Forum post of the day: Dreadful DPS declarations
by Amanda Dean 
Mar 18th 2008 at 1:00PM
The biggest frustration in a MMORPG is probably getting ganked at most inopportune moments. The next biggest aggravation has got to be playing with pick-up-groups. Sometimes we get lucky in choosing random players to instance with, but we've all got horror stories of out worst experiences with PUGs.
Ihaveaplan of Altarac Mountains started a thread for players to list 200 things you don't want to hear from your DPS. The original poster's initial complaint was the Warlock who left the group because the tank was fighting multiple mobs. Some other gems from this thread include:
- Bizzerk of Laughing Skull, "Does anyone have damage meters?"
- Zazzi of Kirin Tor, "Do any of you have another weapon? My sword broke."
- Groxikor of Daggerspine, "I'm pretty good with bandages, can I heal?"
- Misada of Dark Iron, "Hey guys, can someone resummon me, had to hearth to repair my gear."
- Ovelita of Ner'zhul, "We don't need a healer. We have a shadow priest."
Sometimes I'm amazed that people made it out of their starting zones. I thinking I actually banged my head on the desk when a Hunter once said "Um, I'm out of bullets." That was followed by a Mage who insisted on pulling, and tanking. Most of the complaints come from people who do not come prepared or do not understand class dynamics.
What's the last thing you want to hear from a DPSer?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Instances, Classes, Forums
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Lansire Mar 18th 2008 1:13PM
Once, i met a paladin who said he wanted to DPS. Immediately, the group leader booted him outta the grp.
santerclause Mar 18th 2008 1:16PM
retribution pally? they can dps
Sean Riley Mar 18th 2008 5:21PM
What an ass. The group leader, that is, not the paladin.
patrick Mar 18th 2008 1:12PM
I think the guy with the bandages comment was being sarcastic, lol, I've said something similar jokingly with friend on an instance run but had no serious intentions, lol. I'd worry more about the guy that took this seriously.
Hugh "Nomad" Hancock Mar 18th 2008 1:15PM
I think you'll find there are very, very few Hunters who haven't, at some point in their instancing careers, had to make the walk of shame from the instance entrance to the nearest ammo seller.
MechChef Mar 18th 2008 1:16PM
"I don't use poisons." This was a rogue specced mutilate. /wrists.
pdkm Mar 18th 2008 1:16PM
Mages can tank. Your feeble mind just can't understand the intricacies of mage tanking. Pyro, AP POM PYRO, fire blast, ice nova, ice lance ice lance ice lance, fire blast = dead.
More than one mob? Just spam Arcane Explosion until it looks like you are gonna die & then ice block. It's not your fault if you don't die first.
;P
jaxson_bateman Mar 18th 2008 1:16PM
It didn't happen to me, but I once heard of a healer in a 5 man that asked the dps to tell him when they needed a heal, as he did not have appropriate group frames set up and could thus only see the tanks HP. ^^
Bitterhope Mar 29th 2008 11:38PM
As an affliction lock, I often found myself getting a random heal when I was just managing my health a little closely, but was just fine. If I ended up dead I always blamed myself, not the healer.
rzzr Mar 18th 2008 1:18PM
A fellow guildie met a level 70 hunter in a PUG group the other day who when asked to use misdirection said "I am not speced for that".
The tank and healer promptly hearthed...
George Mar 18th 2008 1:25PM
It's downright disturbing the number of hunters that will say this. Me, a BM hunter having a conversation in an instance.
Me: I'll misdirect onto the tank first, then you do it.
Tard: I'm not MM.
Me: Neither am I. You train misdirect.
Tard: Oh.
Patyn Mar 18th 2008 3:34PM
Funny...I've had that exact conversation within the last week! It was later followed with a discussion about why agility would be a better stat than strength for him to pursue.
LoneDriver Mar 18th 2008 4:27PM
Heard this twice in the last month, makes my hunter cringe.
Duco Mar 18th 2008 1:20PM
Hehe I've met 70 hunters which didn't know that thing such as misdirection exists :P
And they were bitching when I posted damage meters that they're fake as well :)
arcady0 Mar 18th 2008 2:36PM
Yeah, the alliance guild I am semi-in is about 70% hunters.... (rolleyes - but hey, it gives me a chat channel, and I log in about once a month to those toons).
I've been told that hunters are best class period, so they want more of them. I don't raid or instance on those toons, so... ok.
Anyway... Last time I got into a big "what the heck kind of idea is that" with them was over training skills.
Me: You should train all the skills as you get access to them from the trainer. If you really learn your class, you'll find a use for everything, even if only in a rare moment, that rare moment could avoid a wipe.
Them: Noob, you're seriously gimping yourself and your ability to afford a mount if you do that.
Me: What's a few gold here and there - at every level of training, you can make back the cost in, at a slow pace, a day.
Them: Yeah, but some spells are useless no matter what. No shaman ever uses Sentry Totem for example.
Me: My shaman has that, and it's saved my butt a few times, especially when I was flagged but lower level than the Alliance tards raiding in the area. Useful in those 'capture the tower' PvP quests for example.
Then: You're still gimping yourself.
They're nice folks and I really like them... but they only buy about 1/4 to 1/2 of their spells - some of them only buy the spells of their specc. Something I just can't manage to explain to them is a problem.
On the other hand, they know where all the cute trainable pets are - and for hunters, that's really the whole point I guess.
gd1107 Mar 18th 2008 1:20PM
What? You need a flying mount to get to arcatraz? After spending over an hour trying to get a full 5 man, then another 30 minutes getting everyone to the summoning stone.
arcady0 Mar 18th 2008 2:40PM
Flying mounts and Arc - half my Arc PUGs have ended over that...
We summon everyone to the stone, mount up or shift to bird form, and there's always somebody standing there saying:
"Lol, wtf are you guys doing, aren't we going to the instance?"
And we're like - yeah, get on your Manticore.
My wut? Oh, flying mounts are for nubs.
Us: time to get back into LFG...
alrdye Mar 18th 2008 1:27PM
I pug heroics a lot. I have a number of friends I try to pug with but when we can't get a full group, or they aren't available at all, I pug the rest. I rarely have problems. My biggest frustrations is slow moving groups. My group of friends tend to knock out heroics pretty fast, even when we have a couple pugs in the group.
Yesterday I ran BF & SP on my 62 hunter. 1st group was good, helped that we had 2 high lvls helping. 2nd fell apart at the 2nd boss. Terrible prot warrior, they didn't know the pulls or where they were going, etc. This was the 1st time I'd played that toon in ages so based on my success % I'd say 70's in heroics are a lot better off then those still leveling. I'm sure pug millage varies though for others.
Perseus Mar 18th 2008 1:44PM
"I have a number of friends I try to pug with"
isn't that like a contradiction?
AlmtyBob Mar 18th 2008 3:30PM
I kinda know what he's saying since I think I do the same thing. I started doing a large amount of PuGs around the SM levels. Ever since then when I PuG with people who know their class I add them to my friend's list. I can now login and at any given time have 7-10 "friends" online to PuG with. Pick up them first then PuG the rest. Doing that I've found I haven't had many bad PuGs in a long time. Usually if I've PuG'd in 2-3 people and one of them sucks we just kind of ignore him and take away any CC duties. Works ok.