First Impressions

[Jarulf]

This just gets more and more interesting with each passing day.

I have a few questions for those in the beta.

In WoW when you move your pointer across the screen, does your P.O.V. pan as a camera would?

Because of time constraints, not attitude, I play solo a lot. I prefer coop whenever possible, especially since I'm quite the chatter. But I'm told RL's frequent intrusions will work against me in WoW. Will there be room for soloing, as you currently see it? Certainly Bolty's mage is swimming upstream, when solo. Would an archer or meleer do better with that or is it basically impossible to solo at any but the lowest levels?

I really can't comment on the soloing at high levels, since I only played my rogue up to 13 and now am working on my warrior (at level 8). Heis called Jarulf by the way and is over at the elven island(s) in case anyone want to contact/play with me.

What I can say is that soloing is very possible BUT it is harder and hence, you have to do the quests in a slowe, or rather, letr time compared to your level. A quest you can simply breeze thorugh at level 7 might need level 9 or more to do solo. At that time, you can breeze thorugh it as well though and I think the exp you get (for killings) could compare, although the quest reward would be comparable less to what you need for leveling up.

In addition, quests/fighting done in the open, with monsters scattered arround is easy solo since one can quite easy take on the monsters one by one. If it involves getting into a cave, although it is possible at times to fight one at a time, you will much more frequently find yourself fighting more monsters and die (since you wanted to go there as soon as you handle the monsters one by one :) ). ALso, such palces is harder to avoid having monsters respawn near or on top of you with no room to run away (even for just regaining health) and the risk is thus much higher.

I can't say if it is similar later on. But one can always wait a few levels and do the quests at a bit higher level and manage it solo I would say.

As for looking arround, it is a bit hard to explain how it works in text. Basically, the camera is in the same direction as your character looks (I have yet to figure out how to (easilly) look at him from the front). You can soom in, or rather zoom out) form a situation where it is basically a FPS (looking through the actual eyes) up to looking from quite a bit of a distance behind the character. The latter works best outside, while getting in close works best inside (for me, for now), since if there is obstructions in the view between the camera and the character, it will zoom in and change the view and such and it gets confusing inside.

On to of that, you can change the elevation of the camer form right behind to from the above (one can actually go all the way from completely a top to completely below, however, as soon as you go belo the ground, it will instead move the camera closer along the ground until you are basically at the feets looking straight up thorugh the character.

On top of this it IS possible to look to the sides, without spinning the character) by moving the mouse sideways (whicle holding down one of the mouse buttons), which can be good for scouting to the sides, as soon as you let go of the button, the camera pans back (very quickly) to the behind the character. Moving the pointer in itself do nothing though.

There are probably a LOT more ways to do it and look and from what I have seen, one can customize it completely and probably add features not in it by default.