I am not a dedicated raider, but I love raiding. Since I can never commit to the raiding schedules that guilds require of their raiders, I am in a constant state of pugging. When I'm not actively in a pug, I am scanning the trade channel looking for one that will have all the qualities required to be successful- gear, experience, patience, and maybe a little bit of luck. When I find such a group, I'm ecstatic. But more often than not, I face group after group of impatient, inexperienced, and under geared scrubs who simply want to be carried to the final boss so they can get their [EPIC LOOT] Those groups often end in a way that everyone who has ever pugged is familiar with- people getting frustrated and leaving. But every now and then, there is a group that fails so bad, the fail is almost a win, in and of itself, for being such a unique level of fail.

Those are the groups this blog is about.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Already not making progress!


What with the current content becoming easier and easier to farm(yay nerfs!) more people are getting their dungeons confused. They're doing one on Tuesday, and then trying desperately to do it again on Wednesday. And again on Thursday. And Friday. You get my drift.

People who are already saved to dungeons seem to be totally oblivious to the effect that their save has on a new group that they're trying to run with. And they seem to be unfailingly unable to admit their mistake and leave. They prefer instead to linger, looking to their left and right as though they're innocent of any wrongdoing and believe somebody else Must be the culprit... Just like the guy who busts ass in an inclosed space.

Allow me to run you through a couple scenarios:


Scenario 1
Guy1: uhm... guys.... says the dungeon is already started?
TheRager:  I thought this was a fresh run? WTF! I didn't come for a run that's already started. OMG!
RaidLead: It is a fresh run. Who's saved?
Crickets: Chirp, chirp, chirp.
RaidLead: C'mon guys, check you /raidinfo. If you're saved leave.
Crickets: Chirp
Guy2: Hey, I did 25 earlier, that doesn't save me to 10 right?
TheRager: /NERDRAGE

Scenario 2
Guy1: uhm... guys.... says the dungeon is already started?
TheRager:  I thought this was a fresh run? WTF! I didn't come for a run that's already started. OMG!

RaidLead: It is a fresh run. Who's saved?
Crickets: Chirp, chirp, chirp.
RaidLead: C'mon guys, check you /raidinfo. If you're saved leave.
Crickets: Chirp
RaidLead: Everyone open their /raidinfo. See if you're saved. Press yes If you're not saved
ReadyCheck: I am ready to go! Everyone pressed yes lets rock this shit! WOOO!!!
Raidlead: Ok, somebody is still saved. Everyone look in your raidinfo
Guy2-7: We already looked we're not saved.
TheRager: OOMMMMMGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!q!!!!!!!!!WTF!!!!!!!  /leavegroup
Guy2-7: /leavegroup
RaidLead: omg /facepalm /leavegroup
Guy9: *whispers* Oh shit... That was me. >.>   Nobody noticed. It's cool. /leavegroup



That's pretty much how that's gonna go down. I have occasionally seen somebody do a type of readycheck for raidsaves using dbm, but I don't know how to do that myself. Here's to hoping blizz will implement some way for raidleaders to check the saves of their raid members.
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Friday, September 16, 2011

The post 85 JP grind

So you hit 85 and you're ready to raid! But you have no gear. None. Ok, maybe you have a couple pieces of JP gear from doing dungeons before you could spend them. And a couple crafted pieces. But you've got nowhere near the gear you'll need to start raiding.

Unless your guild loves you, or is generally incredibly helpful to new 85's, it is time to beat your face against the PUG machine for awhile.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

How to tell if your raid will wipe



This video says it all. By wowcrendor.
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