5 Steps to Having the Most Fun in WoW

First I would like to introduce myself.  My name is William Tyler aka Billtripod, my main’s name is Kohrin who is a 70 human warrior.  I’m married, have a newborn baby, work full time and go to college.  I play WoW casually, but still want to compete in PvP/Arena as well as do the occasional raid. As many of you already know all of this is close to impossible.  My goal here as a new member to the Zuggaming team is to help casual players accomplish hardcore-Esq goals and achievements. So lets begin with my top 5 ways to be an effective member of WoW society and the real society too!

Specialize

Every WoW player wants to kill Illidan, be a 2400 rating arena team and have 10000000 Gold.  Specialize in PvP or PvE, unless you enjoy just doing the entry level things on both sides.

Stay positive

Don’t ever get discouraged at a 0-100 arena win/loss ratio or being bottom of the DPS meter in a raid. It may take you a little time, but you have to eventually get better, and most importantly the people beating you most likely doesn’t sleep, eat, or see sunlight(no offense Zug lol).

Read forums

When in doubt of your own ability, before rerolling every class in the game out of frustation, read the forums.  95% of the time most casual players are misusing some core ability or missing them entirely.  Reading forum posts is almost as effective as playing especially when you read something you didn’t know.

Set goals

Players who aimlessly wonder through the game never get anywhere.  The guys with the purples, nether drake, and 10000 gold didn’t get it in a day (…ie. the guys like Zuggy!).  Is a crazy mount, gear or gold more important?  Find which is most important to you and set goals on how to  their.  Some goals are synonymous with others.  If a player wants a mount then they should read forums about making gold and then in the end they have 5k gold and a new mount.

Have fun

Many people I know including my best friends and myself try to turn WoW into a chore or grind to something. Ultimately if you have all the gear in the game and you hate the game then maybe you should look at whats fun and change your direction. Whether your winning or losing, if your having a good time who cares if you have Season 4 and pwning n00bs?

I hope this initial post gives someone something useful.  In post to comes I hope to cover very speciafically each point covered above and every point in between.  Please comment/critique as much as possible. I am new to this and would love any advice or feedback

Thanks

-Bill Tripod-