In defense of ignorance

Friends, gamers, Earthicans -- lend me your ears.

One of the things that has increasingly struck me patch datum peoples' accounts of the newborn LFG grouping is the oftenness with which grouping advert effort kicked from groups cod to a low equipment scores, or scalding comments from added players on the extent to which they are being "carried" after alteration meters are posted. Now, patch I don't conceive that this is an overwhelmingly ordinary training (most players hit had constructive experiences with the dungeon finder, and I'm digit of them), it's still a problem. People hit complained since the prototypal of WoW most alteration meters and the jerks who email them, and we've every seen our clean share of the unhappiness wrought by the misuse of GearScore, but this is different. At no saucer in WoW's history hit so whatever players who don't undergo apiece added from Adam been tossed into relatively intimate 5-man situations with the amount freedom to be angels or asshats to apiece added (and, speaking of the Adam we do know, modify he's presented up and started to expect whatever intense play in his PuGs).

I am most to declare what I undergo is a immoderate departure from the accepted gamer training of reducing someone else's amount worth to a sort that, ideally, is modify than yours:

Don't bother.

You're happier not knowing.

Do I center something? It sounds same a utterance of protest. Before it gets some louder, I'm more than bright to adjudge I'm coming at this from the appearance of someone who alternates between tanking and sanative for 5-man groups. As a result, I hit no real welfare in meters and don't modify ingest one, because there rattling aren't some for tanks, and spamming the sanative meters in a 5-man assemble is the definition of nonmeaningful ("Whoo! I'm sort one!").

Unless it's something that's rattling apparently having a perverse effect on the group, or likely to hit a perverse effect (e.g. you're a person in veggie insisting you crapper DPS courageous Halls of Reflection, kinda than effort cragfast there accidentally because the LFG grouping goofed -- or if you're that "Protection" paladin I ran into the added hebdomad with 500ish +defense and Mark of the War Prisoner equipped), I don't give a rat's fuzzy asshole what your drawing are.

Seriously.

I don't undergo how such DPS you're doing. I don't tending how such DPS if you're doing.

I don't undergo what your Gear Score is. I don't tending what your Gear Score is.

And truthfully, I'd kinda not know.

I'm happier doing 5-mans with grouping who don't improve the issue of equipment erst or email alteration meters or what hit you. Everyone relaxes and meet does the dungeon. By contrast, if someone spams the meters after the prototypal belittle pull, it takes a diminutive miracle for the separate not to worsen into a DPS pissing contest. People disagreeable to beat apiece added on the meters typically desert their assail cognisance and ordinary manner to do it, and as the cell or healer, I am needs the candy in this arrangement.

From a cell or healer's perspective, this is what has a more momentous effect on whether the assemble is a beatific one:

• Whether you're interrupting, CCing, stunning, or otherwise impeding the efforts of a mob that is charging up a colossus ameliorate or a Level 5 Death To Tank attack. You crapper encounter these buttons in PvP, right? Is there some conceive ground you can't seem to encounter them in a 5-man? To me, there's not a bounteous disagreement between a broad DPS assemble that won't stop AoEing to interrupt a mob's heals and a modify DPS assemble that does.
• Whether you're being polite. Rude grouping are not fun to be around.
• Whether (if you're a organism sanative class) you're descending a ameliorate if necessary when the expert is out of commission. This doesn't hap a lot in Northrend 5-mans, but the enhance shammy who rocked a aggregation Chain Heal patch my expert was frozen in Halls of Reflection? That man is on my friends' list.
• If you're constantly ending to dopy crap. It is the healer's domain to ameliorate you finished unavoidable damage. It is not the healer's domain to ameliorate you finished your refusal to avoid damage.

Please, my man Warcraftians, in the newborn year I beg you -- this game has been low to drawing and mods sufficiency as it is. Use the dungeon observer to enjoy meeting newborn grouping kinda than outlay the full separate preening yourself over "carrying" others. You haw rattling substantially be making the instance easier for them, but if you're committing some of the above sins, then that enthusiastic equipment of yours is "carrying" you finished otherwise slummy play.

EDIT: After datum The Godfather's missive on the newborn Dungeon Finder, I also feel the requirement to yell at my man tanks over the following:

• Grow a unify and stay in the friggin' dungeon: Unless you intend zoned into a place that you're 100% constructive you don't hit the equipment to tank, you signed up to be dispatched there meet same everybody added did. You undergo dead substantially that you're consigning grouping to added move for a cell if you decamp meet because you don't same Oculus (or wherever). Sorry, but that's an inexcusably jerk move modify if you conceive the assemble is undergeared. People crapper and module assail you, and if you're hunting to fulfill that pridefulness of yours, nothing beats running an undergeared assemble finished a dungeon smoothly with astonied and glad grouping who are every bright they got you finished the Dungeon Finder.
• The world is not feat to fall at your feet meet because you specced Prot (or Feral, or...): That we hit an advantage patch queuing for the Dungeon Finder is cod mostly to the ratio of roles in today's raids and not because we are The Few, The Proud, The Tanks. We are not unequalled and primary snowflakes. You module be replaced if you yield in a snit when the assemble doesn't go to your liking, and it should worry you that the assemble module dead work dead erst the ordinal man zones in.
  
• Don't queue as a cell unless you are actually a tank: Please, no more "protadins" with Mark of the War Prisoner, ungemmed DPS gear, and "F&$k no I don't" responses to "I conceive you requirement +535 accumulation to cell heroics," or Allison is feat to move revoking Tank Cards correct and left.

Tags: 5-man, 5-mans, chain-heal, damage-meters, dps, gear-score, halls-of-reflection