Is there a warning message for new players for WoD? If not maybe it should be.

*Heavy Sigh*

So yesterday I ended up feeling really bad for forgetting to mention to a *new* player that loot locks out in CT.


You know cause I've been playing a long time so this sort of situation is like a *shrug* everyone knows this tradition.

However I've come to realize even though it's been a thing where CT has always had a loot lock out - there is a chance that new blood does exist. That some people just weren't around for that.

So when the guy hit greed and expressed his frustration on being grayed out later - it hit me.

OH YOU'RE THAT NEW.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
oh......
oh.
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I'm so sorry.
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I've come to just share this experience to in light that maybe there should be a warning for new players at the start of these dungeons - like a "help" active window that lets them know. As I feel for the guy. New raid, only to get snuffed for the week without any indication.

If there is one - whew. Glad I just got this off my chest. Still feel terrible lol.

The warning is at the top of the loot window and also in the Duty Finder description.

It says in yellow letters over the loot roll window that you get one item per week.

Oh okay then. I feel a bit better now thanks. lol

Cause I hate being that guy that tells people the bad news.

As I used to *that officer* in other MMOs who had to let people go.

So this kind of made me feel terrible again lol.

you even get that tutorial popup thing when you unlock wod
his fault for being lazy, impatient and inattentive

But no one reads most of the information that's given to them by the devs in the game (or even anywhere else for that matter), hell half the time they don't even read the comments in Party Finder.... Human nature is a human's biggest enemy....

The big letters on top of the loot window make it a bit obvious. If they don't read that, it's their own fault.

As a developer, this thread made both laugh and cry inside at the same time.
I laughed because it was so true.
I cried because people will always behave like this and then call support to complain it is broken. The number of times I just want to RTFM to people during these support calls hurts.

I never noticed it on my first trip through WoD, but I've been playing long enough that I'm fully aware of loot lockouts on new raid content so might have just been that I wasn't paying enough attention to notice. Could probably be made more noticable though for newbies.

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Originally Posted by Sakuraluna

Could probably be made more noticable though for newbies.

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Or they could just use their brains.

They just recently added the "If you abandon your queue, you will get a 30 minute lock out" warning when withdrawing form a Duty Queue Pop. I don't think it would be much to add the warning for the loot lock out :/

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Originally Posted by Byonka

They just recently added the "If you abandon your queue, you will get a 30 minute lock out" warning when withdrawing form a Duty Queue Pop. I don't think it would be much to add the warning for the loot lock out :/

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It's already mentioned in enough places. People that fail to read it deserve to face the consequences.

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Originally Posted by Byonka

They just recently added the "If you abandon your queue, you will get a 30 minute lock out" warning when withdrawing form a Duty Queue Pop. I don't think it would be much to add the warning for the loot lock out :/

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Really? What do you want? A pop up and an alarm to go off so even some dumb person who can't read won't roll on things? It's above the box where you roll for loot it explains the lockout to you and when it resets. It's also in plenty of other places. What more do you want? The only people who screw this up are people who never read anything so why are they going to read another annoying pop up that you get every time you roll on loot?

I think a confirmation when selecting need/greed on lockout stuff would be nice. It's rare but Ive had some friends accidentally greed on something cause they are clicking too fast.

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But no one reads most of the information that's given to them by the devs in the game (or even anywhere else for that matter), hell half the time they don't even read the comments in Party Finder.... Human nature is a human's biggest enemy....

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The number of people that ask what is locked when I make a Need > Greed PF group for Shiva EX kinda infuriates me sometimes. I even make sure Need > Greed is visible in the PF listing without having to have it selected. These people are usually the ones that for some reason stick around but talk like the are being forced to stay and complain the entire time and bail after a single mistake.

There is no such message. Everyone is pulling your leg. If there was you would have seen it.