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This is a nice article "Daetur" created over on the MMO-Champ forums. I am not Daetur, just linking it because I found it rather useful and informative, especially for people who might not be aware of all the coming changes.

Granted, the difficulty of Cataclysm may be nerfed to cater to players who vocalize their frustration loudest. Just in case that doesn't happen, or until it does happen, this is still a great post.

Enjoy!

The first coupla weeks of Cata dungeon pugs are going to be atrocious. If you have, in the last few months, ever sat back and said "sweet candied jebus these pug members SUCK at this game!" you haven't even begun to experience the frustration, nerdrage, and keyboard compression you will experience after your first five trips into a cata dungeon with people who's most extreme teething was running WOTLK heroics with i232s.

It's gunna be fun!

 

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I normally don't like preachy posts but that came across as very constructive.

Nice read, nothing new but still good.

I think I will level my Worgen and then just PVP for a momth and get that gear. ^.^

 

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What bothers me at least a little bit is that Bliz has how many thousands of quests in the game... and yet none of them seem to be designed to train someone to play their class properly in a 5-man setting. It's arguably the first moderately difficult thing to do in the game (the only remotely hard part of leveling is soloing group content, that sort of thing...) and they just let people dive right into the deep end. I guess they expect the playerbase to do the training, which is a trial by fire at best.

Simple class specific quests like forcing a mage to keep one super-mob sheeped (who, if not sheeped, will approach the mage and eat him alive) while killing a stream of weaker adds. Generic "tank" quests available to any of the tank classes that involve using taunts in a proper fashion, switching targets, when to AE and when not to, etc.

Obviously, many people didn't have much trouble figuring out how to use all their class abilities effectively... but it can definitely be said that many people HAVE had trouble figuring these things out. Quests that focused on broadening people's abilities with their class could be fun and productive. I guess it's easier said than done.

 

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Very good I'm sharing this with my guild.

 

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What I don't understand is how did everyone get so awful at this game? It's not a hard game. You really almost have to try to suck at it.

Did people just regress after WOTLK came out? I missed the whole expansion as it just didn't appeal to me and I've only been back for a month. The first thing I noticed was how ridiculously easy the heroics where and how easy it was to gear up for raiding (which no one is really doing anymore). The second thing I noticed, was how bad most people are. Did all the people that knew what they were doing get bored and quit? Are all these people using the DF all newly minted 80's that slug through 80 levels solo? How can they suck this bad?

No, they suck throughout all levels using the DF. And they suck quite well.

I'm not super awesome by any means, but sometimes I just stare open-mouthed at my screen thinking "OMFG WTF are they doing?"

Blizzard should make Daetur's post part of the login screen.

 

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Other solution: be in a good guild and avoid PUGs like the plague.

 

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