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The only thing a player is doing by constantly

5. MAKE TIME FOR THE talking and adding feedback to the raids that isn’t

THINGS YOU ENJOY what the raid leader says to do is causing confusion.

If that person speaks in an authoritative tone when

Don’t hang your sole worth new members come along, they may even follow

in WoW on your ability to raid. their directions, causing mistakes and wipes.

Find other things you enjoy in Everyone has run into the backseat raid leader at

the game. If you love to collect some point, and if you haven’t, it might be you.

pets and mounts, collect pets

and mounts. If you enjoy giving Pretty much, don’t be that person. Come to be a

out items to noobs in starting team player, and make suggestions in the appropriate

zones, go wild on a weekday night. manner to your group. As much as it feels like whatever

Level some alts, or knockout you could possibly suggest, right away, letting your

achievements. Simply don’t just guild leadership do their jobs will help even more.

get caught on the hamster wheel

of frustration always or else when TL; DR: If you aren’t leading the raid, enjoy the

you hit a roadblock, you’ll feel raid and don’t tell others what to do instead.

angry and frustrated at the game.

TL;DR: Find some other things to
By Ashleigh Ayn Sult
do that don’t feel like work or else

raiding will feel like a punishment.

6. BACKSEAT RAID LEADING

If only your raid leader

would just understand that you

should just do X, Y or Z. You’re

making a constant string of only

suggestions in raid chat while

the raid leadership is trying to fix

things. You really know the answer

to the question, and you’re just

being helpful, right? Wrong.

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