Comments on: I am a jerk

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:36:29 +0000

The whitboad gnome clearly agrees

By: Jen

Jen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:48:57 +0000

Tank pulling more mobs as long as I’m ok on mana? Perfect.
Healer pulling mobs from me when I’m tanking? One warning and then he can go tank him/herself if s/he’s so impatient.

Everyone’s got a role here and the healer’s isn’t to pull my mobs.

Rules change when the tank and healer actually know each other and agree on the course of action, but I would still hate for any healer (or DPS) to pull for me (except death gripping casters).

And teaching on LFG? No chance. I can never find a non-snarky way to put it, so I just shut up. If a player’s bad enough to make me rant, it will be useless anyway.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:53:29 +0000

Haha! In a few weeks, you’ll catch him calling his playbuddies “total idiot noobs” when they get into arguments.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:52:27 +0000

I just assume that if someone doesn’t care enough to go read blogs on their own, they’re not going to care enough to do it if someone tells them too. But years of being in a casual guild, trying to teach rogues and hunters and mages to outdps the healers probably ruined my faith in people, hehe.

By: ReversionLFM

ReversionLFM — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:05 +0000

Mostly the advice is pretty streamlined though. Things like “Use more finishing moves” or “you know you have ret pally shield, right”. Lately I usually keep it to “your dps should be higher. go read blogs”. That does not take any time and if only a few people take the advice then we will all be better off.

On our mains we usually que as tank and heals. And we have great gear. So we very often get some really low GS dpsers. We don’t nit pick every little thing. If someone is doing 75% of their potential dps that is not an issue. If someone is doing under 50% what their gear score indicates there is a serious problem with the spec or rotation (or itemization).

By: Analogue

Analogue — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:16:10 +0000

I think it’s the (futile?) hope that giving advice will eventually raise the collective IQ of the LFG system. And because it’s either that or Reversion and I sitting there mocking the moron. And eventually The Nomster is going to pick up on it when we mock people like that and then we’ll have fun… “Mommy what does ‘total idiot noob’ mean?”

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:49:00 +0000

I find that, unless it’s a question of failing the instance or not, it’s a waste of time to offer advice in 5 mans. A 5 man takes, like, what, 15-20 minutes? You don’t have time to say anything clear and useful in that time frame, besides, in a 5-man, you should be killing stuff, not chatting.

If I see a terrible pally, I might suggest using a different seal or remind a tank to put up Righteous Fury, but that’s about as far as I’ll go. Anything more complex than that and they:

1) won’t understand or
2) won’t care.

Since most heroics can be pretty much 2 manned with a tank and healer nowadays, I don’t see the point in wasting my time and energy giving pointless advice.