Mockingbird wrote:A ret paladin called something like "Palabad the Patient" who honestly said nothing but "go go go go" and "pull more, noobs" every single pull, and changed it up on bosses by instructing us that we should do the achievements (coincidentally the last few he needed for his meta achieve) because it would be "noob" not to. I asked him to change his title but he didn't seem to get it.
It ticks me off to no end when people sporting the Patient title are so impatient. It also ticks me off when players expect PUGS to be willing to do achievements for them. Most of the achievements for the meta are easily obtained in pugs just doing the instances normally these days, due to high levels of gear. The ones that can't be done this way are generally a pain in the butt and not something one should force total strangers to do for them. Seriously, how hard is it to grab some guildies or trade chat pugs who are interested in the same goals you are?
That pally is damned lucky you didn't kick him for being obnoxious, IMO.
I've found if you want achievements done....Just ask. I need mushroom dude and Jedoga in OK...I asked if we could hit them and the group was fine with it. And in the end, a few others got an achievement too!
And I never have 'the Patient' title on me. I'm impatient in real life. Besides, I prefer my "The Noble" or "Of Stormwind" title.
I usually throw my 'patient' title up or take out my pug if a group is being especially obnoxious or irritated with me for stupid things. Just to prove that yes, I HAVE done this before, I'm not a total newb guys. But yeah, it looks kinda silly on the 'go' guys. -_-;
As for achievements, the easy ones are usually the 'kill X boss in Y amount of time" ones. I find I get those entirely by accident just by pugging with people who are six-bajillion-gearscores higher than I am. Which is fine, I'm not going to complain if the boss goes down in two minutes instead of five, it's just that much quicker that I can get out of there. And some are relatively simple, like the one in UK when you just don't break the frost tombs; even when I have that one myself, I usually ask, "anybody need [On the Rocks]" just cause a stunning amount of people don't know about it, but it's stupid easy to do these days.
But there are quite a few you DO have to plan for, and those....I don't even bother to bring up. Maybe one day I'll start looking for adds in trade but for now I'm not terribly desperate for them XD
~VelkynKarma
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VelkynKarma wrote:And some are relatively simple, like the one in UK when you just don't break the frost tombs; even when I have that one myself, I usually ask, "anybody need [On the Rocks]" just cause a stunning amount of people don't know about it, but it's stupid easy to do these days.
Gah, I STILL need this one!!! So many times I've been in groups and I always ask if we can do it, everyone says yes, but someone always breaks one. ;_; It's one of the easiest achievements to get yet I have had no luck with it. -.-
VelkynKarma wrote:And some are relatively simple, like the one in UK when you just don't break the frost tombs; even when I have that one myself, I usually ask, "anybody need [On the Rocks]" just cause a stunning amount of people don't know about it, but it's stupid easy to do these days.
Gah, I STILL need this one!!! So many times I've been in groups and I always ask if we can do it, everyone says yes, but someone always breaks one. ;_; It's one of the easiest achievements to get yet I have had no luck with it. -.-
It was one of the last ones one of my buddies got too. D: But that's to your benefit....*gets a crazy gleam in her eye*
We can try our four hunter-one healer run to get this achie. We three-manned this one for my friend. Given, I was on a tanking toon rather than my hunter, but we can get around that with more people and more possible pet tanks.
OMG...I didn't mean to imply anything or sound arrogant, I'm sorry XD Most of the groups I pug with just end up zerging onto the boss and don't bother with the ice blocks so I figured it was easy as pie, but maybe I was wrong? ^^;;;;
~VelkynKarma
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I don't think that's the issue, Vel. The problem isn't that the achievement is hard, but that people inadvertently push an aoe attack right as a melee dps is frost tombed, that kind of thing.
I'm like... 6 achievements short of getting that drake, I should just get a group together and knock it out. Ah well, all things in good time.
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This wasn't actually my group, but holy hell it pissed me off. A relatively new guildie who's been a buddy of my husband and I for a while now asked if we could go to MC to tame him a corehound. We said yes but with life getting in the way we just weren't playing reliably enough to plan to go. So he pugged it. They went in, killed some bosses, and then when he asked if now would be a good time to tame and got the go-ahead, he started the tame. Well, the *&%$^%&@$(%&*$^($ decided to KILL HIS TAME AND EVERY OTHER COREHOUND IN THERE, then drop group. He was left there stunned with all the corehounds dead. What. The. Hell!?! What kind of assface does something like that???
We went in as a guild last night, when he wasn't saved any longer, and he got to tame the first corehound that patted near the front while our spriest tanked the other pat and I bubbled everyone. Then we proceeded to kill stuff for fun and all died to Baron Geddon.
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Just....whyyyy? If you agree to something you should DO it, not gank that hunter's pets. I mean, it sounds like your friend was even up front about it, explaining from the get-go, AND trying to make sure it was okay to start the tame before attracting a mob pack. Just...ugh.
At least they got their corehound in the end
~VelkynKarma
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Now that was just heartless of that idiot to kill all the corehounds and preventing him from taming any one of them. Sounds like someone deserves to be mentioned in Wow-jackass.
Oh I would if I could get my guildie to give me the names, Kamoodle...
Vel, he asked right up front if it'd be ok for him to tame one while they were in there. *sigh* But you're right, he got it in the end. And I think he's even happier to have joined our guild now, which is a good thing, right? We got to let a new guildie feel welcome and cared about.
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In a group the other night with some RL friends that recently started to play agine. So us 4 and a pug get in. The pug started right off to use curse words, he had to port out or something so he demanded us to wait. When he gets back in he very rudely told us to gogogog and if we didn't he would pull.
Pug paladin: hurry up A$$^*#&$ i got things to do! RL friend #1: are you serious? RL friend #2 (tank): do you wanna tank bud? Pug paladin: no i cant tank the damage but i pull if im bored and queues are long RL friend#1: Oshra (me) dont heal if he pulls RL friend #2: you can be replaced you know... My Hun: You are the weakest link! (presses his flip off macro)
~Vote has been called to kick Pug Paladin~
Pug paladin has been removed from the group. Me: *stunned at the hilarity of the situation and at what transpired*
Yeah, the others probably acted badly but dang that paladin really had it coming.
Edit; That yellow color is sure hard to see >.<
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That is a good way to set an arrogant player straight. He probably won't learn from that, most likely, but we'll see if it knocks doors with other people to teach him to quit being arrogant towards others.
Sarayana wrote:Oh I would if I could get my guildie to give me the names, Kamoodle...
With idiots like them, it can't be easy to hold back those facts from you. I'd say their names right away.
Tygamoon wrote:In a group the other night with some RL friends that recently started to play agine. So us 4 and a pug get in. The pug started right off to use curse words, he had to port out or something so he demanded us to wait. When he gets back in he very rudely told us to gogogog and if we didn't he would pull.
Pug paladin: hurry up A$$^*#&$ i got things to do! RL friend #1: are you serious? RL friend #2 (tank): do you wanna tank bud? Pug paladin: no i cant tank the damage but i pull if im bored and queues are long RL friend#1: Oshra (me) dont heal if he pulls RL friend #2: you can be replaced you know... My Hun: You are the weakest link! (presses his flip off macro)
~Vote has been called to kick Pug Paladin~
Pug paladin has been removed from the group. Me: *stunned at the hilarity of the situation and at what transpired*
Yeah, the others probably acted badly but dang that paladin really had it coming.
Edit; That yellow color is sure hard to see >.<
XD That's hilarious! Great to see a pugger getting his just desserts XD
~VelkynKarma
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I have somewhat three stories, one of which is a combo of the last RFC run and the DM run.
I was in my baby ally hunter, who is now at level 22, and there was one night recently I did my fair run of RFC four times in a row and one DM run along with a druid healer whom we ended up becoming good chatting buddies (I am starting to like RealID and that's a newb in RealID saying it).
I wish to dedicate this night of glory to my new white bat, Bartok. This is my first time using a bat on a toon, but he proved to be very useful that night, especially with his stun. Even my druid buddy thought he was a real lifesaver to her since he kept saving her at times.
On run number two in RFC, our team was the same as the first one except we had a dwarf rogue that ended up becoming a jerk. After we finished Taragaman and was clearing a second chunk of mobs, the rogue made his stupid move. I did see him use a Thrown item at another small group of mobs, then leave the group. Fortunately, we didn't wipe. I definitely gave it my all and made sure Bartok was after mobs that was going after the healer.
On run number three (this was an almost new team btw), our tank wanted to keep pulling huge chunks of mobs, thus it was just too much for the healer to keep up. First huge chunk we went through all right but the second chunk we wiped, which was quite embarrassing actually. Then both the tank and his hunter friend were ratting out the healer for getting rez sickness. I really had no idea what their major malfunction was; besides, we had a pally for backup heals. The pally had no problem with it. The tank continued to pull big chunks but none were as deadly until it was a close call to a group of mobs before we got to Jergosh. The tank wiped there but the rest of us managed to survive, and again, Bartok made sure mobs were off the healer. Finally, after she rezzed the tank and we defeated Jergosh, the tank and the hunter departed from the team, which was more of a good riddance to both of them from us three. Above it all, it really wasn't the healer's fault at all; she just couldn't keep up with the cocky tank.
On our last run to RFC then DM before I went to bed, we had a gnome warrior and a lock join up with us. This warrior was complete opposite of the other tank from the last group-up; he did engage the mobs slowly but he was careful at what he was doing. Also, I thought that the player must've been new to either being a warrior and/or tanking, hence his slow and careful approaches, although he never said he was new to it. However, his aggros weren't that great and his health did seem a bit low; I actually decided to keep Bartok's growl on for this reason. Never got ratted out for it. I did keep pulling aggro at times, but I had Bartok to get them off me. DM was a place where Bartok proved a bigger lifesaver to the healer and even to the lock since some mobs aggroed to them half the time. Bartok did nearly die at a point but his ding to 20 saved his life. However, despite the mobs, we kept things at a slow, steady pace, we never wiped although the tank died once, and thanks to me and the healer's knowledge of the place, it all worked out. No macaw or siamese cat though.
Time to reawaken the crappy group thread with yet another crappy group story!! That actually has a good side to it. WATCH OUT FOR RANT.
I was on my baby druid and had to go to the trainers to get some skills (I was lvl 17 and kiiinda forgot to visit the trainer back in lvl 16) and Eranikus was there in Moonglade. He Shadowbolt Volleyed me to death but that is not the point.
I hooked up with Ryai in moonglade and we decided to do some dungeons!
After a brief minute of not insta-dungeons I took the hat of the role I hated most...bear tanking. I felt a bit calmer knowing Ryai was my healer because I knew she wouldn't let me die!
But we get to the dungeon and what could it be than a navigators nightmare called Wailing Caverns! We had a shadow priest, mage and a paladin as dps.
It started out well....okay we never finished the dungeon, our mage only used fireball no Flamestrike or Blizzard and when Ryai or the priest asked for water he gave level 5 water.
Okay the aggro was bit throwing about since everybody tried to attack something else than what I was keeping. I tried to go after the druids first since the sleep spell was a problem...but our mage or priest went after something else. The paladin helped me out by offtanking once in awhile and Ryai rooted them down so I could pick 'em up.
We got Pythas, Anaconda and did we get anybody else down? But then at a rough turn there was about two groups of three druids.
I went to go and pick em, trying to keep them together so my swipe could tackle them a bit. Everything went fine until our priest decided to walk to pick up the othergroup and Ryai was out of mana by the time we almost had the group down. Of course you can guess what happened, I died. Our paladin attempted to tank but the druids were too much since Ryai couldn't heal because of mana but atleast he tried.
Priest dropped group after this and it was our first wipe. We discussed with the rest that we could re-queu for a shorter instance. After shooing away our sleep earned paladin. Me, Ryai and the mage popped into DM. We got a hunter and a rogue to replace our missing dps. Not bad right? Besides that our mage seemed to only know Arcane blast, and in DM you are sorta forced to grab a pick group of them miners, I can't chase after them too much because I would body pull more.
Growling pets and I missrolled on the stamina mace that would be a useful weapon and the hunter won it. I tried to ask for the mace from our hunter, he wanted me to pay for it. After a long conversation of telling that hunters can't learn two-handed maces or maces at all.
Rogue afk'd so we only had the hunter and our wonderfully fireball spamming mage. We got to the ship, and I thought I would't pull Greenskin, well he decided to say I will kill you, and BIG group! Oh you guessed it death called me, I told the group to flee for their lives. This is where the fun starts. As Ryai invented a new way of kiting, called Seal-kiting, she swam around in the water in aquaticform and kited Greenskin around and they defeated them! I laughed my ass off.
VanCleef went down without a hush, then we got cooked by Cookie (yay for bad pull).
Even if the groups were a bit weird, I'd be glad to tank again.
Given, I was on a tanking toon rather than my hunter, but we can get around that with more people and more possible pet tanks.
