World of Warcraft

My whole table game group is now playing WoW. I’ve teamed up with one at a time, occasionally over the past couple weeks, but last night we managed to all be on at the same time. It was a lot of fun to team up as a group. Usually when I play WoW, I’m playing solo, hunting and questing by myself. A group adventure is wholly different experience — not a better experience (and certainly not worse, with friends), but different.

Most of us are in the high teens, but our sole warrior tank was only 15th level. The dungeon we were invading was full of 20th-level monsters. The warrior was being pummeled, mightily, but our party priest managed to keep her alive, at least so long as none of us screwed up. We all died a few times. (Read “few” as “six to ten”.)

As a hunter, I am back, away from the front line melee, so I can see more of the battlefield. I need to make a macro to say, “Run!” with one key stroke. There were a some instances of being overrun by enemies. It was really disheartening to see the tank and my pet get surrounded by 3 or 4 tough enemies; I knew both would get killed in the next 10 seconds. And to make it worse, then one or two more would come after the priest and/or me. There just isn’t enough time to open a message and type before things get irrevocably bad.

Although, I learned and got to practice some group tactics. But when enemies
respawn behind us (or in the middle of us), tactics kind of get thrown to the winds. I’ve got to figure out how to use the traps. I haven’t used any yet, although I’ve had the fire trap for at least two levels. I’ve gotten practice at pulling enemies to us, one at a time, but when the enemy is a spell caster or range attacker, they don’t come to us like I want.

I made 20th level on my hunter. Twenty is a good level for hunters; they get a lot of good skills and abilities.

Bullgrit
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