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.
