Pug of frustration

19 Jan

Posted by: maerdred in: Uncategorized

I was going to title this post /FailPUG of Frustration, but it wasn’t Fail, it was Successful. It was just Frustrating.

Last Monday while picking herbs and waiting for “How I met your Mother” to come on I joined the queue for a random Pug. abut 45 seconds later I was Halls of Lightning bound.(Seriously, I think HOL, HOS and Oculus are the only instances in the game anymore) I entered the instance to find a Hunter, Warlock, DK and Warrior. As soon as I cast Gift of the Wild and turned into a tree the DK ran off and grabbed the first group. OK. That’s a tank. Heal it.

Why is the Warrior pulling aggro off him? Heal him! ok. Pull’s over. Inspect the Warrior. Fury? He’s not a tank. Eff that. Heal the DK. Let the Warrior die. Wait, recount says the Warrior’s doing over 5k DPS? well… maybe let him live. If I let him die he may pull the whole “My Epeen is bigger than yours and I’m leaving this group! You can’t heal noob!” thing. So what if he pulls aggro, he’s wearing plate. I can heal him and the DK all at once. Decision made.

So the first boss goes down without issue. The elementals that asplode kind of asploded on the Warlock, who didn’t seem to know that was a thing… I kept everyone else up, probably because they were in plate or far enough away. So the next pull goes well, and then the warrior keeps running up the stairs. Pulls the next group before I have a chance to even round the corner and mount the stairs and he dies. I’m next, then the DK gets control so I pop my Soulstone, only to die a second later. Warlock is next, Then the Hunter… FD anyone? then the DK. By the time he died, I was at the portal to the instance. The Lock, Hunter and DK released and ran in, but the Warrior stayed. “Oh great, Primadonna Warrior can’t run back. he’s too good for that.” When we got back to the Elementals, they had repopped, and then he says “srry back” and releases, so the DK waited for him and we went through. For the rest of the instance it was pretty much more of the same. The DK tanking, or trying, and Mr Warrior of Leet DPS pulling aggro off of him almost instantly and taking huge amounts of damage, which I have to say, I did a pretty good job of healing through. In the end it all worked out and we killed Loken, but the whole thing would have gone better if Mr. Warrior had tanked instead of DPS tanked. More annoying than anything else, but would it have been that hard to go tank spec, or hold off a bit and let the Tank Tank?

What stories of annoyance do you have from the Random Pugging that’s been going on? Horror stories? Email them, comment them they may make it to a blog post!

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4 Responses

TyphoonAndrew
19|Jan|2010 1

This is a familiar story, the dps who think that they can evade-dps-tank, or burn through a mob before they die because the healer should be able to cope. Asshats one and all.

LFG has done wonderful things, but it has also exposed us to more idiots per hour than the old system. I think there were the same amount of idiots, its just that getting to meet them is so much more efficient now.
maerdred
19|Jan|2010 2

you’ve got that right. it is a more efficient asshat system. Luckly most of my pugs have been pretty easy to handle.
Intravax
25|Jan|2010 3

I just hate when you’re in a group and 1 person is constantly pulling agro off the tank. When you tell them to stop they apologize and say they can’t help it. I’ve even had someone tell me that they had Omen but all their attacks kept pulling agro and they wouldn’t be able to do good DPS if they stopped attacking to keep their agro down. I just let them die after I’ve warned them. If they don’t want the big repair bill they will learn.
Majsty
31|Jan|2010 4

came across your blog while searching for ret pally stuff, good read! =D

i know what you mean about this new pug system thing. it’s bad enough meeting bad / arrogant pugs in your own realm, now we’re exposed to more of them across the battlegroup >.<

my fiance's druid tank is in the process of gearing up (4200 GS), and we got a heroic PoS the other night, not exactly his choice (i thought ICC instance s'pose to have a gear filter?!?!) but in saying that, i've healed him on my resto druid before, and it wasn't a struggle. so the dps warrior and lock (both with 5100+ GS) keeps pulling aggro off him, and in saying that, they didn't stop popping their bladestorm and seeds either? or maybe let him grab aggro first before dps'ing away on every targets *other* than the 1 that he marked O.o so then came the "u noob tank, you're not geared for this place (umm hello? we got this in a random?!?), L2tank, rah rah rah" he decided to leave group to bring his main which is a warrior tank, while he's logging out, the lock went out of his way to "/s LOL you are a bad, cya" and after i invited his warrior back into group, the lock made snides comment like "oh a real tank! oh no it's that druid again, must be bad as well" i seriously dunno where people learn such bad manners from?!

someone voted to kick the lock, so i clicked yes =D horay! and on the last boss, the dps warrior decided to keep dps'ing the boss while he's branded, and decided to stay to dps the boss while he's got the frost debuff on him, which then froze up the tank, and tank died coz healer couldn't keep him up. the dps warrior ended up tanking him the whole fight but died so i (on hunter) kited the boss and luckily downed him. dps warrior also decided to loot the boss after running back into the instance, while other people was still running in, then left group, so i said "OMG what a d*ckhead" and then came a message from the healer "well if it wasn't for him we would've wiped on the boss, so stop being a bad" O.o umm how is freezing up the tank bcoz he refused to run out when he had the debuff, and *not* being able to keep the tank up then dps warrior ended up tanking the boss any of the tank's fault?! it's better being called bads when you *are* in fact a noob, but it's really not ok to be called bads by bads who don't realise they're bads zzZzz