Sometimes They Do Listen
Last night, we were going for Sartharion in normal Obsidian Sanctum. Nothing fancy, all three drakes to be killed before we attempted the big one himself, just some fun with the guild.
However, due to a slight lack of signups this merry Sunday evening and some unforeseen RL stuff we were a few raiders short. Some of our guildies jumped in and we filled the last two spots with two pugs, a death knight and a protadin.
It started out so-so, the pugs didn’t really listen to our RL and on the first pull the rain of fire took a heavy toll on our group.
Ressed, buffed up, went at it again with no problems.
As we approach the first blue dragon, our RL clearly says in /raidchat that we will not enter the portal, we will all stay out by the miniboss and kill it.
Dragon is engaged, he spawns a portal, the protadin jumps in and promptly dies.
“There was no healer with me in the portal!!”
No, of course there was not. The RL clearly stated before the pull that no one goes into the portal.
The rest of us kill of the dragon and his adds, not effortlessly but still without too much of a hassle.
Ressed, buffed up, going to the next dragon.
RL says again that we will not enter the portal, we will all stay out and deal with the adds when they appear outside.
Both of our pugs, the DK and the protadin actually reads the raidchat this time and protests!
“We must enter the portal! We will surely wipe if we do not enter the portal and kill the adds there!”
And I timidly ask in raidchat “Wipe? You mean, like we did not do just now? =)”
Silence. Silence. Silence.
Dragon is engaged, portal spawns. No one goes in. Dragon and adds die. Raiders are alive.
The rest of the run our pugged raid members have no trouble listening to and following the raid leaders instructions, and don’t even blow up too much when he disconnects in mid-fight and wipe us all.
And it seems Providence rewarded them for actually shaping up after those initial mishaps because the DK walked away with a new hat and a pair of offspec gloves and the protadin got a new big bag.
So to all ye puggers out there – listen to the RL, do as he sayeth and thy may be rewarded handsomely!
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It seems funny to me, cuz i had 2 do with something like this also. I hate pugs..but what is there to be done if not enough guildies are online? :) Were those 2 badplayers btw? :D
P.S. “Wipe? You mean, like we did not do just now? =)” u owned them haha
They were not bad players, they started out a bit on the rough side but me and our RL and the rest of my guildies were polite and friendly and the pugees responded to that :-)
Pugs are not inherently bad, you just may need a bit more patience and understanding but generally they work out good.
The first time I met you was in a Shattered Halls pug, remember? And that one turned out pretty good, don’t you think? :-)
True, pugs aren’t that bad(i don’t like them cuz i prefer to raid with ppl that i know, didn’t said that they’re good or bad) but sometimes players lack of patience.
Idd it was a pug (back then i was guildless),but i must say that it was a dungeon not a raid, there’re some differences.
It turned out good cause you were nice ppl , still are and will be.
Didn’t managed to ask you.. but what made you change the realm?I would like to know what happened.. (hope it woun’t bring u back “bad memories”).
‘do as he sayeth and thy may be rewarded handsomely!’
Lmao, that made me laugh :).
Well- I liked that post, because it totally highlighted how PuG doesn’t mean doom- It just means theres a high chance they wont be as reactive, nor will they be around your guilds skillset, but whos fault is that?
They could be bad for one of two reasons:
-Lost in time: They’ve not been 80 long. At the different part of the Learning curve to you.
-Rolemodels: They lack decent rolemodels, and have quite found the guilld for them yet- im sure it’ll come soon!.
PuG’s just need a bit of watering i guess :).
Although lets be honest sometimes, just sometimes, you wanna blow your own brains out when you get some pretty riddiculus players.
Awesome post :).
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@Brish, thanks again, and if you read up on my backlog of posts here you’ll see many rants about things I was unhappy with, and I felt the need for a fresh start :-)
@Kromus, thank you!
Agree, some pugs really make you /facepalm but with a little patience and kindness you will get most people to shape up.
I understand most people want runs to go fast and smooth, but being friendly and forgiving will generally make a “bad” player perform better than by being rude to them :-)