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Well, okay, maybe it wasn’t the worst PUG ever. But it was amusingly bad. So I’m still playing World of Warcraft. I’ve been a bit focused on talking about the new TV season, but I have, in fact, started yet another new character in WoW.
This one’s on Frostmane, where some of my new co-workers play. I started up a Troll Shaman to join them on their escapades. The other day I was roaming the Barrens and got Yriani up to the right level to run Wailing Caverns. So my buddy Kurza joined me and I started advertising in the LFG channel to find three more.
First up was a warlock. She joined and immediately started in. “We need a warrior and a priest.” Not untrue, since our party makeup at this point was Kurza the Hunter, Yriani the Shaman, and herself. But it wasn’t absolutely the only party that would work. A rogue whispered me and I invited him in. I’d been yelling out on LFG for a while and not getting many takers. The warlock jumps in, “That’s not a priest or warrior!” I’m like, “Eh, the hunter’s high enough level to have his pet tank.” I just wanted to get in there and give it a go.
There’s always about 90% random conversation that has nothing to do with looking for a group on the LFG channel. So I commented “It must be hard to actual find a group when there’s so much spam on the LFG channel!” And our friend the warlock chimes in, “You can’t spam the LFG channel anymore. There’s a 30 second timer on the LFG channel so you can’t just say the same thing over and over.” Me: “Um. There are a ton of people saying things not related at all to the topic at hand. Spam.” Warlock: “That’s not spam. Spam is the same thing repeated over and over.” Me: “Spam is actually some strange type of meat-like product.” The warlock didn’t see my humor, I guess.
The group was getting a bit tired of things at this point and we all started talking in party chat about how we’d have enough and maybe the warlock should go. So the warlock is all “I’m your DPS, you can’t kick me out!” The rogue chimes in, “Um, I’m DPS!” Which leads to another argument where the bright warlock insists that rogues aren’t DPS and that she could out-DPS the rogue anyday. “How many level 60s do you have, huh?” she demanded. Kurza chimed in with the sarcastic, “I have 100s” and she replied, “I thought not!” We had all had enough so I kicked her out of the group. Haha!
Oh, but that wasn’t the end of it. She proceeds to whisper me and tell me I don’t know how to play the game and all sorts of foul curses I won’t repeat here. Don’t want to scar your poor delicate eyes or anything. She tells me we’ll fail without her and all sorts of goodies. Oh well.
We manage to get a warrior and a level 16 priest and enter the instance. The priest pretty much immediately disconnects and we’re down to 4. We decide to continue and see how far we can get without the priest. I can heal, just not all that well since I’m not spec’d for it. We’re fighting along and it’s becoming clear that the warrior is a bit of a newb. He doesn’t know about the great quest you can do in there that involves killing all the bosses. But we continue. Everyone’s new at some point, right? Well, there’s a quest in there that involves gathering some of this particular herb. Kurza sends me a whisper that there’s some behind him, so after we finish killing some stuff I run over to gather it. While I’m doing that, the warrior pays no attention to the fact that the healer isn’t anywhere nearby and charges into combat.
I finish gathering and look to find he’s half dead. I run in to throw a heal and he’s dead before I get there. We manage to win the fight and I resurrect him. He’s typing away in caps and generally throwing a hissy fit. “Why didn’t you heal me, blah blah blah!” I explain that I wasn’t nearby and he’s like “You shouldn’t be looting in combat!” I explain that we weren’t IN combat when I started looting and he should pay attention to where I’m at before charging in. He goes on and on. Finally, Kurza chimes in, “It’s all ok, we’ve got rezzes.” And the warrior goes off, “It’s NOT ok! I don’t like 2 gold repair bills!” Um. I say, “You’re level 21, it’s not going to cost you 2 gold to repair.” He replies, “Yeah, well I have this in my inventory because a friend gave it to me!” and he links a level 52 epic item that he clearly isn’t wearing. I say, “It’s not equipped, so it’s not going to take damage - you don’t have to pay to repair it.” He’s all, “I don’t like 2 gold repair bills!” Blah blah. Until I finally say, “Thanks, but no thanks, I think we’re done here.” He leaves the group.
We decide to continue on with just the three of us. And let me say we did an awesome job. We took out 3 of the bosses and made it almost to the end. But the warrior kept sending me messages and cursing me out and telling me to learn to play etc etc. I finally had to ignore him.
Not a good night for making new friends, but it sure was funny.