unionyes
11-22-2007, 01:54 PM
So, there I was last night, just made level 14 on my sorc and get into a PUG. I like PUGs, I like running with my Guild, I just plain like running quests. This was a pretty good group, I was the only caster, we had a good cleric, and a great (I mean spectacular great) rogue. I was doing the dancing ball/firewall combo thing, it was great.
I started to notice, however, that one of the tanks were not what you could call 'uber'. In the interests of saving some manna, when there wasn't a group of mobs I was kinda watching while the rogue paralysed them and the tankies beat them to the ground. Slowly. I mean there were the four of them whaling away on one mob and it took almost as long as when they were whaling on 5 or 6 mobs who were dancing in the fire. I also noticed that the others would finish their mobs off and come help this one fighter finish his. Every time. It honestly felt like we were five manning it. Oh well, PUGs are great anyways, and different fighter types are different calibre, live and let live. I mean I am definitely not what most would call 'Uber', and I even keep my gimped barbarian (not to play him but to remind me of what it was like not knowing how to build a toon).
Of importance to the story is one particular tank who was always asking stupid questions, always the last one 'into the breach', always asking what weapon to use on these guys, what weapon to use on those guys, and the cleric was over him in the kill count if you know what I mean. I checked him in the focus orb to see if he was a ftr/rogue or ftr/bard or if there was some reason why he was tanking in that particular style, but nothing. However, I was having fun, and thats what its all about.
Until near the end of the quest, when yours truly enters the end fight just as the party leader says to gather for fresh buffs. Of course, the fact that I have entered the end fight means that it is about to start, and we wipe. My bad, nobody elses. Of course, the UberTank starts to whine and cry about how we are all going to die, and it is all my fault, and how I should know what I am doing. So I disconnect, turn off the computer, and go watch the end of 'Dodgeball' with my wife.
Where the sorry to some part comes in is here. If you were that fighter that obviously has some other idea of what it means to be a good fighter than I do, don't be surprised if I never group with you again. I mean, you have the right to build your toon however you want and to play your toon however you want too. I have the right to avoid you, and I intend to. To you, I am not sorry, as I did NOT say a word about how you played and you felt that it was something that you could do to me. I value constructive feedback, and seek it out, from my guildies and others I run with who play well. I do not tolerate somebody whining at me, especially if that someone has just been carried through a challenging quest by the rest of the party.
If you are one of the other toons in that particular party, then I am sorry that I logged off without explanation and prior to the end of a quest, and I hope that you found another caster to come help finish it off. It is not my usual behaviour at all, however when the party carries a gimped tank through a long quest and then someone OTHER than the gimped tank makes a mistake, I feel it is highly inappropriate for the gimped tank to start whining like a jet engine. That, however, does NOT excuse my own rude behaviour, so, sorry to some.
Sincerely,
Kittinn
I started to notice, however, that one of the tanks were not what you could call 'uber'. In the interests of saving some manna, when there wasn't a group of mobs I was kinda watching while the rogue paralysed them and the tankies beat them to the ground. Slowly. I mean there were the four of them whaling away on one mob and it took almost as long as when they were whaling on 5 or 6 mobs who were dancing in the fire. I also noticed that the others would finish their mobs off and come help this one fighter finish his. Every time. It honestly felt like we were five manning it. Oh well, PUGs are great anyways, and different fighter types are different calibre, live and let live. I mean I am definitely not what most would call 'Uber', and I even keep my gimped barbarian (not to play him but to remind me of what it was like not knowing how to build a toon).
Of importance to the story is one particular tank who was always asking stupid questions, always the last one 'into the breach', always asking what weapon to use on these guys, what weapon to use on those guys, and the cleric was over him in the kill count if you know what I mean. I checked him in the focus orb to see if he was a ftr/rogue or ftr/bard or if there was some reason why he was tanking in that particular style, but nothing. However, I was having fun, and thats what its all about.
Until near the end of the quest, when yours truly enters the end fight just as the party leader says to gather for fresh buffs. Of course, the fact that I have entered the end fight means that it is about to start, and we wipe. My bad, nobody elses. Of course, the UberTank starts to whine and cry about how we are all going to die, and it is all my fault, and how I should know what I am doing. So I disconnect, turn off the computer, and go watch the end of 'Dodgeball' with my wife.
Where the sorry to some part comes in is here. If you were that fighter that obviously has some other idea of what it means to be a good fighter than I do, don't be surprised if I never group with you again. I mean, you have the right to build your toon however you want and to play your toon however you want too. I have the right to avoid you, and I intend to. To you, I am not sorry, as I did NOT say a word about how you played and you felt that it was something that you could do to me. I value constructive feedback, and seek it out, from my guildies and others I run with who play well. I do not tolerate somebody whining at me, especially if that someone has just been carried through a challenging quest by the rest of the party.
If you are one of the other toons in that particular party, then I am sorry that I logged off without explanation and prior to the end of a quest, and I hope that you found another caster to come help finish it off. It is not my usual behaviour at all, however when the party carries a gimped tank through a long quest and then someone OTHER than the gimped tank makes a mistake, I feel it is highly inappropriate for the gimped tank to start whining like a jet engine. That, however, does NOT excuse my own rude behaviour, so, sorry to some.
Sincerely,
Kittinn