Friday 12 January, 2007

I played in two groups over the past 2 hours, one successful, and one unsuccessful. The first one was a disaster. Myself and four other random people with no strategy and no experience playing with each other. People were trying to boss each other around and the party died 3 times due to one member not doing his job, so I and another person decided to leave.

In World of Warcraft, while 75% of the content can be done solo, the parts that require groups require everybody do a good job. It doesn't matter how much damage I do if the warrior can't keep the zombies from eating me or the healer can't keep the warrior alive to keep the zombies from eating me.

After the failed group, some people from my guild asked me if I wanted to join their group. I've played with these people before, we all get along, and we all know what we're doing. The run went perfectly smoothly, nobody ever died once. We all talked while we played and had a great time. Nobody fought over any loot that dropped, nobody was greedy.

That's one of the things I love about World of Warcraft, the social element. It doesn't matter how good you are at actually playing the game, you have to balance that with being a friendly person so that people enjoy playing with you.

Good entry. Good concentration on the game aspects of talents and skills, but next time you should expand on the game as a whole. What was your character class? What type of skill did you give up, ranged or melee? What else in the game was good even though you lost your skill?