Tales from the PUG Stone

akun50

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#1
This thread is for any story you feel like preening or griping over. They can be a warning to others about certain players now that we have the Dungeon Finder, or a moment of pride for some moments of truly great moments.

Got a story for this thread. Note that I work late, so I tend to play between midnight and 6 AM.

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First story is on Alliance and happened this morning before the typical Tuesday mass server-reset, and the focus is a Fail!Hunter one of my friends and I ran into last night by the name of Lucaro. His armory page. (What irritates me, looking at this, is the fact that his level was 25 when he was with us, and his gear was WORSE than it is on his Armory Page, despite the fact that his armory page is at level 24, which cements my theory that he's a moron and a ninja looter)

A friend of mine and I were playing a low level tank and healer combo. He was running a Gnome Warrior, I was running Dwarven Priestess. We also had a Dranei Mage and a Dranei Warrior when we first arrived in Razorfen Kraul.

When Lucaro, a Dwarven Hunter, first arrived, he immediately left using the Teleport Out of Dungeon function. Didn't say a word, nothing. According to the menu, he went back to Stormwind.

Since we had the Dungeon Finder debuff (we were doing random for loot), we couldn't boot him, so we decided to run until either he showed up or we could boot him for another DPS.

TWELVE MINUTES passed before Lucaro FINALLY made it back to Razorfen, and we were almost to the fourway split (the one where you can go left or right for a boss, or forward to continue) before he showed.

Then I notice he's not really talking. And the few times he does, it's only in general speak, i.e. white. He's not talking in party speak and when he does say anything it's very little, like "i" "lol" "can't", etc.

I've been making it a habit to check on my allies to see how well they're geared and specced. The Dranei mage was frost specced and the Dranei Warrior was Fury specced, and both were well geared for their level.

Lucaro was level 25 and had yet to set a single point into ANY talent. Then I glance at his gear. At the time, he was only wearing two greens (hands and leggings), two blues (his cape and belt), but mostly whites. He's dual-wielding a sword and a dagger, both whites, and his gun was a grey.

At this point, I'm rubbing my forehead in frustration. He's either a complete newbie or a moron (I also entertained the idea that he might be playing Hardcore, but considering how stupid that would be, I immediately drop it as a possibility), and I'm struggling to figure out which, so I try dropping a few hints about how to open the Talent Menu and ask him how well fed his wolf pet is. He never responds to that.

First thing he did was run UP TO AN ENEMY and attack. I felt bad for his Wolf Pet hordekiller (all in lowercase), because you KNOW that poor thing is probably starving, or getting killed often.

When my friend informs him that hunters are RANGED characters, he started using his gun more and letting his wolf charge, so I start leaning towards the complete newbie theory. We do surprisingly well getting to the first boss we've chosen to take on and kick his ass. A blue shoulder pad comes up with Int/Spirit boosts.

I already had it (my friend and I were running Razorfen for the second time that day), so I consider greeding it if the Mage doesn't need. The Mage needs, so I pass. It's my policy to pass on something I don't need when someone else needs it (I Greed if no one Needs it).

Then I notice the Hunter's Needed it.

Don't ask me HOW he managed to Need on it, but my theory is because he had grey shoulder pads, he was allowed to Need it, even though it's clearly caster gear. At this point, I figure he might be a ninja looter, but if he is, he's been too obvious.

We continue on and kill the next boss who drops a Blue knife that's got Agility and Strength. Good for any DPS, especially our dork of a hunter, so I pass on it. HE PASSES ON IT, and our mage who'd greeded it, gets it.

At this point, the server patch is due, so it starts telling us that our server is going down for maintenance soon. We decide to take on another boss before we go, and do so quite well. Two Polearms, both blues, drop from the two minions, and the boss drops a green piece of tanking mail armor (+stamina and strength). Hunter passes on the two polearms and NEEDS THE ARMOR.

At this point, I'm convinced Lucaro is an idiot _and_ a ninja looter. We probably would've booted him but the 15 minute counter had already started for our server reset, so we decide to call it a night instead.

I'd gladly work with that Dranei Mage or Warrior again, but I'm adding Lucaro to my ignore list so we never see him again.
 

Solarman

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#2
You can boot him when you can't queue, and you can queue to grab the last person for your dungeon group if you're already in and you lose somebody (or kick them). I've had to immediately requeue my group when a tank decided "I don't want to do Old Kingdom" or some such bullshit after he took the teleporter. It just won't queue you for a dungeon change.
 

akun50

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#3
Solarman said:
You can boot him when you can't queue, and you can queue to grab the last person for your dungeon group if you're already in and you lose somebody (or kick them). I've had to immediately requeue my group when a tank decided "I don't want to do Old Kingdom" or some such bullshit after he took the teleporter. It just won't queue you for a dungeon change.
Really? That's awesome.
 

Belgarion213

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#4
Couple days ago I was doing a run of H-Forge of Souls for a chance at the DPS scorpion (or the bags) when we had this idiot drop in. As soon as he saw he was goign to have some competition to getting some piece of gear he wanted (Forget what it was) he immediately asked us to kick him. We were trying to say 'Dude, let it roll and see who gets it' but that wasn't good enough, he wanted 100% chance of getting that piece of gear ifit showed up. We were all getting a bit sick of him at this point and then he used the 'teleport out of dungeon' feature to teleport back to Dal.

God that guy annoyed me, we had just teleported in and when we went to initiate a kcik it flashed up 'Can't kick yet'. And he wouldn't, even after demanding we kick him, just click the 'leave party' option or something (can you do it?)

Sorry not very coherent here but was just very aggravating tank who didn't want to roll on stuff.
 

Solarman

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#5
Belgarion213 said:
Couple days ago I was doing a run of H-Forge of Souls for a chance at the DPS scorpion (or the bags) when we had this idiot drop in. As soon as he saw he was goign to have some competition to getting some piece of gear he wanted (Forget what it was) he immediately asked us to kick him. We were trying to say 'Dude, let it roll and see who gets it' but that wasn't good enough, he wanted 100% chance of getting that piece of gear ifit showed up. We were all getting a bit sick of him at this point and then he used the 'teleport out of dungeon' feature to teleport back to Dal.

God that guy annoyed me, we had just teleported in and when we went to initiate a kcik it flashed up 'Can't kick yet'. And he wouldn't, even after demanding we kick him, just click the 'leave party' option or something (can you do it?)

Sorry not very coherent here but was just very aggravating tank who didn't want to roll on stuff.
Your beef reminds me of my own from last night.

I was running my own HForge. In tree spec, for a moonkin neck that's a solid upgrade over a piece from Uld10 Hardmodes that I never had a real opportunity to replace (read: no drops for me.) Moonkin's my mainspec. I said so at the start, said the only piece I needed was that neck off last boss, and the only person I read as a threat over the neck (warlock) already had it. Tankadin says he's here for holy loot, ok. Well, the neck drops. I need. Paladin needs. Paladin wins and leaves the party.

Well, the neck IS good for holydins too, but I'd said, "All I need is the caster neck off last boss for my main spec." *sigh* You'd think people would be nice about letting somebody take something for mainspec while he's healing in offspec, before taking for your own offspec.
 

akun50

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#6
Ran Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom the other night. The run got a bit rough when our hunter ran out of arrows at an inopportune time (from what she said, she only forgets because she plays a Priest most of the time), but it wasn't a boss, and she was able to restock and get back relatively quickly.

I have to say, I FUCKING LOVE the final boss of that dungeon. :wub: Herald Volazj :wub:

Why? I love bosses who do the things I would if I were a boss. Insanity is so much fucking fun, especially since I'm tank and hence, can slaughter everyone else in the group.

I love Grand Magus Telestra in Nexus too, as she also uses tricks and tactics I would if I were a boss. :wub:

I have to say, those two bosses alone have completely revitalized my love for WoW, because they're so much fucking FUN... as a Melee. :sisi: I know my friends who play casters hate those two, but I fucking LOVE them. I hope they never changed those encounters and I'm looking forward to other bosses that use interesting tactics.
 
#7
Fortunately, I haven't run into any of the auto-follow or afk at doorway people yet. Lots of sub 1k dps, the occasional munter or 71/0/0 spec, but our guild record is a 310 dps level 80 hunter :p
 

Dementist

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#8
hiryuu1115 said:
Fortunately, I haven't run into any of the auto-follow or afk at doorway people yet. Lots of sub 1k dps, the occasional munter or 71/0/0 spec, but our guild record is a 310 dps level 80 hunter :p
...how?

You do more dps than that starting auto-shot and going afk.

akun50 said:
wub.gif Herald Volazj wub.gif
AHAHAHAHAHAH...no. Sure, he's easy and fun now, but he was the biggest bitch outside of Occulus back when LK hit. I remember tanking him when I was leveling my DK. I couldn't kill the damn clones with mostly greens and couple of quest/dungeon blues. The dps would usually get themselves killed, and the healer would survive with an empty mana bar. :no: (And later on heroic runs, druid healers = ragegnashriphatetear. Goddamn nourish spamming fuckers)

On the lighter side of things, one of my most interesting 5-mans comes not from anything recent, but leveling during early LK. For every rogue/mage/warrior/paladin/etc. queuing up, there were 8 DK's (granted, I was leveling a DK as well, but it was for tanking in my high-end raiding guild :p).

So, me and a bunch of other guildies leveling DK's decided to hell with it. We went and ran Nexus. With 5 DK's. It was awesome. It was excruciating. But we damn well finished it. B)

Took us all afternoon, but it made for a very nice break from leveling.
 

Solarman

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#9
Dementist said:
hiryuu1115 said:
Fortunately, I haven't run into any of the auto-follow or afk at doorway people yet. Lots of sub 1k dps, the occasional munter or 71/0/0 spec, but our guild record is a 310 dps level 80 hunter :p
...how?

You do more dps than that starting auto-shot and going afk.
Probably the same way one lv 80 hunter I knew did... absolutely no understanding of the class, so spec was prolly supremely wonky and gear was defense or spellpower or something like that.
 

rentar

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#10
akun50 said:
Ran Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom the other night. The run got a bit rough when our hunter ran out of arrows at an inopportune time (from what she said, she only forgets because she plays a Priest most of the time), but it wasn't a boss, and she was able to restock and get back relatively quickly.

I have to say, I FUCKING LOVE the final boss of that dungeon. :wub: Herald Volazj :wub:

Why? I love bosses who do the things I would if I were a boss. Insanity is so much fucking fun, especially since I'm tank and hence, can slaughter everyone else in the group.

I love Grand Magus Telestra in Nexus too, as she also uses tricks and tactics I would if I were a boss. :wub:

I have to say, those two bosses alone have completely revitalized my love for WoW, because they're so much fucking FUN... as a Melee. :sisi: I know my friends who play casters hate those two, but I fucking LOVE them. I hope they never changed those encounters and I'm looking forward to other bosses that use interesting tactics.
I remember playing a holy priest in Heroic Old Kingdom back when Naxx was still the best raid. I was in pretty much full Naxx-25 gear (though I sold my account to a friend for some shit-amount, pretty much just my cost of the games). I couldn't even kill a bloody rogue in pre-heroic gear.

It sucked to be a healer, and sucked like hell to be a priest back then.
 

Dementist

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#11
rentar said:
akun50 said:
Ran Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom the other night.? The run got a bit rough when our hunter ran out of arrows at an inopportune time (from what she said, she only forgets because she plays a Priest most of the time), but it wasn't a boss, and she was able to restock and get back relatively quickly.

I have to say, I FUCKING LOVE the final boss of that dungeon.? :wub: Herald Volazj :wub:

Why?? I love bosses who do the things I would if I were a boss.? Insanity is so much fucking fun, especially since I'm tank and hence, can slaughter everyone else in the group.

I love Grand Magus Telestra in Nexus too, as she also uses tricks and tactics I would if I were a boss. :wub:

I have to say, those two bosses alone have completely revitalized my love for WoW, because they're so much fucking FUN... as a Melee. :sisi:? I know my friends who play casters hate those two, but I fucking LOVE them.? I hope they never changed those encounters and I'm looking forward to other bosses that use interesting tactics.
I remember playing a holy priest in Heroic Old Kingdom back when Naxx was still the best raid. I was in pretty much full Naxx-25 gear (though I sold my account to a friend for some shit-amount, pretty much just my cost of the games). I couldn't even kill a bloody rogue in pre-heroic gear.

It sucked to be a healer, and sucked like hell to be a priest back then.
You were a holy priest. What'd you really expect would happen? Disc was the pvp healing spec for priests. You would've been unkillable in that same situation.

Back during the time frame, holy could sorta do alright in group pvp or 5s arena, but it truly sucked ass for small scale. Granted, holy has gotten a few improvements for pvp since then.
 

rentar

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#12
Dementist said:
rentar said:
akun50 said:
Ran Ahn'kahet: Old Kingdom the other night.á The run got a bit rough when our hunter ran out of arrows at an inopportune time (from what she said, she only forgets because she plays a Priest most of the time), but it wasn't a boss, and she was able to restock and get back relatively quickly.

I have to say, I FUCKING LOVE the final boss of that dungeon.á :wub: Herald Volazj :wub:

Why?á I love bosses who do the things I would if I were a boss.á Insanity is so much fucking fun, especially since I'm tank and hence, can slaughter everyone else in the group.

I love Grand Magus Telestra in Nexus too, as she also uses tricks and tactics I would if I were a boss. :wub:

I have to say, those two bosses alone have completely revitalized my love for WoW, because they're so much fucking FUN... as a Melee. :sisi:á? I know my friends who play casters hate those two, but I fucking LOVE them.á I hope they never changed those encounters and I'm looking forward to other bosses that use interesting tactics.
I remember playing a holy priest in Heroic Old Kingdom back when Naxx was still the best raid. I was in pretty much full Naxx-25 gear (though I sold my account to a friend for some shit-amount, pretty much just my cost of the games). I couldn't even kill a bloody rogue in pre-heroic gear.

It sucked to be a healer, and sucked like hell to be a priest back then.
You were a holy priest. What'd you really expect would happen? Disc was the pvp healing spec for priests. You would've been unkillable in that same situation.

Back during the time frame, holy could sorta do alright in group pvp or 5s arena, but it truly sucked ass for small scale. Granted, holy has gotten a few improvements for pvp since then.
Disc was the PVP spec, but Holy was the raiding spec.

Kel'thuzad was hell as disc (I tried it). I prevented countless wipes with Guardian Angel while we were trying to clear Naxx.
 

Dementist

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rentar said:
Disc was the PVP spec, but Holy was the raiding spec.

Kel'thuzad was hell as disc (I tried it). I prevented countless wipes with Guardian Angel while we were trying to clear Naxx.
Yep. We were talking pvp though.

When Ulduar popped, Disc got some nice upgrades that made easily on par with holy for raiding, though ya really could only bring one disc priest for the most effective raid healing. More than one and their shields tended to overlap.
 
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Back about two days after retail my guild and a few others on Uther launched a PUG raid into Ragefire Chasm. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sadly, none of us were over level 10. Most of us, in fact, were still level 3-6.

We died. Horribly. Repeatedly.

Then about a week or two after retail I was in the Barrens when one of the hardcore players (already level 60) starts shouting over Barrens Chat to group up for a raid on Stormwind. Forty of us gathered up in Ratchet: we had two people over 40 (one of them the level 60 player), about five people over level 20, two people under level 10 and everyone else (about 21 or so players) was level 10-20. We took the boat to Booty Bay, flagged when we left the town, then started to march north through Stranglethorn Vale.

It was like 'Nam all over again. Stealthed mobs and Alliance rogues kept jumping us along the road. Night Elf Charlie was sniping us from the jungle. It was pandemonium. Out of forty members of the raid group, only four of us made it to Duskwood: the 60, the 40+, me (about level 14), and a Forsaken Elite guildmate (level 8-10). We never even got past Goldshire because we aggroed a kid and he spawned about two dozen 60 elite guards on us.

And then there was the time I went to Pyrewood.....
 

endev8003

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#15
Although it wasn't something I was part of, I did feel the aftereffects and it was rather epic (although not at the time it happened).

On my server (Blade's Edge EU), Someone decided to arrange a massive PvP battle at the Dark Portal. He and a couple of friends advertised it for a week beforehand.

Alliance grouped at Blasted Lands while Horde gathered at Hellfire Peninsula. At the set time, the Horde invaded. The battle was epic, for about half a minute. Then the EK world server crashed :( .

I was leveling my Shaman in Stranglethorn Vale at the time and wasn't really pleased with that :spank: .

Luckily the server came back up after a couple of minutes. Apparently the Horde managed to push all the way to Stormwind.

It is just one of those memorable things. Unfortunately I wasn't there, but I doubt my connection would have held out with so many players in one place.
 

master66611

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endev8003 said:
Although it wasn't something I was part of, I did feel the aftereffects and it was rather epic (although not at the time it happened).

On my server (Blade's Edge EU), Someone decided to arrange a massive PvP battle at the Dark Portal. He and a couple of friends advertised it for a week beforehand.

Alliance grouped at Blasted Lands while Horde gathered at Hellfire Peninsula. At the set time, the Horde invaded. The battle was epic, for about half a minute. Then the EK world server crashed :( .

I was leveling my Shaman in Stranglethorn Vale at the time and wasn't really pleased with that :spank: .

Luckily the server came back up after a couple of minutes. Apparently the Horde managed to push all the way to Stormwind.

It is just one of those memorable things. Unfortunately I wasn't there, but I doubt my connection would have held out with so many players in one place.
Blade's Edge EU you say? Horde or Alliance?
 

endev8003

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#18
master66611 said:
Blade's Edge EU you say? Horde or Alliance?
Alliance.

I'm tempted to start a Horde character at some point, but I'm not really sure which class to play.
 

akun50

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#19
endev8003 said:
master66611 said:
Blade's Edge EU you say? Horde or Alliance?
Alliance.

I'm tempted to start a Horde character at some point, but I'm not really sure which class to play.
Usually a good idea to either:

1) start with a class you're familiar with. That way, you're in a new setting with familiar skills, so you don't get donkey-raped by wandering into the wrong zone.

or

2) Pick a race you like the look of. That way, you're less likely to say "ugh, screw it" and delete the character because you don't like it. Though, this is probably why BEs are so common....

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I have no idea why, but recently, I've been finding myself running with chatty people who are rather open with their sexuality and sexual desires.

On occasion, my friends and I will devolve into jokes and such while running, but one of my friends is a bisexual Dom, and likes to spin comments into innuendo and while it's humorous, it can be embarrassing at times too because said friend sometimes goes too far for party chat. Especially since we're playing with two strangers who may or may not be as deviant as us.

See, usually the innuendo is laughed over; but recently, it's been getting picked up by the random people we've run with and has developed into a running conversation about how sexual likes and dislikes.

On one particularly memorable occasion, we got a rather quiet warlock and a rather chatty priestess. Warlock didn't like to talk much because, according to him, he just didn't have much to say. The priestess, however, picked up on our innuendo and loved it. So much that she began divulging too much personal information IMO. As in, from before Trollgore in Drak'Tharon to after the Prophet Tharon'ja, there was a running discussion on sex, anal sex, S&M, bondage, Domination/Submission, etc.

Most of the time, I don't mind the discussions when people make it clear if they like or don't like the topic, but when I'm not sure, I can't help but worry that the discussions may drive people from WoW. :(

Maybe I'm just too socially aware. I blame high school for that.

After all, we did get a new guild member after one run...
 

Kayeich

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#20
*twitches in annoyance* So my warlock usually does not pug very much, because unless I happen to have a druid healer, I do not get HoTs with which I can freely lifetap and do stuff other than drain life. Priests are the worst offenders, often not tossing me a single heal, ensuring that I pretty much have to heal myself and do shit for dps. The amount of damage I do pretty much doubles when the healer is helping my lock out since I can Rain of Fire or Shadow Bolt more regularly.

Hoping to do better by warlocks on my own priest, I often toss them a renew after combat. It has unfortunately become more of a somehow entirely too subtle hint of "HEY, RETARD! LIFE TAP!"

Unfortunately, out of eight locks I've partied with, not a single one seems capable of not letting their mana go to zero, then lifetapping, often in the middle of combat.

The worst offender was just now in a pug for SFK who constantly drained my mana by causing me to have to pull out big heals by pulling large groups and using up my milk/melon juice, doing the above of lifetapping more than 80% of their health, used linen bandages (my own lock was on heavy wool bandages when he did SFK), and never drained life. I even literally -told- him "Hey Lock! Don't let your mana go to zero! Life tap more often outside of combat! I'm tossing you renews for a reason!"

He also didn't bother with soulstone/healthstones (admittedly, the only instance I've found a use for it is big instances like WC or with long runs like Stockades).

Then, after I said the only thing I could use from the instance were the shoulders from Nandos...he takes them. Then bitches at me for needing on the robes of arugal (despite my already having them) just because I wanted to spite him and have something to make up for all the drinks I had to use that run. And the fucker won them too and laughed at me as he left.

GAH.

If this is what most warlocks are like, no fucking wonder my own lock meets such apathetic priests who won't help me worth shit.

Edit: Oh, and he used a voidwalker as his pet.
 

Dementist

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#21
Kayeich said:
...needing on the robes of arugal (despite my already having them) just because I wanted to spite him and have something to make up for all the drinks I had to use that run...
This right here is why I have no sympathy for you. Water costs all of diddly squat, and you had no reason to be a bitch over loot.

Seriously, it's SFK. Most newbies have no idea how to play their class by 60, let alone 20. He probably didn't know how to lifetap or use healthstones. And even if he did and chose not to use them, so what?

If he wants to play stupid and lifetap/hellfire himself to death or speedpull when the group's not ready, then just let him die. Pointedly refrain from healing him, and he'll get the message much sooner, instead of you boiling your anger throughout the entire run and tossing off curt insults. And in the end, I'm not saying he was right and you were wrong about that particular aspect of the run; just don't be a lootwhore. If all he did was be an idiot, don't bring loot into it.

tldr: Don't be a bitch about loot unless someone else does the same first.

EDIT: It's better to use the voidwalker at lower levels. The imp's damage is actually lower than the blueberry's at that point, and the voidwalker can be sacced to save yourself from crappy tanks. You don't even have dark pact to use the imp as a mana battery unless you go demo, and who the hell goes demo before you're high enough to get the Felguard?
 

Kayeich

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#22
I was not aware voidwalkers were okay for damage, had always thought they did less than imp even at low levels and were mostly just torment/solo tank machines (not very useful if you have an actual tank around, except for the mentioned sacrifice), so I always stuck with imp.

Anyhow, on the robes thing...I'm playing on a new server, and don't have a rich level 80 to feed me gold freely. I don't have a lot of money to spend on my priest, especially since I just spent pretty much allof it on mount and one glyph and I don't really have gathering professions since I'm levelling mostly off instances.

That said, while vendoring the robes to get a bit of silver for water would have been nice, not letting him get another upgrade after he took the one I wanted is honestly the primary reason, with me just being vindictive.

I had planned to level priest mostly off instances and healing since I found queue time as a healer is usually pretty short. But I'd actually spent twenty minutes on queue (surprising as I usually get in faster as a healer) for that particular run, so I figured I'd try and stick it out when I first realized lock was being stupid since I didn't want to wait through the lockout timer and then another potentially long queue at the time. Then I tried to get him kicked when I was really getting annoyed. Somehow, rest of group were fine with him, and he wasn't kicked.

Worse, he wasn't getting killed in combat if I didn't heal him, the tank was actually pretty good with holding aggro and moving forward (outside of my mana breaks). And since the lock only had linen bandages, no food, and his preparing consisted of life tapping to oblivion, linen bandage and sitting, it was much faster to wait on me drinking than on him.

I'd asked about the shoulders when one of the kick attempts failed, and heard nothing, and we were far enough in that I figured I could stomach the warlock a little longer.

Then shoulders drops, he needs and wins. The last boss is right after the one that drops the shoulder, and since he was ignoring all text I wrote asking why he did that, I stayed for at least the random dungeon reward when I saw the robes and decided to try and be vindictive.

Was I petty for it? Yeah, definitely. It pisses me off that I tried to help the lock, telling him both what would help in regards to life tap and the whole point of using renew, only to be ignored and still have to humor him to keep things moving because group didn't care enough to kick him and then he grabs the one good upgrade for me in the instance. Maybe it's just SFK, but I'm paying for this game to have fun, whether at low levels or high levels. Vindictiveness is it's own small pleasure, for all it's worth (and I couldn't even have that).

Also, I know many people don't know how to play their classes at low levels, regardless of experience with the game. But when someone gives me advice, I usually do consider it or at least reply something if I disagree. A lot of people I've met in these low level pugs give the same courtesy.

Hell, I did a -catastrophic- Uldaman run that ran almost four hours because except for a mage and myself, the other three were complete newbies. I was bored and stuck it out despite not needing anything from there, mostly because they were honestly cool people, fairly chatty, and they did listen to what advice the mage and I could give and improved (even if it took a lot of wipes to get to that point).

This lock was silent/ignoring everything, until I need on the robes... Oh look, -that- gets a reaction from him.

That said, the very next group I did with a lock being stupid, I simply left the instance, the queue timer lockout be damned. Let the group have fun finding a healer as opposed to dps. I'm just going to hold the same view as apparently every other priest in that battlegroup and ignore warlocks if I can, and leave if I can't. They are very obviously onto something.
 

Belgarion213

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#23
I actually agree with Dementist. Franky you may be paying for this game to have fun but so is every other person. Bringing loot just to be a bitch annoys the everliving shit out of me every time i see it, whether its something I can use or not. Frankly if i was running a group and you pulled somtthign like that I't jot it down so iI just knew not to group/raid with you Sure in this case you might have some small justification but when I'm running a raid or eve njust a heroic and I know you have needed stuff just to spite people...yeah, not worth my time.

IN fairness this guy sounds like a fair bit of a fail, but still...
 

akun50

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#24
Hmmm... all things considered, I'd say it was fair for you to need on something else if the 'lock had needed on the one thing you were looking for (especially if you hadn't won many greed rolls prior) shortly after you'd requested it.

Especially since there was no reaction to your request.

I interpret silence as a lack of caring, which defaults to acceptance of said request.

Though it was bad form to drop from a group simply because they also had a warlock and you'd had a bad experience with a different one (unless it was the same 'locktard from before, then by all means, vote to kick or drop).

That'd be like dropping from a group simply because someone was playing a Night Elf and you didn't like the last NE you ran with. Just seems silly.

But in your defense (at least for the bit about the shoulders), healers should have a higher priority in the request chain, especially since your gear can strongly determine how well the run goes; and the warlock never stated their desire for the shoulders prior. At the very least, the warlock could've mentioned that they wanted the shoulders as well if they were even slightly interested in them.
 
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akun50 said:
I have no idea why, but recently, I've been finding myself running with chatty people who are rather open with their sexuality and sexual desires.
The only time I can ever remember sex popping up in a PUG was this one time a Tauren hunter kept flirting up an Undead Priestess. As a Warrior of the Forsaken, I could not let this insult go unanswered. Thus began a contests of one-ups that lasted the entire instance and on one occasion got us wiped, apparently because the priestess was "laughing too hard" to properly heal.

I won in the end.

Tauren: Well, I'VE got Tauren genitals. You know how big those are, eh?
Me: I just sewed one on. Also: rigormortis.
Tauren: .....I don't know any way of topping that.
 
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