Breakfast Topic: What would you do differently?
by Dan O'Halloran 
Jan 21st 2008 at 8:00AM
Galo of the Ardent Defender blog has responded to a recent blogger meme, asking the question what would you do different in WoW if you got to start all over again? Same character, same server, same friends, same guild, same adventures. But now you have special knowledge of your game playing career to avoid the pitfalls.For Galo, the answer is to be smarter about making money. Taking two gathering professions, buy bigger bags as soon as possible and focus on getting an epic flying mount to gather even faster. I think he may have some cash flow regrets.
If I had to do it all over again, I would probably have not changed tradeskill professions 4 times. I also would have started tanking sooner as a feral Druid than before. I wasn't a fan of tanking, but got asked to do it as a Druid. Now I enjoy it greatly. And I would have used voice chat more often. Things go a lot smoother on voice, even for the times that I can only listen (playing the game is one thing, being on the "phone" at the same time is another with the significant other.)
What about you? What would you do different if you knew what you know now.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Breakfast Topics, Leveling, Making money
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
Unundead Jan 21st 2008 8:09AM
I would not have played at all. Too much time wasted.
Kikr Jan 21st 2008 9:23AM
: / I wish the same thing...
Rich Jan 21st 2008 12:18PM
Same here...
Theserene Jan 21st 2008 8:18AM
I would have picked up a warlock first, not a warrior, as it took me a long time to realise that I am not suited to melee classes.
And I would have spent longer without a guild. With my original character I ended up in the first guild that was looking for members, which was full of drama and 'rules' that changed daily depending on who the GL was best friends with that week. I went through a lot of the guild meeting, breaking up, reforming under another name, merging, breaking up again...
...all of which totally ate into my game time and accomplished nothing.
Talpacc Jan 21st 2008 8:20AM
I wouldn't have wasted my time on two hunters and would have just rolled my lovely Warrior with the quickness.
Ulfr Jan 21st 2008 8:22AM
If I had it to do over again.
My hunter would be a Night Elf as the racial for Dwarf after the change was not so good. I PVP with him quite a bit, and being able to stealth (NE racial) would have been cooler,
My Lock would have been my first main character, It was a Palidan, then switched to a rogue. I love my lock now and wished I had him from the start.
cloudkiller Jan 21st 2008 8:26AM
I would not have rolled a mage. period. Hunter, druid, lock, rogue or warrior, anything really would have been better than the pvp nightmare that is a mage.
Nathanael Jan 21st 2008 8:26AM
As stupid as it sounds - I would have chosen a different character model. After ten months of looking at a gray-haired blood elf rogue with a headband and a twisted face, I cannot for the life of me remember why I picked that model. He's beet in his low 60s for a looong time, because I cannot get excited about the top end rogue gear either - swords look cool, but the T4 & 5 rogue sets to me look like absolute crap, and I'll probably never see T6.
So I rerolled a good-looking Lock, and I also have a Druid, IMO, the two most fun classes in the game.
I also now have a bank alt, which I should have done a long time ago, in addition to quest mods, like lightheaded, tomtom, and cartographer.
And finally, I would have grouped more.
ian Jan 21st 2008 8:29AM
....I wouldnt have been selling all those greens and blues to merchants with my first character.......
Septih Jan 21st 2008 8:36AM
I wouldn't have leveled from 0-60 with a shield and arms spec :P
Wraeth Jan 21st 2008 8:43AM
I'd have rolled a tauren for my prot warrior. Stupid +5% health racial :
Drink Jan 21st 2008 11:04AM
I wouldn't have alted so much. I took way to may level ~40 side quests while I had my main idling at 60-something. Also, if you have a rogue, you shouldn't be rolling another rogue on another server. I have around 4 rogues all level 30 on different servers. Pick a server and stick it out, even after your guild self destructs. There's always another guild there to pick up the pieces.
What's with all these thank god I'm a lock posts?
Aticus Jan 21st 2008 8:56AM
I would have speced Prot instead of Holy for leveling and everything in paragraph 2 lol. I wish I had taken mining and skining soooo bad...
-Aticus, http://www.paladintales.blogspot.com
Cilia Jan 21st 2008 9:29AM
Would have started a warrior or a priest instead of a Paladin.
Not waited so long to swap to my mage.
LostOne Jan 21st 2008 9:03AM
I'd have rolled horde. Alliance can't win a BG to save their lives on my battlegroup. In the time it's taken me to earn season 1 weapons for my rogue I probably could have a full season 1 set for a horde character.
And I wouldn't have bothered to pick a server just because my friends played on it, after I got my first 60 (pre-TBC) they all got disgruntled with the poor raiding situation on our server and ran off to different servers. So if I was going to try to play with all of my friends I'd be playing on 5 different servers. No thanks, I'll stick with the characters I've put hundreds of hours into.
LostOne Jan 21st 2008 9:05AM
I also wouldn't have taken any crafting professions. You can't level them to 375 without running instances for nethers or higher, and I don't have time for instances with a young child, wife who is full time work and part time college student, etc. I'm lucky to get a 30 minute battleground in each night these days. So leveling crafting professions was a big waste of time and money for me, because I hit a wall with each. Now my characters will all be gatherers only.
Rabbit Jan 21st 2008 9:07AM
I would stay put. Different groups of real life friends who play are always telling me about how great things are on their server or that their guild is the coolest. I always believe them and move over to their server with high hopes of finding the perfect game experience--only to be ridiculously disappointed--with a level 50-70 character marooned for three months and me rolling up a new character or picking up with one I forgot for a while. Never, never listen to friends when it comes to WoW. Unless your server is a complete asteroid, stay there, level, and you will find a group of people you enjoy at some point.
I might even take this one step further. I would almost say that you should just not play WoW with real life friends. Make WoW friends in-game.
Rydolomo Jan 21st 2008 9:21AM
I shouldn't have re-rolled a second lock on an Oceanic server to 60 just before Blizz made paid transfers possible.
I had another lock on a pvp server which I hated but when moving servers became possible I moved him to the same pve realm that my mage was on. So the second lock became redundant. (Before BC, I used to respec him and test different builds)
Rydolomo
Dave Jan 21st 2008 9:23AM
If i could start over again with what i know now? stick to one char and 1 server..
been playing for 6 months now and my highest is a lvl 42.. damn alts and damn severs..
so i'm sticking with my priest... hopefully :(
Jowbulla Jan 21st 2008 9:22AM
I would have gotten off my ass and progressed, instead of dawdling around with a series of people who decided not to play anymore. Wish I could have found my current guild(s) a couple of years ago.