Yelling isn't a sign of weaknessFollow

If you yell, you get the full benefit of JBoots/Horse.

A lot of the time I will run through some mobs and aoe them and take off, people will send me tells demanding that I /yell when all I am doing is just having fun. =(

I wish there was a way to yell silently :) I love the benefits, but I tend to experiement alot since I solo, and there are a good many times when I need to turn tail and run like the wind. I don't want the heroic types to have to drop what they're doing to try to save me every 5 seconds. One day they'll prolly beat me up :(

I prolly made myself out to be a runnin' nut in my first post :) I actually never yell. I've yelled around three times so far, once to test it, once because i was in the middle of no where, and the other prolly cuz i didn't wanna die :) I'd seriously love a way to break the fight without having everyone hear it heh.

Keep in mind that yelling restores you to non combat regen rates. You might not have made it had you not hit the yell key.

Some people will never get used to all the mechanics of the game no matter how simple they may seem to those of us that understand them. My wife for example took an entire week to get a basic idea of how HOs work, and the best way I can show her how is by putting the skills required for them in order. While she could have the yell command or the sprint command in her hotkeys they would just get in her way while she is fighting so like myself I had her delete them. I've shown her how to bring up the BoK, and access the yell and sprint buttons, but she gets confused easily with that. She is slowly getting better, but she will probably never match the skills of many players out their.

Another thing she will probably never achieve is being able to talk to others online. Her biggist issue here is not recieving a proper enough education, nor the help she needed to deal with dyslexia, as such she can't spell well at all and is very self consious of this. I have tried to help, but I don't do a very good job as I really don't understand dyslexia all that well.

Either way there are more than likely others out there who have a lack of understanding of game mechanics, or perfer to be alone and don't use some of the more useful things because it doesn't occur to them. Besides, the penalty for dying isn't all that steep.

SirWise,

It does seem true that you you dont get XP for the kill if you yell. But then I'd rather not have the xp for an encounter and survive than have to wade my way through XP debt after dying.

Also, another thing I noticed after a yell is that I can't get off HO's if I try to finish off the MOB. I guess no-one is entitled to any heroics once they have ran screaming from a fight :)

And, yes, I do seem to yell a lot! My Level 21 pally has probably yelled 2 or 3 times a level. What can I say...I like to overstretch myself then run away in terror

Minky

Shardangel, instead of deleting possibly critical buttons like Yell and Sprint, and relying on the BoK, try this.

Right click on an empty space on your hotkey bar and select "make new hotkey bar (or something like that)". Then take the new bar and put it somewhere out of the way (You can change it's shape all the way to the point of being vertical if needed). Then put all the icons you almost never use, but still might need in an emergency on it. Then right click it and go into "window properties" and set all the sliders on the left hand side all the way to the left and select the "lock window" checkbox. This will cause the window to only appear when your mouse is over it, thus removing confusion and screen clutter while still giving you fast access.

LoL, by the time I even think of yelling it's less safe for my to type /y than it is to just turn and run. Either way the first button I press is sprint, far more important than yelling. And as to the hot keys, I find it just as easy to use the BoK as to use the hotkeys for Emergancy cituations. And generally it's me thats getting clobbered so my wife just needs to run. hehe. I was mearly comenting on the fact that some people will never yell for help not because they don't want it, but because even after reading a string of posts like this one they will still have trouble doing multible things at the same time. i.e. Turning, running, sprinting, yelling. Oh ya and turning off autoattack. Thats a real killer when it keeps you locked on the target.

Shardangel,

What I would do is open a new HotBar and shrink it down to the size of 2 buttons. Then just put Sprint and Yell in it and stick it in a corner somehwere. That way, it doesn't get in the way of the other buttons and barely takes up any room anywhere else.



-SirWise-

Great idea. I usually have them on my normal hotbars and on a few occaisons have accidentelly hit the yell button in the heat of the moment and broken the encounter

Thanks
Minky