Comments on: You Can Always Tell When I’ve Been Pugging A Lot

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:28:30 +0000

I used to pick up players to fill in holes – or find pug raids myself – fairly often with the old LFG. Maybe you just had a really crappy server!

By: Imakulata

Imakulata — Fri, 20 May 2011 07:57:46 +0000

I wouldn’t really say it was “somewhat useful” unless somewhat means “not at all” too. It was not bad (in my opinion) but barely anyone used it which made the trade channel the only effective way of making groups. (Most people did not want to wait more than 3-4 hours looking for more players so even if you were willing, you would “bleed” players.) I usually played a bit later than prime time (about 21:00-22:00 server time) and it was rare to see more than 10 players in the LFG channel.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Thu, 19 May 2011 02:38:46 +0000

Truer words have never been said! ;D

By: Phitom

Phitom — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:56:03 +0000

Once you run with Phitom you are never the same

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:58:58 +0000

Yep on the old LFG system! It was actually somewhat useful for finding people to raid with, but for 5 mans it was waaaay more trouble that it was worth!

Agreed on the group leaving thing. I do get critical of people who leave after the first wipe – mostly because I think they’re acting like spoiled brats (heaven forbid you’re not being carried by Ensidia!) – but it’s not that big of a deal. It takes 1-2 minutes to replace anyone, even a tank, once you’ve already started an instance.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:53:38 +0000

The word “naughty” is a wonderful word. I love it!

I like your take on the Total Fuckwad theory. I still think that if you don’t care about people’s feelings, then you don’t care about people’s feelings, regardless if they know who you are or not. But your take isn’t quite as Lord of Flies as most peoples .

I’ve thinking of another take on the theory though: what if it’s not the person’s anonymity, but rather the audience’s anonymity that brings out the Fuckwad? I mean, it’s hard for many to relate to a faceless crowd, or to care that the reaction from a faceless crowd is one of /eyeroll rather than /impressed.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:49:29 +0000

Well, like I kept saying in the post, if someone doesn’t belong in heroics, then they should be removed. It’s when I see people get really gratuitously abusive, or kick without there being a problem when they’re not performing much better themselves, that I get kind of sad.

(One of the issues that comes with being a blogger is that if I write about an in-game experience, everyone I’ve ever played with automatically assumes I’m talking about them. Generally my posts are a scrapbook page made of clips from dozens of experiences.)

I have found myself more critical of tanks lately whenever I wasn’t running with you! (Tanks leave after the raptor boss because they look for something from that raptor boss, not because the raptor boss is hard, though.) I do want to run some more soon! Things are pretty hectic right now so I haven’t been logging on much outside of raids. I’m not getting home until 9-10pm on non-raid nights, so I just eat supper, answer emails and head straight to bed.

By: Ophelie

Ophelie — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:42:28 +0000

I kind of prefer those runs. Especially if they say “ty” at the end. My mind is blown every time someone says thanks at the end.

By: alanvinton

alanvinton — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:41:34 +0000

I have had these runs, as i’m sure we all have! But I’ve had a few runs recently where no-one says ANYTHING during the whole run, and at the end just says “ty, gg” or something to that effect.

By: Phitom

Phitom — Wed, 18 May 2011 06:13:36 +0000

Ophelie, you have two problems here.

First of all, You were not running with me so any other tank is expendable and not as good or sexy etc….

Secondly, I can be a pretty big asshole even though I am a nice guy overall. During some runs people just irritate the crap out of me. I especially kick them if they are screwing up and cant speak english. I guess this isnt really a problem but I just liked the way that intro started in my head.

The easiest people to replace are DPS its not so much the numbers that matter its how they act. Like if they die every few seconds due to poison or they don’t move out of stuff repeatedly then yeah they deserve to be kicked.