Anyone who wants to avoid long queues for dungeons in World of Warcraft just has to accomplish a “little thing” at home. A WoW player shows the way, and the community is thrilled.
What is this solution? The WoW player Infinite_Wind1425 uploaded a picture on Reddit showing two laptops running World of Warcraft. His story: He got his partner to start playing WoW, and now she is so excited about the MMORPG that they both are having a great time exploring Azeroth together in the evenings.
Since he plays a protection paladin and she plays a discipline priest, the couple can cover the two most important roles in any dungeon group: tank and healer. Long waiting times for dungeon sign-ups are now a thing of the past, as three damage dealers can usually be found very quickly.
Ah yes, the original cinematic trailer from Vanilla WoW … pure nostalgia:
“Honestly, this is the right way”
How does the community react to the story? The post has already gathered more than 2,600 upvotes and 165 comments. Many players celebrate that the couple is now playing WoW together. Some fondly recall a similar experience.
- Myster_Hydra knows it (via Reddit): “That’s how my husband and I started playing. He was a protection paladin and I was a disc priest. 11 years later I am now a protection pally and he is a fire mage. And we switched to Alliance in the last 5 years.”
- DouceCanoe remembers on Reddit: “My brother and I did this back in Dragonflight when we tried M+. I tanked (blood DK), he healed (holy paladin). But at some point, we had to stop doing keys over +4 because it turned out my brother just couldn’t heal… lmao.”
- shipshaper88 loves it (via Reddit): “Honestly, this is the right way”
- Repulsive-Tradition3 is happy (via Reddit): “Haha. I met my husband while playing WoW. We only heal and tank for each other. It’s nice to have fast queues, the absolute best way to do it.”
MeinMMO editor Karsten Scholz remembers: As fascinated as I was by World of Warcraft in spring 2005 (it’s amazing how huge the world is, there are players everywhere!), I almost ended my WoW adventure early. Because I was soloing with my warrior Tauren at first, Vanilla WoW felt incredibly slow and tedious by level 30 at the latest.
Luckily, a couple of friends suggested starting fresh on another server to level together to level 60. So, I brought my PC one weekend and we started: Sascha took the tank role with his warrior, Antje healed with her priest, and I poked holes in the backs of enemies with the daggers of my bald rogue.
This changed the gaming experience by 180 degrees. The pacing while questing suddenly became much better. There were no more downtime pauses. We found two more players for dungeons almost immediately. And on top of that, we chatted about everything and anything.
That was the beginning of the most intense and exciting phase of my gaming “career.” From then on, we played together almost daily for the next few years, rocked the leveling phase as well as the endgame until the end of WotLK. And we became part of a wonderful community, from which various friendships and relationships have evolved that still last today. What a great time that was!
What do you associate with your best phase in World of Warcraft or another MMORPG? Share it in the comments! More humorous anecdotes from our MeinMMO editor can be found here: Before MeinMMO – When money was tight, I wrote stories about racy superheroes
