World of Warcraft: Classic

Power blinked a few minutes ago due to thunderstorm. Internet reset. Got disconnected. Now I'm in a 40 minute queue. Fuck.

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yerm said:

Being a decent tank in a pug dungeon setting requires basically being an alpha male. You have to take point, correct people, and at least act like you are responsible even if you let other people handle general direction - ideally you cover that too and know the dungeon well. Most wow players (its even worse in eq's lfg world) are not type a so they don't want to take the lead, be in the front, or hang onto responsibility.

If you want successful groups as a class like hunter, you kinda need to be assertive. You have to ask warriors to come - not "/1 lf tank and gtg" ask, I mean /who and start chatting ask. Then consider floating some of that stess onto yourself - if they don't take the lead, you do it. Mark targets. Call directions. Yell for a pause. Etc.

If you just want to play a dps well and wreck mobs and not have to do all that administrative bullshit? Totally understandable... but so does 95% of the playerbase around you.

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The majority of my issues will disappear as I get to know more people on my server. I started fresh not knowing a single person. That was the key thing to groups I remember from Vanilla, being social, and keeping track of the chill people to group with. Sometimes it's just not worth the effort, like the middle of the night. Then it's just better to play LFG lottery, and hit that LFG macro once every 10 minutes, while you doing other stuff, and sometimes luck out.

Personally I'm glad there's tons of warlocks around, that's my essential slot to fill right there. Oh and bribing tanks i.e. offering to cover repair bill. That right there gets me more results than anything, because I recall I didn't want to risk tanking for randoms wearing plate, and leaving the dungeon with less than I started. I'll likely start doing the let the tank roll need on some shit people don't need thing soon too, mainly to save my own cash.

I don't mind leading the way as a tank, I loved tanking during WotLK, I just can't stand all the retards that act like everyone should feel grateful they even bothered to join your group, because of their vast, bleeding edge knowledge. I'm a mythical raider that banged my head against bosses hundreds of times before we killed it for months on end, bow before me! (Not directed at anyone here, that's the kinda shit I regularly deal with, and 99% of the time they full of shit)

It's Classic WoW, have a little patience, calm your tits, and everyone will have a good time. Shit will get better when the little spergs get bored and find a new shiny.

I just want to have fun, and enjoy some old school style MMO gameplay, where I can socialize while we murderhobo dungeons, without the DDR for the fingers shit that exists in modern WoW. That was the appeal of TLP EQ, and that's why I'm here playing this shit again.

Really wish the server queue wasn't so bad for Whitemane, I'd be having a lot more fun playing with people here I've already played WoW with. My Legion experience was awesome. A lot of really skilled players, that didn't act like fucking retards. WTB PL when I can reliably login to the server on demand.

Yeah I had a group of 51/52 in BRD last night and we ended up doing 2 runs. The last of which we killed everything except magmus and emp. Was enjoyable, no one got mad, we all knew we were too low to really push in as far as we did, but everyone played well and took it slow. The priest and mage walked out with like 4-5 pre raid bis pieces. Was a nice change of pace and what I was hoping for more than the herp derp aoe stuff.

a better feeling than most upgrades.

Quineloe said:

a better feeling than most upgrades.

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Last week someone put a bunch of runecloth bags up at the same price as silk by mistake, roughly 1g 50s I think. Bought all that shit up, and now me and alts have good bags, and I made a tidy profit off the rest. Lucky for sure.

Chimney said:

Yeah I had a group of 51/52 in BRD last night and we ended up doing 2 runs. The last of which we killed everything except magmus and emp. Was enjoyable, no one got mad, we all knew we were too low to really push in as far as we did, but everyone played well and took it slow. The priest and mage walked out with like 4-5 pre raid bis pieces. Was a nice change of pace and what I was hoping for more than the herp derp aoe stuff.

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I forgot how hellish the Torch room in BRD was until I did it again the first time, with no real AOE along. Glorious.

Everyone should go to this post and reply/complain/signal boost:


Currently shamans suck, lets make them not suck by allowing group-moving while in combat.

I walk backwards when tanking or repositioning a mob because the pathing is a mess and trying to move too fast usually has it over correcting and moving way too much.

Aaron said:

Yeah, I'm not often playing a tank, but I see how it would be good to walk backwards then.

As for muscle memory, it's the same with me, but I live in hope that I'm still young enough to adapt lol.

The way it is now is that I use my left hand to punch abilities in the 1-6 and F1-F4 range, but mouse click all the ones outside of that range. I mean, it works, I've done well raiding like that, but I keep thinking I could do better.

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One of the stereotypes about old vanilla players is clicking abilities, lol.

With a good gaming mouse and shift/ctrl modifiers you shouldn't need to click anything.

Aaron said:

Yeah, I'm not often playing a tank, but I see how it would be good to walk backwards then.

As for muscle memory, it's the same with me, but I live in hope that I'm still young enough to adapt lol.

The way it is now is that I use my left hand to punch abilities in the 1-6 and F1-F4 range, but mouse click all the ones outside of that range. I mean, it works, I've done well raiding like that, but I keep thinking I could do better.

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If you are relearning your keys anyways you might try ESDF for movement (shift over 1). It frees up 3 more keys for your free little finger. Takes a bit of getting use to but it allows for convenient access to more abilities. And the tab key, etc. are still easy to reach. It also means I don't have to buy a Naga and deal with all of that. A multi button mouse is helpful though.