More World of Warcraft:
I've been on a couple more raids. These have followed this pattern:
- I get an invitation to join a group. I accept. There are three or four others already in the group.
- Follow fellow raiders to some mine/castle I haven't been to before.
- Any enemy we come across is attacked by all members of the group. We are like army ants overpowering anything in their path. They don't stand a chance.
- progress through mine/castle overpowering enemies with our numbers.
- come across more powerful enemies. One or two raiders die in intense melee and rest are soon overpowered by enemies
- everone dies
- everyone runs back to bodies to ressurect, each is overpowered and dies
- repeat two or three more times
- people give up and leave the group
- I am left alone, trying to resurrect my body and get it back to safety
There isn't much talk, planning, strategy or loyalty. One raider left the group with a comment lamenting about f@£!ing noobs and I have to agree. It reminds me of football at primary school level where the kids follow the ball around like a little comet twisting around the pitch because nobody has told them about 4-4-2.
As paladin, my job is really to lurk at the back healing the warriors. I will try to do this more, less tanking more healing.
I did have one session with just one other bloke where we had much more success, we didn't get carried away running in gung-ho, blitzkreig style. We still had to give up but we parted on good terms.
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As a lev 22 undead rogue, I find that I act more like a tank and less like a rogue as I just run right into the thick of things, completely forgetting about my stealth abilities. Some day I will figure out that this game is not some typical FPS that requires no originality or skill.