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The latest patch 5.4 newsBreakfast Topic: Your worst PuG
by Jennie Lees 
Feb 7th 2006 at 7:00AM
We've probably all had bad pickup group experiences
-- from the healer who thought he was a tank to the hunter who decided she could do just fine without her pet, some of
them haunt us to this day. The Leeroy video is funny because it's true, after all...Let's get it all off our chests today -- what's the worst PuG experience you've had? Even worse, was it your fault?
Probably the worst re-occurring PuG nightmare I run into is the kamikaze mage. She thinks she's invincible, she decides she wants all the mobs' attention on her, and as a druid I have to judge whether to keep her alive or try to get aggro myself. Neither usually works. I know I've been guilty of playing my class badly, especially when new to a class or rusty after playing others for a while, so I expect I've afforded as much amusement to others as these have to me.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Odds and ends
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
Mike Mar 28th 2006 7:43AM
One of my worst PuG experiences turned into one of my best last night. I latched onto a group that was ostensibly going to run Razorfen Kraul. So I got to the entrace and awaited around for the others for about a half hour. Then we get into the instance and in the first area with any kind of mob density, one of the idiots fires his gun at someone and brings the house down on us. Wipe.
So we all run back, at which point one of the guys (druid) drops out. Great. So we find a rogue to come help us out and continue on. Well we get to another mildly difficult area and wipe again. Corpse run. Rez. And now the Hunter exits too. So we're left with a Mage, Shammy, Rogue, and me, a Warrior. After the mage insinuates that we may be able to handle it as a foursome, the rogue bails.
So we leave the instance and grab a lvl 26 Priest from Org to come run it with us as a foursome. Went off without a hitch. Of course, my armor was swiss cheese after dying several times and tanking for about 3 hours straight, but after we got the final foursome together we only had a couple deaths and no wipes. Maybe my best group yet.