WoWing together.
November 2nd, 2008 | by TJ |So. WoW with your significant other. Great idea, excellent way to spend some time or something else?
Sure, it starts out just fine.
“What class do you want to play?”
“I don’t know, what do you want to play?”
“Server?”
“Oh, I don’t care, you go ahead and choose.”
The first 10 or so levels, excellent.
“Which quest next?”
“Well, if we do this one, we’ll be right near that other one, and get two done at once.”
“Ooh, good idea.
“Wow, that was like 5 mobs at once.”
“We are awesome at this.”
“Yeah, we’re totally the kings of this game.”
Then you start to venture out further and further.
“Ok, let’s hearth back to that inn.”
“Is that where your hearth is set?”
“Yeah, isn’t yours?”
“Noooo…
By Awlbiste on Nov 2, 2008
I speak from several years of experience. BAD IDEA! It seems all butterflies and cupcakes but in reality it’s WHY-DID-YOU-LET-ME-DIE and NO-I-CAN’T-TANK-THAT-INSTANCE-YET. Just say no.
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By Nick on Nov 3, 2008
If I could get my wife to have a HOBBY at all, let alone play an MMO with me I’d be a happy camper.
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By BlueTiger on Nov 3, 2008
I’d have to join with the Bad Idea! I do a lot of gaming with my two friends that are also a couple. I spend a lot of time repeating their comments so that they both know what they are doing. Despite that, our shammies are 32 and counting :)
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By Chaninn on Nov 3, 2008
I WoW with my husband all the time. The key is to NOT do everything together all the time. We only party up for the harder quests and instances. oh, and to enchant/buff/trade stuff back and forth. It works for us. ;)
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By Lagrath on Nov 3, 2008
The only real problem my girlfriend and I have run into is that I’ve played more of the game, and so I don’t always let her find things for herself. Currently, we run around as either a Gnome Warrior (her) and a Dwarf Hunter (me) or a Blood Elf Priest (her) and a Tauren Shaman (me). We’re working on the Hordies to try and get her a lvl 55 to create a Death Knight with, and then my Shaman will play with the GK, and the Priest will start Soloing.
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By Sephran on Nov 3, 2008
I play WoW with a couple. They are married. They do everything together. But they do seperate things on nights they want some “alone time” but all the time they are together since they live together…
As long as you dont roll 2 classes that will roll on the same gear. Or the same role. You should have a great time.
BUT you need to have good communication. They are constantly talking back and forth.
I think gaming is great for couples. Just learn eachothers boundaries and communicate well.
Doing things in the game for your significant other is cheap but would mean just as much as a real item sometimes.
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By Doomilias on Nov 3, 2008
i was on the other end of the line when that happened…
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By Tiff on Nov 3, 2008
My husband and I WoW together. We’re in the same raiding guild. We raid together quite a bit, we hook each other up with consumables, we team up on hard goals when needed, we run instances together, etc. I’m a holy priest and he’s a warlock, so our characters complement each other well, and I frequently need a quick assist when out soloing. We do not do all our playtime together, or feel any obligation about that.
It has worked out pretty well- early on, we had to have a talk about how completely unacceptable it is to YELL IN THE HOUSE ABOUT WOW at each other, but it has mostly been a source of fun for us, rather than of tension. Even when we’re both rolling on the same drop, we only JOKE about who has to spend the night on the couch…
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By Bellwether on Nov 3, 2008
I WoW with my boyfriend. We have two litte undeads we play together (warrior and priest). We were also in the same raiding guild for the longest time, we do instances, questing, achievements…if we’re home and both on WoW, we’re playing together. Yeah, I’ve done stupid things that ended in him/the entire raid wiping, and so has he, and so has lag and disconnections and miscommunications. Most of the time we remember it’s just a game, we’re there to have fun, shit happens. Occasionally there’s some irritation, but we work it out. /shrug
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By Prof. teh Khol Abides on Nov 3, 2008
Great source of stories to tell the grandkids.
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By Dulcea on Nov 3, 2008
The real question is…is he new to hunter’ing or new to wow in general? >.> And do you dare turn BRK loose on him? *grin*
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By Softi on Nov 4, 2008
Hehehe awesome story there :)
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By Canth on Nov 5, 2008
I WoW with the wife. She has 3 70′s and 2 60+ chars on her own (I have 1) and we duo’d a prot war/holy pally team.
Did everything together. Every. Single. Quest.
It worked out okay. But I can see how in the early stages it can be shaky. when you change hearth often, and train often.
Once you get to 20+, it’ll go smoother. Also, don’t *just* duo together.. also play alts for your own sanity.
We’re finally level 70 (as of 3 weeks ago) and running some instances to get gear for going into the xpac. Though everytime we both do an instance, only pally plate drops. So I’m very well geared in blues with a bunch of purples, while she’s still in greens. Level 70 is where you’ll find trouble in duo-ing too ;)
But if you can get along, doing that is something nice that can work out ok.
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By Jezrael on Nov 6, 2008
I play with my partner all the time, we are in the same raiding guild and like others here tell we do stuff together, we do stuff apart. I think that since we started out playing together and were therefore noobs at the same time this worked out well. It gets trickier when one of you is more knowledgeable or a gap occurs in your levels – which did happen to us when I took a several month break from playing back in the day. When I started playing again I was level 45ish on my hunter and he was just reaching 60 on his second toon – a lock. His first toon was a druid which is who I levelled with. When I started again I was always asking him to come quest with me and help me do stuff but he was too busy running Scholo and Strat *sniffle*. However, it did teach me how to solo well (I play a hunter after all!) and I was happy to go find other people to group with. I do still joke about how his evil lock stole Jez’s true druidic love Broichan hehe.
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By Asara on Nov 11, 2008
Yes I know this comment is late. I have been ignoring my feed reader in hope that it would just clear itself out, but it won’t. So I am commenting on random posts within it as I trudge vainly through 1000+ posts.
So.
I WoW with my hubby a lot. My main is a hunter, his is a warlock, and we get along very well. Also I have a pally tank, and he has a tree druid, which is another good combo. We had some fits and starts with our horde team, mine a mage, his a priest, but that seems to have worked itself out now that he is shadow. He got tired of just shielding me all the time and things being half dead before he did any damage to them.
It can take some work to find things that mesh well as a team.
And it really does help to have alts that you can play when you’re not playing “together”. You can stay in a group with the other person, but do your own thing. Good luck! :D
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