(Am I responding too much in this thread? On the one hand, I want to keep the conversation going, as it's a topic I care about. On the other hand, I don't want to dominate the conversation any more than I want to dominate my friends' play experiences.)
Originally Posted by Vectivus
If, on the one hand, your 'goal' is to get your friends to level 70 so you can enjoy end-game content, PvP, Arenas, etc. together, then whatever helps them level ought to constitute 'help'.
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That certainly ain't it. Most of them have absolutely no interest in either raiding or PvP. These are not in general hardcore players and they never want to be. When they hit the level cap, I want to give them the
opportunity to raid, but I won't pressure them into it. (So far, one person besides myself has made that transition.) My own raiding has been adequately covered by guild alliances, and I have little to no interest in PvP/arenas myself.
(Keep in mind that we're on an RP server. Many of us are much more motivated by storyline than we are by "phat lewtz". Blackrock Depths is not
inherently any more fun than Blackfathom Depths.)
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Unless your friends are all brand-new to the game, you're not 'depriving' them of the experience of Sunken Temple and Blackrock Depths; and, even if they are new to the game, is your goal for them to be forced to push through the game without any external influences whatsoever?
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When I talk about the guildmate with the 54th level paladin, that's his highest level character ever. He's never done LBRS yet. No, really! We have a 60th level priest who I believe has never set foot inside Stratholme. Heck, I myself have never done Razorfen Downs properly yet!
There's "without any external influences", and there's "complete domination resulting in the trivialization of their experience", there's "complete absence of an environment in which they can learn how to contribute to the team", there's "never knowing what it's like to play without a safety net".
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If, on the other hand, your goal is just to get everybody together and play the game, as mentioned earlier in the thread, what's stopping you from rolling an alt to play with them?
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Again, tried it multiple times. If it's just one character, I can do it, but it's a lot more work than it ought to be. But it's not just one character. They don't stay in sync with
each other, and if I ask them to put in that same kind of work, they either solo or quit!