This just happened over lunch:
So Reversion and I get on our mains to run a quick instance over lunch. Instaqueue, as usual, and we get the Oculus loading screen. No problem, we actually like Oculus and the extra rewards are just icing on the cake.
As soon as we get there, one guy drops, instantly. We move forward, Reversion re-queueing us, and then realize, halfway through the first fight, that one of the two remaining dps has “dc’d”. Yeah sure. We have to vote kick him. We get two more dps, one of whom instantly drops. Right about then is when I notice that the paladin, the one who has been there this whole time, is doing 400 dps and getting into fights really slowly. He also refuses to select a role, so we can’t get another guy to replace the most recently dropped one.
I ask him to please select a role. Nothing.I check his gear; mostly 200 blues, respectable gear that he should be able to get at least 1k dps out of, and since he’s used all of three abilities in his “rotation”, I am pretty sure he’s slacking. (Also; no Blessings, and no Aura up. After the instance I checked Recount; he used Crusader Strike and Consecration. That was it.) I point out that we could use the extra help from another person since he’s not contributing much, this after three failed tries to get us re-queued, without him saying why he was declining the role check.
We get no response. Not a “yeah whatever”, not an “Ok”, not even a “Screw you guys”. Nothing. So I go to vote to kick him so that we can maybe get a full party – and it says we can’t remove any more players.
Oops. I guess the dc’d guy was our one kick of the instance. Argh. The mage – who came in after we kicked the dc’d guy – tries, and he can’t either. We continue on. The paladin shows up halfway through the first boss fight and promptly dies. Yes, I was not healing him; I was hoping he’d take a hint and leave. He didn’t. After the fight he released and came in and – did nothing.
No, the three of us got dragons, went on, cleared the instance, and this guy sat there at the dragon platform. He didn’t even get to roll on loot since he was too far away, but he sat there, silently, the whole time.
I don’t know if he got badges – there was no way for me to check. Maybe he did. Either way I thought it was an insanely spiteful waste of time. Guess he disagreed though.
Shoutout to Kazaratfh of Auchindoun, an awesome mage who performed flawless, put out great dps even though he “only” had a gearscore around 4800, didn’t pull off the tank, and stopped frost nova-ing when we asked.
(Quick recap: we had three different dps drop or ‘dc’ as soon as they saw it was Oculus, one guy refused to do anything, and one guy who worked his heart out. I think the Oculus problem is getting worse. Here’s to the half-hour deserter debuff.)
I went through 5 dps before a 1st pull once. I was begging them to stay as soon as they appeared in the instance which may have scared off one or two – I don’t know why it pops up so often for me. 5.6 gs and I have not gotten a Pit/forge/halls in weeks from LFG, but if I do more then one LFG in a day Oculuss will be one without fail.
Last night we got one where people didn’t drop, because of the new debuff, but showed how utterly awful they can be at the place… one guy was lost for a boss and a half as he tried to find where we were. He also did almost nothing on the dragon fight… good thing they’ve nerfed the place.
It was worse than almost nothing. He had a green dragon, tossed all of one poison, wandered around in circles while we were dpsing the boss, got lost and half dead durring the phase shift phase, and finally wandered over to a platform and DISMOUNTED to stand there for the rest of the fight. When it was over he mounted up and flew to the chest platform having helped not at all.