r/classicwow • u/martinfaced • 1d ago
Classic 20th Anniversary Realms Help out your fellow players, it means more than you know.
A friend of mine recently convinced me to resub and play in one of the anniversary classic wow realms. I played very casually at the end of cataclysm and into mists of pandaria. Never made it to end game content/raiding but enjoyed grinding quests and pve stuff like dungeons.
I decided I want to learn how to tank, so I made an orc warrior. It's been a week and I'm lvl 17, yesterday afternoon I was doing some blacksmithing stuff and turning in completed quests in orgrimmar when I decided to try the look for group feature and try tanking Ragefire Chasm.
Received an invite relatively quickly from a group that was made up of a bunch of guild members. I warned them I had never tanked before and they said not to worry about it, Gave me a few tips and we rolled with it. We cleared the dungeon twice. No one died!!!
I still have a lot to learn, but I was relieved to join a group as a total random and have friendly players help me out. I think their guild was called "S Tier" or "S Class".
I see a lot of stories of toxicity in in this game, and definitely noticed it all those years ago, but it is reassuring to see there are decent gamers out there willing to help out a new player like me. Cheers to those sorts of people, I hope they know it made my afternoon to be greeted with kindness while trying something new.
Zug Zug.
TLDR; nice guild helped with my first tank experience and I'm grateful for them. For the Horde!
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u/Bentheoff 1d ago
Buddy of mine who tanks will jokingly write "I'm new" in chat if he/we goof and wipe, and the amount of times he's gotten advice and encouragement from randoms has been great to see. He doesn't really need it, but still.
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u/turbocoupe 1d ago
Sounds like you made friends. You should join their guild. This game is best played grouped with people like that.
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u/wreckfish 1d ago
Lately I even help horde players I encounter in the open world. they panic and start attacking when I mind control them and then are dumbstruck when they realize it's just so I can buff them with power word fortitude xD
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u/00Jakeman 23h ago
As a Human Warlock, I've saved a pretty hefty amount of Horde in EPL from the Fallen Heroes. They usually come back and /thank me.
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u/SandInMyBoots89 1d ago
“Just use Google”. “I don’t have a responsibility to help others”
“Why is this server dead?”
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u/jaybasin 1d ago
I mean it's true. It's no one's responsibility but themselves to figure shit out. It's not the responsibility of the randoms in the group to teach you how to play. Unless someone wants that responsibility, it's on no one except the person learning.
There's nothing wrong with helping, but to act like it's some sort of villainous action to decide against walking a tank through how to tank is one hell of an asinine take.
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u/SandInMyBoots89 1d ago
Where did I say it was villainous?
It’s just anti-community. You’re well within your right to have this attitude.
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u/AltruisticForce8118 1d ago
Sanmedina has really good videos and tips for warrior tanks in classic.
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u/jessebadboy13 1d ago
Glad to have you back. Even if you do play for the smelly team 😆 Honor and Glory!
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u/No_Variety_6382 1d ago
If more people just joined a guild, they would find that the randoms that they usually encounter, and all that toxicity, just fades away.
Glad to hear your guild is helping you enjoy the game, keep at it.