I keep marking 
on my targets in dungeons, and players avoid it. Should I be using another icon?
Can I just use the number “1”, like “kill mob 1, 2, 3…in that order”
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Skulls can represent death, so yes people will run from it
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I thought Skull then X was the obvious kill order.
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But don’t we want death on the enemies?
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Too risky, better to just run.
Also serious note, there’s other games that 1-2-3 markers, I always thought Bliz would eventually steal that idea but for some reason never did
skull, x, square is kill order, symbols vary after this, but usually I’ve seen moon be reserved for CC
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I’ve tried doing that, but I think people refer to X as “no”.
Yeah it was always the same for me. In the past few years I saw people killing X first, I guess that comes from raiding and killing the offtank’s target so not terrible. Recently I’ve seen three different people using skull as their CC target and I was like wtf what happened to moon or square?
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it is, you are correct.
The thing is…it’s been so long this way, it’s nearly common sense. But common sense isn’t so common.
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I used to be , for I was Death incarnate, but now I am simply 
the Eliminator!
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Ah yes, but you aren’t spastic and don’t have handicapped fits that push all the hotkeys.
Uh, this whole forum is full of people knowing how to play now.
Q: “Why is MC so easy”
A: “We all know how to play.”
What happened to that?
Keep in mind that a lot of players are coming from retail. These people don’t know how to play whatsoever so unfortunately you’ll need to dumb it down and explain very slowly and very carefully that the big symbol of death over the mobs head is actually a representation of “kill this first.” I know it’s ridiculous you need to explain this but retailies really do need that much guidance.
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Dude. I hate to break reality to you but I’m going to. You’re a retailie. You are posting on a 120 retail toon. Lol.
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Skull = 1st has always been the mark.
X = 2nd.
People sometimes use different icons for sheep or sap, but skull generally means kill now/first for everyone.
Bring a mage and have them sheep the kill target, should get everyone on same page.
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The problem is they don’t care or pay attention.
Another example.
People don’t know how escort quests work, about the popup “DerpsMcGoGoGo is starting an escort, do you wanna go too?” and that they are often multiple parts. Some of us are still trying to turn in the first part while their auto quest addons are in overdrive starting it before we are all ready.
After dealing with these auto quest addons multiple RFDs in a row, I finally made a macro explaining:
Please disable auto quest addons/macros. First accept “Quest 1” and click complete. He will have a !, ignore it. Confirm in party chat that you have completed this before accepting the next quest, “Quest 2”. I will start the escort for all of us.
Guess what continued to happen before I finally gave up? Let’s just say I won’t be doing Jailbreak with a single pug.
When I see something marked with a Skull, I just assume the tank is telling me that’s the most dangerous mob and I should stay away from it.
Is that not correct?
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You gotta be trolling…
Killed a trash skull rogue yesterday and he wasn’t too scary.