Questing, absolutely no question for me. I'd rather follow questlines for a good story than kill the same mobs over and over again. If I want social, I'll grab a guildie and go do quests with him.
So far this thread has proven a simple thing, really, and that questing is one of the big reasons to WoW's success.
Let's look at it this way, every game up until WoW had camping as the primary source of XP. FFXI is the biggest offender, requiring a perfect group just to get 5%, while games like EQ and DAoC required grinding as your primary source of exp income to come repatitve killing.
It seems instant gratification is the key source of enjoyment for a lot of WoW players.
I love the comments, keep 'em coming.
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I wouldn't call questing instant gratification as it's hardly that. In fact, as you noted, it's a form of grinding...that's interesting and has goals.
Grinding has to be the most boring, unimaginative form of gameplay I can think of. At least quests give you something to work towards and the chain ones can be a lot of fun.
I wouldn't call questing instant gratification as it's hardly that. In fact, as you noted, it's a form of grinding...that's interesting and has goals.
Exactly. Lots of the low level quests, especially the fedex ones before you get mounts and flight points can take a lot longer to do then simply killing stuff. But at least you have a reason to run from Westfall to Redridge. Why are you standing in a field killing spiders all day? Arachnaphobia?
It just seems that quests give you a reason and purpose for what you are doing other than a need to level up. Sure you can roleplay a totaly evil character that enjoys killing for the sake of killing, but rats and spiders? Really? Sort of low on the serial killer scale I would think.
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Why are you standing in a field killing spiders all day? Arachnaphobia?
Ohhh, thats something that I'd like to see Blizzard do sometime, and add titles like EQII has like Slayer or Destroyer of <insert type of enemy here>!
I mean seriously...the population of Murlocks would become quite scarce for awhile as players of all seasons destroyed them left and right to get the Slaughterer of Murlocks title, which of course should take like 100k kills...hehe
Oh, I used to love going camping. A sleeping bag in a tent, a nice campfire with some marshmellows and a crisp autumn eveneing. Ah, yes. Wait. Thats not what we are talking about? What kind of joke is this? Ok, fine.
I am a quester (that isn't a word, well not yet anyway) not a camper. I enjoy questing more than instances or anything else in Wow. Sure, I despise some individual quests, but overall I would much rather "go here and do this then go there and do that" than park myself in Area X and just mindlessly pound on stuff that pops up. I have done my share of grinding but I usually had some sort of goal in mind (aquiring cloth, ears, or whatever) when doing it. I love turning in a handful of quests and see my exp bar shoot up.
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