They want a solo game where they can raid.
Raiding requires involvement and certain degree of responsibility (know your class, the fight and your role).
If all they want to do is DPS, then of course that is a problem.
They want a solo game where they can raid.
Raiding requires involvement and certain degree of responsibility (know your class, the fight and your role).
If all they want to do is DPS, then of course that is a problem.
I've managed without 2, 3, and 4 even. People grew dependent on DBM and the like but Blizzard have incorporated most of its features into the base game and telegraph boss's attacks pretty well. It's more like:
2. Read the dungeon journal. Now you know what the attacks are called/do. Can be particularly helpful to know what damage type they deal for if your counters work on them.
3. Watch a fatboss vid on the boss. Now you also know what those attacks look like. Can't get that from the dungeon journal, but if you're too lazy you'll know after the first couple of wipes.
4. Review said dungeon journal again between wipes and look at the "what killed you" button to see what's killing the group.
Usually that'll do it.
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even for the best players it takes 100 plus attempts for a group to take down most bosses, casual players dont put in that time so they wont be as good, knowing a fight and properly knowing it are 2 different things, can mean the difference between top tier performnace and average performance.
Even in heroic raiding if you dont know the fights you can easily mess it up for the entire raid, also icy veins and such is pretty useless in actually knowing your class, you need to look into the class yourself and play it alot and test everything out before you can actually play a class well.
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This is why all you have to do is look at the meters and see what people aren't doing mechanics or pulling their weight and just kick them and replace them with someone that has a brain. I ask once and call out people by name letting them know we all know they are messing up and if they do it again it's an instant kick and replace.
No time for newbs trying to waste peoples time.
Congratulations on being one of the people I was talking about
"Knowing where the number keys are" and "being able to wrap your head around using the mouse to orientate your camera, move your character and simultaneously execute those key presses accurately without looking at the keyboard - all the while keeping your mind on what's actually happening in the encounter and reacting to mechanics and moving out of fire" is a very different thing. Most people who've been gaming a while, especially since they were children, completely take for granted that using the controls like this is a learned skill and even people in "office jobs" if they've never played games before will struggle with this for a while... and WoW has attracted a LOT of people who don't traditionally play games over the years.
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Good bait. You must not realize, but using excessive min-max is mostly how you can recognize a top player. No one wants to keep lots of little mental reminders to do this or that in their mind. No, instead you make everything a habit. So it will take you effort to NOT pre-pot, to NOT position yourself properly, to NOT follow your rotation perfectly, and so on.
honestly the main issues with being bad at raiding is completely time devoted to learning basic shit/having a steady toaster that doesnt shit the bed and showing up, toss in social problems IE motivation or not getting along with other people and can be a shit show. addons are honestly a crutch and not essential for raiding, I tend to run as barebones as possible because I just don't like having too much clutter. just make sure your gears enchanted/gemmed/flasked and you dont stand in bad and stand in the good and you will be solid. its especially fun when people who havent a clue about your class tell you how to best play it as if they put in the time to theorycraft themselves on it.
I was a pretty solid raider back in TbC. I was quick to figure out boss mechanics, never died from standing in stuff or break any sheeps, while pushing my class to it's limits (riding the aggro line back then was fun!). That Hand of A'dal title didn't come for free.
But I had to stop raiding towards the end of WotlK and in the meantime I've simply gotten old. There's no way around it; I can tell my reflexes and what not aren't as fast anymore. And while my reflexes slowed down and I devoted most of my time to other things than WoW the game got faster, more action orriented, and lots of players got more impatient and ... not so plessant (partly due to cross-servers I imagine).
I pretty much never even PUG anymore except when my professions or unlocking a new race forces me to. I'll still read up on boss mechanics before going into even a 5man dungeon on normal ... but that doesn't change the fact that I feel old now.
It's not about not being able to kill it without the mentioned stuff. It is about not using very basic power boosts which is accessible and easy to obtain. I get some people do not minmax, which is fair enough - inconvenient, but it gets you into the top 5% of players. Not using the above is being lazy
Some people legit don't want to improve and get hostile/stubborn when you want to progress out of merit and they don't. This is why I left my last guild. The GM and his friends struggled in Normal and couldn't get past 3 bosses on their own without calling in people with busted ilvls to carry them. When other guildies wanted to push to finish Normal and enter Heroic, they made a huge fuss/drama until those players left. They only made it to Opulence thanks to a superior raiding guild on our server making up half the party.
There are players out there who want to stay at barely Normal level skill and never progress unless someone else does the work for them. It's painful to get blamed for things that aren't your fault, especially when your raid lead and his friends legit have no clue what's going on.
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Just got another round of orange parses last night without potions. Maybe you're just struggling so hard because you're not very good at raiding.
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Or, far more likely, your dad is just in the bottom 10% and most people can type on a keyboard without looking.
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I have world top 25 damage parses for my spec.
You're failing on normal bosses.
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Maybe you should focus more on helping people out..
They don't care.
The difference in me 1 month into my Azeroth life, enchanting strength on my Rogue and grabbing 1 quest at a time to now is I genuinely wanted to get better.
My roomie will ask me how they can heal better on their Druid, I'll look at their logs, watch them play, design a WA for them to hold their hand and what's the result? Pretty much no gain, because the genuine care isn't there. There's nothing special I'm doing that makes me a good player other than a true desire to apply my knowledge and succeed. You want a new car? I don't, I want to kill new bosses. You want to fuck that hot new coworker? I don't, I want to run sims and question if I'm actually fucking retarded if I don't keep at least a 98% uptime on my hots/dots. They don't REALLY fucking care, they kind of sorta care
And I don't expect them to and neither should you, point them in the right direction and if they really want to get better they will.
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