A message to those that ask me to group
by Adam Holisky 
Feb 16th 2008 at 9:00AM
Dear PUG Members,Recently you've asked me to group with you. This is cool, and I appreciate being wanted. It gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling inside. The same warm and fuzzy feeling you get after you've killed a million boars and are holding the Sword of a Thousand Truths. However, if you don't mind, could we go over a few dos and don'ts?
Here's what you should do:
- Do ask nicely if I have time to join your group.
- Do look to see if I'm using the LFG tool. If I'm not, I probably don't want to group.
- Do offer me at least 100 gold to run you through the Stockades. The two gold you're putting forth does not make up for the time it's going to take me to run you through.
- Do talk in English or some other real language. I'll even accept Klingon. Leet speak is not a language.
- Do ask if everyone is ready before MDing the boss to me.
- Do use Omen or KTM.
- Do use something more than auto-attack.
- Do not just invite me without saying something.
- Do not assume that because Vashj is at 2% I'll have time for your Deadmines group in 10 minutes.
- Do not ask if you can join my guild. Go look at WoW Insider's Guildwatch instead.
- Do not ask me for gold.
- Do not bother me when you see that I'm in Kara/Gruul/Mags/SSC/TK/MH/BT.
- Do not assume I know you are going AFK in the middle of a boss fight.
- Do not forget to stealth when you're going to sap a mob.
~ Adam.
P.S. If you have any more dos and don'ts you'd like to share, I await your reply. ;-)
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Humor
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)
Jason Feb 16th 2008 9:28AM
"Do not just invite me without saying something"
That's my big one. It drives me nuts and I won't accept invites without first talking to the person. I even get random guild invites like that. No conversation, just a guild invite. People should really be more selective on who they allow in their guild.
Bloodchills Feb 16th 2008 10:20AM
Guildies can randomly invite me because I know them. If they are new and I don't know them, I'll assume they picked up the habit from another guildie and that's a forgivable offense.
OTOH, random pugs can gtfo if they inv without seeing if it's ok first.
While I'm at it... PUGs that keep going AFK is the #1 reason I usually go on guild runs instead of pug. Not to mention forum posters who say they are interested in ZA but then nobody shows up or they show up at the wrong time.
SERVER TIME == START TIME!!!!
Start time != your random timezone.
JParris Feb 16th 2008 9:31AM
I love it when I'm tanking in SSC and someone sends me a tell "Pay 5g for tank for reg BM! Interested?!!?!?!?!" Uh. No. Not really. XD
*nods* I think 100g is pretty fair for a Stockades run. I regularly demand at least 50 for Ragefire Chasm.
Bloodchills Feb 16th 2008 10:22AM
Yeah I usually say "100g" as my response to any request for a 70 run. If I know you, the run is free and we can discuss WHEN it will happen. If I don't know you, 100g is the answer. Followed by random LOL chatter.
tommie Feb 16th 2008 9:32AM
Another thing I don't like is that when someone message you and takes for granted that you are a healing because your character is a paladin (this goes of course for other classes too, just wanted to give a example of what happens to me all the time). It hasn't crossed peoples mind that I might be a tank- or dps-specced? So, instead of just ask if I can heal a 5-man heroic or anything else - ask what specc I'm currently having or search the armory.
Orestes Feb 16th 2008 9:45AM
I've got the opposite problem, people won't stop asking me to tank stuff.
JParris Feb 16th 2008 10:04AM
Haha I have exactly this issue on my druid. I seriously doubt they want feral heals for their Heroic Shattered Halls run...
Xeren Feb 16th 2008 12:14PM
I don't know, i hate when people simply ask "what spec are you?"
If people would ask "Are you specced for X and interested in an X run?" i think that would be more polite overall.
Switch4475 Feb 17th 2008 7:30AM
This reminds me of a time when I was PvPing to get some Gladiator gear to fill a couple of empty slots on my druid. Me and this other chap got owned by a mage in full season 3 and the next thing I know he's whispering me going "WHY WEREN'T YOU HEALING ME YOU STUPID USELESS DRUID"
Charlie Feb 16th 2008 9:40AM
"Do not forget to stealth when you're going to sap a mob."
Thats happened to me before in a pug before. Lol.
You just gotta laugh it off, ive done really stupid stuff like that too (like clicking blink instead of sheep on accident and wipping the raid. =[ )
Erika Feb 16th 2008 10:09AM
I have to. Saping requires stealth. Who Knew??
Bloodchills Feb 16th 2008 11:12AM
We skipped Hydross once and then went back to clear it. Nobody told me that we skipped so I assumed we were doing a different boss... ran right into the entrance trash and wiped the raid. LOL
jaxson_bateman Feb 16th 2008 9:44AM
I can imagine druids and pallies get a lot of pain out of it. "Are you holy/resto?" "Are you feral/prot?"
However, the worst stories I hear are from warrs. Not so much because people ask them to tank a lot... but because a lot of people that ask them to, are, in fact, warrs. Funny how a dps warr can assume every other warr is prot. =)
Matthew Rossi Feb 16th 2008 10:08AM
Warriors ask me to tank all the time. But what really annoys me is when warriors ask me to tank and then tell me I can't roll on a drop if it happens. "Don't roll on the Sethekk shoulders, K?"
Uhm, no, those are why I'm willing to consider doing this.
Bloodchills Feb 16th 2008 11:14AM
I'd say, no you respec this time, kthx.
sarah Feb 18th 2008 1:16PM
ugh, i get this all the time on my druid. as balance/moonkin druid, i make a decent healer, but i refuse to tank. and of course no one is looking for a balance druid in a PUG. most whisper invites are LFtank. i've made lots of friends who invite me as a healer, but i've only enjoyed being in my boomkin form in an instance once. and even then, halfway through the healer left, and i took the role over.
Meira Feb 16th 2008 9:44AM
* Always ask the spec (being the exceptions pure dps classes: hunters/mages/rogues and warlocks): you don't want a moonkin to be your tank or a Enhancement Shaman to be your healer...
*Know your stuff: rogues can't sap beasts (so many, but So many times I heard "rogue sap triangle*, being the triangle a beast), PvP gear is stupid for tanking... and most important: do not AFK in PuG's in BM, ever! If you do, be ashamed!
Tracey Feb 16th 2008 9:51AM
Best. Blog. EVER! These things are exactly what I deal with on a regular basis as well. Thank you for addressing these issues. For those of you who are guilty of these annoyances, PLEASE realize that it is indeed you who are being addressed. ; )
Ophelos Feb 16th 2008 10:04AM
"Do not attack mobs that are under a hunters traps. ex freezing trap" this is the one big thing that i don't like at all.. I've seen a few tanks do this a few times are being told not to do so from the rest of the group.
I've left groups because of the tank didn't have a clue in what he/she should and shouldn't be tanking.
Kildar Feb 16th 2008 10:35AM
Fair enough. But please don't trap your target right next to where I'm tanking. Be kind enough to pull him out of consecrate/thunderclap range, ok?
If you trap your target next to the tank, it's not the tank's fault when the trap breaks.