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by Eliah Hecht 
Dec 28th 2009 at 6:00PM
Tinwhisker sent us this link to a set of entertaining PUG bingo cards on the official forums, made by Cruce of Scarlet Crusade. While I'm not sure I would actually have gotten bingo on any single run, some of the squares have certainly happened in many of my runs:
- A pure DPS class doing triple digit DPS (especially Death Knights; sorry to all the good DKs out there).
- RankWatch. Almost every run.
- Three or more members are "the Patient." I guess it's nice to show that they have some PuG experience, but that just makes egregious failures that much more disappointing.
- Someone starts on a mob the tank hasn't even hit yet. More often than not.
- Melee DPS attacking from the front. It's really not that hard, folks.
One thing I'd add to the list is people protesting that they don't take the game that seriously when you give them advice, like that they might want to put up diseases before using other strikes on their DK. You don't have to break out the spreadsheets, but there's a certain minimum effort to not be letting everyone else in your group down.
What do you guys think of this bingo set? Going to print out a few sheets to keep you entertained during those long, cold dungeon runs? Are there any squares you'd add?
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Reader Comments (Page 8 of 8)
Fatsquatch Dec 29th 2009 12:54PM
"I'm so drunk/high right now. ROFL"
I have seen this daily since the new dungeon finder became available. There seems to be no end to silly kids trying to impress other players with their LIES.
Abhoth Dec 29th 2009 1:27PM
This is something that has happened to me several times. When I'm doing randoms on my main without guildies I always queue up as dps so I don't get stuck tanking one of the new places with bad healers or dps that don't listen. Well sometimes I sit in the queue for a while and then throw on my tank gear to compare to someone I see walking around in Dal or Org and then the queue pops. I enter then instance wearing full tank gear as a dps and invariably the person who queued as tank, usually a DK with around 27k after the 5% buff, will immediately quit the group.
Another addendum to the I'm so drunk/high right now would be I'm so sleepy right now. I have had several instances of just falling asleep at the keys mid run on my boomkin since I usually play him after I've finished on my warrior for the night.
Alexis Dec 29th 2009 4:26PM
Gear is only a big deal for the brand new instances, namely Halls of Reflection. If your tank and healer aren't well geared and on the ball and the DPS aren't pulling their weight, you're in for a bad pug. The first couple times I tried it with guildies we just got owned in the face. I've been gearing up a lot (I ding'd 80 like right before Christmas) and did a random heroic and ended up healing HoR... I had a bunch of gear upgrades since my last try (my only non-epics are jewelry and trinkets) so I thought I'd give it a try until the 15 minute debuff wore off at least. Our pally tank was really well geared (his LOWEST ilevel items were 245) and did the most dps, so we were able to carry the hunter with 1.5k dps. The hunter was kind of a noob (who rolls greed on a huge glove upgrade basically engineered for hunters? I won the greed roll for off off spec but I gave them to him).
I've had to deal with some serious noobs... like a rogue that repeatedly pulled aggro and then brattily asked for 'res pls' in the middle of a fight to inform me he's dead. I know you're dead, idiot--maybe you should learn that leather wearers should not pull aggro. I save my osh** buttons for the tank and myself, DPS can die if they have to. I will always save the tank over DPS... so if you pull aggro, enjoy the repair bill I guess. (I'm not vindictive, I do TRY to save the DPSers when I can. I've had to let my own boyfriend's warlock die before and he got grumpy lol)
Dalaruni Dec 29th 2009 6:03PM
"Healer/Tank who shows up and asks to switch to DPS"
Gee...did you find the queue shorter?
Had a terrible H FoS PuG with a series of bad healers. Final boss we get another new healer...doesn't go well, though not insanely bad. After the wipe, healer asks me (Druid) if she can switch to Heals. I point out that I am top of the DPS chart (not by much, but I was doing my bit) and she says "I can do better than 2.4k even in my crummy gear" (I can too, I had to heal the tank after the healer died the first try). She won't start the fight again and vote to kick fails. So I switch to healing gear (first time healing any of the ICC heroics) and we wipe. Recount: the "healer" who switched to dps did 419DPS. Looked at her gear, all blues and greens and one iLvl 245 piece (later checked armory and no enchants on *any* items). Second vote to kick passed :-). Ironically a 232 healing neck piece dropped off the Dev of Souls...which I won and would not have rolled on if I'd stayed DPS.
Tony Bowman Dec 29th 2009 7:19PM
you're misunderstanding, or i misstated...i wait for the tank to start the pull, then target his first target and hit it just before or just as he does. the tank is already in his charge or is already swinging. i don't do anything until the tank has started the encounter and certainly not while anyone isn't ready or anything like that.
i just want the pew pew to hit the target asap. most of the time in the LFG, the tanks are racing through so fast that it's hard to keep pace with them.
Bloomindraal Dec 29th 2009 11:41PM
The All-in-one BINGO:
The pally that selects tanking, turns up to the instance:
1. Self buffed with 10 min kings
2. Has the worst mixture of gear : Leather, mail and plate with a mixture of stats like int, spell power, agi, ap ... he did miss one ... DEFENSE.
3. 22k health - less health than me ... the healer
When I questioned him on his gear his response. " My account got hacked and I'm rebuilding ... I got my defnse up to 400 though "
Naturally I informed him that the mage wearing cloth can get 400 defense and ask that he kindly leave.He said he wasn't going to leave, so I informed him he wont be getting healed and Shadowmelded
Having said that - I have also had alot of really good groups ... LFG is still a winner for me
cheryl.andrew Dec 30th 2009 1:49PM
Can we clarify something here? Is WoW a job, or a game? See, I was under the impression that it was a game.
I want to be respectful of other players of the game, but that includes not expecting them to provide more than the bare minimum required for successful playing. I was in a PUG recently where a lock was doing 1k max DPS, and it was annoying as all hell. There's no excuse for that, regardless of gear, at level 80. I ran into him twice, actually, and the second time briefly considered asking that he be booted so we could get GOOD DPS in. Then I thought, eh, screw it. We're making it through with little trouble. Let the moron play his game, and I'll play mine. It wasn't actually affecting my ability to enjoy the game.
That's a far cry from a tank or a healer who is incapable of playing their role in the instance. If the tank is not specced for his part, then he shouldn't be tanking. If the healer can't keep people healed within reason, then he shouldn't be the healer. That is stuff that affects others' ability to play their game. And when that happens, they get booted. That's what the kick function is for, not kicking DPS for not being fully gemmed.
The moment that WoW becomes a job, where I have to get performance reviews from elitist kids who just want to make sure you know they're superior as opposed to an actual boss who would at least pay me... well, that's the day I quit.
wycowboy76 Dec 30th 2009 1:52PM
I have almost stopped tanking unless it is a guild group. I was in a pug one evening and a hunter had decided that I was not moving fast enough. He began chain pulling. What the huntard did not understand was that we were killing things so fast I had to wait a couple of seconds for cool downs that affect my ability to aoe tank. He was also upset that the mobs he was pulling were eating his face. If your charge or pet keeps a mob out of my DnD and I am waiting for an ability to be ready it affects my aggro. IF you pull before I the tank am ready I will happily let the mob eat your face then taunt him back to me. I ended up leaving the group after only a couple pulls.
Tondef Dec 30th 2009 3:33PM
Was tanking heroic and had a great DPS hunter, nice person and everything. Just one problem, she would lead off her rotation with hard hitters before I had agro lock. I asked if she could 'help' me by misdirecting on me for her opener (figured that was the least offensive way to correct me having to chase mobs down) but was answered with "what is misdirect"? OMG.
But I have had great runs with hunters that always MD to me, and rogues that always use tricks of the trade to help lock that agro in no matter what the other DPS do on the run.
The "go go go" is pure hell, but as the tank the healer's mana and I set the pace. Sometimes I think I'm one of the only tanks that has mana bars on for the group and actually uses them to make sure the casters have juice for the next pull. But I have caught grief for doing ready checks through the dungeon from the ADD PUGGERs.
shabaz Dec 31st 2009 3:44AM
I had a tank in heroic FoS pull the 2 spectral wardens befor the last boss and befor the first one was dead he ran in and attack the boss with half the group dead. We of coarse wiped and he said "WTF" dumb ass tank ftw.
ardkor Dec 31st 2009 10:32AM
...and Warlocks as summoning stones