Friday 11 December 2009

Scrub - 004

Hasn't been many updates lately, but why is that? Well first off I've been playing other games, Dragon Age : Origins inparticular, and some old Playstation one nostalgia games. I hadn't felt the need to go onto Warcraft. However, patch 3.3 came along, and just before I got myself into a decent raiding guild, so there's a bit more of a reason to play now, actually taking part in the content rather than wishing to take part.

But ouch, 3.3 sure brought with it the bane to 5 man dungeons, the cross-server pugs. The bad things about this are infinite, you're going to end up with people who do not have to "behave" because how they treat others isn't important, it's not their server, so screw it. You're also going to get all variety of people slightly out of your control. Granted you can vote-kick members who aren't doing so good, but that's only if other members agree.

I play on Defias Brotherhood EU - RP-PVP. I chose the RP-PVP server because I'm enjoy RP now and then but it's not wholey RP I enjoy, I enjoy PVP as well. What is RP? It's Role Playing, but what does that mean for the server? Well, in general, to me, it means you wont see a bunch of "Lazerphaser" names and "Rofldruidhealasdadasa". Stupid names get changed, you're left with decent names, decent guild names, and usually with that, comes a level of maturity from the players. They're a lot more forgiving and adult (obviously there's exceptions, you do come across morons, but I'd say the majority of players are okay).

With 3.3 I've been forced (to get my emblem of frost) to either make pre-mades and join the random dungeon, or, as I've been encouraged by achievements, to pug with people from different servers.

First two days, though it's slightly a pain in the ass, it wasn't too bad, until today;

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Hopefully this explains enough, sadly the chart is improved based on what it was. During the first two bosses in the instance, the ONLY spells this druid used to heal was Nourish and Healing touch (oh and occasionally living seed which he seemed proud of). The screenshot is taken slightly after I told him to use "other heals" when we began to struggle on certain encounters, and the DPS were dropping bellow 30% and 20% health because he'd only cast Nourish. We wiped on the black knight because he couldn't keep anyone in the party alive.

Not only that but he also needed on every piece of feral gear that dropped, didn't buff the party at all and wasn't all that smart about going into tree form until late into the first boss pull.

But hey, he's going to get Tier 9, and if he plays enough Tier 10.

This new cross-server grouping is going to mean I come across many scrubs. People who don't know shit about anything it'd seem.

"I now whats best"

From that, I can tell I'm playing with a child.