Probably the first thing in both cases is just this: wait for everybody before moving. When soloing, you follow your own schedule and limits. When grouping, you wait for everybody to be ready. In MMMORPGs, you wait for healers to have mana and make sure that everybody's at the keyboard and ready to fight before jumping in to the next battle. In backpacking, you let the slowest person set the pace and stick to it, and anybody can call a break when they need one. You don't split up the group unless you're in a major emergency (usually medical).
Solo-types always want to run ahead whenever they're ready. In MMORPGs, they'll pull monsters and start killing them without waiting to make sure the healer has mana, or go click on a quest object without making sure that everybody's ready for the event it starts. In backpacking, these people charge up the trail, leaving the rest of the group behind. This is dangerous behavior, and means that one part of the group can get injured or lost without the other part. It also causes bad feelings as slower people struggle to keep up, while the faster ones resent having to slow down and stick together.
Communication is another essential. Groups for one quest (so everybody can loot the guy instead of waiting for a respawn) isn't that big a deal, but in longer groups and in backpacking, you need to have a designated leader and everybody needs to know what's being accomplished. This is true when trying to finish quests in an instance that require a boss people sometimes skip, and this is true when figuring out which camp you're going to go to tonight and which supper you're going to eat tonight.
For WoW specifically, I recommend Ten Ton Hammer's grouping guide (http://wow.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=500) for some food for thought. It doesn't detail everything, but it gives you the basics.
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Date: 2007-07-30 05:24 pm (UTC)Solo-types always want to run ahead whenever they're ready. In MMORPGs, they'll pull monsters and start killing them without waiting to make sure the healer has mana, or go click on a quest object without making sure that everybody's ready for the event it starts. In backpacking, these people charge up the trail, leaving the rest of the group behind. This is dangerous behavior, and means that one part of the group can get injured or lost without the other part. It also causes bad feelings as slower people struggle to keep up, while the faster ones resent having to slow down and stick together.
Communication is another essential. Groups for one quest (so everybody can loot the guy instead of waiting for a respawn) isn't that big a deal, but in longer groups and in backpacking, you need to have a designated leader and everybody needs to know what's being accomplished. This is true when trying to finish quests in an instance that require a boss people sometimes skip, and this is true when figuring out which camp you're going to go to tonight and which supper you're going to eat tonight.
For WoW specifically, I recommend Ten Ton Hammer's grouping guide (http://wow.tentonhammer.com/index.php?module=ContentExpress&file=index&func=display&ceid=500) for some food for thought. It doesn't detail everything, but it gives you the basics.