So my friend who hasn’t played the game since Classic, just got back into the game and spend over +100$ on wow to get a year of membership and the expansion pack deal, but wanted to experience leveling up since he only had a 85 hunter from back when he use to play and didn’t want to spoil the game by using the level 110 even if it meant spending some extra hours leveling.
I told him about BoA gear and I helped him get his first couple of pieces just the ones that yields bonus Xp so I wouldn’t out level him, so We both started a new character together on the realm Uther. Since I knew all the dungeons by heart and I wanted leveling to go faster but didn’t want to go full big brain and tank everything I made a Priest and we began our journey.
we leveled to 15 and started leveling threw dungeons since explaining the zones and leveling paths would just take forever and everything was going fine for the first 30 hours or so and now were that we are around 60’s we been getting really toxic players who are just rude and extremely tight when it comes to running dungeons, everything has to be perfect and if you mess up anything then you’re bad and you’re getting kicked no questions asked.
He is newer, I describe the bosses and what abilities/Macro to use as we level. Also I explained what were the best pets to tame in certain dungeon we ran since you rarely get the same dungeon twice, and he was usually on top of the dps charters and was doing fine but for whatever reason there be times when he walks ahead a bit to grab a quest item or to tame a pet i told him was good and I focus healed him to make sure he got it then went back on the tank.
Then the whole instance would just get really toxic and start flaming him down and kick him and then he gets 30 minutes waits! and then the entire dungeon falls apart after and now we are stuck afking for half an hour… Is there a way to remove that queue time, or take action against these players?
My honest recommendation is to avoid dungeon queues. instead leveling through the questlines in my honest opinion are more fun. your friend will get to experience the lore and storylines that wow has to offer, then if you want to run dungeons, instead of joining a queue, instead run them yourselves when you out level them by 5 levels or so, run into the dungeon portals manually after you have completed the expansion’s questing zones.
you can even take them and manually run into some raids after you two out level them by 10-15 levels too.
People in leveling dungeons can be worse than in M+. But if you’re playing dps, then its pretty easy. Just follow whatever the tank does. Never pull. Stay out of bad. Follow those 3 rules and you’ll never have any issues.
You need to teach him the etiquette of being in a dungeon. Moving ahead of the tank to do stuff usually ends up with stuff getting pulled, people dying and time wasted.
If he has quests to do in the dungeons then he should wait until the tank has cleared the beasts and then do the quests as the group moves through the area.
If he wants to tame pets, either clear it with the group or get your own group together so you don’t waste the time of others.
Why in the world are you teaching him macros but not something as basic as to not run ahead of the tank… and on top of that you enable this by focus healing him?
I’m thinking this is another instance where “toxic” it’s used very loosely. If 3 strangers go in with the intention of getting things done, and I agree, sometimes people do rush things more than they should, but you expect them to patiently wait for your friend while he tames pets he could tame later on or runs ahead to grab things he could very well grab after the tank pulled, yes, it’s understandable they got annoyed. You can’t expect everyone to abide to what you two are doing and then smack the word “toxic” on them.
But still, this is not his fault, he’s new, correct? If anything is yours for not telling him the basics of the basics.
Did you just call your wife (ball and chain = handcuff?) a shortcoming?
lol
That’s why I like to twink out a tank for running with new friends. I can supplement their lacking DPS, or survive with minimal heals while they learn, and we don’t handicap the group.
Personal opinion: not enough was taught to this person upon coming back to the game. Some of the story don’t make sense. And quite frankly, doing dungeons while leveling isn’t the way I would have someone experience the game for the first time “since classic”.
This game? It’s very old. Which works against it. Sometimes, the idea of someone being new or fresh after a long break simply makes peoples’ minds explode. Thus, this leads to people being toxic unnecessarily. Take him out questing. Have him enjoy the new world which he’s likely never seen before (which is part of the story that doesn’t make sense because you say he has someone at level 85 despite having been on break since classic), and have him go in proper. He has to learn how to conduct and use his own toolkit before he can incorporate it into group content. And this includes social etiquette.
“since Classic just got”
“and spent over 100$ on WoW”
“pack deal. But wanted”
“he used to play. He didn’t want to”
“his first couple of pieces. Just the ones”
“out level him. So we”
“to go faster, but didn’t want”
“tank everything. I made a Priest”
“started leveling through dungeons. Since explaining the zones”
“take forever, and everything was going”
“are around 60’s, we’ve been getting”
“comes to running dungeons.”
“Everything has to be perfect. And”
“getting kicked. No questions asked.”
“He is newer. I describe the bosses”
“what abilities/macros to use”
"I also explained "
“to tame in certain dungeons”
“the same dungeon twice. He was usually”
“was doing fine. But for”
“there were times when”
“sure he got it, then went”
“flaming him down and kick him. Then he gets”
“a 30 minute wait! Then the entire dungeon”
