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Zodiac Meteor · Jun 23, 2009, 01:22 AM // 01:22

Everyone has been in a PuG at least once. Most of them are bad, but which one (If you had one) made you go OMG this is an awesome PuG!!

My experience:

My friend Elnore invited me to do Vloxen HM with my infuse spam, so I came with Z-quest. Unfortunately we only had one person who was a guildy, the rest were pugs and that made me go

So for 10 minutes we set up build and everything. We had 1 Imbagon, MS assassin, Hundred Blades warrior, AP necro, Enduring scythe warrior, some holy scythe dervish, Ele healer and Infuse spammer.

Sounds good right? RIGHT! We beat the dungeon in less than 20 minutes! We rolled the mobs without pulling. The dungeon was suppose to have a lot of rezes but we killed so fast that dead men can't rez. The end boss took us ~1 minute because we had all the physicals (5) with great dwarf weapon. Zoldark couldn't stand let alone cast a spell. We breezed the entire thing with only 3 deaths (1 death by boulder

) That was my best PuG ever as we didn't even stop to rest between fights and had essence of clarity (which helped us beat it so fast).

Don't be shy, I know some one has been in an amazing pug, share it!

Nick Of Troy · Jun 23, 2009, 01:27 AM // 01:27

To be honest, I'd say around 90% of the PUGs I've joined via Zaishen Missions have been fantastic. We almost always complete the mission firsttime and everyone is polite and fun to play with.

My opinion o PUGs has definatly gone up since the inplimentation of Z-quests

IronSheik · Jun 23, 2009, 01:33 AM // 01:33

Mine has gone down with z quests, if I go on monk it's all random invites as soon as I say Monk Lfg, they don't even ask me to ping. So as a test today I joined a pug as a monk with a running build, good times.

Helix Dreadlock · Jun 23, 2009, 01:36 AM // 01:36

You lucky SoB -.-"

Nessar · Jun 23, 2009, 01:41 AM // 01:41

My most recent good pug was when I did Urgoz. I didn't expect to find a good pug, but hey, I only went once to finish urgoz. Everyone was really good at letting the perma aggro, monks were good healers, bip was amazing. Only thing that bugged me was the elitist mesmer, but she was tolerable.

I dont think I'll *ever* find a good pug for Urgoz ever again...

Thamior Shamus · Jun 23, 2009, 01:43 AM // 01:43

group of R3 pugs making it halls in HA.... and we werent running a gimmick.

kets · Jun 23, 2009, 02:29 AM // 02:29

last week i was at HA with my friend, and we were both monking. so where like hey we got 2 good monks lets just tabway and get some noobs, we flawlessed an rspike, two bspikes and won halls, turns out every1 in our randomway pug group was r9+ and after carefully looking some how we had formed a randowmay balanced, was perfect r9+ balanced but made in a tabway.... anyway i thought it was funny ^_^

Zahr Dalsk · Jun 23, 2009, 02:36 AM // 02:36

Most 2/6 teams in zaishen quest.

Verene · Jun 23, 2009, 02:47 AM // 02:47

My brother and I were going to do Vizunah Square, and he decided "Let's PUG it". The team we ended up with from our end was awesome. We only had trouble because the team from the local side died before we even got to the first cutscene, and everything else just went downhill from there (we had to spread ourselves thin to try and make up for the other side sucking...unfortunately we ended up spreading a bit too thin at one point).

pumpkin pie · Jun 23, 2009, 03:08 AM // 03:08

most of the pug i've been with are good, lucky me.

the OMG good pugs is a long ago experience, when we pug to the hall of fame, first time holding hall

samerkablamer · Jun 23, 2009, 03:18 AM // 03:18

13min pug uwsc

Momir · Jun 23, 2009, 04:04 AM // 04:04

Failing Gate of Pain 5 times...Wait, you mean good pug times....Ummm, can't think of any but those rare times when you get a good group and just roll the Vanq's

Master Ketsu · Jun 23, 2009, 04:13 AM // 04:13

Held halls three times with randomway about a year ago.

We had no monk.

As for PvE pugs, occasionally rolling is no surprise. Monster AI is ridiculously easy to exploit and kite. In most pugs I have ever been in usually only 0-2 players know this and know how to take advantage of it. In the rare times you Get a team full of people who know this...all of the sudden even the so-called "hardest" end game areas become easier than becoming good at playing a pyro in Team Fortress 2.

One thing I have learned about PvE pugs is that it is almost always better to have an empty party member slot then a scrub. Scrubs tend to react idiotically to monster aggro and will eat your monks blue bar very quickly, resulting in a potential wipe. I have successfully beat missions with nothing but 3 hero's and no henchies that I lost to with a full 8 man pug simply because some dipstick decided it would be a bright idea to keep spamming flare on every enemy while tanking six or so Lv28 melee monsters with nothing but 60 armor and the help of a monk's rapidly depleting energy.

the Puppeteer · Jun 23, 2009, 04:26 AM // 04:26

never had a "Surprisingly Amazing OMG PuG"

Voodoo Rage · Jun 23, 2009, 04:33 AM // 04:33

My first and last PuG was Hell's Precipice in NM. We didn't even make it off the log. lol

AKB48 · Jun 23, 2009, 05:33 AM // 05:33

When my RA team beated the crap out of 4 TA teams.....all had monks and they were pretty decent, not OMFG THEY ARE GoOoOd but solid, which was kinda surprising i guess.

Darth The Xx · Jun 23, 2009, 06:22 AM // 06:22

I was in RA and monking, decided to run just WoH and arcane echo on my bar for laughs, we made it to 23 consec, was pretty damn funny watching all the TA teams rage.

ZenRgy · Jun 23, 2009, 06:25 AM // 06:25

This one time, I joined a pug for a pve mission. We beat it.

4thVariety · Jun 23, 2009, 06:45 AM // 06:45

@Zodiac Meteor

(1) If your group has an Imbagon, then any place in GW plays like this. Even more so now that Paragons have been buffed.

(2) The more Pugs chat before a mission, the better they are. I hate to say it, but those only typing "Hi, lol, omg, rdy, and cu" are most likely some guys with no inherent ability to really play the game socially, hence the lack of teamwork and success.

Stick to those two rules and you will be a happy pugger. Don't be afraid to kick deafmutes.

bart · Jun 23, 2009, 06:53 AM // 06:53

Once upon a time when the world of GW was young, PuGs were fun especially in those that did Sorrow Furnace. And then came heroes...