When talking about how Joe played WoW, the way he moved around must be mentioned. I blame myself.
Most games use either the directional keys on the keyboard (up, down, left, right arrows over by the keypad) or the A W D F keys, and WoW is no exception. You hold down that key and you go in that direction; you can also set it to autorun and steer with the mouse.
I come in from work, and hear deliberate pecking on the keyboard. Joe’s never been a real big typer so I thought he was doing his usual hunt and peck, chatting with someone. But no, he was going to a quest, running down the road since Goldshire had left him no challenges and was nearly there. Apparently both my wife and I forgot to mention the ‘holding down the key to keep moving’ part. He was hitting the W key to go forward. One. Step. At. A. Time.
He was almost to Redridge…when he encountered the Horde for the first time.