With my druid being 80 now, I've been working on gearing up. I've done Naxx (25) once now and I'm down for 10-man on Thursday. I'm well over the minimum gear requirements, so now it's tweaking and upgrading with shiny shiny purples.
I usually enjoy PUGing. I like meeting new people and testing my skills. However, today I joined a PUG and I left after the first wipe. Why?
Point 1: Get to the stone with two other people and do my usual /inspect because I'm nosy. DK with mostly greens. Warrior with blues, but all the gem slots empty. Uh oh.
Point 2: I finally get around to looking at who's in the group. Two warriors, two DKs. Uh oh.
Point 3: DKs disagree on who tanks. One says "Frost DK should tank" and the other (unholy)disagrees. Frost one ends up tanking, has a bunch of abilities bound to /say macros. Spam ensues. Uh oh.
Point 4: Almost die on trash because I get aggro and something runs up and whacks me in the face.
Point 5: Then we wipe because I get killed in the room with all the proto drakes (we're in Utgarde Keep). Tank had been skipping a bunch of them. Didn't see what happened as was too busy healing everyone, not sure if it was cone breath or aggro.
Made excuses, left before getting locked to it (daily heroic).
Was I too fast to leave? Am I getting to be a healing snob?
When I hit 80, I did a round of CoS, UP, Occulus and got some gear, along with some reputation and AH stuff. Only then did I start doing heroics. I got enchants and gems, although I do have my own enchanter and jewelcrafter, so I admit it's easier than for some people. I just think that not having at least the common gems in your gear is sheer laziness, as they aren't expensive and can just be grabbed from the AH.
I usually enjoy PUGing. I like meeting new people and testing my skills. However, today I joined a PUG and I left after the first wipe. Why?
Point 1: Get to the stone with two other people and do my usual /inspect because I'm nosy. DK with mostly greens. Warrior with blues, but all the gem slots empty. Uh oh.
Point 2: I finally get around to looking at who's in the group. Two warriors, two DKs. Uh oh.
Point 3: DKs disagree on who tanks. One says "Frost DK should tank" and the other (unholy)disagrees. Frost one ends up tanking, has a bunch of abilities bound to /say macros. Spam ensues. Uh oh.
Point 4: Almost die on trash because I get aggro and something runs up and whacks me in the face.
Point 5: Then we wipe because I get killed in the room with all the proto drakes (we're in Utgarde Keep). Tank had been skipping a bunch of them. Didn't see what happened as was too busy healing everyone, not sure if it was cone breath or aggro.
Made excuses, left before getting locked to it (daily heroic).
Was I too fast to leave? Am I getting to be a healing snob?
When I hit 80, I did a round of CoS, UP, Occulus and got some gear, along with some reputation and AH stuff. Only then did I start doing heroics. I got enchants and gems, although I do have my own enchanter and jewelcrafter, so I admit it's easier than for some people. I just think that not having at least the common gems in your gear is sheer laziness, as they aren't expensive and can just be grabbed from the AH.
1) It's a game. If you're in a shit PUG which is sucking your fun (or you can see it's going to), leave. I should probably do this more often but damnit if I manage to scrape halfway thru Naxx 10 I'm sticking to the bitter, hair-pulling-out end. I want that Axe.
2) If there's arguments about who's tanking, this means one of a few things, most likely that no-one's tank specced, or that one guy might have tank offspec gear and little experience. Leaving and telling them to reinvite you when they've not got 4 DPSers is not an unwise move.
3) Players in mostly greens and/or unsocketed gear should not be in heroics. Srsly, you can pick up a lot of 77-78-ish Blue gear from easy quests in Storm Peaks and Icecrown. There's no excuse or explanation other than you want other people to boost you to 80 gear while you're contributing little to the party.
I don't blame you for leaving, part of me wouldn't have stuck around for as long as you did. Another part of me would never join a PUG since I don't trust the average member of the server not to be a complete retard. Then again, I'm on a Euro PVP server where Anal spam in Trade chat is still popular. Hur hur Anal [Slam] hur hur. Ugh. Still get Dirge spam occasionally too, though I have a macro for that.
Guaranteed to get a lol from tradechat. (Looks a little odd here but the spacing works in game.)
Blue plate with sockets? I am 80 and have only 2 greens, and the only one with sockets I didn't add is my epic crafted helm.