Ever go into a pick up group (pug) on warcraft and have to keep your 'oh shift!' handle ready because you can just tell that there is going to be a death? Join a group already in progress and see corpses of the group laying everywhere? And I don't mean just a few, I mean a lot, as in, they have died mutiple times along the way.
Ask, "How far are you guys?" and hear, "We're at the first boss." Ruhoh. That doesn't sound good (as you pass four corpses of what was previously live versions of them on the ground).
Then, you eyeball the tank. A Death Knight who has.... spellpower gear on. Pause and think about this. Or, look at the warrior dps who is wearing... a shield. Take a step backwards from group. And the healer, who has less mana than you, doesn't top you off before a fight and only have half health. You resort to either bandies or food products for your own personal brand of healing. And, with more than 2 mobs the tank can't hold aggro and (the mobs) are looking at you funny? Claxton warning sound: Alert, alert, aggro in progress... but you can't stop it because you have d.o.t.s. ticking down. Suddenly all those mobs are on you and the tank is almost dead. Mage: iceblock, blink and go invisible and run for your life. Hunter: feign death and sorry fido, you're taking one for the team. Warlock: omg, do you have enough time to soul stone yourself? (Screw the healer, they weren't healing you anyways).
And, if your cool downs are already used because you've resorted to saving yourself before this, you are DOOMED! Doesn't necessarily have to be a repair bill, if you have the state of the art "OMG Bail!" macro (I named it and hubby is macro king). Died more than once and just know that this group is elite in the specialty of S-M-R-T?
Get the heck out of there.
Use that macro. And if you can say, "Scrubs!" before you leave, more power to you.
Sometimes I'd rather wait the 30 min for a good group rather than having a 30 gold repair bill or higher because they don't know what they're doing.
It's times like those that I was glad I was a retadin. Sure, it's kinda a joke, but sometimes a girl's just gotta be able to heal the ever loving heck out of herself.
ReplyDeleteSometimes bad groups make real life look really, really good, ya know? Like, you're dead in game and look out the window to see the beautiful sky and think, "Life looks pretty nice in the real world."
ReplyDeleteyeah, but if you go outside you'll never be in top gaming form when cataclysm comes out! It takes much training to drink mt. dew, eat chips, nuke pizza rolls, and type smack talk all while running your toon.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah. It also makes the odd really good random that much better.