Against better judgement
By Rob Jones | August 15, 2010
So last night I decided to join a pug, they advertised in trade by saying they only had the Lich King left to kill. I joined on the basis of hoping that I might get lucky just once, but I should have known better of course. The general way of a pug is to wait for an hour, go into the raid, wipe once or twice on a boss and then disband the group because everyone is leaving.
Yesterday was a little worse! I joined the group around 8pm. They only needed to fill up five more spots, so I had good hopes of being under way quite shortly. Not so! Two hours later we finally got our first action. Two bloody hours worth of waiting and we managed to wipe in about thirty seconds! The off-tank got kicked immediately and so we had to wait even longer while a new tank was being found.
Another ten minutes later and we went in for our second attempt. It was a little better, but we wiped on the transition phase. The third attempt we actually got to phase two! On the fourth attempt we wiped on phase one and the raid leader decided that the healing was shit and that was the cause of all the wipes, so he kicked us all!
Two and a half hours of my night wasted by some pompous fool who thinks the wipes happened because of bad healing! Let’s not mention the fact that half the people in the group didn’t seem to know what they were doing. You know, the kind of people that are focused on getting the biggest numbers you can imagine and just sit tight, even when they have the disease – and thus should move the fuck out of the group to the add – they just continued to DPS as if nothing was amiss.
So, dearest raid leader of that particular pug. Thank you for wasting my night and my mood!
