MMOs don't always make logical sense. Their are certain suspensions of belief that we are expected to just roll with. Talking cows, Gnomes shooting fireballs, trolls, people turning into animals. These lore aspects we're ok with. However when it comes to game mechanics this can be a problem. The other night I was watching Noobwife playing. She was running her Feral Druid through a dungeon and I noticed that her DPS was a bit low even for her level. After the Dungeon I was helping her go through her bags and finding her upgrades, I spotted a staff that gave her Druid a huge boost to her stats. I clicked on it and equipped it. The strange thing is, no old weapon dropped into the bag. I then asked my wife. "Why didn't you have a weapon equipped?" My wife responded with "I didn't know I needed one. I'm a cat. I have claws". My wife has never played a MMO before this and in all fairness the idea that a cat needs a stick to be tough doesn't really make a lot of sense. If Blizzard had made it so that Ferial Druids used claw or fist weapons it might make more sense however they don't and it doesn't. I then spent the next five minuets trying to explain to her why it makes sense. Then I decided it didn't make sense and to instead think of it as her magic boom stick. I find referencing Army of Darkness helps with everything. So the lesion to take from this is that you should always have your weapon equipped and if something in game doesn't really make sense to you your probably not alone.
Remember were all noobs, some of us just fly the flag higher.
Morison-
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