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chrisvenusHmmmm... I don't have anything exciting to post today. Intead I may mention that I have recetly started playing World of Warcrackft. Ive been trundling my way through for the last fortnight and am currently a level 22 warrior. Last night I went on my first big instance run and was reminded of one of the reasons I dislike MMOs - the people.
Looking for a group to go through the deadmines with my first respondant was a L16 something. Now this is reccomendded for levels 17-25 or something like that and he was 5 levels lower than me. OK. I've got no other choices at the moment. Then he tells me that he's found somebody else and to make him leader so he can invite. And so the party is joined by the level 47 hunter. Ummmm... from one end of the scale straight to the other extreme!
Eventually I say to them "look, I'm not here to be handheld through a dungeon but to have a challenge" and leave the group along with somebody else with much the same attitude. We team up and then find some others. One of them invites me to a guild and through a fit of curiosity I accept. My new guild mate says he is experienced and can tell me what I need because their other character is a warrior. I think their other character's name might be Leeroy Jenkins. I thought I was the main tank which means that I am the one who the bad guys should be hitting. However, Leeroy decided that the best course of action was to run in and attack loads of people i the middle of the room meaning that, well, they all attacked back. Now one at a time careful tactics for us, just good old solid being pounded on by the bad guys.
I ponder briefly if I should stop being so nervous. I've never done it before, surely its not possible for me to still be the most experienced person, right? Before long this person leaves for reasons I'm not clear on. It might have been because it was a lame group though. Another guy, then leaves at this point because there's no point. Luckily at this stage we advertise and get a couple of new people in and we then have a competent group (though not optimal).
Once we had it right it was really fun. I already learned a lot about what not to do and what to do and it was generally fun. We didn't get through it though, mainly due to somebody needing to go and we decided that given we'd just wiped with four that three wasn't going to work. And yeah, we started five but were down to four at this stage and I have *no* idea where the other guy got off to or when. I just suddenly realised we were playing with only four. And still kicking ass. :) I have high hopes for tonight...
Oh, and I forgot to mention these dungeons have a special meeting stone. If you are looking for a group you activate this stone and you join the group preparing to go down. I did this when first looking and found myself in a party with a couple of foreign speakers (tenative guess of portugese). I was relating my escapades to somebody else who was expressing their great surprise that somebody had used the meeting stone. There surprise was entirely justified when about five minutes after leaving the party (didn't fancy trying it with people I couldn't understand) I got a message saying "Sorry, we never had any intent to go into the Deadmines". So basically they basically couldn't get to grips with the game features.
I'm really glad I did find some competent people in the end otherwise I might have been on my way out of another MMO. In games like this where you *have* to work together with people in places like this it can really put you off the game if all you find are the kind of people that Leeroy at you or any of the others mentioned in this list of Incorrigible Personality Types you might end up with.
Ah, well. I've got the name of the healer in the group who i thought was very competent.
Anyway, bring on tonights attempt...
Looking for a group to go through the deadmines with my first respondant was a L16 something. Now this is reccomendded for levels 17-25 or something like that and he was 5 levels lower than me. OK. I've got no other choices at the moment. Then he tells me that he's found somebody else and to make him leader so he can invite. And so the party is joined by the level 47 hunter. Ummmm... from one end of the scale straight to the other extreme!
Eventually I say to them "look, I'm not here to be handheld through a dungeon but to have a challenge" and leave the group along with somebody else with much the same attitude. We team up and then find some others. One of them invites me to a guild and through a fit of curiosity I accept. My new guild mate says he is experienced and can tell me what I need because their other character is a warrior. I think their other character's name might be Leeroy Jenkins. I thought I was the main tank which means that I am the one who the bad guys should be hitting. However, Leeroy decided that the best course of action was to run in and attack loads of people i the middle of the room meaning that, well, they all attacked back. Now one at a time careful tactics for us, just good old solid being pounded on by the bad guys.
I ponder briefly if I should stop being so nervous. I've never done it before, surely its not possible for me to still be the most experienced person, right? Before long this person leaves for reasons I'm not clear on. It might have been because it was a lame group though. Another guy, then leaves at this point because there's no point. Luckily at this stage we advertise and get a couple of new people in and we then have a competent group (though not optimal).
Once we had it right it was really fun. I already learned a lot about what not to do and what to do and it was generally fun. We didn't get through it though, mainly due to somebody needing to go and we decided that given we'd just wiped with four that three wasn't going to work. And yeah, we started five but were down to four at this stage and I have *no* idea where the other guy got off to or when. I just suddenly realised we were playing with only four. And still kicking ass. :) I have high hopes for tonight...
Oh, and I forgot to mention these dungeons have a special meeting stone. If you are looking for a group you activate this stone and you join the group preparing to go down. I did this when first looking and found myself in a party with a couple of foreign speakers (tenative guess of portugese). I was relating my escapades to somebody else who was expressing their great surprise that somebody had used the meeting stone. There surprise was entirely justified when about five minutes after leaving the party (didn't fancy trying it with people I couldn't understand) I got a message saying "Sorry, we never had any intent to go into the Deadmines". So basically they basically couldn't get to grips with the game features.
I'm really glad I did find some competent people in the end otherwise I might have been on my way out of another MMO. In games like this where you *have* to work together with people in places like this it can really put you off the game if all you find are the kind of people that Leeroy at you or any of the others mentioned in this list of Incorrigible Personality Types you might end up with.
Ah, well. I've got the name of the healer in the group who i thought was very competent.
Anyway, bring on tonights attempt...
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Date: 2006-07-12 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-12 05:06 pm (UTC)(Sorry, nothing constructive to add...)
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Date: 2006-07-12 07:08 pm (UTC)(you may need to click the English button at the top, website recently updated and they havent got all the bugs out yet ;) )
Try the free trial. Love it. Find your machine needs upgrading *grins*
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Date: 2006-07-12 07:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-12 07:43 pm (UTC)Just don't do what I did and get so involved in your role you miss the main objective of the dungeon and have to rerun it a week later to get the shiny stuff. That's annoying. :-)
[Goes off to ponder how to make money without levelling too fast]
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:38 pm (UTC)I pretty much stopped doing instance runs, for approximately this reason. Deadmines, Stormwind Stockade, and Gnomeregan. Of, and Scarlet Monastory once.
On the other hand, it's quite entertaining when your level 18 Paladin Guildmates have a class quest which takes them to Shadowfang keep. And you happen to be a level 50 rogue. I so kicked arse ;-)
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Date: 2006-07-12 11:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-12 11:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-12 11:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-13 08:35 am (UTC)It's an interesting point about the community, though. They do say that Alliance-side WoW on a non-RP server has one of the most... Umm... What's a good word... 'Distinctive' communities of any MMORPG. But then, I've not really encountered this myself, mostly because I don't think I've ever grouped with more than one or two people at a time. And that leads to the question of what the point is of soloing through and MMO...
I'm rambling. I'll shut up now.
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Date: 2006-07-13 08:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-13 10:08 am (UTC)In a small guild with some real world friends, and we are all (more or less) in a nice big raiding group.