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tydrian broadcasted from
Xion Warbase.
I must have missed all the clues. There must have been something that everyone else saw that I was deprived of.
I started playing an Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) called "World of Warcraft" back in July of this year. For those that do not know, "World of Warcraft" is an MMORPG based on a popular series of Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games called WarCraft, made by the same company, Blizzard Entertainment. I will not really go into the details about the game, so this journal entry will not make sense for the ones that have never played the game.
Through observations of my experiences through this game, the very thing I was trying to prevent has still been happening to me throughout the course of the game. I myself predicted that from level 1 to level 69, I will have grown from a newbie to an expert, and that challenges will become much less a difficulty. I have seen instead that I have not grown to be that expert, I have regressed to a lesser newbie who sees more challanges ahead than before. These are are not game objectives that I am referring to, these are the game knowledge differences between myself and other players in the game. A very large majority of the players in the game, even those as low as levels 30 through 40, are very well equiped with amazing Rare items and Epic items, which are far more powerful than the normal items that I have some across.
I am still left at a loss. While I do know a few of the ways to aquire these Rare and Epic items: they can be found in various dungeons that require groups to enter and progress through. However, it has now become far too difficult to get them. Not because of the difficulty of the dungeons they are found in, but because of the fact that the other players who I would need to help me through the dungeons (of which are Epicly well-equiped) are less likely to want to associate with a newbie like me.
These Elite players can identify me as a newbie in several ways:
1. The obvious, I have only a bunch of normal items that I am equipped with, which to them means I never aquired any Rare or Epic items yet. And without these Rare and Epic items, I do not have the same statistic boosts, and I am more likely to suffer because of it. The Elites would not want to have the extra duty of looking after me to make sure I do not get defeated so often.
2. I asked where some dungeons were, because I had not been to many of them myself, because I never had the groups to enter them. The Elites would often ignore my question, because to them this is common knowledge and that I should not have asked.
3. My "Talent Points" are not specified to focus on one aspect of my character class because I could benefit from the bonuses of all three aspects. The Elites see this dispersion of Talent points as being randomly specified, therefore they would think I have no clue what bonuses I am specifying and that I just waste the points to get no useful bonuses.
4. I have not learned all skills that my character class could learn, because I only learned the skills that I would actually use, and not waste game money to learn skills that I would never use. The Elites automatically label this as a "fail" for not learning all skills that I can learn.
It has come to the point where the only other player I can depend on in the game is a best friend of five years, long before the World of Warcraft game existed.
Through all this, it has taught me that if I have not become an Elite player by now, I will never become one. The Elite will continuously see me as a newbie, and will refuse to help me become a better player.
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