Breakfast topic: How good are you, really?
Reading the WoW Forums, it seems like every player of WoW is one of the best players the world has ever seen. If you're failing at a raid instance, then Blizzard needs to nerf it — if you're losing to other players, then Blizzard hates your class. Can't get into a good guild? Clearly, it's the fault of the elitist guilds on your server. Your arena team get rolled? Mad hacks!
But the truth is that not all of us are great players. We have our own faults and weaknesses that keep most of us from being in Death and Taxes and Nihilum. So today, it's time to take a good, honest look at yourself and rate yourself as a player.
I like to consider myself as fairly good at PVE. I usually don't wipe groups, I go into fights knowing strategies, and I was generally in the top 5 DPS back in 40-man instances. However, aside from having a class schedule that stops me from being a consistent raider, I have difficulty paying attention to one thing at a time. Sometimes I'll be trying to write a post/read message boards/take screenshots/talk to friends in instances, which hurts my DPS and makes me look flaky. I'm also kind of slow at adjusting to raid environments that change at random times (non-timed AOEs, whirlwinds, etc.), and it took me a while to truly learn the power of some of my abilities like Kick and Slice and Dice. All in all, I would give myself a 7/10 as a PVE player, 8/10 if I ever learn to get out of the freaking whirlwinds in time. I will fully admit that I am terrible at PVP and probably rate somewhere just above that 70 hunter that lost to the 34 warlock.
What flaws have you noticed in your own gameplay? How have you tried to fix them? On a scale from 1-10, how would you rate yourself in PVE and PVP?