Comments on: It’s not me, it’s you. Seriously. You guys are terrible.

By: Cervidae

Cervidae — Tue, 24 May 2011 17:40:57 +0000

I’ve been leveling a resto shammy through the dungeon finder, and it has been insane. I’ve had a few awesome groups, but I swear, the next person who uses “But it doesn’t matter at level 20/30/40/50″ as an excuse to be a jerk…

Tanks who need on healer gear, people who ninja the ogre tannin in dire maul (wtf is the thinking behind only having one per run?!), dps pulling extra packs, tanks running laps around a boss room outranging me…

I think the cherry on top though, was the “tank” I got in Scarlet Monastery. I was excited at first, because you just don’t see many bear tanks. Unfortunately, first pull in, he dies in two hits before I can even get a heal off. The next few packs, the entire group has threat because he hits like a wet noodle. Then one of the DPS pipes up with, “Uhh, tank? Do you realize you’re in balance spec?” He refused to answer anyone, and we couldn’t kick him until the DF kick timer ran out (at least 10 minutes later, which is most of the dungeon at that level!).

By: LabRat

LabRat — Mon, 23 May 2011 18:11:49 +0000

I sympathize a lot. I have the same goal with tanks as you have with healers, and the LFD system just makes me want to GNAW MY DAMN ARM OFF most of the times I’ve tried queueing up alone. Anything at all go wrong whether it was in the tank’s power to affect or not (like, say, someone’s pet pulling three extra groups?)? Tank FAIL, either leave, get kicked, or accept constant verbal abuse.

The paladin is the guild MT and is geared to the teeth and I NEVER take him anywhere but raids anymore. Warrior is juuust about ready to tank a raid but I’d rather put some more polish on her first. DK is questionably ready for heroics. (As in, she’s well above ready by ilvl but not overgeared enough to satisfy, like, 80% of pugs.) The druid is… stuck at level 49, actually….

By: repgrind

repgrind — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:41:58 +0000

My priest has wings without dying … they’re just … shadowy.

By: slice

slice — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:35:42 +0000

i also want a healer of each class as well, but shaman…I just cant get into the class. Not sure why.

Holy is great as a jack of all trades spec. But feels clunky to me. Going from one stance to another. But Lightwell is awesome. Also on fight where people are spread out. Holy’s bread and butter spell, CoH feels wasted.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:26:46 +0000

I actually switched out of Smite spec for while I’m learning all the ins and outs. I won’t go Holy. Chakras ain’t me. But it might take me a while to get used to Smite spec.

I have an eventual goal of having one healer of each class, raid geared and raided-on. So far I have the druid, naturally, and the paladin, the priest is almost there and the shaman is stuck at level 48.

By: slice

slice — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:20:20 +0000

I q’d up on all 3 of my healers. It was really hit or miss for the CtA for ZA/ZG.

But zomg…ana is a disc priest! /highfive.

Who needs to be failangel when you can haz wings without dying!

Holy Nova, very situational. I think I only use it on HoO for the lever guy.

PoM on cooldown all the time, as is Penance, keep those Grace stacks rolling!

heal…is hardly used anymore…smite baby smite!

Binding heal is a god send in Chim, magmaw, Cho’gall p2.

Love disc…best spec ever!

By: Finnei

Finnei — Mon, 23 May 2011 17:16:34 +0000

Oddly enough, I’ve never been randomly queued with someone from my own server that wasn’t a complete idiot. You’re right that it’s not necessarily a cross-server problem. BUT, those people left group after I mentioned that I was from the same server…sorry that you weren’t as lucky. I guess that only works in solo situations and you had a guild group to contend with.

By: repgrind

repgrind — Mon, 23 May 2011 16:29:32 +0000

I still won’t queue for the troll dungeons solo, even on Kerick with healer CtA up. Not worth the trouble.

By: Analogue

Analogue — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:51:48 +0000

What really stood out to me was that the ZG group was from my server. I pointed out to them that they were from my server. And it didn’t help. So that theory I’ve seen, that the problem with LFG is the cross-server aspect? I don’t buy that.

I like doing complete pugs now and then since it makes me stretch. Nothing forces you to really learn a class you don’t know well like a pug with four strangers.

By: Ebby

Ebby — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:42:38 +0000

So glad that someone else has had a nightmare with guild groups in LFD. I queue in LFD to PUG (as healer). I like the rather harsh nature of a true pug – if you don’t perform adequately, you get removed and someone else gets a go. In guild groups, the poorly geared and the low dps and the squishy tank all get to stay and the runs are comparatively a nightmare. And, as you said, you can’t kick off about anything cos you are the lonely kickable link.

The other night, we’d run the whole of ZA to the end boss, I wanted my valors and my satchel. It was a 4man guild group and me. One guy, a hunter (shockingly) was afk for 10 minutes. When he came back, there was no sorry, no contrition. I complained about it – not aggressively, I believe I called it “quite rude” – and was told to basically shut up and that it was their run. I could have quit group, but it had been a 90 minute run to that point. I had earned the valors etc.

Also, all the time, they’re chatting in Danish or whatever and there’s lots of LOLing and ROFLing and I swear I see a word that could be Danish for healer ….

In short, there should be an option in LFD where you can avoid being grouped with a group that has 3+ guild members in it. The magic 3 is the number where they control the group, can act like complete weapons, and get to waste good peoples’ time (me being the good people ofc).