I want to say up front I've got three strikes against me. I'm a newby who has never done a role playing game before, I'm color blind (yeah, unusual for a woman but it's there and it's the pits) and I don't see super well (astigmatism and genetics SUCK). Add all that together and throw in dark (cave, tunnel, dungeon, depressingly dark region, take your pick) and I struggle. I struggle to see the players, the terrain, the things I'm supposed to click . . . in the beginning the level of frustration was stratospheric. I've got good quality equipment, fast video card with lots of memory, good LCD monitor, good quiet/dark environment to play in . . . I'm doing what I can to improve my basic capabilities.
So I've been playing for a while . . . since March when I broke my wrist and had to put doing things aside for holding still and healing (life sucks like that sometimes) and I dove in and tried a bunch of things. I started a mage and was so bad at playing her the standing joke was she was totally pathetic and couldn't leave town because she would die if people breathed on her. Fortunately things have improved. I don't see any better but I am playing a bit better and dying a lot less often. I seem to favor hunters (I've got five but am pruning back) and I can keep them alive pretty reliably, an encouraging sign.
Now I have 10 alts in addition to the 70 hunter I have in Shadowmoon Valley. I have a 51 druid, a 47 mage, a 36 rogue and a 23 warlock. I deleted my much higher level warlock because she was a gnome and playing something that small with a big demon sidekick was really frustrating. I was forever fighting to see around the demon and in the heat of battle, there were no positives. In Wow the pets for hunters, mages and warlocks can't seem to keep their distance and have to act really co-dependent and stand right on top of the alt which I find extremely frustrating. I have glyph of proportion set for all my hunters so I can see around the darned pets.
Have I listed enough personal issues yet for you to be rolling your eyes? I know I am . . . and I'm talking about me.
So what I would like, the one thing that would tremendously (I should put that in all caps because I'm really serious about this) improve my playing experience is some sort of 3-D map of caves, dungeons and multi-layered playing areas.
I've got Frahny in Shadowmoon Valley which is dark. I've never played this region before which is the second negative (once I've played through it's like a golf course . . . you know what to expect). The third strike is the dungeon (okay, it's not a dungeon but it might as well be) of levels and dead end areas where we're supposed to find this guy AND his backpack and it's loaded full of things happy to kill my butt.
And here's my point.
I can stand on the surface and be where the NPC and his back pack are supposed to be located. We all know the NPC isn't there, but the POINTER says I'm there. The NPC isn't.
I've been all over in the dungeon looking for this clown and his backpack and have died in the attempt to find him. NO JOY.
It would be wonderful if there was a vertical indicator of some sort to say "you must go lower" or "you are too low" so the player knows to go up or down. A 3-D map would put many of us in alt, I am sure. And for newby players like me . . . it's almost a must. If I can't have that, can I at least have some sort of verbal guide to get me to where the target is? Please? While I still have SOME hair left?
So I've been playing for a while . . . since March when I broke my wrist and had to put doing things aside for holding still and healing (life sucks like that sometimes) and I dove in and tried a bunch of things. I started a mage and was so bad at playing her the standing joke was she was totally pathetic and couldn't leave town because she would die if people breathed on her. Fortunately things have improved. I don't see any better but I am playing a bit better and dying a lot less often. I seem to favor hunters (I've got five but am pruning back) and I can keep them alive pretty reliably, an encouraging sign.
Now I have 10 alts in addition to the 70 hunter I have in Shadowmoon Valley. I have a 51 druid, a 47 mage, a 36 rogue and a 23 warlock. I deleted my much higher level warlock because she was a gnome and playing something that small with a big demon sidekick was really frustrating. I was forever fighting to see around the demon and in the heat of battle, there were no positives. In Wow the pets for hunters, mages and warlocks can't seem to keep their distance and have to act really co-dependent and stand right on top of the alt which I find extremely frustrating. I have glyph of proportion set for all my hunters so I can see around the darned pets.
Have I listed enough personal issues yet for you to be rolling your eyes? I know I am . . . and I'm talking about me.
So what I would like, the one thing that would tremendously (I should put that in all caps because I'm really serious about this) improve my playing experience is some sort of 3-D map of caves, dungeons and multi-layered playing areas.
I've got Frahny in Shadowmoon Valley which is dark. I've never played this region before which is the second negative (once I've played through it's like a golf course . . . you know what to expect). The third strike is the dungeon (okay, it's not a dungeon but it might as well be) of levels and dead end areas where we're supposed to find this guy AND his backpack and it's loaded full of things happy to kill my butt.
And here's my point.
I can stand on the surface and be where the NPC and his back pack are supposed to be located. We all know the NPC isn't there, but the POINTER says I'm there. The NPC isn't.
I've been all over in the dungeon looking for this clown and his backpack and have died in the attempt to find him. NO JOY.
It would be wonderful if there was a vertical indicator of some sort to say "you must go lower" or "you are too low" so the player knows to go up or down. A 3-D map would put many of us in alt, I am sure. And for newby players like me . . . it's almost a must. If I can't have that, can I at least have some sort of verbal guide to get me to where the target is? Please? While I still have SOME hair left?
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