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The connection to WoW

Why do I get these bad feelings? After all, it’s just games. Games that are meant to be fun and this is where my problems lie. I’m playing games to have fun and when things get too serious, I’m (usually) out.

Then there is the internet, which we all know to be a place of happy fun times where magic happens :D And jerks :( Because people are behind a screen, and not facing any real consequences of the way they act, a lot of people tend to go out of their way to tell others how they suck.

Because of this internet mentality, things get pretty serious rather quickly. In LoL, people want to win games and anyone who might make a mistake gets told. In WoW, people want to finish dungeons quickly and anybody who slows them down gets pointed out. And guess what, the last category was me :/

I had a lot of fun just managing my garrison... Until the new Training Dummies wanted me out of there :(

My own “cure” to ladder anxiety

I thought that I had cured myself from ladder anxiety by playing Hearthstone. I almost never play “casual” in that game, only ranked and arena. I don’t know what it is, if it’s the fact that I’m alone and/or the games are over fairly quickly and/or the chat restrictions, but in Hearthstone I just jump in and play ranked. This got me to do the same thing the last time I played LoL ranked. I didn’t think about it, I just did it. If I had a bad game, I would play Hearthstone until I won match and then go straight back into LoL ranked (this was at the end of a season, so I only just reached gold - But I felt pretty good doing it this way).

As a reader, you might think something along the lines of “well, why not just jump in, without thinking, and learn the dungeons as you play them?” Sure, I could do that and I also tried. I queued up, got into a dungeon and started off by telling everyone that I was new to the things and needed some guidance. Now, I should probably tell you that I leveled as a tank, so I naturally queued for the dungeon as tank. The combination of the two, being a tank and telling people that I didn’t know my way around, turned out to be horrible :<

I got into three dungeons that fateful day, and every one ended within the first 10 minutes. There were pulls of epic fails (by me), ninja pulls (not by me), death and carnage: I got blamed for every single thing that went wrong, and why wouldn’t I be blamed? I was the tank and therefore I apparently had the most responsibility <.< Well, each time this happened I would apologise for wasting people’s time, even though I probably shouldn’t have, and leave.