control and camera use. So take the time early on to present all of the options and ensure the basic control fundamentals are set before even approaching anything as simple as combat.

The game can be played purely with the mouse holding down both mouse buttons to move forward, sometimes WASD is preferred over the arrow keys, sometimes not, make the option of move-to-click known as it may be more natural to them. There are a lot of options and different ways to play. Usually we want to impose what we consider as the "right" way to play, but they're not going to jump in to end-game raiding any time soon. Making all of the options known can hep them choose one most comfortable to them and get into the actual game that much easier and quicker.

Q u o t e:
having your wife/gf play is horrible.
think about it

first she will play on your account and when you wanna play but you cant kick her out
2nd: she will know exactly how much you play
3rd: you will have NOWHERE to seek refuge from your relationship
4th: she'll know why youre late to pick her up
5th if you skip work school she will know you did it to play WoW.

Totally! Being honest with your significant other and able to enjoy not just the activities you share but those that you enjoy separately IS A NIIIIIGHTMAAAAAARE!
Never do anything to let them know how neglectful and emotionally unavailable you are. It can cause nothing but trouble... .. :|