Allways a jerk but why?Follow

Za, I’m the tank and nobody can/want to cc. I have all mobs beating on me and I kept agro, dps is low so it's dragging the fight. Here are the comments from 2 DPS after the pull.

DPS1: Why the Tank takes so much damage?
DPS2: squishy

I left the group...

Yep and axe trower pushing me around

Edited, Jun 17th 2011 8:33pm by RAWDEAL

Explain to me where this makes you better than them? I think the idea that "if they are jerks I can be a jerk to" is part of what keeps the problem going.

Edited, Jun 17th 2011 10:55pm by CaptinXeith

Something like this?

Karma works like this (correct me if I am wrong don't exactly study the religion this is from.)

Karma is the mythical/divine force that rewards people based on the way they act.

If I am a kind and caring person I am rewarded with good things, if I am bad I get punished in the end by something unfortunate or horrible.

Now that we have the basic understanding, lets look at a scenario.

Tank decides he is going to verbally abuse someone over a game because of a mistake, or the player not living up to his standards or level of play he desires. "ZOMG DPS YOU SUCK! PICK IT UP! I AM SO ELITE!" yada yada. He continues to go on and on about this, and even goes so far as to insult their mother. (When doesn't this happen?)

Anywho, this guy is being a total jerk the old healer leaves. I come into the group as heals and see his bad behavior first hand. Well I decide to teach him the art of respecting your group by letting him die by not healing him. He dies, and the fight continues without a tank to either us wiping or pulling through, (Have pulled people through a pull without a tank before, not an incredibly easy task.) and tank drops group.

Now it's all based on circumstance how karma works, it doesn't say work in the way it does in cartoons or what have you. It doesn't happen how you expect. Just because the tank in this scenario is a total jerk doesn't mean he isn't going to get the drop he wants off the boss, or he'll get his account hacked. It could be someone comes in to teach him a lesson, or **** him off and make him rage quit.

Now I'm not going to argue all night about karma, or by me being an *** is the right way to handle another @#%^ ( 9/10 it isn't the right way to begin with I know this.) but this is how I handle things. Am I always like this? No certainly not, I try to help as much as I can. But, I hope this clears up my reasoning behind my actions while I play WoW and see a jerk, I handle it the way I want to handle it. Call it poetic justice, or karma, divine retribution whatever..you'll always have <insert swear word here>, you'll have trolls, you'll have a jerk in the group. Just deal with it appropriately. In a game I can get away with:



and have no worries about what happens. But I believe this thread got a little off topic. It was the OP who told his stories of jerks he's dealt with in a group and how he acts when he runs dungeons with pugs. Now you all may return to your regularly scheduled thread topic! ^_^ I would formally like to say I drop this rant and debate here and now regardless of whatever reply or response I get to this post.

Edited, Jun 18th 2011 7:01am by Dorojin

Edited, Jun 18th 2011 7:02am by Dorojin

Edited, Jun 18th 2011 7:03am by Dorojin

This.

No, that would not be karma. That would be retaliatory petty behavior. It's a self enforcing cycle.

What's really funny about that selebrin, is that after the other three people had left, he wouldn't have gotten the deserter debuff anyways. So you didn't do anything wrong, he was just an idiot.