Comments on: It came from the PUG: Only on the internet ….

By: Ercles

Ercles — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:55:30 +0000

It’s not as much a single experiences, as several similar ones. My priest is also constantly being sent into BRD these days. BRD is a maze even for those who have been there before, I just recently after several years of playing have been able to navigate it confidently.

There must still be new people coming into the game. I’ve seen people get lost in Zul’Farrak, which is in comparison to the other vanilla instances quite small and straight forward.

What usually happens in my BRD runs is that the tank, expected by the group to lead the way, runs of in a random direction hoping it’s the correct one. Most of the time no one seems to mind until I try asking if s/he knows where they’re going. The worst case scenario is when the whole group splits and claiming that the way they are taking is the correct one and refusing to even consider that they might be wrong. *sighs*

By: Ratshag

Ratshag — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 22:04:55 +0000

Kinnavieve’s pocket healer gets very upsetified whenever Kinna throws a Lay on Hands on herself. “Why you do that? I had you! Don’ do it again!”

I thinks Kinna does it just ta tease her…

By: Hugh Jass

Hugh Jass — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:32:03 +0000

I’m starting to find the hyperfast runs are starting to affect low level dungeons now too. I pretty much gave up running heroics since everyone wanted to run them in record time in lieu of team work and/or fun. So I started leveling some alts and that was fun for awhile but now tanks are gathering up two-three pulls so that everyone can AoE the group down.

I recently did a run of Zul’Farak where the tank gathered ALL the mobs at the bottom of the stairs and we AoEd them all in about 15 seconds and then had to wait a minute for the script to catch up. We ended up wiping when the tank gathered everyone in Gaz’rilla’s room up including summoning Gaz’rilla…. after which everyone left group.

By: Rurjaos

Rurjaos — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:14:33 +0000

If I had to name one thing, LFD and PuGs teached me, I’d say: Expect the unexpected. So even an even count of puggers isn’t odd.
A bit unrelated, but the funniest thing happening near me last week were the maneuver critics after killing the Flame Leviathan for the weekly with a PUG. During that fight, 2 people died and the RL asked “How the heck 2 people managed to die HERE?” And one replied, saving his place in my book of quotes: “I know, why I died: I was shit’in, came back, stood all alone at the entrance, no vehicle left and died.”

By: puggingpally

puggingpally — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:55:55 +0000

Haha. I like the Darnassian only night-elf, and the hissy fit “Who dared to heal the tank” healer. Heck, I’d be happy to run into hybrids who threw out a heal now and again when things are getting hectic. It makes a healer’s job easier. All help is good help.

I’ve had many weird pug experiences. The funniest one lately was a hunter who pitched a fit and told me to STOP HEALING HIM because he could feign death. I was doing it because I had Beacon on the tank… and that’s when they all realized I was a paladin and not a shaman at all.

By: Fremskritt

Fremskritt — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:50:48 +0000

I had a funny incident in BRD as well actually. My random group on my alt got BRD – Prison and when the tank zoned in he said “sorry, I don’t have time for this place” and promptly left. I was all “???”, but I quickly realized that he probably didn’t know that the place is split up in smaller chunks now. After all the Prison part takes like 5 minutes.

By: Argon

Argon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:50:56 +0000

My weirdest experience involved a Scarlet Monestary run. One person didn’t have any equipment on at one point. I asked them why, and they said their account had been hacked. They were doing a reasonable amount of damage (though maybe they’d had their equipment on earlier) so I didn’t inquire further. They also started saying some random stuff, which I don’t recall. Anyways, right near the end of the instance, this person suddenly said that they’d been letting their younger sister control their character for a while.

By: Jomu

Jomu — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:48:04 +0000

heh; so much drama from mmo’s, i miss it