Okay. I’m going to sound obnoxious. I’m going to sound elitist. But you know what? I don’t particularly care.
People need to learn to play their toons before they group with other people.
Let me say that in terms the typical WoW player will understand: l2play!
What brought this on? I’m glad you asked. :P
I’ve been levelling a druid and my brother’s been levelling a hunter. Now, because my brother doesn’t raid four or five nights a week, he’s jumped ahead of me and is waiting for me to hit 71 before he comes back and works through the obscene amount of XP needed to advance. I was something like, 67 when he hit 71. I’m now 70. So I thought I’d go tank or heal Utgarde Keep. It’s an instance I’ve tanked before (albeit as a paladin) and healed before (again, as a paladin) so it’s not like I’m not aware of what’s going on, right? Right. And hey, I have like, 13k health in bear form, so that’s sweet.
So I went to LFG and got in for a last boss kill in Utgarde as the tank. No problem. We cleared from the second boss(es) to Ingvar and all went fine. I popped Survival Instincts and Barkskin appropriately, kept up mangle and demoralizing roar… I felt pretty good about myself.
I went back to LFG and got invited to a pug as a tank.
Of course, it took 20 minutes for even ONE OTHER PERSON to come to the stone, but anyways. There was a 68 disc priest (… who was gemmed for spirit and spellpower, when his dual spec is shadow, who ALSO hadn’t assigned 2 talent points), a 73 hunter, a 71 hunter, a 70 mage and myself.
I should have known that the huntards were going to cause a wipe. I should have known. But because I’m a hunter and not entirely a huntard, I figured it was all good.
Wrong.
Idiots had their pets on AGGRESSIVE and nearly wiped us by pulling right off the bat. We DID wipe on a pack just inside the entrance because, rather than, you know, MISDIRECT ME or FEIGN or ANYTHING, the huntards both managed to grab aggro while I was stunned, then died or feigned, and then the priest ate it.
The priest who, by the way, never assigned those talent points I pointed out hadn’t been spent.
So I was like, okay. That’s their one wipe before I log the hell off. And then one of the huntards was like “wtf tank”
And I’m all “Excuse me?”
“lol jk jk man scool”
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So we move on and we’re in the room with the proto-drakes… and the goddamn nub 71’s cat goes and grabs two packs while I’m tanking three mobs.
Wipe.
And I was out of there.
So, to the idiot hunters: Pets on passive, growl OFF.
To the idiot priest: l2gem and spec properly, you moron.
I may just quest my way to 80. This is just painful.