Re: World of Warcraft
Posted: Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:27 am
I wanted to create a separate thread for this, but I don't want to clutter the board so I'll just post this in the WoW thread.
I haven't played WoW in awhile, but there was something that completely endeared it to me:
The stupidity of people in PuGs.
Instancing in general was something I really enjoyed. Partying with friends, downing bosses, having near-scrapes and dancing with death. For this reason I have fondly compiled a list of things that I have found going horribly wrong in dungeons. This list is lovingly called Looking for Fail. I originally wished to make a comic series out of it, but it's been postponed for now, though have been thinking about reviving it again. In any case, I welcome anyone to contribute to the project.
- Huntard in all stat-less mail armor in Mauradon (Purple Crystals). Figured all hunters needed to wear mail so he sold off all of his greens and blues in trade for vendor whites.
- Met a melee boomkin in a Heroic. He was using a caster dagger to melee, was doing 0.2% damage and yes, it was an E-bay account.
- Elemental shaman going melee/being close to mobs (Hellfire ramps)
- RFD - Huntard shoots at mob above us, we are met with a huge ARMY of Scourge as they travel down the mountain, aggroing everything in between.
- Lazy Healer at Azjol-Nerub: "Omg why are you guys so hard to heal." /leave
- I once accidentally fell to my death from one of the platforms in the Nexus
- Mage ninjas Scarlet Belt (Scarlet Monastery) from tank and leaves
- belf huntard needs and takes tanking ring from tank in NR instance. When asked why they had taken it, she simply replied "because it increases my stats" and left
- Gnome lock SS's himself instead of the healer and leaves party once he gets to level 20 JUST to buy the mount and skills, then begs to be let back in (which he was).
- Ele shamans who use Thunderstorm on tank's mobs. Repeatedly.
- Huntards who need mana (now no longer an issue!)
- Locks that ask to stop to drink mana, commit hellfire suicide for no logical reason, and/or don't use imp/felguard etc in instances
- Rogues who unnecessarily sap
- DKs who don't know their class but go into instances thinking they're pimp
- 2-hour Wailing Caverns run w/ fail tankadin. He couldn't hold aggro, nor did he have the ability to resurrect the healer when she died. Was on a hunter, had to constantly peel aggro from healer or the lock/mage. Tank needs Cloudseed Buckler from the shaman healer, says "hahahaha suckers" then left. Ended up 4 manning WC w/o tank.
I also had a wonderful experience with a terribad troll healer on a server I used to play on. Not only did he DPS instead of when healing was needed more, but he liked using the Spirit of Redemption a little too much. As in, whenever he could because he could. He was so bad at his job that he single-handedly almost destroyed my faith in the priest class. (Fortunately that faith was restored later, but for awhile I hated priests because of the bad experiences.)
So who else has been lovingly hurt and anguished in pugs? Please let me know! If enough people like the idea I'll go forth into putting it into comic format.
I haven't played WoW in awhile, but there was something that completely endeared it to me:
The stupidity of people in PuGs.
Instancing in general was something I really enjoyed. Partying with friends, downing bosses, having near-scrapes and dancing with death. For this reason I have fondly compiled a list of things that I have found going horribly wrong in dungeons. This list is lovingly called Looking for Fail. I originally wished to make a comic series out of it, but it's been postponed for now, though have been thinking about reviving it again. In any case, I welcome anyone to contribute to the project.
- Huntard in all stat-less mail armor in Mauradon (Purple Crystals). Figured all hunters needed to wear mail so he sold off all of his greens and blues in trade for vendor whites.
- Met a melee boomkin in a Heroic. He was using a caster dagger to melee, was doing 0.2% damage and yes, it was an E-bay account.
- Elemental shaman going melee/being close to mobs (Hellfire ramps)
- RFD - Huntard shoots at mob above us, we are met with a huge ARMY of Scourge as they travel down the mountain, aggroing everything in between.
- Lazy Healer at Azjol-Nerub: "Omg why are you guys so hard to heal." /leave
- I once accidentally fell to my death from one of the platforms in the Nexus
- Mage ninjas Scarlet Belt (Scarlet Monastery) from tank and leaves
- belf huntard needs and takes tanking ring from tank in NR instance. When asked why they had taken it, she simply replied "because it increases my stats" and left
- Gnome lock SS's himself instead of the healer and leaves party once he gets to level 20 JUST to buy the mount and skills, then begs to be let back in (which he was).
- Ele shamans who use Thunderstorm on tank's mobs. Repeatedly.
- Huntards who need mana (now no longer an issue!)
- Locks that ask to stop to drink mana, commit hellfire suicide for no logical reason, and/or don't use imp/felguard etc in instances
- Rogues who unnecessarily sap
- DKs who don't know their class but go into instances thinking they're pimp
- 2-hour Wailing Caverns run w/ fail tankadin. He couldn't hold aggro, nor did he have the ability to resurrect the healer when she died. Was on a hunter, had to constantly peel aggro from healer or the lock/mage. Tank needs Cloudseed Buckler from the shaman healer, says "hahahaha suckers" then left. Ended up 4 manning WC w/o tank.
I also had a wonderful experience with a terribad troll healer on a server I used to play on. Not only did he DPS instead of when healing was needed more, but he liked using the Spirit of Redemption a little too much. As in, whenever he could because he could. He was so bad at his job that he single-handedly almost destroyed my faith in the priest class. (Fortunately that faith was restored later, but for awhile I hated priests because of the bad experiences.)
So who else has been lovingly hurt and anguished in pugs? Please let me know! If enough people like the idea I'll go forth into putting it into comic format.