Getting a feel for the community

Hi everyone,

I'm pretty new to WoW you could say. I played casually for quite a while but I've never seen much content past FoS/PoS. Also, I've never played anything aside from WotlK. And as we all know, for 2 months, we wont even be getting to the WotlK expansion areas. Which is great, I'd love to learn more about vanilla/TBC dungeons and such. Point of the post is, what am I to expect from the player base when it comes to behaviour?

I remember the hardest part learning anything was that nobody wanted to take someone who doesn't know things. Nobody wanted to bother teaching or explaining things. So you end up sitting in town, trying to get a group for hours. The moment they learn you don't know the dungeon, they end up kicking you or if you're organising the group, they leave. So everyone wants you to have gear and experience, but nobody wants to help you gain that gear and experience. When it comes to big projects like this, I find that in every MMO the large part of player base are simply asshats who expect everyone to be perfect. I'm interested to know if there will be any group of people who wont mind playing with others who aren't familiar with the game that much.

Cheers!

1) no one will ever ask you experience and gear for normal dungeons.
2) once you do normal dungeons you pretty much have basic idea what will happen in heroic, its you job to observe encounters, if you can`t at first - do it again. Addons like DBM will help you with that.
3) asshats are only those who doesnt want to invest time in reading articles/watching videos about particular encounters and their strategies, then whining that no one wants them in group.
4) you need to collect some previous tier gear in order to do harder dungeons/raids, its not that people dont want to invite you because you lack gear but because some encounters seem impossible to do without some gear requirements. Right now on warmane gear requirements are a lot higher than it was on retail but it may change with Lordaeron, at least at the beginning.
5) Find guild because for guild runs (usually ALT runs) most of them doesnt ask for ridiculous gear and achievements for raiding.
6) Read/watch strategies again and this time remember them.

yes when u are noob geared its bound to happen. if u are new its even harder. come on u will do the same if u got full heroic gear and some noob guy will blame u that u leave his party ... sometimes u are bored and u dont mind but alot of times u just got no time for this. just bear it till u will get a better gear, google things u wanna learn and dont blame all the community

well... youll be playing on a 1x realm which means people in general tend to be more patient laid-back and forgiving.... it takes a certain kind of character to venture into the realm of 'slowness' .
i do not say that to mean you will not run into asshats - you will. and i dont mean to say 1x people dont care about gameplay, goals or results...they do :)

what feralbeard says rings true. Your the best teacher. Anything ive ever wanted to know about wow ive had no trouble finding. google google
I would think 'most' people, and asshats, are still learning new things everyday is why they ultimately keep coming back

People who can't be bothered to use google are simply annoying.
There's wowwiki, wowhead, tank spot vids, various guides on warmane forum and literally hundreds of other websites, where every detail of the game is explained, so if you ignore all that and expect other players to teach you everything and carry your sorry *** to epics, then you're just a lazy noob. The worst kind of cancer that eats this server. No wonder why you're getting kicked/ignored.

Find a guild that wants to help its members. Naturally you can't expect to be carried all the time, but good guilds usually carry their lower geared members in dungeons because dungeons are easy and are usually very doable with 4 people, 5th being the afk-guy. If you can at least stay out of fire and not pull everything then you're pretty much golden.

As for the people calling out noobs for not spending hours on researching dungeon content - get a grip. It's not so hard to spend 30 seconds before each boss to explain what to do and how not to die. It's a social game and interacting with people regarding the dungeon tactics is part of game.

Speaking of cancer, cancer is people that think they were born with top dps in their fists and that think they were never carried.