It's Not Just A Game Anymore
Sure, if you're just starting out, killing rats for a quest, and buying your noob weapons and armor, it's just a game. Sure running five- or even ten-man instances is a relative breeze. As long as you don't have absolute morons in your group you can get to these low-tier bosses.
But it's when you start raiding content that requires the presence, coordination, and cooperation of 40 different people when you start getting to the most challenging aspect of the game. And it's not because the bosses are insanely difficult. No, the challenge is getting a group together who will listen to direction and execute when the time comes to get it done.
Case in point: Onyxia. This dragon, like any other high-end boss, has tricks to its defeat. Once these tricks are learned it's about performing the correct actions in the correct order at the correct time. Then it's just a matter of how long the fight takes before you down her.
These encounters have to be practiced. You've gotta get owned the first, second, third, or even fifth or sixth times before you finally start to 1) get it, and 2) gel as a group for the encounter.
Granted, the going is slower when there are still morons who still get tail-whipped into dragon whelp eggs despite being told hundreds of times to not be anywhere near the vicinity of her tail.
There are also the egos to contend with. People joining our guild who have been in bigger guilds that have downed all these high-level bosses. Trying to give direction. Speaking over the guild master. Sorry, dude, you left your guild so now it's time for you to shut your bitch-ass mouth up and listen to our leader. I don't care how epic-ed out you are, I don't care what big dogs you used to run with. You're in our house now and you are the smallest fish.
That's the most challenging part of World of Warcraft: dealing with other people.
As it is with real life, wouldn't you say?
But it's when you start raiding content that requires the presence, coordination, and cooperation of 40 different people when you start getting to the most challenging aspect of the game. And it's not because the bosses are insanely difficult. No, the challenge is getting a group together who will listen to direction and execute when the time comes to get it done.
Case in point: Onyxia. This dragon, like any other high-end boss, has tricks to its defeat. Once these tricks are learned it's about performing the correct actions in the correct order at the correct time. Then it's just a matter of how long the fight takes before you down her.
These encounters have to be practiced. You've gotta get owned the first, second, third, or even fifth or sixth times before you finally start to 1) get it, and 2) gel as a group for the encounter.
Granted, the going is slower when there are still morons who still get tail-whipped into dragon whelp eggs despite being told hundreds of times to not be anywhere near the vicinity of her tail.
There are also the egos to contend with. People joining our guild who have been in bigger guilds that have downed all these high-level bosses. Trying to give direction. Speaking over the guild master. Sorry, dude, you left your guild so now it's time for you to shut your bitch-ass mouth up and listen to our leader. I don't care how epic-ed out you are, I don't care what big dogs you used to run with. You're in our house now and you are the smallest fish.
That's the most challenging part of World of Warcraft: dealing with other people.
As it is with real life, wouldn't you say?
posted by R @ 11/14/2005 07:13:00 AM
2 Comments:
At 11:06 AM,
Phelps said…
Hell, that's the game that I want to play. That's why I became a dwarven priest. I am starting to wonder how many casters there are in this game who have know idea what the "f" key is for.
"Hmmm... I could throw my fire thingy at the thing that both the fighters of the group have engaged if only I knew how to select it... nah, I'll just pull this shit that wasn't even looking at us over onto me and the priest."
Lvl 17 and counting. The further I get from solo grinding and the faster to grouping, the better.
At 12:40 PM,
R said…
Oh wow. Dwarven priest? You will be in high demand my friend.
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