WTF was that?
I have retired from raiding. Not because I don’t like it anymore but because I want to spend more time with my family. One thing that was constantly brought up during raids was to be situationaly aware on what was happening around you. Avoid this, don’t stand in that, target this mob, kite that one. To that end I have to say that raiding is learnt over a long period of time. Experiencing everything that you should and shouldn’t do.
With the new LFG system and the way that levelling is currently easy street at the moment, I can tell you that we are not making any new raiders. I was running AK on my tankadin and we were at the first couple of mobs that drop the void zones on the ground……the big black things that reduce your health if you stand in them. Group consisted of healer and three melee with me being the tank. First group, three deaths. Second group, three deaths. Third and final group…….three deaths. Then finally a comment…..WTF was that? These are players wearing BoA gear so I’m pretty sure that they have run this place before. How can you not see something big and black then think that it’s normal and ok to stand in…..then continue to stand in it when your health goes down?
If you’ve not raided before then the idea of all these dungeons is that you learn how to deal with certain situations and adjust your play accordingly. This will then lead onto more difficult encounters and finally onto raids. Take Sarth 3d for instance. You have added mobs, walls to avoid, void zones on the ground and a void to go in and out of. Another is General in Uld. He spits out the big purply things that reduce your health and do bad juju. Same as the mobs leading to the final boss in AN, they do exactly the same yet I have never….ever seen anyone move from them. All of these things have some form of duplication in other instances. I think that we are just so overpowered for the current instances that we power through most of those and miss out on what the game designers originally wanted us to experience.
Maybe I’m just being and elitest wanker but I think the future of the game at a serious raiding level is in a bit of trouble.
Furn
I completely agree with you. This week I ran some randoms on my 79 warrior tank. Halls of Lightning – the first boss would start whirlwinding, the melee wouldn’t budge. Halls of Stone – the last boss would cast lightning nova, the melee wouldn’t budge. I really don’t want to get grouped with these people again when I hit 80 and start doing heroics.
Thank god I’m not the only one!