Dungeon Finder Drama And You
Leveling a tank through dungeon finder is easy. Assuming you know how to tank properly, that is. One click, no waiting in the queue – life is good. As a DPS, it’s a bit tougher. 20 to 30 minute queue times are a pain, and when the tank drops group, waiting for another tank just adds to the frustration. What’s even more upsetting, though, is the drama over DPS that really needs to stop.
Usually I am one of the top 2 DPS in the group – I know how to play my class, and usually don’t stand in bad stuff. What I don’t need is to have the rest of the group constantly scrolling their damage meters in party chat. It’s unnecessary and detracts from the enjoyment of the game. Perhaps if everyone shut off their damage meters and, I don’t know, actually PLAYED THE GAME, we’d all get done faster!
Yesterday there was a DPS Death Knight doing about 500 DPS in regular UK. This is neither an amazing nor horrible amount of DPS. Yet half the time spent in the dungeon was constant bickering about how bad this guy’s DPS was. A shaman that was doing 1,200 DPS intentionally lowered his DPS down to 500 because he didn’t want to “carry the rest of the group”. This is the type of unnecessary drama that I can live without.
Here are three things we could all do to lower the amount of drama in Dungeon Finder:
1. Uninstall your DPS Meter. It isn’t going to make anyone output more DPS, and serves only as an unnecessary distraction. Play your own game, and let everyone else play theirs. IT IS JUST A GAME!
2. Don’t berate new players. We were all noobs once. If you try to be more tolerant, and explain the fights when needed – perhaps you might end up making a new friend instead of turning off someone completely from WoW.
3. No backseat tanking. I will say this every day and twice on Sundays. Do you really want to wait another half hour for a random dungeon? Let the tank do his job. If you know so much more about tanking, and feel the need to correct the tank – perhaps it’s time for you to bring out YOUR tank instead of being a backseat tank!
Let’s forget about who’s doing the most DPS, and have fun playing a computer game! What a refreshing concept.