-Ed
As a World of Warcraft Noobie, one of the things I need to get use to is the different styles of play, I’m not talking among others in your group or guild but the different styles you use depending on what you are doing in WoW.
Some of the Wow playing styles I’ve noticed:
Soloing – When soloing, you usually have control of your situation. Making sure you’re only fighting one or two beast at a time and being out in the open there is usually an easy escape route no matter which way you run. There usually isn’t a mob hiding around the corner that you can’t see and you don’t have to worry about anyone but yourself to do something stupid (which still happens). With Soloing, your style is mainly hack and slash, run if there is a problem and if something big happens, you have the time to use an emergency skill (like vanish)
Groups – In a group each person has their own job, this is where your style will change, with others to look out for, not just if they die but are they pulling other mobs or just have no idea what they’re doing, but also when it comes to attacking and exit strategies. Now instead of, it’s just your job to kill, it may now be your job to heal, or to stun while others do the damage. Working as a team is always different, but also completely different when things go wrong. When out soloing a mob may hit you for a couple hundred or less health points, but in an instance or dungeon, you may pull a mob that was hiding around the corner that is hitting you for a thousand health points, suddenly you don’t have the time to think about what’s happening, start to run, decide to use your emergency escape, it’s now do or die. This is where some of those skills your trainer taught you, that you wondered if you should even buy them come into play, these skills you’d hardly ever use when soloing now are life savers.
Battlegrounds – I’ve gone over some of the battleground styles and game play on the linked post.
Alts – This is where things can start to get confusing. When I first started my Alt Hunter, My first thought is how do I walk anywhere without Stealth (Rogue Main). But I finally got into the swing of using my pet, attacking with it and once it had Agrro, I could start to attack. Then I’d go back to my Rogue and wonder where my pet is. Even though this can, like I said be a bit confusing, it’s always good to play other classes, how else will you know what the other player in your group is trying to do or should be doing if you’ve never played that class before.
What are some of the different styles you’ve used? What was the main do or die difference for you that you “had” to learn?
