Kind of a Rant

The other day I was on my hunter when I got this random tell from a fellow low-level:

“How do I get a pet?”
“You have to get the quest from your class trainer.”
“Where’s my class trainer?”
“Over that way.”
“Okay thanks.”
“Wait wait wait. Hang on.”
“?”
“You’re a druid.”
“…?”
“Only hunters get pets.”
“Oh… I don’t get a pet?”
“No.”

At this point, Biggie leaned over and read the exchange on my screen, and fell off his chair howling. He whispered the guy from his own character, “LEARN YOUR CLASS NOOB!” I was a little mad, like breach of privacy! don’t bully him just cos he’s new to the game!, but shouldn’t have bothered cos the guy whispered Biggie back, “What’s my class?”  No “who are you” or “why are you, a random stranger, telling me this“. However, what he lacked in curiosity, he made up in helplessness. Complete and utter helplessness, like a baby turtle just rolling around on its back.

“Your class is a druid.”
“What’s a druid?”
“You get to shapeshift.”
“How do I do that?”

It was actually a tiny (TINY) bit endearing in a maternal-instinct way, but seriously it brings me to my real point: Some people are just persistently clueless. I think you really need some small, teeny, itsy-bitsy modicum of intellectual curiosity to be successful- in real life and, more importantly, in WoW. (…kidding…)   It’s not a crime to be a noob, everyone has a first time, but to get to level 15 and learn for the first time that you are not a hunter but, in fact, a druid?  Hm. 

Our guild has been recruiting and it’s been going very well- I find our recruitment standards infinitely better than how it was in my old guild. People who are undergeared but good players who are willing to take the time and effort to get better *on their own*, are so much more desirable than people who have epic gear yet somehow manage to do less damage than folks in blues.  I like people who are like, “What do I need to do to up my dps?” and you say, “Go read your class mechanics on the forums” and they’re like “Okay!” and show up to the next raid with 1k more dps. That’s just awesome.  Then you have the bumbleheads who are like, “How do I get better?” and you’re like, “Go read the forums” or even simply “Armory this guy and copy his spec” and they’re like “Lalala reading sucks” and continue to do the same crappy rotations with the same crappy specs while everyone else in the raid gets better and better.  Way to fail, person!  Some people seem to expect guild officers to hold their hands through every little thing in the game… It’s one thing to ask class officers for advice and opinions on specs & whatnot, but it’s very lazy to depend on them to explain every single thing and never do any research yourself.  Srsly.

NEwayz, my time is up~ I’m gonna make like a resto druid and leave!  Ohoho… have I already used that one?  I’m gonna hearth… wow lame… I’m gonna… go home…