For those who might not know yet, my gluttony for abuse knows no bounds. As a result I find myself in a rather large number of P.U.G. groups. At the end of the day I bring you, my readers, the stories of my travels in the random grouping of Azerothian adventure!
I really really hate heroic Gundrak. Not because it’s hard or that there is loot there I want but can’t seem to get to drop, but because it seems like every time I queue for a random, I get it. I’ve done it at least 40 times, and the vast majority of those times have been through the LFD tool. It’s not a bad instance I’m just tired of seeing the insides of it, and I think this last time my group was agitated as well.
It started out pretty normal, warrior tank, ret paladin, mage a boomkin and me. Pretty solid setup, everyone had gear that hovered around at least ICC10 so I figured it would be a nice, quick run. In and out of Gundrak, I’m all for that! Down the first boss like normal and we’re moving onto the second boss when something odd happens. The boomkin pulls threat off the tank on a trash pull. Tank re-establishes aggro and we move onto the next one. The boomkin pulls aggro once again but this time the tank doesn’t grab aggro. I heal the boomkin like crazy and keep him from dying and everyone stops after the trash is downed.
Boomkin: What the hell man? I wasn’t even doing anything to pull aggro! Did you forget how to tank?
Warrior: If you learned how to manage your aggro this wouldn’t be an issue.
Boomkin: Yeah but you just sat there while I was dying! WTF is wrong with you? Learn how to tank
The warrior runs forward and pulls ALL of the trash leading up to the second boss and then shadow melds as the boomkin is in the middle of AoE. All the mobs go hell for broke after the boomkin. I toss an Earth Shield on the druid and nuke heal until the pack is down.
Boomkin: Seriously? What the hell is wrong with you?
Warrior: Shouldn’t try telling me how to tank then
Me: Fine, fuck it. If you two are going to fight, I’ll just tank.
I switch to my PvP gear, run in and ES myself while frost-shocking the boss. I nuke heal myself and keep shocking and lava bursting on the boss.
the DPS starts in slowly and I’m holding aggro pretty well and eventually the tank runs in and grabs aggro off of me. I let him take it and switch back to healing. The boss is downed and we are all sitting there.
Me: So, we done fighting? I already hate this place, I just want to be done.
Ret Pally: Dunno, but watching a healer tanks was pretty funny. Think you could do that again?
Me: Sure, unless mr. tank and mr. boomkin want to play nice so we can just be done.
Warrior: Fine, proved your point.
Boomkin: Fine.
Rest of the run is done without any hiccups, no one is openly aggressive to each other and the rest goes smoothly.
The sad thing about this isn’t that the fight happened, but the fact that it is not the first time something like this has happened. I’ve seen players go at each other’s throats for seemingly small things or mistakes. It boggles my mind how people playing a GAME for FUN can have such a stick up their arse and be so aggressive. This has happened at least 3 times this past week, not me tanking (although I do threaten it from time to time), but the bickering. If you can’t play well with others, you shouldn’t be playing a game that relies on OTHER PEOPLE to do part of it, or just avoid that part of it.
So how about you? Any good pug stories this week? Any horror stories?
Well that’s it for today, until next time Happy Healing!