Negative PuG Stereotypes Reinforced!Follow

Okay, it's been on my mind all day, so I have to share this story. It's kind of sad, kind of unimportant, but I'm like that uncle everyone has but doesn't want to admit to. I'm here to regale you with yet another patented Wondyâ„¢ story.

Last night, I saw someone looking for a BRD group for A Shred of Hope. I've been wanting to get further along the Ony attunement, so I checked the person- a 60 priest. I whispered her and got invited. A 56 rogue soon followed, and a 55 mage. We then got a tank- a paladin (which I always have misgivings about, but we should have had more than enough firepower to manage). Checked locations, and realised I couldn't see the paladin on the map. Everyone else was in IF or on their way to BRD.

A few minutes later, the paladin said something to the effect of "I'll be there in a sec- we're winning!" I asked what he meant, and watched his health bar go empty in two seconds. "I'm in AB- almost done!"

I sighed. I asked if everyone else in the party was okay with him being in BGs while we cleared the way, and they all seemed to be. I went along, and we cleared the path to Marshal Windsor, using my boar as a tank- and doing a good job, I might add. The Paladin joined us one patrol before Windsor's door. He demanded a STA buff from the Priest, and I asked him if he wanted to throw up an aura and do a blessing. "Oh yeah- I forgot to do that when I died lol". As soon as I see someone use lol as part of a sentence my neck hair rises.

To make a long story short, we got the relevant buffs and started off. The Paladin couldn't keep hate from my piggy, but the piggy was doing fine and we were moving smoothly. We made it to the golem room, and started to clear it out. We ended up clearing out one side, and the pally basically said we wouldn't have to clear the other side because Argelmach would run to the side we'd cleared. I should have known better.

Pally ran in, Argelmach ran out- straight into the other side, aggroing the golems still there. We wiped rather spectacularly, and I once again noted a trend that whenever it's critical that Feign Death work, it is resisted. We all released, and the @#%^ing pally, who'd contributed the least time and effort, gave us a quick "G2G" and left the group. The group leader said, "Don't worry, I have a replacement already!"- and a Warlock joined us. He said, and I kid you not, "Hey guys, vw tanks, k, lol?"

I gave my apologies, left group, and hearthed out. I then decided I'd be better off logging entirely and making dinner.

It can get so disheartening sometimes to have one moron spoil an otherwise excellent group.

I always thought a vw would make a really good tank. It may be a little small, but you just can't beat that German engineering.



Actually, that sounds like a pretty funny sig.

Sorry you had such a sucky experience, but it just reinforces my anti-pug mentality (at least in WoW).

And why I usually refuse them too. Just last week, my mage was invited to SM. We had four so far. I got to Southshore quickly and then noticed that the warrior and priest were in IF, but the pally was in desolace still finishing the quest chain there. And they only asked in LFG once in every ten minutes for a fifth. After about 20 minutes, another group asked in LFG for a tank for SM and then warr says "see that? BYE!" And leaves group. And so does everyone else, quite quickly. I don't know why I bother to even accept. /shakes head

I've never done anything but PUGs and I've been playing for over two years.

Now you know why I'm such a pessimistic ***hole all the time.

I've had some crazy groups--some tank-less--and sometimes they work. They key is skill, though, which is generally lacking in PuGs. Not to mention, I have yet to see a Big Blue tank well in a group situation; you'd be better off with your piggy as a tank.



It's not too bad, the mobs hit like little girls. They key is mana conservation since you can't really drink much. Sucks as a shaman too, since totems are next to worthless in that room.

Don't do that. The old group won't kill your totem because they should already have agro on your party. Since you're constantly moving, a new spawn or roving group will visit your old fighting spot, agro on the totem, and come after you. You could drop a new totem for each area you fight in (to de-spawn the old totem), but that wastes even more mana.

Fire Nova, Mana Tide, and the trinket mini-tide totems are the only viable ones since they have short lives. It's a shame since Stoneskin would be perfect for a place like that. I still think we need a way to dismiss our totems, and this is a perfect example of why.

*groan* :D

That's so bad, it's good! ^_^

Good point, only mana-tide and the trinket tide.
And something like fire nova. Nothing that has any sort of life to it.

Mana tide only lasts like 10 seconds... The benefit way out weights the chance of aggroing, but that all depends on where you are in the room as well. If your really getting hammered by people you just gotta throw it and pray, I guess?

PUGs suck teh ***** they make everybody disgruntled :P

On my server, I am pretty much always PuG-ing, its tough for the first few instances, but for the later ones, it usually works out pretty well with the notable exception of Uldaman and Gnomergan, those 2 places I just can not find a good group to go with.

Not all PuGs are bad, I usually go by guild as a filter though, and if they start crapping up I just stand in and tell them straight up.

What you described though is a pretty crappy experience, I got pretty lucky with my ony attunement, found two t2 tanks and a t1 mage to group cause they were bored...allowed me to get to JB and finished the mc attunement, and you always have to clear both sides of the room for that boss in BRD...I didn't think so at first either but my group was extremely adamant about it, at least now I know why.

Edited, Nov 30th 2006 2:38am by ElementHuman

Had a bad experience with somone in my guild coughondcough he was tanking BRD but refused to use a shield causing us to wipe 3 times, then he started jailbreak before we were ready.

PuG's are the only times you have idiots in your group.

You know, people tell me they have trouble there all the time, but I never have. Just lucky I guess(also, I never forget the eyes...ever. Having to kill those voidwalkers once was more than enough times for me).

Done it both ways. Usually tribute, but there have been a few "kill" runs as well.