TalonBot
01-12-2010, 03:43 PM
Every week, Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/) explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week, we go to pet our kitties and discover that they are not there.
I am going to take a short break from stomping Moore's music selections (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/01/blood-sport-beginners-guide-to-arena-part-iv/) flatter than a Kansas prairie in order to include a Monty Python video, which I think we can all agree is a necessary sacrifice this week given both our subject material and the title that was guaranteed to result (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Be_Seen).
I had the pleasure of meeting a completely new player (http://www.wow.com/category/wow-rookie/) on my server not all that long ago. He'd rolled a rogue and was slowly making his way through both levels and the avalanche of bewilderment common to new players. I haven't forgotten what it was like to be tossed into a world of frequent acronyms and gamer parlance (http://www.wow.com/2009/04/01/wow-rookie-gaming-terminology-101/), and I spent some time giving him tips. Between making helpful suggestions like, "Wow, I guess you can't jump off the Thunder Bluff elevator at that point" and "Did you ever consider rolling a druid?", I discovered that he was in the habit of dying a lot.
For new players, that's not unusual, but it was how he was dying that really got my attention. Starting most fights from Stealth (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1784), he'd sneak up to a mob, most typically from the front, and then attempt to circle to the side or rear for a Backstab (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53) opener. A good 90% of the time, the mob would attack him midway through the process, which -- as you can imagine -- is a disconsolate state of affairs for someone who aspires to be an invisible ninja.
As soon as I saw this, I said, "Well, that's your problem right there."
"What is?"
"You are not an invisible ninja."Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: How not to be seen (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/12/shifting-perspectives-how-not-to-be-seen/)
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I am going to take a short break from stomping Moore's music selections (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/01/blood-sport-beginners-guide-to-arena-part-iv/) flatter than a Kansas prairie in order to include a Monty Python video, which I think we can all agree is a necessary sacrifice this week given both our subject material and the title that was guaranteed to result (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Not_to_Be_Seen).
I had the pleasure of meeting a completely new player (http://www.wow.com/category/wow-rookie/) on my server not all that long ago. He'd rolled a rogue and was slowly making his way through both levels and the avalanche of bewilderment common to new players. I haven't forgotten what it was like to be tossed into a world of frequent acronyms and gamer parlance (http://www.wow.com/2009/04/01/wow-rookie-gaming-terminology-101/), and I spent some time giving him tips. Between making helpful suggestions like, "Wow, I guess you can't jump off the Thunder Bluff elevator at that point" and "Did you ever consider rolling a druid?", I discovered that he was in the habit of dying a lot.
For new players, that's not unusual, but it was how he was dying that really got my attention. Starting most fights from Stealth (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=1784), he'd sneak up to a mob, most typically from the front, and then attempt to circle to the side or rear for a Backstab (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=53) opener. A good 90% of the time, the mob would attack him midway through the process, which -- as you can imagine -- is a disconsolate state of affairs for someone who aspires to be an invisible ninja.
As soon as I saw this, I said, "Well, that's your problem right there."
"What is?"
"You are not an invisible ninja."Continue reading Shifting Perspectives: How not to be seen (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/12/shifting-perspectives-how-not-to-be-seen/)
Filed under: Druid (http://www.wow.com/category/druid/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), Guides (http://www.wow.com/category/guides/), (Druid) Shifting Perspectives (http://www.wow.com/category/shifting-perspectives/)
Shifting Perspectives: How not to be seen (http://www.wow.com/2010/01/12/shifting-perspectives-how-not-to-be-seen/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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