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1) not much difference (unless you like to roleplay)

2) yes each race starts in different areas (with the exception of dwarf/gnome and orc/troll). It's quite a hike to get a Night Elf from Teldrassil to Northshire, unless you can find a friendly mage to port her to Stormwind

3) Not sure on this one, as I only have 1 computer trying to play wow on my router.

4)If you 2 are just going to be questing with each other, then doesn't really matter, although low pop may decrease the chance of having other people doing the same quests as you.

I'd guess normal, but I don't have RP experience so that's just me pretending to know stuff.



Yes. They're on completely different continents and while the walk is doable it's a total PITA. Until you get the lay of the land down, I'd suggest starting with the same race. If that's not workable, dwarves and gnomes start in the same area, and can get to the human area without too much difficulty. Draenai and night elves also have a relatively easy journey back and forth. Can't speak for the Horde side as I don't know it well enough and I only pretend to know stuff once per post.



'k, no idea what you're talking about, so all I can tell you here is that we play behind a router no problem, two to four of us, same router.



Well, as you specifically state that you don't want to talk to the riff-raff, I'd say low pop is the way to go. ;)

Welcome to WoW!

Normal should be fine.


Until you are more experienced, try picking the same race. Yes, you would be on completely different continents.


You do not need port forwarding for normal play with multiple pc behind a router.

If you had problems and found the Blizzard downloader taking too long for all the patches, you could put a pc in the router's dmz and get it up to date (provided your windows firewall is enabled). Then turn the dmz back off.

After you have one pc up and running, I'd make a copy of the World of Warcraft program folder under one called Backup. Then share the backup folder on the network. You can copy the entire contents to the other pc and just make a shortcut to launcher.exe . Another option would be to copy to an external USB drive to make the transfer.

If you are running Vista, you should run wow as administrator. Right click on the desktop icon, select properties, advanced, and put a check in the box "Run as administrator". It's probably a good idea to run the setup as administrator as well (right click on the setup program and select run as administrator).


Don't be afraid of a few people. It is an mmorpg after all. One thing to consider is that more people may mean a more robust economy at the auction house. I wouldn't jump into a server that is full, but I wouldn't necessarily try to avoid everybody. It's up to you.

well I can offer no advice but want to welcome you to Allah and to Wow. Make sure you enjoy the game.


Oh if you do start out as deferent race like NE and human. see if a friendly mage port you to shattrath city and set hearthstone there. You can get to any main city from there making going back and forth a lot easier.

edit for spelling. thank you pinkbullet

Edited, Feb 26th 2008 10:34pm by Pelacha

Depending on how you and your wife want to play together, you may want to pick two characters of the same race, or if you two aren't happy with that you can choose two characters of races that either share the same area (dwarf and gnome, troll and orc) or have two races which can easily reach each other's starting area (human and dwarf/gnome, draenei and night elf for alliance, tauren and troll/orc or undead/blood elf for horde).

For a Human to reach the dwarf/gnome's starting zone, proceed to Stormwind City and ask a guard for the blacksmithing trainer. On the opposite side of the blacksmithing trainer you will notice a tunnel with spinning gears. That leads to the Deeprun tram and will transport you to Ironforge's Tinker Town.

For a Dwarf/Gnome to reach the Human's starting zone, proceed to Ironforge and proceed around Ironforge in a counterclockwise manner until you reach Tinker Town.

For an Undead to reach the Blood Elf starting zone, proceed to the Undercity. In the courtyard above ground, bear to your right until you find an item called the Orb of Translocation.
For a Blood Elf to reach the Undead starting zone, ask a guard in Silvermoon City for the Mage trainers. The Mage trainer is in the same building as the leaders of Silvermoon. There will be a stairwell in the same room as the leaders which will have an Orb of Translocation, which will transport you to the courtyard of Undercity.

Normal. RP is about interacting with others, and doing it in persona.


Humans, Dwarves, and Gnomes start close to each other. Linking up is not a problem. Similarly, Draenei and Night Elves should also have few problems questing together.

Getting Humans and Night Elves together is a pain, but is doable if you like dying a bit to get together (between the two of you, you can decide which one will go to the other's starting area). There is a benefit to travelling this way, and that's "Exploration Experience". You should be able to get a level or two from getting to the other's area.


I don't think it's guilds as much as groups. Low population servers also tend to have economies that really suck, making it harder to make gold. You'd be beter off with a medium pop server.

It's do-able. You can wait until the NE levels up a little, then begin the hike. I prefer to walk as opposed to be teleported as you can pick up a couple of flight paths on the way.
The best way though is to ask if anybody would be kind enough to escort you there. I've done this a couple of times for people.

The downloader normally works pear to pear. If you go into the details screen when downloading a large patch, you see multiple people where you are downloading chunks of the patch from, as well as where you are uploading some of what you have already received to others.

The downloader simply recognizes when your router blocks some of the pear to pear access. It doesn't mean you wont get the patch, but if it is a very large one, your download speed may not be as fast.

I don't normally use the dmz, but I like knowing I could if I encounter any problems. Since Blizz downloads much of their patches in the weeks before it goes live, this isn't much of an issue once you have the game up and running.

If you happen to go on Aerie Peak (US), look me up in game and I would be willing to escort you. I'm usually on Ailidrae.

Edit: What, I get rated down for trying to be helpful? So be it.

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 12:42pm by Ailitardif

My wife tells me that she wants to play as Night Elf Druid, because a) she wants to have pointy ears and b) wants to spell cast something besides healing.

Given that I typically play fighter/warrior characters so I can whale on things with large sharp objects (and also the starting area issue) what do you guys think I should be so we complement each others skills? Same race? (I'm not sure what the other race is in the same starting area)

I might consider a Hunter as it looks like I can do some fighting AND ranged stuff, plus I think they can have pets which would help augment our small party.

Why don't you both be druids, then you could both stealth to quest items together.

Also, while one tanks as a bear, the other could do dps as a clawing cat, or pop out to throw a heal, or you both could dps.

Just a thought.

You could of course be any class. Night elves and Draenei start fairly close to each other. It would be fairly easy to meet if you were an elf or Draenei. That should give you access to all the classes.

Or...

Your wife could go shadow priest. Druids, shamans, and priests all start with two spells, one offensive and one healing (I know this because I recently started all three). Yes, she may be asked to heal in groups, but that might happen as a druid just as easily. There's no reason that that should be all she does, even if she picks a priest, especially if she goes shadow (and while there is a large stigma against shadow priests who refuse to heal, I think if this is made clear before the group gets started, it shouldn't be a problem.) And unless you're planning on doing 5-man groups a lot (which I'm guessing from your original post is not the case), this won't be an issue at all.

It depends a little on what she wants to do other than healing. Shadow priest is DPS with damage over time spells. Druid is nature damage or shapeshifting. And shaman is enhanced melee or nature damage.

I don't know if there are any shamans with pointy ears (well, trolls' ears are pointy, but I'm guessing that's not what she means), but she could be a night elf shadow priest.

All that said, I think 2 druids would be a lot of fun.

The third option would be to try a whole bunch of different class/race combinations and see what you both actually enjoy playing.

If you've read on here a lot, as far as the group thing goes, (or if you've played similar games in the past) you probably know that the most sought positions in a group are tank and healer, so if she really doesn't want to heal at all, *you* might want to pick a class that can heal. That will make it less likely that people would ask her to heal (as druid or priest), if both of you are in the same party. Unless you don't want to heal at all, either.

From a personal perspective, when I originally started my priest, I didn't think I would like healing. But actually, I'm very good at it and love it. It's what I like to do most in a group.

Finally, in the case that one of you likes playing the game more or has more time for it, I recommend starting another character to play when the other is not on. There is nothing more frustrating than running around with your friend who is 10 levels higher than you because he levels faster and plays more often. You feel completely useless.

Others have already mentioned this but I will amen it. Why don't you choose a Draenei class and she can choose her NE druid? If you don't have the burning crusade, I would suggest you try NE hunter to compliment her druid. If you do have TBC, Exodar is just a boat trip away from Teldrassil where you and your wife can join each other. I personally like the Draenei Shammy myself but I can see the caster/healer concerns you brought up. Draenei look awesome in plate armor so Warrior or tank spec Paladin are great options for Draenei as well. And...if you are teaming up, I would suggest one of you choosing mining/skinning for your gold income and whatever you prefer for your other toon.

Just my 2 copper worth

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 2:01pm by Somino

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 2:01pm by Somino