Watched Asmon's recorded stream to see if SM was as painful as it used to be and good God... The complete lack of knowledge of how to play, spec, gear. Running around and kiting like fucking noobs in a modern arena match. Not attacking from behind, letting mobs hit you in the ass, picking fucking parry talents on a dps arms warrior instead of heroic strike, literally your most damaging ability at that point. I didn't even play warrior, I theory crafted with and borrowed a buddies warry to fuck around in PvP. Arms is garbage without MS. I was surprised a solo paladin kept them up, but you could tell his chain pulling was stressing tf out of the group.
Back in the day we hit SM at 25, with a priest at level 18 or 19 that had the aggro radius of a 25 kiloton warhead. Doing that shit at 30, save the last wing, was useless. Mob kills and drops were too slow and infrequent to reasonably farm dungeons for that purpose. You farm outside dungeons, and only if it hits multiple things - quests, reps, and/or known item drop (eg. pets). Dungeons are for boss kills and blue gear. Finding ways to skip mobs would be ideal, but when your pocket healer can't even enter the hallway without pulling that and the next hall, you the military quarter was a major bitch, but ensured you dick head group mates pulled for line of sight.
LOS YOU IDIOTS. A concept so foreign, that should be blatantly obvious to someone who arenas and hides behind shit half of every match, most of them aren't doing it in PvE... What.
Precast your sheep, ya fuckin noob mage.
"What stats do I focus on? Str or AP?"
"Is agi good, I know spirit is useless." (except to top end mages who carry a spirit kit for maximizing evocation)
Keep your buffs up. Something basic addons and generally just fucking paying attention would fix.
STAND BEHIND THE FUCKING MOB IF YOU'RE MELEE, this is why tanks pull mobs into a corner because it's obnoxious for other players to attack from the corner, thus overpowering their stupidity ensuring they hit the mob in the ass, and aren't getting cleaved. The tank suffers not being able to see the game, a sacrifice made purely to account for idiocy (and wing buffet or other knock backs). Mobs also can't parry attacks if you stab them in the ass. Also reduces stress on healers since you're not eating cleave damage....
Position is 9/10ths of the law in vanilla.