Curse

tuskenraid · Jul 01, 2005, 01:31 AM // 01:31

Well I had both yesterday. I a truly craptastic PUG for Thunderhead Keep and and one the very best PUGs I've ever had for FoW.

There was this Monk character in Thunderhead who was such a total ass. He wasn't even the group leader, but assumed the role anyways. Add to that this one lvl18 ranger who had been run there spamming "no let me rush in, I can deal 120 damage to eveyone in one shot" horsecrap. So we get to the end and mister know-it-all Monk is like "you ----ing idiots understand the plan? You do right?" So I check my chat, make sure team and all are checked and lo and behold no plan. 5 of us respond with "uh, dude, we haven't talked about a plan yet." He starts cursing some more about how we're morons, the ranger won't stop talking about his 120 damage attack, so while the rest of us are figuring out what to do, Ranger and monk aggro both sides of the arena forcing all of to scramble and we lose the mission, predictably. *sigh* god---- PUGs.

I jump over to FoW, cuz America FINALLY has favor and get in this group who it turns out only one person had successfully been down there, and you know what? We rocked. We were the tightest, most bad-ass group. Completed two mission in like 20 minutes, got 15,000 exp, awesome loot, no bickering, no noobs (not really), no crap from anyone. Had to leave the group later and actually apologized for having to go. There were so stinking cool about. Everyone thanked each other, and we parted ways.

No point in this post really, but I still have faith in PUGs, but I am also less patient with them now and more prone to leave dumb groups instead of suffering through it. My time is valuable and these losers aren't worth it.

That's all.

KaPe · Jul 01, 2005, 01:44 AM // 01:44

Well, it's not like you can't notice some types of "agro all" people instantly, like "Pro W/Mo LFG", or basically anyone acting like he's center of world, or spamming "FFS start mission". But still, more often than not, random people prove to be dissapoinment over even less expierenced guild mates - these at least will listen to you, since you are more "advanced" in game.

Allthough I had random group *finally* do Ring of Fire with me, after failing *again* with henchies (damn them and their "I enjoy walks on the beach and swimming in lava"

). Even though we barely made it through some Mursaat Monk boss, since we didn't have Mesmer, it was still good, no one aggroed needlessly, no one complained when he died to repeated meteors from imps, they knew how to focus fire. Allthough, it might be just because we didn't have a single warrior there, so no one to charge at hordes of monsters and get us killed

Numa Pompilius · Jul 01, 2005, 07:23 AM // 07:23

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Originally Posted by deolmstead

Maybe all the jerks have moved on to the next game? Gotten bored? Gone on summer vacation?

A little of all of that, I'd say. Battlefield 2 has definitely soaked up some of the jerks, many of them are doubtless on vacation, and the reduction in need for PvP players to play PvE (which they hated, and it showed) has probably helped too.

Makkert · Jul 01, 2005, 08:09 AM // 08:09

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Originally Posted by Porkchop Sandwhiches

I was grouped with Captain Planet (and his brothers I believe?)

Captain Pluto?

on topic again: i had many great pugs. a good pug just works without much talk needed.