Comments on: [WoW] It came from the PUG, and how the love of bling unites communities

By: Shalcker

Shalcker — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 13:23:34 +0000

Well, current paladin tank gearing means that anything without crit is tank item, and the less dodge/parry, the better! So it’s certainly fair to need on “dual-role” gear – it’s just that a lot more gear is dual-role then people are used to expect, and “strictly tank items” might be actually unwanted by tanks.

By: spinks

spinks — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:35:19 +0000

I can see why that’s frustrating, but I don’t know that I feel obliged to do anything more than say ‘OK, that could be a dps weapon, it doesn’t have tank stats and I can use it, it’s fair game.’

By: Shalcker

Shalcker — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:06:33 +0000

Just so that you know, that one-handed sword from Stormstout Brewery first boss? Literally the ONLY warrior/paladin tank weapon in all heroic instances and crafted gear combined, since it has no crit (99% useless stat to tank), and all alternatives do.

http://www.wowhead.com/items=2?filter=ty=15:13:0:4:7;minle=450;maxle=465;cr=96:20;crs=3:1;crv=0:0

By: ellori

ellori — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:59:48 +0000

“So this is a player who would rather sit out altogether than take a 50% chance of winning an item if it dropped (which of course it didn’t ), with the knowledge he could try again in 30 mins anyway. A lot of people apparently cannot handle the idea of a shared roll. ”

It’s also entirely possible he didn’t want to be a douche and roll on a trinket someone’s main spec needed when he was there as a tank.

By: Simon Jones who is blogless

Simon Jones who is blogless — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:31:14 +0000

It’s re-usable. It’s just on a long cool down.

By: Brian 'Psychochild' Green

Brian 'Psychochild' Green — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:35:02 +0000

I suspect that the patience with explaining things will be short-lived. I’ve noticed that people tend to be more patient in the beginning, but once things are considered “farm mode” you’ll see less patience for someone who doesn’t already know all the optimal ways of dealing with things.

At least, if history is any indication.

Still, it’s nice to hear that there are still some decent people out there in PUGs.

By: Talarian

Talarian — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:38:45 +0000

If your class can use an item, then you can roll need on it, regardless of current spec. According to Blizzard, this is working as intended. I don’t have a blue post offhand, but its been mentioned a few times by Bashiok et al.

By: spinks

spinks — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:21:38 +0000

That’s a lot of materials to waste on being annoying.

By: Darraxus

Darraxus — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:20:21 +0000

On the flip side with the Blingtron….some asshole put their blingtron in the farmville area…..you could see it from a distance, but as soon as you got close, it phased. They put it right at the edge of the phased area.

By: Redbeard

Redbeard — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Hmmm…. I wonder whether the ability to roll on an item is based on selected role or spec. If it’s the former, that tank was out of luck anyway. If it was the latter, I could see that tank switching specs just to roll on the trinket, tanking-in-a-DPS-spec be damned.