All Beginnings Are Hard
I still remember vividly how I started WoW almost 21 years ago. The spec of my rogue was … suboptimal. I clicked many of the abilities with the mouse and would sometimes misclick in hectic situations. And surely I also died several times, even though I could have prevented it with a healing potion, healthstone, or ability.
Well, many new players from 2026 are not immune to my mistakes from 2005 either. Many hardcore deaths from the Sauercrowd event occur primarily due to inexperience and overwhelm: the aspiring WoW heroes accidentally use important cooldowns, heal themselves instead of their injured comrades, or forget their self-healing options.
It is also often seen: although they find themselves in a critical situation, newcomers must first search the skill bar for potentially life-saving skills, only to click on them with the mouse. Or even worse: they open their bags to use an item such as a healing potion.
In the original OnlyFangs event of the international streamers players with such little experience probably wouldn’t even have been accepted. The Sauercrowd project takes a different, more beginner-friendly approach but also paves this path with numerous corpses – the hardcore rule set is actually more of an option for veterans.
