Learning how to effectively communicate with your team is a skill all of us can sharpen. When a fight is going on all chatter must cease IMMEDIATELY. The voices you should be hearing during a fight is your team leader, and your tank/s ONLY. Everything else can wait. Does this mean we might die as a result? Yes, it does. BUT, the time to communicate information you have acquired is before or after the fight, as a SITREP (situation report) and preferably in text so as not to overwhelm the people trying to organize a plan of attack.

I appreciate all of the input that everyone has to give on any given fight, particularly information of high value. The problem is that the time to communicate that information is not in the middle of the fight. There is a time and a place for everything. We need to be able to focus and concentrate when we begin taking a mob down, and all of the chatter and input in the midst of that contributes to chaos and to vital info being ignored. You cannot communicate high value information by talking over people- it is absolutely unacceptable, not to mention terribly confusing and frustrating.

There is an old rule from Ghost Recon that we used to implement that I would like to implement here also: DEAD MEN DON'T TALK. This means that once a fight is over you are welcome to contribute, but if you are dead, you are to remain silent until the fight is over. There are still people alive who need to concentrate on the job at hand, and who cannot process all of the additional information you are trying to communicate while still staying focused.