More Fail Groups…why me?

Here’s just a list of fail groups from the past few days, because things have gotten quite ridiculous for me using the LFG.

1.) I queue up and get Heroic FoS. Not too bad right? WRONG! As soon as Blizzard teleports me in, I am conveniently right next to a pack of 5 mobs, who immediately kill me. Not even enough time to use Ice Block or Invisimage. Great. I should have known something was up, though, when I realized that we were only marginally partway through the instance when I had to fill in for another DPS. Said realization came to light when we promptly wiped on the mobs that killed me.

I’ve NEVER wiped on mobs in H: FoS. Ever. A person or two die? Sure. A full wipe? Nope. I promptly left the group and switched to my Paladin.

2.) I log in and immediately get heals for H: HoR. I winced, thinking that things could easily be very painful. I log in, and it’s at the beginning for everyone. Not too bad. I shudder as my tank barely has 30k health buffed. We made it through a few trash pulls, but lack of coordination on the part of the DPS and the tank on who to take down first led to everyone taking massive damage, and my poor little old single target healing Paladin self couldn’t save anyone. Oh, and did I mention that the Warlock SS’ed himself? And guess who got kicked out of the group? That’s right. Me.

3.) I queue up for another instance and get Tank for H: VH. I quite drastically outgeared most of the rest of the group, which is not a good thing. We get the shadow dude. People who get void shifted don’t kill the guys shooting shadow bolts everywhere. The healer dies, then I die. Then I get called a bad tank. Lolwut? Luckily we managed to make it through the rest of the instance, but I was first or second on DPS and damage done for almost every fight–including boss fights. Oh, and it took almost an hour.

4.) On my Priestess (who finally hit 80, yay!) I was healing Zul’Drak, and the tank would never wait for me. Ever. For anything. Twice, he ran ahead of me while I was either picking a flower, drinking water, or healing someone else, and start whacking on the next pack of mobs. If he had been a tank with 38k+ health, maxed defenses, and was NOT still wearing heirloom gear as if it’s the shit, then I’d be much more ok with his behavior–but he wasn’t, he was just stupid and annoying and died multiple times because I refused to try to heal someone who ran out of range of me. I don’t heal through stupidity.

Being Helpful vs. Being Annoying

So I joined my friend’s guild. Again. He loves being a guild leader and I enjoy playing with him, so I whenever he’s started a new guild or I’m guildless and we’re both not on hiatuses, I join his guild. He’s been in charge of I think 4 other guilds so far, 2 of which were RP guilds. While that may not be the most promising of signs, as we all know, sometimes guilds just come and go with the players, especially on an RP server. Regardless, I’d rather play with people I (can get to ) know and enjoy, even if progression isn’t at the same level as a bigger, crazier guild that already has it’s core group of players and is somewhat cliquish and all about the numbers.

As is typical in many guilds, there is a guild council or assistant GMs, there are raid leaders, and there are class leaders. They all have their purpose and, for better or for worse, do what they think is best for the guild and the players. The people I usually come into contention with most, however, are the class leaders. Sometimes, they are just plain rude, and after one look at your armory page, will then chastise you on your gear, enchants, and spec, if it’s not something that they, themselves, would use. Other times they are more polite about it, but still try to tell you that what you’re doing is wrong. They then whisper you to death by telling you exactly where you should go to get what specific gear that they think you should have, and how to respec.

Now, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with class leaders giving other players suggestions. That’s their job, just like raid leaders are to lead raids, and will tell you what to do. Despite this, I have to admit that I get really annoyed when I feel like I’m being treated like a child, and that I’m just some idiot n00b player who doesn’t know their class or the game at all, somehow stumbled my way to level 80 and some decent gear, and am clueless about what a raid is (isn’t that something you kill bugs with?) It’s especially annoying when you haven’t ever seen my performance in a raid, nor do you even really know me. If I’ve only been in a guild for literally 5 minutes, don’t you think there are other things you could be saying rather than just telling me how to play the game? I’ve been a class leader before, buddy, and I’ve been playing my mage for a long time. I know what’s up. It’s helpful to have someone to go to for tips and tricks, but it’s not so helpful to give unsolicited, unneeded advice. It would have at least been nice to see me in action first.

Also, I’ve been friends with the guild leader for years. If there’s a problem with my gear/spec/gems/enchants, he’ll tell me.

Gr. At least this time the person was nice about it. Doesn’t make it any less obnoxious.

It may just be that it’s on my mage that I have a problem…perhaps on my Paladin I wouldn’t have been bothered as much…oh well.

Stupid People Are Stupid

The level of intelligence in the title explains the amount of imbecility I had to put up with the past couple of nights. Over all, it wasn’t really upsetting or even all that annoying, thanks to a little (re: a lot) of help from Jose Cuervo and Pinot Grigio over the course of the evening, but it was still mind blowing.

To start with, Wednesday night, all I wanted to do was to get in, get my Frost Badges, and get out. Simple, normal heroic behavior. That’s pretty much all anyone uses heroics for these days anyway–gear and badges. It’s just a fact of life we’ve all learned to accept. Most of the heroics are quite easy–in fact, only occasionally do I run into minor problems on Pit of Saron or the Halls of Reflection where someone who is under geared and/or stupid winds up screwing us all over. Otherwise, no one really needs to worry about any heroics.

I wind up in UP after using the dungeon finder. As soon as I arrive, the Shaman in the group goes “Oh crap. Pls boot me.”

I blinked at the screen, a bit confused, but decided that I wasn’t going to do it. My thought process was that if the Shaman (I’ll just use “he” for simplicities sake, as I don’t think ANY girl could possibly be this dumb) didn’t want to be in this instance, he could remove himself and suffer the consequences. To my surprise, however, the Shaman said “I didn’t mean to join a Heroic, I wanted to join regular.” The following is a rough recreation of the conversation.

Me: Huh? Why would you want to do regular?
Shaman: So I can practice my healing.
Tank: This instance is easy, you’ll be fine. You have a 5.3k gs.
Shaman: I’ve never healed before.
Tank: I’m over geared.
Shaman: I’m really bad.
Me: Just spam Chain Heal.
Tank: Or throw up Earth Shield and AFK.
Shaman: Pls boot me.
Me: This is silly. Let’s go.
Shaman: I’ll just log.
Huntard: Lolz guyz, let’s kill stuffz!

Honestly, I’ve never played a level 80 shaman, though I’ve done my fair share of reading up on classes so that I have a general idea of what they can and can’t do. But honestly, his worst piece of gear was the same item level as one of my best, so there didn’t seem to be any way he could mess up so badly that we’d wipe. But he quit the game, so we booted him and picked up another healer and began the instance. End of fail #1.

Just to give a view of the group, we had a Priest healer, me, the Huntard, DK, and the Warrior Tank, and We blew through the trash and got to the first. The tank pulled one of the abominations, so I asked if we were doing the achievement. The following is a rough transcription:

Me: Are we doing the achievement? (I stopped dps).
Tank: Do you need it?
Huntard: (Keeps dpsing) What achievement?
Me: No, do you?
Tank: I’m sure someone does. Stop dps.
Huntard: (Keeps DPSing) I do. Watz the achieve?
Tank: Stop dps.
DK: Stop dps!
Sylvia: RAWR!
Abomination: Me dead!
Me: Don’t dps the abomination! I’m pulling this one.
Huntard: Why?
Tank: It’s part of the achievement.
Sylvia: I’M CHARGIN MAH SWORD!
Me: Dps the ghouls!
DK: (dps’ Sylvia)
Huntard: (dps’ Abomination and Sylvia).
Ghouls: MAGE POWER IS 1337! (dies).
Sylvia: I’M USING MAH–AAAAH! (dies).
Abomination: Me still live!
Me: *sighs* Never mind…
Huntard: Wut waz teh achieve?
Tank: Making Sylvana kill the Abomination with her sword.
Huntard: Oh. Next time tell me what to do then!
Me: …

Yeah. Welcome to my life. And it only gets worse.

Last night, I queued up on my Priestess to get my daily dungeon as I level her. I should have known something was wrong when immediately after teleporting into the instance (AN as it were) someone said “Oh fuck” and left. Rather than bore you with every challenge we faced wiping 5 times before the first boss, I’ll just put it simply.

The mage thought he could trade me his mana gem. At level 73. He also didn’t understand the art of targeting what the tank was targeting. He also had every single talent point invested in his fire tree.

The DK “tank” was part frost, part unholy, having finished neither tree. He also had on at least 4 pieces of gear with +spellpower, and maybe 2 more that gave +intellect. He wasn’t even in all plate. He also liked to pull when I had no mana. To put it in perspective, the *highest* amount I had after our first wipe and me buffing/healing everyone was 44%. The *average* was about 23%, and the lowest was 11%. Thanks, buddy, thanks.

The other DK DPS basically spammed D&D the entire run and didn’t care about his aggro. Otherwise he was fine.

The Warlock SS’ed himself. Twice.

The warrior had an obnoxious add-on that whispered me every time I used a spell because I hadn’t bought skills in a couple of levels. I think it was called Rank Watch, and it was the single most obnoxious add-on ever. I don’t need that one new level of Flash Heal, thanks. Have you died yet? Great.

It was a dreadfully painful run. All because of stupid, stupid, stupid people.

Of course, my life wouldn’t be complete unless I had done something equally stupid the past couple of days.

After crawling through AN, I started questing in Agmar’s Hammer, and happened to get grouped up with a a couple of very nice fellows to do the first of the “WANTED” quests of the area, all of which happen to be elites. It’s been a year and a half since the last time I did them, as I haven’t had a toon ding 80 in quite some time. Thus, after we killed the Frost Wyrm, and for every subsequent elite after that, I kept leaving, thinking that the quest chain was complete. Therefore it happened at least 5 times. Stupid, stupid me. Thankfully, the people I was traveling with were very kind and understanding, and waited patiently for me at each boss. It helped that I was typically doing about 50% of the damage each time (or more) among 4 people…

Regardless, sometimes dealing with idiocy can be quite frustrating, but always remember to have as much patience as possible. After all, you never know when YOU’RE that idiot, even unknowingly.

Because it’s just too funny not to post…

I’m sure by now we’ve all seen this…

But now I have just made an additional discovery!

Brilliance. Pure brilliance.