I take great pains since the spring disaster of last year to not get emotional about WoW or any game for that matter. I always tell myself it’s a game and that the little frustrations like dumb players are part of the game and that ultimately, it makes for good story telling.
Readers and fellow guildies know that I’ve been trying to make the jump to tanking in heroics and that it’s not been an exactly easy process. My gear is mostly there, I’ve gotten most upgrades I could from dungeons and reputation and it’s now a matter of getting a few heroics drops to put me firmly into Heroic territory.
But the main issue has been mostly my fellow puggers who are most of the time grossly undergeared and scream at me and the healer to cover for their own mistakes. It’s been getting under my skin and slowly building up for the past week.
There I was the other day, in Lost City of the Tol’vir, farming some reputation with the Therazane faction so I could get the rings at Revered when some piece of gear cloth that I didn’t care about dropped. I chose enchant and was proceeding to the next pull when the dps shaman pipes up.
Can I have this so I can raise my gear score and do heroics?
This guy had been a pain all run long, constantly complaining, constantly demeaning the healer who was healing her heart out in her leveling green and blues, never CCing when asked to… a future wiper of heroics.
Not only was this dumbass being a pain in Normal mode he wanted to make the jump to heroic as soon as he could so we could gear him up. I my mind, I saw a not too distant day where I would be queuing for a heroic, stressed out about simply surviving the place and this shaman would be there, fully expecting me to carry his butt through the instance and insulting me and the healer when he would cause a wipe.
I lost it. Big time. Some choice comments I made to him.
…No you cannot have this! In fact you cannot have anything. The longer I prevent you from going to heroic the better the world will be.
…It’s because of dumb f*** like you that groups wipe. I’m impressed that you even know how to breathe, you probably had to watch a video on youtube to even start to lean how.
…Your mom jokes… that’s original… I got one for you. Ur Mum shuld hav thrwn u off a kliff!!11!!1. Did I spell that right?
And on it went for a good 5 minutes… I must have typed a novel. After I was done, he simply ran into the next group of mob, died alone and left the group. Someone joked about me using some sort of voodoo tank talent to kill off dumb people but I wasn’t paying attention.
Later tough I got a tell from a GM. Basically I was told that making death threats and outright insulting others is not looked kindly upon. However he did look at the entire instance logs and said he did understand however where my frustration came from and I got off with a stern warning.
So yeah… not my best moment… but it did feel incredibly good.
I think I read this twice out of SHEER JOY of that fact that someone who deserved it finally got a dressing down. Bravo! And thank you for saving me from having to heal this guy in a Heroic, at least for a little while anyway. 😉 Rock on.
Yeah how frustrating… I hate pugging. I mainly heal on my priest and have been having crazy mana issues. I really like to heal but its been a challenge on this toon.
So the tank for Grim Batol last night didnt want to use any CC. He complained that I had to drink after every fight and called me a sucky healer. He ran off out of my range while drinking and pulled a ton of trash… I promply dropped group. Hope he died 😉
I’d love to say those things but I just dont want to get temporarily banned. I’m glad the GM didnt do anything like that to you.
You’re lucky you got off with a warning and a nice GM. Anyhow..
LMAO! I would have PAID to have seen that. I’ve NEVER seen you lose it like that. Sorry sorry… I know it’s not funny but I’m always the one chewing people out!
Sometimes, ya know, they deserve it. Well hrmm come to think about it they always deserve. Lately I have gotten pretty good at doing what you did but w/o using words I get reported for. Sometimes I just say screw it and blast em out. It happens.
Anyhow I need to send you an email or get on vent about some guild ideas.
You know, I’m very corruptible. For the right amount of money or a cool engineering bike I may be convinced to “loose it” again at the time of your own choosing.
@Colie and Geebee: Don’t hesitate to let it out. Going nuts on someone else: 3 days ban. Making a retarded pugger cry: priceless. 🙂
If I wore a hat I’d be taking it off to you right now. I may go out and buy one just so I can.
Thank you! If it’s a top hat you even get my undying love and admiration!
You’ve got to love people like that, right? It’s always someone elses fault when things go wrong. /shakes head.
When I want a break from the occasional foolishness I DPS. I mainly heal. Shockingly, I created another tank yesterday. I have not played one in almost a year, mainly because of the foolishness I encountered in PUGS. I must be insane, thus far the two runs I’ve tanked the group has been very good. I’ll keep my virtual fingers crossed that it will stay that way for a bit. 😉 Hey one can dream!