No Room in the Raid? No Problem.

/whisper

I’m currently stuck in the Warcraft queue. Still 30 minutes to go, or so says the login timer, and tonight is my guild’s Molten Core clear. Choo choo, climb aboard the loot train, all of that.

Here’s the thing tho. I don’t really need anything from Molten Core anymore, haven’t for quite a while. My guild, God bless ’em, gives out DKP to those in the raid and to those that didn’t make it in time for an invite to the Lucky 40. You’re online and technically available to raid, you get DKP, no questions asked.

You see the beauty here — I’d earn DKP just for sitting on my ass looking through the Auction House all night.

Heh, these are the things they don’t teach you in MMO school or in MMO books.

/cheat sheet

This won’t be very useful for you experienced Warcraft players, but for your friends just starting out, perhaps for your mom or some noob guildmates, maybe if you’re considering putting your character on the auction block ( … ) you could include a copy of The World of Warcraft Cheat Sheet. Available as a PNG file for printing on size A4 paper, it includes /emotes, keyboard shortcuts, and other /slash commands.

Or, They Could Spend Some Money

Remember from last week how World of Warcraft had a new plan to deal with server overcrowding that wouldn’t involve additional hardware investments: The Character Creation Management System? Summary: ” … a new system that will disable character creation when a realm has a queue to better control realm populations.” Ya, well, it’s not working for shit. On my realm, anyhow. Climbing queues, 60+ minutes primetime and let’s not even talk about holiday primetimes, and still, STILL, everyone and his imaginary brother can create characters there on a new account. (I guess Blizzard meant to say: a new system that will disable character creation when a realm has a three-hour-plus queue to better control realm populations.) Of course, players already have their own system to deal with 3-hour+ queues, it’s called “Bid that Shithole Fucking Adieu and Check Out what Sony has to Play for Free or maybe Dungeons & Dragons Online even though That Got Terrible Beta Buzz, I Can’t Leave Work at 2 PM Pacific to Get in the Queue for Our Warcraft Raids.”