Apparently I’m slow.
When LFD first launched, I went PvE crazy and took a break from PvP. In fact, after gaining the Looking for Multitudes achievement, I took a break from my priest altogether to get my horde paladin up to 80 and gear her a bit.
Along the way I learned that there’s finally something valuable I can buy with the huge sum of Stone Keeper’s Shards I was swimming in: HONOR! There’s a good chance I’m the only person who didn’t realize it, but in case you don’t know, you can turn 30 Stone Keepers Shards in for a Wintergrasp Commendation. You can either use the Commendation, or mail it to an alt. Upon use, it grants 2,000 honor.
Zejus, my priest, was sitting on 1200 shards which translates to 80,000 honor. Since I was already at about 30,000 honor before realizing this, I bought an item and still have 80,000 honor and 50 Wintergrasp Marks to purchase PvP gear upgrades. After all is said and done, I’ll have about 1,040 resilience and 25k HP.
On a PvE note, I queued for a random heroic last night and got heroic Utgarde Keep. We breezed to the first boss, including killing the initial room in one pull. The boss frost-tombed me. I waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and died encased in ice. We made it through, barely, but I was confused as to why NOT ONE player, including the ranged hunter, could leave the boss for a second and break the healer free. At this level of gear, it would have taken 3 shots for him to get me out. Instead, I have to pay a higher repair bill due to laziness.
Obviously the dungeon was a joke and we flew through in 20 minutes, but it bothers me that players are developing bad habits. There is no consequence, as of now, but if Blizzard ramps up the difficulty and requires party coordination in Cataclysm, it’s going to be weeks of blame and chaos until players remember how to play smart again.
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You have Recount to thank for that – it’s all about the DPS table now.
Thats not the only shift in group dynamics though. I remember when DPS would get grief for overaggoing. Nowadays, if anyone overagros, immediately they say “can we get a better tank?”.
I prefer the old dynamic where the whole group looked out for each other and worked as a team!