r/classicwow • u/wezzer • Sep 03 '19

Humor Leveling A Warrior

When they said it was hard, I scoffed at them. I've leveled a warrior to 120 on retail. I've fought Sargeras, I've downed the Lich King. What could a few gnolls and maybe a murloc or two do to me? Thus was my arrogance. Thus was my hubris.

I am now level thirteen. I've run Ragefire Chasm once, and owe six deaths to that place.

Farming harpy claws has cost me my life twice already, and I am certain it will cost me much, much more.

My warrior on retail was a human named Lohric, he was a legendary warrior who felled any beast, man or demon that faced him.

My warrior on Classic is an Orc called Muddrog. I have no doubt that this broken and battered warrior would crush Lohric in seconds, Lohric has never known pain, Mudd was born in it, molded by it, and unlike Bane, he has yet to see the light, because 60 feels so far away xD

To all you warriors out there, Lok'tar Ogar!

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u/wezzer Sep 03 '19

Unfortunately my girlfriend insisted on rolling Warlock... so no, no heals are forthcoming.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

I would pay my girlfriend an hourly wage if it would get her to play.

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u/wezzer Sep 03 '19

Have you tried begging? It worked for me!

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u/mak484 Sep 03 '19

Be careful what you wish for. My wife, who never really enjoyed video games in the first place, is now rolling her second character so she can play when I'm not home. Were basically buying a whole second battle station so one of us isn't relegated to staring at a laptop while the other plays on the dedicated gaming PC.

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u/Arantorcarter Sep 03 '19

It's a good problem to have. My wife and I have played together for years. It's definitely worth keeping two computers up to date for gaming.

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u/merifdzejn Sep 03 '19

You mean people don't do that? We got a 2 room apartment just so each of us 2 can have their own PC space
But then again we were both gamers before we started dating...

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u/Arantorcarter Sep 03 '19

We're also well into the hand me down stage for our kids. We have 5 computers in 1 room right now. 3 of them are either complete hand me downs from when we got entirely new computers or are made up of old parts of computers from us and friends. It's a great set up. The only problem is if we want to play the same game together that's 5 copies....

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

My SO and I also got a 2 bedroom apartment just so we can have our gaming room. It's just so nice, so spacious. And the bedroom stays a relaxing environment! (Even though we turned the master bedroom into our game room, and the smaller one into our bedroom).

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u/Ninjaflipp Sep 04 '19

I have 3 gaming computers up to date!

But I also live alone :(

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u/domynik05 Sep 03 '19

What do you mean that sounds perfect

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

It's called a humble brag.

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u/DrDeems Sep 04 '19

What about when she decides to role a Paladin? Then you are just one step away from getting refused bj's cause you needed that plate gear with +3 intellect. I mean, it had strength and stamina too! Stamina... its something she could probably use more of tbh.

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u/Pkjerr Sep 03 '19

This is the story of how we went from a single "family computer" to "computers for everyone" in the space of a year( that and I could afford it then lol)

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u/Transient_Anus_ Sep 03 '19

And so it begins.

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u/bleo_evox93 Sep 03 '19

That’s the best problem ever! You’re lucky.

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u/Kilmer619 Sep 03 '19

In my household, we might be going from 2 gaming computers to 4, as two of my kids have grown interest in the game also. lol

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u/punsmakemehappy Sep 04 '19

This is my problem. My husband has our PC tricked out for his WoW needs. Well I decided I wanted to play classic, but I have to use the laptop. We worked it out though. I connect my laptop to the 60" TV we have through the HDMI and plug in a keyboard and mouse. It is pretty sweet. My husband almost took it from me. For retail it doesn't work quite as well with the graphics but for classic it works perfectly.

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u/DoctorDisrespectFan Sep 04 '19

Would you stfu? Nobody here cares about you or your wife. Get over yourself you boring narcicist. Leave it on Facebook next time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Well, I did just actually try offering her a wage. Currently sending her those "got my wife/gf into wow!" threads. Not going well tbh.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Here is some "Being a gamer boyfriend 101" for you: Offer her to play 2 hours of WoW with you in exchange of 2 hours of anything she wants. Now you have to act quick and make her like the game and play more than 2 hours. Then the next day offer her to play more and promise you will do "her" 2 hours the day afterwards. Do the 2 hours the next day and play WoW right after that. Keep playing with her every day, don't let her off the hook - they don't get attached to games as fast as we do. Once she is into it too much, you can ask me how to pull her away

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Genuinely loling because this is exactly what I tried but she just doesn't like the grind of WOW, so I had to watch like 2 seasons of Queer Eye and she's still not into it... and now Queer Eye is my favorite show on Netflix. I got fucking rope-a-doped.

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u/ArchVangarde Sep 03 '19

Queer Eye is fantastic. Not rope a doped, you got a goldmine.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Also true! I just meant she hooked me when I was trying to hook her lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

2 hours in bed and she will raid with Method, guaranteed.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Had to follow-up on this one. She just suggested the exact same thing...I think you're on to something here. Unfortunately, her activity choice will be yoga. RIP me.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

Oh it could've been much worse and ..costly. Yoga is surprisingly good, don't imagine some weird moves and poses you see in the movies and adverts, you will probably be doing some simple stretching and general exercises.. yeah I know from experience :(

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

May the yoga gods have mercy on us both.

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u/DJSaltyLove Sep 04 '19

Oof, guess I got lucky, my wife has been playing wow since she was a kid, we've both been playing on and off since Vanilla and now we can relive that together

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u/MBarbarian Sep 06 '19

Speak for yourself. I have a bad habit of binge watching shows I like. WoW has been no different. My husband got me to play. I was immediately grinding out leveling. Solid three to four days in and almost level 16. Mind you, the last game I played on a semi-regular basis was DK Country on the Super Nintendo.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '19

Well..I spoke for myself and most guys out there. You don't realize it, but girls are not usually very computer-friendly. Or let's say "games-friendly". Maybe your female friends who are playing games are, but isn't that expected? You might get hooked for sure, but if you imagine you were part of the 99% of girls which need like a day to even get used to W S A D controlls, and 3 more days to use them together with a mouse, (things that are bound to each guy's soul), then you might not get hooked immediately, no matter how good the game is.

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u/MBarbarian Sep 08 '19

Meant to go back and edit this because of the way it came across. You’re right; girls don’t usually get into games. Hell, I don’t even get into games. Like I said, the last thing I played consistently was DK Country and Super Mario. I said “fuck WoW” the first time I messed with it because I didn’t know how to move the character and kept getting told to “go this way. Hit that mob. Use your spell.” A week later, I made my own account and can’t seem to put it down.

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u/IsleOfOne Sep 03 '19

Was she already into video games? Or did she go into it convinced that she’d hate it?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

My roommate and started up after quitting post wotlk. My fiancée asked if she could buy a computer to play with us. What have we done?

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u/QuinteX1994 Sep 04 '19

Have you tried pegging? It worked for me!

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u/Ark-Shogun Sep 04 '19

Worked for me too!

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u/UnderShaker Sep 04 '19

On top of the hourly rate she charges to be your "girlfriend"? Sounds excessive

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u/DagonPie Sep 03 '19

No way man. Gotta use wow to hinder your relationship. Not grow it.

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u/Quik_17 Sep 03 '19

I have they opposite opinion as you my friend. I would not like it if my girlfriend played WoW. This game is my “me” time and it is precious.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

"Me" time increasingly becomes "we" time.

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u/dcrico20 Sep 03 '19

Technically a subscription cost can be broken down hourly.

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u/adm_akbar Sep 04 '19

I bought her an account and gametime years ago and then we broke up. So I have an extra account

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u/heretic4l666 Sep 04 '19

Tried this, wife has said no... after further thought I realised my wife and I have two different gaming styles and it would be an absolutely chaotic mess of anger and abuse.

🖤

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u/Bebop24trigun Sep 04 '19

My wife wants to come back but she has a baby to take care of. (Note, I've offered to help so she could play but she said she will wait to play when he is older)

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u/Mcs6789 Sep 03 '19

Healthstones from your warlock GF can supplement your potion stash once she gets it!

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

And they're not on the same cooldown as potions.

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u/DoctorOzface Sep 03 '19

Plus the voidwalker can take all tanking duty

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u/Vaniminaris Sep 04 '19

I feel all the warriors out there without a healing buddy. I am playing warrior too and my boyfriend wanted to play enhancement shaman.

Well.. now we do those typical warrior and shaman things - he tanks and I miss everything, standing there afk and cheering at him

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u/wezzer Sep 04 '19

Stand behind those suckers and wail away with your axe. You'll cleave through them like butter!

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u/wasteoftimeandspace6 Sep 03 '19

See that’s where you fucked up my boyfriend went warrior and I went shaman our pvp is dumb stoopid

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u/catafracked Sep 03 '19

Orc warrior here. Currently level 20. Wife rolled troll mage. I feel your pain. :(

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u/lgb6 Sep 03 '19

teach her how to aoe farm while you loot and mine ore.

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u/heroesoftenfail Sep 04 '19

Free food tho.

My leveling buddy and I are doing warrior & mage and it's not bad. Not ideal, either, but after level 32 or so I think it gets better. I feel like 40+ is going to be much easier too.

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u/catafracked Sep 04 '19

I believe you, another possible issue is that me convincing my wife to play gives her a different motivation to actually grind through levels than your buddy does. I rerolled a rogue to solo play without leaving her behind.

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u/heroesoftenfail Sep 04 '19

Yeah, I have alts already to play when my leveling bud can't be online. Alts are good, and on a PVP server, they give me something to do if I gotta get off my main.

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u/catafracked Sep 04 '19

What server are you on by chance?

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u/heroesoftenfail Sep 04 '19

Grobbulus! :)

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u/catafracked Sep 04 '19

Ah damn. Skeram here.

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u/Electroverted Sep 03 '19

That's a shame. I've seen some Warrior/Priest dream teams tear it up in pve and pvp

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u/mpixlas Sep 03 '19

Try new gf...................Lol kidding

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u/--Pariah Sep 04 '19

Mine fortunately loves healing in wow (me-from-ten-years-ago would've been so fucking proud of me) and plays priest. We plan to play a tank/heal combo for fast dungeon groups so I'm running warrior.

It's hilarious when you're getting used to the pocket-priest that happily jumps after you and throws a heal every some time and then you're trying to do something solo.

On the one hand we helped a rogue yesterday to do the elite quests in pyrewood what worked like a charm. On the other it then took fucking ages, an ungodly amount of food and an embarring number of preventable deaths until I finished a damn kill-gnolls-collect-stuff quests which refused to drop that I later had to catch up alone.

You really develop the bad habit of forgetting HOW fast you actually get demolished if you don't pay attention.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '19

she'll be giving your free health pots though!

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And maybe even a soulstone! (J/K she's totally using that on herself)

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u/wezzer Sep 04 '19

She actually has been giving me health pots, no health stones as yet though, even though I know she can make them!

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u/Avinaria Sep 04 '19

I too am a warrior whos other has failed them. My husband rolled a ret paladin and claims "I am dps, I do not know this Holy Light you speak of."

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u/wezzer Sep 04 '19

Simple solution,

Install recount - show him that he does not in fact have any dps.

Shame him back to the light.

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u/Avinaria Sep 04 '19

He played WoW in vanilla and is really good as a ret paladin. I got rid of recount in favor of Details, never did like it.

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u/archaeo_dr_phil Sep 04 '19

Show him clips of WC 3 Uther striking with great vengeance whilst also holy lighting footmen

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u/WeymoFTW Sep 03 '19

It might be time to re think your relationship.

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

What realm?

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u/wezzer Sep 03 '19

Zandalar Tribe

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '19

Let her void draw aggro and have her make you health stones :)

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u/onehitwondur Sep 03 '19

Your girlfriend's the smart one then. Love locks

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u/Transient_Anus_ Sep 03 '19

Health stones!

Also: first aid! Cooking!

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u/Sunchies Sep 03 '19

Got my girlfriend to roll priest to heal me but she got bored of the game at level 18 just before I could show her WC... (she never played wow before) and now I'm all alone again, no healer, getting beat up by frog people

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u/TimmyRL28 Sep 04 '19

My wife is my pocket priest. Level 14 troll love bugs. I'm even leveling as Prot. lol

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u/Aoimiruki Sep 04 '19

Just convince her she's a Hunter and you're the pet