Pig & Whistle Tales - A World of Warcraft Podcast

Exploring the Allure of World of Warcraft: Social Connections, Strategies, and Unforgettable Adventures

• Gabriel • Season 4 • Episode 89

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We explore the dynamic world of World of Warcraft, focusing on the engaging aspects of PvP, community friendships, and the significance of character classes. Players are encouraged to embrace the game's vastness, make connections, and start their own journeys without feeling overwhelmed.

• Discussing favorite aspects of gameplay: the thrill of PvP versus repetitive PvE 
• The importance of playing in community and forming friendships 
• Insights into character classes, particularly the Druid and Monk 
• Navigating play schedules to enhance enjoyment 
• Encouraging new players to jump in anytime and take it step by step 

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Speaker 1:

The Thank you, hello and welcome to the Pig and Whistle Tales from Azeroth. As always here at the Pig and Whistle Inn in Stilwind, for a variety of subjects with regards to World of Warcraft. So grab a bottle or a pint, sit back and enjoy this midweek episode. We'll be doing something that I've wanted to do for a little bit, or that I have done in the past, but it was a very long time ago, so it's good to revisit it every now and again because these things do change and it is a sort of Q&A. It's getting to know me, getting to know how I got into WoW, what I do loads of questions asked by you guys and essentially I would just be answering them. It's kind of that simple really. Um, these are things that have been maybe said in the past or I've mentioned in the past, but some people don't know about, know about these things or know about me personally, or you know anything of that kind. So I'll go over them and share, uh, the sort of main questions that I have from you guys. So the first question that, um, I'm going to answer is what is my favorite aspect about wow? Now, my favorite aspect is pvp. Um, this is a very well-known thing. I do talk about um doing pvp a lot more so than doing um pve or anything along them lines. Um, I think that pvp is definitely my most favorite aspect of wow. I think it's the most engaging for me and how my brain works. I think it's the most fun in general because for pvp you have a lot of diversity when it comes to um, what someone will be doing at any given moment, whereas in pve it's very much these are the mechanics of the mob. You figure it out once you've figured it out, forever kind of deal. So that's the kind of thought process I have with this. Now don't get me wrong PVE. I've done loads of PVE content, even this season. I've done loads of PVE content. I do enjoy it, but I enjoy it with friends. I don't enjoy pugging PVE. I don't enjoy doing anything like like that. I enjoy playing it with friends and seeing how far we can push mythics or something along them lines. Um, I think that other aspects of wow are enjoyable as well, but definitely for myself anyway, pvp is the biggest one by quite a big margin.

Speaker 1:

Um, I wish more people would get into pvp, but I know that it is a very tough or not necessarily tough, but sort of uh, tormenting is not the word, uh big deal. It's tough to start. Oh my god, daunting, that's the word, not taunting, not anything like that Daunting. It's a daunting task for people to start PvP because people think, oh my god, I have to be so good before I even enter an arena. You don't, you can just enter an arena and you'll find your place very soon within the rating, and then you'll learn, oh okay, I'm this rating because I'm not kicking enough or because I'm not getting enough CC or just not doing enough damage or anything along these lines. And then you slowly grow throughout learning that way, and I think that this is very good. I think that this is how people need to realize what PVP is. It doesn't help that people people in PV do this as well. But if something goes wrong in PVP, someone will look to flame someone. But that's just a general gaming thing. You can't really relate that to just a general gaming thing. Um, you can't really relate that to just pvp, but it can happen. Um, yeah, I would. Well, the answer to the question is very simple. My favorite aspect of wow pvp done it since 2008, enjoyed it ever since I started playing wow. So yeah, that's that.

Speaker 1:

The next question is do you play with a friend group or solo? So I mostly play with a friend group or kind of. I have three different variations almost. So I have my guild in Cataclysm Classic which I raid with on a weekly basis. This weekly basis is every Sunday. Really enjoy it. I love spending the time with them.

Speaker 1:

And then I have the people that I usually play on a day-to-day basis. So this is my other half. I usually play with them for quite a substantial amount of time. With WoW, we can do anything from arenas on retail all the way to hardcore wow um many different things like in between as well. Cataclysm she's part of the guild that, um, we do raiding on. So any sort of wow content we do, I would generally be playing with her. Um, I also do arenas with a couple of friends. Um, these couple of friends I play on currently a daily basis, because it is the end of the season push. So this is the reason why I'm playing with them on a daily basis and every now and again we'll do more arenas or different bits and bobs. But honestly, yeah, there is a sort of small friend group that I would class that I play with um.

Speaker 1:

I definitely don't play solo. Any game um that I play is played with other people, because I cannot do solo games. I absolutely love solo games, which is the weird thing, though I love, like god of war, all of that stuff and but I just can't for the life of me play a solo game. My brain doesn't engage in it because it needs the actual stimulation from talking to other people and interacting and playing with other people. So you know there's, that's just what it is. It is what it is. But yes, I play with a friend group. Again, if you like playing solo, I think that's very good. I think that you find your own enjoyments in the game itself. But my enjoyment comes from the interaction whilst playing the game, and playing the game with other people, not just playing the game to play the game sake, kind of deal. So yeah, I play with other people and I find comfort in doing so.

Speaker 1:

The next question is what classes do you main and why? So I have one main. This is my Boomkin. The Boomkin I have played since the very dawn of my World of Warcraft living, or experience, I should say, ever since I started back in late TBC slash Wrath of the Lich King.

Speaker 1:

I have played this druid. This druid was my very first solo character that I ever made. I say solo because I first started playing alongside my dad and we kind of made a character together kind of deal. But this was my very first character that I made myself this druid, and it's gone through a couple of name changes, or one name change. It was originally called Perfecto. I'm awful with names, don't get me wrong. It is now like Y'shara, I believe. I believe it's that one, because I have two different ones, one on Cataclysm, one on Retail. Both different names, but I can't remember which is which. I think it's Y'shaara. Yeah, y'shaara Darkmoonfair, if you wanted to know the name or the realm. By the way, if you ever wanted to look me up, yeah, this is my druid.

Speaker 1:

I have mained it for the last few years, or several years, I should say. Now it is now several, now that we're in 2025. Probably going back to Shadowlands. Yeah, beginning of shadowlands is when I started to main the boomkin um. Before that I mained everything else. So you know, I've mained mage in a couple of expansions. I mained warrior and a priest back in missa pandaria, but my druid was in cataclysm that I mained in wrath of the lynch king. I can't even remember because I was that young and my memory is awful, so I've mained quite a lot of things, but the Druid is the big one right now and I think that I will always stick with the Boomkin because I love the aesthetic of Druids. I really, really do, and I do have a main ult that I would class as nearly my main, to be honest with you, and that is a Mistweaver as well.

Speaker 1:

So, mistweaver Monk, I remember playing all the way back in BFA when I first started playing it and I was kind of like, oh my god, this is so cool. This is when you could heal while moving around with Soothing Mist, and it was just amazing to me. You were just constantly channeling Soothing Mist and running around and it didn't really affect youists. And it was just amazing to me. You were just constantly channeling soothing mist and running around and it didn't really affect you and it was great fun. I really really enjoyed it in battlegrounds and slowly but surely it became my second main and, believe it or not, I don't really know how it happened, it just kind of did, and the mist weaver really complements how I play world of warcraft in general.

Speaker 1:

Um, when it comes to arenas, because I go off of visual um cues when it comes to the game. So, being able to see all of the like map that's in front of me and seeing all of my teammates, all of the enemy opposition in arenas really gives me all the the info I need to play arenas, whereas I struggle with that a bit more when it comes to playing Boomkin, because I don't see what's happening behind me, if my healer's getting CC'd or if they're running behind a pillar to hard cast something or anything like this. I can't see it. Therefore, I can't make the decisions that my brain needs to to play around that sort of thing. But, yes, Mistweaver Monk, which is a really weird one, and out there is my main alt, I would say, and I play them because I find them really enjoyable, as you do you play any sort of main.

Speaker 1:

I like the way that they are very fluent in their rotation. Now, I know that every spec is fluent, but if you look at something like a destro warlock, where you're looking at something like you coil, and then you can get one or two chaos bolts off, but then you're kind of interrupted, whereas misdwe Monk you are obviously very cast dependent, but you can get kicked and you know all that stuff. But I just like the mobility of these classes and the fact that I can't really get locked down as a boomkin not when it comes to slows anyway, because obviously you can uh shapeshift out of slows and stuff, but I find it great fun. I just love the classes. I love the aesthetic of them, the way that they play the whole profile around them. I think that they are amazing and definitely something that I would recommend as classes if you are going to play World of Warcraft. Genuinely, I think that they are some of the most fun classes in the game to play and I would very much recommend them.

Speaker 1:

Mistweaver Monk is just a weird one, though, because I literally only played it for one, like patch, basically in BFA, and then suddenly in Dragonflight. I was like maybe I'll play a little bit of the Mystery of a Monk and I just loved it. I cannot tell you why I loved it, I just did and it's just slowly gotten a grip on me basically ever since. It's a weird one, but the druid, for sure, is my main main, and that was dating all the way back to 2008, believe it or not. So that character has got some history really really does, and I love that character.

Speaker 1:

That. That is amazing to have on your account, just to have that character for years upon years. And it's going to God, in three years' time, that character will be 20 years old. Now, obviously, some people's characters might be older already, they might already be 20 years old, some players' characters, which is incredible to think, but for me personally, when I first started playing WoW, I was about 10, I think 9, 10, I can't really remember exact but yeah, that's how old my character is going to be. That's an. That's an amazing thought. It really is an amazing thought. It really is an amazing thought. Oh, you can hear my squeaky chair, probably.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we'll move on to the next question when do you usually play? So I usually play WoW during the day, when evening time as well. So I'll do sort of relaxing wow, um throughout the day, which is like hardcore, wow, uh, cataclysm stuff like that, and then when I'm looking to push arenas, this will be in the evening time, this will be just before dinner and just after dinner, um, these are played with, obviously, the friends that I've mentioned previously, and this is kind of just how my schedule is at the moment. It can differ quite a lot depending on the end of season, different things happening within wows, like I think we're going to be doing the cataclysm dungeons very soon with some guildies, um, when that comes out in the next? Um, well, today, actually for eu, today anyway, as of when this episode goes live. So definitely going to be mixing it up.

Speaker 1:

But I usually play throughout most of the day and then the evening is when I get a lot of the work done that I need to do. Um, which is kind of weird because everyone thinks that it should be the other way around. It should be oh, you play during the evening, but you know, no, that's not how I work or function, I guess. So it just is how it is. Um, I think this obviously has some challenges. So I'm in EU, so when I'm essentially late up at night, there is basically no one on in EU, so I can't do many things. I can't really do solo shuffles on my main character, which is my druid, because of queue times. I can, but it will be like an hour queue and I just can't really be bothered for that, but it will be like an hour queue and I just can't really be bothered for that.

Speaker 1:

Um, you obviously have just a not a lot to do when there's not a lot of people on, and this kind of coincides with the first question or the second one. Sorry, like, if I play with other people or a friend group, I do, and obviously a lot of people aren't awake at that time, so it's not really as enjoyable for me. What I tend to do is, if I do play WoW late at night when everyone's gone off, I will play Hardcore WoW and I will have my own hunter there. They're level 31. I have a level 42 warrior that I play with the other half in Hardcore WoW and they're going along really nicely and you know it's something to just chill and watch YouTube with or something like that. So that's kind of like when I usually play and what I do during them sort of time periods.

Speaker 1:

But a lot of the time that I spend on WoW at the moment is dedicated to Arena, purely because of the season ending. Purely because of the season ending right now, is there a good time to start playing WoW? This is a really tough question but it has a simple answer. There isn't. You just have to jump in. You just have to jump in and go for it, because WoW is a 20-year-old game 21 years nearly, actually. Um, you will always look at World of Warcraft from an outside perspective and think that game has been out for 20 years. It has had so many content updates, like throughout all of them years.

Speaker 1:

I will be lost as soon as I step in, and that's good. It's actually good that you would be lost. You need to lose yourself within the game to enjoy it. I think you will. Let me paint the picture for you. You will uh log on to this screen and it will give you a choice of this. It'll put a warrior on a screen for you and it will give you a choice of all of your classes and your characters or races that you can make.

Speaker 1:

You will look at all of these and you will pick a night elf, let's say. You will make this night elf to the best that you want of your character abilities. You will name it and then you will log in. You'll get a small cinematic that introduces you to the race of the night elves and, essentially, a little bit of lore behind them. A very tiny bit, it's nothing crazy, and you will slowly see your character for life. You will do your quests.

Speaker 1:

All of the starting zones are within a confined area. This means that nothing can really intrude upon you, which is very good. These starting areas are meant to be very good for the player base newer players especially to jump in and learn the game slowly. That's what they're there for. But you will jump in and you will be logged into. I don't believe it's Shadowgenn, but I will go for shadow glenn just as a demonstration.

Speaker 1:

You will be put into your very small sort of starting area and you will have a little quest that you can complete. This quest is very simple. You go kill some boars, night sabers and stuff. You go back, you get some little leather gloves and stuff. You slowly progress your character and then you go on to the next town. This next town will have giant wandering trees that some people are afraid of, some people are in awe of them, or all of them. Yeah, because I was one of these people. I was looking at this tree, this giant walking tree, and being like this is amazing. This is so fascinating. I've never seen anything like this in a game when I first started playing.

Speaker 1:

And you will do more and more quests and you'll progress to your level, your sort of major first thing where it's like level 10, where your talents open up. And these talents look very complicated at first but it very simple. You put the talent in the very top, like top part of the tree, and then you just work your way down. It's that simple, um, and you might get something that's very big for your class at that level. Let's say you're playing a classic. You get, like um, a hunter pet at level 10 or a bear form at level 10 for druids or anything along them lines. So you slowly progress your character. You do not get everything on your character. You see people on World of Warcraft streams that have 200 action bars, 2000 spells on their action bars and it's like what the hell is happening on their action bars. And it's like what the hell is happening. You will start with one action bar, one or two spells and a simple like melee weapon. That's how it starts and you slowly progress from there and it's tough to say when to start playing wow. In honest opinion, the best time to start playing WoW is probably now, because when you you can make arguments for all of this. But when you start playing.

Speaker 1:

Now we are halfway through an expansion. This expansion you will not be able to enjoy, okay, because you have not been part of the expansion, the start of it, um, and you'll feel a little bit overwhelmed, you'll feel like you're missing out. When the next expansion comes out, which is midnight, which is the end of the year, you will be like oh my god, this is amazing. I get a new expansion release. It's like a clean slate, almost. If you have a level character that is appropriate for it to jump in and do the questing which is amazing to do, by the way, um, at the same time, you will never miss out on any content that is within world of warcraft. Okay, you do not miss out on any content because it is all still there, okay. Burning Crusade, still there. Wrath of the Lich King still there. These are expansions. Cataclysm, still there. Mists of Pandaria still. Warlords of Draenor, battle for Azeroth, shadowlands, dragonflight, the War Within the current expansion all there. The war within the current expansion all there.

Speaker 1:

And as long as you're paying for your sub, you can access all of it, every single bit of it. Okay, the sub includes every single past expansion. Like everything included in it, nothing at all like it's missed out. So jump in now. Um, but take it a step at a time, just take it. Okay, let's go do this quest, let's go and pick up this quest now. Oh, let's go and see or explore over here. Oh, there's a hidden quest here. Oh, that's so cool. You know that kind of deal.

Speaker 1:

Do not like open your map and zoom out and be like what in the living hell is all of this? I see four different planets, I see 20 different continents or whatever, and it's like, yes, I know it's an absolute shit show. To someone who isn't used to playing World of Warcraft, all right, or MMOs in general, like it looks like an absolute shit show. But focus on just one thing at a time, the simple thing of let's do this quest. Let's, let's do this quest and then, once you've done like several levels, then you can look at like the map, your regional map, where you are, which is, for another example, you're a night elf. It will be teldrassil. This, um, giant tree that night elves live on. Well, it um, no spoilers that. But yeah, this is like the giant tree that they live on.

Speaker 1:

And then you right click and you're like, oh, my god, okay, so this is the continent of kalimdor. It has dark shore, ashenvale, each uh fellwood. And then you right click again and you're like, oh, my god, okay, so now you have missa, pandaria in the south, or you have pandaria, you have northern up top, you have eastern kingdoms on the right hand side. You have uh dragon isles in the top right. You have I keep kazalgar, yeah, in the bottom left. So you see that.

Speaker 1:

And then you're like, oh, wow, there's so much to this, but how do we get over there? Um, you know, and then you might google how to do it and stuff. And then you right click again and then suddenly there's shadlands, there's dranor, there's uh outland, and you're like, okay, there's actual different planets. How the hell do we get to them? Um, you know, so it's all a shit show. Okay, you need to take it one step at a time when playing wow, because you can get overwhelmed if you try and do anything too eccentric, too quickly is the best way to do it. But yeah, this is where I will end it on the this question. I think it's a very good one to end it on. Thank you all very much for listening. Do check out all of the uh stuff below the social medias, the etsy shop, all of it constantly changing, more stuff being put up there all day, every day. But thank you all very much once again and go with valor friend, good pile, thank you.