Lunchtime, queue’d up Rev’s baby paladin and my baby priest for a dungeon, got Razorfen Downs. Cool. Got a mage, druid, and rogue as our dps.
“oh I have Rez sickness” says the rogue as we zone in.
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Reversion glances at him and not only does he have rez sickness, he has a full ten minutes of it. We pointed out it was pretty rude to come in with rez sickness. “I’m not useless!” the rogue insists as we start. He of course proceeds to be useless.
I’m throwing out an occasional Shadow Word: Pain or Holy Nova and doing about 7% of the damage right now. The rogue? 1%. Ouch. He continues to insist he’s not doing badly, to which we post damage meters. He then accuses us of being rude.
Yeah. The guy who is right now not just not contributing, but being an active mana-sink in that I have to keep him alive, is saying we’re rude.
After ten minutes of this idiocy, his debuff goes away. He actually counts it down in party chat.
Five minutes later he asks how he’s doing. We post the new numbers – Reversion reset and I didn’t – and he cheers. “Yay!”
“Dude, you’re only doing 8% of the damage. I’m doing 7%” I point out. “And I’m healing.”
“Lol boa and you’re higher level,” he says
True, I am wearing BoA gear and I am three levels higher than him. But – I’m healing, and Reversion is not in BoA gear and is only two levels higher and is creaming him so hard it’s not funny.
We continue on. Three trash pulls from the end, he says “oops lol”. Nothing more, but suddenly Rankwatch tells me he just used a finishing move that’s several levels out of date – he hasn’t trained. No big deal but… that was the first time it’s told me this and he didn’t just ding.
I check Recount. He has used finishing moves… 3 times. This whole instance.
This guy who said something about “you make me feel useless” and “it’s a game lol” earlier, hasn’t got the first clue how to play his class. It doesn’t get more basic for a rogue than “use finishing moves”. We point this out to him when the final boss dies. “I have over two level 80s”, he says. (What that exactly means… I don’t know)
Oh, and the totals?
Ugh, I hate people like that. If he were the tank or the healer, the group wouldn’t have finished the instance. To the bee pit with him!
Indeed.
We’d have kicked but this was lunchtime and we wanted to get out of there fast. By the time the timer was up we were almost done.
Did you ask him to leave the group in party chat? You wrote about the rudeness of the act but it’s unclear to me whether you asked him to leave group.
The reason I am asking is he sounds like a young person and may not have made the implicit connection.
Why did you spend mana healing him when he had rez sickness? Were you using an addon that makes it difficult to recognize the players you healed?
Just curious.
There was a running dialogue in which we pointed out the rudeness of his presence. His response was chronologically:
-Claiming to not be useless.
-Justifying that dropping on us instead of accepting the LFD invite would have been rude to US.
-Emo whining when we called him on all of the above
-Claiming once the debuff went away he would be fine.
-Random nonsense when we showed via recount the healer was still beating him AFTER the debuff was gone.
Yeah, I am pretty sure he got the picture that we thought he should drop.
If some people spent as much time learning their class as they did being emo then they would not suck at all. Of course then they would have nothing to be emo about.
The shear idea that he claimed WE were being rude to point out his 1.1% over all dps (with debuff)… it astounds me. Apparently in some strange world the word ‘rude’ has some mysterious definition that I don’t fathom. It is probably the same strange universe where people call 911 emergency when there are no chicken nuggets at McDonalds. No, I guess that is America. Or maybe it is the land where people break in your house and assault you and then sue you if you shoot them… no wait, that is England.
You convinced me the rogue understood has was told to leave the group. And that he was a young person.
Your last paragraph brings up a topic I would love to discuss but not on public forums. Maybe someday if party if we ever end up in the same party.
Peace out.