Comments on: This is Why I really don’t want to have to rez one person because your too lazy to run back.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:24:05 +0000

Leveling my druid in LFG, the only places I res people is in BRD, UBRS, or a couple other confusing dungeons… Screw them, I run on my dps toons, or Vanish and try my cables on a healer.

By: gevlon

gevlon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:53:41 +0000

The pull was not caused by the res, but by the dumb tank. You will run out of mana for other reasons and such tank will make the pull. So don’t blame “ressing” for the wipe. The ressing is responsible for waiting until you mana up. If someone doesn’t wait, that’s a different issue.

By: BAK

BAK — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 05:05:57 +0000

If you’re going to be that obstinate you honestly have no place in a pug (referring more to Tamarind than you, PP).

The best thing about the LFG Tool is that you never know what kind of group you’re going to end up with. You might get a fail group with a tank that can’t see a healer is out of mana, DPS that refuse to run back, pull extra things, pull aggro, do less DPS than the tank (although if its a paladin tank that can sometimes be acceptable), and clearly have no idea how to play (Mage with AP Gems!)

You might also end up with a group of professional raiders or their alts, with gearscores approaching infinity and be in and out of the dungeon before the 15min “LFG Exhaustion” has worn off.

The vareity is what makes it fun and having run random heroics as two different types of tank, a healer, and dps, I can honestly say I enjoy rolling the dice and entering the unknown.

If you don’t, and are unwiling to roll with the punches, perhaps you should go back to forming trade channel groups.

That’s not to say I haven’t had my issues – there needs to be a basic level of communication – and there are some things I won’t tolerate. I joined a Halls of Lightning where the tank (clearly denoted by the icon of “Tank” next to his unitframe) rocked up in Ret gear. When we asked him where his tank gear was, he denied he was tanking. He eventually gave in when the whole group arked up (his tank gear was very reasonable! mostly 245!) but then when a DPS disconnected and we requeued to replace them, he queued as DPS not tank. I ended up leaving the group over that when he refused to queue as a tank.

It’s not all sweetness and light but that’s the fun part. Not knowing what you’re going to get, and adjusting to the level of (in)competance in your group.

By: teac77

teac77 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:22:05 +0000

very true

By: Pugnacious Priest

Pugnacious Priest — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 04:03:15 +0000

@Teac77 then you have tanks or gung ho dps that pull without buffs because they don’t notice that only happened once though

@ Klep Im happy with the voting option – unless of course its 4 guildys v you and they kick before loot ( I have heard that happening) I think esp with the randomness, and that people don’t care about people from other realms one person to have that sole power would just be too tempting.

By: teac77

teac77 — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:30:36 +0000

When I’m in a party, I’ll rez corpses straightway but I think more urgency is in getting full mana before I give any buffs.

By: Klepsacovic

Klepsacovic — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:18:34 +0000

These are the times that I miss the kick power of the leader. In my experience, tanks are good, honest people who know what they are doing. To give them the power to remove the undesirables is for the better of all, except the undesirables who can go wait in LFG for another hour for all I care.

Then again, I always tank for myself, so I have a skewed perspective of tanks.