LMAO
1. I have my characters' names reserved. I'll have a couple of more to make and then a bunch of runs to town for the "first to be banking rested experience."
I have never had a bank alt. Characters are fine parked in town for decades between plays. For one thing, it's expensive to mail shit back and forth. So each character manages their own banking and big loots or things crafted that can be sold get sent to a character standing in town gaining rested experience. I'd frankly rather run to town on the character involved so that they get the money directly from anything auctioned anyway.
This was a tip given to me by one of the people who taught me to play. "Why have some low level alt taking up space and spending your gold 60-90 copper at a time selling shit and mailing shit back to you?" He figured it made more sense to have the character you're not playing right now hanging out in town.
2. I know about the Legacy system, how important crafting is and that I'll need 120 gold for mount and training or Exalted Reputation if I want to save money to learn how to ride. I don't need to be told how to get either of these things achieved. The first one will suck and then by virtue of them being ahead, the others will be a little less painful.
The INSANE number of "10 THINGS YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU DIDN'T DO" and "MY FIRST 3 FISHING TIPS" and "DON'T MAKE THESE 18 MISTAKES ON LAUNCH" and "SHIT I'M TOO OLD FOR IN FOREVER" videos and Instagram posts are actually a little worrisome.
3. PvP happens in battlegrounds by entering with the knowledge that there are pre-defined rules. It also happens when you go anywhere your faction isn't supposed to go. I'm not being denied. Faction exists in a game with WAR as the first part of the name. Challenge accepted. *salute*
4. I choose my professions based on class/specialization benefits or alt army needs. I rarely craft my own gear or weapons and I never buy them.
Both factions will need a tailor. That's what I know for sure. "Need" may also include an enchanter as finding wands for casters SUCKS even in Retail/Live. Alchemy is always useful, though you can usually find someone to trade you herbs + vials + extra pieces and a little extra in exchange for crafting you what you need by just asking in /Trade. Same with things that give you buffs on armor etc... Familiarity with the crafting supplies and how to look them up will give you more in a massively multiplayer game than leveling the profession itself, IMO.
5. I earn money and spend very little if I don't have to. I know there are experience gain buffs if you cook and eat your own food, that's great if what I need for that food is clear and where I'm currently playing. If not, I can go without until I find something new. I'm certainly NOT going to go to the AH to BUY the meat/fish/herbalism extras for a +2% higher experience gain, the benefit of which was lost making the trek and spending the gold.
See, if you play smart, don't buy everything all the time and instead just wander, farm and play the game you will have most of the money you need when you get to your big landmarks. If you gamble on an unsettled economy, some guide from YouTube or a link on Instagram or the advice of influencers and twitch gamers then you'll have only your slice of the income possible based directly on the size of their audience.
6. I'm a process specialist. Patterns and how-to stick in my head. I don't want or need someone else to path my actions. My actions and outcomes will naturally path my next journey through the same situations, places and spaces.
7. I'm one of the old timey gamers who HATES it when someone just pops a fucking group invite on you without asking first. ALL of these guides and videos stress the importance of groups but not the importance of communication or protocol or politeness. It's going to be a real pain in the ass playing for awhile with people who see you near a mob and presume you're there for it and don't read their own /party chat when you say, "If you're killing Goldtooth I need the quest shared," before they pull him.
8. The more packed the playing area the less likely I am to do the expected things in that area. I'm weird that way. I've regularly fished, skinned, mined... anything other than doing the quests when there are too many people jammed into a small area. I learned this IN CLASSIC where single tags were the rule.
See... you have 2 choices if you're going to do the kill quests in a game where only one person gets credit for the first hit... EITHER you race competitively with the determination of a ravenous predator and tag everything, whether you can kill it alone or can't... OR you spend hours trying to get a tag in against the group of predators. I prefer get the random respawns no one saw and keep getting other things I need in the meantime.
WoW makes the rules, we have to play in them. We DON'T have to become the players created by those rules. I prefer to let the asshats asshat and go away. See, I can be that asshat. I've been them. I don't enjoy it. I feel dirty and frustrated and anxious when I have to play that way. I yell at the screen and get so angry that my forehead hurts after just a little bit of time playing. So I don't let Blizzard decide what sort of player I'll be by setting up the environment.
9. I won't be skipping training for things I need just because I'll need more money in the game later because it's been decided that we need gold sinks in the economy of the game. For me the fantasy is based primarily in the class/specialization and faction of the given character. Part of that fantasy is earning the money needed to do the things that make playing that character a 3D experience. Sure I want to ride and not walk by the time I'm level 40. No, I don't give a single fuq if you got there first. I won't queue for a dungeon I can't get to, so my lack of riding skill by the time everyone said I should have had it doesn't mean anything to me OR them.
10. I'm not the sort of player to camp the flagstones of the local capital city, exchange location or other places where all of the hanging out just talking in /chat happens. Not in Rift, not in Classic and not in Retail/Live or Remix. If I've seen your name too much in those channels I immediately discredit what you say over time because you certainly can't have done all that much all that well if you also spend all of the time I'm playing sitting in town typing. I don't participate and often don't read. I let it scroll past me and watch for the color of text I'm interested in.
Wow that's a long list of crabby crap. Only I don't REALLY feel like it is. There's a real lot of who I am and testimony to how much I've done this up in that list.
Truth be told, I'm one of the nicest, weirdest players you'll ever run into in the wild. Quick to share a food, drink or some muscle where it's needed, always ready to help solve a mystery, even if it's not my own quest we're solving and fast to /emote or /say something funny or silly or kind. There's a lot worse than that out there, trust me. That's why 1,000 people are making 10,000 videos telling 7-8 MILLION PLAYERS how to play the game.
Less than 27 hours remain until login queues, people in Retail/Live complaining and YouTube/Twitch blowing up with videos of streams of people flooding the chat with Blizz hate and recriminations.
mmm... the good old days... I love the smell of sweaty asses, cool ranch doritos and mountain dew in the morning... The next few weeks are going to be hilarious to complain about later. LOL
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