Everyone knows that getting into a pickup group can be a gamble. Usually, you loose. Lately, I have been blessed with nothing but a bunch of losers. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Explain things thoroughly, make sure that they know how a pull will go, etc. But I start to loose my patience when people either don't know how to play their class or they try to tell me how to play mine. If they do both, it's pretty much a matter of offending me once more and I'm gone.
I've been trying to do heroic Nexus every day because there is a trinket in there I could use. It would basically put my hit and expertise ratings at a more reasonable level, instead of where they are now. Which is poor. Yesterday's attempt ended with me very angry at my group and doing something I rarely do: quit the game in the middle of a group. After being told how to tank by an overzealous DPS shaman who refuses to watch his agrro and having the group wiped twice because the other members can't watch where they are going, I was done. Being polite goes a long way and I try to be kind even when someone is being stupid or rude, but there is a line and they crossed it.
Today's attempt was just as bad. After wiping multiple times in an attempt to do heroic Violet Hold, I ended up seeing that a guildy was looking for a tank for a heroic Nexus group. Little did I know it was a pug, but that's ok. I've been in some good pugs. But today was a mess of bad ones. The Violet Hold debalcle left me brash, since we made it past the second boss then wiped because the healer didn't have the good sense to follow me up the steps to the platform where the mobs were spawning. The second wipe there was because ... well ... I think the dps was off in lala land and the healer decided to join them long enough for me to die.
The Nexus group that I was invited to was no better. It would seem that they had a bad tank. No idea what happened to this tank, but they were extreemly happy to have a "REAL TANK" in the group now. That made me feel good, until we wiped three times on Telestra. My evaluation of why: the healer was awful. He was running out of mana before we were done with her first split. After three wipes he kept asking if maybe he wasn't high enough to heal this. I told him...well...maybe your mana is too low. Trying to be polite. Then he told me I take to much damage. Haha....no I don't. The guildy laughed at that. The healer tried to argue that he had healed in Naxx and had no problems, but I really didn't feel like tearing into this poor schmuck. I have never wiped on trash in heroic Nexus. As far as I recall, the only bosses I have ever wiped on in there were Commander Kolurg and Anomolus. That's it. So...I really can't try to take any of the blame for those wipes.
So there you have it. My most recent PUG gripes. They happen, I know. It certainly doesn't mean I won't end up in one again, but hopefully I'll see less morons as time goes by. ^_~
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