Originally posted by eskimo2
Can someone briefly explain how WOW works and what you do? I gather its like Dungeons and Dragons (which I don’t really understand either). Do you fight and die often? Other than prostituting yourself, how do you earn money? With the money you can buy flying unicorns and swords and Mr. T like jewelry? When you die you start all over? Do you have to work in coal mines or cotton fields to earn money? I know this game is huge, but the only experience I have to compare it to is AH. I don’t understand.
You level up from 1 to 70 by killing things and doing quests (which involves killing things and/or taking stuff from the bodies 99% of the time). Once you hit 70 and think you're done, you're not. Now you can go do the player vs player arenas non-stop and get those item rewards... or, you join a guild and do the 10-man & 25-man "raids" that can take anywhere from 4 or 5 hours, to multiple days.
You get gold by "farming". Either killing npc's endlessly, running quests, or walking all over the game harvesting items (by right-clicking) to make useful items (healing potions, new armor, etc).
Basically it's a never ending, mind numbing cycle. It's a carrot & stick game. As soon as you think you've got the carrot, it moves just alittle further ahead of you, so Blizzard gets your $15/mo.
There's no way to "win". Ever. I guess in that way WoW & AH are similar.
It takes ALOT less skill than AH. It's basically pattern memorization. Know what keys to press, know where to stand, learn the timing... that's it.
To put into perspective what this woman's body is worth to her... it's about 50-100 hours of "farming"... simply so she could travel about 4x faster than your average player.
