Players that constantly jump and wiggle

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Last night I did a heroic Arcatraz with a group of “raiders”, they all had loot from prince and gruul and would not stop doing the “wiggle” the whole run. Wiggling is basically when you press your movement keys rapidly and gyrate in place while dpsing or waiting. The fury warrior literally would not stop doing this while jumping the whole run.

Ngl it did get on my nerves about half way through the dungeon when they started to wipe on stupid stuff. His dps was ridiculously low despite being in full epics and hovered above the tank by the end of the run. It was funny when he got MC’d by the last boss and I killed him with a “stray shadowbolt” though.

One of my former guildies from back in original tbc would wiggle and jump around excessively when he was getting bored with the instance, so I wondered if that was the case with this group.

What about you? Do you do the wiggle and hop around like a jumping bean? If you do would you explain it to me?

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I don’t do the wiggle, but I do jump and move around a bit while I’m tanking.

I jump because it’s a habit lol. My excuse is because it lets me know when I’ve been stunned, but the real reason is I just jump a lot.

Sometimes I’ll move a pack around a bit to bunch them up better.

I do the wiggle when I’m running around. I don’t know why. Probably ADHD or something.

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I never considered that, it seems like a good idea for a tank then.

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I feel personally attacked.

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I mean theres nothing really wrong with it. It only got annoying when they started to fail in the run. Like they were geared af and they were wiping to stupid stuff. I had to sandbag my dps hard because the tank couldn’t keep agro and he was doing the wiggle too.

I think they were trolling me because they were all from a raider guild and I’m in a casual pve guild.

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When I’m killing mobs out in the open world I like to run through the mob and do a sweet 180. It does absolutely nothing, and it’s dumb, but it makes me feel cool. Sometimes I also like to jump and do a sweet 360 in the air while tanking easy mobs for style points.

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Lol yeah ive done the 360 jump and hit the space bar constantly when I’m running around town so I’m not totally innocent.

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I’ll jump around and stuff in PVE but not the point where it does anything with performance, actually more like in between pulls and things. I don’t know if it comes from moving around a lot in PVP and it just being a habit or what but I’ll admit to doing it.

It sounds like those guys might have been in Discord having a good time and not really focusing on the dungeon or something. Who knows.

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I jump like an idiot when I am bored or moving from place to place or waiting for something. When fighting, tanking, healing etc. I’m all business.

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I like to jump around sometimes, in PvP I definitely am constantly moving behind targets so I don’t jump at all.

I don’t wiggle because it gives me anxiety that I might be messing up my auto attacks which are my bread and butter.

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I blame my upbringing as a Quake player…

As for your group. PvE gear is braindead easy to get, they were probably just trash. :frowning:

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Because of the slow nature of turn by turn, I do it to keep more active and ready for when something goes wrong.

If I sit in place and just rotate my spells I tend to not react very fast.

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Yes. Because I’m a Gnome.

…what you need me to explain it even more?

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It is a by product of 20+ hour gaming sessions while high on red bull and Adderall.

These kids today. :roll_eyes:

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I only use strafe left/right, and autorun for movement, so I can’t exactly wiggle. I do tap A, D, and Space sometimes, though.

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that’s the ADHD medication wearing out imo…

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im just adhd bro

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I’m very guilty of this. But I also don’t let it effect my play. It also keeps me more reactive if I’m in motion constantly like another poster mentioned.

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Wiggling would also be tapping A and D rapidly.

Nothing wrong with that, at least you are honest about it! Its only a problem if it hinders your performance on the run though. :slight_smile:

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Ah, OK, then yeah, I guess I do it sometimes, when I’m kind of just zoning out.

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