New Rules – 5/11/10
New Rule – If you’re trying to screen bad players, don’t be bad yourself
Nothing makes me lose interest in joining a pug raid then one particular question.
You see the call go out in Trade chat: “LFM Nan Dungortheb, need 2 dps, 1 healer.” The announcement doesn’t smack of any particular idiocy and you’ve been meaning to pick up some loot from Ungoliant’s spawn so why not? You send the raid leader a whisper volunteering your pewpew services.
“Wats ur dps?”
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Aaaaaaaaaaaand I’m out. Done. Do not care at all whatsoever anymore. That question tells me that you don’t really have any idea what you’re looking for and unless the number I give you in return is beyond ridiculous you aren’t going to be impressed anyway.
I could answer that my dps is over 10,000. That’s 100% true. I could also say that my dps is 3000, also true. Damage done is dependent on context for meaning, elsewise its only use is to flaunt your wowcock.
New Rule – Know where the hell you’re going
When I dinged 70 back in Burning Crusade on my first character I made a point of going back and soloing as many of the old world vanilla dungeons and raids that I could. I had to get help for Upper Blackrock, not only because of the numbers requirements to get past the door but also because Drakk’s conflag was still pretty wicked at the time without a healer. I got attuned to Onyxia, I got the Seal of Ascension, I got the hammer to summon Gahz’ranka even.
As I was doing all this old world stuff I was also working on my Arcatraz key, figuring out which floating barge was the Botanica and which was the Mechanar, learning where the Caverns of Time were and which portal was which, etc.
Why?
Because I never wanted to be the clueless one in the group. If I got a whisper inviting me to do Heroic Mech, I don’t want to be freaking out about trying to find the damn place on a map. Its discourteous to the rest of the group in my opinion.
The dungeon finder tool has bestowed upon us all a slew of people who have never been to the summoning stone of the instance they’re queued for, people who may have never even been in the same zone as the instance they’re in. This has led to a metric ton of people who, after wiping in say… Halls of Reflection, flounder around in Icecrown for twenty minutes before leaving the group in embarrassment because they’re completely incapable of finding the entrance.
Know that kind of thing before you queue please and thank you!
New Rule – So help me if you still have your hearth set to Dalaran Zulrohk I will murder your face off
I THINK THE PEOPLE THAT NEED TO HEAR THIS KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT.
New Rule – Shay must always carry a copy of his house key on him at all times, no exceptions. I think the people that need to hear this know what I’m talking about.
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Shayzani Reply:
May 11th, 2010 at 3:20 pm
I think the best way to do this is to stitch several copies of my key into my skin.
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Aurorai
11 May 10 at 12:09 pm
Rule #3 could also be, “Zuhlrohk if your hearth is still set to Dalaran then just ask Garrot for a portal to Orgrimmar sheesh.”
Rule #4 (aka the Aurorai Initiative) is also stellar. LANYARDS FTW.
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Astoreth
11 May 10 at 12:51 pm
I have to confess that I do actually get lost corpserunning back to the ICC heroics.
I blame the fact that it requires three dimensional navigation, and the fact that THE WHOLE OF ICECROWN LOOKS IDENTICAL
Chastity´s last blog ..bad raid strategy for fun and profit
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Shayzani Reply:
May 14th, 2010 at 9:22 am
I’m not sure what they were thinking when the stuck the entrance to the 5mans up there in that obscure, remote ledge. However, if you think of getting to the entrance the same as you think about getting to Neverland it becomes much easier. Second bridge up on the right and straight on til… smacking into an Argent Crusade flag.
That sounded so much better in my head.
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Chastity
14 May 10 at 4:33 am