How to win friends and influence people wow
How to win friends and influence people wow
How to win friends and influence people wow
Hello everyone, in the past few months since I started playing cata, I noticed that the amount of noo. unskilled players is quite huge. Therefore I hope that by writing this guide, the overall-average skill level of our server will increase and contribute to the enjoyability of everyone.
If you are new to WoW, please read this, it will help you pick up the game faster and also fit into the community. Given the general elitist nature of the servers population, if you do not know much about the game you probably will not get the help you need.
You might feel that this game is just plain boring/uncomfortable/hostile, but if you are bad at many things it makes people shun you in the first place, so you might miss out some nice friends and such. I hope after reading this guide you will be able to be part of our fun community and not one that is avoided and treated like a plague.
Disclaimer: This guide is NOT a strategy guide, nor a money making one; this basically shows you how to not fail in WoW. I am writing this guide for newbs who are new to this server, less-educated people and generally players who makes you do this.
USE CTRL + F TO FIND THE SPECIFIC SECTION YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
Content:
1. Gearing up the right way
1.1 Reputation
1.2 Gems
1.3 Enchants
2. Respecting yourself and others
3. DonФЗЦt make a fool out of yourself
3.1 Healers
3.2 Tanks
3.3 DPS
4. Difference between PVP and PVE
5. Introduction to raids
6. Manners matter
1. Gearing up the right way
1.1 Reputation (NOT WORKING FOR 4.3.4 CURRENTLY)
As we all know, the immense speed of leveling in warmane renders us quite weak at level 85, thus warmane opened us up to WOTLK reputation farms!
Instances such as AK (AhnФЗЦkaket) and The Nexus are heroic WOTLK dungeons (80), thus a group of 85ФЗЦs with low gears should be able to manage these instances easily.
What the hell are we doing in low level instances you say?
Well you can get reputation with CATACLYSM reputation factions by killing these WOTLK mobs, awesome? With gears going up to iLVL 359 for every class, everyone should be farming these reputations when they are a new 85. There are a total of 5 different cataclysm reputation factions, namely
Therazane
Wildhammer clan
Earthern Ring
Guardians of Hyjal
Ramkahem
Click on the faction name’s to view location of quartermasters.
So just basically you should quest till you are friendly with them (except therazane), buy their tabards and start farming the instances mentioned till you are exalted.
Guide for Violent gale, firstly fly into the crumbling depths (as long as your screen shows ‘the crumbling depths’ it should be fine). Then go back to Felsen and fly about 20 yards high up around him, fly around till the quest autocompletes and you should be at exalted.
Further gearing guides are available here(Search for ‘Guides for new players and gear guides’ under cataclysm. I do not intend to make this a comprehensive gearing guide.
1.2 Gems
This is one aspect that infuriates me much more than it should, which is seeing people in raids or RDF HCs full of empty sockets. These stupid people usually reply that they do not have JC (jewelcrafting) or do not have enough gold to buy It from the AH (Auction house).
Hello, one uncommon (green) gem usually costs less than 100g, and by spending 1k+ on these, with the socket bonuses it very wells add up to another piece of gear. It doesnФЗЦt takes much time either, thus IФЗЦll have to assume people who leave their gears un-gemmed are either too stupid or too lazy.
Anyone can learn how to gem their classes by reading the various class guides HERE.
For the love of god, do not leave the empty sockets hanging.
This usually also contributes to the low DPS these people are doing. Just to clarify, I am not pissed at the low DPS, I am pissed when I see a toon being played at a scrap of their full potential.
Enchants usually costs much more than gems, therefore I understand the newcomer’s shortage of gold, which usually ends in many unenchanted gear. Having a much lesser bonus to gold ratio, I personally don’t criticize much on the lack on enchants, BUT if you are actually geared enough to do raids (
iLvl 350), please start looking out on enchants, as it is a much easier way to improve your character than aiming for higher gears.
Just an comparison of a unbuffed gear with a buffed one.
2. Respecting yourself and others
‘Only by treating others with respect will they respect you back’, this is a quote that holds true in many parts of our life, be it working, studying or in our context, WOW.
Therefore, in a MMORPG like this, being a dick generally gets you negative impression. Besides making others feel irritated, it will not get you far*. Too many times I have seen people scolding one another, calling each other noobs etc. which usually results in the disbanding of a party/raid.
This section also includes begging, which is a highly scorned act. While this did not happen in mine, please do not beg people for gold in your guild or ask them to help you rep farm. You can earn your gold and you can look out for rep farms in global chat. Don’t be lazy even in a game.
Sure there are always nice guys who exist to help out, but repeatedly begging will generally give the guild a bad impression about you.
*Unless you are Caylaara. No offense here, but he is one guy I see who managed to piss off nearly the entire server but still gets good progression (I think). His skill still speaks for itself.
3. DonФЗЦt make a fool out of yourself
3.1 Healers (Most stated instances are NOT working for 4.3.4 currently)
Yay you are a healer! You keep people alive, you decide who die and who lives, you are god.
While letting someone die is a easy job, keeping them alive isn’t (god’s job is hard y’know?). Besides healing their health points, many healers are forgetting that they can dispel too. Several bosses usually places a debuff (bad) on party members, such as
Baradin hold’s Argaloth
HoO’s Anhuur
Grim batol’s Erudax
and many more.
Before you can dispel debuffs, you should learn to actually read debuffs. Thus addons such as Xperl or vuhdo can aid you in noticing debuffs.
Don’t give stupid reasons such as «my class don’t have dispel», it’s gonna make people facepalm at you. EVERY HEALING CLASS HAVE A DISPELL! (Albeit different types)
Also read up on your healing class guides including rotation/gems/enchants. Going OOM in the middle of a fight is the last thing you want to happen to you. Don’t give excuses like ‘you guys are taking too much damage’, although they might be, chances are you might just be overhealing or spamming the wrong spell. (eg: flash heal, priests!)
Yay you are a tank! You aggro mobs, you take in all the damage that can kill your party, you are god.
However, before tanking, you must ensure you have the health to be a tank. You don’t become a tank by just saying you are one, or queuing as a tank in a RDF HC. You will fail terribly.
I shall not elaborate on different classes tanking skills, but bear in mind that every tank will have a skill to help them survive better, by increasing max hp, reducing damg taken, self heals etc. Remember to use them iwhen you are dying n case your healer messes up or when you are too badly geared yourself (although these skills won’t help you anyway)
Even though you have a badass pool of health, don’t stress your healer by going rambo into every group of mobs or ignoring boss strats. You will fail terribly.
Bosses such as Siamat’s thunder clouds will damage you A LOT, so MOVE. Bear in mind that when bosses does AOE’s, if you do not kite, melee dpsers will probably be caught in it as well. You all will fail terribly.
Other than that, read up on guides to properly hold aggro, AOE aggro and movement.
3.3 DPS
Yay you are a DPSer, you deal damage, you kill stuff, you prevent them from killing your party, you are god.
That said, many DPSers fails terribly in their job (god’s job is hard y’know?), although it is quite commonly caused by the factors mentioned above, one major problem with DPSers failing is the lack of understand of their class.
Although almost everyone can scold other’s noob and describe how detailed they screw others moms, many of them lack the ability to understand what are their skills and talents are talking about.
Before you start DPSing with any class, I strongly advise you to read up on your class guides HERE to learn your class’s rotation or skill priority. 😎
From my experience, there are two very distinct and obvious examples of people failing to understand their skills and talents respectively.
Scenario 1:
Priests DPS uses mind spike x3 + mind blast. Repeat
If you ask around, any decent player will tell you priests is a heavy DOT based class, and notice how mind spike describes ‘extinguishes your Shadow damage-over-time effects from the target in the process.’?
So you should just stick to your DOTs and stop using this skill completely.
The worst is that when people put up all their DOTs and then USE THIS SKILL.
Scenario 2:
Low geared fire mages.
At your puny gear and puny crit, your pyroblast is probably gonna appear once in a blue moon. And for god’s sake DON’T CAST PYROBLAST UNLESS HOT STREAK PROCCED. You are better off being a arcane mage for now (seriously).
Therefore, DPSers, read guides, gem up, learn your rotation and (if needed) to read.
4. Difference between PVP and PVE
So you did arenas and floored your enemies, you got enough conquest points to buy you a vicious gladiator gear, yay!
Quick, check this out.
There’s probably something in common among all pvp gears you see. If you don’t notice it, consider playing runescape.
If you noticed it, resilience! Resil-freaking-ence! Do you know what it does? It is defined, ‘Resilience is a character attribute that reduces all damage taken from players and their pets or minions. This is the bread and butter PvP stat. The reduction has no effect on the damage taken from mobs. ‘
So sporting a full vicious gladiator set, you embarked to take on RDF HCs by telling the entire party you are 360 iLvl and that they are noobs.
Do you know what does resilience helps in you as a dps, healer or tank? Jack Sh*t, it does absolutely nothing in anything PVE related.
Do not be a tard and raid full of pvp gears, you can be a 100k mp priest with full pvp gears and you will still totallyrun out of mana compared to a (properly) PVE geared priest with 80k mp, and he will probably do higher HPS than you.
5. Introduction to raids
So you managed to farm all the valor and justice points to buy awesome cool gear, and killed so many bosses that you are now raid-worthy! Yay!
I am sure you have seen lots of raid organizers in global saying «ACHIEV OR NO INV», which sounds pretty stupid once you consider that you need to actually raid to get an achievement.
Thus you can skip their stupidity and bluff most of them by getting this (not sure if working for 4.3.4)
So you conned your way in, now the big bad boss is staring you down, do you know what to do?
In Chimaeron, what should you do during Massacre, or feud?
If you do not know these questions, please do not join raids no matter how geared you are. You will fail terribly. Every member in a raid plays a vital role towards killing the boss, there is no such thing as dying and waiting for others to kill for you.
DO NOT JOIN RAIDS IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE BOSS TACTICS. Read it up, it isn’t hard. There’s google.
You should probably know that doing your class job (heal,tank,dps) WHILE following boss strats is a entire different skill to learn.
6. Manners matter
Screw you guys, you suck, quit wow and go cry to your mom.
What do you think about me now? I am probably a prick to you, right?
That’s how people will view you if you started whining about how bad they are at playing, how low their DPS is or that their healing suck.
It also helps when people explain to you that you are using the wrong skill and you should be working on improving them.
There was a few times when I told DPSers that they are doing lower dps than the tank, and they replied ‘do I look like I care?’ After that I quit bothering about their mistakes and let them suck. Please for the love of god, there are always people trying to help (Those who say «LOL NOOB DPS» are not trying to help), let them help you, accept criticism, realize your mistakes and improve.
Lastly, if you have to go AFK due to personal IRL matters or have to go for a urgent pee break, give your party/raid members a notification. This is very important even if you are going AFK for say 2mins, if the tank doesn’t know of this, he might charge in without a healer, resulting in a wipe.
While that is probably a worse case scenario, people will be irritated if 1 person is suddenly away, they might think you DCED and not sure if they should replace you or wait. This can be very demoralizing.
Therefore, you should either keep your eyes locked on the screen or tell people of your absence 😀
In conclusion, I hope that this guide serves well to introduce new players to WOW and to give them a kick-start in the game. I also wish that this guide will be referred when you are too lazy to explain everything to a newcomer or just someone who is bad at the game. 😀
Cheers and good luck!
Feel free to PM me on the forums should you have any questions about anything!
Changelogs:
1.01
Added in various comments and missing information provided by readers 😎
1.02
Added Therazane quest chain guide.
1.03
Added some pictures, neatness edits.
1.04
Amagawd colors!
1.05
Updated slightly for 4.3.4
Symptoms of Living
In 2011, ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ was number 19 on Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential books, a full 75 years after being published. It has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
A pioneer of the ‘self-improvement’ genre, Dale Carnegie uses this book to teach you techniques and tools that can transform your conversations and relationships. The book considers how to make people like you, how to win others over to your way of thinking and how to be a great leader. It isn’t about making people do things your way; it’s about genuinely convincing them and ensuring that you are keeping others in mind. He keeps things simple, ensuring that techniques are easily applicable and extensively explained.
This book was written almost a century ago, yet I genuinely believe that everyone can learn from reading this book. No matter how successful you are, no matter how likeable you are, this book is worth your time. I honestly believe that buying a copy of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ is an investment. I’m someone who gets anxious in social situations, I can play off extroverted when I need to, but inside I’m the introvert who prefers curling up on my sofa with a good book or Netflix show. I’ve always been envious of people who naturally carry conversations or individuals that manage to be the life of the party. I’ve always felt boring, unsuccessful in social situations. Since reading this book, I genuinely feel more prepared to hold my own in a conversation and believe in myself.
Who is Dale Carnegie?
Dale Carnegie started his life on a farm in Missouri, born in 1888 to a family stricken by poverty. He began to enjoy speaking in public and joined his school’s debate team, the start of a life that would be marked by public speaking. He became a salesman after college, the most successful one that had ever been seen. Flash forward a few years, and Dale was not only a professional public speaker but had several courses on the subject as well as successful books. Of these books, ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’ was published for the first time in 1936 with 1,200 copies printed. They received orders for 5,000 more copies before they knew it, and it has been continuously printed and revised since.
What does this book teach you?
I have no intentions of becoming a manager or a leader; it just isn’t in my nature or interests. I want to be a writer, which involves a lot of time alone, so why would I need to know how to win friends and influence people? But here’s the catch, no matter who you are, what you want to do or your personality type, you can learn from this book. The learnings of this book can be applied to any and every setting. For me, I plan to use the lessons in interactions with friends, in asserting myself and becoming a better listener. I hope to use it in future negotiations, in making myself more likeable and also in understanding others and their motives.
For example, these are the six ways to make people like you, as listed in the book:1.
1. Become genuinely interested in other people.
3. Remember that a person’s name is, to that person, the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
4. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
5. Talk in terms of the other person’s interest.
These may seem like obvious lessons, perhaps you’ve read other self-help books with similar teachings. But the difference lies in how Dale explains them, he takes apparent skills and provides depth to them. Don’t fake interest in someone, but instead find something you actually consider to be interesting about them and utilise this. When you want something from someone, don’t think why they should give it to you, but rather why they should want to. It takes us back to the basics of human behaviour and explains how we can use this.
It isn’t just about getting what you want; it’s also about giving others what they want and need. It isn’t about tricking someone into liking you but making yourself genuinely worth appreciating. These small differences are the difference between being a successful leader and a good leader.
Dale’s extensive teaching experience shines throughout the book, as he includes countless relevant examples from his students. Individuals who applied these techniques, and how it worked to their advantage. The range in these examples shows the extensive ways that you can use these lessons, in your work, personal life, hobbies and relationships. Furthermore, he links them to major events and public figures, using them as case studies from which to draw these conclusions.
Is this book still relevant?
Some examples may be outdated, but 1981 reprint did remove a lot of the traditional household/workplace sections from the book. I think the book remains relevant as even today, in the plethora of technology and science surrounding us, human interaction is still vital. When going for a job, you may be up against people who match your extensive education and work experience, and that interview is the dealbreaker. In a time when we have hundreds, or even thousands, of Facebook friends, it remains more vital than ever to ensure a strong connection with a few of them, to stay in each other’s lives as we all move further apart.
We increasingly live online, and so a book that reminds us how to live offline is always helpful. The examples and public figures may be from a different time, but Abraham Lincoln is still the subject of films and series, so why can’t he be included as an example in a book? We clearly still care about him for one reason or another.
We’re also moving away from home more than in Dale’s time. To new places where we may not know anyone, we need those skills to develop new relations, to make up for lack of history with a charming personality.
Some of his pieces of advice are simplistic; I find this to be the case with the majority of self-help books. And after writing articles for an audience, I get why. You have to make it simple to be able to capture it effectively in your words and to ensure it can apply to as many people as possible. Yes, you shouldn’t just force yourself to smile, and that alone won’t make you happy. But looking for positivity is never a bad thing, sometimes it can really get you through difficult moments.
Carnegie suggests asking people about themselves, encouraging them to be the one talking. Some consider this to be fake or manipulative. Or is it a reminder to keep in the back of your head? It seems ingenuine, but by considering to ask them more and listen, you develop deeper connections. You keep yourself in check and consider your conversational partner.
Why should you read ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’?
Let’s get right to it; these are the reasons why you should read Dale Carnegie’s book:
1. It’s a short book. The average reader will take a maximum of five hours to read this book. Why not dedicate your ten minutes of reading before bed to this book for a while and see what you learn?
2. It has a very casual and comfortable tone. It’s a simple read, perfect for when you’re tired or stressed. Dale speaks to you as a peer rather than lecturing. He raises interesting points and keeps everything focused and straightforward. It’s a great break from that classic novel.
3. It is divided into a chapter per lesson, making it easy to pick up and put down. I read it in sections, I’d read a chapter in the morning, or on the bus, and then pick up where I left off. Books like that are super useful to read alongside your dense novel. You could keep it in your bag as your public transport or waiting room read.
4. You can test the lessons easily with friends or family. The lessons don’t require you to be in unique situations; you can try them daily and see if you like them. They apply to every possible social situation, so it’s relevant for all.
5. The lessons don’t require drastic changes. You don’t have to transform your entire day or conversations suddenly; they’re small tools to keep in mind and consider in your next discussion. They’re simple conversational prompts that are easy to try.
6. He’s an experienced authority on the matter. Whether or not the book is outdated, Carnegie is a self-help legend. He made an incredible effect during his life and helped thousands to live their best selves. He knows what he’s talking about, more than many other ‘self-help gurus’.
7. It could help with social anxiety. A lot of people who struggle with social anxiety find such books to be helpful. It gives you simple tools to use in a conversation, making the impossible seem far easier to comprehend. You can rely on such small things as always using their name or asking enough questions, and calm your stressed mind even a little bit.
8. Aren’t you the least bit curious why a book from 1936 is still so popular? This is a self-help book from before the Second World War, and it is still being printed and sold. That is crazy. It is the most sold self-help book in history. Don’t you want to see why?
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How to win friends and influence people wow
Hello everyone, in the past few months since I started playing cata, I noticed that the amount of noo. unskilled players is quite huge. Therefore I hope that by writing this guide, the overall-average skill level of our server will increase and contribute to the enjoyability of everyone.
If you are new to WoW, please read this, it will help you pick up the game faster and also fit into the community. Given the general elitist nature of the servers population, if you do not know much about the game you probably will not get the help you need.
You might feel that this game is just plain boring/uncomfortable/hostile, but if you are bad at many things it makes people shun you in the first place, so you might miss out some nice friends and such. I hope after reading this guide you will be able to be part of our fun community and not one that is avoided and treated like a plague.
Disclaimer: This guide is NOT a strategy guide, nor a money making one; this basically shows you how to not fail in WoW. I am writing this guide for newbs who are new to this server, less-educated people and generally players who makes you do this.
USE CTRL + F TO FIND THE SPECIFIC SECTION YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
Content:
1. Gearing up the right way
1.1 Reputation
1.2 Gems
1.3 Enchants
2. Respecting yourself and others
3. DonФЗЦt make a fool out of yourself
3.1 Healers
3.2 Tanks
3.3 DPS
4. Difference between PVP and PVE
5. Introduction to raids
6. Manners matter
1. Gearing up the right way
1.1 Reputation (NOT WORKING FOR 4.3.4 CURRENTLY)
As we all know, the immense speed of leveling in warmane renders us quite weak at level 85, thus warmane opened us up to WOTLK reputation farms!
Instances such as AK (AhnФЗЦkaket) and The Nexus are heroic WOTLK dungeons (80), thus a group of 85ФЗЦs with low gears should be able to manage these instances easily.
What the hell are we doing in low level instances you say?
Well you can get reputation with CATACLYSM reputation factions by killing these WOTLK mobs, awesome? With gears going up to iLVL 359 for every class, everyone should be farming these reputations when they are a new 85. There are a total of 5 different cataclysm reputation factions, namely
Therazane
Wildhammer clan
Earthern Ring
Guardians of Hyjal
Ramkahem
Click on the faction name’s to view location of quartermasters.
So just basically you should quest till you are friendly with them (except therazane), buy their tabards and start farming the instances mentioned till you are exalted.
Guide for Violent gale, firstly fly into the crumbling depths (as long as your screen shows ‘the crumbling depths’ it should be fine). Then go back to Felsen and fly about 20 yards high up around him, fly around till the quest autocompletes and you should be at exalted.
Further gearing guides are available here(Search for ‘Guides for new players and gear guides’ under cataclysm. I do not intend to make this a comprehensive gearing guide.
1.2 Gems
This is one aspect that infuriates me much more than it should, which is seeing people in raids or RDF HCs full of empty sockets. These stupid people usually reply that they do not have JC (jewelcrafting) or do not have enough gold to buy It from the AH (Auction house).
Hello, one uncommon (green) gem usually costs less than 100g, and by spending 1k+ on these, with the socket bonuses it very wells add up to another piece of gear. It doesnФЗЦt takes much time either, thus IФЗЦll have to assume people who leave their gears un-gemmed are either too stupid or too lazy.
Anyone can learn how to gem their classes by reading the various class guides HERE.
For the love of god, do not leave the empty sockets hanging.
This usually also contributes to the low DPS these people are doing. Just to clarify, I am not pissed at the low DPS, I am pissed when I see a toon being played at a scrap of their full potential.
Enchants usually costs much more than gems, therefore I understand the newcomer’s shortage of gold, which usually ends in many unenchanted gear. Having a much lesser bonus to gold ratio, I personally don’t criticize much on the lack on enchants, BUT if you are actually geared enough to do raids (
iLvl 350), please start looking out on enchants, as it is a much easier way to improve your character than aiming for higher gears.
Just an comparison of a unbuffed gear with a buffed one.
2. Respecting yourself and others
‘Only by treating others with respect will they respect you back’, this is a quote that holds true in many parts of our life, be it working, studying or in our context, WOW.
Therefore, in a MMORPG like this, being a dick generally gets you negative impression. Besides making others feel irritated, it will not get you far*. Too many times I have seen people scolding one another, calling each other noobs etc. which usually results in the disbanding of a party/raid.
This section also includes begging, which is a highly scorned act. While this did not happen in mine, please do not beg people for gold in your guild or ask them to help you rep farm. You can earn your gold and you can look out for rep farms in global chat. Don’t be lazy even in a game.
Sure there are always nice guys who exist to help out, but repeatedly begging will generally give the guild a bad impression about you.
*Unless you are Caylaara. No offense here, but he is one guy I see who managed to piss off nearly the entire server but still gets good progression (I think). His skill still speaks for itself.
3. DonФЗЦt make a fool out of yourself
3.1 Healers (Most stated instances are NOT working for 4.3.4 currently)
Yay you are a healer! You keep people alive, you decide who die and who lives, you are god.
While letting someone die is a easy job, keeping them alive isn’t (god’s job is hard y’know?). Besides healing their health points, many healers are forgetting that they can dispel too. Several bosses usually places a debuff (bad) on party members, such as
Baradin hold’s Argaloth
HoO’s Anhuur
Grim batol’s Erudax
and many more.
Before you can dispel debuffs, you should learn to actually read debuffs. Thus addons such as Xperl or vuhdo can aid you in noticing debuffs.
Don’t give stupid reasons such as «my class don’t have dispel», it’s gonna make people facepalm at you. EVERY HEALING CLASS HAVE A DISPELL! (Albeit different types)
Also read up on your healing class guides including rotation/gems/enchants. Going OOM in the middle of a fight is the last thing you want to happen to you. Don’t give excuses like ‘you guys are taking too much damage’, although they might be, chances are you might just be overhealing or spamming the wrong spell. (eg: flash heal, priests!)
Yay you are a tank! You aggro mobs, you take in all the damage that can kill your party, you are god.
However, before tanking, you must ensure you have the health to be a tank. You don’t become a tank by just saying you are one, or queuing as a tank in a RDF HC. You will fail terribly.
I shall not elaborate on different classes tanking skills, but bear in mind that every tank will have a skill to help them survive better, by increasing max hp, reducing damg taken, self heals etc. Remember to use them iwhen you are dying n case your healer messes up or when you are too badly geared yourself (although these skills won’t help you anyway)
Even though you have a badass pool of health, don’t stress your healer by going rambo into every group of mobs or ignoring boss strats. You will fail terribly.
Bosses such as Siamat’s thunder clouds will damage you A LOT, so MOVE. Bear in mind that when bosses does AOE’s, if you do not kite, melee dpsers will probably be caught in it as well. You all will fail terribly.
Other than that, read up on guides to properly hold aggro, AOE aggro and movement.
3.3 DPS
Yay you are a DPSer, you deal damage, you kill stuff, you prevent them from killing your party, you are god.
That said, many DPSers fails terribly in their job (god’s job is hard y’know?), although it is quite commonly caused by the factors mentioned above, one major problem with DPSers failing is the lack of understand of their class.
Although almost everyone can scold other’s noob and describe how detailed they screw others moms, many of them lack the ability to understand what are their skills and talents are talking about.
Before you start DPSing with any class, I strongly advise you to read up on your class guides HERE to learn your class’s rotation or skill priority. 😎
From my experience, there are two very distinct and obvious examples of people failing to understand their skills and talents respectively.
Scenario 1:
Priests DPS uses mind spike x3 + mind blast. Repeat
If you ask around, any decent player will tell you priests is a heavy DOT based class, and notice how mind spike describes ‘extinguishes your Shadow damage-over-time effects from the target in the process.’?
So you should just stick to your DOTs and stop using this skill completely.
The worst is that when people put up all their DOTs and then USE THIS SKILL.
Scenario 2:
Low geared fire mages.
At your puny gear and puny crit, your pyroblast is probably gonna appear once in a blue moon. And for god’s sake DON’T CAST PYROBLAST UNLESS HOT STREAK PROCCED. You are better off being a arcane mage for now (seriously).
Therefore, DPSers, read guides, gem up, learn your rotation and (if needed) to read.
4. Difference between PVP and PVE
So you did arenas and floored your enemies, you got enough conquest points to buy you a vicious gladiator gear, yay!
Quick, check this out.
There’s probably something in common among all pvp gears you see. If you don’t notice it, consider playing runescape.
If you noticed it, resilience! Resil-freaking-ence! Do you know what it does? It is defined, ‘Resilience is a character attribute that reduces all damage taken from players and their pets or minions. This is the bread and butter PvP stat. The reduction has no effect on the damage taken from mobs. ‘
So sporting a full vicious gladiator set, you embarked to take on RDF HCs by telling the entire party you are 360 iLvl and that they are noobs.
Do you know what does resilience helps in you as a dps, healer or tank? Jack Sh*t, it does absolutely nothing in anything PVE related.
Do not be a tard and raid full of pvp gears, you can be a 100k mp priest with full pvp gears and you will still totallyrun out of mana compared to a (properly) PVE geared priest with 80k mp, and he will probably do higher HPS than you.
5. Introduction to raids
So you managed to farm all the valor and justice points to buy awesome cool gear, and killed so many bosses that you are now raid-worthy! Yay!
I am sure you have seen lots of raid organizers in global saying «ACHIEV OR NO INV», which sounds pretty stupid once you consider that you need to actually raid to get an achievement.
Thus you can skip their stupidity and bluff most of them by getting this (not sure if working for 4.3.4)
So you conned your way in, now the big bad boss is staring you down, do you know what to do?
In Chimaeron, what should you do during Massacre, or feud?
If you do not know these questions, please do not join raids no matter how geared you are. You will fail terribly. Every member in a raid plays a vital role towards killing the boss, there is no such thing as dying and waiting for others to kill for you.
DO NOT JOIN RAIDS IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THE BOSS TACTICS. Read it up, it isn’t hard. There’s google.
You should probably know that doing your class job (heal,tank,dps) WHILE following boss strats is a entire different skill to learn.
6. Manners matter
Screw you guys, you suck, quit wow and go cry to your mom.
What do you think about me now? I am probably a prick to you, right?
That’s how people will view you if you started whining about how bad they are at playing, how low their DPS is or that their healing suck.
It also helps when people explain to you that you are using the wrong skill and you should be working on improving them.
There was a few times when I told DPSers that they are doing lower dps than the tank, and they replied ‘do I look like I care?’ After that I quit bothering about their mistakes and let them suck. Please for the love of god, there are always people trying to help (Those who say «LOL NOOB DPS» are not trying to help), let them help you, accept criticism, realize your mistakes and improve.
Lastly, if you have to go AFK due to personal IRL matters or have to go for a urgent pee break, give your party/raid members a notification. This is very important even if you are going AFK for say 2mins, if the tank doesn’t know of this, he might charge in without a healer, resulting in a wipe.
While that is probably a worse case scenario, people will be irritated if 1 person is suddenly away, they might think you DCED and not sure if they should replace you or wait. This can be very demoralizing.
Therefore, you should either keep your eyes locked on the screen or tell people of your absence 😀
In conclusion, I hope that this guide serves well to introduce new players to WOW and to give them a kick-start in the game. I also wish that this guide will be referred when you are too lazy to explain everything to a newcomer or just someone who is bad at the game. 😀
Cheers and good luck!
Feel free to PM me on the forums should you have any questions about anything!
Changelogs:
1.01
Added in various comments and missing information provided by readers 😎
1.02
Added Therazane quest chain guide.
1.03
Added some pictures, neatness edits.
1.04
Amagawd colors!
1.05
Updated slightly for 4.3.4
How to Win Friends and Influence People… in 15 Minutes — A Concise Summary of the Best Seller
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” is one of the most popular self-improvement books ever written.
Over 15 million copies sold and to this day people swear by the book.
We swear by it. We’ve translated many of the principles in the book to help create an inbound lead generation system that consistently doubles our clients leads with ease.
Today I present to you the a How to Win Friends and Influence People summary. These are cliffnotes for each chapter within the best seller.
But first let’s influence you on the book itself. Here are 12 things this book will do for you:
I you like what you see here, I suggest you go pick up the book because there are so many useful historical examples Dale Carnegie used in his book to explain these principles in greater detail.
So here is the summary:
Part 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
Chapter 1: Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
Chapter 2: The Big Secret of Dealing with People
Chapter 3: He Who Can do this Holds the Whole World with Him. He Who Cannot Walks a Lonely Way
Part 2: Ways to Make People Like You
Chapter 1: Do This and You’ll be Welcome Anywhere
Chapter 2: A Simple Way to Make a Good Impression
Chapter 3: If You Don’t Do This, You are Headed for Trouble
Chapter 4: An Easy Way to Become a Good Conversationalist
Chapter 5: How to Interest People
Chapter 6: How to Make People Like You Instantly
Part 3: How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking
Chapter 1: You Can’t Win an Argument
Chapter 2: A Sure Way of Making Enemies — And How to Avoid It
Chapter 3: If You’re Wrong, Admit It
Chapter 4: A Drop of Honey
Chapter 5: The Secret of Socrates
Chapter 6: The Safety Valve in Handling Complaints
Chapter 7: How to Get Cooperation
Chapter 8: A Formula that Will Work Wonders for You
Chapter 9: What Everybody Wants
Chapter 10: An Appeal that Everybody Likes
Chapter 11: The Movies Do it. TV Does it. Why Don’t You Do it?
Chapter 12: When Nothing Else Works, Try This
Part 4: Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment
Chapter 1: If You Must Find Fault, This is the Way to Begin
Chapter 2: How to Criticize — and Not Be Hated for It
Chapter 3: Talk About Your Own Mistakes First
Chapter 4: No One Likes to Take Orders
Chapter 5: Let the Other Person Save Face
Chapter 6: How to Spur People to Success
Chapter 7: Give a Dog a Good Name
Chapter 8: Make the Fault Seem Easy to Correct
Chapter 9: Making People Glad to Do What You Want
Book Report: How To Win Friends & Influence People — Dale Carnegie
By pivoting, I mean my old posts were crap. All over the place. No purpose. Felt I was talking to you about what I wanted.
I want to scratch my own itch.
I read a lot. Like most everyone, I forget 99% of what I read after a month or so.
Same with what I hear. I listen to podcasts throughout my day. I hear some great material.
Then I forget it.
This will be my new place to write my notes.
Feel free to share along as I go.
My most recent read is “How to Win Friends and Influence People”.
This book boils down to principles.
I always love self-help books that do this. Cuts right to the meat.
Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
Everyone is the hero of their own story. Every horrible person in history thought they were on the right side of history. We saw this polarizing event happen over the recent Presidential Election. “We’re morally right. You’re closed minded.” Did I describe Republicans or Democrats? You can’t tell because both groups were echoing the same sentiment within their echo chambers.
Tell people how you can help them. Help others help themselves, and you’ll end up being taken care of as well. This can be summed up this way as well, “The more you give, the more you receive.”
Six Ways to Make People Like You
Everyone is an expert in something. Everyone is passionate about something. Find it. Ask, ask, ask. This routinely comes up several times throughout the book. I would say that most principles stated in this book can be summarized into this principle.
Smile, they’re free to give away and everyone feels better giving it away.
“You’re so beautiful, Eva.” Well, that’s a great compliment, except your girlfriend’s name is AMY! Good luck getting out of that dog house. Names matter. Take the time to learn it, remember it. This video with Jim Kwik, memory god, is pretty awesome at helping people get over this hump. Highly recommend James Altucher and Jim Kwik, on memory. as well if you’re more into the conversation approach. (Altucher is my spirit animal).
Just like everyone’s favorite word is their own name. Guess what their favorite topic to discuss is. Ask, ask, ask. Depth not breadth. Highly recommend “Socratic Questioning” Jay Abraham, marketing god on socratic questioing.
When people aren’t talking about themselves, their next favorite topic to discuss is their interests. Again, ask, ask, ask.
Compliment others. They’re like smiles, give them freely and generously.
Win People To Your Way Of Thinking
The best argument is the argument you didn’t have.
Defenses shoot up, the other person feels under attack. When you’re under attack, just like in war, you hunker down, and keep everything out. In an argument, this means your opinions aren’t getting through
Ego is the enemy. Let others know you were wrong or are in the wrong. There’s no weakness, it’s a demonstration of strength. This is also a tactic within “The Art of War” (one of my cornerstones for life). Show weakness (you being wrong) as a strength (openly admitting it). It makes others’ guards drop down. Shows you’re like them. And most of the time, the other person will downplay the incident, or compliment you because seldom do people pile onto the negative loop of language when one is admitting fault or is self-deprecating.
This can be disputed, and there is power in getting the person to say “no”. But the general gist is all in the mind of the other person. You want them to be open to you. Whether that means saying “yes”, which means we’re typically more receptive. Or get them to “no”, but the trick is it’s a negative question, such as “Do you want me to fail?” Most people say “No, of course not. I want you to succeed!” No, in this instance is a positive.
You have two ears and one mouth for a reason. Listen twice as much as you speak. Others will build you up. Others will talk themselves into the hole. Even the stupidest person can appear to be the smartest until they open their mouth.
Everyone wants to think they’re in control and creating their own future, whether that be their next task or the next decade of their life. Your teammate wins, means you win too.
Empathy. If you’re in a successful and happy relationship, guaranteed, you’re doing this already. Odds are, your girlfriend probably thinks you don’t do it enough. Fellas, take note.
Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Not everyone is trying to rip you off, or offend you. 99% of the time, it’s a simple misunderstanding, or they’re embarrassed of their situation. Empathize and refer to the aforementioned principles.
Humans are story tellers in both word and sight. That’s why we like art, books, radio, podcasts, TV, and movies. All forms of entertainment are a dramatization of a story. Tell a story. People want stories.
Healthy competition is good. Everyone rows the same direction. Your teammates success is our success. Teams aren’t crabs in a bucket.
Like a compliment sandwich, but go heavy on the opening praise. Compliment needs to be genuine and deserved. If nothing else, compliment everyday things like appearance.
Self-deprecating behavior is helpful. “I must need another cup of coffee. But am I reading this correctly?” This would be a great way to point out a person’s mistake.
Put yourself in someone the other person’s shoes. Seldom does anyone intentionally try to sabotage the team’s progress. Look to Abraham Lincoln as a model of this.
Let your team set the rules. They’re more willing to follow the rules they make.
Self-deprecating behavior is helpful. You can bite the bullet. You’ll look better, and the other person will greatly appreciate it. It won’t go unnoticed.
Praise, praise, praise, shower people in compliments. If you want to change a behavior, praise every tiny step of progress along the way.
Self-fulfilling prophecy. We all have definitions that are mutually agreed upon. “What is a friend?” We all pretty much use the same general definition. Label someone, and hold them to that reputation. “Would a _____ do that?” People want to live up to their reputation.
Most mistakes are tiny, it’s not a big deal. Be a duck on the lake. On the surface everything is calm, that’s what people want to see. Goes back to “Praise” two principles above.
Make people think they’re doing you a favor by doing what you want them to. “I need someone of your ability and caliber near me. Would you be my fill in the blank position?”
Each principle uses different stories to demonstrate the point. Some are great and clear, others are pretty much filler. The age is nice to see as people like Teddy Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge are referenced at parts of the book.
This is a book that I will reference at least once a year as a nice refresher. Probably should be every couple months. Once you read through, the principles are pretty clear and easy to remember.
Источники информации:
- http://symptomsofliving.com/blog/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people/
- http://forum.warmane.com/showthread.php?t=198029&p=2676490
- http://klickerinc.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people-summary/
- http://medium.com/@brianlacey/book-report-how-to-win-friends-influence-people-dale-carnegie-d409b50385d6