I’ve been pugging all sorts of Heroics – am currently after Badges and Rep – and I have met a multitude of people, and received a couple of guild invites from semi raiding guilds to friendly guilds. Seen my share of idiots, and wiped too many times on Voilet hold because the tank didn’t know where/how to kite Xevozz the Etheral Boss with the glowey balls.. or the oppskin ( sorry you boomers.. ) got caught on the wrong side of the balls regardless of the “Stand here” /jump /jump –
I’m not QQing too hard about Pugs, I’ve met some great people, and professionals, some fun people, and some people who learnt things, however my rule is 3 strikes and its often hopeless- unless we are almost sucessfull then there is enough hope to keep pug synergy alive for one more shot.
If I get a good group, we normally do more then 1 heroic, it was in one of these pugs I got to chatting, a guy and a girl and found that two of them lived near me, they offered me a place in their guild, I explained I had an app in elsewhere, but thank you anyway. We got along well so we added each other as friends , another log in later, and they asked did Iwant to add them to facebook and told me their names.
Checking their profile, and I found I knew one of them from a local scene in Sydney.. – I had even had lunch with him years back – I freaked him out when I remember where he used to work.
Another similar thing happened when in my old raiding guild it turned out that one of the guild members was a friend of a good friend of mine, and had even been the my house for a party a while back.
I know statistically that given I play on an oceanic server if I know someone who plays Wow that its about a 15% chance of them being on my server ( thats a rough guess.. ) but I’ve found it a little freaky that people I didn’t know play wow – but ‘know’ through some random person or event – that I have ended up having some contact with ingame as well.
Asking these randoms I meet – at partys/housewarmings/singing /writing groups – Hey are you a gamer? – Has not lead to, too many – Yes’s though.
There was a time when I got a call from a workmate who was at a party and was talking to a guy who played wow, and she had to tell him that I played and proceeded to put this random guy on the phone with me – so we could talk,
“So what server are you on?” He asks.. we weren’t on the same ” Yeah!”
He said if your ever on my server look me up and I’ll help you..
Hows that for a pick upline.. Roll on my server and I’ll run you through some dungeons…