Table of Content
  • lCommunication and Leet speak.
  • In Soviet Russia, trade channel is used to trade.
  • How to use the General chat.
  • How to use the Trade chat.
  • How to use the Local Defense chat.
  • How to use the LookingForGroup chat.
  • Yelling
  • lRoleplaying Servers
  • Behavior when your in a dungeon group
  • Are you the tank?
  • Are you the DPS?
  • Are you the healer?
  • Behavior when your in a raid.

Many people in the World of Warcraft do not know how to act nice, be polite or release the capslock button on the keyboard.
If you have trouble getting a reply from f.ex. a Mage when you asked for that portal, or some food.
Or a any class that can buff, for a buff, but they just wandered off into the sunset.

Then this guide is for you

Communication and Leet speak.
No, if u rite l1k3 tis, you'll go crashing into the pit of oom and endless torment.
This is a MMO game where many adults play, and people want it to be a mature, and fun experience.
If we want to experience degenerated teenagers raging over pixels, we'll play Call of Duty.

The right way to aproach a f.ex. Mage, is this; Hello, could you please make a portal to <name>. I'll pay you <xx Gold>

If you are contacting a person about something, be polite and write like a normal human being.
For you know, first impression is a very important factor for a person to like you.

Writing to that person with leet words, plx, plz, plox etc. is just not acceptable.
They will most likely just act as if they are AFK, or simply just walk past you, ignoring you.

In Soviet Russia, trade channel is used to trade.
I actually do not know if this is true, but i do hope it is.
Using the correct channel to advertise is crucial, but very few people seem to know this.
There are many channels in this game.
General, which is for the zone you are in
Trade, here we 'trade' stuff. All cities can see this.
Local Defense, alliance/horde attacking? Say so here
LookingForGroup, for those looking for a group.
How to use the General chat
Looking for a mage to teleport you?
Ask in this channel.
Why?
Well... Why do you need to ask the mages in different capitals, if there are some in the city you are at?
Also, any other kind of questions goes here, do not spam the trade channel with stupid stuff.

How to use the Trade chat.
WTS (Want to sell), WTT (Want to trade), PSW/T (Please send whisper/tell) and WTB (Want to Buy) are the most used acronyms in the trade chat.
You can also advertise for your professions here, but there is no need for 4-6 lines of text for that.
This chat is also not for stupid requests like portals, questions or LFG shoutouts.
How to use the Local Defense
This chat is to let other people of your faction know that there is an attack incoming somewhere, and to communicate with each other so that you can lead an attack without being in a raid.
If you do not get a response here, it is becouse people simply do not care, and have left it.

How to use the LookingForGroup chat.
Here, we look for other people that want to do a raid or dungeon. Simple as that.
Yelling
If you see a person flying off, but unable to click him before vanishing of off into the distance, yelling is a fine way to get his attention

Roleplaying Servers
The rules clearly state that when on a roleplaying server, you never ever go out of character ((OOC)).
You may only do this in a dungeon if you used the Dungeon Finder Tool, or the group, or person you are talking to in whisper allowes it.


Behavior when your in a dungeon group
This is very important!
Whenever you are in a group, be polite and helpfull.
Why, you ask?
Well, it is quiet simple... It makes the whole run a better experience for all of you.
If something goes wrong, do not blame each other for poor job, be polite and find out what went wrong, and find out what can be done to improve your next attempt.
Do not need on offspec gear if someone needs it for mainspec, ask first, or you'll have a fight on your hands that does not involve enemies, but only yourself.

Are you the tank?
Then keep an eye out for the healers mana, and the party's health
You do not want to run blindly into a group when your healer is 60 yards behind you, drinking.
Do not pull more then necessary, use crowcontroll as much as possible.
That makes the run go smoother, and less stressfull for you and your healer.

Are you a DPS?
Then do not attack anything unless the tank has actually attacked the enemies he pulled... Or you'll pull agro, the tank will have to run around like a headless chicken and the healer will have a hard tim healing you, himself and the tank.
is there fire under your feet? Maybe a poison cloud?
Then you should move either forward, strafe left or right. Never ever walk backwards, it takes ~40% longer, and you'll take lots more damage.

Are you the healer?
You have the life of four people in your hands, that does not give you the rights to be bossy.
Are you out of mana (OOM)?, tell the tank, so that he does not run of charging into a fiendish hellspawn.

Behavior when your in a raid.
If you read the part above, you should know what to do in a raid.
Here you follow the raid leaders orders, only one person gives the final order, this is so that there aint no confusion on what to do on bosses or trash.

Is the loot rule on Group Loot, but was ment to be Master Loot?
Do not press Need, but pass.
It is the Loot Master's job t distribute the items around the raid.

Also, a tip for you; If in a guild raid, and you got a very good item, but a fellow guildy needs the item that droped even more, let him/her have it.
It will improve the raid DPS even more.