Last night the guild ran The Underbog to get us noobs rep, exp and to gear us up. First off, Limited Warranty is one of the very few guilds that I've been part of that actually help you out. Sure, there are a lot of guilds that do help you, guilds that will craft stuff for you and loan you gold and are a fun group of people to chat with to help you through the tedium of farming mats to level your leather working and if you think about how you'll need to kill about 6,482,132 more Helboars just to get one more Fel Hide you'll go crazy and delete your character, donate your money and then switch sides on a new server... erm, never mind.
So, the guild ran us through Underbog and I like that we're doing these instances together. The tank and the healer are both level 70 and I'm sure they had more important things to do, but they're taking their time out to level and gear the rest of us so that we can start running the heroics and maybe take a stab at Kara. The most important thing that we're doing isn't getting the gear, exp and rep. We're learning how to work together.
Have you been in a guild where everyone is a solo artist and when you try to run stuff together you have no idea what the other people are going to do and you get the attitude of "F this, I'm going to make sure I live through this!" attitude? No, me either. *cough*
But I found myself starting to gel with the group. I started to learn how the tank/puller (until I get Misdirection, after which I'm going to convince them to let me do the pulling. See BRK's two posts on Misdirection for more info [pt.1] [pt.2])... Where was I? Oh yeah, I learned how the tank likes to pull and how the GM (an amazing Boomkin who can heal like nothing) will heal the pet (which made me more aware of keeping Mend Pet up, I don't want to be the cause of him going OOM).
Second of all, I really enjoyed myself. I really started to gain an instinctual feeling for the hunter class instead of having to process every decision and losing that 1 second to a decision rather than casting Intimidation so that Snookims can pull the mob off the druid long enough for the tank to peel him back.
Thirdly, and this is something that everyone learning their class needs to do, I asked for feedback from the GM. I did it in private chat, not because I was afraid people would rip me a new one, but because I wasn't interested in compliments or accolades, but in honest feedback. Bum told me that I need to work on my trapping and crowd control. A very fair assessment, one that I agree with 100%. So, I'll be reading more BRK (man, am I a fanboy yet?) and watching his videos and then practicing my crowd control.
Ok, who am I to scold people, what do I know since I'm still learning the hunter, and most of all, this is a game! But. When you're raiding everyone needs to know your role and shut your mouth. Nothing will kill a raid faster than someone not knowing how to change their play style for the raid's benefit, unless it's someone questioning the raid leader's decisions. Raids are not democracies. The minute you're in the instance, you need to be in a military-mindset and you follow the orders of the raid leader first, your class leader second, and no one else third. What does that have to do with the above? You cannot follow the orders of the RL or CL if you don't know your own class. The order to pull the Red "X" comes and you start fumbling for that macro or the order to trap the blue square comes and you set the trap too close to where they're going to AOE the other mobs, and what do you get? A lot of angry people, possible raid drama and you're going to be looked at in a different light.
And hunters, we're a dime a dozen- no, a dime a gross. If you mess up enough, your raid spot is going to go to someone who may not be as well geared as you but they know their class and it's role and can follow orders. And what's the point of wanting to raid if you find yourself on the back-up raid list or not on the list at all?
But Claz, what mad loot did you get?
- The Tracker's Belt (drop)
- Dark Cloak of the Marsh (quest reward)
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