CIHC
That One OG
General
Flag Carrier - Don't be an hero, always stay with at-least one person, even if it isn't a healer so they can pick the flag back up then you die. Learning the jumps does mean the difference between life and death sometimes. If you want to practice these jumps, make a level 10 (insert your class here) enchant your boots with minor speed and stack stamina so you don't die as fast to people trying to gangbang you along the way. Learning these jumps are extremely useful for PuGs because; some players won't know how to react to it, others will struggle to keep up with you, while the very few will mimic your movements and follow you. Always carry food and bandages as well, one runecloth bandage as a warrior FC (in example), can make or break you. Especially if your being chased. Healing potions are another good way to get health back.
Look, everyone knows that coordination will win a match, and lack of coordination will lose a match no matter how good your team is. If your with a PuG and you have a decent amount of classes (lets say for example, 3 paladins (holy), 2 rogues (sub), 3 hunters (Surv), 1 mage (Arcane) and 1 shaman (Enchance)). You can run a pretty solid setup with Defense as well as Offense! You can run 3 and 7, (2 pal, 1 hunter), 4 and 6 (2 pal, 1 hunter, 1 mage). It all depends on what classes come out of the random hat you get for PuGs. Now if you get a team of like, 6 hunters, 2 paladins, 1 rogue and 1 warlock. It is still viable to win with this. But it requires some creative thinking. Running around midfield like a chicken with your head cut off makes you and your team look bad. Like stated before, a little coordination can go an extremely long way.
-Dont- be afraid to ask other players for advice and constructive criticism. Granted, this works a bit more on a forum site like this one, or with a guild. However; I've gotten the best advice from asking complete strangers how I could better my playstyle and class. People are keeping an eye out to see how well you play your class and roll (this is how some players get into guilds). They will be the first to spot a flaw, take full advantage of it and then leave you like nothing ever happened. Now, granted making a level 1 and asking them out of the blue to give comments will often times leave you being trolled, flamed and what not. However; approach them like a friend and treat them with respect. If they still don't want to help you just tell them thanks for their time and log off.
If your having trouble making a few gold for a certain twink item. Be ballsy and ask an 85 standing around Stormwind doing nothing for a few gold. I've done this on a few servers and the gold range I was given was anywhere from 5g to 100g! That is -more- than enough gold to start playing the Auction House to make money. Making a Death Knight and getting him/her out of the starting zone should leave you with roughly 20g as well. If your still looking for money, consider selling runs through instances on your main / higher level character, pick up money making professions (I find Scription and Herbalism to be the best, but the most time consuming to level as well).
If your PvP on your main and have engineering. You may want to pick up the schematic for [item]Discombobulator Ray[/item] which is available to engineers who do a series of tasks in Gnomeregan. For more information on how to get this wonderful item, this link..
Flag Carrier - Don't be an hero, always stay with at-least one person, even if it isn't a healer so they can pick the flag back up then you die. Learning the jumps does mean the difference between life and death sometimes. If you want to practice these jumps, make a level 10 (insert your class here) enchant your boots with minor speed and stack stamina so you don't die as fast to people trying to gangbang you along the way. Learning these jumps are extremely useful for PuGs because; some players won't know how to react to it, others will struggle to keep up with you, while the very few will mimic your movements and follow you. Always carry food and bandages as well, one runecloth bandage as a warrior FC (in example), can make or break you. Especially if your being chased. Healing potions are another good way to get health back.
Look, everyone knows that coordination will win a match, and lack of coordination will lose a match no matter how good your team is. If your with a PuG and you have a decent amount of classes (lets say for example, 3 paladins (holy), 2 rogues (sub), 3 hunters (Surv), 1 mage (Arcane) and 1 shaman (Enchance)). You can run a pretty solid setup with Defense as well as Offense! You can run 3 and 7, (2 pal, 1 hunter), 4 and 6 (2 pal, 1 hunter, 1 mage). It all depends on what classes come out of the random hat you get for PuGs. Now if you get a team of like, 6 hunters, 2 paladins, 1 rogue and 1 warlock. It is still viable to win with this. But it requires some creative thinking. Running around midfield like a chicken with your head cut off makes you and your team look bad. Like stated before, a little coordination can go an extremely long way.
-Dont- be afraid to ask other players for advice and constructive criticism. Granted, this works a bit more on a forum site like this one, or with a guild. However; I've gotten the best advice from asking complete strangers how I could better my playstyle and class. People are keeping an eye out to see how well you play your class and roll (this is how some players get into guilds). They will be the first to spot a flaw, take full advantage of it and then leave you like nothing ever happened. Now, granted making a level 1 and asking them out of the blue to give comments will often times leave you being trolled, flamed and what not. However; approach them like a friend and treat them with respect. If they still don't want to help you just tell them thanks for their time and log off.
If your having trouble making a few gold for a certain twink item. Be ballsy and ask an 85 standing around Stormwind doing nothing for a few gold. I've done this on a few servers and the gold range I was given was anywhere from 5g to 100g! That is -more- than enough gold to start playing the Auction House to make money. Making a Death Knight and getting him/her out of the starting zone should leave you with roughly 20g as well. If your still looking for money, consider selling runs through instances on your main / higher level character, pick up money making professions (I find Scription and Herbalism to be the best, but the most time consuming to level as well).
If your PvP on your main and have engineering. You may want to pick up the schematic for [item]Discombobulator Ray[/item] which is available to engineers who do a series of tasks in Gnomeregan. For more information on how to get this wonderful item, this link..
