I will by gods pull out of this slump! A much delayed post (sorry!), but here it is!
No, I don't think it's you. I think in the general case, folks experiment with some things at the low levels, then go mad questing/using the dungeon tool, and then by the time they get to higher levels all they've learned is bad PuG habits. Dungeons and battlegrounds are easier to get to than ever, and so "why not experiment?" becomes "hey, that worked well enough, easy honor and it's easier to queue for this than quest!"
Then there's the learning curve Blizzard used for Wrath to Cata dungeons, which is so sharp it gave me whiplash. I suspect it harks back to the days you're more familiar with than I, but so far the cata dungeons have turned me off from running randoms. It's not that they're too hard, it's that they're 1, trying WAY too hard to be cool (oh my gods, cut scenes do NOT belong in dungeons!!!!eleventy1!), and 2, too long for me to bother with. :-/ I'm hoping when I finally scale up some decent gear that might be different, but... meh.
I'm also guessing that running wild makes you drop the flag, same as getting on a mount?
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2011-02-05 12:08 am (UTC)No, I don't think it's you. I think in the general case, folks experiment with some things at the low levels, then go mad questing/using the dungeon tool, and then by the time they get to higher levels all they've learned is bad PuG habits. Dungeons and battlegrounds are easier to get to than ever, and so "why not experiment?" becomes "hey, that worked well enough, easy honor and it's easier to queue for this than quest!"
Then there's the learning curve Blizzard used for Wrath to Cata dungeons, which is so sharp it gave me whiplash. I suspect it harks back to the days you're more familiar with than I, but so far the cata dungeons have turned me off from running randoms. It's not that they're too hard, it's that they're 1, trying WAY too hard to be cool (oh my gods, cut scenes do NOT belong in dungeons!!!!eleventy1!), and 2, too long for me to bother with. :-/ I'm hoping when I finally scale up some decent gear that might be different, but... meh.
I'm also guessing that running wild makes you drop the flag, same as getting on a mount?