Friday, March 28th, 2008

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5:02p	"The etiquette of instance loot " You will be given the option to need, greed, or pass an item. In most cases you should only pick ""need"" if the item that dropped is appropriate to your class and better than your current gear. wow eu If you need a piece of gear, click on the die icon in the pop-up window. Conventions on greeding and passing vary among groups. In many cases players who do not need an item and would only sell it to a vendor select greed by clicking on the pile of coins. wow euro If someone in your party states that they need an item, it is genial to click the X to pass it. If everyone opts to pass an item, you may be told to ""roll"" on it. Type /roll to generate a random number between one and one hundred. wow power leveling Whoever has the highest roll is entitled to pick up the item. If there is an enchanter in the group, they may pick up the item and disenchant it. In most cases the enchanter does not keep the shard provided by the disenchant ability. wow powerleveling Everyone rolls and whoever is highest is given the enchanting created from the disenchant. This practice also varies from group to group. As a courtesy if I win a roll, I ask the enchanter to keep the shard. wow power level Instances are important for loot and leveling, but they also help you to learn important aspects of how to play your class. Next time I will address the roles you will be expected to play in an instance. EDIT: Spelling corrections for great justice. Thanks for the comments! <3 Amanda " . RELATED LINKS: http://ponyma.ilcannocchiale.it/ http://savannahnow.com/node/461500 http://sunny1213.proboards89.com/index.cgi http://teresa.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/507228/allcmt/ http://teresa.miyachan.cc/e20909.html http://teresa.naganoblog.jp/e91393.html (Comment on this)
5:05p	Officers' Quarters: The road to mediocrity "Every Monday Scott Andrews contributes Officers' Quarters, a column about the ins and outs of guild leadership. We've all come across those mediocre players. They are the hunters that can DPS but don't know how to trap a mob; the shamans that never break crowd control but windfury their way to the top of the aggro list every single pull; the warriors who excel at single-target tanking but can't hold more than one mob at a time. wow eu Where do these players come from, and how do they stay so mediocre after 70 levels. The author of this week's e-mail thinks he has the answer: The road to mediocrity is built by your own guild. Scott, I enjoy your Officers' Quarters articles on WoWInsider.com, so maybe you can tackle this subject for me in your next piece: I am now a casual player (played since beta and used to be hardcore) and I'm in this nice and friendly social guild. I'm not an officer, nor do I have the desire to be one. wow euro I just want to log on and do whatever I feel like with my limited play time. This guild puts no pressure on me and I appreciate that. The guild leaders' philosophy is to be helpful to one another – helping on whatever is needed by other members. wow power leveling Guild members get rank up by how much they help others. This was a noble idea . wow powerleveling but there's a huge caveat. One of the things that lower level members often ask higher members for help on is to run them through instances. However, there's a very bad side effect to this: mediocrity. "   RELATED LINKS: http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wowgoldmaster http://www.wowgoldhunter.blogspot.com http://geocities.com/albrecht_juergen/blog.html http://jessica1122-larysworldofwarcraftstory.blogspot.com http://wowgoldhunter.wordpress.com/ http://wowgoldmonster.spaces.live.com/default.aspx (Comment on this)
5:06p	Officers' Quarters: The road to mediocrity "I've come to discover that instance run-throughs are a breeding ground for mediocrity. These players who get their hands held through low levels have no concept of class play or the dynamic of teamwork, and once they get to Outland instances where run-throughs aren't as easily done, their mediocrity shows full and clear. wow eu [. .] Now every time lower level members ask me to run them through instances, I often make up some excuses that I can't go, or if I have an alt that is in their level range, I would use that instead and try to create a normal group for them in hope they would learn something. wow euro However, whenever I did this, some other high level members would offer their help to run us through, therefore defeating the purpose of what I was trying to do. I have not spoken out about this issue to the guild. One, because I am not part of the leadership structure, and two, because I know one of the biggest pet peeve people have in this game is when somebody tells them what to do or how to play. wow power leveling Plus, there's a fact that people doesn't like it when you tell them they suck. I have no intention of leaving the guild, but I am now in the guild for social purposes only and doing other things with outsiders. Is there a way to soften the blow and tells them that instance run-throughs (or any other hand-holding events) are a bad idea, especially for people leveling up their first toon ever. wow powerleveling Being helpful is good, but being too helpful is not good. Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. Sincerely, " .   RELATED LINKS: http://wowgoldmonter.vox.com/ http://360.yahoo.com/olivercxz1104 http://blog.goo.ne.jp/teresa_2008/ http://d.hatena.ne.jp/teresa1213/#edit_in_place http://emma1215.blogspot.com/ http://jessica112.eblogs.com/index.php (Comment on this)

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