Comments on: Shared Topic: Positive Random Dungeon Stories

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:24:52 +0000

I don’t mind people who skip the line as long as they’re polite, play decently and aren’t too hard to heal. People queuing up as tanks means I can queue up as a healer and not have to wait super long to get a group.

It is pretty cool when you get excellent players in your group. It’s hard to notice good dps (other than by their numbers) because it’s the stupid things that draw attention to dps, but good tanks really shine.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:20:15 +0000

The picture is cropped, which is why the UI looks so strange! All you can see is Grid, IceHUD and Mik’s Scrolling Battle Text.

I actually don’t like it when people try to make fake or forced conversation, but the times where chit-chatting is appropriate, it makes the run feel so much better.

By: Will

Will — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:45:19 +0000

Most of my favorite LFG memories come from before cross-server Instances. (I have a few good ones, but this isn’t about those.) Nowadays, five-mans go by so quickly and silently that it’s rare for me to have a positive or a negative run. They just “are”, if that makes sense.

A Random Heroic memory that I am fond of, however, was just shortly after cross-server Instances became available. I started doing Randoms at night, and one of my first using this tool was a Violet Hold run. The Tank was a Bear.

The run is going along, and this Tank is good. Really good. It’s rare for me to not have to throw a Misdirection on the Portals where the mobs split, but this guy was able to grab up everything himself.

We get Zuramat, and then Xevozz. Both were beautifully executed. After Xevozz, the Tank apologizes for being “rusty”, since he hadn’t been able to play in a few months. I never did have the chance to say anything, and after Cyanigosa was dead, everyone left group pretty quickly.

If he was “rusty” then, I can only imagine how good this guy is now. He wasn’t from my Server, and I don’t have his name. But he was one of the best Tanks I had ever grouped with at that point.

I don’t do Randoms all that often these days, even though I still have Emblem gear that I could get for my Hunter. They’re so impersonal these days that it’s hard for me to enjoy Heroics like I used to.

And I’ve only done one (well, two, but I don’t know if the second should count) Instances on my Death Knight so far, but I can say right now that if I want even a little bit to Tank, I’ll queue as a Tank. If I just want to DPS, I’ll queue as DPS. Since my main is a Hunter, I’m used to DPS queue times, and it would be a heinous cheating of the group to “skip to the head of the line” just to save some time.

This was a good column. Thanks for sharing.

By: Nim (Ankh)

Nim (Ankh) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:38:27 +0000

That is the weirdest and potentially greatest UI I’ve ever seen.

It’s always a cozy feeling when you get a group of socialites in the random PuG. Unfortunately, those are few and far between.