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Bad PUGs. A few things I hate about PUGs
We've all heard it before. PUGs can be horrible, and it typically depends on the experience of the players.
But I hate having a t4 player completly screw up a NORMAL 5man instance in Outlands.
There are a few things that I hate in PUGs:
1) When someone asks to be the leader so that he can mark, and forgets to mark.
2) When a hunter tells the tank to pull and then pulls himself.
3) When a member starts killing a mob without waiting for all members to be in the instance
4) When someone pulls aggro and then runs as far as possible from the tank.
5) When a overgeared rogue thinks he can tank anything in leather.
6) When the healer just forgets to heal you.
But I hate having a t4 player completly screw up a NORMAL 5man instance in Outlands.
There are a few things that I hate in PUGs:
1) When someone asks to be the leader so that he can mark, and forgets to mark.
2) When a hunter tells the tank to pull and then pulls himself.
3) When a member starts killing a mob without waiting for all members to be in the instance
4) When someone pulls aggro and then runs as far as possible from the tank.
5) When a overgeared rogue thinks he can tank anything in leather.
6) When the healer just forgets to heal you.
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I think you can solve #1 with being the tank and always always marking. It will turn out infinitely better than having someone else do it, even if you have no fuckin clue what you are doing.
2) Hunters suck, don't trust them.
3-6) PuGs suck, people are in it to be jackoffs and do the worst they can seemingly, take control, and if you have to, drop the hammer on the rogue and boot him. Rogues are usually idiots anyway.Posted 09-30-2008 at 10:44 AM by Wars
- Yup, I usually mark them. But when someone who has done the instance before and asks to mark, then sometimes I am glad to get rid of that burden..... what a mistake that turned out to be.
But I have to say that the most annoying one is: running away from the tank if you accidentally pulled aggro. I think I am going to opt for letting the guy that runs away die, unless he is the healer of course hehe. Nobody touches my healer.
I am going by the standard that if the dps gets aggro, he is overgeared or he pulled when he shouldn't have, if the healer gets aggro, I am not watching my tps.Posted 09-30-2008 at 11:14 AM by Dunkealme - My PUG red flags:
1. DPS warriors/ ret pallys
2. Anyone w/ no pve gear
Of course there are exceptions but I think I run into a higher % of idiots in the plate wearing dps department than I do with hunters. That coupled with the higher chance of loot drama means I usually pass if I see those brown or pink party frames when I join a 5 man pug. That said, I do have a few fury warriors/ret pallys on my friends list who I love running things with. Its the pugs that scare me!Posted 09-30-2008 at 02:55 PM by ratman - i had a ret paly in all BG gear tell me to use sunder coz, and i quote: 'it does better threat'
This was the same moron that was jumping around the boss swinging at its face.
Sigh... PvPers who go into 5 mans scare mePosted 09-30-2008 at 05:29 PM by hanago - My worry list top-10 is:
1. Healers who don't top me up immediately after combat.
2. People in mercivengeful plate DPS gear with no +hit.
3-10. Unskilled, udergeared DPSers who don't know how to interrupt, finish off, immobilize, kill the non-elites, or otherwise deal with mobs.
I don't get horror stories of PuGs with lots of wipes, mostly because I tank them myself. However I do get miserable PuGs when the DPS just can't make any decent progress. On some encounters, like Kargath or Delrissa, that is a wipe. But even when the encounter forgives slow DPS it just makes for a miserable and slow experience that I dread.
Give me an overaggroing T6 warlock any day, over an inadequately geared or unskilled DPS.Posted 09-30-2008 at 07:37 PM by Machus - "Give me an overaggroing T6 warlock any day, over an inadequately geared or unskilled DPS."
That is extremely funny! And true!Posted 10-01-2008 at 09:50 AM by Dunkealme
