Play a better MMO.
I'm not even trolling, WoW is archaic and the combat is pathetic it's not even worth investing time into anymore.

If you want tips it's pretty simple. Google a guide for your class. It'll give a talent setup and an optimal skill rotation. Follow it and you'll be as good as your gear lets you be. There's no skill involved/needed.

Hell if you don't mind (and even like) grinding type games...your world is wide open for MMOs, there's a bunch of great MMOs hindered by the fact you have to grind to progress.

 

bail out while you still can

 

WoW is rather old and out-dated, but I wouldn't say it isn't the better MMO of the ones available.

Let's be honest. If another MMO were truly better than WoW, then Blizzard would have lost far more subscribers than what they have. The problems and structuring with the newer ones prevent people, who must have an MMO, from staying away from WoW.

 

I don't like Diablo or Guild Wars.

And guys, I don't care if it's old or whatever, I don't have the most time for gaming, so something like WoW is good for me.

 

I'm going to go ahead and flame the crap out of you, right now.

It's a videogame. There's never been any game, ever, nor will there ever exist a game for the rest of the history of the universe, that requires skill. Get over yourself, and stop polluting this guy's thread with off-topic flaming to boost your own ego.

If it required skill, you'd be recognized outside the small community of the game for your skill. Can you name the world's best monopoly player? How about the world's best Risk player? You know anyone with a college degree in Board Games or Solitaire?

Games are fun, they're hobbies, and they are things you can be good at or not good at. But they don't require skill, and if you think that they do, then you don't know what a skill is. Whatever game you think you're skilled at, compare the level of complexity and how much effort you had to put into that "skill" to the skill necessary to do something as simple as tie your shoes or go to the bathroom. Most children require months of training to be able to even start doing those things. So, I guess your "skill" at the game is about as skilled as wiping your own ass. Congratulations.

It's offensive to me on a personal and professional level when someone goes off on a tirade about how "your game doesn't take skill, I have skills because my game takes skills". Engineering requires skill. Surgery requires skill. Astrophysics requires skill. Even flipping burgers at McDonalds requires more skill than a videogame, if you don't think so then go see if the local McDonalds will give you a job flipping burgers with no experience, and if they do, see how long you last.

You're playing a game, and so are the people you're berating for playing a simpler game than you. I've known well-paid attorneys that shown less disrespect to bums in the street with no job, than you are showing to someone because his game takes less "skill" than yours.

Give a damn rest.

 

There doesn't exist a game that takes skill? Tell that to all the people playing Starcraft Broodwar or Starcraft 2 and competing for not a small amount of cash in tournaments like the GSL, MLG, IEM.

 

Amendment: There never has been nor ever will be a game that requires an amount of skill that's noteworthy. Even the most complex game is like making dinner, or driving a car, etc. You may use skills while playing, but the game doesn't require skill. Do you need to be more skilled than your opponent to win? Sometimes. Take poker for example. I could argue that poker requires no skill because you can't even control the cards you get, everything is just random. I'd be right, to an extent. I could also argue that poker requires skill because you must be able to bet and bluff (and other skills) to convince others to allow you to win. I'd be right, to an extent. I could also argue that no matter how skilled you are, you could lose because your enemy has a straight flush, queen high. I'd be right, to an extent. I could argue that you could still minimize your loss by recognizing that he's betting high, and recognizing such things is a skill. I'd be right about that, too.

However, you can't argue (successfully) that poker is more skilled than, let's just say, old maid, which is a game that children play. The rules are simple, there are a few things you need to learn and practice to be good, and some people are more naturally talented than others. A game is still a game, and games are made to be playable, which means accessible, which means simple.

In a world where people engineer technologies that are so complex that it takes years of training just to understand the creative process, it's vain in the extreme to consider any "game" as being a truly skilled activity.

If you don't get that, then you're the exact type of person that I'm complaining about.

 

Italics: topic was "Anyone have wow, i'd like to have someone explain it to me", so his post was about as offtopic as possible.

Yes, football is a game, sure it takes "skills", but I don't see football players going around telling everyone that "Football takes skill, baseball is for pansies." And, if they did, people would consider it disrespectful. And I bet a lot of people would be thinking "Why are these football players so impressed with themselves, they're just grown men playing a game. Have fun, make your money, but get off your high horse."

Bold: No idea what you're actually saying there, but I assume you're asking me why I conceded one of his points and made a counterargument to that point: I may have been a little hasty in the original post I made, so I admitted the error and attempted to correct it, which is, like, what you're supposed to do? Shrug.

 

Yeah, that's the main skill. Have more time than other people, get more gear (or more practice) than they can get in the time they have available to allocate to the game, and PvP against all the other people who haven't prepared as well as you have until you get into the bracket where you're PvP'ing with other people who can put in as much time as you, then develop a few tactics based on the 3 most viable PvP moves every character has (which will pretty much be the same no matter which person is playing that particular kind of character), and see who can twitch the fastest.

That's why I'm not impressed with the "PLAY A GAME THAT TAKES REAL SKILL" argument.